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May Wrasslin' |OT| Dontaku about Legit Shook

A 2nd rate comedy wrestler? He's nothing compared to the likes of Gran Naniwa, Kikutaro & Kuishinbo Kamen.



Yeah, the whole used gear & amazon wish-list stuff with women's wrestling is definitely on the creepy side of things...and then you've got April Hunter, who flat-out sells fetish porn to wrestling fans via twitter.

2nd rate? That's being incredibly kind. Santino is a D list comedy wrestler. 99% of the time he's just doing his same old shitty routine and in that remaining 1%, he actually comes up with something amusing. The 99% is NOT worth the 1% though, so he's terrible.

Oh shit, Wrestling Dontakuuuuu is tomorrow already? That sure snuck up on me but I'm really looking forward to some good wrestling for a change. Fucking awesome card.
 

Aiii

So not worth it
Less complaiming, more ass gifs. May is the month of ass gifs.

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How kind of you to act so selflessly in this current time of struggle. Please accept this very non-sexual, athletic and sports-based gift:

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Is she wearing a Yankees cap?

....

I'll let it slide.
 
I wouldn't say he's a bit-part character in the first two seasons. He definitely is in JLU. The only original member that is less of a factor in Martian Manhunter in JLU. I never really got into Flash as a solo character, but I enjoy him greatly on JL. I think that episode was his only dedicated episode in the entire series. Kind of weird it took until the last season for him to get one. All of the other founders had multiple dedicated episodes. Booster Gold got an episode for before Flash. Terry McGinnis got TWO and he wasn't even born at the time of the show.

It was just an overall comment on Flash, I haven't really watched my DCU for a while. Booster Gold though... why?!
 
Woo, the guest on this weeks The Art of Wrestling with Colt Cabana is none other than Prince Devitt!

http://tsmradio.com/coltcabana/2013/05/01/aow-145-prince-devitt/

2nd rate? That's being incredibly kind. Santino is a D list comedy wrestler. 99% of the time he's just doing his same old shitty routine and in that remaining 1%, he actually comes up with something amusing. The 99% is NOT worth the 1% though, so he's terrible.

I wish WWE would hire Mecha Mummy. Now THERE's a comedy wrestler!

LiquidSolid said:
Oh shit, Wrestling Dontakuuuuu is tomorrow already? That sure snuck up on me but I'm really looking forward to some good wrestling for a change. Fucking awesome card.

Seriously, the card is absolutely stacked. All it's missing is a jr. heavyweight title match.

For the new page;

NJPW, "WRESTLING DONTAKU", 2013.05.03
Fukuoka International Center

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http://www.ustream.tv/njpw - $25 to watch live and/or on-demand for a week after broadcast.

Road to Wrestling Dontaku - 04/20/13
Road to Wrestling Dontaku - 04/21/13

0. Yuji Nagata, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & Maximo vs CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Jado & Gedo)
1. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles: Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA) (c) vs Forever Hooligans (Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov)
2. Fale Triumphant Return Match: Ryusuke Taguchi & Captain New Japan vs Devitt Army (Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale)
3. IWGP & NWA Heavweight Tag Titles: K.E.S. (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr) (c) vs TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) vs CHAOS (Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka) vs Muscle Orchestra (Strong Man & Manabu Nakanishi)
4. NEVER Openweight Title: Masato Tanaka (c) vs Tomoaki Honma
5. Special Singles Match: Togi Makabe vs Yujiro Takahashi
6. Special Singles Match: Hirooki Goto vs Katsuyori Shibata
7. Special Singles Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Karl Anderson
8. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs Shelton Benjamin
9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs Minoru Suzuki
 

strobogo

Banned
It was just an overall comment on Flash, I haven't really watched my DCU for a while. Booster Gold though... why?!

Why not. Booster Gold is pretty boss. I enjoyed his BatB episode as well. Pretty much the whole point of JLU was giving B and C listers chances to shine. Motherfucking Question!



What are so special about those special singles matches? Why does Japan have to have a title for every match on the card? It's kind of weird. I'm not sure if I like it or not.
 

Jitters

Member
You don't like asses Jitters?

Or only if they're square and yellow? That's okay, we don't judge here, WrassleGAF is your sanctuary.

I come in here to have very serious discussions about wrestling, but all I see are butts and nerdy super hero stuff.
 

Aiii

So not worth it
I come in here to have very serious discussions about wrestling, but all I see are butts and nerdy super hero stuff.

That's okay, we can do both!

What will we discuss today? The rules of Tug-of-war contests and if humiliating your opponent and kicking him in the head is justified behaviour given the context of the situation at hand?
 
