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British Monsoon
Member
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Even CZW doesn't do carnivals
Anymore
Anymore
Wow, so indie. Much carnival.
Holy shit what promotion is that? That crowd is packed!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm just saying people are like "watch this promotion instead guys!" and it either looks like high school play production values or its in a language I don't speak, or just as often, both.
Professor Beef
Banned
The guy on the left has carny hair, you can't fool me!Wow, so indie. Much carnival.
Ninja Scooter
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Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Have you seen how big and beefy Roman Reigns is?
British Monsoon
Member
ICW - they drew a crowd of 4,000 in Glasgow earlier this month - the biggest non-WWE crowd British wrestling has seen in 34 years!
Wow... The UK has really big bingo halls.Wow, so indie. Much carnival.
UberTag
Member
Did you watch Wrestle Kingdom 9 with Jim Ross on commentary?
Amazing! Just from that gif alone has peaked my interest. I wonder what drew so many people...
Drew Galloway is in it right? Off to google I go.
This journey is going to be special. I can't wait for their reaction to Starrcade 2000.
Hint: Sting was not on the show
Hint 2: The ending reveal was fucking hilarious
ICW, a Scottish promotion that's got an ECW sort of thing going on right now. It's getting really hot, as far as British indies go. That's the biggest wrestling crowd for a British promotion since the early 80s.
Quite a lot of British indies are doing well right now.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
ROH has bad production values and they're the #2 promotion in the US
Don't judge a book by the cover, because some covers are shit
Don't judge a book by the cover, because some covers are shit
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's like watching any random event, its just random to me. The wrestling might be good, but honestly, the wrestling in WWE is better than it was when I was younger and watching by a fucking lot. The carny soap opera is more entertaining to me than just watching two essentially random dudes pretend to fight each other until the scripted ending.
ROH doesn't know how to ask for help. Too proud to improve their own product, the production values should be much better.
British Monsoon
Member
Drew vs Grado was the big money match, they also had Rhyno in and Foley as the guest commissioner for the evening. Next year they're trying to run the Hydro, which has a capacity of 12k! Crazy ambitious, I hope they sell it out.
Many here could benefit from getting a NJPWWorld. Hopefully other Japan promotions (if money permits) do their own wrasslin' network soon.
avengers23
Banned
Watched a STARDOM show from last week, the top two matches were great - Io Shirai is ridiculously good, she had an awesome match with Sendai Sachiko (barring one nasty superplex spot). Was pretty impressed by Mayu Iwatani in the main event as well, she showed a ton of fire in the process of taking an absolute goddamn beating from Meiko Satomura.
Jeezus at these gifs, especially the head kick.
I really miss the brand split.
I had an incentive to watch both shows back then because there was more talent on-air and the odds of there being a six-man tag on Smackdown that was the same as the six-man tag that was on RAW that was the same as the six-man tag on Smackdown the week before were nil.
I had an incentive to watch both shows back then because there was more talent on-air and the odds of there being a six-man tag on Smackdown that was the same as the six-man tag that was on RAW that was the same as the six-man tag on Smackdown the week before were nil.
British Monsoon
Member
If you watch a random match from a promotion you don't know, the match is meaningless because you're unaware of the backstory and characters involved - WWE booking somehow manages to render most matches meaningless, in spite of the fact that the audience knows the characters and backstory involved.
real_slime
Banned
fine, and it'll go over in the short term with the smarks around here, but it doesn't make business sense. cena is a quasi-mainstream marketable figure and i think they want to keep him that way. it's beyond wrestling with cena.
slightconfuse
Banned
Everyone watch last year's BOLA plus any 2 shows. You'llthank me
http://www.prowrestlingguerrilla.com/merch/winter/
Pwg sells out are great samplers
http://www.prowrestlingguerrilla.com/merch/winter/
Pwg sells out are great samplers
Rock was far, far bigger than Cena is, he still had his Hollywood Rock run. There's a time and a place for a Cena heel run, it's not right now, but in the future if they ever managed to get a replacement top guy.
slightconfuse
Banned
Totally forget this was happening. Based PWG
Killing_Joke
Member
Come on, anyone with a brain saw that rating coming a mile away. Roman vs fucking Rusev.
