do you watch all the Japanese stuff on Dailymotion?
also I assume the Young Bucks work heel, they look like the most obnoxious fuckers ever or is their flippy shit too face?
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do you watch all the Japanese stuff on Dailymotion?
also I assume the Young Bucks work heel, they look like the most obnoxious fuckers ever or is their flippy shit too face?
The Young Bucks are an indie wrestling parody gimmick. They add unnecessary flips to everything and then celebrate it like it's the greatest achievement in wrestling history. They also steal quotes, moves, and mannerisms from a variety of wrestlers and stables including Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, DX, and the nWo, which makes them a great fit for the Bullet Club.
If I had to say anything positive about them it's that they're really good at making me hate them.
I watch NJPW on NJPW World but everything else is a mix of DailyMotion and Youtube as sadly NJPW is the only one with a US-compatible service. Which sucks because I'd like to have higher quality stuff.
Young Bucks are modern X-Pac but their fans insist their heat isn't X-Pac Heat. Even though it is.
oh dear
why
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Oh, apparently Graves is at Marvel HQ for this episode. Hm.
FallingEdge
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Granted I don't go to many different forums, but the only hate I see about the YB are from a vocal minority. I would say it is 95/5 in favor of the YB.
How the fuck they got a leaky ass roof and all these other issues but the lighting and camera work remains better than fucking Ring of Honor? Man, fuck Sinclair Broadcasting.
newdayrocks
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What're your thoughts on Sexy Beast? I love that movie, too.
No way is their camera work better than ROH. Lighting can often be venue dependent.
Not even Kota Ibushi?
Nakamura
Honma
Naito
Goto
Styles
He's had very good to great matches against all of these guys.
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Absolutely loved it. Just loved the shit out of it. Kingsley was incredibly easy to hate. Such a fucking prick. It was amazing.
Serpentine
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Have you seen The Hit? I just saw it last week, he's great in that, plus quiet John Hurt and babby Tim Roth
slightconfuse
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Proof of a slow burn
All those matches happened in NJPW and his stock has easily risen because of them, though.
Says who? Dude, DDT is huge. NJPW brought him in to bring in DDT fans.
and his match in DDT with Harashima was better than any of his stuff in NJPW.
Marvel
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Great movie. Was the first time I ever heard the term "Front Bottom"
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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The Limey is one of the very best movies of the 1990s. Soderbergh's made a SHIT-TON of movies I've not seen, but I'd be surprised if he had a movie that matched or surpassed it.
Edit: Written by the same man that wrote the great sci-fi(ish) film Dark City.
Edit: Written by the same man that wrote the great sci-fi(ish) film Dark City.
Where can I watch that match? I've loved everything Ibushi has touched this year.
I'm enjoying a lot of NJPW stuff this year.
-Okada's story
-AJ as champ
-Sakuraba booting fools
-Nakamura being Nakamura
-Naito being Naito
I dunno. To be fair, I only started following or watching Japanese wrestling with any regularity when NJPW World became a thing. Very limited exposure to DDT, BJW, etc. just due to time.
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I have not, I will seek it out. I saw The Big Hit with uh...Bokeem Woodbine? And Dean Cain, I think? It sucked.
lol
Limey is just incredible. Just so incredible. I should also dip into his backcatalogue.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2haeiz
It's not necessarily that NJPW is bad. It's that it's usual NJPW booking. Everything just coasts until it's time for G1, and I can't stand the Okada redemption arc. I think Okada has gone from improving at an alarming rate to just being same-y and super predictable in all his matches. ESPECIALLY the finishes.
