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cleaning out old bookmarks and figured someone here would appreciate this
https://mymodernmet.com/uncovering-legends-of-congolese-wrestling/
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Jade Cargill is with Brandon Phillips (former all-star baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds). They have a kid together.
Try again Jim. You'd think being from Kentucky he'd know a little something about the Reds. He's a legend in those parts
She IS way too green to be in this spot and this whole Shaq thing is a disaster IMO, but yea....
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I don't have a problem with Cesaro staying in WWE. Why the hell would he want to leave? He's a legit vet there at this point and probably one of the most respected guys in the company.
I just wish WWE had been better during the prime decade of his career. He'll be a guy who's around doing stuff for a few more years, and maybe if WWE can get out of their own way when it comes to pushing new talent he can be a super valuable guy to help get people over
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On 1/21/2021 at 8:31 PM, RazorbladeKiss87 said:
You know what offends me most about the Alexa stuff? Beyond the fact that it's downright terrible is the fact that she is really leaning into the "cutsey, little girl" stuff. It's an angle that is casting her to appeal to guys into DDLG, a really horrible "kink" that's gaining popularity nowadays.
Afraid to google that. But if it's what I think it stands for, yes, it's hard not to get the vibe that this is designed to appeal to their super hardcore audience of creepy old men. Or their creepy old man boss
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https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/wwe-still-undecided-top-wrestlemania-37-matches-330986
QuoteInside WWE, the plan looks to be to put 30,000 people in the building both nights. If the Super Bowl puts in more, they’ll likely put in more. But that was the legit goal as of early in the week. What they’ll announce is anyone’s guess. The shows will likely be four-and-a-half hours with the first match going in the ring at 5:30 p.m. and the targeted ending at 10 p.m. The Tokyo Dome did two five hour shows. The second day was tough, as it was last year, and as it was to a degree with WrestleMania last year, but in the long run it was the best for all concerns. Right now it doesn’t look like that will be the plan going forward, but two shows at four-and-a-half hours leads to better matches and longer matches and higher quality shows than one at seven. Plus there is more money to be made. In the past you could argue it would break tradition or it just wouldn’t work, but New Japan has proven two years running that it does.
30k on both nights??!
Meanwhile the Super Bowl.....
QuoteIn relation to one of the articles in the new issue of the Observer, the NFL announced today that it will put 14,500 tickets on sale for the Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium, and will also give 7,500 tickets to vaccinated healthcare workers from hospitals in Central Florida and also the NFL teams will send vaccinated healthcare workers from their cities to the game.
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It'll be interesting. There still might not be much live entertainment and sports come March/April, I could see some people who aren't big fans going just because they're starved for something to do, and I'm sure they'll bring in some big names from the past and some celebs and musical guests. That might actually be a bigger draw for them this year than it would be in a normal one. But they won't get the typical foreigners traveling here, a lot of people are still struggling financially, and far less people will be willing to come from say New York or California if it means they have to quarantine for 10 days when they go home. Combine that with the product being as cold as it's been in years I'm not even sure they can draw much more than 10k or so.
As far as coivd goes, I think the travel is more of a concern than a well spaced out, far under capacity outdoor stadium with strict rules in place and hopefully we get a much better vax rollout when Biden takes over. You know a lot of people will be much more willing to go out and do things if they've got the jab, even if it's just the first one, it's human nature at this point. But then there's also the spread of more contagious variants to worry about, and if we're following the trend of still rising cases other countries have had things could look really bad in Florida in a few months.......
I feel like comparing it to WrestleKingdom is apples and oranges when you look at the size of Japan and population density of Tokyo, how they've handled Covid compared to the USA, and that unlike WWE NJPW was actually a fairly hot product before the pandemic
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I don't even remember Alexa's alleged "reign of terror" or what show she was on. I assume it didn't bother me that much or I would, because I wasn't totally checked out on the product in 2017 like I am now. I always thought Alexa was a pretty good heel and decent in the ring, definitely wasn't bad, but I also followed her since NXT and saw her steady improvement
She hasn't been as good since all the injuries (and concussions) started piling up, which I think is why they had her in a tag team with Cross for so long and now she almost never wrestles
I haven't watched much of the stuff with her, Orton and Fiend because based on everything I hear and read it's awful, and from the looks of it it wouldn't appeal to me, so I can't really comment on it other than the little I have seen kinda sucks. Which is weird because in an alternate universe you could have Wyatt as a Sullivan type, Bliss as Fallen Angel and he could reassemble a new Wyatt Family. Even a longterm story there with Orton. Cut out some of the more hokey stuff and I think it could all work, but WWE creative is just so bad right now. Unless it's Reigns or Bryan essentially booking themselves on SD they fuck up everything
Gillberg in 2021? Seriously? It's incredible how creatively bankrupt they are
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I haven't been watching but Pearce was obviously a bait and switch to try and generate some interest and get people talking. Seems like it worked kinda, because it seemed to get more interest as an angle than just booking a LMS with Owens would have
I figured they'd get out of it just having Owens run in on the contract signing and sign it himself. WWE has done that a couple times over the years and it's been deemed official. Complete bullshit of course. I'm not sure if "matches are subject to change" is any better. They've never really explained why Adam Pearce is in this authority role in the first place
It's definitely way better than rushing Goldberg into a babyface v. babyface match out of nowhere, then mistiming the big angle, only to have his opponent test positive the following week. So on the scale of current WWE I'd say this Reigns-Owens stuff is an A+
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And in my last string of half drunk/half high tribute to Johnny Sorrow posts on Night 1 of WK15?