And what's with the D Bry fans ruined everything bullshit? Everyone turned on Roman when CM Punk blew up his spot. Hence he was getting booed the fuck out before he even won. Just watch the pop the dude got at TLC last year. He would have had an epic Rumble win if the podcast never happened.
Funny thing is i don't think Punk brought up the story to bury the guy but it's crazy to see a few words legit destroyed his entire year.
What's even more funny is this could have been easily fixed. They should have turned him heel and then turn on the Authority months later. Works every damn time.
And what's with the D Bry fans ruined everything bullshit? Everyone turned on Roman when CM Punk blew up his spot. Hence he was getting booed the fuck out before he even won. Just watch the pop the dude got at TLC last year. He would have had an epic Rumble win if the podcast never happened.
Funny thing is i don't think Punk brought up the story to bury the guy but it's crazy to see a few words legit destroyed his entire year.
What's even more funny is this could have been easily fixed. They should have turned him heel and then turn on the Authority months later. Works every damn time.
Only time I watched Wcw as a kid was when goldberg was getting hot.This journey is going to be special. I can't wait for their reaction to Starrcade 2000.
Hint: Sting was not on the show
Hint 2: The ending reveal was fucking hilarious
I wish I watched wcw more
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Deleted member 47027
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Wow, NWA shows popping up on WWE Network.
British Monsoon
Member
Oh!!
"The WWE Network has quietly added a new section to the Vault area titled 'NWA World Championship Wrestling.'
Currently, there are two TV episodes from the famed Saturday night TBS series:
11/16/85, main evented by Ric Flair & The Andersons vs. Terry Taylor & Pez Whatley & Ronnie Garvin.
4/12/86, headlined by NWA World champion Ric Flair vs. Ricky Morton."
Good work, finally.
"The WWE Network has quietly added a new section to the Vault area titled 'NWA World Championship Wrestling.'
Currently, there are two TV episodes from the famed Saturday night TBS series:
11/16/85, main evented by Ric Flair & The Andersons vs. Terry Taylor & Pez Whatley & Ronnie Garvin.
4/12/86, headlined by NWA World champion Ric Flair vs. Ricky Morton."
Good work, finally.
Straight Outta Compton?
Bout fucking time.
That is the cutest thing since the tragic explosion at the Hello Kitty factory.
Think it has become disjointed because it's trying to serve everyone. Pick a demographic, stick with it.
Doesn't help that the two best faces for NXT got injured. Add in that NXT is now touring, and they can't just send over Balor or whoever.
IIRC, Sinclair is way the hell bigger than WWE is, too. ROH has zero excuse to not have at least 80% of WWE's production values at this point.
Punk has a pipebomb. He's known for being super vindictive and extremely smart. I don't think he dislikes Roman, but I think he knew how to screw WWE, and he took it.
Have you not seen Jericho in WCW? You need to if you haven't.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36ovz_jericho-in-wcw-vol-1_news
Sibersk Esto
Banned
I think JR still has a good mind for the business. On Austin's podcast he doesn't really say anything bad about Survivor Series, he acknowledges the kind of environment that WWE is in and talks about where he sees it going from here and where he thinks it should go. I'll be checking out the Ross report later with meltzer.
Nope
Nope
The Silver
Member
same person who sent the text
Professor Beef
Banned
That's been confirmed by them on several occasions. <3 New Day.
UberTag
Member
Of course they're not. They're just being themselves. Watch any of their improv stuff, backstage segments or their interaction on UpUpDownDown clearly shows they're not being scripted by Creative. It's also why they're the only act that's over. Funny how those things correlate with one another.
The rest of the roster should tell the Creative team to fuck off once in a while.
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