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Kvlt! posted:i also never understood how it doesnt just like shatter his thumb is there a kayfabe excuse for that He's a Samoan. C'mon now, we know that they are built differently in kayfabe MJeff posted:....so Solo's finisher is just a thumb to the throat? Like, he actually does that to win matches, not just to interfere or beat people up? It's like punches being illegal. They are until they aren't. I dunno, it's not in the top tier of wrestling moves because there's no headdrop or flip but Samoan Spike is fine. It'd suck being stabbed in the throat by a guy that strong
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Tampa Bae posted:It's based off Sami Zayn not being able to enter Saudi Arabia and Kevin Owens supporting his best friend I will never get mad at wrestlers being passive aggressively mad at WWE because that would make me a hypocrite, passive aggressively hating your job is the way and the light
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Rarity posted:Aw I liked Charley That's what happens when you like things, you get disappointed
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Kennel posted:Now that you mention it, Cody looks exactly like my flaccid penis. Tattoo and all. Having bleached blonde hair on the tip of your penis is not normal & probably unhealthy
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Apr 22, 2023 13:44
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Rarity posted:Eddie Edwards' most notable single career moment is getting his head split open with a baseball bat by Sami Callahan Going to suggest being the only non-Japanese to win the GHC Heavyweight Title is more notable than anything involving Sami
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Rarity posted:This would require the wider wrestling fanbase to care about NOAH Imma suggest NOAH are more notable than TNA
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Apr 23, 2023 10:13
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Chris James 2 posted:TNA over the past 2 years is better than at least current NOAH for numerous reasons I will have to gently disagree. NOAH is no perfect company but I'll take 51 year old Takashi Sugiura over anyone that Impact can offer, never mind Shiozaki, Nakajima, Kenoh, Kiyomiya, Lee. And as for the company behind Okato, they don't get to laugh at wasting young talent. Honestly, it we're comparing Impact to a Japanese company it should be All Japan, but if All Japan didn't have the best wrestler in the world. They both may well have some great wrestling, but if nae oval office watches then does it matter?
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There's still people who think Kevin Sullivan did it, because he wrestled a Satanic gimmick at one point. Wrestling fans are dumb and awful
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Apr 24, 2023 12:31
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I seem to remember Punk throwing a hissy fit when a friend went backstage at a WWE show after Punk was let go?
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Apr 24, 2023 23:43
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Sydney Bottocks posted:We joke about Punk going on an apology tour, but damned if he didn't actually make amends with the Miz, and would have done the same with Paul Triple H if Daddy Mustache hadn't said no It's the Ryback apology I'm looking forward to
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Apr 25, 2023 15:03
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Can't believe hiring a bunch of lovely failed comedy writers leads to a writing team putting out the most grotesque, lazy & lowest-common-denominator poo poo possible. A loving Crocodile Dundee gimmick. 35 years too late.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Sad sack Corbin, or Happy Corbin? Well he did 9/11 so I assume he'd be Very Happy Corbin
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Apr 27, 2023 10:57
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Why not bring back Filthy Animals instead of LWO?
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May 7, 2023 22:35
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MJeff posted:Dirty little secret about AJ in WWE is that he's been aggressively average to mediocre since the Brock match which was six years ago now. Which I think is fair enough really, he's been wrestling since 1999 and probably 15-18 years of that was at a high level doing a style that's not necessarily easy on the body. But yeah, he's definitely getting by on reputation at this point, you're right
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May 8, 2023 14:39
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MJeff posted:There's also the boneyard match which people will try to convince you was good. These people are demons and you should throw holy water on them. Will never stop saying DDT did a way better cinematic nonsense match in 2020, with Takeshita against Yoshihiko in a Last Man Standing match that even mocked the ripping out the eye spot from Rey Rollins match, work of art.
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May 8, 2023 15:09
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rare Magic card l00k posted:Crediting ROH for the current product is crazy. What's the old quote about The Velvet Underground & Nico? "The first Velvet Underground album only sold 30,000 copies in its 1st 5 years, but everyone who bought it formed a band." I'm not saying Gabe era ROH is quite that influential but more that influence doesn't always mean instant commercial success. But that legacy is a huge impact on AEW's style and even shines through in part in WWE. Guys might well have been a success without ROH, with only IWAMS, CZW, JAPW, RevPro/PWG, Wildside, whatever, but despite being a niche within a niche ROH did give guys like London, Kendrick, Danielson, McGuinness, Joe, Briscoes, Claudio, Hero, Shelley, an intermediate step between local indies and the TV promotions.
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Gonzo McFee posted:ROH had a huge impact on American wrestling. The talent that came through that company and made their names in it alone is ridiculous. Night one of WrestleMania had Kevin Steen and El Generico main event, for example. It's funny if you see comments in the newsletters from TNA around 2003-5, often complaining that "we have most of the same wrestlers so why do they get rave reviews for their work in ROH & not here? It's not fair" & in 2003 London & AJ are given 25 minutes to steal the show while at the same time London is having fun sub 10 minute matches with Chris Sabin that end with some poorly done interference & AJ is stuck being associated with Vince Russo & in matches with multiple run-ins.
