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April Wrasslin' |OT| A Max Landis Production
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I'm kinda with you, but that belt doesn't look half bad with The Rock or that one picture of Triple H that I saw the other day. And would The Rock have looked good with the winged eagle belt? I dunno. Seems weird in my mind's eye.
Boxing. A fake sport that is more carney than pro wrestling.
It's all fake. Who cares?
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Deleted member 47027
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I won't have you sully the name of professional boxing
It's just...
indefensible
I love boxing, but it has its issues.
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Deleted member 47027
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I did it once. I'm done. No thank you. Fuck you Carue.
spindashing
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Excuse YOU, it's SCRIPTED.
avengers23
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Professor Beef
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The Japanese version of :mjcry:Any excuse to post the Triple Crown
ratcliffja
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Lance Storm remains my favorite WCW heel ever. Jericho was way overrated.That is too many belts.
Who the heck is the dude with the pants?
slightconfuse
Banned
Really good to hear Doc and Karl in a podcast
FlammableD
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avengers23
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Mike Quackenbush, co-founder of Chikara.
avengers23
Banned
Meiko Satomura week continues with Meiko Satomura vs. Syuri from Sendai Girls' March 11, 2016 show at Shinjuku FACE in Tokyo. We're working with DailyMotion again, so let's see if capturing gifs will drive me as crazy as it did yesterday.
As we've discussed this week, Meiko Satomura is a twenty year veteran and co-founder of Sendai Girls. She kicks the hell out of people, and her finisher is the Death Valley Bomb, a Death Valley Driver variant. Syuri was trained by Tajiri, and she actually started in Hustle as Karate Girl in the Hustle Union Army. She also does kickboxing with the Krush promotion, shoot boxing, and MMA with Pancrase. So, this match is going to have a lot of kicks to the face and body.
And yes, in case you perverts were wondering, Syuri has a gravure tape out there too.
This is a non-title match as Syuri heads off to kickbox and fight in MMA full time. Satomura gives no shits and starts probing Syuri for weaknesses with leg kicks and slaps. Syuri tries to take it to the ground, and the two grapple inconclusively. Shoulder tackles are also inconclusive, though an ankle pick takes Satomura down. To the corner now, and Syuri smashes Satomura with kicks to the chest. Satomura tries to respond with with an elbow, but Syuri throws her back in to the corner kicks her, suplexes her out of the corner, and kicks her in the back again for good measure. All of this just pisses Satomura off, and they give the people what they came to see with a kick exchange. Leg kicks become kicks to the chest become elbows to the face as each woman tries to prove she's the tougher. The key to the exchange is the way both women lean into the kicks to maximize the impact; every kick makes you wince because it seems like they're kicking the hell out of each other out of spite. The referee has to break the women up because of their collar and elbow was going nowhere. Satomura misses a high kick, and Syuri takes her down with some leg kicks. Satomura gets the mount, but she lets her up because that's not what she wants to do. Instead, she takes Syuri down with an armdrag and goes for an armbreaker. Syuri escapes and passes the guard. Satomura says, "Fuck grappling," picks Syuri up, bodyslams her, and goes to work with some elbows, including a very nice running elbow into the corner. Satomura lands on the middle rope off an Irish whip reversal and eats a kick to the chest as she tries to jump at Syuri. Knees to the body set up an armbreaker in the middle of the ring; Syuri's face as she cranks Satomura's arm is a sight to behold. A spinning heel kick gives Satomura an opening; Syuri's elbows can't stop Satomura from sideslamming her. Satomura goes for the Death Valley Bomb, but a backcracker and a running penalty kick get Syuri a two count. Syuri counters a running lariat with a German suplex. Satomura eats some more kicks to the chest, but she counters a head kick with a backdrop suplex. Elbow exchange leads to running strike exchange leads to a Satomura head kick to a Syuri jumping knee to a Satomura Pele kick. Satomura hits her cartwheel knee on Syuri to try to set up the Death Valley Bomb. Syuri counters and dumps Satomura on her head with a German suplex that gets a two count. Satomura rolls under the ropes to catch her breath. Syuri misses a jumping knee in the corner, and Satomura kicks her in the face. This sets up a short frog splash that rated maybe 2.5*. Satomura locks in the sleeper hold, her submission of choice, but Syuri escapes with kicks to Satomura's head. Satomura responds with a Death Valley Bomb that gets a 2.9 count. Syuri is fighting from the bottom now with kicks to the head, so Satomura kicks her in the face. Syuri blocks a jumping roundhouse, catches a slap, puts on a flying armbar, and transitions as Satomura tries to reverse. Again, Syuri's face as she cranks the arm is a sight to behold. A running penalty knee gets a two count as Syuri's foot is under the rope. Satomura kicks Syuri's chest and back, and they kick each other's ankle. Satomura's moment of hesitation as they each go for the head kick undermines that spot. A Syuri kick to the face gets a 2.9 count. Syuri was able to deny another Death Valley Bomb, but three more finish the job for Satomura.