Okada was the best wrestler on that show.
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and the match where I noticed the ref speaking english was with two japanese wrestlers, which is why it stuck out to me so much. I know that's a thing in Japan, but you don't usually hear the refs talking to the wrestlers like that. It's super noticable in the states, but bizarre when you have a Japanese ref speaking to two Japanese wrestlers, IN F'N ENGLISH lol
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the other thing with the dome is how much you could hear the guys grunting and selling and whatnot, and noticable how little communication there was due to people being able to hear it. I noticed at least one of the refs talking a bit in english under breath when it was quiet so maybe fans couldn't hear his instructions on shit
it was kind of a fun show to watch in that way, and I'm sure it was weird as fuck for the performers out there in that giant stadium
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Not a prolific NJPW watcher who watches full shows on the regular, but definitely a fan who watches stuff, so bear with me
parsed the show today, didn't watch it live, but avoided spoilers and treated it as if I was watching it live, but with breaks
weird show in the Dome with so few fans. hard to tell how many were in the building, you could see for sure on the pre-show how they had people on one side, and on the wide shots there were weird clusters and non-clusters. It is what it is.
What is the deal with Chase Owens? It's an honest question. I don't get what he brings to the table to be featured other than he's friends with everybody. Which is fine with me. I assume that about a lot of people in NJPW, but why give this guy a featured spot? Anyway, the rumble was what it was. I like all 3 of the Young Lions who were featured, lots of guys I liked in the match, and it ends up with 4 I don't much care about. Meh
I like Great-O-Khan. He's a work in progress for sure.
Liked El Phantasmo and Hiromu quite a bit. Dug Phantasmo disrespecting the jacket and cribbing stuff from Omega, Jericho and AJ. Talking trash to Liger who wasn't there. I dig his character and I liked the apt comparison on english commentary to him reminding them of Sean Waltman. In the moment I felt this was a solid opener, but in hindsight I think it was a really solid one.
GoD and Dangerous Trekkers was good for what it was but I didn't really get into it too much. I'm not all aboard the Taichi train yet, and I don't feel like this was the type of match that shows off the best of GoD. For the purposes of putting them over as a legendary dominant team it didn't do it for me. And ZSJ/Taichi, just because they beat Tanahashi and Ibushi a few times, didn't have the feel to me of a dominant team. So overall kinda whatever for me personally. If I was booking it would have been a total squash by GoD, Road Warriors style, where you wouldn't even feel like ZSJ and Taichi losing mattered because nobody on the planet could beat these monsters on this night. That didn't happen.
KENTA and Kojima was solid. I wanted Kojima to win for old times sake but this was what it should have been. KENTA has the most snakebit career. I like his OL FLA Club shirt. He really should be the one to win the US title after his horrible WWE run, but Kojima had a run in the USA way back too, so this was a fun match to have
I hope Jay White beats Ibushi. The proper booking with the story they seem to be telling is for Ibushi to win, but I have to honest I'm not that into Ibushi these days. I was a big fan of his like 15 years ago it feels like, back in the DDT days, and I'm not really on board with this story now of him "becoming GOD". I was hoping Naito would win on both nights.
Ibushi winning on both nights is good storytelling, and I guess after that it would be him against Okada? My issue is that I'm not interested in it. I'm not that interested in Ibushi anymore. Maybe the titles makes him more interesting? Him and Okada will always be great, him and Tanahashi have a great story to tell now.....he's the perfect champion for now I guess in the sense that he's going to deliver and there are great matchups all over the board for him
All that said, WAR KINGSWITCH
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Today is the 11th anniversary of TNA going head to head with RAW on Mondays
We're now a year and a half away from 20 years of TNA.....
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Would be nice if the Mitchell stuff could be split into it's own topic. I have nothing to add other than I've never liked that guy. He's had shitty takes for 30 years. I knew people would have questions about why/how he died, I have questions, but talk about f'n low rent and classless bullshit from a supposedly "respected" "journalist". I'm sure more information will come out in due time, but can we wait til his fucking body is cold? I guess 2020 wouldn't be complete without a good pro rasslin covid conspiracy theory
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Timeframe is probably 89-90, but I don't know who it is either
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Was absolutely stunned when I saw this on Saturday. Thought it had been odd how quiet things had been about him being off TV, but there were zero hints that it was anything this serious.
Such a shame. He sounded like a great guy from all accounts, family man, really smart and funny on any podcast I heard him on, including a recent Talk is Jericho where he sounded really happy and optimistic about his career going forward with AEW.
