-
Posts
18062 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Everything posted by El-P
-
What a fucking clown show. Between RKJ at Health (holy fuck, this has to be a rib, as they say), the guy who paid for sex with a 17 year old girl as AG and Linda "I falsified my degree in education" McMahon at, well, Education of course, this would be downright hilarious it if wasn't tragic and millions of people were not getting negatively affected by this (negatively affected as in death and deportation, among other things). I wonder if actual journalists are gonna mention that she's got a lawsuit on her ass about her covering up sexual abuse of teenagers ? Not that it matters one way or another. WWE is gonna be so fascinating for all the wrong reasons in 2025, with the booker being the son-in-law of the Secretary of Education of basically a fascist government, and the road-to-retirement of John "I can't say anything bad about Vince" Cena, which probably will do monstruous business because, as demonstrated by the result of the election, people are shit. Can't wait to see what MAGA legend shows up at Mania again and if Cody or Cena dare to do some raah-raah 'murica Great shit along the way. I just want a John Oliver bit on Linda. Please. (and I wish we had a John Oliver in France too, would be much needed as we also have our own fascists one foot through the door already and pushing in)
-
Between all of this and Mark Shapiro publicizing a breakfast with rapist-in-chief Vince McMahon, Dana White, MAGATaker and Da Racist Hogan campaigning for a a guy who calls out for mass deportation of millions of people and using the army against political adversaries, the still going on sportswashing of a regime which just sentenced a 29 years old woman to 11 years of prison because of the way she dresses and her support for women's rights, the stench of TKO is as bad as WWE ever was. Although I still enjoy parts of AEW very much (parts of) and the rise to the top of Zack Sabre Jr. has been the most fun story of the year and legit made me happy, I find it incredibly difficult to even follow the news of pro-wrestling without getting at the very least annoyed in this time where WWE is back in the position of absolute dominance despite all the bagage, with its fanboys being more cultish than ever. NJPW is at least more interesting than it has been for the last few years with the new generation having to be pushed, but it doesn't feel hot yet. TNA has been the worse and most boring in the last 6 months as it's ever been basically since I began to watch it as it happens, and the WWE "relationship" has been hilarious (hey, we'll showcase your most over acts and some of the best talents like Grace and the Rascals on NXT and get them over to our audience and you can have... uh... oh yeah, Wendy Choo) and the TNA Reddit is the dumbest fucking place I've encountered on the IWC in forever. AAA is a complete mess and should be vaporized into thin air just of the fact Alberto el Rapist is their main event act. CMLL is fun to watch once in a while. It's been ten years since I've come back to follow the current product thanks to Lucha Underground. Peaked with early AEW in 2021. Seems like the activity on the board is as low as ever too, which was bound to happen eventually. End of a cycle, I'm guessing.
-
Well, I guess it's over. Yeah, not taking about WWE of course. They'll most probably be mighty fine (last time I checked, "Papa" Trip was giving away ridiculously gigantic belts to the Saudi government). Hell, Vince might be mighty fine now, I guess the federal investigation is a goner soon. I wonder if Taker and Hogan are gonna be featured at Mania next year... Well, "bon courage", as we say.
-
AEW Double or Nothing 2024 - Something Something Stays In Vegas
El-P replied to Timbo Slice's topic in AEW
Business as usual I'm guessing. People probably bitched about the weekly shows (I have followed from way afar, since I'm way behind and wanted to avoid major spoilers). Then PPV is awesome with great matches galore. Rince/Repeat. 5 years is a lifetime. What a ride this has been. Hopefully more to come. -
There's either some strange irony, or maybe it's just a perception bias, that after a few months of the re-branding into TNA, the company actually feels a bit more like... ya know... TNAesque, for the better (the still excellent matches from great talents) and the worse (some questionable booking and some truly WTF stuff like Jonathan Gresham going all Great Muta/Fiend on your ass, coughing poisonous ink and shit like he's Alexa Bliss worst nightmare). Slammiversary in Montreal certainly is intriguing, when you have both PCO and Mike Bailey in your roster. One should try to kill himself, Daddy Darby style, the other one should be crowned with a singles title, really. And yeah, the women division has been hurt lately with Jordynne badly needing some competition, although Ash by Elegance has been super entertaining in totally different ways.
