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Feb 11, 2024 23:28
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Hoss Corncave posted:Yeah, how have they treated Jay White: I'm not going to argue that WWE would have used Jay well because it's WWE. But "a spot on the card at Wembley", "got to hold the ROH 6 Man Titles with Billy Gunn's kids" aren't exactly much to write home about. When you've got 18 different titles in your company the lesser ones mean about as much as a pack of gum. At least he hasn't be dragged into Jericho/Callis purgatory for 6 months. Yet. It's a legitimate gripe/concern/whatever you want to call it that AEW have a pretty top heavy roster that can't possibly utilise all the talent. And now you're adding another top name to the mix. Look, I'm sad we'll never get a big Jay White face run in New Japan, it'd have ruled. But he quite sensibly went to a place that pays better, especially with the Yen in the dirt & almost the entire wrestling business in Japan struggling. It's a short career after all. Doesn't mean it's still not a bit of a bummer that he won't be around in a company where he was one of the top 4 guys in the company as opposed...I dunno, top 10 in AEW?
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Feb 11, 2024 23:29
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The account fka Vince's Thoughts has Opinions: https://twitter.com/TripleHHHPaulL/status/1756698508348829883 Zack's right, showing Americans real graps is like reading Shakespeare to a dog.
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forkboy84 posted:I'm not going to argue that WWE would have used Jay well because it's WWE. But "a spot on the card at Wembley", "got to hold the ROH 6 Man Titles with Billy Gunn's kids" aren't exactly much to write home about. When you've got 18 different titles in your company the lesser ones mean about as much as a pack of gum. At least he hasn't be dragged into Jericho/Callis purgatory for 6 months. Yet. Calling them just Billy Gunns kids highlights everything wrong with this sort of thinking lmao
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Feb 11, 2024 23:32
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The Gunn sons started out as one of the worst nepotism hires in the company and turned into an incredible heel team Also made pandemic dynamites way better
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Feb 11, 2024 23:44
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You can make literally anything in wrestling sound terrible if you remove all context
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On why Okada didn’t sign with the WWE.
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Cult of Pies posted:On why Okada didn’t sign with the WWE. they're right
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Feb 12, 2024 00:13
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I want to know what these bad habits Okada has that would need to be trained out of him are
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Feb 12, 2024 00:14
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I can understand the "Okada doesn't work in WWE" things because it's square peg round hole levels if disconnect but in what loving universe would WWE not want Will Ospreay or consider him not worth it? He'd be one of the youngest guys on the roster.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:16
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Lid posted:I can understand the "Okada doesn't work in WWE" things because it's square peg round hole levels if disconnect but in what loving universe would WWE not want Will Ospreay or consider him not worth it? He'd be one of the youngest guys on the roster. they can train their own will ospreay. any day now. it’ll happen trust the process. it’s only been 11 years since the PC opened
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Feb 12, 2024 00:19
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TinTower posted:The account fka Vince's Thoughts has Opinions: i forgot to watch this until i saw this tweet. man what a sick match.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:19
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VideoWitch posted:I want to know what these bad habits Okada has that would need to be trained out of him are That was exactly my first thought too I bet that person thinks Okada is a "flippy guy"
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Feb 12, 2024 00:24
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The bad habit is “not wrestling wwe house style”
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post hole digger posted:The bad habit is “not wrestling wwe house style” The bad habit is "Wrestling"
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The bad habit is getting really tiny so the camera guy has to suddenly zoom in to find him. They will fix that
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JUNGLE BOY posted:they can train their own will ospreay. any day now. it’ll happen trust the process. it’s only been 11 years since the PC opened Somebody's knees have to survive unscathed eventually, right?
