El McKell
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Do you think if CM Punk and Daniel Bryan weren't at least moderate successes WWE would've hired Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Chris Hero, Austin Aries, Jon Moxley, Tyler Black, Ricochet, PAC, Prince Devitt, Kevin Steen or El Generico? Probably not. We can say Bryan and Punk were successful because of their talent allowing the cream to rise to the top, but if they just happened to be not as good why should that reflect on all these other wrestlers' ability?
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I really thought Hogan's last match was the embarrassing TNA PPV blood bath with Sting where Hogan wore kneepads over jeans. So thanks for letting know it was a house show 6 man tag.
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Hate to see death even of someone who was a shithead both personally and professionally. Great at certain aspects of pro-wrestling, awful at certain aspects of pro-wrestling. One of the most historically important wresters of all time.
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He wants to and when he's wrestling outside of Mexico he can do it no problem, he apparently had to get special permission from the commission to wear it for the Danielson/BCC matches.
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[1989-11-18-EMLL] Brazo de Oro vs Pirata Morgan
El McKell replied to Jetlag's topic in November 1989
I absolutely loved the first and second fall of this, some of the best lucha matwork type stuff I can remember seeing. The third you would think should have what it needs in place to make this a classic match with Brazo fighting through the leg injury but ultimately coming short, but the 3rd fall felt very plodding to me and I don't think Oro being a dumbass who goes for a backbreaker using his injured knee costing him the match is a good finish at all. ***3/4 -
A very interesting 1 & 2 to have, never considered for a second anyone would have Ozaki as a number 1 candidate. But I personally think she is better than LA Park and she will make my top 100.
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Thoughts on wrestlers with great runs but bad parts
El McKell replied to HeadCheese's topic in Greatest Wrestler Ever
I think we can infer from from HeadCheese's post that they likely hold the pretty common view that Samoa Joe was great until 08ish, not good from 09 until leaving WWE, and great again after joining AEW. Do you think Samoa Joe was not much better in for example 2022 & 2023 than he was ten years earlier in 2012 & 2013? And if you do think he was better in those later years, does it not contradict your view that he is "a perfect example of someone becoming worse because of being worn down by age and injuries." -
Thoughts on wrestlers with great runs but bad parts
El McKell replied to HeadCheese's topic in Greatest Wrestler Ever
I'm not treating it much differently to wrestlers who have shorter careers overall, or periods of their careers where we're missing footage. I think if they're good enough to rank based on the good stuff we have they'll make it for me, even if they have down periods too. -
Well mammouth is just the French word for mammoth. So the name is supposed to mean a wooly mammoth.
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Very fun for the first ten minutes until Cole gets the big lead with the three straight fall. Then goes quickly into time killing mode. Sami suplexing Cole straight onto the one fan who stayed in his chair when they were fighting outside was pretty funny and also probably a bad idea realistically. This match has more peoples elbows than the HHH-Rock Iron Man match. I was thinking this match had two of the worst canadian destroyers I’ve ever seen. Until about 55 minutes in Adam Cole hits a canadian destroyer that blows the other two completely out of the water, barely rotating enough to not land back first on the mat. Not the worst 60 minute match I’ve seen because I think Cole’s character stuff keeps the slow parts from being too boring. *3/4
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This is the absolute highlight of the match for me. The combination of the fact that it totally caught me by surprise, plus the amazing atheticism and balance topped off with Nick's shit eating grin when he looks back at Uno after he pulls it off. An amazing spot in a match that otherwise did not blow my socks off.
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Never have I seen a match where blood made more of a difference to the crowd reaction than this, they were dead before it and on fire once Cole starts bleeding. Adam Cole as babyface against a heel Kyle O'Reilly seems all backwards but it works when what they're doing is which is the better combat style MMA vs Pro-Wrestling, the idea of pro-wrestling is the babyface as much as Cole. I love the back and forth submissions at the end. Stylistically this match is like a combination of BattlArts and 2010s PWG ****
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I thought this was gonna be a 30 minute draw without anyone going for a pin when I realised they'd gone over 20 minutes without any pin attempts but they don't go through with that. I really like a lot of things in this match KENTA trying to open the match aggressively by going for a running bit boot on Nakajima right at the bell and Nakajima just totally sidestepping it Kobashi challenging Kensuke to a test of strength. KENTA rotates almost 450 degrees on a Kensuke clothesline from inside the ring to the outside before his heels bump the apron. KENTA whipping Nakajima into the ropes and for no reason just running into Kensuke who's in his corner and knocking him off All the seconds having to break up Kobashi and Kensuke's chop fight after the match has ended. ****
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Oldest masked wrestler to have a match
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I dunno how legit that world record is. I think it’s pretty likely some grimey indie lucha shows have had an older masked wrestler working them. I don’t know for sure but neither do the Guinness record people