SallyIsNow
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Last few months of 06 when it was just Finlay, King Booker, Big Dave, and Super Cena were pretty awful.
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July Wrasslin' |OT| ALT+CTRL DELETE DELETE DELETE NERO, IT'S OVAH!
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British Monsoon
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2002 WWE almost made me quit wrestling altogether - I should go back and watch it to see if it's as bad as I remember.
FlammableD
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But, as always, look to the joshi for what the next cool suplex will be:
I've seen Zack Sabre do
Mr. Enigma
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It made me quit. HHH's reign of terror is what got me out of habitually watching.
SallyIsNow
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Triple H held the title for 2 months and was in one main event.
SallyIsNow
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Hogan and Shawn celebrating at Backlash lasted longer than any Divas matches in 2016. Any reason?
Hogan and Shawn are more fun to watch than Becky Lynch.
Sir_Crocodile
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because it's one of the most over guys in wrestling history and perhaps the greatest wrestler of all time in the ring together and the fans are just drinking it in
British Monsoon
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Peter Kaasa is ridiculous, no way a dude that built should be able to pull this shit off;
He's like a shorter Scott Steiner who proper loves the flippy-do wrestling.
He's like a shorter Scott Steiner who proper loves the flippy-do wrestling.
Meh
SallyIsNow
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newdayrocks
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Alexa Bliss looked like a million bucks on last night's NXT. What a fun match.
Maybe you just have to watch NXT regularly to know the story and whatnot, but I'm not sure I get Bayley. I'm sure she has the passion and she's over or whatever, but in the small bits I've seen, her moves have zero impact and her movement looks awkward to me for some reason. Can't quite put my finger on it.
Laws00
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I stopped watching wrasslin back consistently once 2006 hit I think. Because I got WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 for PS2. Fucking loved that game
Came back every now and then cause my friend and I would go over to a friends house for wrestlemania PPV
Funny enough I came back and watched the end of raw on a fluke just to see how stupid WWE had gotten. Raw 6/27/2011‬ the infamous CM PUNK pipe bomb. Good lord that got me interested in wrestling again.
I hate myself for that trap they sprung
Every now and then they'll try to do some things to pull people back in. The ECW thing was one of those things, and RVD getting the title on top of that. His first title defense?
Vs. Edge... in the middle of the card.
nu-DX vs. Spirit Squad main evented.
I doubt the winner of this will be someone NOT under contract to them. Gargano has that light-type-deal going on so I could possibly see Swann (under a full deal) going over him. Tajiri apparently signed so I'd imagine he goes over Tozawa unless he's signed as well.
What about ZSJ then? I'd imagine he can make more money on the indies than what he'd get in WWE - Dar might be more like what WWE wants and perhaps more likely to sign a deal. And then there's of course Ibushi - seems kind of unlikely that he'd win given that he doesn't apparently speak any english (and wouldn't necessarily be a good fit either.)
It'll be interesting to see what happens, I guess the winner will be someone who already signed a full time contract that we don't know about. Gargano?
Single NXT matches aren't really representative of a wrestler's full repertoire. Bayley always brings it at TakeOvers, they're a must watch.
newdayrocks
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Can you imagine if WWE profiled their main roster and put them over as much as they did on last night's excellent Bracketology show? Has me really excited for the tournament to start next week.
avengers23
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Finally, we will get WWE's version of
They even already have Sting and Samoa Joe ready to replicate this moment.
SallyIsNow
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Is there a worse TNA moment than this?Finally, we will get WWE's version of
They even already have Sting and Samoa Joe ready to replicate this moment.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
None of Shinsuke Nakamura's NXT matches are really special outside of the Zayn one, but that's just because he doesn't have to. Why kill your body when they actively don't want you to do anything crazy but people still think you're doing crazy things?
made me feel totally jipped out of my house show ticket when the entire roster phoned it in, especially Nakamura, even with lowered expectations.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, it makes sense. He's a 36 year old with tons of miles on him, and already suffering from lingering injuries and when you work US style wrestling, they deliberately ask for a slower pace. Dude's got it figured out. He does just enough to make people think he's doing stuff even though he's actually mailing it in.
SallyIsNow
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Hmm. That's pretty close.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I have a bad feeling WWE is going to ape the Final Deletion style stuff for the New Day vs. Wyatt Family angle.
da fuck? was this a Russo joint?
