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You want it to be "real" in the sense that the moves don't look actively lovely and there is some internal consistency, but the whole point of pro wrestling is to be more entertaining than the typical real fight. Stylistically, I'd prefer that submission holds be applied in a way that it makes it clear the wrestler actually knows how the hold is supposed to work. Nice if there is some struggle to apply/fight off the hold too. If someone can't believably work a cross armbreaker or whatever and make it look like it might actually hurt, it's going to look bad in my eyes. Power moves that look like a genuine lift, without the opponent visibly assisting, look pretty cool. No one likes seeing someone sell a strike that visibly missed by a mile. With that said, the stuff I prefer is still far from resembling a genuine fight and I'm well aware of that. MMA and wrestling work for different reasons. I'd genuinely like to see wrestlers try to replicate as close a possible any MMA fight of the year candidate. They are usually high paced back and forth fights, but there isn't much "wrestling psychology" beyond striker wants to strike and grappler wants to grapple. If anything, the real fights that people like to watch are mostly psychology free spot fests.
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I want to show these dudes who are so into realistic matches a match with a long randy orton headlock rest spot Let them explain to me why I should be excited about a side headlock because the two are struggling for the upper hand
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The Undertaker got MMA-pilled and started keeping his hands up during matches and it was the hokiest poo poo ever
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remembering the time hulk hogan got pulled over and the cops found an unregistered gun in the car the hulkster tried to explain it was a misunderstanding and urged the two men riding with him to explain the situation... the passengers were the wild samoans who refused to break kayfabe so kept looking at each other and grunting in gibberish until all of them went to jail lol
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Power Windows posted:The Undertaker got MMA-pilled and started keeping his hands up during matches and it was the hokiest poo poo ever the best pure striker in the wwe. he was a zombie biker man who crucified Steve Austin. Real poo poo
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Power Windows posted:The Undertaker got MMA-pilled and started keeping his hands up during matches and it was the hokiest poo poo ever Undead zombie wizards have always been famous for doing submission holds
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beepo posted:You want it to be "real" in the sense that the moves don't look actively lovely and there is some internal consistency, but the whole point of pro wrestling is to be more entertaining than the typical real fight. Bad cross armbreakers or defense are the only thing that really triggers my "FAKE!" instinct. I'm sure everyone has different things that set them off. Guys can fumble around doing a triangle or other MMA stuff and I'm like whatever, but a really lousy cross armbreaker has bothered me for decades.
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It's Leslie, he just means he hates it when the Bucks and their opponents do synchronized kipups
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The only realism I want in wrestling is GLEAT putting their young guys in actual MMA matches against over the hill (and therefore very experienced) fighters and horribly exposing them, or Shinya Aoki instasubmitting anyone who tries to lock up at the start of the match
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Mr. Squishy posted:It's Leslie, he just means he hates it when the Bucks and their opponents do synchronized kipups poo poo. Now I want the original Escalara de la Muerte match with the Lucha Bros but with synchronized pyro.
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I watch pro wrestling because I like pro wrestling. Holds are cool and all but I’d much rather see 30 super kicks and a friggin brainbuster
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beepo posted:I'd genuinely like to see wrestlers try to replicate as close a possible any MMA fight of the year candidate. They are usually high paced back and forth fights, but there isn't much "wrestling psychology" beyond striker wants to strike and grappler wants to grapple. If anything, the real fights that people like to watch are mostly psychology free spot fests. I can't remember which exact matches but I feel like Bryan Danielson does this every once in a while. I think I recall he and Punk replicating someone missing a spinning backfist, falling, and eating a knee at some point. Does this ring a bell to anyone else?
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Alexander Hamilton posted:I can't remember which exact matches but I feel like Bryan Danielson does this every once in a while. I think I recall he and Punk replicating someone missing a spinning backfist, falling, and eating a knee at some point. Does this ring a bell to anyone else? Yeah it was copying the finish to Silva vs Sonnen 2.
