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Shootmember 2 Wrasslin |OT| :Shoot from the Hip When in Heated Verbal Exchanges
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PartTimeWarrior
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Oof, Young Bucks showing their asses.
Fucking carnies. Jericho also "forgave" him on one of Jericho's podcast episodes.
GFWTNAIMPACT, stop trying to make Del Rio a thing. It's never gonna happen
British Monsoon
Member
Yuu is legit ace material. A few more years and her and Chihiro Hashimoto will bring the joshi renaissance. Recognize.
Manami Katsu, as well! Once Pure J's Korakuen show airs, there's gonna be a lot of new fans of her, I reckon.
HashtagLapsed
Member
Fuckwits.
Ooooh cool, I've heard she's stepped it up. I hadn't given it much thought since JWP was taken off life support but I'll keep an eye out.
Nah it's Michael Jordan
Does Steph have the worst fashion sense in the world? Probably
Does Steph have the worst fashion sense in the world? Probably
It's like she's wearing wrestling outfits all the time.
didn't Jericho defend Bill DeMott and JBL also?
formated4tv
Member
If Seth wore a dress to the ring, he'd wear what she has on, haha.
plagiarize
Banned
Does Steph have the worst fashion sense in the world? Probably
It's not even the worst outfit IN THIS PICTURE.
giancarlo123x
Banned
Listened to the twin peaks soundtrack on my way to work, very relaxing and soothing.
avengers23
Banned
Great, now Vince is blind again after that Shibata-like headbutt.
avengers23
Banned
It's not fair to take that shot at Brandon Stroud. He works on the Internet and doesn't know any better.
Wouldn't t be funny if they punished her by taking her out of Horsewomen vs. Horsewomen and replaced her with Alexa Bliss, who has made hay out of not being considered one of the Horsewomen?
slightconfuse
Banned
giancarlo123x
Banned
Fucking stupid is all I say in my head as I see this.
And it would feed into the supposed shoot heat between Sasha and Alexa
Book it brother
The crowd was so hot for this and it looked so promising. It was the beginning of Shibata's rise to the top. How cool would it have been to have Shibata come off as NJPW's truest defender to challenge Okada? I guess we got the NEVER run against the 3rd Generation dads instead but man the potential of this original feud was so much greater.
Now NOAH is seriously struggling and Shibata...well.
slightconfuse
Banned
Did drew really make an okada reference on 205 live
https://twitter.com/totaldivaseps/status/907801830578671617
https://twitter.com/totaldivaseps/status/907801830578671617
Scary how there are now more wrestlers doing headbutt spots after what happened to Shibata. You'd think people would be careful to do it but nope, it always gets a reaction so it's there for the guaranteed pop. I'm seeing it more and more on the indies and even joshi. Flash Morgan Webster does the Goto style headbutt to the chest regularly. Even one of the girls in DDT's joshi spin-off does headbutts as a big spot now and it's so out of place from the rest of the wrestling they do. What should have been a warning for the industry instead became a move that is now more over than ever before. So more people will start doing it.
I've seen Naoya Nomura, Jake Lee, Kento, Ben K and Jimmy Susumu all do Shibata style headbutt spots since the Okada match.
I'm not really aware of any of those guys, except for Susumu perhaps, using this move in the past. Most of them (except Susumu again) are young wrestlers who are trying to move up the ladder in their respective companies. It's definitely gaining momentum as a spot that can get you a big reaction and reputation, at least in Japan.
avengers23
Banned
Don't forget the Big Dog Shuji Ishikawa with the clunk clunk clunk triple headbutts.
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Deleted member 47027
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Yes, Shane in a HIAC match is a big draw Live, and for the entire network. Ratings have always mattered when it comes to negotiating deals for tv.
funkystudent
Member
You just know before that segment Vince was going "just headbutt me as hard as you can damn it!"
Bryan, I'm sorry pal. We just can't have you going out there and risking any head injuries.
...
well now we know Vince has no idea NJPW exists
yeah cos that headbutt erased that memory probably
FlammableD
Banned
I'm now going to 3 midweek wrestling shows the first week of October
Sort it out BritWres
PROGRESS are running an 8 Woman #1 Contenders tournament on Monday
Lucha Forever are running their big Marafuji show on Thursday
EVE are running Friday
Sort it out BritWres
PROGRESS are running an 8 Woman #1 Contenders tournament on Monday
Lucha Forever are running their big Marafuji show on Thursday
EVE are running Friday
So WWE/Stardom
We saw JR namedrop them.
https://twitter.com/rossystardom/status/907919309296459776
And Rossy mentioned the event, might have even been there (can't read moon language).
We saw JR namedrop them.
https://twitter.com/rossystardom/status/907919309296459776
And Rossy mentioned the event, might have even been there (can't read moon language).
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Yeah
FlammableD
Banned
CO-OPTED1!11!!!!ELEVN!
what if that woke him up and next week RAW IS WAR is back?
Nocturnowl
Member
Thoughts on SIN CITY SMACKDOWN
- I actually liked Jinder's promo this week, starting off NOT doing the same old shit with exaggerated reactions from the Singh bros leading into SWERVE, the same old shit but done in a way that actually worked. Meanwhile the fans chant USA and Jinder is proven absolutely correct.
