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March Wrasslin' |OT| Forecast for Wrestlemania...cloudy with a heavy chance of Reigns
- Thread starter Alucard
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reptilescorpio
Member
Downtrodden, beaten down Daniel Bryan to overcome adversity and win the belt on the grandest stage of all? It could be!
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Barrett is still working for the bigger picture.
reptilescorpio
Member
Haha during Rileys entrance a kid was almost too scared to high five him lol
FlammableD
Banned
Shit local Indy update: they have someone I've heard of this month!
PhantomZone
Member
All for $9.99
Yeah, that was pretty good. Overall, a pretty good episode of NXT. First time watching in over a month. Enjoyed the Breeze and Kalisto match more than anything else on the show.
Watching last night's episode right now. Really happy to hear this, and hope we'll be able to buy the full seasons of this show on Blu-ray, or have some kind of streaming service/access to them. Maybe some extra content too.
This Drago/Aerostar match to start LU is really good fun.
Konnan and Puma playing chess in the park.
Has a heel won a match during this whole on-going angle? Feels like any time I pay attention I see Harper, Stardust, or Barrett losing. In the six man tags as well. The title is as worthless as ever.
Also known as: how to use a chair as an effective weapon and plot point, without it being the usual "jab to midsection, smack on back" spot. I remember Big Slow chokeslamming Foley through a couple of chairs at a Wrestlemania years gone by.
Also: good to hear things are falling into place for you Alucard; word of advice - decorate the shit out of the new place while you've got the chance! It's nigh on impossible when there's furniture in there. And let us know how you cope with the newborn alongside your little'un (I may be there in a year or so).
reptilescorpio
Member
Question: Did Raw moving from 2 hours to 3 hours hasten the decline of PPV viewers?
I dropped out from watching wrestling from like 2004-2014 so I have no real gauge on the quality of Raw through that period. Watching Raw nowdays makes PPV's seem way less important as the PPV matches tend to be done 2-3 times on Raw/Smackdown before the PPV even happens. Do you think this is linked to them needing to fill 3 damn hours of Raw?
I dropped out from watching wrestling from like 2004-2014 so I have no real gauge on the quality of Raw through that period. Watching Raw nowdays makes PPV's seem way less important as the PPV matches tend to be done 2-3 times on Raw/Smackdown before the PPV even happens. Do you think this is linked to them needing to fill 3 damn hours of Raw?
Mr. Luchador
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3 hour Raws and the Generic Set designs and On Screen Overlays have cheapened the marvel of PPVs for me. I really think I'd find it hard to be able to tell what match happened on what show.
British Monsoon
Member
Blimey, is there anywhere Johnny Storm won't work? Fair play to him, he must be one of the most booked wrestlers in the country.
They're not included in the sale? Or are you going new build? I thought you Canadians were polite and all that!!
Think of them as investments - they will outlast almost anything else that you buy for the house, so it's worth spending a little more to start with if you can. If you don't fancy fitting them yourself (and I can't blame you), then just get someone to come in - it'll be worth it.
Also, choose your colours wisely - if you're going for plain-ish walls, then have the curtains compliment the biggest piece(s) of furniture in the room (eg sofas, bedding, perhaps rug). I'm still a little bitter about our choice of bedroom curtains!
If you've got standard width windows (you'll know if they are, as they'll appear in shops everywhere), then you can find some great deals online (i.e. you won't have to go made-to-measure). Check the clearance sections - you'll be surprised how much people will discount stuff they want to get rid of (last season stock and whatnot).
Edit: Hasney - I agree on both points. I actually really liked the Stang spot (same as I enjoyed the Big Show foot-through-table spot against Cody).
End of match spoiler gif:
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End of match Catrina gif:
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What I liked most about this match is that while they used the coffin for a couple of spots, the ONLY time they actually opened it and tried to stuff each other into it was at the very end. I haaaate the contrived "Is he going to fall into the coffin or isn't he?" spots.
Fenix was pretty bloody by the end in this one, and it felt pretty brutal overall. Placing it on my list of personal faves for 2015, but likely not at the MOTY level. Still, damn good.
