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Yeah I really like Pollock too. He is one of the better minds who talks about wrestling.
He was one of the few people who thought highly of Corino's commentary in NJPW and I agree with him on that.
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March Wrasslin' |OT| The March to Wrestlemania XXXIII!
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Yeah I really like Pollock too. He is one of the better minds who talks about wrestling.
He was one of the few people who thought highly of Corino's commentary in NJPW and I agree with him on that.
I intentionally made my words vague so that more people could watch the match and see for themselves (and so that I don't outright spoil the ending for anyone who's never watched the match)!
RBH marketing 101!
But for real though guys, watch that match for some great tag-team wrestling and a hot crowd to boot.
I usually agree with Wai more, but I think they balance each other extremely well.
At least they lump the two worst people in the LAW crew together on whtsNXT so you can skip that show. Braden is indeed quite unbearable.
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FlammableD
Banned
remembering this happened
excelsiorlef
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Yeah I listened but Braden is definitely more of your average cynical wrestling fan. I mean the guy just kept shitting on Wyatt because, and fair enough I guess, he just doesn't like that sort of gimmickm That and he appears to not watch Smackdown much anyway... it made the podcast hard to listen to because no matter what he wasn't going to like it so...
Dude is great with Agnew on the NXT podcast but that's cause NXT is less story and more WWindiE which seems to be Braden's tastes.
Pollock and Ting have just perfect chemistry
excelsiorlef
Member
Jason Agnew is pretty cool. He and Dan are good on the Sunday Radio show. His audition stories on whtsNXT are greattoo.
Braden is fine on whtsNXT... it's clearly more his style of show.
avengers23
Banned
Shhh. Consistency goes against Vince's dream Brock/Goldberg match
remembering this happened
member when TNA had Andrews and O'Spreay have an 8 minute Xplosion match
excelsiorlef
Member
Just following Big E's example:
Lol omg.
Takahashi literally just groped his valet it was something else to watch lol
Who else hasn't asked for their rematch clause in recent times?
TarpitCarnivore
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remembering this happened
Is this the Bastard?
excelsiorlef
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He does. Later. He just wants to kill Jericho more right now and also you know doesnt want to fight Goldberg again
UberTag
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I don't mind using part-timers to prop up interest in Mania. But they should be used to get the casuals in the door to then engage them with the main event feuds and talent that have been driving the WWE product for most of the year. They shouldn't be made the cornerstone of the event with every match featuring someone 45 years old or older and where casuals are educated to believe that everyone else on the roster not named Roman Reigns is chopped liver. That's the fundamental problem.
Owens is going to be the only major singles champion on the RAW brand again after Mania so he'd better be able to fix the US belt's rep and be a fighting champion. Although they'll probably book him in a part-timer feud to job against Brock immediately afterwards which will really do a terrible job of elevating that title.
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yes, from TNA's 2014 British Bootcamp
TarpitCarnivore
Member
Ah yes, the good ole 3-way match for the championship belt. They haven't done this the women before, nope, never.
excelsiorlef
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Bryan Alvarez is such a shit...
Refers to the Cena/Nikki vs Miz/Maryse match as Cena and his girlfriend vs Miz and his girlfriend not even wife, girlfriend.
As if the women, Nikki especially, aren't their own characters.
What a shit.
Refers to the Cena/Nikki vs Miz/Maryse match as Cena and his girlfriend vs Miz and his girlfriend not even wife, girlfriend.
As if the women, Nikki especially, aren't their own characters.
What a shit.
Wait, Will was in TNA?
excelsiorlef
Member
There's limited time and all 3 deserve a Mania payday. Not seeing the huge issue here. It'll be a great match too.
Dope
Shit flag though 😛
So on this Super J Cup Complete Collection Blu-Ray it uses the commercial release of WAR hosting the Super J Cup in 95.
It has these really cool interview introductions for each participants listing their name in English, Japanese, their home promotion etc. I had no idea Funaki considered Battl-Arts his home turf I guess he hadn't settled in at a Michinoku Pro yet.
It shows fans being excited and getting into the venue and buying merch and posters of the brackets. The t-shirts, omg the t-shirts look cool. I love the atmosphere these things create, adds to the spectacle and further adds to that special show feeling.
I've never seen the full show before, I've seen Jericho v Benoit from it though and remember being annoyed at how sloppy it was, though for the other matches I have no idea what to expect. Oh and it had Rey Mysterio vs Psicosis as a non tournament match too, quite the catch for 95.
It has these really cool interview introductions for each participants listing their name in English, Japanese, their home promotion etc. I had no idea Funaki considered Battl-Arts his home turf I guess he hadn't settled in at a Michinoku Pro yet.
