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  1. NintendoLogic
    I think that to be a big match worker, you need to be able to craft a satisfying narrative arc, which requires a strong grasp of things like psychology and structure. Regal never really demonstrated that-at least, not until recently.
  2. NintendoLogic
    The problem with ECW isn't that it was bad wrestling (though it certainly was that). It's that it made wrestling as a whole significantly worse. The damage ECW did to American wrestling can hardly be overstated. The supplanting of traditional brawls by stunt wrestling and the rise of annoying fans who do everything they can to put the focus on themselves are arguably the two most appalling trends of the past two decades, and they can both be traced back to ECW. And it's not like it produced tons of greatness to counterbalance this legacy. In fact, I can't think of a single positive trend that it bequeathed. ECW's rightful place is on the scrap heap of 90s trash culture alongside the likes of Jerry Springer and Marilyn Manson.
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    Why should an announcer put over everyone and everything as great? After all, not everyone and everything is great. Even the thickest fan realizes this, so when announcers try to pull the wool over the fans' eyes so blatantly, it hurts their credibility. Jim Ross had enough respect for the intelligence of his audience to use code words like bowling shoe to signify he realized that something was completely unsalvageable. I've argued before that when someone like Gorilla tells you that Hulk Hogan is the world's greatest professional athlete, it carries more weight than when it comes from someone who thinks everything is amazing. And I would submit that getting Hogan over is more important than getting Van Hammer over.
  4. NintendoLogic
    Don't forget LA Park vs. Mesias from 12/5/10. Possibly the best AAA match ever, for whatever that's worth.
  5. NintendoLogic
    Some guys just can't handle PWO.
  6. NintendoLogic
    My favorite incident involving the over the top rope DQ rule is from Flair/Windham at Battle of the Belts. Flair tosses Windham over the top rope while the referee is distracted, and Mike Graham explains that the rule is necessary because that sort of thing leads to serious career-threatening injuries. While he's doing this, Windham pops up without a scratch on him and goes up to the top turnbuckle to do a missile dropkick.
  7. NintendoLogic
    Pleasure-Promos where the heel insults the local sports team. Always puts a smile on my face. Displeasure-Shoot style. All of it. I just don't see the appeal of a fake fight where guys do nothing but kick each other and roll around on the mat when the real thing is readily available. Then again, I have no interest in the real thing either.
  8. NintendoLogic
    The only 90s All Japan match I know of that bears even a remote similarity to MMA is Kawada/Albright.
  9. NintendoLogic
    The risky highspots never really went away. In fact, it seems to me that they've increased to compensate for getting rid of blood and chairshots to the head.
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    Current WWE

    NintendoLogic replied to Smack2k's topic in WWE

    I realize that I'm a distinct minority, but I really wish we could go back to brawls centered around dudes punching each other in the mouth rather than dudes doing stunt spots involving tables and chairs.
  11. NintendoLogic
    Regarding creative control, it was defined as no booking decision over the last 30 days of the contract could be made without the agreement of both parties. People have been trying to hang onto the word reasonable as a defense, and forgetting there was a definition given of the word. -Dave Meltzer
  12. NintendoLogic
    I'm rather amused by the folks who think "A contract is a contract is a contract" is an argument in Vince's favor. Also, Vince always had the option of not putting the belt on a guy whose contract he was about to breach.
  13. NintendoLogic
    Related question: have the heels ever dominated a WWE PPV so thoroughly before?
  14. NintendoLogic
    I think HHH sold Brie's offense more than Stephanie did.
  15. NintendoLogic
    Cool ending aside, that match was pretty pedestrian. I'm still not sold on Bray as a worker.
  16. NintendoLogic
    Between the crowd brawling, outside interference, and finisher theft, that felt like an Attitude Era main event. I liked it a lot, though.
  17. NintendoLogic
    That match was really good, but the postmatch was five stars.
  18. NintendoLogic
    I'm watching on Roku. It glitched a bit during Cesaro's entrance but has been fine otherwise. The match was forgettable overall, but I really liked the sequence where they fought with RVD on the top rope.
  19. NintendoLogic
    Here's the real deal on Brock/Cena courtesy of some jabroni on Scott Keith's website: According to David Bixenspan of the Figure Four Weekly Newsletter, he reported that even if Lesnar doesn't hold the title until WrestleMania, that does not mean he will not be going into WrestleMania as the champion and to not expect several months of the WWE Champion not being at house shows.
  20. NintendoLogic
    I suppose I'd agree that Gorilla sucked relative to some Platonic ideal of what an announcer should sound like. But when you compare him to other actually existing announcers, he looks a lot better. If presented with the choice between Gorilla and Vince, who was basically his polar opposite, I'll take Gorilla any day of the week
  21. NintendoLogic
    There was a period in 2011 when Miz was WWE champion and Mr. Anderson was TNA champion. It doesn't get much worse than that.
  22. NintendoLogic
    A while back, I watched all the Goldberg matches that are generally considered his best (vs. DDP at Havoc, vs. Rock at Backlash, vs. Jericho at Bad Blood), and they all tell the same basic story: Goldberg dominates in the opening minutes, misses a spear and rams his shoulder into the post, gets his arm worked over, hits a spear but can't capitalize because of his injury, ends up winning with the Jackhammer. The Steiner match is an exception.
  23. NintendoLogic
    The contract for "creative control" was written and agreed to in the spirit that Bret would have direction with his character. I don't believe this should have given him the right to decide if and when he could lose the title. What, if he didn't want to lose it, could have left the Federation and gone to WCW without dropping the title? No fucking way. The "creative control" contract was written so Vince didn't dress him up like a fucking clown and make him come out on Raw and wrestle in a slop pit with Henry Godwin. If Vince asked him to drop the company championship at Survivor Series, he should have. He could have had control of how it happened (pinfall after interference, clean, etc), but the belt has to change when the boss says. Bret owns his character with that contract, but not the belt. Reasonable creative control meant that both sides had to agree, as opposed to absolute creative control like Hogan had in WCW where he could simply dictate what was going to happen. And there was zero chance of Bret showing up on Nitro with the belt because the WWF had a lawsuit pending against WCW over the Madusa incident.
  24. NintendoLogic
    For what it's worth, I was more inclined to take the pro-Vince side of the argument until this board convinced me otherwise.
  25. NintendoLogic
    There is no argument. Bret was 100% in the right and Vince and Shawn were 100% in the wrong.
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