Why not. Booster Gold is pretty boss. I enjoyed his BatB episode as well. Pretty much the whole point of JLU was giving B and C listers chances to shine. Motherfucking Question!



What are so special about those special singles matches? Why does Japan have to have a title for every match on the card? It's kind of weird. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

Because New Japan treats their PPVs like they're special events, not just the same old shit you've seen a million times before.

And Booster Gold is great.
 
What are so special about those special singles matches? Why does Japan have to have a title for every match on the card? It's kind of weird. I'm not sure if I like it or not.

I kinda like it, but sometimes they go crazy overboard with the Engrish match names that give little idea what the match is about - for example;

"Yuzupon Retirement Best Fighting Spirit FINAL"
"Defend Yokkaichi ~ Win and Rescue"
"KO-D Openweight Title Challenge Right Fight Anytime and Anywhere Battle Royal"

As for the New Japan card, the first one (Togi vs Yujiro) should probably be a grudge match, but the other two are special challenge matches because Shibata challenged Goto to see if he still has some fire in him, whereas Tanahashi is challenging himself to defeat the quarter-finalists of the NJ Cup (starting with Anderson) to prove to himself that he's capable of taking on Okada again.
 

Jitters

Member
That's okay, we can do both!

What will we discuss today? The rules of Tug-of-war contests and if humiliating your opponent and kicking him in the head is justified behaviour given the context of the situation at hand?

...............I guess asses are better...................

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I gotta say, I'm looking at a lot of diva ass gifs right now, and Cena may have more jiggle than all of them.
 

Aiii

So not worth it
Still looks like shit tbh, but it'll be a while before he's to Jake the Snake levels of recovery. I'm just happy to see him doing well and reconnecting with his kid and stuff.
 
...WRESTLING!

AJPW, "CHAMPION CARNIVAL - DAY 6", 2013.04.26
Matsushita IMP Hall
580 Fans

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2m7q6

01. Koji Kanemoto & Yasufumi Nakanoue vs BURNING (Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki)
02. Akebono & Hiroshi Yamato vs Takao Omori & HUB
03. Champion Carnival - Block A: Masayuki Kono [4] vs Ryota Hama [0]
04. Champion Carnival - Block B: KENSO [2] vs KAI [2]
05. Stack of Arms (Masakatsu Funaki, Minoru Tanaka & Takaku Fuke) vs Last Revolution (Suwama, Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo)
06. Champion Carnival - Block A: Go Shiozaki [5] vs Seiya Sanada [4]
07. Champion Carnival - Block B: Jun Akiyama [4] vs Joe Doering [4]
08. AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Yoshinobu Kanemaru (c) vs SUSHI

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5

Great match between Shiozaki & Sanada there, but it's a long one. Elsewhere, Kono vs Hama was surprisingly awesome, as was KENSO vs KAI. Also, check out the Jr. title match between Kanemaru & SUSHI. Easily the best match from SUSHI yet.

It's pretty mind-blowing that the Champion Carnival is available now on no more than a weeks delay - that would have been unthinkable 10-15 years ago. Hell, you were lucky if you got to see all the days of the tournament. Often, you'd have to make do with poor VHS copies of the shows recorded off TV in Japan, or a hand-held camcorder version for those shows not aired, if they were recorded at all. Mostly though, you'd have to wait a half year for the commercial VHS set to be released in Japan and for copies to slowly trickle down through the tape trading scene.
 

strobogo

Banned
It's 5:45 AM, I'm awake, and eating a bowl of kale with a light drizzle of EVOO. I also went out and bought some extra veggies to spice up the normal broccoli/celery/cauliflower/carrot routine.


Green onions, sweet peppers, radicchio, maroon carrots, and more broccoflower. Pretty excited to test out some new tastes. It's only been 4 days, but I physically feel significantly better having cut out bread and sugars. Well, processed sugars. Sugars in fruit and veggies are fair game. Hopefully these extra veggies will add some extra calories so I'm not technically under eating despite hearty servings of veggies through out the day. And I'm installing DCU Online. Ready to try that out. Hope my PC can handle it. When does the Marvel one come out?



I haven't even really had cravings or anything. There is junk food in the house and I'm not really wanting to eat it, which is a big change since usually I'll want to eat it even when I don't actually want to eat anything.

I guess this is what I'm going to do as I cut back on wrasslin. However, I do have one more secret project I'm about to spring on y'all.
 

Aiii

So not worth it
I do get some kind of morbid amusement out of the fact you managed to kill your interest in wrestling by voluntarily watching the worst of WCW and ECW Strobogo.

