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  1. NintendoLogic
    @Matt D Here's something I think would be more attuned to your tastes than most modern New Japan.
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    Dave really is sui generis. I can't think of any other field where someone is simultaneously the preeminent journalist, historian, and critic.
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    Oh no no no.
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    I found out that I can use my library card to access the OED online, so I was able to dig a little deeper. The term "shift the goalposts" does appear to be British in origin (it first appears in print in a Scottish newspaper in 1924). Saying "move" as opposed to "shift" is most likely an Americanism. According to this site, it didn't enter wide usage in the UK until the 1980s, by which point it had appeared in print in the US for several decades.
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    He's not wrong. The term is American in origin, so it almost certainly comes from handegg and not divegrass.
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    KENTA beat Ibushi, so they can't use head-to-head as a tiebreaker if there's a three-way tie between Okada/KENTA/Ibushi since they'd all be 1-1 against each other. I'm pretty sure the tiebreaker would go to KENTA in the event of a four-way tie with them and EVIL. He and EVIL would both be 2-1 against the other two while Okada and Ibushi would be 1-2, and KENTA has the head-to-head advantage over EVIL. Same deal if Tanahashi wins out and creates a five-way tie. KENTA would be 3-1 against the others, Okada/Ibushi/EVIL would be 2-2, and Tanahashi would be 1-3.
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    He didn't say it's not a real term. He said that the idiom derives from (American) football and not soccer.
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    Race himself regretted inventing the diving headbutt and asked other wrestlers to stop using it. Too much wrestling on TV killing interest in the product also looks to be the right call in hindsight.
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    My wheelhouse is matches I can either praise to the heavens or rip to shreds, so I tend to come down with writer's block when a match doesn't strongly move me either positively or negatively. But I'll try to be more proactive now that Matt's started to crack the whip. Jetlag's selection was a match between Epydemius and Charles Lucero in what was apparently in commemoration of the former's fifteenth year in the business. It should be noted off the bat that the match was pretty heavily clipped, which made it hard to get a feel for how well it ebbed and flowed. The first fall is contested mainly on the mat. Llave-style matwork is mostly whatever for me, but I did like Lucero throwing a knee to aid with a reversal. Lucero wins the fall with an STF, which surprised me somewhat as that isn't a traditional lucha submission. The second fall is rather brief and ends when Lucero is disqualified after hitting a martinete, which Epy sells like his neck has been broken. Several ringside attendants try to carry him to the back in a quasi-stretcher job. But since there's no actual stretcher, it looks like that time in CZW when Low Ki got dragged to the back by security after throwing a tantrum in the ring. In any event, Epy rushes back to the ring and demands that the match continue. Unfortunately, the third fall is really hurt by all the clipping, which makes it come across as a series of mostly unconnected spots and sequences. Epy gets the win with the nudo lagunero. This match would've grabbed me more if Lucero had taken some nutty bumps like in the Hechicero match, but I can't blame the guy for not wanting to kill himself for what was almost certainly a dismal payoff in a garage with a leaky roof.
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    I wouldn't put it past them to bring Enzo in for Janela to get his heat back after what went down at the blink-182 concert.
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    What the hell is this crap?
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    Leading them to what?
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    I basically agree with all the criticisms of Dolph and Seth's work, but you can't ignore the elephant in the room. Cody Rhodes and Jon Moxley have both shown that it's impossible to fairly judge someone based on their work in WWE.
  14. NintendoLogic
    Why do you write Impact in all caps except for the I?
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    The best joke I've heard about tonight's episode is that the Samoan Summit should be an intervention for Jimmy Uso.
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    I hoped and expected KENTA would be a quasi-Shibata, and that's exactly what he's been.
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    In case you missed it:
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    What was Roman's last great straight wrestling match without a bunch of bells and whistles? Honestly, he and Rollins can both fuck off to Hollywood for all I care. They're damaged beyond repair in WWE.
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    I suspect that Naito is really starting to break down physically. The match with Moxley reminded me of a Minoru Suzuki match in the liberal use of shortcuts to fill time.
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    It's pretty clear at this point that having Lance Archer and Bad Luck Fale in the same block was a mistake. I mean, there's no way to make Fale look good, but he looks like an even bigger piece of shit when Archer is on the same card in the same role but light-years better in every way. Then again, I don't think anybody expected Archer to step up the way he did, so I guess hindsight is 20/20. KENTA/Okada was basically KENTA plugged into the Okada big match formula. It started out slow but picked up about ten minutes in and got really good by the end. I think the two have a better match in them.
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    I was actually forbidden from watching wrestling as a kid, so my only real exposure to wrestling on TV prior to Raw and Nitro was occasional glimpses of All American Wrestling on USA after Cartoon Express.
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    AJ Styles is a flat-earther too. Well, he doesn't believe in a flat earth per se, he just thinks there are some things about the "official" story that don't add up. He's just asking questions.
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    NXT talk

    NintendoLogic replied to Woof's topic in WWE

    You all need to watch WALTER vs. Trent Seven. I had kind of given up on WALTER in NXT after his matches with Pete Dunne, which were far too evenly worked. But he was allowed to be the dominant force he was meant to be against Seven. Great hard-hitting meat-and-potatoes wrestling.
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    I thought Moxley/Shingo was Mox's best match in New Japan so far. You can't go wrong with brawling combined with submission wrestling, and Mox's leg work was pretty fantastic. I especially appreciated how it led to the finish and wasn't just filler like in the Juice match. My favorite spot was Shingo barely beating the count only to immediately eat a knee trembler. I would've liked it more if that had led directly to the finish, but I guess they can't help themselves with the do-si-do finishing runs. Regardless, Mox is well on his way to becoming someone I can unreservedly get behind. He just needs to tone down the 90s edgelord aspects of his character and remove the world's slowest tope from his repertoire.
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    When some WCW wrestlers appeared on Politically Incorrect, Bill Maher was completely incredulous that chair shots actually hurt. Just as there's a surprising number of people who think wrestling is at least somewhat real (or at least used to be), there's a significant number of people who think that wrestling being fake means that everything about it must be fake. After all, what kind of complete idiot would allow someone to hit them for real in a fake fight?
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