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COPE VS PENTA 44 59.46%
LIONHOOK SHIBATA VS STP 4 5.41%
OKADA VS A GUY 6 8.11%
MAY VS JAY 6 8.11%
JOE VS RHODES 14 18.92%
Total: 74 votes
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A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

Can we get a video package here for Skibidi Toilet please

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Chinston Wurchill
Jun 27, 2010

It's not that kind of test.

Erin M. Fiasco posted:

I thought the arrows are meant to represent an exchange, like a talent exchange, but either way she should definitely do a Japan tour. I feel like it would be great for her.

Speaking of talent exchanges on the same page we're talking about Hobbs, he might be my top pick for an AEW G1 spot. It would be great to polish him up and he's not in a position where he'd be terribly missed if he disappeared for a couple months

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?
I can mostly keep up with my coworkers who are in general a decade younger than me, but sometimes they whip something out that I do not want to understand.

a dumb moron
Mar 19, 2024

augh

apophenium posted:

I learned about mewing from a podcast. It's a thing incels are doing to try to get a better jawline or something from holding your tongue a certain way pressed against the roof of your mouth. Locking in I'm not sure about.

Incels are a silly bunch

Lurks With Wolves
Jan 14, 2013

At least I don't dance with them, right?

Gavok posted:

Outside of Arcade Anarchy, that all seems fair.

I personally think the Texas Chainsaw deathmatch paid a high price for the sins of WWE's licensed matches, but... yeah, I still get it. A big goofy deathmatch to promote an advertiser is a good idea and that one hit all the points I'd want it to hit, but... well, it's still an ad combined with a bunch of goofy brawling spots.

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

A Fancy Hat posted:

Can we get a video package here for Skibidi Toilet please

poo poo let me go look at the playlist my son made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkVNr-1uJE8&t=94s

Barry Bluejeans
Feb 2, 2017

ATTENTHUN THITIZENTH

Chinston Wurchill posted:

Speaking of talent exchanges on the same page we're talking about Hobbs, he might be my top pick for an AEW G1 spot. It would be great to polish him up and he's not in a position where he'd be terribly missed if he disappeared for a couple months

he'd be great in a Ishii-like role for the tournament, not a favorite to win but someone who could realistically get a couple falls on some top names

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Lethrom posted:

Every single one of us is posting on a forum that is over two decades old. You think any of us are young enough to learn new things?

i keep coming here for what is functionally the same reason why the zombies keep going to the mall in dawn of the dead.

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

apophenium posted:

I learned about mewing from a podcast. It's a thing incels are doing to try to get a better jawline or something from holding your tongue a certain way pressed against the roof of your mouth. Locking in I'm not sure about.

well does it work

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



post hole digger posted:

i keep coming here for what is functionally the same reason why the zombies keep going to the mall in dawn of the dead.

:laffo:

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.

post hole digger posted:

i keep coming here for what is functionally the same reason why the zombies keep going to the mall in dawn of the dead.

It's fun?

CombineThresher
Apr 10, 2006

GIT R DONNE

Gavok posted:

Wrestlecrap's AEW entries

The complaints about the first Casino Battle Royal and the arcade match are so weird to me. Wrestling is inherently weird and stupid and has a history of showcasing "freakshow" elements to draw interest; people used to wrestle bears, for chrissakes. Having one battle royal with some goofy indy gimmicks and a guy with no legs isn't a big deal, and it's totally something that every old school promoter (aside from maybe Bill Watts) would have done. Same with the Texas Deathmatch thing; it's no worse than Cornette booking a loving mummy in Smoky Mountain because his money guy demanded it. I think some fans forget that wrestling is supposed to be fun, and not just at someone else's expense.

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.

post hole digger posted:

well does it work

Short answer no long answer is there's no science to it and any kind of actual studies on it haven't been published yet

And if it doesn't work the grifters will just say you did it wrong

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

Shard posted:

poo poo let me go look at the playlist my son made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkVNr-1uJE8&t=94s

skibidi lore > wrestling lore

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.
The Lore of the Toilet

DMorbid
Jan 6, 2011

With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

CombineThresher posted:

The complaints about the first Casino Battle Royal and the arcade match are so weird to me.
I haven't read the Wrestlecrap article, but the inaugural Casino Battle Royale was particularly awkward because it was the first match on the company's first (pre)show.

We'd heard all the stuff about AEW going for a more sports-based presentation and that sort of thing, and then the first match under the AEW banner was this comedy battle royal with a bunch of weirdos. I don't mind comedy matches full of weirdos, but this maybe didn't give off the greatest first impression.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

The texas chainsaw match was bizarre but perfect, and was the best possible thing for jj to win

Miching Mallecho
May 24, 2010

:yeshaha:
The Texas chainsaw massacre match has a special place in my heart

Miching Mallecho fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Apr 15, 2024

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



I love the TCM match so much, it was exactly kind of stupid crossover and it's cool that the ad revenue was donated to charity. I definitely get why it would get an induction just for being bizarre but I will always fondly remember it. It had The Real Leatherface™!

Gavok
Oct 10, 2005

Brock! Oh, man, I'm sorry about your...

...tooth?


DMorbid posted:

I haven't read the Wrestlecrap article, but the inaugural Casino Battle Royale was particularly awkward because it was the first match on the company's first (pre)show.