Where as it looks like Akiyama is finally getting full control of the booking in AJPW, they've got a ton of great guys and are making use of guys who aren't that great which is like the best possible thing a booker can do is turn someone meh into someone great not through 50 minute long matches but by playing to their strengths. In BJW, Ishikawa is busting his ass, Okabayashi is on his way to surpassing his master Sekimoto. He's got it all. And I think Yuji Hino IS better than Sekimoto now. Miyahara reminds me of a young Tanahashi but in AJPW so working a much different style which makes him very exciting. Go is pulling great matches out of Zeus. Hideki Suzuki has had a HUGE boost due to the Z-1 vs W-1 feud and it's pretty much the only good thing out of it, but he comes off as a legit main event level guy in Japan now. Especially after dominating Masakatsu Funaki and KAI. DDT is having an insanely great tag division where they book god tier match-ups like Strong BJ vs Ishii and Irie.
There's lots of interesting stuff happening in puroresu right now, so you can forgive me if I'm not excited about 'Tanahashi vs Okada - 1 year in the Making'
It's not necessarily that NJPW is bad. It's that it's usual NJPW booking. Everything just coasts until it's time for G1, and I can't stand the Okada redemption arc. I think Okada has gone from improving at an alarming rate to just being same-y and super predictable in all his matches. ESPECIALLY the finishes.
Where as it looks like Akiyama is finally getting full control of the booking in AJPW, they've got a ton of great guys and are making use of guys who aren't that great which is like the best possible thing a booker can do is turn someone meh into someone great not through 50 minute long matches but by playing to their strengths. In BJW, Ishikawa is busting his ass, Okabayashi is on his way to surpassing his master Sekimoto. He's got it all. And I think Yuji Hino IS better than Sekimoto now. Miyahara reminds me of a young Tanahashi but in AJPW so working a much different style which makes him very exciting. Go is pulling great matches out of Zeus. Hideki Suzuki has had a HUGE boost due to the Z-1 vs W-1 feud and it's pretty much the only good thing out of it, but he comes off as a legit main event level guy in Japan now. Especially after dominating Masakatsu Funaki and KAI. DDT is having an insanely great tag division where they book god tier match-ups like Strong BJ vs Ishii and Irie.
There's lots of interesting stuff happening in puroresu right now, so you can forgive me if I'm not excited about 'Tanahashi vs Okada - 1 year in the Making'
Jeevesmeister
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Itami's gimmick just needs to be Pissed Off Japanese Goldberg sick of seeing this indie guys steal his moves for fame and fortune. Kayfabe injure DB off of television and just savagely dominate the roster until its Itami vs. Lesnar at WM32.
TommyTosser
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Who's Bray talking about now in his promos?
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Liquidsnake
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FallingEdge
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pretty much confirmed on Monday unless they are swerving us, which they aren't.
its going to an awful feud
British Monsoon
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Yeah, I pretty much feel the same way - you know you'll get some great matches with the New Japan roster, but they're lacking any distinct feuds right now. Okada vs Tanahashi is obviously a long term thing that, if suspicions are correct, will end up as next year's WK main event (so, Okada gets the title back from AJ and Tana wins the G1, or vice versa), but other than that there's no real major storylines - there's the Bullet Club, but they haven't been willing to pull the trigger on the Bullet Club vs New Japan Sekigun feud that seems like one of the most logical conclusions, unless they don't intend for Bullet Clubs 'invasion' to have a conclusion any longer. Regardless, I think they need a shake-up - something big needs to happen, preferably faction based. Makabe kicks G.B.H. back into gear. CHAOS implodes. Naito grows a pair and forms his own fucking faction. Something.
It's awesome that there's great stuff going on in other promotions though, because for a year or two there it was only New Japan, Dragon Gate & DDT worth a damn.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Bray vs. Ryback COULD be fun, if they played up Ryback's The Secret "positivity" BS against Bray's relentless nihilism.
That match is a disaster waiting to happen.
Professor Beef
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Who says it's Ryback, aside from Liquidsnake?
http://network.wwe.com/video/v84176083
Culture Shock with Corey Graves ain't so bad. I was cringing a bit whenever he made mentions of a link between people liking comic books (Marvel in this case) and the WWE universe. Other than that, fun little episode, Corey isn't a bad host and his series will probably be the least cringe worthy out of the new original stuff that WWE Network is going to dish out. =p
Culture Shock with Corey Graves ain't so bad. I was cringing a bit whenever he made mentions of a link between people liking comic books (Marvel in this case) and the WWE universe. Other than that, fun little episode, Corey isn't a bad host and his series will probably be the least cringe worthy out of the new original stuff that WWE Network is going to dish out. =p
slightconfuse
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Really fascinating interview with vanpiro on figure four daily
Mr. Enigma
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The next person he's going to lose to.
