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Post by ratetankmark on Dec 21, 2013 17:14:10 GMT -5
For those who don't know, I mentioned a while back that I was getting to the end of my tether with it because it was always complain and whine and cry and moan and bitch and whine, they would say that Cena no-sells but when he sold for Ryback in the 2-out-of-3 falls match they had a jab at him for over-selling in the same sentence give or take, and their hatred for Jericho is quite irritating, they've called him everything from an "Overexposed Junior Heavyweight" to "Out Of His Depth"
So I'm not a big fan, but what do you guy's think of the magazine if you've read it.
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Post by AtomSmasher on Dec 21, 2013 18:26:43 GMT -5
Its ok - i've kind of got in the habit of buying it every month after starting reading in 2000 i think. There's not much competition really - FSM gave me a headache when i tried reading that for a couple of months. I do find the whole tone of Powerslam a bit 'pedantic' - every little error in a promo, or every slight 'exaggeration' by the announce teams is picked up on with annoying regularity. The articles are sometimes interesting (e.g. Vader's interview this month, Waltman's interview a couple of months ago), but are starting to feel repetitive, and their hatred of Cena is just dull......
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Post by Totorob101 on Dec 21, 2013 18:36:05 GMT -5
Really cant stand it, gave up on it years go. The hate for Cena is just ridiculous too, im not his biggest fan but to not have him on their top 50 wrestlers year in and year out is rather pathetic.
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Post by AJ Smudgico on Dec 22, 2013 10:02:24 GMT -5
I was going to post a similar thread but you beat me to it! What is their beef with Jericho? I admittedly quite like Jericho (apart from I don't like 'The Walls') but on reading the magazine and back issues recently, they can't help but slag him off every month.
Also, as good as 'The History of Wrestling on Pay-Per-View' can be, it does seem at times like they're ignoring some matches on the cards to talk about other things that stemmed from the PPV, and mostly to reinforce an opinion they've formed using hindsight.
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Post by TGM on Dec 24, 2013 5:11:10 GMT -5
I have the same complaints about the Cena hate and the constant negativity, but I do like that it answers readers questions in a clear and logical way, and it's speciality articles are very interesting.
I think it could benefit from another writer, just to give a different perspective from Fin Martin's.
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Post by héad.casé on Dec 24, 2013 13:09:04 GMT -5
I stopped buying it years ago because of all the bitching the writers do.
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Post by repomark on Dec 24, 2013 13:12:58 GMT -5
As I said in the Jericho thread, I stopped reading it a few years back for this very reason. The Cena hatred has reached completely blinkered levels where they make things up to justify hating him - e.g. stating crowd reactions are more negative than in actuality, stating that he cannot wrestle, never acknowledging when he has a good match etc etc. I don't hate Cena, nor would I call myself a fan, but it truly is ridiculous the bile they publish regarding him in virtually every issue.
They also hear rumours and state them as fact - e.g. WM3 attendance not being 93,000 and Mick Foley's second fall through the cage in his Hell in a Cell match with Taker also being planned (i.e. calling Mick Foley a liar). They also heavily criticised CM Punk in 2011 for "lying to them" that his contract was coming up in a non kayfabe interview.....IT WAS SO THE ANGLE WOULD HAVE MORE IMPACT! Astonishing.
I do not like when opinion is stated as fact, or continuous unjust negativity, and this is why I gave up on them.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 25, 2013 18:56:09 GMT -5
Always loved it. Read it religiously
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 26, 2013 4:34:50 GMT -5
I stopped buying it years ago because of all the bitching the writers do. Same here, I just got sick of how bitter all the writers seem about the industry. That may be a consequence of being a wrestling journalist to some extent, one editor of FSM left saying he'd become too jaded and needed a break, maybe Fin Martin should look at that.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 26, 2013 6:43:33 GMT -5
It really does look like a poster mag from the 1980s
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Post by auph10imitated on Dec 27, 2013 7:34:54 GMT -5
My first experience of "inside news" long before the days of the internet, I bought the first issue in August 1994 and it was strange reading the real shit, then I got an issue in March (ish) 1996 which spilt the beans on Razor/Diesel going to WCW. Then I beganot religiously reading monthly from July 1997 to around 2001. Was subscribed and loved it, got the internet in 1999 so it became pretty redundant too me, but I still bought it.
Pretty much a predecessor to the Observer I guess for me, love reading the opinions even if for the most part they are like 99.9% negative. Wouldnt buy it now as wrestling sucks.
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Post by sebulba on Dec 27, 2013 19:30:48 GMT -5
Its ok - i've kind of got in the habit of buying it every month after starting reading in 2000 i think. There's not much competition really - FSM gave me a headache when i tried reading that for a couple of months. I do find the whole tone of Powerslam a bit 'pedantic' - every little error in a promo, or every slight 'exaggeration' by the announce teams is picked up on with annoying regularity. The articles are sometimes interesting (e.g. Vader's interview this month, Waltman's interview a couple of months ago), but are starting to feel repetitive, and their hatred of Cena is just dull...... This. Seriously, their pedantic, bitter, know it all attitude to wrestling - particularly the WWE - pretty much turned me off a magazine I used to buy religiously for years. It's almost as if these idiots have forgotten that wrestling is primarily about telling stories. I too am not Cena's biggest fan but Poerslam's hatred of the man is absolutely ridiculous.....
