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Kenta Kobashi & Go Shiozaki vs. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima (11/5/05) Wow, just, wow. This match was beautiful. Great stories throughout the match, great execution, great build, great selling (for the most part). This was dangerously close to being the full monty for me, which is saying something. If not for a couple of selling silliness (surprise, surprise), it would have been. Matches like this have an advantage, because they have history, and obvious story-arcs to use (since it was student & mentor vs. student & mentor), but it still has to be played out in the ring, and these guys did a masterful job of it. This is my MOTY for 2005, and best match I've seen since October 1997.
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Wrestling thoughts that probably don't deserve
World's Worst Man replied to Coffey's topic in NMB Wrestling Archive
I guess it's to be expected. That place is the primary posting ground for the "smark"community, and when you have a large group of people, you'll usually find a large percentage of douchebag idiots. The lack of knowledge is one thing, but there's a lot of pretentious dickheads over there too, which really kills the fun of the forum more than the "casual" types ever could. I'm actually finding the place more tolerable after I started being a bit more liberal with my ignore list. -
WWE Already Upset with Styles
World's Worst Man replied to Strummer's topic in NMB Wrestling Archive
Joey Styles accidentally mentioned an exploder on RAW when Shelton did his "t-bone suplex". Styles is obviously a mark since he knows the name of the move, and should be fired immediately. -
Wrestling thoughts that probably don't deserve
World's Worst Man replied to Coffey's topic in NMB Wrestling Archive
I definitely get the vibe that a lot of DVDVR Forum members are like that. Although that might just be because a lot of people over there are pretty dense when it comes to wrestling in general. Whether they're just plain stupid, or johnny-come-lately's, I do not know. Besides, not knowing about pre-1997 wrestling isn't a flaw in itself, it's just that a lot of people like to run their mouths without proper knowledge. Just look at the TSM boards and how many people like to go on about matches of the year and wrestlers of year, despite not watching anything outside of the WWE. Whereas someone who's a johnny-come-lately but also humble, really doesn't stand out. -
They'll show nothing but Tanahashi doing dragon rockets, and maybe a sling blade here and there
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I don't know about AJ vs. Tanahashi. Tanahashi is great in the babyface-underdog role, which is probably the opposite of what he's going to be in that match. I guess we'll find out just how good he really is if he can play another role as well as he plays his normal role.
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Akira Maeda/Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Osamu Kido/Nobuhiko Takada/Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Antonio Inoki/Tatsumi Fujinami/Kengo Kimura/Umanosuke Ueda/Kantaro Hoshino (3/26/85) Holy cow~! This elimination match was incredible. Pretty much everyone was fired up for this, and the first 5-10 minutes was just a whirlwind of incredibly heated and fast-paced mat/submission work. Crowd heat is absolutely off the charts, as every move and every time someone tags in, the crowd goes apeshit. It eventually slows down (it had to) and we get a couple of early and nifty eliminations. First to fall was Yamazaki with a backslide, and it really got the crowd going nuts for a later backslide attempt by Hoshino on Fujiwara. Some of the eliminations were brilliant. When it was 4 on 3 for the UWF side, Fujiwara sacrificed himself and got a double over-the-top elimination with Fujinami, leaving Inoki and Ueda (who had done almost literally nothing, and looked apprehensive) against Maeda/Takada/Kido. But god damn, here comes Ueda for the first time he's been in longer than 3 seconds, against Maeda, and what does he do? Grabs Maeda, falls through the ropes and pulls Maeda with him, leaving Inoki against Kido and Takada. Even though it left Inoki in a 2v1 predicament, it was a great tradeoff of UWF's ace for NJ's weak link, who wasn't able to hang at all in the match. Inoki makes a big comeback against the relatively inexperienced Takada, and finishes him with a sleeper, then takes victory from the jaws of defeat by hitting a big enzuigiri on Kido for the win, after nearly losing himself. Just for comparison's sake, this match absolutely buries the Canadian Stampede 10 man. We're talking an absolute massacre here, and I'm not even someone who takes crowd heat into account when rating a match. If someone did take crowd heat into account.. good lord. Fantastic match.
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It failed the second time (well, third time I guess) because PRIDE was huge at that point, whereas before PRIDE wasn't around. That means people were expecting real MMA, and when they got it, the results were disappointing because guys like Yuji Nagata aren't shoot fighters. It's one thing to try and make the guys seem like "real fighters" when real fighting isn't well exposed, but when most of the audience knows the difference, it's a stupid idea to try and compare the pro-wrestlers to the shooters.
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$6 a disc from el Lynch. Sidebar - anyone interested in buying a shit ton of joshi with me?
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Haha, that's pretty good. I actually like putting together lists of things I'd like to purchase. However, I don't like knowing that to get all of the joshi I want from a good dealer, it'll run me $600.
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MMA in the WWE is such an amusing thought, it really makes giggle. The only thing that could top it would be NOAH style spectacle main events in the WWE.
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I like when Shinya Hashimoto is holding a guy up in a suplex position, while 50,000 people are on their feet and screaming, then dropping the guy on his head and pinning him. I like when the crowd chants a guy's name in perfect harmony with his theme music. I like the unbelievably loud roar Chono got when he beat Nakamura in this year's G1 semis.
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Shinya Hashimoto vs. Nobuhiko Takada (4/29/96) I think this was the best 12 minute match I've seen. Almost a true-blue UWFi match, showing how great Hashimoto was that he could actually work the style. Hashimoto's brainbuster was built to beautifully, and it was even executed in a more "realistic" fashion, as Takada looked like he was just deadweight as Hashimoto lifted him up. This must have been the match that really vaulted Hashimoto to the top of the heap in New Japan. As I've been watching early 90's NJPW, it seemed to me that Muto actually had more success and was more over than Hashimoto. After this match and in the subsequent years, it seemed that Hashimoto was then the #1 guy.
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Junji Hirata
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Danshoku Dino
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It was a long, epic, slowbuild match. It was just a typical wrestling story, where one team gets a long control segment, and the other has to come back, and then they switch roles. If it was spotty, almost every New Japan juniors match ever was spotty. Then again, I've only seen it once, so maybe I'm not remembering it clearly. Maybe I'll finally re-watch it soon.
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Mr. Gannosuke
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WINGER
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Wrestling thoughts that probably don't deserve
World's Worst Man replied to Coffey's topic in NMB Wrestling Archive
I always thought the modern definition of "mark" was people who were just stuck in kayfabe, and weren't able to discuss the "technical" aspects of a wrestler, match or angle. And the "smarts" understood all that stuff and talked about it with the knowledge that wrestling wasn't "real". And then "smarks" were marks who thought they were smarts but really didn't know anything I personally like to use "casual" for people who are basically marks, "workrate fan" for people who care about match quality, and "hardcore" for people who aren't workrate fans, but enjoy wrestling at a deeper level than the "casuals". Then of course, "fanboy" for the people who are biased towards certain promotions -
Doug Williams
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George Takano
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Shiima Nobunaga
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Takako Inoue
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Toshiyo Yamada
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