Roland_Gunner
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I doubt that Okada - Tanahashi headlines WK10. If New Japan has done anything well its not burn through major storylines too fast and last year set up Okada finally getting that big WK win. To me, the most likely main is Okada and Nakamura with Goto winning the IC title at Dontaku, Okada beating AJ, and then Nak winning the G1.
What I'd like to see is AJ keep the title through all of 2015 and then lose at WK to either Nakamura or Ibushi.
British Monsoon
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Lol, what the hell was this;
I don't think they are burning through it too fast, Tanahashi & Okada have barely interacted since WK9 and every time they have Tanahashi's show up Okada. They've set up Okada for his big WK win, but it has to be against Tanahashi. If not this year, then next year, but Okada needs to beat the Ace of NJPW on the grandest stage. That's what the WK9 match was all about - Okada was done with Tanahashi, Tana even agreed to never challenge him for the title again. The only thing that put them back in each other's path was Tanahashi being able to get the job done against Styles where Okada couldn't. But as far as Okada was concerned, he was the New Ace of NJPW and Tanahashi was old news. He went into WK9 expecting to roll over Tanahashi and reclaim his title, but Tanahashi exposed him and showed how far Okada really was from being THE guy. Tell me the logical end of that storyline isn't Okada finally beating Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom. I definitely think Okada vs Nakamura as a WK main event is on the card, but to my mind Tanahashi vs Okada has to happen first. Okada has to feel like he's hot shit again, to feel like he's at the very top of the mountain, only for Nakamura to turn on him and knock him back down.
Regardless of how it plays out, I'm super excited for the G1. So many possibilities.
I don't think they are burning through it too fast, Tanahashi & Okada have barely interacted since WK9 and every time they have Tanahashi's show up Okada. They've set up Okada for his big WK win, but it has to be against Tanahashi. If not this year, then next year, but Okada needs to beat the Ace of NJPW on the grandest stage. That's what the WK9 match was all about - Okada was done with Tanahashi, Tana even agreed to never challenge him for the title again. The only thing that put them back in each other's path was Tanahashi being able to get the job done against Styles where Okada couldn't. But as far as Okada was concerned, he was the New Ace of NJPW and Tanahashi was old news. He went into WK9 expecting to roll over Tanahashi and reclaim his title, but Tanahashi exposed him and showed how far Okada really was from being THE guy. Tell me the logical end of that storyline isn't Okada finally beating Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom. I definitely think Okada vs Nakamura as a WK main event is on the card, but to my mind Tanahashi vs Okada has to happen first. Okada has to feel like he's hot shit again, to feel like he's at the very top of the mountain, only for Nakamura to turn on him and knock him back down.
Regardless of how it plays out, I'm super excited for the G1. So many possibilities.
I'm so glad someone else is linking this match. This match is fucking great. Pentagon just murders a fool
Sheamus sit-down interview almost makes that stupid, ridiculous match stipulation for Sheamus vs. Ziggler sound intriguing and logical.
Almost.
It makes sense. I basically got an appreciation for wrestling in no small part because it was kind of like a comic book in real life.
Almost.
It makes sense. I basically got an appreciation for wrestling in no small part because it was kind of like a comic book in real life.
linky?
Holy shit these Val Venis vingettes before his debut what the FUCK. If your mom or dad walked in while you were watching this it'd be hella awkward.
On the other hand the playfully racist Bradshaw/Taka Michinoku/Kamikaze Club segments are a guilty pleasure.
Wait till you get to "I choppy choppy your pee pee!".
lovely ladies
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Ha, it's already gone. Someone forgot the L.
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Vampiro was the agent behind the grave consequences match