-
Per Meltzer, the level interest of Backlash in the US was ridiculously low. The Bloodmoney shows always had a lot less interest from the US audience as well. I wonder if this will end up a trend with this new business model of selling shows for super high prices to various cities elsewhere in the world (although I'm not sure Lyon actually paid for it, since basically they wanted to go to Paris and could not because of the Olympics coming up, so they settled for Lyon instead), making the money on the price tag for the event and the gate (with a super high ticket price), while the US audience doesn't really care about it, which doesn't matter now and will matter even less once they get on Netflix. I see the card, no Jamal Khashoggi Memorial Battle Royal this year I guess. Also, don't forget that in a week, WWE Universe is gonna celebrate Pride Month, because it's so important for the company to support the LGBT+ community ! See ya in Glasgow, I guess.
-
MLW is funny. They have this whole show based around the idea of a contest between Cesar Duran and Salina de la Renta, the winner getting "the key to the biggest power in lucha libre" (yeah, MLW is recycling everything they can from everywhere in the cheapest way possible, here, Lucha Underground). Which Cesar already owns. So what's the point for him ? And then. This is a contest with FOUR matches. So basically, it could end up in a draw. Which it does. And then. The first three matches have Salina's team be the technicos. Ok. Not like she's a babyface, but neither is Cesar I guess, so it's fine. But in the last match, Cesar's guy is.... Mistico. Seriously, this is so poorly thought out that only William Corgan could have booked this stuff as bad as this. The CMLL matches were very cool, mind you. Salina seems to be killed off. Again. Yeah, whatever, can't Coach TK just sign her and have her be the Bobby Heenan of luchadors in AEW or something ?
-
Copeland eventually turning heel is the way to go, as it's obvious he and Christian are gonna have one last run as a tag team before retirement, and they both are heels at heart. Hell, they can ask Gangrel to show up too one of these days (do you think he heard of Paige VanZant lately ?). And yeah, Bang Bang Gang vs Death Triangle should bang, pun very much intended. Double of Nothing should be quite the celebration of the 5 years. 5 years. Almost seems like another life when the whole thing started.
-
It's the 25 year anniversary of Owen's death. It's crazy.
-
WWE TV 05/21 - 05/27 GUNTHER vs Orton at the KOTR finals!
El-P replied to KawadaSmile's topic in WWE
Actually, I was just referring to the whole III Reich military imagery of Gunther and the fact that Lyon is infamous for being the French capital of neo-nazis and such. (And yes, I realize there was no Kaiser during that period) I just hope they don't veer *too much* into that shit in Berlin, really, with the overall atmosphere in Europe right now, which stinks of brown. And I mean, WWE actually had some fleur de lys on their Backlash graphics, which really tells how much they don't know shit about the countries they go into. Sure, in Quebec the fleur de lys is basically simply what's on the Quebec flag (and I'm guessing it never goes any further in term of signification). In France, it's a HUGE red flag as it basically signals "royalists" aka extreme-right. Of course they probably had no idea and have this knowledge of France that is limited to Emily in Paris or something. So they figured, "Hey, we're gonna put up some fleur de lys because France and Quebec is the same, right ?". Hopefully they don't have some Schwarze Sonne somewhere in the presentation for Bash in Berlin because it looks like some cool germanic symbol and what have you. -
WWE TV 05/21 - 05/27 GUNTHER vs Orton at the KOTR finals!
El-P replied to KawadaSmile's topic in WWE
They should have done that *before* the Lyon show and have Gunther in there. He would have been really popular there with that imagery... -
Hey, I see Zayda from MLW fame is booked on the card ! Court Bauer is soooo upstaging WWE on the Marigold partnership.
- 497 replies
-
They just need to do an entire Dark Side about Vince. Which they won't ever do. The last episode actually kinda awkwardly tried to tie up Black Saturday with the TKO debacle, as if it was "ironic" or something that Vince would get outed of his own company "kinda like the way he outed the Georgia promotion"... yeah, really did not work at all, and just seemed to indicate they would never go more in details about the Vince story. Really enjoyed the Sandman episode, a real cool look into the insanity that was ECW. At the very least, Sandman owns up to the fact he fucked up, that's more than a lot of workers do. It's amazing him and Raven are still alive when you really think of it. Something that wasn't talked about, is that it seems like he's sober now, or at least that's the impression I got from the Mania week-end show where he made his entrance : he did not drink a drop of beer, he only served the audience. Good for him if that's the case. Anywoo, this was overall a good season with some really interesting episodes (the Sherri Martel one was excellent too), although I wish they would tackle some of the big subject. You know which ones.
-
Not watched it yet because I'm still WAY behind, but Willow vs Tam Nakano is exactly the kind of stuff the AEW/Stardom relationship should be about.
