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felt like makin this thread cause i rewatched the 2016 g1 and it was so good just a perfect month of booking and good to great to amazing matches + the rise of kenny omega as a legit superstar. if youre watching random crap why not post about it. lil many reviews if you want? sounds good to me. deep dive into 2004 roh? ok. whatever. is there a thread like this already? i’m sorry.
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i watched this while looking for a match to tell others about in the greatest match of the 00s tournament, unrelated but somewhat related to the match going on and how it would have related to one of the matches actually in the tournament. i won't say any more about that, and couldn't find that match that i wanted to find, but this one is between the same ppl and cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajbc_kcuoJ8 forgot to say weirdly it was uploaded today, the day where i wanted to find the match that isn't this match but is these competitors. just wow Cavauro fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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watched a couple kenta matches from 06 roh, vs danielson, vs roderick & vs danielson & joe. 06 kenta was really violent and all of those matches rip. go watch them if you like violence
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recently I watched all of Chuck Taylor's undefeated PWG run. the match where Chuck finally wins the belt is so good. Zack is such a despicable rear end in a top hat in it. Zack hits Chuck with a belt and Rick Knox refusing to count and yelling "I'm not gonna count, you hit him with the loving belt!" love Rick Knox. right before Chuck hits the Awful Waffle into the thumbtacks he has this enormous goofy smile on his face because he's so happy and the crowd goes wild. upon this review 2015-2017 PWG Chuck Taylor might be one of the best booked wrestlers of all time
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watched Kobashi and Shiozaki vs Sasaki and Nakajima and it still kicks rear end https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnzsvp
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this weekend was the coolest because I got to see Zack Sabre Jr turn into an indie megastar right before my eyes. on the first night before the show he had no merch lines and then immediately after the Men of Low Moral Fiber vs. Mt Rushmore match he had probably 50-70 people lining up to buy shirts from him
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On Wednesday I was watching random old PWG matches (Danielson/Joe, Danielson/Omega, and of course Zack/Chuck where Chuck wins the belt) Bard Maddox posted:recently I watched all of Chuck Taylor's undefeated PWG run. the match where Chuck finally wins the belt is so good. Zack is such a despicable rear end in a top hat in it. Zack hits Chuck with a belt and Rick Knox refusing to count and yelling "I'm not gonna count, you hit him with the loving belt!" love Rick Knox. That Knox moment is one of the things I'm waiting on in AEW to help build the cache of "we don't really do DQs, but here is how referees discretion can be emphasized to gently caress with a heel cheating." Bard Maddox posted:upon this review 2015-2017 PWG Chuck Taylor might be one of the best booked wrestlers of all time hell yeah.
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on the flip side ive been slowly going through all the pwg shows and it’s a miracle they survived long enough to become the super indie they did. joey ryan is just the dirt worst and every title match sucks with a bad finish. super dragon and davey richards both rule but all of their tags are literally 30 minutes too long. i’m almost through the weeds though just finished bola 2005 which had some super sick dragon gate matches plus funny stuff like matt cross being unable to keep up with anybody. remember matt cross? good times.
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Before the pandemic I watched Matt Cross and Josh Prohibition try and kill each other with a single table bump.
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I watched the first 2 nights of the Stardom 5 Star GP from a month ago & they were both very good with some great matches. Especially Syuri vs Maika. At some point I got my hands on a compilation based off of a poll the DVDVR board did listing the 20 top lucha matches of the 90s, & then I promptly forgot about it, until now. So decided I may as well put it on & have a look at match #20, El Felino vs Ciclon Ramirez from May 1993 CMLL for the NWA World Welterweight Title. It's not a bad match but I can't see why it'd be the 20th best match of any decade unless there was only 20 matches that have survived on tape. It's part of a feud that's been on going for a while, leading up to a mask vs mask apuestas match in July. Which to my knowledge is higher thought of but isn't on this comp? Anyway, each guy has a second, Negro Casas is in the corner of Felino, Ringo Mendoza in the corner of Ramirez. First fall is some standard lucha stuff, fun matwork, great tope suicida that takes out Felino & the first 2 rows at Arena Mexico, and after about 10 minutes Felino taps out to some sort of cradle submission that looked cool. So far, so good. And then the second fall goes weird. There's some good stuff but it comes down to Felino pushing over Casas & clearly Casas doesn't forget because about 3 minutes into the fall Felino as Ramirez in an octopus stretch, Casas gets on the apron & throws in the towel. Yeah, the guy he was cornering was doing the submission when he threw in the towel. And the ref just goes with it & awards Ramirez the 2nd fall & so the match. Really bizarre. I get it's setting up an angle at least go for the plausible deniability bit of Felino being locked in a submission that isn't going to make him quit. So yeah, this has me baffled, surely the match on the DVD was meant to be the apuestas match from July?
