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SHOOTEMBER Wrasslin 2016 |OT| - Can Punks Catch as Catch Can Too?
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Professor Beef
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Explain.
slightconfuse
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Any brits know what happened to Jimmy Havoc?
Professor Beef
Banned
It isn't, which is why I'm asking you to explain further.
Bluekaveli
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notworksafe
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It'd be perfect. "We're Not Work Safe and we don't f*cking work safe!" *punch someone and immediately give them color"
Blew out his knee in Straya. He'll be back.
Tenryu was pretty dickish in some of his matches. Like in this match against Tenzan in a tournament final from 2004. Tenzan has a big cut on his head from an earlier match and he has a band-aid on it. So the first thing Tenryu does is rips off the band-aid and proceeds to fuck up Tenzan by punching, kicking and biting the wound.
sf2fanatic
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Speaking of changing color, Rhyno got cut up pretty easy yesterday. Didn't looked he really took a big pop to get cut by the eye
Cindi Mayweather
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I'm getting back into wrestling soon.
I haven't watched all year. The last event I watched was the Raw when Daniel Bryan retired. I haven't had it in me to watch since then. When I got back into wrestling, CM Punk and Daniel Bryan were my favorites. They are what brought me back after a 12 year hiatus (this was in 2011-2012). To see Daniel Bryan retire like that broke me. I couldn't watch wrestling because it could possibly mean I'd have to watch more early retirements. I saw a gif the other week with the Uso's on a ladder match and taking this massive bump. I just sighed.
Other than that Raw, the only event I've seen this year was Wrestle Kingdom.
Feds I tend to watch:
NJPW (main)
NXT (main)
Lucha (watch on the side in bulk)
ROH (watch now and then but don't follow religiously)
WWE (read about, watch highlights)
My favorite wrestler is Sasha Banks. I have to say that the progress of the women's division storyline also kind of broke me because my favorite wrestler was now relegated to a shitty division and I couldn't take it.
With Kevin Owens winning the belt, I have interest again but I have to catch up. Any good highlights? NXT I feel like I have to watch almost a years worth of NXT to catch up. I missed Nakamura's debut. He's pretty rad in NJPW so I don't know how he'll transition in NXT but I'm hopeful.
I haven't watched all year. The last event I watched was the Raw when Daniel Bryan retired. I haven't had it in me to watch since then. When I got back into wrestling, CM Punk and Daniel Bryan were my favorites. They are what brought me back after a 12 year hiatus (this was in 2011-2012). To see Daniel Bryan retire like that broke me. I couldn't watch wrestling because it could possibly mean I'd have to watch more early retirements. I saw a gif the other week with the Uso's on a ladder match and taking this massive bump. I just sighed.
Other than that Raw, the only event I've seen this year was Wrestle Kingdom.
Feds I tend to watch:
NJPW (main)
NXT (main)
Lucha (watch on the side in bulk)
ROH (watch now and then but don't follow religiously)
WWE (read about, watch highlights)
My favorite wrestler is Sasha Banks. I have to say that the progress of the women's division storyline also kind of broke me because my favorite wrestler was now relegated to a shitty division and I couldn't take it.
With Kevin Owens winning the belt, I have interest again but I have to catch up. Any good highlights? NXT I feel like I have to watch almost a years worth of NXT to catch up. I missed Nakamura's debut. He's pretty rad in NJPW so I don't know how he'll transition in NXT but I'm hopeful.
Heath looked kind of beat up too.
sf2fanatic
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Professor Beef
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This is probably the best time to catch up since they just debuted a new title with the brand split and everything.
Cindi Mayweather
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Is the draft worth watching? Can you link to the draft? I've never experienced the brand split ever. WWE honestly is at the bottom of feds for me. I follow it but don't really watch. Three hours for Raw, and two hours for Smackdown is too fucking long. Fuck that. One hour shows please.
sf2fanatic
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One of the headbangers did like a flying punch to Rhyno near the end, Rhyno fell but didn't looked that bad but then he's checking the side of his face
The draft itself was actually pretty underwhelming but the first Raw AFTER the draft is essential viewing.
