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| COPE VS PENTA |
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44 | 59.46% |
| LIONHOOK SHIBATA VS STP |
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4 | 5.41% |
| OKADA VS A GUY |
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6 | 8.11% |
| MAY VS JAY |
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6 | 8.11% |
| JOE VS RHODES |
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14 | 18.92% |
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CombineThresher posted:They've had some dumb takes on AEW, but it's more that they think the Platonic ideal of wrestling is ponderous, boring HHH matches and can't accept that there are different approaches to selling and ring psychology out there in the world. Ew a HGH match? No thanks, I'll take the crab juice.
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Apr 15, 2024 04:20
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post hole digger posted:i wish murderxbryan still did his everything beast wrestling podcast episodes because he was funny and liked aew, but i think hes got too much going on these days I would love to have him bring back Leslie Lee again for how incredibly awkward it would be now Long-Time Lurker posted:It's a bit suspicious that a lot of the vanilla "Just enjoy wrestling" podcasts turned on AEW and joined the grift train. WWE is "cool again" in a nerd culture way and AEW is seen as a threat to its dominance, people love and identify themselves by enjoying corporate sanitized pop culture and want their view to be objectively correct. it's like when people post about the most recent boring-rear end Star Wars show getting a 95% on the Tomatometer or whatever when it'll be forgotten in a week. Whoolighams fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 04:22
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CombineThresher posted:This more than anything else is what turned me off of OSW. It was fun when they ripped on the worst parts of 90s WCW and WWE but holy poo poo their taste in modern stuff is terrible. Deadlock is way more fun since those guys know they're numbskulls at the end of the day. Not specifically just OSW but I'm surprised that it turns out the people who make fun of the standard WrestleCrap™ stuff of the '90s and even the '00s don't actually have good taste in wrestling.
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Apr 15, 2024 04:23
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Majinfoose posted:I stopped watching OSW before they reviewed AEW stuff, how bad was that? Outside of their modern wrestling takes mentioned, they still do a ton of tasteless bits. And a bunch of weirdos commenting way too much about women's appearances always skeeves me out.
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Apr 15, 2024 04:53
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Whoolighams posted:I would love to have him bring back Leslie Lee again for how incredibly awkward it would be now Even when AEW was at its hottest pro AEW content did not come close to doing as well as anti AEW content. I guess we'll see how well pro WWE content does now.
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Apr 15, 2024 04:57
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Jon Moxley: ace of the world, bitch
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Apr 15, 2024 05:12
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MassRafTer posted:Even when AEW was at its hottest pro AEW content did not come close to doing as well as anti AEW content. I guess we'll see how well pro WWE content does now. I doubt even pro-WWE content will do much for long, anger drives clicks. So basically just cover CM Punk news forever and roll around in that sweet HelloFresh moolah.
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Apr 15, 2024 06:16
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shiksa posted:the only wrestling podcast at all worth listening to is deadlock, it is known The NEVER Open Podcast is both a really good New Japan review podcast AND does dramatic readings of wrestler diaries from the New Japan site.
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Apr 15, 2024 07:08
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I like Chicago because I met up with my now-partner in a hotel room there and we unlocked every character in Smash 4 3DS and then I went to an Erasure concert I've got a white t shirt with Paul Bearer in black outline that I wore to an Erasure concert in Dallas. While waiting for the concert to start, someone looked at me with a disgusted look and asked why I would wear a shirt with a picture of fat Hitler to an Erasure concert. I haven't worn it in public since.
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Apr 15, 2024 07:17
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I went to an Idles concert in Berlin and spotted someone wearing an All In shirt.
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Apr 15, 2024 07:18
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I was in a Walmart wearing an Ultramantis Black Venom shirt and an old lady asked me if I worked there
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Apr 15, 2024 07:36
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Whoolighams posted:WWE is "cool again" in a nerd culture way and AEW is seen as a threat to its dominance, people love and identify themselves by enjoying corporate sanitized pop culture and want their view to be objectively correct. it's like when people post about the most recent boring-rear end Star Wars show getting a 95% on the Tomatometer or whatever when it'll be forgotten in a week. It's going to be real dire once WWE stans pick up nerd culture's M.O. and start review bombing matches on cagematch.net.
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Apr 15, 2024 07:48
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Long-Time Lurker posted:It's going to be real dire once WWE stans pick up nerd culture's M.O. and start review bombing matches on cagematch.net. They did that and the cagematch admins had to implement measures to stop it.
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Apr 15, 2024 07:55
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I wonder why all the podcasts have started saying AEW is bad  must be bots...
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Apr 15, 2024 08:46
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Highly recommend Trish and Sarah Wrestling Podcast for good AEW podcasting content https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X1Xgc0L1FQ
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Apr 15, 2024 09:09
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I mainly just stick to W3, Wrestle Me and Deadlock. Only Zane really talks about current stuff anymore.
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Apr 15, 2024 10:00
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I’m mostly listening to dr Gameshow
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Apr 15, 2024 10:09
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When I was still using Twitter any post I made about AEW would be swarmed with replies like “AEW sux” and a half dozen accounts all posting “nobody watching this”. If you looked at the accounts that posted it they were very obviously bots in that they had under 50 followers, followed thousands of people, and would all say basically the same thing again and again. Considering some of the insanity we see in this very forum, I’m not surprised that some people spend actual money online to create these bot armies to hype up their hatred of AEW.
