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Guys, I figured it out.
Cornette hates Itoh because she's stealing his brand.
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Mar 13, 2021 23:57
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RealFoxy posted:The bullets are on point, but nobody has ever considered Jimmy the cutest of anything, especially the world. She's doing his gimmick better than him.
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Mar 14, 2021 00:11
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The sad thing is he's not anything like as influential as Limbaugh. He's increasingly deranged and powerless and the more that intensifies the less he can cope with it, to the point where sooner or later he's going to say something so vile he gets kicked offline. He's professional wrestling's Graham Linehan.
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Mar 14, 2021 16:06
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Jim usually gets less than 50k views for his videos. To put that in context, John Silver has 57k views for recreating a scene from The Sandlot with Marko Stunt. He gets comparable numbers of viewers to the comedy engineering podcast Well There's Your Problem. He's already nobody.
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Mar 14, 2021 19:22
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MassRafTer posted:I've heard people saying that talking about Cornette signal boosts him and I just don't see the evidence. Even looking at google search data yeah he had the huge boost for Double or Nothing but since then interest has been declining, getting little boosts here and there. hence him going to the diminishing returns of saying more and more controversial things and less and less people caring.
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Mar 14, 2021 19:27
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I genuinely hate South Park Guy more than Cornette
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Mar 15, 2021 15:41
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Haas looks like what would happen if you tried to sculpt Tom Lawlor out of spam.
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Mar 16, 2021 23:29
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Vince MechMahon posted:Kip is 100% her himbo arm candy valet. Kip vs Every Joshi has always been AEW's best feud.
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Mar 17, 2021 07:35
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Pylons posted:I'm the can of fart spray. No, Jim is.
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Mar 17, 2021 16:16
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Vandar posted:
Holy loving poo poo
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Apr 18, 2021 10:08
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I'm more familiar with the UK side than the US side, but in British wrestling comedy was always always part of the bill. As far back as the fifties and sixties someone like Les Kellett was simultaneously regarded as one of the toughest men to ever get in the ring and one of the funniest. When someone like Colt Cabana talks about drawing inspiration from World Of Sport, he's talking about the incredible athleticism of people like Johnny Saint, but he's also talking about the comedy of Les Kellett and Leon Arras. Making 'em laugh was always part of the job.
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Apr 20, 2021 09:40
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Vince MechMahon posted:Kenny Olivier is him referencing Lawrence Olivier cause Kenny is just "play acting like a wrestler" and using a man who is widely considered a master at his craft as an insult being stupid never occurred to Jim. If someone were to compare my skill at my profession to a man who was so good at his craft that he was literally made a baron because of it, I gotta tell you, I'd be burned real bad.
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Apr 21, 2021 10:03
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iirc Ric Flair once told Mick Foley to his face that everything he did in the ring was garbage and he'd be in a wheelchair by the time he was thirty.
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May 2, 2021 23:10
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Jesus loving Christ.
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May 16, 2021 09:33
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When I think about Asuka the first thing that springs to mind is how little charisma she has.
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May 17, 2021 08:18
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Considering the various forms of abominable poo poo that this thread's namesake has done, "liking Randy Orton" isn't a particularly egregious thing to lay at JR's door.
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May 24, 2021 21:13
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One of the best ways I heard it put was that abusers don't just groom children. They groom everyone around the child.
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Jun 7, 2021 09:47
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That would involve ever thinking about him.
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Jul 10, 2021 22:32
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Zombie Lemur posted:They may not have pressed charges until they saw how batshit his social media was. Yeah, something like "I'm sorry, my excitement got the better of me" "okay, well if you promise not to do it again we won't press charges" "YEEAH, THIS IS A REVOLUTION!" "All right, so we're pressing charges"
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Jul 11, 2021 11:30
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CaptainApathyUK posted:This is definitely true, as evidenced by his fury that Nyla Rose wasn't booked with a "I've got an unfair advantage because I'm trans" gimmick. oh god, I'm pretty sure that a trans wrestler given this gimmick would just quit. Jesus, I hadn't heard this one.
