December Wrasslin |OT| Shaking Hands, Jerking Knees, Eating Mistletoe, Feeling Energy

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Bootaaay said:
I live in eternal hope that one day WWE will take Japanese wrestlers seriously, instead of having one on the roster just to get a cheap pop from the crowds when they tour Japan. Traditionally, however, while US wrestlers have often found success in Japan, the same can't be said for Japanese wrestlers in the US (probably because of the tendency to use them in clichéd roles or as a comedy act).
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Man, reading this reminds me of how much WCW did for international wrestling.

I love WCW!
 
Net_Wrecker said:
It ridiculous that King of the Ring is no longer around. WWE's lack of tournaments grinds my gears.
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Well it's been around in 2006, 2008, and 2010, so it seem like it's done every two years, but not as a PPV any more.

In all honesty it had a pretty shaky ratio of successes. Nearly half the winners fizzled out completely instead of becoming big stars.

Also, real or fake?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV7x0YMnOkQ&feature=feedu

And whether or not it is, thoughts on that design?
 
It needs a bit more flash. Gotta look more expensive.
 
Sunflower said:
Man, reading this reminds me of how much WCW did for international wrestling.

I love WCW!
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Definitely, the cruiserweight division to me WAS WCW. I really never gave a crap about the main event scene, and as I hadn't yet discovered Michinoku Pro and seen very little lucha, the WCW cruiserweights were mind blowing to me. I'm sure a lot of people felt the same way too, and it's a shame that WCW couldn't ever treat the cruiserweight division as something more than the high-flying flippy guys to open the show with, very much left to their own devices with no involvement in the upper echelons of the cards.
 
Bootaaay said:
Definitely, the cruiserweight division to me WAS WCW. I really never gave a crap about the main event scene, and as I hadn't yet discovered Michinoku Pro and seen very little lucha, the WCW cruiserweights were mind blowing to me. I'm sure a lot of people felt the same way too, and it's a shame that WCW couldn't ever treat the cruiserweight division as something more than the high-flying flippy guys to open the show with, very much left to their own devices with no involvement in the upper echelons of the cards.
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The only thing I think we had access to at the time that was close to WCW's Cruiserweight division was some of the stuff they had in ECW with mostly the same wrestlers.

Damn I wish the internet was around at that time.
 
Bootaaay said:
Definitely, the cruiserweight division to me WAS WCW. I really never gave a crap about the main event scene, and as I hadn't yet discovered Michinoku Pro and seen very little lucha, the WCW cruiserweights were mind blowing to me. I'm sure a lot of people felt the same way too, and it's a shame that WCW couldn't ever treat the cruiserweight division as something more than the high-flying flippy guys to open the show with, very much left to their own devices with no involvement in the upper echelons of the cards.
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Even so, it was a great introduction to that kind of wrestling for fans like you and I, and definitely started a snowball effect. Had WCW not done this...things would be even darker.
 
jaekwon15 said:
I passed the torch to Chriswok. He defeated me via pin fall in a Big Mouth match. The final moments were screen capped and watermarked with a Brazzers logo. He is now wrasslegaf's new resident complainer.
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haha

It was a True Long Island Z Story reference! However, I do feel my heel turn has been a complete success.
 
Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
If a good looking japanese wrestler could give a good promo in english, they would have all the success they could handle in the US.
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Sin Cara got a pretty big push, despite not speaking a lick of English. But I understand what you're saying - promo skills are so unimportant compared to wrestling ability in Japanese wrestling. They put the title on a US guy, and everyone automatically buys into the storyline of the home grown talent trying to get the belt back from the big bad foreigner, because pretty much every facet of the story is told over the course of the match, and not via hokey backstage segments and overly long in-ring promos.

However, that's just another reason why WWE would do well to remember the advantages managers can bring, and not just to foreign talent who can't speak English, but to US wrestlers with zero charisma and personality too.

Sunflower said:
Even so, it was a great introduction to that kind of wrestling for fans like you and I, and definitely started a snowball effect. Had WCW not done this...things would be even darker.
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Yeah, not only did the WCW cruiserweight division expose a lot of fans to that style for the first time, but also it was clearly was a big influence on many of today's wrestlers.
 
NJPW "NEW JAPAN ALIVE 2011", 04.12.2011
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
8,000 Fans - No Vacancy

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCA2490913EC12AE7

01. Karl Anderson & Killer Rabbit vs Jado & Gedo

02. Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask IV, Tomoaki Honma & Tama Tonga vs Toru Yano, Yujiro Takahashi, Tomohiro Ishii & Rocky Romero

03. Hirooki Goto & KUSHIDA vs Takashi Sugiura & Atsushi Aoki

04. Togi Makabe & Wataru Inoue vs Yoshihiro Takayama & Lance Archer

05. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs Takashi Iizuka & Hideo Saito

IWGP Jr. HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH;

06. Prince Devitt (c) vs Davey Richards

IWGP INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE MATCH;

07. Masato Tanaka (c) vs MVP

08. Giant Bernard vs Minoru Suzuki

09. Tetsuya Naito vs Shinsuke Nakamura

IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH;

10. Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs Yuji Nagata

HUGE show for New Japan here, with all the singles titles on the line. Pro Wrestling NOAH's Takashi Sugiura & Atsushi Aoki make an appearance to take on the team of Hirooki Goto & KUSHIDA, the team of Tenzan & Kojima reform to take on Iizuka & Saito, Prince Devitt defends the Jr. Heavyweight Title against ROH's Davey Richards, Masato Tanaka defends the Intercontinental Title against MVP, Giant Bernard and Minoru Suzuki beat the crap out of each other, Tetsuya Naito attempts to avenge his loss to Shinsuke Namamura in the G1 Climax Finals and Hiroshi Tanahashi goes up against Yuji Nagata for the IWGP Heavyweight Title, trying to equal Nagata's record of 10 defences of the belt.

