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  1. Robert S
    Meltzer's (and Alvarez') comments about the main events were strange. Meltzer claimed that Lesnar's blood was hardway (though intentional) and both were talking about how Vince flipped backstate during the whole match, even implying that Lesnar (literally) throwing out the doctor was a shoot. Oh yes, and the line from Cole (or JBL, I forgot) that Wyatt and Reigns are only wrestlers number 34 and 35 to enter a HiaC match was really (unintentionally, of course) funny.
  2. Robert S
    The finish did indeed look really strange. It's as if Smothers missed the third corner and either Hildebrand or Smothers telling DWB and the only solution he came up was to redo the whole long sequence.
  3. Robert S
    Good to see that he is still around on the WWW. I remember him posting 15 years ago on a German (pro wrestling) message board. Back then I was amazed by the amout of data he had gathered (for example I got from him a list of all CWA matches that Vader had, I remember being surprised at some of the cities Wanz was running shows, I though it was (for Austria) Vienna, Graz and Linz and that's it, but he also ran some small towns like Zell am See).
  4. Robert S
    That is because they did not upload the archives to the new servers until a couple of hours ago.
  5. Robert S
    On the negative side functionality wise it is a complete mess as member login does not work (it seems as if the user database has not been ported yet). Alvarez sayed that they had to switch to the new site months before they planned to do without having it tested (or apparently having all functionality in place).
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    Kana Signs With WWE?

    Robert S replied to GOTNW's topic in WWE

    Definitely possible, though my mind immediately went to a Lioness Asuka tribute. Ah, that's a "K". To me at first it looked like a stylized "R".
  7. Robert S
    I think another guy besides Funaki who I remember Dave saying that he got huge support from Japanese which put him in was Masa Saito.
  8. Robert S
    Is this online somewhere? I couldn't find it when I was looking for it some time ago. I have it on VHS somewhere but I have not hooked up my VHS player in like 10 years and I fear that it won't work anymore.
  9. Robert S
    With the huge list of testimony they have the whole thing reads like a pretty straight forward thing to me (without knowing anything about law further then what you see on TV or in movies). Funny things in the reports: - Youtube links nowadays are valid exhibits. - The people writing report did not realize that "Buddy Rogers" is not the real name of the original Nature Boy and therefore his wife wasn't named "Debbie Rogers" (either that or Rogers changes his name to his work name). - Muraco is transcribed as "Morocco" (as in "This is even before his match with Morocco.").
  10. Robert S
    In principle yes, but if you want to add it the the general gate to indicate the profitability no. I mean you don't add net merchandise sales to the gate either.
  11. Robert S
    Six-figures sounds a bit high. Even if DVDs were 20 bucks or whatever you have to consider production, shipping etc. so I would add 25k to the gate, not more.
  12. Robert S
    Agreed, the numbers would be really interesting. Though I would assume that the biggest spikes in sales could be seen on events with big Samoa Joe matches (Punk vs. Joe II, Punk vs. Joe III, Joe vs. Kobashi).
  13. Robert S
    I suppose Swagger, Axel and Sandow have the biggest chances of not surviving 5 years on the roster (maybe not even the next roster-cut round). I would have put Kingston and Woods on that list too but the New Day act saved them.
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    Undertaker

    Robert S replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    Much of his big matches in the last 5 years or so is built on real physical punishment, something you can only do every now and then. To me this is the opposite of what a good worker should (be able to) do.
  15. Robert S
    Shawn Spears, wrestled in my local promtion here and went to OVW in 2006. Has been in and out of WWE for years and even had an ECW run. Man Neo Spirit Pro was so great. You had Shawn Spears, Eric Young, Bobby Roode, Angelina Love, Cody Deaner, Tyson Dux. What a company. Even Lawler was there once. Spears had a feud with Cabana in OVW in which he looked pretty good. On one of the Six Flags shows they promoted Cena vs. Spears which some people called the best face vs. the best heel in wrestling back then. He had the bad luck to be brought up in 07/08 which probably was the worst times to be brought up from developmental to the main roster. Remember Scotty Goldman or Braden Walker?
  16. Robert S
    It's funny hearing people shitting (Will calling him bush-league) on Tye Dillinger considering that in 2007 people on DVDVR called him the best heel in the business.
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    ROH vs. NXT

    Robert S replied to goodhelmet's topic in WWE

    It seems WWE felt embarrassed that there was a Kevin Steen figure in ROH's upcoming line before they could market a Keven Owens one. It's not something a billion dollar company should be quite that upset about, but I get the impression it was an ego bruising that someone couldn't handle. Yeah, there's no way that's true. What store is carrying ROH Dolls? It's not like there's an ROH Toys section at Target next to the WWE Toys. And a WWE Doll would be Kevin Owens, not Kevin Steen. In conclusion....bullshit. Meltzer talked about this on the last podcast and he indicated that the current mentality in WWE is that they don't want to promote a guy on the main roster who was already markteted on a national level by another promotion which is the reason why Samoa Joe is only working NXT.
  18. Robert S
    For those who watched the whole G-1: What would you say are the top 5 or must see or whatever matches?
  19. Robert S
    Mantell had a great line: "My contacts just fell out, I did not see anything." (about Ron Wright raising from the wheelchair and interfering into the match) - did Bobby Heenan ever use that one?
  20. Robert S
    Funny that when Lawler was acknowledging that Savage beat everyone he first mentions Hogan and in the next sentence talks about Savage wrestling in WM 3 "in front of 93.000 people".
  21. Robert S
    What about Ryuma Go? Junior heavyweight in 70ies All Japan and New Japan, part of the first UWF, being to some degree responsible for FMW (Onita returned to Go's indy promotion Pioneer Senshi after a 5 year hiatus), fighting space aliens in the 90ies and after that doing gay porn.
  22. Robert S
    There is a big problem with doing the "name the card" game without giving other guys the option to challenge: you could easily just request the whole card.
  23. Robert S
    Misawa completely losing his cool against Sugiura (3/4/07) was great from what I can remember. The 07 Sano match I would add as must-watch as well (though that was more a Sano performance), as is the 06 Morishima match.
  24. Robert S
    For those interested: here is a youtube link to the original (?) four flat tires angle: (starting at the 10 minute mark)
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    Naoki Sano

    Robert S replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees

    "Consistent" is not a term I would use for his time in NOAH. From my memory he was lazy barely doing anything 9/10 times (though when he was on he was on).
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