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Heel said:
From my view Jim Ross was pretty aimless and never really any semblance of stride until the later singles matches. To be fair, a lot of the early matches were spot fests with no slow down and would've had a small stroke trying to do pbp.

Matt Striker did his part to paint the picture for the uninformed viewer, but the smark was just way too much for me to handle. Jim Ross trying to keep him in check was pretty entertaining though, especially the "...what's a swerve?" moment. Not that it stopped Striker from closing the show with "Marking out bro." Guh.
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*vomits*
 
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kiguel182

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Well, I actually enjoyed a MMA fight friends. I don't know what's happening but it was good even if I barely got what was happening.

I also watched the opener for Wrestle Kingdom 9 and JR and Striker on commentary really soured me on it. They didn't build any excitement for the match and, while I understand the need to, they spent way too much time giving context to the match instead of calling it.

I'll probably see a little more of the event but I'm not sold as of yet.
 
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Hasney

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kiguel182 said:
Well, I actually enjoyed a MMA fight friends. I don't know what's happening but it was good even if I barely got what was happening.

I also watched the opener for Wrestle Kingdom 9 and JR and Striker on commentary really soured me on it. They didn't build any excitement for the match and, while I understand the need to, they spent way too much time giving context to the match instead of calling it.

I'll probably see a little more of the event but I'm not sold as of yet.
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Watch the last few matches. JR gets better once the singles start happening. Especially good in the Suzuki fight.
 
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canadian crowe

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Does anybody know where I can find the New Japan tour dates they announced last night? They don't seem to be on their website yet. I'm going to Japan but might rearrange my trip so I can catch the Super Jrs tournament.

Edit: nevermind, it looks like the fight network has them.
 
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Heel

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kiguel182 said:
Well, I actually enjoyed a MMA fight friends. I don't know what's happening but it was good even if I barely got what was happening.
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As a seasoned viewer of men punching each other in the head for money, I'd say new MMA viewers got a rotten deal last night. The good news is if you actually enjoyed it, it only goes uphill from there.

Check out Conor McGregor vs. Dennis Siver on the 18th for an MMA guy who can work the mic and bring the #BigFightFeel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jg1dOkK-Ts
 
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kiguel182

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Hasney said:
Watch the last few matches. JR gets better once the singles start happening. Especially good in the Suzuki fight.
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Going to skip the tag matches then. I prefer singles matches anyway.

Heel said:
As a seasoned viewer of men punching each other in the head for money, I'd say new MMA viewers got a rotten deal last night. The good news is if you actually enjoyed it, it only goes uphill from there.

Check out Conor McGregor vs. Dennis Siver on the 18th for an MMA guy who can work the mic and bring the #BigFightFeel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jg1dOkK-Ts
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I only watched the main-event and the build really helped.

I'll watch it then. Does it have a promo before? I'm also watching Lesnar vs Carwin right now.
 
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Heel

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kiguel182 said:
I only watched the main-event and the build really helped.

I'll watch it then. Does it have a promo before? I'm also watching Lesnar vs Carwin right now.
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youtube.com/ufc usually gives decent preview material in the week leading up to a fight.

There's really not a whole lot to that fight, though. It's pretty much universally agreed that it's a favorable squash opponent for McGregor to set him up for a title shot in an 80,000 seat stadium in Ireland. They've already booked a date in May. He's entertaining as hell, though.
 
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Data West

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NJPW's juniors division is so god damn anemic. And ReDragon looked completely bland, ROH tag team #238. So did Timesplitters, really.

But seriously, your junior division is as anorexic as Taguchi.
 
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Xater

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Data West said:
NJPW's juniors division is so god damn anemic. And ReDragon looked completely bland, ROH tag team #238. So did Timesplitters, really.

But seriously, your junior division is as anorexic as Taguchi.
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Eh I like Timesplitters. This wasn't their best match but they are generally great. Also thought the opening was a fun spot fest. The ROH guys though were bland. They really did not stand out during the whole thing.
 
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slightconfuse

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Just finished the WK9 main event . holy,shot might be the best match they have had which is saying something.


Okada selling the,loss,at the end was a nice touch

JR's call,was great as well
 
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kiguel182

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Heel said:
youtube.com/ufc usually gives decent preview material in the week leading up to a fight.

There's really not a whole lot to that fight, though. It's pretty much universally agreed that it's a favorable squash opponent for McGregor to set him up for a title shot in an 80,000 seat stadium in Ireland. They've already booked a date in May. He's entertaining as hell, though.
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That Connor video was great.

That's how you do an irish gimmick.
 
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Empyrean Heaven

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Data West said:
NJPW's juniors division is so god damn anemic. And ReDragon looked completely bland, ROH tag team #238. So did Timesplitters, really.

But seriously, your junior division is as anorexic as Taguchi.
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Pretty much. I really wish they would just outsource Dragon Gate for Jr. talent. They have a decent working relationship so why not?
 
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Xater

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Nakamura match just started. This guy is just pure Magic in the ring. I'm captivated just by his mannerisms. My favorite wrestler right now, no doubt.
 
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strobogo

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somedevil

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Man the Redragons did really nothing during there match. They basically showed up at the final 2-3 minutes and that was it. The other 10 minutes they were just in the background.
 
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Xater

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somedevil said:
Man the Redragons did really nothing during there match. They basically showed up at the final 2-3 minutes and that was it. The other 10 minutes they were just in the background.
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Yeah don't remeber anything from them except for the finish. All the cool stuff was done by the other teams. Hell Forever Hooligans looked better than Raddragon in this match.
 
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DMczaf

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QoS is basically a 2 hour epilogue to CR that just gave more questions than answers, but with shittier action and forgettable villain.
 
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Xater

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This Nakamura Ibushi match is great so far. Ibushi also with lots of mocking. Guy is showing lots of character here.

Sibersk Esto said:
It aped the Bourne series pretty hard, hell it even had some Bay esque shots during car chases
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It tried but failed. It showed that the director had zero action experience. Opening scene alone is enough to show that. You can barely follow who is who with that action scene involving two black cars.
 
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DMczaf

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It just felt like the director was in over his head. Like he saw all the art house indie directors getting big budget projects and went "Hey, I wanna do that too!...*12 months later* oh fuck...oh fuck....no...NO!!! OH SHIT! FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
 
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Jimmy King

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DMczaf said:
It just felt like the director was in over his head. Like he saw all the art house indie directors getting big budget projects and went "Hey, I wanna do that too!...*12 months later* oh fuck...oh fuck....no...NO!!! OH SHIT! FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
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Apparently he fucked up World War Z pretty bad too.
 
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DMczaf

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Our UK friends can experience the joy of watching Miz act like he watched wrestling growing up during WWE Countdown.
 
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Xater

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Also didn't they delay the previous UK launch because they wanted to do some cable deal instead? Looks like that fell through huh?
 
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Aiii

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I love how everyone pays 9.99 dollars, no matter where they live, except for the UK and Ireland lol.
 
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