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Gavok posted:And you might ask yourself, "Who the gently caress hired Raven?" 
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SirDippingSauce posted:Here's something I never quite understood that both AEW and WWE seem to require ther champions to do: lugging around the championship belt and being responsible for it. Like as bagge and luggage, and keeping it with them. It's an expensive item and forget about having too much beer at a steak house and leaving in your Uber or something like Jericho did, or instances where a WWE guy has left their championship somewhere... airlines screw up and lose luggage all the time. Even if it's just a replica title, and there is a special version of the belt to be used on TV... like, why require them to do this? Why not hold on to the replica not-as-good-for-tv title and only give or send it out with them if they know they're doing some kind of local media appearance or meet and greet or signing or something and then take it back when those are done. having it be juggled through all stages of travel and packing/unpacking at shows would also not be a flawless process, when it could still be misplaced, damaged, etc. add in the traditional chaos of branching road schedules in most big wrestling companies with more than one TV a week (and/or house shows), with plans randomly changing on a whim for any number of reasons, and it can easily make more sense to have the belt kept by the person who needs it to be there at every event they're at like the example of checking the belt in and out with a wrestler based off of local appearances just adds an extra logistical headache alone, with a process of travel and production that's already a juggling act as it is I know if I had to pick between traveling with this always needed (but cumbersome) item 24/7, or chasing it down every time I needed it, I'd just travel with the thing, and I suspect most anyone who's dealt with hectic travel would do the same to avoid that type of stress at that point, why not just do it the old school way and expect that the wrestler is gonna take that belt seriously enough to be responsible for it, along with any hypothetical benefit that possessing the belt does make it easier for them to live that gimmick as the champ and enhance their performance/investment in that role e: alternate solution is that Tony Khan should just hire a guy to do nothing but wear every single belt from one event to the next, Ultimo Dragon style The337th fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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Halloween Jack posted:gently caress both of you for reminding me that's J-E-Double F...J-A-Double R-E-Double T
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apophenium posted:I share an account w my mom so I can pay for her hospital bills with said account if she becomes incapacitated. I'm angrily eating a muffin while reading this post
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C. Everett Koop posted:Vince in '97 was scared to death of losing Michaels to WCW, since he didn't know Michaels was going to get hurt and Austin was going to go nuclear and end his money woes. None of this makes it less of a failure in leadership than Tony Khan also letting his big star have too much leash to escalate drama into a total disaster Vince just had the extremely situational luck that the post Montreal disaster could be woven into business that was ready to boom
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NikkolasKing posted:I don't think anyone is denying that. But the topic was Tony being handed things, like Vince wasn't also blessed. He got handed Steve Austin and The Rock. That's two ultra once-in-a-lifetime talents. Yet Austin was The Ringmaster and The Rock was Rocky "Die Rocky Die" Maivia. They loving wanted to call Stone Cold "Chilly McFreeze"! a very wise and sensible man once spoke publicly on this subject, noting how Vince made money in spite of himself and languished as a millionaire when he should have been a billionaire for all the advantages he had wonder what ever happened to that guy
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It's a lot like capitalism, very popular in the US and bad for your health
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Sandman from ECW posted:As mentioned earlier they didn’t even have to do it in Montreal, they could have done it before or even weeks after. There’s a lot of things that don’t add up. .eb lliw reve ereht tseb eht ,saw ereht tseb eht ,si ereht tseb ehT
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Craptacular! posted:YouTube is overflowing with 1 hour homemade documentaries these days, but is there any particularly standout one about the beginnings of AEW, the (short lived?) ratings war, etc? if you want a really well made documentary about a long term storyline that spanned the founding of AEW and beyond (and don't care about spoiling past major stories), this one is hard to beat it does about as good a job as you could hope for with a story that spanned years and was told through a lot of slow burn TV and Vlog content https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YJgm6Auz8 e; double recommends for the same channel, lol too bad that person seemed to have been totally derailed after their Cody documentary premise didn't work out, even the teaser/opening they'd made for it was impressive The337th fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Mick's jokes about Al weren't demeaning enough
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Twin Cinema posted:
If he's ever back in one piece, he'll probably make more sense once he can fully immerse into some heel work I've never felt like his babyface presence carries as well for fans that don't already have a past connection to him
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Out of all the blatant Shawn Michaels inspiration, him being able to channel so much petulant prick energy on camera is probably the most impressive
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Open Marriage Night posted:At the latest GCW show in Detroit, Matt Cardona did a "Boo! Yeah!" spot using Danhausen and his action figures. I don't understand what I'm supposed to be picturing here were they both using action figures to hit each other?
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Max Caster every time he holds a mic
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Sandman from ECW posted:This always drove me crazy yeah, the setup for the stomp takes way too long almost every time, it's really impractical to leave someone dangling then climb and position and jump I think you'd need a window of like 3 seconds tops of a wrestler hanging on before it enters silly town and gets worse by the moment at least the Swerve one has them sitting on the mat, but it still fails on ring positioning a lot Swerve really needs a consistent setup move that stuns them while in the seated position to make the whole thing easier to sell e; I really like to handwave a lot of this stuff with the old rule of the Irish Whip making no sense either, but it's tough when it's more recently innovated moves and you haven't just internalized them enough to protect your suspension of disbelief. I bet someone who was a little kid watching the Alberto stomps has a way easier time just accepting them nowadays The337th fucked around with this message at 23:48 on May 9, 2024 |
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yeah if I had watched zero Lucha Underground, like most people, I'd just see Penta doing that and go "ouch, nasty hyperextension there" as someone who did watch a season of LU, I just went "oh yeah, it's obviously not an arm break now"
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as far as pins go, I find it extremely tedious when announcers linger on pinning technique being the blame for someone kicking out at two JR being the worst offender in recent years much more so when it's framed as the wrestler just being forgetful or lazy with their pins, rather than at least selling it like someone's too exhausted or rushed for a proper pin
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