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Jul 13, 2021 11:12
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CaptainApathyUK posted:I'm pretty sure he also, as a part of that, suggested that the other members of the roster should be giving her poo poo about her unfair advantage and harping on about it. More like Jim Mumsnet at this point (one there for the britposters)
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Jul 13, 2021 12:18
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What always gets me about the "[unrealistic thing] is killing the business" argument is that uh... we all know it's not real. And we're all investing a suspension of disbelief when we watch shows. And crucially we invest a different level into different shows. You have to suspend more disbelief for a Chikara show or a TJPW show than for Bloodsport or UWF, but you're still suspending disbelief. Some people find the amount they have to suspend for Chikara to be more than they are willing to do. Likewise some people find Bloodsport etc to be too close to just worked MMA for their tastes. To pretend one is killing the business and the other isn't is just silly. It's like with TV drama. You have to suspend more belief to watch Wandavision than to watch Line Of Duty, because Wandavision is both more fantastical and more self aware of being a television show. But you also have to suspend disbelief for Line Of Duty because, well, these are actors pretending to be cops rather than cops.
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Jul 13, 2021 16:23
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Duke Pukem posted:I dont think he has really changed, he was always like this. The business just got less carny I thing this is exactly it. He's like those optical illusions where the same colour can register as white against a dark background or black against a light one. In the eighties and nineties there were so many people so much worse than him that he seemed reasonable (there's a reason he's a contributor to Dark Side Of The Ring rather than a subject). As the industry has changed and he hasn't, his opinions and attitudes have seemed less acceptable. Plus, of course, he is absolutely playing to a crowd.
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Jul 19, 2021 08:34
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When Cornette was running Ohio Valley Wrestling, Booker T main evented one of their shows.
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Jul 22, 2021 18:13
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"can't promo one bit" is the part that really nails down that this guy has never seen Nick Gage actually work. Like, I can understand if people don't like deathmatches they will probably not like his natural style. If they're blinkered they may interpret that as him not being able to work. But Nick Gage is genuinely one of the most charismatic talkers in wrestling. Seeing him in Beyond and GCW, if he told the people in those rooms they were storming city hall everyone would grab a weapon.
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Jul 23, 2021 12:46
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Puppy Doll posted:I've been wondering for a while: do Cornette stans even enjoy any modern wrestling? All I see from them is posting about the stuff they hate and the promotions they're mad at; I can't remember ever seeing one of those folks earnestly posting about, like, an NWA show they're excited for or whatever. Hating something takes less effort than either loving it or engaging critically with it.
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Jul 25, 2021 07:19
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I've said it before but I hate Cornette's artist much more than I hate Cornette.
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Jul 25, 2021 07:38
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he represents himself as an irritant who feasts on poo poo
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Jul 25, 2021 23:17
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If you read Foley's first book, he was someone who knew Hildebrand better than almost anyone, and at one point basically says that if the business hadn't been body-based Hildebrand would have been a world champion. He knew wrestling like absolutely nobody else.
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Oct 22, 2021 17:47
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:So, are there actually any good wrestling podcasts? I occasionally check out Meltzer & co via YouTube clips, but the last wrestling podcast I listened to was so long ago they were still called radio programs. Smart Wrestling Fan is good if what you want is an in depth review podcast. Marty And Sarah Love Wrestling is gentle wrestling talk with characters from a stand up comedian and an improv comedian (Marty DeRosa and Sarah Shockey). Never Openpod is a fun New Japan podcast that I would be mentioning as good even if I didn't do the New Japan Strong review for them.
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Feb 14, 2022 00:59
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collocation posted:To be doubly pedantic, I believe it was a knock off of what Russo did with La Parka in late WCW. Though, the La Parka thing actually sort of had a point/story, in that the voice would write checks he would have preferred to avoid cashing resulting in La Parka, at least once, throwing the mic down, and pointing at in a horrified manner while the voice continued to talk poo poo to someone way tougher. See, that actually sounds funny.
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May 1, 2022 11:56
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angel hair pudding
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It is observable in every subculture that the further down a rabbit hole you are the more baffling your injokes and references will be to outsiders.
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Jun 7, 2022 18:18
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Let's stop arguing with the bad faith racist guys.
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Oct 26, 2022 07:45
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Wrestling isn't MEANT to look like a real fight. Real fights are ugly and look like poo poo. Wrestling is meant to look like the story of a fight, with better pacing, flashier things happening, and emotional heft. If your wrestling match looks like what a fight actually looks like, you've failed.
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Mar 7, 2023 15:20
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If someone in a wrestling ring did the waffle house chair catch I would pop like a motherfucker. https://twitter.com/WeekendTwitr/status/1607919795726438401?t=LNUfe-3Tf5kumjSrvWV6Ig&s=19
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Man, d'von can still move
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Mar 7, 2023 16:01
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I would say that it's completely legit to want a style of wrestling that resembles a combat sport. UWF-E style matches are cool as poo poo. But they're a flavour rather than the flavour. (and combat sports don't look like fights either)
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:You mean like this? I did in fact pop like a motherfucker for this.
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