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May Wrasslin' |OT| Super Strong Style 16 - Thread Edition 2015
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Bluekaveli
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Lol! Punk was on fire during that period, JTG should've been happy to even be in a match with him at the time.
ShadowsFell
Member
Actually that was DDP.
This book just gets lekker and lekker and I still haven't even read it.
Dr Duncan Steel
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It's almost 1 am and I'm reading JTG's .pdf doc.
William Regal seems like a cool dude.
William Regal seems like a cool dude.
Punk gets his first big push in the big leagues and thinks he's one of the sharks. Aside from that program with Jeff, that run was quite shit. Better than Triple H running Smackdown, though.
Bluekaveli
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SES fucking ruled
Professor Beef
Banned
In hindsight, Punk was extraordinarily lucky to have that program with Jeff because it could not have happened with anyone else in Jeff's place.
It didn't really do anything outside the Serena Deeb spot. Like feud wise, what did it accomplish?
And on top of that, never really utilizing Serena as a wrestler. One match. Then she was released for some reason, supposedly to do with being a party girl.
EDIT: Jeff should have never left. Dude was the number two babyface and outsold Cena in merch at times. The height of his popularity, and he leaves.
And on top of that, never really utilizing Serena as a wrestler. One match. Then she was released for some reason, supposedly to do with being a party girl.
EDIT: Jeff should have never left. Dude was the number two babyface and outsold Cena in merch at times. The height of his popularity, and he leaves.
Mr. Enigma
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Jeff was just meant to be taking a break and was definitely going to return at some point, but then TNA threw an insane amount of cash at him for their pathetic Monday Night Impact effort, and he couldn't refuse it.
Professor Beef
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Yeah, something about how she kept drinking despite constantly being told to knock it off.
Mr. Luchador
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That TNA Stigma!
Mr. Enigma
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Probably bullshit. I remember they said for the longest time that WWE would never have any interest in Samoa Joe.
Roland_Gunner
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Most of the matches make sense but re-doing Nakamura and Goto is annoying because it almost certainly means that Nak is going to get the IC title again. Him with the title has been great but its time for something new for both of them.
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YOOOOOOOOOOO CAVERNARIO is in BOSJ
British Monsoon
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Everyone seems convinced Nak's going to get the title back, but that'd definitely be a step in the wrong direction and I don't necessarily see it happening - I see people saying there's no way Shinsuke will lose twice to Goto before the G1, but that's the beauty of the tournament. It's a real shake up and it doesn't matter if a guy's had a bad first half to the year, been out with injury or has just plain sucked for months on end, the G1 can turn all that around and there's no reason to my mind why Shinsuke can't win the thing without first reclaiming the IC belt.
Of course, it's entirely possible they put the belt right back on Nakamura, but I'm gonna say Goto defends the title and then picks up a challenger or two during the G1.
Of course, it's entirely possible they put the belt right back on Nakamura, but I'm gonna say Goto defends the title and then picks up a challenger or two during the G1.
Ok, this looks good. I'm in.
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Gedo has done that three times this year. Not holding my breath
British Monsoon
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If Shinsuke gets the belt back, I'm gonna go ahead and say he won't win the G1. They'd be nuts to do a title unification after all the work Nak's done building up the secondary title.
slightconfuse
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He won it back dropping beating fale last year as well. He can't escape the title.
Roland_Gunner
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Yeah, thats the thing, assuming the Nakamura gets the IC title that makes Tanahashi the heavy favorite to win the G1, which I don't think excites anyone. The alternatives would be to go with someone like Shibata or Ibushi or, I guess they could get really crazy and have Marufuji win to get some heat on NOAH.
FlammableD
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Is that Finlay's kid in there? I've never even heard about him before, any good?
WHERE ARE MUH BRITWRES SUPER JUNIORS
nah, looks cool
Bluekaveli
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If they call him that then I'm going to quit wrestling for the lulz
British Monsoon
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I don't think New Japan were too pleased that he spurned their advances and signed with Lucha Underground, in spite of the fact that they gave him the BoSJ last year. Similarly, I don't think Dragon Gate were too pleased that after they'd given him a run with the Dream Gate title, he decided to compete in the Super Jr's for New Japan instead of Dragon Gate's King of Gate tournament.
Last night's NXT was essentially an enormous plot dump to make up for the Wrestlemania hangover. Sooo many segments. Blake and Murphy need to drop the titles fast and re-work themselves - that new team that went out to face Enzo and Cass already had a more distinctive look than the Dubstep Cowboys.