It shows fans being excited and getting into the venue and buying merch and posters of the brackets. The t-shirts, omg the t-shirts look cool. I love the atmosphere these things create, adds to the spectacle and further adds to that special show feeling.
I've never seen the full show before, I've seen Jericho v Benoit from it though and remember being annoyed at how sloppy it was, though for the other matches I have no idea what to expect. Oh and it had Rey Mysterio vs Psicosis as a non tournament match too, quite the catch for 95.
I was adjusting for the US folks, but yeah, technically it's tuesdays for us Euros
-edit: Oh wait, you want him on Smackdown... Gotcha. I figured post-Mania Raw was inter-promotional.
TarpitCarnivore
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Because they did it last year, with two of the people in this one and they've done these same kind of matches for the last few months. It's just getting very repetitive.
excelsiorlef
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LOL Bryan Alvarez needs to take a break from wrestling, him yelling and swearing and freaking because of Fastlane, a show he said had a lot of good in ring action and that was worth the 9.99 for one match alone, is just hilarious and childish. That the catalyst for his tantrum is Reigns pinning Strowman clean is even better because he prefaces it by saying he thinks Braun is overrated and his matches formulaic but then loses his shit yelling because Reigns won clean...
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I mean, I kind of get why, I just find it kind of funny that so many people are going "Ugh, Mania is being main evented by old guys! Why not the fresh young boy CHRIS JERICHO?"
From the outside looking in Fastlane looked pretty poorly booked idk what the problem is
Shouty rants is Alvarez's shtick, it's what keeps his mortgage paid more than anything else he does.
People like when he rants and he like plenty of wrestling but hate dumb booking
avengers23
Banned
LOL Nia Jax. Guess you're like most girls after all because you don't have a match at WrestleMania.
excelsiorlef
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Their roster is thin right now unless you want Dana and Nia instead of Sasha and Charlotte. Hopefully after Mania they segue into adding Emma and Summer Rae (assuming she's healed) back in or shift the women's rosters around via trades or something.
They are also likely to still add Nia to the mix (not that that makes it any better)
Like ultimately I actually feel like the title hot potatoing and then fights between these three being a toss up on who wins works because these three are the creme of the crop, 3 of the 4 horsewomen, they should be capable of beating each other on any given night.
The three of them facing off all at the same time at Mania seems like a logical progression of the story. I mean in the end the matches are good and so will this one so you can either be upset that you're gonna get a good match between people you've seen a lot of or you can just go with it and enjoy what is going to be a good match.
Like don't get me wrong I get the concern but there's nothing else they have right now, Bayley vs Nia? No thanks. Bayley vs Dana Brooke? Please...
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WWE has clearly broken Bryan and Vinny
. Just Liston to them review old raws, nitro and NWA shows
. Just Liston to them review old raws, nitro and NWA shows
Dope
that's actually pretty sick
Sweeney Tom
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People hate Alvarez because they're mad they don't make anywhere near as much money for fake-liking fake stuff
Not a good time in this world for optimism
I don't get the mentality complaining about something before a show happens.
It happened at Wrestlemania 31, everyone fucking bitched and moaned about the build up, about the card and then after the fact those same people admitted it wasn't so bad afterall.
I get it that it is all frustrating and that things are not booked optimally but that isn't WWE's speciality but let them present you the show then decide whether it was justified to hate it. Or just don't watch, but expecting things to suddenly be perfect when the WWE have never shown the ability to be perfect is maddening.
Owens vs Jericho can be excellent regardless of card placement. It has had more build than any other match on the card by a long mile so instead of complaining that a fake belt is on the line let WWE conclude the story and then decide how much of your hate it deserves.
Or be angry all the time. You decide.
It happened at Wrestlemania 31, everyone fucking bitched and moaned about the build up, about the card and then after the fact those same people admitted it wasn't so bad afterall.
I get it that it is all frustrating and that things are not booked optimally but that isn't WWE's speciality but let them present you the show then decide whether it was justified to hate it. Or just don't watch, but expecting things to suddenly be perfect when the WWE have never shown the ability to be perfect is maddening.
Owens vs Jericho can be excellent regardless of card placement. It has had more build than any other match on the card by a long mile so instead of complaining that a fake belt is on the line let WWE conclude the story and then decide how much of your hate it deserves.
Or be angry all the time. You decide.
Because a decent amount of the time, they're right.
Mania 31 also really wasn't that good of a show.
excelsiorlef
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People hate Alvarez because they're mad they don't make anywhere near as much money for fake-liking fake stuff
Not a good time in this world for optimism
Or because he sounds like a child? Like what is this they're just jealous nonsense?
Also what is your obsession with accusing anyone not rage hating WWE of being fake?
You literally called me a gimmick yesterday because I'm enjoying the product right now.
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Or find something you like. We are in a golden age of graps both old and new.
Real hero just put up all of Hustle.