It's a joke. Admittedly, it's not funny, but oh well.
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July Wrasslin |OT-15| Hybrids are Best for Business
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It's a joke. Admittedly, it's not funny, but oh well.
The change from WCW 1992 to WCW 1993 is night and day. Bischoff upped the production values basically overnight and the roster from Starrcade 1992 to Superbrawl 3 is almost completely different at the top, not to mention the lack of JR.
1992 WCW, which I watched almost all of the PPVs while dogsitting this weekend, is a crazy beast. Two tag tournaments in the final three shows, none of the good 1993 themes like A Man Called Sting, Bang Bang, Simply Ravishing, the whole NWA/WCW belt reunification nonsense that spills over into 1993 caused by Ric Flair's departure and WCW eventually using that to break free. Tons and tons of cross promotional stuff with multiple Japanese feds, not just New Japan.
1992 WCW, which I watched almost all of the PPVs while dogsitting this weekend, is a crazy beast. Two tag tournaments in the final three shows, none of the good 1993 themes like A Man Called Sting, Bang Bang, Simply Ravishing, the whole NWA/WCW belt reunification nonsense that spills over into 1993 caused by Ric Flair's departure and WCW eventually using that to break free. Tons and tons of cross promotional stuff with multiple Japanese feds, not just New Japan.
Lambda Pie
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yeah, i need a new gimmick where i make cuntish passive-aggressive replies to everyone who criticizes my favorite company during live broadcasts.
Avon Barksdale
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Some guy claiming to be a smark that I was sitting next to at Battleground said that Kane was the fake Undertaker in 1994.
LOL.
LOL.
Perspicacity
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Lambda I don't recognize the sports entertainer in your avatar anymore. What happened to Shael?
For you.
Lambda Pie
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stro hates Chael cause he got big, white teeth and couldn't stand looking at the avatar anymore.
i'll repeat: stro hates Chael cause he got big, white teeth. not only it's cism, but anti-Colgate as well. bike riding motherfucker.
Sibersk Esto
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I know people who STILL claim that Festus/Luke Gallows(Fake Kane) was always Kane until he got unmasked and they changed it to Glen.
real_slime
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oh, sorry. i've just been seeing a lot of comments about how this meltzer guy is often not right about spoilers.
Dr Duncan Steel
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I miss the smirk mirks you, bean, heel with his Greg Jackson avi, and bionic had going on. That should make a comeback.
In fact I think you're the only one not rockin it. It made the posts be seen in a different light.
Lambda Pie
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and now we have Zord posting japanese porn.
Mother fuck you you slapdick jock ass motherfucker.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
That's meltzer. This time it was Meltzerz. Completely different.
Lambda Pie
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Meltzerz was on point with Big E and Kofi starting a tag team. he clearly got people inside.
plagiarize
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you weren't already doing that?
well he's not wrong about being a smark then. I mean, only a smark would claim to be a smark, for one.
Lambda Pie
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i wish, but WWE don't pay me with stock to do that.
Isn't that your current gimmick?
Not in wrasslegaf
Lambda Pie
Banned
ok, why not, i'll bite: what's my favorite company?
British Monsoon
Member
Your own.
Stro's
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Deleted member 47027
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Oh my god, I absolutely hate this. I hate this with every fiber of my being. This is so bad. Please no. God. Ughhhhh
There's "Fun & Playful" and there's "Self-hate" - this is so repulsive to me.
Lambda Pie
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Lambda trivia: favorite wrestling promotion was UWFi, favorite MMA promotion was HERO'S.
spin, I don't know what to tell you man. This tweet just reeks of incoming job squad.
#NOD2.0
Melina Vs. Alicia Fox
It does eventually, but I think there's some fun to be had when they first start.
Lambda Pie
Banned
Jumping Bomb Angels vs Dump Matsumoto & Bull Nakano - AJW 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82CmkeNaCgI
spindashing
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The writing was always on the wall, brehs.
