BillRiccio
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Looking forward to it dude. Today is going to be some fun.
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April Wrasslin |OT| D.Brine collects his P45
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Looking forward to it dude. Today is going to be some fun.
BoboBrazil
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BoboBrazil
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TheBrain76
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Just quick scanning the card and I read that as "Wrestling's Worst Nightmare BJ Whitmer". I thought, "Yeah sounds about right."
British Monsoon
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Whitmer may have zero personality, he may have once looked like 'Hillbilly Jesus', and he sure did love throwing exploders for no good reason, but I've really enjoyed a lot of his stuff since he came back to wrestling. I think tonight he might surprise a lot of ROH fans who haven't seen him since he left in 2008.
Also, this;
Also, this;
TheBrain76
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Whitmer may have zero personality, he may have once looked like 'Hillbilly Jesus', and he sure did love throwing exploders for no good reason, but I've really enjoyed a lot of his stuff since he came back to wrestling. I think tonight he might surprise a lot of ROH fans who haven't seen him since he left in 2008.
Also, this;
Yeah, I haven't seen Whitmer since 2007-2008ish. I always wanted to like him, he seems like a really nice guy, but man a lot of his matches were, well "meh" is almost too kind. I'm all for him living up to his potential though. I have always thought that he could be really amazing if he would just get out of his own way.
And WTH at that gif!?!? Details please?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I can't watch botchmanias. I cringe seeing that shit, best-case scenario is that it's super awkward, but often it just looks dangeorus.
sf2fanatic
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Botchamania rarely ever shows anything that gruesome. It's actually very lighthearted, really.
This is true. Out of all the ones I've seen, there's maybe only been 1 or 2 things that were really gruesome.
And this will be getting some use, I'm sure.
British Monsoon
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That was from the Whitmer/Jacobs feud in 2006 - 'Dragon Gate Challenge - 03/30/06', if I remember correctly. Whitmer went for the top-rope powerbomb but slipped backwards, slamming Jimmy's head on the ring-ropes (thankfully missing the ring frame). Both guys were OK and they finished the match, with Whitmer coming out on top. Then at 'In Your Face - 06/17/06' they did the same spot, but in reverse - Whitmer took Jacobs to the top and then powerbombed him from the top turnbuckle OUT INTO THE CROWD. They both sold the fall and the match was declared a no-contest.
TheBrain76 said:
Yeah, I get that - the end of his ROH run was pretty lacklustre, especially when he was in the 'Hangmen 3' with Adam Pearce & Brent Albright. My favourite Whitmer stuff is either from the Jacobs feud I mentioned above, or teaming with Danny Maff back in 2004. He also had an amazing title challenge against Samoa Joe in 2003, iirc, but Joe was having amazing matches with near enough everyone back then.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I just hate watching people fuck up live performances. Songs, plays, pro wrestling, whatever. It's just too awkward
BoboBrazil
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dream
Member
And the guys involved in those spots probably didn't even feel the pain because of all the drugs they're addicted to.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
HarryDemeanor
Member
Should've been inside a Hell in a Cell.
How the hell did you find that?
They're getting married and simultaneously shipping Layla and Punk.
Marks.
Nah but it's cute, good for them.
Net_Wrecker
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I hope they agreed that if the marriage doesn't work, they'll have a TLC match to reach the divorce papers.
Professor Beef
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I wonder if the wife is open to tag-team matches?
IC_Champion
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Botchamania is the best thing to ever happen to me since... well, ever.
You're gonna be his Colt Cabana?
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
My cousin sent it to me. Not sure how he found it though.
IC_Champion
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Bah Gawd!
lol
Wat is this?!
IC_Champion
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SousedLouse
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You know, I actually have the same reaction to stuff like that in general. Watching someone foul up something really important makes my skin crawl. And I won't lie, Maffew does throw in painful looking stuff from time to time, even if it is all clean (i.e. no gore or permanent injury-inducing botches).
But the way it's all presented - the VG tracks during the botches, the joke bumpers between the botches, the commentary from the wrestlers talking about their botches that's sometimes placed on top of the actual footage, etc. - kind of takes the edge off of it, for me at least. In a sense, it's not much worse than what Wrassle-GAF does. It also helps that I only watch it with a couple friends of mine, so we can go 'ooooooh' and stuff together, but that's just me.
But again, I know how that stuff can come across, which is why I'm not gonna be like "just watch one episode man, you'll love it." I just figured I'd share, from one semi-squeamish guy to another.
Nocturnowl
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your waifu? What's Teddy Long doing here?!
IC_Champion
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Just keeping an eye on these threads. Holla Playa!
bean breath
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Dolph who? Dolph Ziggler? Who is that? Who is Dolph Ziggler?
El Pescado
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Dolph would have sold that by flipping halfway across the court.
And throwing in a corkscrew for good measure.
bean breath
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There's a junior member named MisterHBK, complete with HBK avatar, in the NBA thread. I don't know how he did it but DMczaf must have summoned the savior of the HBK snowglobe kliq now that Kane Kliq is runnin' wild.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/member.php?u=96169
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/member.php?u=96169
Dolph who? Dolph Ziggler? Who is that? Who is Dolph Ziggler?
You got NBA in my Wrasslin.
That's just a DM alt.
Nocturnowl
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Net_Wrecker
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I think it's okay to cross the streams a bit.
At least we'll have some entertaining sports entertainment to talk about.
bean breath
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It's relevant to this thread for the following reasons:
-Lebron sold that foul much like a sports entertainer would sell a wrestling move to make it appear painful
-That game is being played in Miami, where Wrestlemania was held. Oh oh, sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah
-There ain't shit going on now in the world of Professional wrestling so take a hint from your tag, jabrone
Professor Beef
Banned
I wouldn't be surprised if Ziggler flew through the hoop as well.
The only thing more fake than wrestling is the NBA. It's also less entertaining!
Net_Wrecker
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Pfft yeah right. The consistent underdog Spurs overcoming the odds, the super heel Heat getting help from Earl Hebner, Metta World Peace put the mask back on and gimmick switched to Ron Artest, young tag team Thunder making a mad dash for the titles, old man Celtics pulling a Hogan and sticking around past their time, etc. etc.
NBA Creative™ doing work.
Morgadeth
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Nocturnowl
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Of course it isn't, that Bryan/Sheamus match at WM? when that kiss started Vince had had enough, they called an audible to have Sheamus kick Bryan's head off in record time for endangering the product rating.
This fake reason is probably still better than their assumed actual reason.
SousedLouse
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Dolph who? Dolph Ziggler? Who is that? Who is Dolph Ziggler?
I don't...how...what?
And here I thought only soccer players sold like crazy.