I'm sorry :(
 

strobogo

Banned
Well, I didn't really realize how bad that period of ECW was. I knew it got dire by the end of ECW, but the part I got through is still when they had most of their stars. Not Belivs and Chilly Willy. Those shows were so boring and uninteresting that it makes everything related to it boring and uninteresting. The Thunders in the double tapings were more interesting.
 
My eyes.

NXT was pretty good, really enjoyed the main event a lot, definitely watch it if you get the chance. Paige vs Summer Rae wasn't bad, two really stiff strikes from Paige in this one. Had to laugh at the "NO MORE BO!" chants Bo Dallas was getting throughout the 3-way tag match. I don't remember him getting that same sort of hate before he got called up, in hindsight, they really should have given the spot in the Rumble to Neville, would have been a great way to debut him and the corkscrew SSP. It's far easier to introduce a guy when they've got a hook like a big crazy high-flying move. What's Bo got? Pretty much nothing.

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Aiii

So not worth it
I still maintain he's going to slip on those ropes or something just once and break his neck and die live on air.

I'm all for fun maneuvers, but there's no way that move isn't going to end horribly just once.
 
Santino is great. He's legit. Santina was awesome, his run with Beth Phoenix was awesome. He's just really good.

The Cobra/Socko faceoff was one of my favorite Rumble moments, though somewhat behind CM Punk's repeated soliloquies in 2010.
 
Aiii said:
I still maintain he's going to slip on those ropes or something just once and break his neck and die live on air.

I'm all for fun maneuvers, but there's no way that move isn't going to end horribly just once.

Yeah, corkscrews are a bit dodgy, because if he doesn't get that initial twist right it'd go very bad and would be very hard to quickly recover from - however, Neville is one of the best high-flyers in the world and has done the move countless times, so hopefully that never happens.
 
Ah, IWA Deep South - there's deathmatch wrestling, then there's shitty deathmatch wrestling, then there's IWA-DS. IWA Mid-South's uglier cousin. The Carnage Cup is their yearly deathmatch tournament and it's usually good for a laugh, but I've never watched an IWA-DS show that wasn't all deathmatches, so I'm not expecting much out of this one...

IWA Deep South - March 16th, 2013 - The Cage of Carnage

Jake 'The Man Scout' Manning vs Joe Hogan is up first. Joe Hogan looks like a used car salesman. Oh, apparently he's a city councilman. Fair enough. Commentary guy says "What d'ya get if you cross a man scout with Jerry Lawler? I don't know, but he sure likes eating brownies". Hah. Pretty standard heel goon vs hometown champ match, Hogan retains his whatever title.

Up next, CHOO CHOO!!! Freight Train vs Kaos vs Big James. Lol, Freight Train keeps calling Kaos 'kosher'. "Dis belt staying on my smooth bellay and I'm walkin' out of here with da W. Dat stand for win.". Kaos offers a beer to Big James and then knocks him to the floor and laughs in his face as The Freight Train makes his way to ringside. CHOO CHOO!! Kaos punches the crap out of Big James, but bounces off of Freight Train's smooth belly. He hits a DDT and Train sells like Cena. Big James has done nothing but get beat up. Freight Train hits some 'strikes' and then Kaos...I don't know what the fuck that was. Kaos spears Big James and hits a shitty ass drop off the top rope. Freight Train breaks up the pin by touching Kaos very lightly on the shoulder, who then rolls off James. Freight Train looks very pleased with himself, lol. The crowd are kinda bemused. Freight Train chops Kaos like a young Ric Flair, but Big James scores with a Stinger Splash! Kaos throws him outside, but Freight Train hits Kaos with a devastating leg drop! Kaos kicks out at 2! Freight Train hits the running forearm and it's over. Freight Train retains! CHOO CHOO!!

Kaos hits...something;

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The most vicious leg-drop in all of wrestling;

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CHOO CHOO!!

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The Batiri vs Some Local Dudes is next. Kobald scaring kids in the crowd...wait, why the fuck are there so many kids in the crowd? Hopefully their parents aren't planning to stay for the deathmatches. This isn't a bad match. Local dudes are pretty good. Ophidian tweaks his knee badly and they have to rush home to the finish, the smallest local dude 'hitting' a 630 senton on Kobald for the pin.

Tim Donst vs Chrisjen Hayme - haha, the look on Donsts face when he sees the shit-hole he's wrestling in. Some nice arm-work from Hayme in the outset, but Donst thumbs him in the eye. They do a criss-cross, but Chrisjen ducks under the ring and surprises Donst from behind. He won't stop running the ropes. "STOP!" Donst pleads, only to be thrown to the floor. Hayme puts him in a wheelie bin and then botches running it into the post. He rolls Donst back in, but Tim scores with a nice snap suplex and goes to work. Hayme fights back. His offence sucks. Hayme crashes and burns on a 450. Donst rolls him up, but Hayme counters and pins Donst for 3. Meh.

