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Under-the-radar wrestling book recommendations
Soko replied to Cross Face Chicken Wing's topic in Pro Wrestling
Doesn't fall under the category of wrestling autobiography, but I'm interested to know if any of you have read Paul O'Brien's Blood Red Turns Dollar Green, and what did you think of it? -
I really enjoy Sabre Jr. if only for the fact that unlike so many wrestlers, he competes with the notion that his character is far better than other wrestlers at a particular thing and will utilize it to the best of his ability to win the match. He goes out there with the intention of twisting and tearing at your limbs until he gets a chance to submit you. He'll strike a bit, but mostly when it's a matter of pride. He doesn't slam or lift or fly much because his plan is to hurt your with grappling. He's not perfect but I appreciate what he's doing and enjoy his matches. His selling is really annoying. Seems to be constantly attempting a woozy look, a dead-eyed stare into the distance and a limp body regardless of the stage he's at in the match.
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Least Favorite Wrestling Move/Strike in Pro Wrestling
Soko replied to TheU_2001's topic in Pro Wrestling
I don't at all like the springboard/handspring cutter used by Jay Lethal and Will Ospreay. -
For a guy whose persona is based around being eccentric and unique, Ambrose sure does manage to have the most sterile matches possible.
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Just remembered we'll have to sit through a likely 15+ minutes of Jericho vs Ambrose.
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Wrestling fans these days don't like people for doing good things or dislike them for doing bad things. They like the guys they find entertaining and cheer them, face or heel.
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What do people think of Ranallo on these pre-shows and Smackdown? I like some of his content, but he tries very hard to push submission names and Japanese terms which I don't think is all that necessary in the environment. His voice seems a bit forced but doesn't bother me much, I could imagine it sounding a bit silly to a first time viewer.
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A bit surprised Lesnar is still in the running. I love watching the guy but is there really enough high-end stuff to merit him landing in the top 60?
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Haven't seen East of Eden. Re-read the book a few months ago during a Steinbeck binge. Is the film worth a watch?
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I'm all for having a go at some of the ridiculous thing Hogan does, but I don't think there's much wrong with him mentioning that she dated one of his closer friends back in the day if that was the case. . I suppose it's pointing to how he may have known her. Followed it up with ''beautiful soul and kind to my children'' so I think it's really nitpicking to take issue with that.
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Daniel Day Lewis is a tired answer to give these days, but it's a tired answer for a reason. His work in My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, The Boxer, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln are comfortably among the best acting performances of all time. He wouldn't be my personal favorite, but objectively I couldn't have him any lower than the top five on the strength of those performances alone. I think if you were to judge acting like that, versatility would have to be one of the biggest things to come into play. Seymour Hoffman would surely be up there, have people seen Synecdoche, New York? What a bloody mind-explosion of a film that is. De Niro has to be hovering around the top spots. Nicholson too. Haven't seen enough of Brando outside of The Godfather. Clint Eastwood would be my favorite actor were I pressed to pick one.
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The one good thing this has made me realize is that the current environment in WWE – from the general attitude and behavior of the talent to the seemingly strict policing of their actions – looks like it should leave wrestlers in a healthier mental state. The in-ring style looks like it could very well lead to some badly damaged bodies in years to come but they seem to have stamped out much of the heavy alcohol / muscle relaxer use, backstage shenanigans etc. Seems as if a different kind of person gravitates toward the profession these days, and wrestling as a whole seems like an easier place to keep your mind together and hopefully that proves to be the case. It's a real pity that the lifestyle was the way it was when Chyna, and others like her, were around. RIP.
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I like throwing on a few IRS matches every now and then for silly reasons. I laugh every time he puts his opponent in a completely motionless two minute headlock to kill commercial time. I love Vince mentioning a new tax book, article, magazine or newspaper at the start of every match, the idea of a former tax collector turned wrestler is pretty funny. Always get a kick out of the crowd chanting ''Irwin'' at him. His matches are generally no better or worse than decent, but his opponent usually comes out looking good enough. People often use his tie to instigate offense against him, why in god's name would he continue to wear it during matches? I suppose that might qualify as a wrestling guilty pleasure.
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Juvenile idiocy. Historical fascination, similar to Lemmy's collecting of Third Reich memorabilia. A hateful gang mentality they grew out of. Again, I'm not on their side. Just not comfortable with completely slating them as humans based on tattoos I don't know the story behind and backed up by no tales of bigotry in a business full of it.