This week's CHIKARA Podcast-A-Go-Go features a full tag match from September's 'Odyssey of the Twelfth Talisman' show - The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield & Sugar Dunkerton) vs The Batiri (Kodama & Obariyon);

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjlPAS6IJlo
 
Will Brodus Clay actually "debut" tonight? Seems a shame they missed the chance to have him destroy Morrison.

Also, Skip Sheffield could well be in the house. Yip yip yip.
 
Chopper said:
Will Brodus Clay actually "debut" tonight? Seems a shame they missed the chance to have him destroy Morrison.

Also, Skip Sheffield could well be in the house. Yip yip yip.
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I'd like to see a monster team of Clay and Ryback. Oh man.
 
Brodus Clay will arrive at the arena only to be denied access as the staff have no idea who he is thus delaying his return further, it'll be like what happened to Tiger Ali Singh and Lo-down at Survivor Series 2000.
 
Sunflower said:
I'd like to see a monster team of Clay and Ryback. Oh man.
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Edit: I'm sure it's already been discussed, but what did people generally think of the Roddy Piper promo last week? I thought it was a veeeeeeeery interesting tease of an actual heel turn. Do we think that's the plan?
 
Chopper said:
Edit: I'm sure it's already been discussed, but what did people generally think of the Roddy Piper promo last week? I thought it was a veeeeeeeery interesting tease of an actual heel turn. Do we think that's the plan?
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I think in all honesty, Cena is a heel already, just could never stop the cheers. He's intentionally working up the IWC and adults. It's working. He's already a heel, the kids just don't know.
 
Nocturnowl said:
I'm excited!
Excited for another Kane return promo vid!
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A Kane promo, with some crazy hinting to a return?

John Laurenitis vice president of talent relations and intrem general manager of Raw talking on his cell phone about some nobody named Clayman or something.

Then someone will hurt John Cenas feelings and then the crowd will boo him

The end
 
Sunflower said:
I think in all honesty, Cena is a heel already, just could never stop the cheers. He's intentionally working up the IWC and adults. It's working. He's already a heel, the kids just don't know.
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Yeah, but I want him to be booked like a heel. Against good guys. I want to see a proper turn, where he goes ballistic and starts screaming at the crowd, calling them all ungrateful assholes. Oh yes. That would be sweet indeed.
 
Chopper said:
Yeah, but I want him to be booked like a heel. Against good guys. I want to see a proper turn, where he goes ballistic and starts screaming at the crowd, calling them all ungrateful assholes. Oh yes. That would be sweet indeed.
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Someday :) It'll happen someday!

It really is a shame though how much merchandising is tied up with characters and their direction. It sucks. It's all about marketability. :(
 
Sunflower said:
Someday :) It'll happen someday!

It really is a shame though how much merchandising is tied up with characters and their direction. It sucks. It's all about marketability. :(
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But an awesome bad guy will sell merch too! Surely? Oh man. I swear, turning that dude heel will serious rejuvenate my interest in this stuff. All they would need to do is get rid of Cole off commentary, and I'd actually watch every week.
 
If I had the $$ I'd go to RAW or Smackdown this week. Both are in driving distance but I don't have the cash or the time off.
 
G-Fex said:
A Kane promo, with some crazy hinting to a return?

John Laurenitis vice president of talent relations and intrem general manager of Raw talking on his cell phone about some nobody named Clayman or something.

Then someone will hurt John Cenas feelings and then the crowd will boo him

The end
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The spoilers are killing me! What next? telling me that Ziggler will be involved in a solid but random match that has little to do with the title he carries? or that the tag team titles will go ignored in the hopes that fans aren't reminded that Evan Bourne is still absent? Maybe you should just tell me that the divas will have a 5 minute long match (including entrances) that sticks to the standard rota.
 
Don't know if this was posted or not:

The official launch date of the WWE network is

April 1st, 2012


So the WWE Network will be one giant April fool's joke.
 
cjelly said:
Let's see if this happens tonight.
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I remember one time Raw took place in New Jersey and they intentionally never mentioned it. No logo, no talk and no reference to the location at all. Also another time I think they were in Rochester but they would only say they were broadcasting live from New York.
 
djsandman said:
Don't know if this was posted or not:

The official launch date of the WWE network is

April 1st, 2012


So the WWE Network will be one giant April fool's joke.
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This would assume WWE plan out things in advance which we know they don't, actually maybe i'm wrong and this could be a master plan, if it all goes belly up Vince will just look back to the date and claim the entire scheme was a mere prank, an expensive one at that.
 
Brodus is going to be built up for barely a few weeks before Cena destroys him because what the fuck else does Cena have to do between now and the Royal Rumble? At least Umaga got built up for 9 months before he started jobbing to the ring post every week.
 
Hey look the WWE got something to trend outside of their show... which means they will start off Raw pimping that #SlammyAwards is trending
 
Jamie OD said:
I remember one time Raw took place in New Jersey and they intentionally never mentioned it. No logo, no talk and no reference to the location at all. Also another time I think they were in Rochester but they would only say they were broadcasting live from New York.
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The UK shows always crack me up, as they'll say 'FROM BIRMINGHAM' or 'FROM MANCHESTER' and then show shots of London landmarks.
 
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