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Prokhor Zakharov posted:when I dont know who a wrestler is I simply google them and wonder no more Yeah, but it absolutely takes way more time to type a wrestler's name into Google than going on Twitter and complaining about how I don't know this person and that means that obviously everyone else doesn't know who they are either.
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TinTower posted:I'm hiding the link behind the spoiler tag for the benefit of those who haven't watched Windy City Riot yet, but man, Triple H fans are not sending their best: We got to get these guys to convince HHH to give someone else the Dean Ambrose character. Just call up Regal’s kid or something and have him be Dean Ambrose.
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Tampa Bae posted:it's just a shame that all those rad highlight videos to 2000s hard rock are a lost art, that was the best way to learn about any wrestler People still make those!
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a dumb moron posted:Circling back to the whole “ look, at their age and BMI, they need to treat every show as their last
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Aside from catching bits and scraps of Hogan and Savage when I was basically a fetus, the first wrestling show I ever actually sat down to watch was one of the episodes of Nitro where Booker T won the TV title (I think it was from Disco Inferno?), and I was a kid with no context for anything except having seen Steve Austin once and wanting to know more, I had no idea that WWF and WCW were different things or that there was even more than one wrestling championship, so I just assumed I was lucky enough to turn on a random episode of The Wrestling Show and see them crown a brand new world champion and that seemed cool. And then I wanted to know more about the things I didn't understand, so I went and found out, because finding out is part of the fun. And learning about it was fun! And that was with 1998-rear end internet! You have the miracle of obsessive wrestling nerds now, you don't even have to listen to people on Oracle forums telling you the Renegade and the Ultimate Warrior are the same person
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Pretty sure the first wrestling thing I ever saw was one time in middle school the one kid that obsessively taped every single episode of Raw and Nitro showed me that match where The Rock threw Mankind into the electrical equipment and hit him in the head with a chair roughly 900 times in a row and I was like "I have no idea who these people are but this seems cool as poo poo" Eventually I learned the chair shots to the head are not, in fact, very cool but still. Drakkel fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Actually the chairshots are extremely cool it’s the consequences that suck
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imo having no idea who someone is, then watching them put on a fun match and winning you over or making you hate them is one of the coolest wrestling experiences. I don't know why people are disappointed when it happens. Besides being goofy fun, one of the other neat things about wrestling is how much of the storytelling makes sense even if you can't understand or hear a word they're saying.
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This thread sucks, I don’t know who anybody is in here
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Wrestling is at its purest when you have no idea who anyone is and you pick a lifelong fave based on Vibes Alone. Icetrain for Life
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I wonder how these people think wrestling existed before weekly TV was a thing. I somehow doubt people would show up to an 80s show and see Hulk Hogan or Andre and go "WHO THE gently caress IS THIS GUY? WHY AM I SUPPOSED TO CARE!? EXPLAAAIINNNNN!!!"
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Promoters used to come to town a week early and play promotional video packages in the town square so that everyone would be ready for the show
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Gumball Gumption posted:Promoters used to come to town a week early and play promotional video packages in the town square so that everyone would be ready for the show Every week they'd mail out a lore bible containing every single wrestler and every storyline they've ever been in because bad writing is when you don't already know every single thing about every single character on the show.
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These guys were the targets for the Angelina Jolie movie Salt with the tagline “Who is Salt?”
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This angle is so bad you can barely see Lashley. I was wondering why they were doing such a weird looking superplex when I saw this on my feed. https://twitter.com/Fightful/status/1778943848984527063
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MassRafTer posted:This angle is so bad you can barely see Lashley. I was wondering why they were doing such a weird looking superplex when I saw this on my feed. No but you see it's a different camera shot fromt he 12 camera shots that Kevin Dunn had used for the past 25 years and therefore it's cinema on the level of Barry Lyndon.
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But it's CINEMA!!!!
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Wrestling is at its purest when you have no idea who anyone is and you pick a lifelong fave based on Vibes Alone. If you can't create a lifelong ride or die and/or parasocial relationship with someone based off a portrait on the character select screen alone, then they're no good.
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MassRafTer posted:This angle is so bad you can barely see Lashley. I was wondering why they were doing such a weird looking superplex when I saw this on my feed. Off topic but it’s wild to me that Lashley went from WWE Champion to midcard in multiman matches. I guess he’s not a Paul Levesque guy? Or is his body breaking down?
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Eat This Glob posted:
I feel that, ROH and AEW commentary do a good job of catching you up to that. My first show was Revolution 2022 and I could still follow Eddie vs Jericho despite not knowing anything about Eddie, simply out of "Eddie wants respect, this is why they fight" Or, again with Eddie, the Claudio story. "he doesn't like Claudio, they have beef cause Claudio betrayed him in the past". Gotcha, let's roll. That said, handholding does help, I know Ibushi showing up wouldn't have hit me as much as it did if I hadn't heard of the Golden Lovers story before. It would have worked, with them telling us he and Kenny are as close as they are, but less so I guess.
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C. Everett Koop posted:If you can't create a lifelong ride or die and/or parasocial relationship with someone based off a portrait on the character select screen alone, then they're no good. To be fair I entirely agree with this Wrestling is best when wrestlers have immediately distinctive looks and “pop” when you see a trading card or the headshot on the character select screen and I miss the older days usage of facepaint, masks, unique hair, and accessories like the road warriors shoulderpads
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Jonny Nox posted:who is Tama Tonga? Haku’s son who’s been at NJPW for a long time but recently signed with WWE
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a dumb moron posted:Haku’s son who’s been at NJPW for a long time but recently signed with WWE Just realized I can Google wrestlers and get answers. ok he is the GOD guy.
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a dumb moron posted:Haku’s son who’s been at NJPW for a long time but recently signed with WWE He had a moment where he was really good and I felt like he hit a wall or regressed or something.
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Jonny Nox posted:who is Tama Tonga? not sure, waiting for a video package hopefully next friday
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Jonny Nox posted:who is Tama Tonga? He's a big nerd who paints his face like obscure Star Wars characters.
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JUNGLE BOY posted:not sure, waiting for a video package hopefully next friday Yeah how come no one online complained about who Tama Tonga was? There was no video package so how did they know who he was? I’m starting to think fedbrains are in bad faith!
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a dumb moron posted:Yeah how come no one online complained about who Tama Tonga was? There was no video package so how did they know who he was? I’m starting to think fedbrains are in bad faith! he's clearly an Anoa'i because he's Samoan and was inducted into the bloodline. Typical AEW fan, can't understand cinema
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Jonny Nox posted:he's clearly an Anoa'i because he's Samoan and was inducted into the bloodline. I own a Fellini box set I understand cinema just fine 
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Jonny Nox posted:who is Tama Tonga? he was bad before, but now that he's signed with wwe he's good
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Noted chaste wrestling promotion Stardom
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C. Everett Koop posted:he was bad before, but now that he's signed with wwe he's good It really is fuckin’ obvious how much this is the case to these doofs
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MassRafTer posted:This angle is so bad you can barely see Lashley. I was wondering why they were doing such a weird looking superplex when I saw this on my feed. I see so many tweets with thousands of likes praising every new camera angle WWE does and then I click the video and it's the worst poo poo imaginable. I saw one with 20k likes and it was a continuous 2 minutes of one cameraman slowing walking around the ringside area while 2 guys wrestled. I couldn't even tell who the guys wrestling were because they were off in the corner of the screen while we got a nice clear view of the ring apron and posts. It shattered any sense of immersion and made it impossible to see the actual match, but there was no camera cut so to WWE fans that makes it cinema.
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