If you like joshi that borders on Japanese worked shoot fighting, parts of this match will be enjoyable for you. There were lots of kicks to the body and head as both women started throwing bombs from the start. As in the other joshi matches I've watched this week, the submission work is mostly for high spots, as the match doesn't tell the usual story based around weakening a limb to set up a submission.
As we've discussed this week, Meiko Satomura is a twenty year veteran and co-founder of Sendai Girls. She kicks the hell out of people, and her finisher is the Death Valley Bomb, a Death Valley Driver variant. Syuri was trained by Tajiri, and she actually started in Hustle as Karate Girl in the Hustle Union Army. She also does kickboxing with the Krush promotion, shoot boxing, and MMA with Pancrase. So, this match is going to have a lot of kicks to the face and body.
And yes, in case you perverts were wondering, Syuri has a gravure tape out there too.
This is a non-title match as Syuri heads off to kickbox and fight in MMA full time. Satomura gives no shits and starts probing Syuri for weaknesses with leg kicks and slaps. Syuri tries to take it to the ground, and the two grapple inconclusively. Shoulder tackles are also inconclusive, though an ankle pick takes Satomura down. To the corner now, and Syuri smashes Satomura with kicks to the chest. Satomura tries to respond with with an elbow, but Syuri throws her back in to the corner kicks her, suplexes her out of the corner, and kicks her in the back again for good measure. All of this just pisses Satomura off, and they give the people what they came to see with a kick exchange. Leg kicks become kicks to the chest become elbows to the face as each woman tries to prove she's the tougher. The key to the exchange is the way both women lean into the kicks to maximize the impact; every kick makes you wince because it seems like they're kicking the hell out of each other out of spite. The referee has to break the women up because of their collar and elbow was going nowhere. Satomura misses a high kick, and Syuri takes her down with some leg kicks. Satomura gets the mount, but she lets her up because that's not what she wants to do. Instead, she takes Syuri down with an armdrag and goes for an armbreaker. Syuri escapes and passes the guard. Satomura says, "Fuck grappling," picks Syuri up, bodyslams her, and goes to work with some elbows, including a very nice running elbow into the corner. Satomura lands on the middle rope off an Irish whip reversal and eats a kick to the chest as she tries to jump at Syuri. Knees to the body set up an armbreaker in the middle of the ring; Syuri's face as she cranks Satomura's arm is a sight to behold. A spinning heel kick gives Satomura an opening; Syuri's elbows can't stop Satomura from sideslamming her. Satomura goes for the Death Valley Bomb, but a backcracker and a running penalty kick get Syuri a two count. Syuri counters a running lariat with a German suplex. Satomura eats some more kicks to the chest, but she counters a head kick with a backdrop suplex. Elbow exchange leads to running strike exchange leads to a Satomura head kick to a Syuri jumping knee to a Satomura Pele kick. Satomura hits her cartwheel knee on Syuri to try to set up the Death Valley Bomb. Syuri counters and dumps Satomura on her head with a German suplex that gets a two count. Satomura rolls under the ropes to catch her breath. Syuri misses a jumping knee in the corner, and Satomura kicks her in the face. This sets up a short frog splash that rated maybe 2.5*. Satomura locks in the sleeper hold, her submission of choice, but Syuri escapes with kicks to Satomura's head. Satomura responds with a Death Valley Bomb that gets a 2.9 count. Syuri is fighting from the bottom now with kicks to the head, so Satomura kicks her in the face. Syuri blocks a jumping roundhouse, catches a slap, puts on a flying armbar, and transitions as Satomura tries to reverse. Again, Syuri's face as she cranks the arm is a sight to behold. A running penalty knee gets a two count as Syuri's foot is under the rope. Satomura kicks Syuri's chest and back, and they kick each other's ankle. Satomura's moment of hesitation as they each go for the head kick undermines that spot. A Syuri kick to the face gets a 2.9 count. Syuri was able to deny another Death Valley Bomb, but three more finish the job for Satomura.