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I realized recently that I had missed the Dynamite Kid episode of Dark Side of the Ring, so I checked that out which immediately caused me to look up a couple of the Dynamite Kid vs Tiger Mask matches, and hot fuckin drat those guys move quick.
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Bard Maddox posted:this weekend was the coolest because I got to see Zack Sabre Jr turn into an indie megastar right before my eyes. on the first night before the show he had no merch lines and then immediately after the Men of Low Moral Fiber vs. Mt Rushmore match he had probably 50-70 people lining up to buy shirts from him I got a Highspots account this week exclusively so I could see your (and Oatgan’s) smiling faces in the crowd again. Like here: https://youtu.be/75yBmZM5Zos
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Lethrom posted:I realized recently that I had missed the Dynamite Kid episode of Dark Side of the Ring, so I checked that out which immediately caused me to look up a couple of the Dynamite Kid vs Tiger Mask matches, and hot fuckin drat those guys move quick. Watch this: https://youtu.be/MLyO790es-I https://youtu.be/nSTt62vgl1g
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NienNunb posted:I got a Highspots account this week exclusively so I could see your (and Oatgan’s) smiling faces in the crowd again. this match, and the match where Adam Page beats both of the Young Bucks by himself, are some of the happiest moments of my life. wrestling is very cool.
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I will always love ZSJ just putting on the sickest holds that give me phantom pains. Will also never get tired of ZSJ trying to get into strike exchanges only for him to get slapped down in one hit.
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https://youtu.be/YkVm-7DYYAQ One of the single greatest wrestling matches in American history
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yea ok posted:on the flip side ive been slowly going through all the pwg shows and it’s a miracle they survived long enough to become the super indie they did. joey ryan is just the dirt worst and every title match sucks with a bad finish. super dragon and davey richards both rule but all of their tags are literally 30 minutes too long. i’m almost through the weeds though just finished bola 2005 which had some super sick dragon gate matches plus funny stuff like matt cross being unable to keep up with anybody. remember matt cross? good times. it really doesnt come into its own until 07
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big ups to hulkamatt and the_rob for getting me into pwg real early.
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Sg Bamboo posted a DDT show that I've been meaning to watch and since it's AEW PPV Weekend, I intend to watch some of the PPVs some time over the next three days.
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i just dont have a lot of spare time for wrestling anymore so its just whatever weekly aew stuff comes up and the occasional njpw big card at this point.
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STONE COLD 64 posted:it really doesnt come into its own until 07 ya. i have every dvd from 05-'12ish lol. super dragon hosed over hulkamatt on an order once but he let me pick an OOP dvd to get when mine got hosed up. i also won a free super dragon mask from excalibur on twitter. lovely times.
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https://youtu.be/rh0a747aAz0 For the love of god watch this asap
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NienNunb posted:https://youtu.be/rh0a747aAz0 
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joe vs briscoe cage match. love when jay's face clots and clumps. nasty nasty.
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https://youtu.be/Nx_BFtn-SHE https://youtu.be/xhs-pOpBwcU Bret and Austin had such good loving matches together.
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yea ok posted:joe vs briscoe cage match. love when jay's face clots and clumps. nasty nasty. he bleeds real good
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NienNunb posted:Bret and Austin had such good loving matches together. i watched the wrestlemania 13 match some days ago and its extremely good. austins performance is just as close to perfect you can get from his entrance to the post match stuff. so much attention to detail in this one and shamrock could have messed up several times but he never does! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xftba please tell me if you have seen a better wwf/wwe match than this so i can watch it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNg85R893Fc Just watched Tenryu vs Mutoh from 2001 and it's so good it's unbelievable. 51 year old Tenryu is a sight to behold and Mutoh is just an absolute gremlin for this entire match trying to destroy Tenryu's leg. Tenryu hits an absolutely incredible brainbuster and does a fantastic old man top rope frankensteiner. Crowd is great throughout. I like to consult the observer archives when I watch old matches to see what else was going on in the greater wrestling world and here are some tidbits from early June 2001: -Liger had just won Best of the Super Juniors -The eight-week streak where Raw declined in ratings finally ended after two of the company's best weeks of television, when Raw on 6/4 from Minneapolis drew a 4.25 rating (3.93 first hour; 4.54 second hour) and a 6.8 share. -Eric Bischoff was implicated in a racketeering case related to an Atlanta strip club. -The preliminary estimates for Judgment Day are that the show did a 1.13 buy rate which is about 485,000 buys. -There's a letter from Ellie Hart about Owen's passing and telling Bret to get over Montreal
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kinda crazy how 20 years later you have people doing shining wizards in the wwe slightly better quality? https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jbsq1
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Currently watching Stardom stuff and conducting an argument with myself about whether I can justify another monthly subscription. I watched one of the more recent 5 Star GP shows and had equal parts "wow, all these people are really talented" and "wow, the only person on this show who stuck in my mind was Fukigen Death". I'm sure if I committed to watching a bunch more shows I'd really get into it, like I really got into Noah, but I'm currently watching enough wrestling that it's become a question of what I would have to put down to pick this up.