As a bonus his voice didn't sound nearly as hoarse as usual.
- Tag Team match was fire, as expected, Kofi redeeming the Kendo stick after Bliss/Bayley ruined it. Not even mad at the hot potato, this is one of those feuds where I'm digging it because both teams come across as strong and competitive and heck it's only the SD tag titles anyway, prestige ain't even there anyway.
- Women's match however....yeesh, not a strong showing when you're surrounded by the MYC stuff. I appreciated the feel good Naomi reigns but she just ain't good enough to stack up as the women's roster of WWE continues to grow. Lol as Ellsworth on a leash.
- I expected the tag match between Gabenjamin and Hype Bros to tease the break between Gable and shelton coming off last week, instead we get the tease calling back to a few months prior for the Hype Bros.
You know both teams having this angle could at least lead to a nonsense opposite team up at some point.
- Fuck Ziggler, it's almost surely leading to Roode so can we have one of these long winded segments just end with Ziggles getting beaten down at least soon?
Also don't you disrespect Bayley!
- Vinny Mac can still go, it always impresses me how effortless his mic work is.
- Owens got the rub big time there, where are you Orioto?!
- SD still carries story progression across the show weekly better than Raw even with its decline as of this year.
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MYC finals musings
- For all the "Shayna better not win" fears, I think she looked real solid in that match. Kairi is good as well but perhaps isn't quite meeting my expectations, don't get me wrong she's a valid choice of tournament winner but this could've gone either way and not been a bad thing.
That said it's nice that it ain't being used as some kinda horsewoman match promotion gimmick.
- JR commentating live had me fearful, but he didn't blow it, hooray!
- Ultimately the tourney was merely good and not great but I'd love for it to make a return and it spotlighted some neat talent.
All in all a solid night of WWE branded wrassles, and look we got potential avatars for Sunny Mac!
- I actually liked Jinder's promo this week, starting off NOT doing the same old shit with exaggerated reactions from the Singh bros leading into SWERVE, the same old shit but done in a way that actually worked. Meanwhile the fans chant USA and Jinder is proven absolutely correct.
As a bonus his voice didn't sound nearly as hoarse as usual.
- Tag Team match was fire, as expected, Kofi redeeming the Kendo stick after Bliss/Bayley ruined it. Not even mad at the hot potato, this is one of those feuds where I'm digging it because both teams come across as strong and competitive and heck it's only the SD tag titles anyway, prestige ain't even there anyway.
- Women's match however....yeesh, not a strong showing when you're surrounded by the MYC stuff. I appreciated the feel good Naomi reigns but she just ain't good enough to stack up as the women's roster of WWE continues to grow. Lol as Ellsworth on a leash.
- I expected the tag match between Gabenjamin and Hype Bros to tease the break between Gable and shelton coming off last week, instead we get the tease calling back to a few months prior for the Hype Bros.
You know both teams having this angle could at least lead to a nonsense opposite team up at some point.
- Fuck Ziggler, it's almost surely leading to Roode so can we have one of these long winded segments just end with Ziggles getting beaten down at least soon?
Also don't you disrespect Bayley!
- Vinny Mac can still go, it always impresses me how effortless his mic work is.
- Owens got the rub big time there, where are you Orioto?!
- SD still carries story progression across the show weekly better than Raw even with its decline as of this year.
--
MYC finals musings
- For all the "Shayna better not win" fears, I think she looked real solid in that match. Kairi is good as well but perhaps isn't quite meeting my expectations, don't get me wrong she's a valid choice of tournament winner but this could've gone either way and not been a bad thing.
That said it's nice that it ain't being used as some kinda horsewoman match promotion gimmick.
- JR commentating live had me fearful, but he didn't blow it, hooray!
- Ultimately the tourney was merely good and not great but I'd love for it to make a return and it spotlighted some neat talent.
All in all a solid night of WWE branded wrassles, and look we got potential avatars for Sunny Mac!
"Why did this fan just attack me?"
Actually Vince has no idea who attacked him, he's blind
HashtagLapsed
Member
I didn't watch the MYC final because my stream was just showing a black screen with audio, but I am kinda worried Kairi might be going through KENTA issues where she doesn't want to work to stiff or be a maniac because she doesn't know how it will be accepted. The MYC stuff I did watch wasn't up to what she would show in Stardom but whether that is on her or her opponent, I really don't know. I don't blame her for being nervous being given WAY more mainstream (compared to Stardom) exposure too.
I am very happy she won though and the MYC wasn't used just to set up some bullshit WM story for Steph. Things can lead to that now and whatever.
I really wish Asuka was the Shao Kahn of the MYC though, leading to a title shot with her. Asuka vs Kairi being given the all clear to do whatever they want would have been fucking amazing.
I am very happy she won though and the MYC wasn't used just to set up some bullshit WM story for Steph. Things can lead to that now and whatever.
I really wish Asuka was the Shao Kahn of the MYC though, leading to a title shot with her. Asuka vs Kairi being given the all clear to do whatever they want would have been fucking amazing.
FlammableD
Banned
Oh Christ there's an XWA show on the Saturday too I'd normally go to, but not sure about a 4 show week...