If you like joshi that borders on Japanese worked shoot fighting, parts of this match will be enjoyable for you. There were lots of kicks to the body and head as both women started throwing bombs from the start. As in the other joshi matches I've watched this week, the submission work is mostly for high spots, as the match doesn't tell the usual story based around weakening a limb to set up a submission.
FallingEdge
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fuck quack
Hate him because of the pants.
The pants, right?
avengers23
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Chris Charlton discusses it as well in Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
sf2fanatic
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On the realistic a wrestler should maybe kick out of a finisher just once right?
Never!
I haven't had one be this confusing yet. I'm actually having to run a zombie Enel team in order to do it. I accept my defeat as I sit through this... I guess it's gonna take like 40 minutes to finish. Balls, I say. Balls balls balls.
In the WWE since wins and losses don't matter everyone should be allowed to kick out of everything and then the most random shit should pin people.
Like true Strong Style except worse.
sf2fanatic
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I agree on that too.
Bluekaveli
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You know it sucks to be Low Ki and Matt Sydal as they were in wwe at the wrong time.
Well, there's always an exception. But it should be extremely, extremely rare. Like, less than once a year. I don't even want it to be a yearly WrassleMania spot. You should save it for a moment that matters. Or else, none of these moves are really finishers, right? No one has a finisher.
This isn't what you're saying, but I love it when random, non-finisher moves finish dudes off in matches. I mean, not just a school boy or whatever, but impactful moves that make sense. I want to see someone pinned off of a DDT in WWE.
Low Ki was apparently horrible to work with. He's also known to shoot on people in matches.
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I think I got a bronze and I'm ok without it. My Sugo pulls were dogshit. I busted my ass for 5 more gems and ended up with a fuckin' Hachi. Log Brook, which I didn't have. Getting a DEX team together for Kuzan, I'd really like to have him. Finally got a Dex Mihawk and evo'd him so he's gettin' strong.
It's kind of what I am saying, in a very smarky bad manner.
I watched some late 90s NJPW and the crowds were just indescribably hot for all the big matches because everything and anything could finish them. I really wish some indie promotion would go with that sort of mandate. EVOLVE are trying this grapple fuck thing but I think a way better way of being unique and creating truly hot crowds would be to do something similar. I'm sure it'd be harder to figure out matches though - you'd have to set up a really convincing story/spot to pin someone off moves that haven't been pinning people in forever. Maybe just make signatures put people away more I guess?
slightconfuse
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Gallows story,about wrestling in Nigeria is bonkers.
Love Karl Anderson impression
Love Karl Anderson impression
I'm a dildo and need the max bounty on each one for whatever reason. Mihawk is pretty key, once he's done, so much stuff is easily clearable.
hey, hey. It's like a top 5 phone game for ol bjorky, now
sf2fanatic
Member
I miss were powerslams like Hercules and British Bulldog were deadly, end of match
It'd be actually pretty easy to do it on the indies nowadays seeing as everyone's offense looks spectacular and if you aren't a flippy guy then you are a huge dude who can just lariat a midget or a jacked up Jeff Cobb esque fellah who can suplex somebody to death.
If I was a money mark this is the promotion I would book for sure.
If I was a money mark this is the promotion I would book for sure.
Chyna died. 46 years old.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...anie--chyna--laurer-dead-at-45-062253457.html
RIP. Her life sounded pretty miserable and difficult near the end.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...anie--chyna--laurer-dead-at-45-062253457.html
RIP. Her life sounded pretty miserable and difficult near the end.
Chyna died. 46 years old.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...anie--chyna--laurer-dead-at-45-062253457.html
RIP. Her life sounded pretty miserable and difficult near the end.
Your next hot scoop will be that Prince is dead too.