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Slaapaav posted:kinda crazy how 20 years later you have people doing shining wizards in the wwe That's some nice quality but also for me personally part of the charm of watching old wrestling is liking watching it looking real lovely like
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6 am Tokyo Joshi Pro.
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10 hours of Kenta Kobashi matches Next on the list is an additional 9 hours of Kobashi matches, but this time from his GHC reign SG Bamboo fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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young kobashi vs young kawada. kobashi really moves in this one but still has a single knee brace in 89 which is almost depressing in a way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4NDo5qkNzo
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Decided to rewatch the 4v4 Elimination match NOAH did the other week as a preview for the N-1 and it's still real loving sweet. I went into the card not expecting much but this match blew me away. In front of barely 150 people every single one of these guys had their working boots one and beat the everloving poo poo out of each other for nearly an hour and it absolutely ruled
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Watching the main event of PWG Threemendous III , a three team ladder match featuring 5 guys now in AEW and Kyle O'Reilly. Hard to belive this was 9 years ago, before the Young Bucks came to New Japan and I got sick of them
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i would respect the young bucks a lot more if they would kill off wwe by doing whatever passes for serious wrestling in 2021. kill wwe first then you can do the avantgarde comedy matches that require the audience to understand indy wrestling tropes. it will just turn their audience into a small cult and they will completely stop growing at some point. it will be ecw all over again with the same people in the audience on every show trying to get themselves over
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Lol wtf ^^ Ive been watching old ajw here's a very sick Thunder Queen match which is some kind of 5v5 with enforced singles to start. Match bangs though. https://youtu.be/s2ZAinGj82g
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The first wrestling I ever watched when I was a kid was World Class Championship Wrestling, so lately I've been on a nostalgia kick for that and watching some old WCCW stuff on YouTube. On the one hand, a lot of it doesn't hold up well because ye gods is Bill Mercer a terrible commentator (he gives 1980s Vince a run for his money in the "what a move" stakes when he doesn't know the name of a move); and sometimes it's downright depressing watching the show with the knowledge of what happened to a lot of the people on it: the deaths of all the Von Erichs except Kevin (and I fast-forward through anything involving Fritz because gently caress him), the deaths of guys like Bruiser Brody, Gino Hernandez, and (post-WCCW's demise) Chris Adams, stuff like that. On the other hand, a lot of the in-ring work was really solid and hard-hitting (as Michael Hayes said, they tended to work "snug" quite a bit), and there are very few feuds that got as much heat as the Von Erichs vs. the Freebirds. And they managed to make the Sportatorium look like an actual big-time sporting locale. I've also been checking out some of the old Bill Watts Mid-South/UWF stuff as I haven't watched it in a long while, and it's interesting how tangled up with WCCW the UWF really was when it started up, because Watts basically plundered WCCW (which was hurtling headlong into its' decline by 86/87, leading to a lot of its' talent bailing on Fritz over money issues) for a ton of the people on their roster: Chris Adams, Iceman Parsons, Missy Hyatt, The Missing Link, the Freebirds, and a bunch of others...only to get plundered themselves by Vince and the WWF (when guys like DiBiase, One Man Gang, and several others went to the WWF) later on before they folded and sold to JCP. E: and it's also neat to hear Jim Ross back when he was actually trying to call wrestling in a very "legit sports" manner, as opposed to the style we're used to hearing from him circa Attitude Era-WWF to the present day. Sydney Bottocks fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Sep 18, 2021 |
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