SallyIsNow
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You can't fake that. It will have no soul. Leave it to the pros
SallyIsNow
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What the fuck are Gable and Jordan wearing.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I just went and read the Observer Newsletter to see if Meltzer said anything about it - he says that he thinks this is exactly what WWE is doing and that tapes of the Final Deletion were going around WWE's locker room over the weekend before Raw.
newdayrocks
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Sir_Crocodile
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Maybe in wrassle ability. Not so much in entertain ability.
There will definitely be a few indie attempts and parodies for the next few months. Pro wrestling thrives on copying ideas.
shanafan
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The good thing about DVRing Raw is that I can fast forward through anything Becky Lynch related. Gives me an extra 10 minutes of sleep after I finish watching.
They cut her out of most Hulu Raw's, luckily.
Only thing worse than 'cism is misspelled 'cism. Gross.
Wow I just looked up that word. Total normalized slang in Ireland, no idea it had any connection to the Roma. Which makes a lot of sense considering our issues with the travelling community....
Oh that is a great analogy. Now I gotta watch Trapped in the Closet again.
Oh Nakamura is probably the most forgivable of everyone on the roster for not doing a bunch of shit on a house show but literally nobody else stepped up that night. We didn't even get Alpha/Revival which I was pissed about. I guess it happens when you load your roster up with a bunch of dudes in their late thirties and some seriously green developmental talent.
Luschient
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Perfect response from Rock. You're out of your league Taz
SallyIsNow
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Nocturnowl
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I think one of the 2007/8/9 years was pretty dire.
I'm going to go with 2009.
plagiarize
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NXT was some great wrestling last night, and Final Deletion was the sort of fun not trying to be WWE stuff that TNA should have been doing for fucking ages.
That WWE might actually be looking to one up it speaks very loudly to how good it was. Imagine if TNA hadn't just spent most of their years trying to mimic the WWE? It could have pushed both products.
But, Revival vs Alpha last night was something special... and I think we can also all agree that Alexa is ready after that match with Bailey last night.
For me, my love of NXT is often driven by getting to see people improve. Getting to see the moment where they finally start to get it, and then the moment where you feel that... yeah... they're ready.
When Alpha started it was all about Chad Gable, but Jason Jordon upped his game in every department and now they're both equally valuable. Chad is probably my favorite worker in NXT right now, but Jordon is the hottest hot tag in tag team right now, and when they hit their double teams, you can see both are on the same level and in fantastic sync.
Their chemistry with The Revival has been amazing to see. Either of these teams would be the best tag team up on the main roster. I could watch them feud forever I think, and I hope last night wasn't the blow off that I suspect it was.
And little Alexa. Remember when she couldn't even hit her finisher? She has blossomed into this awesome heel character which given her size and agility wasn't obviously the right path, but as soon as they went that way you knew this was the right course. She was always the highlight of Blake and Murphy... and she's almost certainly going to be the one who shines the brightest now that she's back to singles wrestling.
There's just something special about seeing people make it. I hope NXT continues to provide that... because you don't get those moments much at all up on the main roster, where they don't debut anyone green or anyone that still hasn't found their right character.
That WWE might actually be looking to one up it speaks very loudly to how good it was. Imagine if TNA hadn't just spent most of their years trying to mimic the WWE? It could have pushed both products.
But, Revival vs Alpha last night was something special... and I think we can also all agree that Alexa is ready after that match with Bailey last night.
For me, my love of NXT is often driven by getting to see people improve. Getting to see the moment where they finally start to get it, and then the moment where you feel that... yeah... they're ready.
When Alpha started it was all about Chad Gable, but Jason Jordon upped his game in every department and now they're both equally valuable. Chad is probably my favorite worker in NXT right now, but Jordon is the hottest hot tag in tag team right now, and when they hit their double teams, you can see both are on the same level and in fantastic sync.
Their chemistry with The Revival has been amazing to see. Either of these teams would be the best tag team up on the main roster. I could watch them feud forever I think, and I hope last night wasn't the blow off that I suspect it was.
And little Alexa. Remember when she couldn't even hit her finisher? She has blossomed into this awesome heel character which given her size and agility wasn't obviously the right path, but as soon as they went that way you knew this was the right course. She was always the highlight of Blake and Murphy... and she's almost certainly going to be the one who shines the brightest now that she's back to singles wrestling.
There's just something special about seeing people make it. I hope NXT continues to provide that... because you don't get those moments much at all up on the main roster, where they don't debut anyone green or anyone that still hasn't found their right character.