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Apr 15, 2024 10:47
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A Fancy Hat posted:When I was still using Twitter any post I made about AEW would be swarmed with replies like “AEW sux” and a half dozen accounts all posting “nobody watching this”. If you looked at the accounts that posted it they were very obviously bots in that they had under 50 followers, followed thousands of people, and would all say basically the same thing again and again. QOP and their bot army
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Apr 15, 2024 10:54
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Tights and Fights has been pro-WWE and anti-AEW for years. Before I stopped listening, I remember one of the hosts criticizing the women's division in AEW versus WWE. That was before I was watching AEW regularly, but even then, that was a real  moment.(And yeah, it was all downhill after Open Mike Eagle left.)
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Apr 15, 2024 10:58
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A Fancy Hat posted:When I was still using Twitter any post I made about AEW would be swarmed with replies like “AEW sux” and a half dozen accounts all posting “nobody watching this”. If you looked at the accounts that posted it they were very obviously bots in that they had under 50 followers, followed thousands of people, and would all say basically the same thing again and again. Wouldn't it make more sense for WWE to pay for these bots themselves?
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Apr 15, 2024 11:10
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Long-Time Lurker posted:Wouldn't it make more sense for WWE to pay for these bots themselves? I don’t think they need to, I think they’re built up a large enough and (in some cases) crazy enough fan base to do all that on their own.
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Apr 15, 2024 11:14
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Long-Time Lurker posted:Wouldn't it make more sense for WWE to pay for these bots themselves? They get a bulk discount on charcuterie boards
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Apr 15, 2024 11:15
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Long-Time Lurker posted:Wouldn't it make more sense for WWE to pay for these bots themselves? The "freelance journalists" of the dorks entertainment army do it for cheese platters and deli meats. The podcast grifters and iwc twitwits do it for free.
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Apr 15, 2024 11:21
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fez_machine posted:Highly recommend Trish and Sarah Wrestling Podcast for good AEW podcasting content Yeah I was about to say that I really liked their "CM Punk is not mad" episode. Obviously I'm biased but it was basically an execution and that pleased me, especially their takedown of all his "I'm trying to run a business here" rhetoric and how his booking of Collision proved otherwise. EDIT - I've just recommended the exact episode you linked. FFS. I'm keeping it up CaptainApathyUK fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 11:24
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Majinfoose posted:QOP and their bot army my twitter is very pro AEW
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Apr 15, 2024 11:37
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Quantum of Phallus posted:my twitter is very pro AEW But not your forum posting? Two face qop
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Apr 15, 2024 12:58
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Quantum of Phallus posted:my twitter is very pro AEW But what of your bots, QOP?
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Apr 15, 2024 13:04
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SilentChaz posted:Tights and Fights has been pro-WWE and anti-AEW for years. I remember trying to listen to the earlier episodes of this and it was unlistenable. Unfunny, bad takes, and also they just seemingly didn’t know poo poo about wrestling.
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Apr 15, 2024 13:18
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MassRafTer posted:Even when AEW was at its hottest pro AEW content did not come close to doing as well as anti AEW content. I guess we'll see how well pro WWE content does now.
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Apr 15, 2024 13:51
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FullMetalJackoff posted:I mainly just stick to W3, Wrestle Me and Deadlock. Only Zane really talks about current stuff anymore. Wrestle Me is a fun one! They're at their best covering old British wrestling and trying to prove that Les Kellett was the Yorkshire Ripper.
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Apr 15, 2024 13:57
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Every wrestler should train punching from Shane Taylor
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Apr 15, 2024 14:05
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FullMetalJackoff posted:The "freelance journalists" of the dorks entertainment army do it for cheese platters and deli meats. Like, Konuwa doesn't even try to hide the fact he's got a direct line to Stamford now, even if you discount the charcuterie board thing. The fast national ratings are expensive to get a hold of week after week – even AEW don't pay for them – and we're supposed to believe that Konuwa isn't getting them straight from WWE's press office (but only when Rampage or Collision do bad)?
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Apr 15, 2024 14:06
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RandolphCarter posted:Every wrestler should train punching from Shane Taylor Punching and chops. He's so so so good at both. Every single Shane Taylor match I wince with how loud his chops can get. Honestly there's nothing better in wrestling than a big fat dude who talks mad poo poo. It was true for Kevin Steen, it's true for Shane Taylor, it'll be true in the future too. 
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Apr 15, 2024 14:08
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I've watched 4 AEW shows now and I'm mostly enjoying it and can see why others are so fanatical about it. One thing I don't think I care for too much is the dirtbag aesthetic the shows have. Everything always looks so grimey
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Apr 15, 2024 14:13
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It's the old cameras
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Apr 15, 2024 14:15
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Ogogo actually seems pretty good when he's not tied to a "Rarrgghhhh Britain good, USA bad!" gimmick and adds a fun dynamic to STP. You have a big beefy strong guy, a tall punch guy, and a smaller technical guy. That gives them a LOT of opportunity for fun and varied matches with a lot of guys. Good stuff.
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Apr 15, 2024 14:17
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Quantum of Phallus posted:It's the old cameras I mean this wouldn't surprise me. The first episode I watched I stopped it and cleaned my phone screen a couple of times before realizing it was just the show.
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Apr 15, 2024 14:18
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When you go to a live AEW show they spray a bunch of grease in the arena to lube things up. It's how the wrestlers are able to do so many athletic things.
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A Fancy Hat posted:When you go to a live AEW show they spray a bunch of grease in the arena to lube things up. It's how the wrestlers are able to do so many athletic things. This is what's keeping Michael Nakazawa employed!
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