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edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


Minoru Suzuki is one of maybe five guys left in wrestling with any sort of actual badass mystique surrounding him. The thought of him taking photos of his opponent who is posing like one of his French girls is just embarrassing.

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edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

just rust posted:

He also rode a bicycle in a wrestling match while fighting a robot mummy

Not to mention the super-dangerous and insane spot of flying to South America while he had the sleeper hold applied (what if the Mummy passed out mid-flight?) and doing some fly fishing at a stream with the Mecha Mummy when they thought the cameras weren't on them.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Vincent posted:

That's some cartoon logic poo poo.

I love it.

We need more Kevin McAllister-inspired spots in our gloriously stupid sport.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

El Gallinero Gros posted:

He's the worst small wrestler I've ever seen, though.

But could he have a bad match against Jushin Liger? Because Mike Graham apparently did.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

TTBF posted:

That's obviously gonna be subjective. I'd say that when a football game is going and doesn't stop much it can be pretty fun. When they're constantly stopping play for ad breaks and sponsor plugs though it is unbearable to me.

As a rugby guy, I did once attempt to watch a handegg game, and honestly, I found it completely unwatchable. In fact, I find most American sports coverage unbearable, because it just feels like the game itself is there to interrupt seemingly endless ad breaks. It's loving poo poo-tier garbage poo poo.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Crapple! posted:

I've watched cricket my entire life and even I think Test matches are ludicrous. One-day cricket though, now there's a sport! None of the others do it for me.

Test matches: no-one under the age of 60 enjoys this.
20/20: for people who aren't really interested in the sport and just want to party.
The elusive 10/10 match: Fans of this are basically crackheads. I get that you enjoy cricket but have some dignity.

T20s are a good entry-level condensed form of the game, and it gets way more hate than it deserves.

Test matches are good background noise to have going on while you're doing something else, and you get great stuff like the India tour of New Zealand in 2013/14, where New Zealand drew the second test match with India, salvaging something out of match that they had seemingly lost on the back of one of the most stubborn batting performances by the NZ batting order in the second innings. Brendon McCullum's 300 and Watling & Neesham's centuries were utterly absorbing viewing.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:

I hope somebody sits Low Ki down to watch the BJPW shopping centre death match.

He's got a valid point though.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

What is the context here? From the rough google translate I just did they're in the Australian Iron Man competition?

Shiozaki and Tana had a workout together and are posing in front of a mural of "The Iron Man," whom I'm guessing is Kobashi.

豪 is often used in Japanese as a shorthand for 'Straya, which is probably where the confusion came in.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


Honestly, a stable of Braun, EC3 and Maverick as three drooling idiots running around thinking they're just the coolest would be pretty great.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

WatermelonGun posted:

oh no the person who sucks irl sucks in kayfabe too

Can someone tell me what this is about? Lots of talk of Rhea sucking as a person, but what did she do/say?

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Vandar posted:

Dropping the six-letter F-word as an insult on Dio Madden and Mansoor's video gaming stream, IIRC.


Neodoomium posted:

She said homophobic slurs on Mansoor's livestream and then busted out the "look real talk this is me and not my character speaking: I'm sorry if you were offended" non-apology

Also she is friends with Mansoor

Wow. She can go get hosed, I guess.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

DarkstarIV posted:

To add onto this, she is apparently a huge fan and supporter of Ronnie Radke (Paige's boyfriend), who is blatantly transphobic and has a criminal record a mile long. Apparently she looks up to him as an inspiration, according to Paige.

At this rate, I'm pretty sure someone's now going to dig up some pro-Pauline Hanson/One Nation social media posts she did in the past.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Lamuella posted:

He'd come in to as Okada, have a good feud against, say, Adam Cole, then get bundled with Kushida as New Nippon and sent to RAW to job to Heavy Machinery.

