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August Wrasslin' |OT| starring Bryan Danielson & John Cena in a worked reality show
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Man, I would kill for a Memphis 1985 run from Stro. I don't know how good the archival quality is though from a perspective of "are these all the shows" - there's a lot out there, but I don't know if it's everything. That'd be so good.
We had this discussion on our podcast this week
And I don't mind legends/part-timers at Mania... except WWE is using them exclusively together instead of using them to raise the stock of the current roster
Imagine if anyone else had a 2-Mania feud with The Rock instead of Cena?
Imagine if Brock and Triple H were broken up to put over two upcoming superstars?
I would have kept Taker/Punk because it did help Punk remain important.
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I haven't read Smackdown spoilers yet... but isn't Shield vs StrongBig a match on the card?
British Monsoon
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Check out this dude's youtube, there's a TON of Memphis, although he's only half-way through 1985 at the moment;
http://www.youtube.com/user/cutrer/videos
Looks like he's got the complete TV for '81, '84 & '87, plus a bunch of other years almost complete.
Spiderjericho
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To me they're tied.
Mania had the stronger card on appearances. It just didn't deliver (I was there in person too).
Summer Slam had a much better build up for the 2 main events. I'm sure the main events will deliver due to who is involved.
At the moment, I still think WWE has some work to do in building up their mid card talent. Except for the Shield and the Wyatts, I could care less about the undercard.
Ryback should've had Goldberg/Warrior type hype on him right now, but they deflated him with the CM Punk losses and heel turn.
Ziggler, nuff said.
Fandango. Ha, ha, ha.
Tag Division still in shambles.
Cesaro and Jack, the job squad.
I'd be 100% down for that. If someone could get me a complete listing of the shows, I'd do that. I saw 1 disc of the giant DVDVR Memphis project and it was awesome. I believe most of it in was from 1980, with a bit into 1981, and mostly just matches. It's what made me realize that Dutch Mantel was fucking amazing, Jerry Lawler was great, and Bill Dundee was pretty good, too. But it was mostly Dirty Dutch that blew my mind. He was a MACHINE on the mat. That mother fucking Zeb. I bet he could still out work 80% of the WWE roster.
I also saw baby Bobby Eaton and heel Koko B. Ware.
Memphis was crazy. I think it got crazier than TNA and prime ECW on a regular basis, but 10-20 years earlier. And typically with better workers.
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Well fuck I don't know, I trusted Aiii's SS thread! Goddammit! I don't watch WWE I wouldnt know
'84 would be pretty awesome, and '87 could be neat as it was in an interesting transitional time.
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Honestly, I don't think they announced a match on Smackdown.
Better told, at least.
I disagree. It's the debut of a new belt. It's completely acceptable for the boss to come out at the end of the match and be a part of the initial award ceremony. Frankly, it gives the belt more gravitas than the overwhelming majority of the main roster belts.
British Monsoon
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Wow, goddamn, watching a pre-Rainmaker Okada match and he nearly got murdered by Takashi Sugiura's vertical release back-bodydrop;
Wasn't a bad match though, Okada got to show some fire against the far tougher Sugiura and he hit that sweet-ass dropkick he's become known for lately. Sugiura eventually finished the job with a huge backdrop driver.
Wasn't a bad match though, Okada got to show some fire against the far tougher Sugiura and he hit that sweet-ass dropkick he's become known for lately. Sugiura eventually finished the job with a huge backdrop driver.
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Made me cringe in my chair. Yeeeeeeesh.
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British Monsoon
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Some notes with a PWI interview Karl Anderson did;
. ROH originally wanted to bring in Bad Intentions, but Tensai was already WWE-bound.
. There are definitely talks between ROH & New Japan in regards to setting up some sort of proper formal arrangement between the promotions.
. Karl says he'd personally love to see Tanahashi & Nakamura in ROH and that, in general, all of the New Japan locker-room would love more opportunities to wrestle in the states.
. He praises Bushiroad who, since they took over, have made special effort to root out any negativity in the backstage environment of New Japan.
. He said Tanahashi was the MVP of the G1, especially considering how banged up he is.
. Says that Michael Elgin & Tomoasso Ciampa would be good fits for future G1's.
. He doesn't pay any attention to US indies beyond ROH & PWG.
. Would love to beat the shit out of Kevin Steen, if they were to ever wrestle.
ROH & NJPW teaming up would be pretty damn great. The NWA's fine (and I actually liked Bruce Tharpe-des in the Big Johnny role), but their involvement with New Japan isn't going to set the world on fire. ROH have a good few talents who could certainly hold their own in NJPW, while it would be great seeing some of the NJPW stars in ROH.
. ROH originally wanted to bring in Bad Intentions, but Tensai was already WWE-bound.
. There are definitely talks between ROH & New Japan in regards to setting up some sort of proper formal arrangement between the promotions.
. Karl says he'd personally love to see Tanahashi & Nakamura in ROH and that, in general, all of the New Japan locker-room would love more opportunities to wrestle in the states.
. He praises Bushiroad who, since they took over, have made special effort to root out any negativity in the backstage environment of New Japan.
. He said Tanahashi was the MVP of the G1, especially considering how banged up he is.
. Says that Michael Elgin & Tomoasso Ciampa would be good fits for future G1's.
. He doesn't pay any attention to US indies beyond ROH & PWG.
. Would love to beat the shit out of Kevin Steen, if they were to ever wrestle.
