That was fun, great opening and closing matches for Scurll's first NJPW tour.
Seriously, these kids need to stop being so fucking pouty when they're booked to lose.
The butt attack?
what is selling?
who's gonna win Block B? please not KUSHIDA
Kinshasa-ass
Christ excelsiorlef don't watch DG whatever you do.
You'd have a Cornette inspired aneurysm.
But DragonGate is built around ridiculousness is it not?
Different expectations. In NJPW I expect if you're going to do a match long knee selling that you actually do it instead of ignoring it doing everything you normally do at full speed and then shake your knee every so often to remind me that you're not actually selling anything.
By the end he was barely even bothering to shake it off.
Sorry but in NJPW I expect you to do better.
There isn't even one defined style within the Jr. division, let alone NJPW as a whole. It's a smorgasboard of wrestling, from the old Ishii powerviolence stuff, to the mindless spotfest of the Bucks, to the Okada formula, to Taguchi comedy, to DG inspired LIJ 6 mans.
The knee like, wasn't even part of that match fam, Himoru did a dragon screw and a dropkick to it and that was that. He wasn't locking in a 5 minute long figure 4 or anything.
Fair enuff, different strokes for different folks.
I definitely do not go into a Takahashi match and think "Man I am going to see some great selling from all involved here". The man made his name killing himself, Dragon Lee, the business and popping back up for another stupid ass move a second afterwards.
Someone found the 1PW First Anniversary DVD in CeX in a Facebook group I'm in and was like WTF is this so I'm enjoying being the 1PW historian there, dubious a title as that is.
Takahashi was great, he's always great.... This is all on Ospreay here...
Like I said he chose to bring focus to the knee, that's on him, not my fault I noticed, he clearly wanted to do Fighting Spirit but had no fucking idea how to do it.
All he had to do was not sell the knee ever ... but he chose to and as such it enters into the match and I become hyper aware at how bad of a job he was doing...
The knee was basically all the storytelling Ospreay was doing. They even did close up zoom on his stupid knee.
It was worst than Super Cena level selling.
idk I was too busy looking at how cool all the closing sequences were and getting into it with the crowd to bother with a knee.
I was also thinking when somebody is going to get shoot knocked out by that stupid sunset flip powerbomb to the outside because it's gotta happen
Kinshasa-ass
Like klonere said, different strokes, but limb-based damage doesn't bother me unless it's egregious. He's young; maybe slapping it, combined with adrenaline, let him get through it. After all, if Ciampa wrestled that ladder match with a legit torn ACL, we really can't start about limb-based damage if the match isn't about it.
Already has, that's why that Kushida vs Takahashi match a month or so ago was so short.
...Dolph Ziggler just beat AJ Styles clean.
I know 50/50 booking is going to come into play, but still, I'm flabbergasted.
I do think that KUSHIDA/Taguchi was the best match of the BoSJ so far though. Something totally different, zero dives, maximum drama and crowd investment.
The main event of this show. If NJPW Jr flippy do style isn't your thing, definitely check out this match instead. I think it can be universally appreciated!
http://njpwworld.com/p/s_series_00440_4_1
Wait you think that was a shoot or?
Although if in storyline it was supposed to knock him out that actually adds a pretty dope layer to that match.
Daniel Bryan's probably not coming back to Talking Smack is he...
WWE need to stop trying to make Ziggler happen.
Were you in attendance at the show(s?) where they booked Teddy Hart?
I've always wondered what it'd be like to see him live.
Daniel Bryan's probably not coming back to Talking Smack is he...
His kid isn't even a month old. He'll be back eventually.Daniel Bryan's probably not coming back to Talking Smack is he...
Wait you think that was a shoot or?
Although if in storyline it was supposed to knock him out that actually adds a pretty dope layer to that match.
Ciampa didn't sell the injury... You wouldn't have known he was injured if you hadn't read about it...
Completely different
Like come on kicking with your injured leg makes you look like a fucking moron. It should have had some effect on the match beyond Peter Griffin "ohh my knee" every so often... or just don't fucking do it... It was laughable, he be ohh my knee and then do a springboard corkscrew 789 whatever and be completely find and then a minute later Peter Griffin again. That;s not selling, selling affects how you move, how you fight, selling isn't doing all your normal shit but touching your knee in between, that's clowning. There was no story there.
Sorry I am a huge fan of selling and body part matches so when someone makes a mockery of it I get annoyed.
Nope. They want Talking Smack to be on a level par with Raw Talk AKA shit.
I just assume he's been quietly written out of the show the same way Mauro was and he's just sitting at home with Newborn Bella until his contract lapses and he can wrestle again.Daniel Bryan's probably not coming back to Talking Smack is he...
When Triple H talks about it on a media conference call and Tweets about it, it's part of the match's story, especially since WWE has an expectation that a WWE fan follows everything about it.
I love my limb work (I wouldn't have gone to Evolve shows without the limb work and grapplefuck), but I don't get hung up on it if the the match's story isn't about it.
WWE are going to get as much Bryan as they can out of this contract.I just assume he's been quietly written out of the show the same way Mauro was and he's just sitting at home with Newborn Bella until his contract lapses and he can wrestle again.