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JUNGLE BOY posted:they can train their own will ospreay. any day now. it’ll happen trust the process. it’s only been 11 years since the PC opened List of male PC exclusive trained WWE superstars (in the actual sense not in the WWE sense):
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Cult of Pies posted:On why Okada didn’t sign with the WWE. one of my favorite dumb wrestling post cliches is defining "famous" as how well known they are to me, a person who watches seven hours of one particular company each week
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Feb 12, 2024 01:20
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They didn't even get Trick's name right lol
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wwe isnt for wrestling its for drama
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forkboy84 posted:I'm not going to argue that WWE would have used Jay well because it's WWE. But "a spot on the card at Wembley", "got to hold the ROH 6 Man Titles with Billy Gunn's kids" aren't exactly much to write home about. When you've got 18 different titles in your company the lesser ones mean about as much as a pack of gum. At least he hasn't be dragged into Jericho/Callis purgatory for 6 months. Yet. AEW isn’t quite as top heavy as you’d think. Kenny is injured long term, MJF is injured, Adam Cole is injured, Chris Jericho, Adam Copeland and Christian probably aren’t going to be ppv main eventers anymore, Orange and Wardlow have probably peaked, pac is never around, Sammy Guevara and Jungle Boy don’t seem to be panning out as top guys (jury is still out on Darby), Miro and Malakai are barely around, and Ricky Starks seemingly has one foot out the door. So that leaves you with Joe (who is getting up there in years) Hangman, Swerve, Ospreay, Jay White, Eddie, Danielson and Mox as your established top guys. Then there’s guys who likely could be pushed into the main event slot like Takeshita, Powerhouse Hobbs, Brody and Rush easily as well. So it’s definitely a competitive environment but there is definitely room at the top for Okada, especially when you consider that they’ll probably be increasing the number of ppvs.
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lolling imagining a baseball fan saying who the gently caress is shohei otani, we gotta get a real star in there like this guy whose been presented as a big deal during his time with the pawtucket red sox
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little munchkin posted:lolling imagining a baseball fan saying who the gently caress is shohei otani, we gotta get a real star in there like this guy whose been presented as a big deal during his time with the pawtucket red sox It’s always funny to me too because like Okada is a known person in Japan. He throws out pitches at baseball games and shows up in random anime. King from Tekken has attire based off him and does the rainmaker. He’s not just some random guy working Japanese indies.
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anything that isn't the wwe is the indies and japan isnt even a real coutnry furthermore his name is stupid. sounds like he okada get out of here
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Fans coping extremely hard that Okada didn't sell his to soul to the Rape Company is making my day end on a bright note, thank you Tony K
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Orange and Wardlow have probably peaked Wardlow has, but every other time I thought OC had peaked I was wrong, and he's definitely accepted at the top of the card.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:They didn't even get Trick's name right lol No you’re thinking of the wrong guy, Trick William is what they’re calling Regal now after his cunning ruse to escape AEW
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Cult of Pies posted:On why Okada didn’t sign with the WWE. Okada saw Bron give himself a concussion running the ropes and knew he couldn't compete. He might as well retire
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up and coming homegrown stars like, uh, damian priest and la knight
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in sports all the young talent fends for themselves until they're already stars which are then funneled into the big leagues where they are awkwardly placed in bad spots and told they have to stay there and try to make it work for several years before they get any choice in the matter
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One of my favorite Okada Cope posts on reddit was someone saying "God if he wants to goof off in his late career he could just go to NXT and join Chase U" like, they can't fathom the idea that someone would prefer hanging out with/goofing off with people they've been friends with for like 20 years over a group of randos half their age.
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this is a good point since wrestling promotions all have an agreed upon hard salary cap and roster limits. its important to get young players in on cheap contracts before they hit free agency and demand too much money otherwise you have to pay a big luxury tax to someone
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Cult of Pies posted:On why Okada didn’t sign with the WWE. I am still not convinced that Trick Williams is a real person and not evil mirror universe Treat Williams
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These people see clips of the craziest things wrestlers like Okada do on the biggest shows and assume they can only wrestle like that. Watch a tour show, guys. Okada can work a boring gentle run of the mill match with the best of 'em.
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El Generico posted:These people see clips of the craziest things wrestlers like Okada do on the biggest shows and assume they can only wrestle like that. Watch a tour show, guys. Okada can work a boring gentle run of the mill match with the best of 'em. It's people who get really angry when they see Kenny Omega doing goofy stuff cause "What happened to the Ultra Serious Big Match Kenny from New Japan!?!?", making it very obvious they literally only watch Wrestle Kingdom and nothing else.
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El Generico posted:These people see clips of the craziest things wrestlers like Okada do on the biggest shows and assume they can only wrestle like that. Watch a tour show, guys. Okada can work a boring gentle run of the mill match with the best of 'em. There was some guy earlier in the thread who tried to poo poo on Okada as a "flippy guy", a statement that establishes never having seen an Okada match.
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