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Loved Taue in this match. He's like a domestique in road cycling, working for the benefit of his team and leader. Constantly entering the fray and upping the pace and physicality to get his side in control. Taue is great.
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They could very well be a pair of hateful men but I find it strange that in a business where controversial stories are dime a dozen that I've never heard any incident that confirms their bigotry. Outside of the tasteless tattoos and clothing, that is. I'm not siding with them, I'd just like to know there's more to it than ink.
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LA Park and El Dandy are the two guys I've really come to enjoy watching since discovering this site, having seen virtually no Lucha until the last few months, so it's pretty cool to see Park make the top 100. If I were to make a list, he's definitely a guy I could see making it comfortably once I've seen more of his stuff.
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I've always loved Tomohiro Ishii's death chop to the throat. Kobashi would be an obvious favorite. Seth Rollins would have to be in the running for worst chop.
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Are the Harris brothers considered to be Neo-Nazis for legitimate actions that can be pointed to in their past or is it the gimmick tattoos?
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Very enjoyable Raw. For two weeks now crowds have been completely invested in Enzo, interested to see if they remain interested in the matches. Bray Wyatt is a great hot tag, you don't really notice how good an athlete he can be when he's working heel. Nice to see the authority figure interact with all levels of the roster and not just the main program.
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Hello guys, my name is Michael and I'm from the South-East of Ireland. I'm twenty-two years old and I work on the family farm. I swear this isn't a parody account. The first wrestling I encountered was a tape of SummerSlam '01 when I was eight. It was a sleepover at my neighbor's house and I watched wrestling for the night with five rowdy boys who were all older than me. They practiced wrestling moves on each other and me for the rest of the night, I don't remember what I thought of the show at the time but it was fun and I knew I liked wrestling. A couple of weeks later I borrowed the tape and never gave it back because they never asked for it. I watched it quite a bit for a few months. It was a really fun card and I wondered what Chef Boyardee was for many years. Tajiri and Steve Austin were my favorites. Between '01-'04 I watched hardly anything. We had nine or ten television channels and none showed wrestling. In 2005 a friend asked me over to watch Royal Rumble; I hadn't watched any wrestling in about two years (there's only so many times a child can watch Lance Storm vs Edge) and I was really excited for it. Batista won and I enjoyed most of what I saw, Eddie Guerrero was probably the only guy I considered a favorite over the next few months for his charisma more than anything else. I watched WrestleMania 21 at that same friend's house and was really hooked, Michaels vs Angle being the main reason along with Shelton Benjamin doing crazy things in a ladder match. My grandmother got Sky television channels around that time and so I spent most Friday nights at her house to watch Smackdown on the condition that I'd help with the cows the following morning. My parents used wrestling as a bargaining chip for most of early fandom and got plenty of farm and school work out of me before they eventually agreed to get the TV channels in 2006. In 2005 I found The Wrestling Channel hidden in the listings and started watching TNA and World of Sport. I didn't think much of WOS initially, but the more time I spent at my grandmother's watching the channel constantly the more I warmed to the style. TNA was my favorite promotion at this time; the X-Division excited me and the heavy use of older guys such as Raven, Sabu, Jarrett, Rhyno etc. didn't grate on me like it did others. I had read The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pro Wrestling and came out of the experience thinking of late 90's WCW as the pinnacle of all wrestling (having never seen a second of it) and of Captain Lou Albano as a wise elder whose word was to be treated as gospel. Magazines and DVD's fed my desire to find out more about older wrestling, from Powerslam and PWI to Bret Hart, Ric Flair and Jake Roberts DVD compilations. I loved the photographs in PWI and never really cared for the content. I ended up getting access the internet in 2009/10 and I've been playing catch-up on wrestling's history since then. Like many, late 80's and 90's AJPW is what I consider to be the peak of wrestling. What I've seen of U.S. wrestling in the 70's and 80's is patchy, mostly the famous matches and moments and more extensive watching of favorites like Flair and Funk. Watching as much wrestling as I'd like to is difficult but I'd like to make more of an effort and that's mostly why I've made an account here. For the most part, nowadays, I only watch Evolve, NJPW and WWE PPV's with regularity and well recommended matches in other promotions. Bleh, I should probably flesh out who I like and why I like them, and shows I've been to but there's time enough for that. I'll try and get involved in some way on the board and hopefully it ends up in me watching and writing about more wrestling, old and new.