#NOD2.0
this whole thing could either be something good or fall apart terribly
You can guess which one I'm hedging my bets on.
Guys, I'm honestly really excited to see TMNT.
Aja Kong vs Dynamite Kansai
Hikaru Shida vs Syuri
Bull Nakano vs Manami Toyota
Serena vs Kana
Bros... What do you think the original NoD was?
Aja Kong vs Dynamite Kansai
Hikaru Shida vs Syuri
Bull Nakano vs Manami Toyota
Serena vs Kana
Bros... What do you think the original NoD was?
plagiarize
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On Sunday my parents flew in to visit for the next four or so weeks. I wasn't sure about subjecting them to Battleground until my Dad subjected all of us to three hours of golf (that he already knew the results of!).
My Dad claims to have zero interest in wrestling, and I do believe him, but he still seems to know who an awful lot of the wrestlers are. I asked him how he knew that and he said 'sometimes it's on' like he doesn't always controls the remote.
So we're watching Battleground (and he got really upset at the Lana comment incidentally) and he keeps criticizing the whole thing, which I didn't mind. It's wrestling. To say 'it's not for everyone' is a huge understatement. I mean, I'm an incredibly rare bird who never watched as a kid and thought my friends that followed it were stupid, who got into it as an adult when I realized that I'd completely misjudged it (after a friend gave me Beyond the Mat and told me to watch it).
Kudos to that friend.
Anyway, my Mum got really mad at him for constantly complaining about it "Just take it for what it is" she said, which I think is a pretty great way of looking at wrestling. I mean, that's what I do. Yes, it has very special things you have to suspend your disbelief in (like why doesn't Orton just slap a submission on Kane and Kane taps out right away, or like, how the hell did Ambrose get in the trunk of Rollin's car and why did Seth send away his security escorts anyway) but the matches don't happen otherwise, and to me that's part of the fun. He's fucking Dean Ambrose. The car probably just opened up and let him in when it saw him coming. Who cares. It was awesome when he climbed out of it, even if you knew he was going to come from SOMEWHERE.
Wrestling is fun. It's theater with a ludicrous amount of fights. I mean, just because I know Juliet and Romeo aren't really in love, or even really called that, doesn't mean I can't enjoy a stage production of Romeo and Juliet.
This is a world in which Vickie Guerrero can have an argument with Miss Piggy like she's real on live TV. That's a world I want to exist. Well booked matches like The Usos vs The Wyatts are exciting. WWEs comedy is highly underrated by people outside it (and I'm not talking about pools of 'shit', or the stuff Vince thinks is funny, I'm talking about stuff like Bo, and most everything Steph does these days... and Goldust and Stardust just... brilliant).
I asked my Dad yesterday if he was looking forwards to Summerslam.
He wasn't.
Tune in next time for more banal ramblings about subjecting my Dad to NXT.
My Dad claims to have zero interest in wrestling, and I do believe him, but he still seems to know who an awful lot of the wrestlers are. I asked him how he knew that and he said 'sometimes it's on' like he doesn't always controls the remote.
So we're watching Battleground (and he got really upset at the Lana comment incidentally) and he keeps criticizing the whole thing, which I didn't mind. It's wrestling. To say 'it's not for everyone' is a huge understatement. I mean, I'm an incredibly rare bird who never watched as a kid and thought my friends that followed it were stupid, who got into it as an adult when I realized that I'd completely misjudged it (after a friend gave me Beyond the Mat and told me to watch it).
Kudos to that friend.
Anyway, my Mum got really mad at him for constantly complaining about it "Just take it for what it is" she said, which I think is a pretty great way of looking at wrestling. I mean, that's what I do. Yes, it has very special things you have to suspend your disbelief in (like why doesn't Orton just slap a submission on Kane and Kane taps out right away, or like, how the hell did Ambrose get in the trunk of Rollin's car and why did Seth send away his security escorts anyway) but the matches don't happen otherwise, and to me that's part of the fun. He's fucking Dean Ambrose. The car probably just opened up and let him in when it saw him coming. Who cares. It was awesome when he climbed out of it, even if you knew he was going to come from SOMEWHERE.