Here we go, deathmatch idiocy iminent! This is a Tai Pei, Gusset Plates & Carpet Strips Deathmatch! It's John Rare, the moron who let another moron stab his arm with a box cutter a few years back. And some other dudes I've never heard of. Bryant Woods. Jay Impact. The White Russian. God, there are still so many really young kids in the crowd. What the fuck, Alabama? People are quickly thrown into the bundles of carpet strips in the corner. Ugh, they're trying to wrestle. The White Russian is awful. Jay Impact is awful. This is SO SHITTY. Woods is bleeding from the carpet strips and goes back-first into a board of gusset plates. Impact's back is bleeding pretty badly from the carpet strips. AWFUL plancha from Woods. Just awful. Now there's thumbtacks all over the place. More shitty wrestling. Impact is fucking AWFUL. Woods wins it with a sit-out burning hammer through a carpet strip board on the outside. Looked nasty. And awful.

The finish;

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Ah, main event time. It's THE CAGE OF CARNAGE! Freakshow vs Matt Tremont vs Spidar Boodrow vs Josh Crow. This promises to be...dumb. The cage is full of light-tubes, glass panes with light-tubes glued to them and some barbedbire for good measure. Josh Crow looks and sounds like the result of many generations of inter-breeding. Oh god, there's shit on top of the cage too. This one's going to be a mess. It's Freakshow! Big pop...sorta. Fuck, his forehead is ridiculous. Tremont & Freakshow beat up the other two goons. Tremont headbutting a light-tube bundles into Boodrow, Freakshow hitting Crow with his kendo stick. Tremont & Spidar have already bladed. Tremont's bleeding a TON. Dude shouldn't cut so deep. Crow finally fights back against Freakshow and scores with a light-tube to the fucking ear! Crow switches to Tremont and gets knocked the fuck out. Freakshow and Boodrow try to wrestle and Freakshow hits a backdrop into a pile of light-tubes! He throws a damn plate of glass into Tremont's face. Fuck. Tremont fights back and hits the Bull Frog Splash to eliminate Freakshow, the champion. Now it's just down to Tremont & Spidar. Tremont puts him through a bunch of light-tubes and goes up top, but Spidar throws him off into yet more tubes and scores the pin to become the new IWA Deep South champion! What a prestigious honour. Absolutely no one even though about using the platform on top of the cage. Or the ladder stuck to the side of the cage. Or the gusset plates. No one ever wants to use the gusset plates because they're fucking nasty, so deathmatch promoters should really stop using them as gimmicks. Anyways, what a complete shitter of a show. Tremont puts over Spidar post match, but says he'll get his revenge because Carnage Cup 2013 is coming soon! YAY! I can hardly wait.

Tremont with a fisherman suplex into some tubes;

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Samoan drop into tubes from Boodrow;

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Freakshow throws a pane of glass in Tremont's face;

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The finish;

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Deleted member 47027

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...WRESTLING!

AJPW, "CHAMPION CARNIVAL - DAY 6", 2013.04.26
Matsushita IMP Hall
580 Fans

...I guess I'll watch another Akebono match. I don't know what it is about that big fatass, I enjoy watching his matches even though they are usually pretty crummy.

When does the Marvel one come out?

Early June, I'm hyped - the beta was fun as hell, feels like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 mixed with Diablo which is a-okay in my book. Plus I can be the Punisher. Huzzah.

My gift to Wrasslegaf:


Hiiiiilarious dear lord
 

Aiii

So not worth it
Yeah, corkscrews are a bit dodgy, because if he doesn't get that initial twist right it'd go very bad and would be very hard to quickly recover from - however, Neville is one of the best high-flyers in the world and has done the move countless times, so hopefully that never happens.

I hope so, but I will probably still cringe everytime he does it. I'd reckon that's the effect he's going for though.
 
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Deleted member 47027

Unconfirmed Member
That Marvel diablo thing looks cool but I don't like how I can't just play as Spider-man or whoever.

lol spider-man

That's like, the worst thing. He's also one of the more expensive dudes. Spider-Man and Iron Man are the most expensive because FOOLS pick those people!
 

RBH

Member
So I'm seeing highlights of the Undertaker wrestling Dean Ambrose on Smackdown just now for the first time (haven't read up on any results since Mania).

What's the story behind this? How long is Taker sticking around for?
 

Aiii

So not worth it
So I'm seeing highlights of the Undertaker wrestling Dean Ambrose on Smackdown just now for the first time (haven't read up on any results since Mania).

What's the story behind this? How long is Taker sticking around for?

That was him being written off TV.
 
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