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May 8, 2023 16:24
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Ganso Bomb posted:I don't generally care about how old a wrestler is, it just became A Thing in WWE because they refused to make young, new stars anymore and only relied on the old ones. Old wrestlers can be cool as poo poo. It's just, you can't only have old wrestlers at the top of the card forever and ignore the young wrestlers who are getting over and could be huge stars as well. I only care about age because every time I watch Masato Tanaka I think "how the gently caress is this guy 50, been wrestling a hard hitting style for 30 years & still this good?" As opposed to classic Hulk Hogan where you watch him & think "how the gently caress is this guy 37, has been wrestling for about 15 years, is this bad & looks ancient?"
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https://twitter.com/trillyrobinson/status/1657767105582989318?s=20 Why did I not realise NXT was the home of such innovative wrestling?
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Rarity posted:What would Siren be doing hanging out with the Eternals? Dunno, what possessed anyone that making an Eternals movie was a good idea? Maybe she got lost.
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That DICK! posted:All y’all ain’t seen marvel movie since endgame say YEAH Haven't seen an MCU film since the 2nd Guardians movie, don't know if Into the Spider-Verse came before or after Endgame but that'd be the last Marvel film I saw. It was fun
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Eat My Fuc posted:I miss the WWE Network You could sub to the superior AJPW.TV, all the Kento Miyahara you could want. Actually, that's not true, there's never enough Kento (You can still get the WWE Network if you use a VPN, but don't give the WWE money please)
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May 18, 2023 23:49
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Barry Bluejeans posted:So soon we forget the legacy of Quibi And now I really want to watch The Golden Arm again. Not the high point of Sam Raimi's career.
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May 19, 2023 21:18
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projecthalaxy posted:Brock kicked out of repeated cross rhodes then kimuraed Cody into unconsciousness. Just like always happened to Austin and Hogan Passing out from a double wristlock? That makes no sense to me
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May 27, 2023 23:32
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Chris James 2 posted:There's an NXT show tonight they want you skipping Double Or Nothing for, same time Noam Dar vs Dragon Lee in a Heritage Cup rules match seems like the sort of thing I will go out of my way to watch. Which I think would be the first WWE match of this year for me.
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Cody Rhodes has officially been adopted into the Gracie family
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3 A.M. Radio posted:If you alwaya wanted to see what the Austin/McMahon feud would have been like if Austin was beaten down and humiliated every week (sometimes twice!), and Austin never had a chance to physically get his revenge on Vince , you're going to absolutely love the Cody/HHH feud that's coming your way. Truly Cody is the man for our times
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:the Persian dream... The Aryan Dream 
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BrigadierSensible posted:I cannot approve of this is any way. His name currently tells you he feels like a minor member of the nobility
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Lid posted:Apparently Ilja Dragunov had another five star match that no one saw? Hey, it's better than when he was in wXw and no one even knew he had a five star match outwith the Rheinland
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mooseinfants posted:Yugioh sucks these days. Almost as bad as WWE So you're saying they go together real well
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That DICK! posted:it could be the freaking money Think you're on to something
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shiksa posted:oh don't worry the album could still totally be used to drive anyone above the age of 35 out of a room This description made me have to listen to some stuff. It's interesting. Reminds me of Mr Bungle in the way it can shift genre even within one track. Hate the vocals in the way I've never been able to enjoy music with heavily pitch shifted vox, going back to first hearing Cher's Believe. It's not even that I have a problem with vocal effects entirely, I like some of the stuff John Lennon did to his voice because he hated the way he sung, & Jus Oborn from Electric Wizard is a favourite of mine despite (or because?) of having some sort of distortion on his voice. Just a total boomer about those specifically very high-pitched artificial effects that I'd associate with someone like Akon or T-Pain. But at the same time, heavy metal as a scene is generally pretty loving conservative musically, regressive even in a way with "this is what X sub-genre is & you must not go outwith those boundaries". So that sort of "this is music that should alienate old people" vibe is definitely not coming from there. Makes sense it would come from the electronic music side of things, where there's a lot more room to just do weird poo poo in. I hope there's always young people making intensely awkward & alienating music. It's like Metal Machine Music, I'm glad it exists even if as a record I've probably sat through it in full once & that'll probably do me for this & the next lifetime.
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Suplex Liberace posted:is that pat paterson beside idk the macho man? It's actually The Rock
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Gonz posted:Now I want to see Boyd Crowder take over Vince’s position. Boyd is too moral to have anything to do with this company
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BrigadierSensible posted:Nether of these guys are cool, charismatic, or fun to watch. The last time I checked Wreddit even suggesting that this was a valid viewpoint, not even disagreeing but just saying "it's possible for this to be a sincerely held belief", you'd get down voted into oblivion faster than a speeding bullet. It was quite insane
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BrigadierSensible posted:Going back to Maximum Male Models. Handsome well dressed muscly men is hardly a gimmick created by AEW, come on.
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Alan_Shore posted:No post about this awesome video from SuperEyepatchWolf about the Roman Reigns storyline? I'm just saying that in the over 1 hour 30 of a video essay you could watch the 3 best matches of 2023 (according to me) and still have time left over to make yourself a cup of tea. Miyahara & Nomura vs Aoyagi & Nomura - 22:33 Omega vs Ospreay - 34:38 Okada vs Takagi - 32:07
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MJeff posted:So people would make fun of his lovely Vincent Price look instead of going "why the gently caress is this serial rapist coming back." I know the perception of wrestling fans is we're morons, but I can think more than 2 thoughts at once & I assume others can too.
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