It was the best single show the WWE has produced in years if not decades.
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SHOOTEMBER Wrasslin 2016 |OT| - Can Punks Catch as Catch Can Too?
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It was the best single show the WWE has produced in years if not decades.
Those are some great, great seats. Looks like it was a pretty awesome show.
I was 4th row in the big section next to the entrance under the big screen. Well, 5th row if you count the row of superstars they brought out for the last two matches. They stuck around for everything btw. I was behind Gallagher and Bayley.
You know, as I'm watching this predictably gross Miss Hancock/Major Gunns bra and panties/mud wrestling match, I'm realizing the actual wrasslin' being done in the ring is no worse than what Eva Marie does. Amazing.
Oh, and great, finally a miscarriage angle in WCW.
Can you cut this gif in half and take out the miscarriage part? Thanks.
Wow, Meltzer was harsh on the Miz/Ziggler. The match was incredible. It should get bonus stars for not doing anything high risk. (Which backs up the Miz's point in his feud with Bryan)
I don't know how you resisted touching Gallagher.
Bluekaveli
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I'll have to check it out, thanks.
bless you bjork-man
What in the world is a Commodore 64?
Yeah that's a good little breakdown. In terms of in-ring King's Road was more "wrestling" trope filled, with long dramatic matches that go through defined stages, with huge, dramatic finishing sequences that heavily influence wrestling today. It wasn't uncommon for AJPW main events to go 40+ mins. Modern NJPW is arguably more King's Road than Strong Style imo, with a more athletic bent.
Strong Style was aimed about being slightly more "real" with proto-MMA influences, more grappling and shorter, sharper matches. Most NJPW main events in the true strong style era would go 15-20 minutes with "outta nowhere" finishes based off again, more realistic scenarios like instant tapping from a well applied submissions instead of the WILL HE TAP. struggle to the ropes. When Shibata came back he emphasised this by making people tap outta nowhere with his sleeper but now has adapted a traditional closing sequence of Sleeper > PK.
Tom Nook
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Awesome post.
So happy TJP won the tournament. Totally marked out when HHH revealed the belt.
The Strokes
Banned
His match as Colonel Sanders is the most invested I've been on an anything Ziggy related in years.
Not a joke
These are great, you must've had an amazing time
My only disappointment in the CWC, and this is minor, is that they didn't utilize the 60 minute time limit to it's fullest. The finale was only 17:47. With an announced 60 minute time limit, you expect them to push that.
It's only a minor gripe though, as the match itself was great.
It's only a minor gripe though, as the match itself was great.
The greatest of all 8-bit hardware.
Never had, but I gonna listen.
The whole place marked out when Triple H's music hit. I don't know if you could hear it on the broadcast, but the crowd was singing his song.
Atomic Odin
Member
Was watching a few matches of Mania 21. If you ever doubted the greatness of Kurt Angle..
Yeah you could hear it.
Surely this means he has to turn up on Raw next Monday to introduce this, you can't separate him from the Cruiserweights. And that means he's getting a face pop, contrary to the feud, or so we think. Maybe that's why Seth isn't being turned full face.
#CerebralAssassin
I didn't hear the singing, but yeah you could absolutely hear and see that they were losing their shit.
They've kept NXT Hunter and RAW Hunter completely separate. They're not going to change that now.
It doesn't matter. He's very publicly the face of NXT and now the Cruiserweights. People are naturally going to want to cheer him for that. He pretty much fused the timelines, if you will, by acknowledging the Roman beatdown on Takeover London.
NXT invasion angle when
This would fly in the face of a huge main title angle he was just directly involved with. It would be insanely dumb to do it right now. Maybe after Mania when there's a blow off to everything that's going on.
giancarlo123x
Banned
The belt looks so good on TJP, dude looks like a boxing champ.
Lol what do you mean it tells you nothing? Why would you exclaim "THE GAY COMMUNITY!?" unless you had an issue with it?
I thought the same thing.
Meh. The second clip isn't worse than some John Cena promos over the past few years, I don't see people calling him out. What happens in a wrestling ring and even on a mic is subject to other things like bookers who could encourage that kind of language.
Seriously, show me something in AJ's personal life outside of a wrestling ring where he's shown to be a homophobe, then I'll believe it.
You mean exactly how he presented himself in the Roman feud? I'm just wary of HHH wanting to portray himself in big feuds.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HUNTER"
"Getting over kid, you should try it some time"
The funny thing about this is, in this era of social media, you could take the "invasion angle" to the next level.
20 years ago, the invaders came in through the crowd in the background. Certainly no entrance music. Camera didn't focus on them until they jumped the barricade. It was groundbreaking, and it felt real.
Today, Nakamura and Joe could "invade" Raw, and the WWE could not acknowledge their presence AT ALL, and it would be all over social media, reddit, dirt sheets, youtube... think Punk showing up at Comic Con in 2011 when he "wasn't a part of the company"
but with today's WWE, Nakamura and his NXT friends would "invade" by coming down the entrance ramp, with music, titantron, WWE uploads the footage to their youtube... etc
The difference is the Roman storyline was fucking terrible so he went crazy DX face mode to get a pop.
This makes sense actually.
What does it feel like these games looks worse as it gets further into this generation?
Bluekaveli
Member
"They were singing my song, that means I'm over, they want me to be champion again!"
I think the problem is that Yukes is a trash tier developer.
IT'S MY TIME
Bluekaveli
Member
Wwe needs to do a hoss tournament now. Vader would be the equivalent to Tajiri or TBK!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I think it worked well in making the matches look more like sport and less like an obvious work.
The dream game I have is the WWE All Stars engine applied to the indie scene: ROH, PWG, Chikara, etc. Rather have a spotfest video game at this point than a realistic one.
Yeah his antics made that feud bearable.
So you update it for 2016. Have Hunter use his sway to bring up his crew, sign them to Raw contracts. Tell Steph and Mick that they ain't getting it done, that his guys are gonna run the show now. Maybe even call out the Shield being a failure, which is why he broke it up. So Steph and Mick go and round up some top guys on their end and boom, we have ourselves a little storyline.
The future is now, the future is RAW.
and the finale ends with "HOGAN!!! HOGAN!!!!"
I could easily see a different kind of tournament each year. Do a heavyweight tournament, a tag team tournament, a women's tournament and then a cruiserweight tournament.
FlammableD
Banned
If you think calling people faggots is ok in 2015, let alone now, I don't know what to tell you that will make you think otherwise.
Thank you. Seriously people.
Won't work in 2016. With everyone hanging out and being bros on instagram and Charlotte crying for Becky and all this social media killing kayfabe, they need to change the story system.
"Your tumblr is ass, how dare you post a gif of [thing]" then they fight.
hashtag on a pole match
etc
I'm not saying it's okay, but it's in a wrestling ring. We all know the wrestler doesn't have final say on what happens or is said in the ring. To further prove my point, why is there focus on this one clip? If it was a thing with AJ, there would be more wouldn't there?
I need more evidence of consistent behavior, or more evidence from outside of a wrestling ring than him. Him questioning a caller's question means nothing.
Poor Kalisto, he's on the wrong damn show I really hope they start doing something with him on Smackdown.
https://twitter.com/KalistoWWE/status/776255103502352384
I really hope they start doing something with him on Smackdown. https://twitter.com/KalistoWWE/status/776255103502352384
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