ROH & NJPW teaming up would be pretty damn great. The NWA's fine (and I actually liked Bruce Tharpe-des in the Big Johnny role), but their involvement with New Japan isn't going to set the world on fire. ROH have a good few talents who could certainly hold their own in NJPW, while it would be great seeing some of the NJPW stars in ROH.
Nocturnowl
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"WWE's Most Tepid Turns" hosted by Tatanka.
British Monsoon
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It'd be a crime if he didn't get a single tour of Japan before WWE take an interest. So many awesome matches the dude could have and as he's pretty much the prototypical gaijin muscle-head he would fit right in.
I'd personally love to see him in BJW - he's absolutely perfect for their 'World Strong Heavyweight' division and any combination of Elgin vs Sekimoto/Okabayashi/Sasaki/Kawakami/Ishikawa would be fucking awesome.
TheWarrior
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I guess Orton cashing in Sunday is gauranteed. My wife who watches 10 minutes of wrasslin a week for Orton and Cena shirtless asked me if she could sit in my SummerSlam party for Cena and Orton's matches, so I break the news that Orton doesn't have a match and she tells me, "yeah but he's got the money thing, so Cena wins LOL and Orton will fight him"
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Steve austin is there for summerslam.
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I don't know who Steve Autun is but Cena met some Redneck at a VIP party out there:
Lazy Man's Wallpaper
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The Biggest Dick: 2 Cold Scorpio's Greatest Hits
Nocturnowl
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I'm sure Professor Beef would pre-order this as soon as possible.
British Monsoon
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Trade down? They're working with the fucking NWA! Rob Conway! Kahagas! And a dozen more dudes no-one's ever heard of that never wrestle outside of Texas.
The only thing the NWA deal has over a prospective deal with ROH is the NWA name, which still carries at least some weight in Japan, where the fans don't realise what a joke it's become. However, one thing ROH has that the NWA doesn't is a TV deal and a generally larger presence in the US these days. The New Japan president has made it very clear that they want to expand into the US market, ROH could give them the (admittedly, kinda small) platform to start doing that.
Also, say what you want about ROH, but I'm pretty sure guys like Elgin, Strong, Steen, Ciampa, Cole, ACH, etc, have more to offer New Japan than Rob fucking Conway.
Lastly, I doubt that New Japan would ever send over such a star-studded line-up, unless they were running their own shows on US soil. It'd probably be more along the lines of a big name like Kojima, a few gaijin talents and some of the young lions.
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He wouldn't sign unless Maria was offered a contract as well, which she claims the Bella Twins actively blocked. I smell a Total Divas season 2 storyline in the works...
Thought that was Batista.
British Monsoon
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WWE are already doing good business with their recent Japanese tours, I think a supershow would attract a lot of interest over there, but I don't think it's something they particularly need. They went head to head with New Japan on their last tour and still sold out the majority of their shows. Also, every cross-promotional venture between Vince and other promoters have been pretty lacklustre on the his side of things. I doubt that he'd wouldn't want to help New Japan get any sort of foothold in the US, or that he'd have any sort of interest in an exchange of talent.
CrunchinJelly
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A little behind here but...nice read
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He also lives in LA, so not really a surprise he'd show up.
Because they are friends and kayfabe in TNA is dead.
Yesterday Dixie came out and told a live crowd Angle was gone because he was in rehab. Could've done a off-camera angle with A&8's where they kidnapped Kurt, but nooohooo, lets drop kayfabe and air our dirty laundry to everyone. Ugh. Beyond dumb.
FallingEdge
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NJPW really is the best fed in the world. It would be fun if we could see some sort of WWE/NJPW crossover.
Pretty excited about the new GNR leaks, even if 2 of them are just different versions of a released song and the other is clearly a Tommy Stinson song brought to the band. There has been no good news from the band in many months, Axl has been awful live since the beginning of 2012, and no hope for new music, so anything newish is nice.
Chinese Democracy is a great album. I almost saw them at House of Blues, but just couldn't justify the cost.
Yeah, I paid $100 to see them in Indy, which seemed a bit steep considering other bands at that level don't charge nearly that much. But it was a great show and the bootleg sounds about as good as I thought it sounded live. But Axl has been straight up awful for most of the last year and a half and it is such a bummer. The only reason Chinese came out was due to leaks, so I'm hoping these new leaks will maybe get something thrown together and pushed out.
Going Down is a really enjoyable song. Sounds like an Izzy song, sung by Tommy, backing vocals from Axl. I like it. If you've listened to Tommy Stinson's post Replacements solo stuff, it sounds pretty familiar, but a bit more bombastic. It didn't stay up on YT very long, but I just happened to go to one of the message boards before it was taken down.
There is a DJ Ashba version of Better that is all emoy and sounds like a SIXX AM song, and Bumblefoot did an acoustic version while he did his acoustic album in 2008 that is great. I wish Axl had done new vocals for it.
Going Down is a really enjoyable song. Sounds like an Izzy song, sung by Tommy, backing vocals from Axl. I like it. If you've listened to Tommy Stinson's post Replacements solo stuff, it sounds pretty familiar, but a bit more bombastic. It didn't stay up on YT very long, but I just happened to go to one of the message boards before it was taken down.
There is a DJ Ashba version of Better that is all emoy and sounds like a SIXX AM song, and Bumblefoot did an acoustic version while he did his acoustic album in 2008 that is great. I wish Axl had done new vocals for it.
Khali was champion once.