Wrestling is fun. It's theater with a ludicrous amount of fights. I mean, just because I know Juliet and Romeo aren't really in love, or even really called that, doesn't mean I can't enjoy a stage production of Romeo and Juliet.
This is a world in which Vickie Guerrero can have an argument with Miss Piggy like she's real on live TV. That's a world I want to exist. Well booked matches like The Usos vs The Wyatts are exciting. WWEs comedy is highly underrated by people outside it (and I'm not talking about pools of 'shit', or the stuff Vince thinks is funny, I'm talking about stuff like Bo, and most everything Steph does these days... and Goldust and Stardust just... brilliant).
I asked my Dad yesterday if he was looking forwards to Summerslam.
He wasn't.
Tune in next time for more banal ramblings about subjecting my Dad to NXT.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
Member
Was that the tweet that was taken down after going up? There was mention of a tweet in the article about racism.
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Deleted member 47027
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I can try:
This has been buggin me for a bit so Im going to talk about it.
Whenever more than three black wrestlers get in the ring on the same side suddenly everyone wants to go OH MAN THEY NEED TO REMAKE NATION OF DOMINATION!
I really dont think the people who keep calling for a reboot of the Nation of Domination understand that it was originally made to be a HEEL stable and a joke making fun of the Nation of Islam movement taking place in the early 90s and that all of its members were meant to be outlandish characters of militant black men and BLACK POWER archetypes. They did nothing but attack the white wrestlers for perceived slights against them in the name of BLACK POWER! and UNITY and this was treated as a bad thing and they were portrayed as heels because of it.
One of the most notable things that happened to the Nation of Domination is its feud with DX, the plucky rougeish face stable full of white guys whos beef with Nation of Domination essentially devolved into Stop being so offended! Lighten up! and Im gonna be that guy that pointed out that one of the biggest promos against them at the time featured the entireity of DX dressing up in black face and mocking The Nation.
After The Nation of Domination moved on from the militant black people stable they just became different flavors of black foolishness in the WWE.
The Rock became what many would would call a Uncle Tom after he sided with the Corporation.
DLo Brown became this jive talking mini-thug
Kama Mustafa became The Godfather, a literal pimp.
Mark Henry became Sexual Chocolate
The rest of the members at that point (Farooq, Owen Hart, etc) had been phased out.
So think really hard about this.
Think really hard about how black wrestlers are pushed and portrayed in WWE today, almost two decades after Nation of DominationA stable, in which I remind you again was made up to poke fun at a big issue with the black community at the timewas created.
Almost all of them are essentially Boy that guy sure can run fast or jump high! Hes so athletic! or they are gimmicked to being a jive talking, dancing, rapping, or hip-hop inspired gimmick. And then there is the old standby of being a bling bling sports ego.
PTP
Cryme Tyme
Kofi Kingston
MVP
Shelton Benjamin
R-Truth
Xavier Woods
Naomi
Cameron
Am I 100% against a New Nation of Domination? No. If booked right it could do for someone else what it essentially did for The Rock (and to a lesser extent Mark Henry) and propel them to a higher position and possibly build a main eventer. But WWEs creative and booking process has proven time and time again since then that it cant be trusted and I dont see anything with the current run of how they run things that would make me endorse that.
So yeah, as much as I would love to see a stable full of the young black guys and girls they dont NEED to be The New Nation of Domination. Whenever a a group of white wrestlers get together you dont have people clamoring to call them the The New DX or The New n.W.o. They are just a new stable.
There was several people calling Shield the 'new' nWo.