Nah, he'll be jobbed to some lovely experiment like Jinder Mahal, because popularity works as a transitive property. Said lovely experiment will do a terrible racist promo written for him by Vince, where he'll be like "Okada is sranty-eyed, ching chong ching chong" or some poo poo, and then Vince will be flabbergasted when everyone calls him a racist shithead.

edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Mar 3, 2020

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

bebaloorpabopalo posted:

they'd call him O'Kada and put him in a tag team with Sheamus managed by Fit Finlay

actually this would be so bad it's good so they wouldn't do it

Honestly, Okada doing an exaggerated and embarrassing Irish stereotype is absurd enough to be amazing.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


Some of these Jinder ones work way better than they have any right to.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


John Cleese or Hulk Hogan?

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

ICHIBAHN posted:

Hogan is extremely beautiful without facial hair

It also makes him look like Python-era John Cleese.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


Fair enough, why bother if there’s no crowd?

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Hellblazer187 posted:

The revolution tag match was deffo moty so far and also best tag match of all time.

Better than Kobashi/Kikuchi vs Can-Am Express?

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Dias posted:

In the last five years or so WWE has proved time and again there's nothing or no one that they can't ruin.

On the main roster, at least.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

I Before E posted:

Have you seen nxt

I haven't watched in a while. I'm assuming it's poo poo, now that it's become "the third brand."

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

flatluigi posted:

if you're wondering 'how bad could they have done Velveteen Dream' he tweeted that he was wearing gloves made out of his opponent's wife's panties

Remember how DDP was the face in his feud with the Undertaker during the Invasion?

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

WSAENOTSOCK posted:

If she re-signed, which appears to be under debate, she signed before AEW was a thing, under the promise that she and Bayley would be the backbone of the women's tag division and would be given the opportunity to build it from the ground up.

They promptly demonstrated that all of their promises meant precisely dick, so for her own mental health, she took a break, and has come back and presumably begun running out the clock on whichever contract is actually real.

For some reason, people side with management about this.

Yep, never, ever give management the benefit of the doubt, and if you're thinking "loving arrogant bitch" or anything along those lines, ask yourself why. I just hope they don't tack on a lovely how-is-this-poo poo-even-legal extension to her contract.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Gonzo McFee posted:

I don't get it

New hire threw shade at Liv Morgan on social media, got immediately told to watch his loving tone by Nia Jax, who also happens to be related to The Rock and happens to be correct in this case.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

davidbix posted:

I didn't think of Scarlett when Liv changed her hair color, but that gear looks EXACTLY like the stuff she was wearing before she signed. And it's hilarious watching The Rock's ring awarenessless cousin pull rank on Kross for a jokey two word reply to a fan about it.

Must have missed the part where it's professional and acceptable to publicly talk poo poo about a colleague.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Quantum of Phallus posted:

He had a few great matches on NXT for the Cruiserweight Championship, which he lost to Devlin on World's Collide. They were great matches and I'm sad to see Lio gone!

He lost it to Garza in December, who then dropped it to Devlin.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

And whether Nia Jax is any good at her job is completely irrelevant to the fact that what this idiot did was stupid and unprofessional, and he absolutely deserved to be told to pull his head in. If this derails his career, Jax had nothing to do with it. Him being an unprofessional dickhead derailed it.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

MJeff posted:

Did Killer Kross give you a swirlie or something? Holy crap.

No, it's more that stupid loving bullshit like this:


Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:

Nia Jax is such a tool.

MJeff posted:

Regardless of whether or not Kross should've made the comment, if Nia Jax tried to pull rank with me I think my eyes would roll so hard they'd shoot out the back of my skull.

davidbix posted:

I didn't think of Scarlett when Liv changed her hair color, but that gear looks EXACTLY like the stuff she was wearing before she signed. And it's hilarious watching The Rock's ring awarenessless cousin pull rank on Kross for a jokey two word reply to a fan about it.

coconono posted:

getting your career derailed by Nia Jax is a pretty funny water cooler story tho.

where there's an implication that somehow Jax is in the wrong for defending a female colleague because apparently an, in this situation, entirely unrelated and irrelevant skillset is not up to par got up my nose.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


Don't worry, I had to look it up because I vaguely remembered a Rush v. Garza match.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

Good posts, great memories. :allears:

What's the Seth one about?

