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"He's ambitiously stupid" - Why Scott Keith's new book is scary bad


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http://www.rspwfaq.com/2011/09/16/my-william-shatner-moment/

 

very professional and kind

 

why would Scott let this be posted on a primarily wrestling themed site?

 

this is coming from the same man who said you were retarded if you liked HHH/Taker at Mania and spot by spot critiqued the match

Also the same guy who proclaimed that Gordy slamming the cage door on Kerry's head (you know, the angle that set WCCW on fire) was a horrible booking idea.

 

Who the heck is Charlie Reneke?

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I kind of understand that to a degree. Every 2 or 3 years, I sit down and tell myself that I'm going to sit down and enjoy one of the various WWE shows or TNA. My recent bout with TNA lasted about 4 months. I just get that itch and realize that the idea is better than actually going through the episodes.

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From the Raw review:

 

Solid enough tag match when Ryan wasn’t in there. Seriously, this guy is AWFUL and if they book him against Ziggler at the PPV it’s gonna be a disaster . He has zero timing out there and moves like a bull in the proverbial china shop.

Obviously writers have the right to review wrestling shows and offer criticism. But I think a writer treads into deep water when they start critiquing wrestlers at this level. It feels ripe for the "you've never wrestled" line of attack, and I think there's some validity to it.

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http://www.rspwfaq.com/2011/12/16/brad-armstrong/

 

a famously improvised **** match with Great Muta on WCW Saturday Night

I give up.

 

That line has been in the FAQ forever, and I've always wondered about it. And by "wondered about it", I mean "was there actually a match between these two that he's thinking of, or did he just pull it out of his ass", because I've never seen this "famous" match referred to by anyone else ever.

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It seemed to come from his amazement that a Japanese guy and someone from the Southern US were capable of any means of communication.

Weird side note to this. I have always assumed that Japanese wrestlers called their matches in English. Liger is very verbal in his matches and he almost always calls stuff out in English. I know I've heard other guys use English during matches too.

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The match happened and was on the 1992 Yearbook, but yeah, I think that's something he made up or decided was true or something -- I don't know. But he has been running with it for years.

 

(The match is dreadfully boring, by the way.)

Not sure you should be including dreadfully boring matches, unless they're historically relevant in the yearbook, though I understand the thought process behind it. :)

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The match happened and was on the 1992 Yearbook, but yeah, I think that's something he made up or decided was true or something -- I don't know. But he has been running with it for years.

 

(The match is dreadfully boring, by the way.)

Not sure you should be including dreadfully boring matches, unless they're historically relevant in the yearbook, though I understand the thought process behind it. :)

 

That was included for rep.

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For all the talks of "Brad Amstrong is underrated" over the years, I find Brad Armstrong actually quite a bit overrated.

 

Actually, I think he's pretty accurately rated. He certainly had good matches, but I've never seen anything to suggest they should have been pushing him any further than he was.

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For all the talks of "Brad Amstrong is underrated" over the years, I find Brad Armstrong actually quite a bit overrated.

Actually, I think he's pretty accurately rated. He certainly had good matches, but I've never seen anything to suggest they should have been pushing him any further than he was.

 

I agree with this. Never struck me as someone who deserved a much bigger push. I don't think I've seen a Brad Armstrong match as good as the best Tito stuff for instance. I meant overrated by people who think he was underrated and deserved more, which seems to be the consensus (maybe I'm wrong about that though). Super solid mechanically, but not the guy you'd have a great match with. Perfect to make other look good.

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