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https://x.com/Drswigz/status/1763589212886999344?s=20 https://x.com/Drswigz/status/1763627298157203511?s=20
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I mean yeah I don't think the Spanish wrestling scene is that well known now the Mexican scene on the other hand...
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is there any other fandom that is completely dominated by people who have no idea what the gently caress they’re talking about
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These lunks will never beat the accusations https://twitter.com/candidshots4u/status/1763654613675229414
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:its really funny because the people that seemed the msot convinced that wrestling had to be real... was wrestlers who knew it was fake Isn't there a bit in Jericho's first book where he explains that he taught himself how to do worked moves "by accident" as a kid, thinking "Well, they do this in the ring and it hurts (because it's real), but I think if you tuck your chin and roll through at the end, you'll be fine"?
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https://twitter.com/TheDaveMeltzer/status/1763398124712735184 "If I didn't get paid I'd be in debt".
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JethroMcB posted:Isn't there a bit in Jericho's first book where he explains that he taught himself how to do worked moves "by accident" as a kid, thinking "Well, they do this in the ring and it hurts (because it's real), but I think if you tuck your chin and roll through at the end, you'll be fine"? Yeah. And this leads to which Hart brother put in a cameo appearance their first day at the "Hart Brothers" Wrestling Academy getting super ticked at him because Jericho lands on his feet after a backdrop, so the Hart starts stretching him.
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fez_machine posted:These lunks will never beat the accusations will ospreay should be like... a soccer guy and he goes everywhere with a soccer ball and says "oi mate thats one-nil" when he wins a match, thats when he will make sense to me, a wrestling connoisseur
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JUNGLE BOY posted:is there any other fandom that is completely dominated by people who have no idea what the gently caress they’re talking about baseball
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coconono posted:baseball they made an entire movie about this
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VideoWitch posted:I mean yeah I don't think the Spanish wrestling scene is that well known I made a mistake and looked at the profile. A bigot, a chud, Trump and all that...
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fez_machine posted:These lunks will never beat the accusations I think it’s telling that this guy is viewing wrestling as something he needs to do a middle school book report on.
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JUNGLE BOY posted:is there any other fandom that is completely dominated by people who have no idea what the gently caress they’re talking about
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I'm glad they don't watch the shows. Check the cards, watch a couple of clips, and come up with burn that gets a few likes from their friends. Imagine if they spent five hours a week watching something they genuinely hated.
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I will never do any research to answer this question but I wonder how many of these engagement farmers actually fall for the bait of other engagement farmers and get steaming mad when someone says something disingenuous about one of their other non-wrestling hobbies
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https://twitter.com/MovieMarvin/status/1763605275607482507 Turns out… https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1763686874386780595
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real fights are so boring that ufc offers bounties worth tens of thousands of dollars to any fighter that manages to make a fight not boring as poo poo
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/MovieMarvin/status/1763605275607482507 No! The puppet can't be wrong!
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don't know if it's true or not but this .psd file i found on my computer had some disturbing allegations...
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The problem wasn't even the stunt it was that they used lovely cheap equipment that wasn't meant to hold a human's weight. Sting did it safely for many years.
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/MovieMarvin/status/1763605275607482507 Honestly it makes me probably irrationally happy and touched that they took the step to talk with her first. They absolutely didn’t “need” to from like a logistical business position but did so anyway from a human position. And that’s nice.
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/MovieMarvin/status/1763605275607482507 'no one has done it since' is completely wrong, too, since sting himself did it in tna at slammiversary 2007
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/MovieMarvin/status/1763605275607482507 Didn’t TNA do it a few times Didn’t WCW keep doing it after Owen’s death Ed: lol nice view counts, really burning up the charts 
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You know who else did it? ALL ELITE WRESTLING! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Cmi0R91PI&t=136s This was six months before Martha Hart partnered with them. You think if she had a problem with it, she mighta mentioned it then!?
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are you tellin me the epic negative attention guys on twitter are lyin?
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it's almost like the self-contained singular post told a story and doesn't need every person who reads the thread to refute it and instead they can just laugh at the funny self-contained two act story.
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buddy if i cant bitch about dumb posts what am i even doing here
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