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End of match Catrina gif:
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What I liked most about this match is that while they used the coffin for a couple of spots, the ONLY time they actually opened it and tried to stuff each other into it was at the very end. I haaaate the contrived "Is he going to fall into the coffin or isn't he?" spots.
Fenix was pretty bloody by the end in this one, and it felt pretty brutal overall. Placing it on my list of personal faves for 2015, but likely not at the MOTY level. Still, damn good.
Oddly enough, we're not going to paint...at all. The colours are all neutral and light. The house is basically move-in ready. I'm sooooo happy we won't have to do any painting. Have done too much of it in my life already.
Don't think they're leaving the blinds behind, but maybe some rods. We'll see. I hope they at least leave the rods because I detest putting those things up.
British Monsoon
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About to catch up on Rey de Reyes...no idea who any of these undercard lucha dudes are, except for Gran Apache.
real_slime
Banned
It's that, the dearth of storyline development (not so bad at the moment but it's wrestlemania), and the generic sets used for PPVs which are almost identical to Raw. The only special thing about the special events are that they feature a greater ratio of matches to promos and often have a few title matches, although even the latter is less true than usual the past year or so.
FlammableD
Banned
Carnby
Member
Im talking about Kurt, Brock, early Punk, Evolution, Shawn's last run. I missed all of this.
That casket intro and the way it was taken to the back at the end really helped to sell the match too.
Masquerader
Member
Anyone else think that Scott Hall legitimately resembled Homer Simpson when he was an alcoholic?
There was never a reason given to stop, friend.
I just fell off the bandwagon after the first five episodes and I don't really know why.
Was and still is Royal Rumble 1994. It was for the title and there was good build for it, the total bullshit ending that into Yoko's character at the time, and it let them do a rematch at the next year's Survivor Series.
So you're sick of the last 15 years, then. They've never not shown a preference toward dudes and stories from that era, aside from Cena.
Fuck
Anyway, I had a dream that I was in a mausoleum and Stro was there. I have no idea what he looks like irl, so in the dream it was his old avatar of Axl with the Shao Kahn mask, drumming on dead people's nameplates with drumsticks to the tune of some song. So then Axl comes out and goes, "come in here." We follow him through some store that was loaded down with tons of old model kits and stuff, into a fancy restaurant. There's some old white guy sitting at a table with a steak that's basically an entire cow torso, and he cuts me off a gigantic piece that's bigger than a plate, then I woke up. Oh also, prior to the mausoleum I was flying on a hook made out of a metal coat hanger over a Japanese river with these concrete waffles on the sides. what does it mean?
When the show was new, there was a pretty solid wave of "this is SO MUCH BETTER than [league] guys" in here that made me never want to watch it so I don't act like that.
It happens. Can't make time for everything. I read about how great NXT is but only end up watching it once a month or so due to time constraints.
British Monsoon
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I think that was just initial surprise that the format worked so well, the OTT hype has died down somewhat...now if only NXT fans could drop the whole "NXT is like an indie...but good!" thing, that'd be grand.
I love this argument: "Tons of guys were over the top raving about how good this was, so I'll never watch it. That'll show those enthused pricks!"
:lol:
Oh, but if it were actually tons of guys, that might be a point.
He's been a yo-yo most of his career. I know that feel.
Even if it's just one guy, why would you not watch a good wrestling show just to show them, when all they're trying to do is spread some enthusiasm for something enjoyable?
Enthusiasm is sometimes squashed in here. Doesn't matter what it's for. Read almost any reaction to my ROH posts a few months ago.
The thing about the internet is that it's hard to convey emphasis, so there's a fine line between "wow these guys is really enthusiastic" and "wow these guys are being elitist snob shits." That always rubs me the wrong way. Nothing wrong with being into a show, but is it good on its own merits, or is it good because it isn't [thing we hate this week]?
If that's the case, then Marufuji hates them too.
reptilescorpio
Member
Good point on the sets. Really does make a PPV feel cheap as shit when it looks like any other Raw. Really wish they would make an effort, they brought back pyro so please bring back sets!
Runner up:
Is this the vigilante Sting?
All is see is a guy taking an awkward back bump and a chair inexplicably breaking.
Sting hasn't been seen in a wrestling ring since WCW died, friend.