- 497 replies
-
Mox getting the IWGP title was really cool and all. But between the Ren Narita title defense and now EVIl, he's been served a pile a of dogshit as title defenses. Also, they better not book any of that stuff at Forbidden Door.
-
If he can't die on the Everest, he will sure try at Double or Nothing. And yeah. That's the Mercedes I waited for ! Double or Nothing is the 5th Anniversary. And what an awesome ride this has been, for the most part.
-
Yup. And I mean, I know *nothing* about Tiffany Stratton, and I've seen her twice (Rumble / Backlash). But these days, this kind of stuff is at best a red flag. And if it's just a terrible taste in jokes and plain stupidity, talk about a way to sabotage your career in the current social media landscape.
-
Well, they did "buy" WWE already, in a way. Now this is an entire new level. Just a few weeks after Nick Khan was stating that the big 5 (or four, whatever it is) would stay in the US. I dunno, sure, Vince is gone and all, but WWE turning its main focus into being a sporstwashing league for the Saudis is making the entire company look really fucking bad still.
-
Stardom's roster and contacts are so ridiculously deep that they don't bat an eye even with the recent departures. That All Star Queedom show last April was really a blast from top to bottom, with interesting developments like Thekla joining Oedo-Tai, and Starlight Kid being booted out and saved by Tam Nakano. Pretty cool to see Aja & Itoh work in Stardom. And that damn Mayu vs Sareee match, holy hell. Stardom sure should try their best keeping Mayu, she's now their biggest star, all respect due to Maika, Tam and Kamitani.
- 497 replies
-
I know it's nothing new. It just cracks me up that the biggest dirtbag in the company now that Vince is gone (well, one could only hope) is always the go-to-guy to main event BloodmoneyMania. It's so fucking fitting. Out of all of them, it has to be the stereotypical crypto-scam/below-than-zero-ethic influencer.
-
Seriously. It looks like someone photoshopped Lesnar's face on a woman's body. Genes are terrifying. Well, maybe she won't be a dirtbag like her father. You know she'll "earn" her spot into that Mania main event too eventually.
-
Logan Paul main-eventing the Bloodmoney show. I can't.
-
Apparently Triplemania was garbage, and not just because Alberto was on it. Nick Nemeth won the title too. He's now a champ both in AAA and NJPW. That's kinda unique, politically speaking. That CMLL April 19th show with *that* main event, on the other hand. Arena Mexico just seems like the coolest pro-wrestling place to visit. The Kiss-cam is a cute feature too. (hey, they should do it in other promotions, like Stardom. Wait. Wrong choice)
-
So now they'll have Bloodline B&W and Wyatt Family 2000. Noice. And now there's talk of a new deal between WWE and the Saudis, with maybe Rumble or Mania coming up in the package... Never change WWE.
-
Ospreay vs Danielson is one of the greatest match I've ever seen. *Again*. Ospreay is just on another level. That's his catchphrase. That's also a reality. He's the greatest pro-wrestler I've ever seen. Okada knew this years ago ("When he'll be 30, he'll be much better than I was at 30"). Danielson knows this now. Talking about this guy, Danielson's last year has been completely insane and one of the most satisfying thing in pro-wrestling ever. If people want to be serious about pro-wrestling as a "craft", not to say art-form, (as opposed to "a business"), this is your model. This is what makes pro-wrestling so great and interesting to me. The mere fact Young Bucks and FTR were able to follow it same a whole lot about these four. Two of the greatest tag team ever. This match had some rough edges and it made it a whole lot better. The Jack Perry return was perfectly executed. "Cry me a river" being a chant is too funny. And then Swerve vs Joe had to follow it and they did. Hope Joe is not gonna stray too far from big matches. And Swerve. Killshot would be proud ! Oh, wait, this show had Okada vs Pac as an opener. And O'Reilly vs Strong. Ridiculous. Rosa vs Storm was damn good too. Best Rosa has looked since she came back, and best Timeless Toni Storm has looked since the gimmicked up version of herself. The week-to-week bitching about AEW, that has been going on for ever (including by me, at various points), is so unwarranted, because their ratio of ridiculous PPV quality is through the roof. That's their aim and they have the best talent in the world to do it. And so they do. As long as this is going on, I'm so there. (and yeah, Self Conscious Epic was me not being as smart as I thought I was. I learned later how much I did not actually understood. Learning how much you don't know means getting wiser. And I've probably learned more these last 6-7 years than I ever did before)