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Pretty sure I remember that being a sin cara match on smackdown in 2011 or something
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May Wrasslin' |OT| Super Strong Style 16 - Thread Edition 2015
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Pretty sure I remember that being a sin cara match on smackdown in 2011 or something
But at the same time it's amazing. WCW literally had over 200 male wrestlers at that point. You could literally see almost anyone alive from the 80's wrestling scene on any given show in a terrible three minute match.
He is giving Roman Reigns matches almost perfect scores. Yeah, they aren't abysmal or anything but to say the Big Show vs Reigns match was a near classic is more than a little suspect.
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El Pescado
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Am I the only one watching the Jericho/Stephanie podcast? It's better than his Cena podcast at any rate.
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Tonight AAA shows,awesome. Hope there is some tape of it.
Rafa=FedKilla
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Of course. Steph just needed a safe place to tell her story.
El Pescado
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If Austin was interviewing her he'd have asked her how Macho Man's Slim Jim tasted. :/
Let me guess. "What's it like having your dad as your boss? hurr hurr hurr"
Fuck Chris Jericho.
El Pescado
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He may have said exactly that.
Regarding #AllTitlesMatter
The World Heavyweight Championship was fucking worthless unless Cena was carrying it. Rename it the Light Heavyweight Championship and it'd value doesn't change a bit. It was a title introduced to satisfy Hunters ego and then became a belt that was carried around by people who were not good enough for the real #1 title, with the exception of Cena's occasional reigns to make people give any shits about it.
The World Heavyweight Championship was fucking worthless unless Cena was carrying it. Rename it the Light Heavyweight Championship and it'd value doesn't change a bit. It was a title introduced to satisfy Hunters ego and then became a belt that was carried around by people who were not good enough for the real #1 title, with the exception of Cena's occasional reigns to make people give any shits about it.
Sibersk Esto
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I stand by my opinion that the WHC was more important as a title in 2011 when Henry and Bryan we're going after it on Smackdown than the wwe title which was just a prop in the cm punk storyline.
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The only wrestling podcast I listen to is the Theszcast. Still waiting for episode 6
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The WHC felt like the #1 title to me up until Batista won it and got moved to Smackdown. HHH, Goldberg, Chris Kanyon and Batista were a hell of lot more credible than JBL and Smackdown was the clear B show. Even as late as 2011 you had Henry's Hall of Pain run which was solid gold. Mark pinning Orton clean for the title was the 2nd best moment of 2011 after Punk's MITB win.
The WHC felt like the #1 title to me up until Batista won it and got moved to Smackdown. HHH, Goldberg, Chris Kanyon and Batista were a hell of lot more credible than JBL and Smackdown was the clear B show. Even as late as 2011 you had Henry's Hall of Pain run which was solid gold. Mark pinning Orton clean for the title was the 2nd best moment of 2011 after Punk's MITB win.
I'm really interested in knowing how many people cancelled subs after WrestleMania. I hope recycling matches for 3 fucking months like they always do post-Mania finally bit them a little.
Deadly Joker
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I signed up again for the free network in April and they went ahead and gave me May for free. Nice. Not that I really ever watch it.
Sibersk Esto
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I miss the WHC. Such a beautiful design.
You're giving the IC belt too much credit. The WHC at least got video packages and the holder didn't lose all their non-title matches. It actually felt like a belt people still wanted.
Pop-O-Matic
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It's more appropriate to say the WHC became the IC belt while the actual IC belt became something much closer to the European or Light Heavyweight titles way before that point.
yeah that's probably accurate
bean breath
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Does anyone else think Ryan Getzlaf kind of looks like a bald Roman Reigns?
Christian, Mark Henry, and ADR are three modern examples of dudes that were good enough to be #1.
It's like the opposite of The Iron Shiek's Twitter, in that you know for sure it's him and no one could possibly emulate it.
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Dusty Rhodes really has a great Twitter presence. His work there makes Hard Times look like fucking kindergartens
lovely ladies
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Does that make Corey Perry his Dean Ambrose?
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Professor Beef
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I agree.
Been playing monthly for the Network since its inception and watch nothing but 'The Monday Night Wars' series on repeat and the occasional old WCW PPV just cause I've never really watched them. Watched that Austin/McMahon podcast and that was pretty good. Anything I should be looking out for? I have no interest in anything recent like NXT or anything post 2001. Pretty excited for the Kliq docu or is that a only for DVD/Bluray?
Kofi is the wrestling equivalent to paint drying. He ain't even a person of note in New Day. He is a third wheel. Kofi holding the modern day IC title is even a stretch. His IC title win on my birthday haunts me to this very day.
Professor Beef
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You should be happy a wrestler got you something for your birthday! Did you send him a tweet thanking him?
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We need a similar compilation of WrassleGAF posts.
The modern day Shelton Benjamin, only worse. Only good for spot fests during ladder matches and Royal Rumbles. And even for that, he's used up all his cards. Only wrestlers worse imo is R-Truth and Alex Riley.
Pristine_Condition
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Not at all. I watch Lucha Underground religiously. I gathered it was a question of WWE/WCW workers as they existed in those promotions, and Lucha Underground, ROH, AAA, and indies were not considered, since:
A) He's Mundo not Morrison in Lucha Underground
B) Ricochet/Prince Puma isn't listed, (and he'd easily be the #1 on that list if he was.)
C) If we were counting the guys' work outside those promotions, Spanky would be at least #2, because of his work in Japan.
If I was listing fliers from any and all promotions, Morrison/Mundo would still be pretty far down the list. Hell, Morrison wouldn't even make a top 5 Lucha Underground fliers list, IMO. (He's behind Puma, King Cuerno, Drago, Angelico and Fenix as an overall worker, I think.) His punches are abysmal as is his selling most of the time, and his psychology still isn't very good, though Lucha hides it better. His character work is pretty cheesy, and not in a good Lucha Underground cheesy way either. And the End of the World is still a dumbass finisher.
He was a part of a cage match that was a 1000 times better than anything any other promotion has recently tried. Mondo has skills.
Pristine_Condition
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I'm not saying he doesn't have skills. He's just not as good as any of those other guys. His weaknesses that I listed are very apparent. And he's not as smooth as any of those other guys either.
But if you are just considering "John Morisson" the WWE act, as I did in the original question, I think my placement is exactly where he belongs. Which is not very high. And if Rey was on that list, which he should have been, even lower.
Mr. Luchador
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Would listen to it 24/7
The Rivalries show is alright. Flair Vs Dusty episode is great and I wish the show would feature more stuff from that era. But it has episodes on Hogan Vs Piper, HHH VS HBK and Hardys Vs Edge & Christian.
Masquerader
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'... ARRRRGGGHHH. I HATE HIM! I HATE HIM!!'
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