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

As cool as it would have been to see The Elite have matches against New Day, the Wyatts, Undisputed Era and The Shield, there's no way they'd have been booked the way they should be.

Just picture it:

Crowd pops, as The Elite come out to confront New Day or whomever, and backstage, Vince goes apoplectic because how dare they be over from their work elsewhere, the loving nerve!


You'd have bootlicking shitfucks like Michael Hayes gleefully getting them buried so hard they end up on the other side of the planet as well.

edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 13, 2020

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


Lawler's commentary has aged like milk, and I'm completely unsurprised to see that this childfucker being all like "look at that chinky chink suffer potentially career threatening head trauma, it's funny because he's yerrow" at the 2000 Royal Rumble when Taka got tossed by Bossman wasn't entirely in kayfabe. gently caress him, I hope he has another heart attack and dies making GBS threads his pants on air.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

No wonder he hated working dark matches

He's lucky In Your House 8 took place after he left for WCW too.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Jerusalem posted:

REGARDLESS of if there is one.

During a battle royal, when the big hoss monster comes in and dominates, Bennett, while selling, yells "FACE THE HARD CAM! THE CAMERA!"

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Mr. Carlisle posted:

I'm not celebrating anyone getting arrested but some of these people are being really fuckin' stupid about this quarantine and acting like lemmings following each other off the cliff all because protecting yourself from a virus means they're takin' our freedom and our guns!!

Yeah seriously. If you want your stupid country to get Covid-19 under control, stay the gently caress at home. NZ is on the verge of eliminating it because the government immediately announced a nation-wide enforced lockdown for 4 weeks as soon as community transmission was detected, and have extended it by another.

"But but but cops!" is an absolutely dumb gently caress stance to take when there's a loving pandemic going on. No wonder the United States is currently leading the world in the number of confirmed infections and deaths.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Vagabundo posted:

"But but but cops!" is an absolutely dumb gently caress stance to take when there's a loving pandemic going on.

Disclaimer: this does not apply to a case where there's obvious criminal behaviour from the police officers involved. I'm talking in terms of arresting people for non-compliance with measures taken against the spread of Covid-19, like that stupid woman in the twitter video.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Mr. Carlisle posted:

I guess it's a step up from that sunny side up video where she made a terrible (even by porn standards) porn wearing her hall of fame ring where she loudly farted, yelled 'gently caress my life' in the middle of filming, fell off a couch and other hilarious things

I'm not shaming sex work either - that video was hilariously bad even at being a porn

Was this before or after that week where she kept getting arrested?

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Gonzo McFee posted:

Sunny went through some totally awful poo poo for the WWE in ways that really aren't explored because she was a woman. She was treated horribly and they ignored the ways she was a massive asset to the brand.

Yeah she's gone off the rails but from the horrific poo poo she's gone through with none of the support the men went through I feel people should be more reasonable with her than they have been.

Yeah, the New Gen Podcast at one point remarked about how much of a utility player she was for the WWF in the mid-90s, often carrying or outright salvaging segments on the shows they reviewed, and how much she was relied on to get a crowd going.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Incessant Excess posted:

Isn't she from Portugal? Why bother supporting Trump when you can't even vote in US elections.

She must be pretty bummed out now that the 4 biggest parties are all Socialists, Social Democrats and Communists. The combined right wing parties (including the "Classical Liberal" bunch here) occupy a whopping 7 seats... out of 230. Their votes can easily be wiped out by the leftist independent, the Portugreens and the animal rights activist party.

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edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Just lean into it and do a thing for about a year where they go through each letter in the R section in the dictionary until they find one that fits.

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