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Post by thirteen3 on Dec 27, 2013 19:39:02 GMT -5
I only read it if I'm going on a long train journey, which rarely ever happens.
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Post by ratetankmark on Dec 28, 2013 4:55:37 GMT -5
Its ok - i've kind of got in the habit of buying it every month after starting reading in 2000 i think. There's not much competition really - FSM gave me a headache when i tried reading that for a couple of months. I do find the whole tone of Powerslam a bit 'pedantic' - every little error in a promo, or every slight 'exaggeration' by the announce teams is picked up on with annoying regularity. The articles are sometimes interesting (e.g. Vader's interview this month, Waltman's interview a couple of months ago), but are starting to feel repetitive, and their hatred of Cena is just dull...... This. Seriously, their pedantic, bitter, know it all attitude to wrestling - particularly the WWE - pretty much turned me off a magazine I used to buy religiously for years. It's almost as if these idiots have forgotten that wrestling is primarily about telling stories. I too am not Cena's biggest fan but Poerslam's hatred of the man is absolutely ridiculous..... You've just summed my views on Powerslam better than I ever could, what's up with their seriousness towards it, shouldn't they lighten up?
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 28, 2013 9:28:04 GMT -5
Does anyone recall that interview Fin Martin had with Jericho just after the latter's 2010 exit? It gets ever-so-slightly tense toward the end.
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Post by ratetankmark on Dec 28, 2013 9:30:28 GMT -5
Does anyone recall that interview Fin Martin had with Jericho just after the latter's 2010 exit? It gets ever-so-slightly tense toward the end. I've sure I have that issue but I can't remember what was said, I would've loved to see Jericho find out what Fin had said about him, what I don't get about Fin is that if he hates Jericho so damn much why does he continue to interview him?
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 28, 2013 10:15:02 GMT -5
No biggie, just Jericho is seemingly irked by the tone of the piece, and it really pays demand to see how exactly that interview went down.
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Post by ratetankmark on Dec 28, 2013 10:18:45 GMT -5
No biggie, just Jericho is seemingly irked by the tone of the piece, and it really pays demand to see how exactly that interview went down. Maybe he found out what Fin had been saying about him?
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 28, 2013 10:32:53 GMT -5
If that's the case, it's almost like he figured it out toward the end of the bit.
Martin's reasoning for why Cena's reluctance to put his career on the line at Survivor Series 2010 was just a fantastic journey into the process of justifying a bias with the most elegant logical acrobats imaginable.
I stopped buying Powerslam around 2 years ago, and before cynicism vaults forth, it existed merrily with my continued access to high-speed internet for many, many years, but the increasing depths of jadedness and begrudgery contained within for the better part of a decade became too much; last I recall it was a-reaching Youtube comment section levels of meaningless bile.
FSM is something I can't figure out. It has a range of prominent grappling personalities involved in the making of it, and a comprehensive overview of the British indies, similar to the glory years of WOW, but I still cannot remotely get into all these years later. It should work perfectly, but it just never comes together for me.
I'm guessing I'm the problem.
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Post by ratetankmark on Dec 28, 2013 10:41:24 GMT -5
If that's the case, it's almost like he figured it out toward the end of the bit. Martin's reasoning for why Cena's reluctance to put his career on the line at Survivor Series 2010 was just a fantastic journey into the process of justifying a bias with the most elegant logical acrobats imaginable. I stopped buying Powerslam around 2 years ago, and before cynicism vaults forth, it existed merrily with my continued access to high-speed internet for many, many years, but the increasing depths of jadedness and begrudgery contained within for the better part of a decade became too much; last I recall it was a-reaching Youtube comment section levels of meaningless bile. FSM is something I can't figure out. It has a range of prominent grappling personalities involved in the making of it, and a comprehensive overview of the British indies, similar to the glory years of WOW, but I still cannot remotely get into all these years later. It should work perfectly, but it just never comes together for me. I'm guessing I'm the problem. Damn, you're vocabulary puts Sandow to shame, I'm seriously thinking of cancelling my subscription, it's not like they don't have good indies to talk about, they're a British magazine and they only devote one tiny section to it, the rest of the time they spend moaning and whining about what they hate, one day I want to see an interview with someone and for the guy to just hang up on Fin. To be honest if he hates the sport so much, why does he comment on it, there could be some really eager wrestling journalists who are eager to see the positive side of the sport they like but they can't because Fin needs to hate Cena and Jericho, I'm not even a big fan of either currently (I respect Cena and I liked Jericho in WCW) but even the biggest critic in the world doesn't give half the criticism that Fin gives out.
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