British Monsoon
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July Wrasslin' |OT| nofunallowed.jpg
Here's a list I posted a couple of months back;
Jaguar Yokota (c) vs Devil Masami - WWWA Title - (1982/07/19)
Devil Masami (c) vs Chigusa Nagoya - All-Pacific Title - (1985/08/22)
Jaguar Yokota (c) vs Lioness Asuka - WWWA Title - (1985/08/22)
Chigusa Nagoya vs Dump Matsumoto - Hair vs Hair - (AJW 1985/08/28)
Crush Gals vs Jumping Bomb Angels - (AJW 1987/09/14)
Bull Nakano vs Aja Kong - Cage Match - (AJW 1990/11/14)
Kyoko Inoue vs Manami Toyota - IWA Women's Title - (AJW 1992/04/25)
Manami Toyota vs Toshiyo Yamada - Hair vs Hair - (AJW 1992/08/15)
Cuty Suzuki vs Devil Masami - (JWP 1993/01/15)
Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori - (AJW 1993/04/02)
Cuty Suzuki vs Takako Inoue - (JWP 1993/08/25)
Akira Hokuto vs Mayumi Ozaki - (AJW 1993/11/18)
Aja Kong vs Akira Hokuto - (AJW 1994/08/24)
Cuty Suzuki vs Hikaru Fukuoka - (JWP 1995/08/29)
Akira Hokuto vs Manami Toyota - (AJW 1995/09/02)
Manami Toyota vs Kaoru Ito - (AJW 1997/03/23)
Shinobu Kandori (c) vs Manami Toyota - WWWA Title - (AJW 1998/08/23)
Cuty Suzuki vs Mayumi Ozaki - (JWP 1998/09/15)
Aja Kong (c) vs Meiko Satomura - AAAW Title - (GAEA 2001/12/15)
Not definitive, by any means, but there's a lot of really great matches there. Definitely check out the Toyota vs Yamada hair match, Hokuto vs Kandori (big inter-promotional match) and the Aja vs Bull cage match.
Here's a list I posted a couple of months back;
Jaguar Yokota (c) vs Devil Masami - WWWA Title - (1982/07/19)
Devil Masami (c) vs Chigusa Nagoya - All-Pacific Title - (1985/08/22)
Jaguar Yokota (c) vs Lioness Asuka - WWWA Title - (1985/08/22)
Chigusa Nagoya vs Dump Matsumoto - Hair vs Hair - (AJW 1985/08/28)
Crush Gals vs Jumping Bomb Angels - (AJW 1987/09/14)
Bull Nakano vs Aja Kong - Cage Match - (AJW 1990/11/14)
Kyoko Inoue vs Manami Toyota - IWA Women's Title - (AJW 1992/04/25)
Manami Toyota vs Toshiyo Yamada - Hair vs Hair - (AJW 1992/08/15)
Cuty Suzuki vs Devil Masami - (JWP 1993/01/15)
Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori - (AJW 1993/04/02)
Cuty Suzuki vs Takako Inoue - (JWP 1993/08/25)
Akira Hokuto vs Mayumi Ozaki - (AJW 1993/11/18)
Aja Kong vs Akira Hokuto - (AJW 1994/08/24)
Cuty Suzuki vs Hikaru Fukuoka - (JWP 1995/08/29)
Akira Hokuto vs Manami Toyota - (AJW 1995/09/02)
Manami Toyota vs Kaoru Ito - (AJW 1997/03/23)
Shinobu Kandori (c) vs Manami Toyota - WWWA Title - (AJW 1998/08/23)
Cuty Suzuki vs Mayumi Ozaki - (JWP 1998/09/15)
Aja Kong (c) vs Meiko Satomura - AAAW Title - (GAEA 2001/12/15)
Not definitive, by any means, but there's a lot of really great matches there. Definitely check out the Toyota vs Yamada hair match, Hokuto vs Kandori (big inter-promotional match) and the Aja vs Bull cage match.