I'm glad he got a chance to show and prove in AEW after being sidelined so long with WWE. The Dark Order was really taking shape after being DOA and he was great in the role. He was really entertaining doing the BTE stuff with Dark Order. I'm going to miss him throwing rolled up papers at Jon Silver
RIP
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This showed up on my youtube and I decided to watch it. Pretty damn good. Are they pushing Big E as a future challenger to Reigns on tv or just on the web? If everything was well paced booking wise that's a F'n great Mania match in my opinion. It's hard to gauge how a someone's first big singles push is getting over without crowds. I'm having the same problem judging McIntyre. They're both over with me, but I'm not turning in to watch the shows because of them, and would they be over with the audience at large? I think under the right circumstances they would be, but I just see them surrounded by terrible creative and plummeting tv ratings. And sadly, like in every shitty era, some good performances and performers stumble onto bad timing
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8 hours ago, KawadaSmile said:
I guess the moment RAW Underground died, so did the hope of TV time for many.
Were they involved in that? I literally watched none of RAW Underground, not even in clip form.
Come to think of it, I can't think of much of anything on RAW I've actually watched during the pandemic
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I have genuine IRL sympathy for her, if that's worth anything
Changing topic....wtf is up with Jessamyn Duke and Marina Shafir? I play WWE Supercard and I just pulled a new S7 Duke card...which means she's still under contract (they remove anyone who's cut or leaves from the draft board) but they don't do jack shit with either of them. I've always assumed they signed for about 100k a year and WWE just lets it roll over and refuses to cut them because they hold on hope of working with Ronda again, and they basically just sit at home and collect checks. Am I wrong?
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1 hour ago, El-P said:
Look at the Lucha Underground people in AEW : Lucha Brothers, Brian Cage, Thunder Rosa, Luchasaurus, (hell, Jake Hager). And now look at two guys who were main eventers in LU from the very first show : Johnny Mundo & Ricochet... Some guys signed the wrong contracts (I know, there was no AEW when Ricochet signed).
The boss is 75 years old. The average viewer in 50. From that point of view, they push "young talent".
Meanwhile, 50 years old Jericho is hot with the younger demo. Hell, Orange Cassidy is 37 or something. So, age is relative in a sense. But yes, of course, WWE is the retirement home of pro-wrestling.
Yeah. It's been interesting looking back at 2013 and comparing where people were then to where they are now.
Orton, Rey, Miz, Ziggler, Sheamus, Kofi, Big E, Cesaro, Usos and a handful of others in essentially the same spots give or take. Reigns, Rollins and Wyatt were getting their first pushes. Bryan was getting his push to the top. McIntyre was a geek. Swagger was doing the WE THE PEOPLE stuff with Zeb
Alberto Del Rio was a top guy
Punk was feuding with Heyman, Brock, Curtis Axel and Ryback. I'd honestly forgotten about the Curtis Axel push, where he "beat" HHH due to HHH having a concussion or something in a pretty tasteless angle when at the same time Ziggler and Bryan were dealing with real concussion issues
Cody had a mustache, was a tag team with Sandow (Rhodes Scholars who I'd totally forgotten about). They break up and feud over Sandow's MITB case. Then Rhodes gets "fired" and it leads to the angle with Dusty and teaming with Goldust to beat The Shield for the titles. Which leads to Stardust....which leads eventually to AEW of all things amazingly
Moxley and Jericho were in upper card spots and are obviously now top guys in AEW who've both reinvented themselves
NXT was in it's very early stages....talking about Ashley Flair and Paige as potential future stars etc. etc.
The rest of the wrestling landscape has evolved significantly around WWE. While other than a vast improvement in women's wrestling (they were pushing everyone involved in the first season of Total Divas at the time, as well as Kaitlyn, AJ, Layla and a few others) WWE remains essentially unchanged except for people like Cena, Kane, Mark Henry and Big Show who were all heavily pushed at the time time no longer being there
And the wildest thing is Dave and Bryan talking about the audience being in it's 40's and slowly eroding. In seven years it's only gotten older and smaller with no end to the trend in sight.....
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Great story, thanks for sharing. And if theaters ever get back to normal take your dad to a real damn movie!!
My memory of watching NHB for the first time was on VHS in the A/V room of the high school my mom worked at, with my best friend at the time. I remember a couple of HS kids coming in and either kinda making fun of us for watching it or marking out and putting it over. Must have been a half day at elementary school and this was the best way to babysit us for the other half, we probably had some good snacks too
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Meanwhile when talking NJPW they're putting over the rise of people like Okada, Naito, Ishii etc at the time......all of whom remain relevant seven years later. And Devitt and Nakamura.....not so much
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I've been listening to some old 2013 WORs following the WWE plot because so much of the last decade blends together to me.
They were talking about people like Miz and Ziggler being stale and damaged goods.
In 2013
sigh
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He also had a small but memorable role in The Dark Knight. Dude had a hell of an acting career for someone who's breakout role was playing a fake pro-wrestler, then a real pro-wrestler, opposite Hulk Hogan. Far better Hollywood career than Hogan amazingly
RIP
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How about Mr. Gannosuke and Tarzan Goto v. The Headhunters in a Bath House Death Match!!