I can see why they hired Dana now, she has a natural charisma and decent mic skills, does the whole vain asshole shtick very well. Hope she can up her in ring game fast, maybe the hinted feud with Charlotte could help her.
I'm ready for #NBexT.
I can see why they hired Dana now, she has a natural charisma and decent mic skills, does the whole vain asshole shtick very well. Hope she can up her in ring game fast, maybe the hinted feud with Charlotte could help her.
I'm ready for #NBexT.
Norwegian Rudo
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He was also on his final drugs warning and not about to stop doing them.
http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/2gq30x/dave_meltzer_on_wwes_coverage_of_the_montreal/
There's a very long, fairly rambling piece on it by Meltzer, that does get the real story across overall.
Ready-made for a Sheamus feud too. Also, that Pearl River Plunge looked good...
And lol'd heartily at these:
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Deleted member 47027
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I really don't see Nakamura getting it back. They don't often do flip-flop title exchanges, even though they did with Fale and Meiyu Tag, but still
There's no way there'll be a unification, I can't see that happening.
Uhaa needs a new name? Look no further:
http://www.thewrestlingfan.com/twfnamegenerator.html
Including main event monikers like Zig Lovesauce, Rat Shocker and Gaylord Robinson.
http://www.thewrestlingfan.com/twfnamegenerator.html
Including main event monikers like Zig Lovesauce, Rat Shocker and Gaylord Robinson.
Meltzer today had a really interesting point on the fakeness of wrestling.
The most over man in the company has a real name.(Cena)
Does WWE's obsession on creating characters blind them from making characters more real and thus relatable?
How can the public get behind a product and a wrestler when he has a name like Dolph Ziggler, Romain Reigns, or Neville?
The most over man in the company has a real name.(Cena)
Does WWE's obsession on creating characters blind them from making characters more real and thus relatable?
How can the public get behind a product and a wrestler when he has a name like Dolph Ziggler, Romain Reigns, or Neville?
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Deleted member 47027
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I don't think anyone really cares that much though. Just coincidence.
Oh yes.
Tranny Crotchrot and AJ Turdlet a couple of highlights. Luke Vanderhuge an actual possibility though.
Does Meltzer also advocate this for every TV show or movie ever made?
I mean, how can a movie ever get over when it's main character is called James Bond (or alternatively "Double Oh Seven"). Or Tony Stark. Or hell, The HULK?! Can you imagine a wrestling character called Hulk? Instant failure.
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Wrestling Dontaku 2: Eletric Boogaloo
Wrestling occupies a more unique blend of real and fake, than a movie or TV show which is just straight fiction. Though really it's more their inability to give anyone any kind of character that's causing people to not get behind anyone. Like who the hell is Dolph Ziggler? He likes showing off, or something. What's Roman Reigns' character? "Guy who gets title shots"?
If you can't name 3-5 things about a character that don't refer to what they look like, or what their gimmick is, there's a problem.
Nope - they're too busy counting the merch sales.
But wrestling at its core is the simulation of sport no matter how much you want to dress up people.
Plus the people who act aren't expected to go by their stage name outside of the Arena like wrestling.
Joe Anoaʻi is way more interesting than Roman Reigns when you hear him talk on things like a WWE panel or even the Powerbombcast.
A character can work in cases like The Rock, The Undertaker, Kane, and even Shawn Micheals but maybe in the company's oldschool policy of trying to monopolize talent they miss that real people sometimes work better.
Kevin Nash was better than Diesel yet the WWE has tried to make Diesel the focus instead of Kevin Nash.
unless WWE start presenting their product as more sports like (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH) I don't think it matters. They have more obvious issues than names to get people to connect with performers.
I hope to fuck that everyone in the back watched that E:60 documentary and said to themselves, well shit that seems pretty easy to get people legitimately over, maybe we should just do something like that!
They need to pick one or the other instead of half straddling both.
JesseEwiak
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Also, frankly, the fake names used to be better. Ric Flair. Scott Steiner. Shawn Michaels. Hell, Rob Van Dam. Those sound like real people, even if it's not their godgiven name.
Now, we get Dolph Ziggler. Curtis Axel. Bo Dallas.
Either go realistic with a name or go over the top (Sting!). The muddled middle the WWE has been doing for the past decade is a failure.
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Deleted member 47027
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It's easy to remember the good ones. Plenty of turds in the past.
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