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October Wrasslin' |OT| I'm seein' double here...

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Sweeney Tom

Banned
Brian_FETO said:
That RVD stretch was killer until he fucked it all up and killed WWECW

Shame

WWECW gets a deservedly bad rep but they had some nice little matches in the early goings, particularly between RVD and Angle. You had the awful Sandman, Kevin Thorn, and Kelly Kelly stuff from day one but yea.

I used to watch matches (or highlights?) online since i didn't have SciFi at the time. Of course, I finally got it right when it dipped to its worst with heel Heyman and such. Gross
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imo WWECW goes

RVD era good
Show and Lashley eras borderline unwatchable
Christian era good to great

I'm probably biased calling that great because I love Christian, but yeah anything was preferable to the Show and Lashley eras
 
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Brian_FETO

Banned
Sweeney Tom said:
imo WWECW goes

RVD era good
Show and Lashley eras borderline unwatchable
Christian era good to great

I'm probably biased calling that great because I love Christian, but yeah anything was preferable to the Show and Lashley eras
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I think I ducked out of wrasslin' before the Christian era, have no recollection of it

I was actually in one of those hot WWECW crowd shots, cut to us twice within the same stretch of 15 seconds. I recorded the Raw but didn't record the ECW one because it was a bad show. Of course. I think it was because my uncle is a local TV personality and got us tickets from it, though it might have just been because we were standing and clapping for Matt Hardy
 
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Shauni

Member
Didn't the RVD "era" of WWECW only last like a month lol. I mean, I guess it was pretty good, but it was so brief that it's hard for me to think a lot of it since there was still a lot of crap mixed in. But yeah, the Show and Lashley run was something else. I'll never forget how they had the same main event like four times (one as a preview of the Royal Rumble ECW main event, the Rumble itself, and then two back-to-back rematches) between Lashley and Test for the title
 
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Recall

Member
Just spent 3 hours watching old Japanese Death Match wrestling with my brother. It was an excellent use of 3 hours, so much discussion and discovery.

We are now reading up on FMW history. So good.
 
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Bronx-Man

Banned
Sibersk Esto said:
There was no good era of WWECW.

Literally shit from Day 1.
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Wrong.

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Hex

Banned
Zach said:
I wanted to get behind John Morrison. He's handsome, athletic, and had a good enough theme. But maaannn, I couldn't. So boring. Like, I seriously think I like Ziggler more (as a wrassleman) when I think back on what I've seen from both. Incredible.
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Zach's diary in a nutshell
And to think Zach would do this behind my back
 
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wild wild rice

Member
Recall said:
Just spent 3 hours watching old Japanese Death Match wrestling with my brother. It was an excellent use of 3 hours, so much discussion and discovery.

We are now reading up on FMW history. So good.
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Anything particularly good? It's been a while since I had a deathmatch fix.

Nick Mondo is doing an AMA tomorrow.
 
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Recall

Member
wild wild rice said:
Anything particularly good? It's been a while since I had a deathmatch fix.

Nick Mondo is doing an AMA tomorrow.
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Just watched the main matches from the FMW May 5th Shows and some random assortment from odd shows.

Balloon Death Match, Thumbtack Death Match, Landmine Cage Matches. Just mostly FMW and IWA Japan.
 
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excelsiorlef

Member
Btw an old Bauer and Pollock show from September confirms what I thought. FloSlam intentionally put the entire Evolve catalogue that they have the rights to up for free. Wasn’t a mistake, it’s a giant fuck you to Evolve because as long as FloSlam exists having that shit up for free will make Evolve’s back catalogue essentially worthless.

And it’s not just Evolve. All of Shine and FIP is up for free. Essentially anything from the WWN family is free. So WWN’s entire back catalogue is essentially free as long as Flo Slam exists.

This is so blatantly intentional because the only WWN show still behind the subscription paywall is the WWN vs Progress show and Flo Slam clearly doesn’t have beef with Progress so they didn’t make that free
 
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Sweeney Tom

Banned
Joe Lanza on the Voices of Wrestling podcast said he heard 205 Live talent are only getting a flat fee for being in 2K18, instead of getting the check with a cut of the sales

smh this company
 
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wild wild rice

Member
Recall said:
Just watched the main matches from the FMW May 5th Shows and some random assortment from odd shows.

Balloon Death Match, Thumbtack Death Match, Landmine Cage Matches. Just mostly FMW and IWA Japan.
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Cool, I'll just youtube some FMW stuff. I never really went down that rabbit hole.

Edit: Holy shit, the entirety of Onita's "Political Career" Wikipedia entry is great:

"Though he originally dropped out of high school, Onita returned to finish his education when he was in his late thirties. In 2001 he won the 19th House of Councilors election as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party, following Antonio Inoki and Hiroshi Hase to a seat in the Japanese Diet. One of his first major acts in office was to launch a post-9/11 humanitarian mission to Afghanistan, where he performed professional wrestling matches in crudely constructed rings made of sticks and rope, to benefit the children. This was all documented on film.

Like fellow professional wrestler, Scott Steiner, Onita has also claimed to have broken Wilt Chamberlain's record of sleeping with 20,000 women. Coincidentally, his exit from politics was forced by a sex scandal in which he was alleged to have used government accommodations to host a threesome with a pornographic film actress and a female employee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation.[13] After retirement from politics, he lent his name and image to a Nintendo DS game, Atsushi Onita's Political Quiz.[14]"

Every sentence begs so many questions.
 
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formated4tv

Member
Sweeney Tom said:
Joe Lanza on the Voices of Wrestling podcast said he heard 205 Live talent are only getting a flat fee for being in 2K18, instead of getting the check with a cut of the sales

smh this company
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I'm not arguing who deserves what for payouts for the game, but I would ASSUME none of them would get royalties past "You're in the game, here's (x) amount"

Did he say how much everyone else's cut was?

How much could you even cut them all in? 1%? There's too many wrestlers for that to make good business sense I would think.
 
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Sweeney Tom

Banned
wild wild rice said:
Cool, I'll just youtube some FMW stuff. I never really went down that rabbit hole.
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FMW's fun

Recall's got me interested in this balloon match now

somedevil said:
What does the NXT talent get then?
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Wasn't specified. Was discussing things Neville would be (justifiably) unhappy about and pointed out the Mania DVD wasn't the only thing he got stiffed on recently. Also house show payment is surprising
 
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Zach

Member
imBask, don't be a nerd and talk about nerds in here, okay? You're The Disciple of WrassleGAF. You're supposed to be cool.
 
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