Smackdown is actually a pretty easy 2 hour watch nowadays with some great character work being put on by AJ, Heath Slater, Becky, Ambrose, Ziggler and most recently The Miz. Definitely a different kind of watch than a regular workrate NJPW show or something, a great palette cleanser.
Raw is still eminently skippable.
Cindi Mayweather
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How is my girl Sasha these days?
Sibersk Esto
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Injured
Doing what she does best. Be injured.
Maybe you didn't pick the best time to catch up after all.
Injured and probably in a lot of trouble as well.
did i miss something?
FlammableD
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Poor Noam :'( My boy's not had a good run
He fucked his knee in Australia. Return date unknown, but probably a few months yet.
Also, everyone's favourite CWC Brit, Jack Gallagher, beating Shinsuke to the strings entrance by 4 years.
slightconfuse
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Akira Taue is underated imo
He was the weakness of the 4 pillar but still was a phenomenal wreslter.
British Monsoon
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On his best day, Taue can almost convince me he's the best of the four pillars, but as much as I love the guy his best day didn't come very often - I find he had two truly *great* periods of his career, from about 1993-1998 and from 2001-2006, but his resume is definitely lacking compared to Kawada, Kobashi & Misawa's.
Sweeney Tom
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Dave said a couple months ago Vince was beginning to compare her to Bryan
If you didn't believe it then, you have to now. This is becoming legit concerning
Sibersk Esto
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If it makes you feel better she won the women's title
Cindi Mayweather
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Tell more about this 2001 - 2006 run?
She fucked up her back pretty bad IIRC
He's not wrong.
She's out there like she's got something to prove.
But all that will happen is a short career.
Sweeney Tom
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Months ago backstage Vince was beginning to compare Sasha to Bryan in terms of injuries. In that she always got them, never changed anything, and continued to get them
Then she came back, won the belt, lost it in her first defense due to injury due to not changing anything ever, and continued to be on the shelf.
So. Yeah. This is Bryan all over again, and I can only hope the fans don't defend and enable the wrestler this time.
Cindi Mayweather
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BewareTheBatsie
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. This was months before the injury causing her to take time off and give the title up.
slightconfuse
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Seth " Ganso Bomb" Rollins
Love how Styles and Ambrose's characters have changed these past few months. Styles went from from a whiny heel who needed help to beat Cena to a dominant confident douchebag who's as big of an ass as an 80s movie villain. Ambrose went from "Mr Wacky Guyz" pre-champion to a laidback more controlled champion post-win. They work well off each other. Not many on the roster could have pulled off that "AJ hurts his balls on the rope and Ambrose feels bad for him" spot last night the way those two did. AJ sold that damn well. Even on Talking Smack.
Character development.
Shit, even Carmella is much better. Didn't notice last night but last week when she just turned heel? All I remember is her constantly pulling her pants down to show that "fabulous" sign on them. She stopped after every move to do that.
Character development.
Shit, even Carmella is much better. Didn't notice last night but last week when she just turned heel? All I remember is her constantly pulling her pants down to show that "fabulous" sign on them. She stopped after every move to do that.
M-m-maybe it's best to not get back into wrestling. My heart can't take it.
Hopefully she'll be fine.
I'm really hoping that during her break her friends and family try to talk to sense into her.
Becky Lynch is a great wrestler and she doesn't have to go all out every time to do so.
I would just ask her, "Do you really want to be like Daniel Bryan?" Because you can tell the man hurts inside every time he's out there while someone else is wrestling.
Cindi Mayweather
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Dark Ninja
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Sasha will have more botchamania appearances than Sabu once she is done or hurts herself out of the business
From my very limited viewing Taue played his role of just being the most out and out heelish of the group. Misawa was stoic, Kobashi was full of fire, Kawada was a hardass and most similar to Taue but Taue was the easiest to root against if that makes any sense.
Then again that aforementioned limited viewing might be skewing my perspective a bit.
There's a spare spot in the Becky fanclub! She's gonna win the Smackdown women's title for sure! Heh....for sure....right?
Cindi Mayweather
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Becky is cool but doesn't touch my heart like Sasha Banks.
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