We'd heard all the stuff about AEW going for a more sports-based presentation and that sort of thing, and then the first match under the AEW banner was this comedy battle royal with a bunch of weirdos. I don't mind comedy matches full of weirdos, but this maybe didn't give off the greatest first impression.

It was also awkward due to the entrances. Later versions of the match would do a bunch of rapid-fire entrances for each suit. This one had everyone come out as groups, which really did not help when these were mostly people the audience did not know.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Sheamus is on Raw tonight 😔

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



Don't worry, when he works through his injury time...! :pray:

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Erin M. Fiasco posted:

Don't worry, when he works through his injury time...! :pray:

:pray:

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

:toxx: if Tony gets Sheamus, I will close the Hell thread and only post positively about AEW as long as the Fellah is employed by Tiny Con

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

there’s still time to edit your post, no one has quoted it yet

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

i will grit my teeth and happily post as Séamus is jobbing to Billy Gunn

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.

Quantum of Phallus posted:

:toxx: if Tony gets Sheamus, I will close the Hell thread and only post positively about AEW as long as the Fellah is employed by Tiny Con

What's the punishment for posting negatively in this scenario?

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

apophenium posted:

What's the punishment for posting negatively in this scenario?

ban, has to be

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.

🫡

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

perma considering the gravity of it all imo

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



Chainprobed. Ten beats of the ban.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Nikki Bella, on the BellaCast, has become inspired:

“Since we’ve been lifting so much, we always say, we always start to get that wrestling mindset, ‘We’re going to go back and do this story and cut this promo.’ You get it, but how serious I got where I was like, ‘Okay, I think I can do maybe a year at AEW and I can do it every week.’

“When I saw Mercedes debut and cut her promo, that line stuck with me, ‘Here, we’re going to make the evolution worldwide.’ I was like, ‘They do.’ It goes into many leagues, is what she means, it doesn’t have to be at one place. It can be at all these places where all these women are wrestling at. I go, ‘Brie, I think I can do it for a year. I can do it here to here and go every week.’”

“Then, I thought of Matteo. I had a good week of like, ‘This is it. I’m going to call Tony Khan. I’m your girl. I will commit.’ Then, I was like, ‘I can’t do that to my son right now. He needs me... Everyone thinks it’s TV one day a week. You have travel, you have preparation. I have to go to San Jose and get in the ring every day. There is a lot that goes into it and that takes all the time away from my son. He needs me the most right now.”

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Erin M. Fiasco posted:

Chainprobed. Ten beats of the ban.

lol

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?
With Podcasts reminds me how one of the conflicts of my wrestling podcast was that when my 4 co-hosts wanted to be negative about AEW I always countered since they were going from angles that Tony Khan was racist because of the double standards in pushing Gresham in comparison to Claudio and Danielson. That Tony also was misogynistic in his women's booking (for context we were doing this show from late 2021-early 2023). And just talk about how Tony Khan should allow the wrestlers to unionize and how he shouldn't be in control of creative and also handle internal conflict better. It ended up falling apart because I thought they overthought everything about the podcast with having meetings to prepare for it instead of just winging it and shooting the poo poo for an hour about wrestling we watched with some leftist analysis. Bummed because "The Proletariat Lariat" was such a good name I came up with.

Honestly makes me think of me losing my mind when Deadlock would review Dynamite and how they kept missing everything that seemed so obvious and clear.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!

Quantum of Phallus posted:

Sheamus is on Raw tonight 😔

We're getting an Irish fella, but it's just Becky. :baduk:

DeepDickPizza
Oct 11, 2012

THREE TIME! THREE TIME!
Please just have Kylo beat Roddy and put Undisputed Kingdom in the dumpster

Bard Maddox
Feb 15, 2012

I'm just a sick guy, I'm really just a dirty guy.

projecthalaxy posted:

Nikki Bella, on the BellaCast, has become inspired:

“Since we’ve been lifting so much, we always say, we always start to get that wrestling mindset, ‘We’re going to go back and do this story and cut this promo.’ You get it, but how serious I got where I was like, ‘Okay, I think I can do maybe a year at AEW and I can do it every week.’

“When I saw Mercedes debut and cut her promo, that line stuck with me, ‘Here, we’re going to make the evolution worldwide.’ I was like, ‘They do.’ It goes into many leagues, is what she means, it doesn’t have to be at one place. It can be at all these places where all these women are wrestling at. I go, ‘Brie, I think I can do it for a year. I can do it here to here and go every week.’”

“Then, I thought of Matteo. I had a good week of like, ‘This is it. I’m going to call Tony Khan. I’m your girl. I will commit.’ Then, I was like, ‘I can’t do that to my son right now. He needs me... Everyone thinks it’s TV one day a week. You have travel, you have preparation. I have to go to San Jose and get in the ring every day. There is a lot that goes into it and that takes all the time away from my son. He needs me the most right now.”

what we need is the Bella Twins in AEW (genuine post)

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Bard Maddox posted:

what we need is the Bella Twins in AEW (genuine post)

it would make a lot of people mad, so it is what i want.

The_Rob
Feb 1, 2007

Blah blah blah blah!!
I need a return of the queen of strong style Nikkisawa

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JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

always liked the bella twins, or as they are now known, the garcia twins

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