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Post by Thunderbolt on Aug 30, 2015 5:23:19 GMT -5
Brock's LEGIT shows of amazing strength will never get boring.
Even the fact that Brock starts turning red and sweating profusely doing small things is entertaining to me.
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mcstoklasa
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Post by mcstoklasa on Aug 30, 2015 7:29:49 GMT -5
This reminds me of what Bryan and Vinny are always saying on their show: "everyone wrestles the same in WWE." Everyone except Lesnar. We all know wrestling is fake, but watching Lesnar makes us suspend disbelief because it looks real: Brock bleeds, repeats moves that are effective, trash talks his opponents and doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks of him - it's so great. He's my favourite guy in all of wrestling and all of his stuff is must-see. I get more enjoyment out of watching him bounce around while Heyman talks than seeing Cena and Owens have the same match with the same sequences for the third time in three months. This is a vital point and a huge reason why I don't really watch WWE; yes, they may have the all-time most athletically gifted roster they've ever had, and yes those guys are capable of wrestling many different styles, but holy shit, do so many of their matches feel identical. I was listening to OSW Review, where Jay and (guest host) Maffew talked about the NXT Brooklyn show, and they brought up how the crowd's investment in Sasha vs. Bayley was built up via a smart, simple storyline that allowed both characters room to breathe and develop, and for the fans to feel passionately about the outcome. Then, come match time, they told another pretty simple story, but did it very, very effectively, and had the crowd red-hot by the end...which is basically the core of pro wrestling. A typical main roster main event match, though, tends to devolve really, really quickly into finisher spamming, and the storylines don't offer much for the wrestlers to integrate into their actual matches. It leaves things feeling monotonous. Now, Brock's "Too Many Suplexes!" style would seem to be a similar strike against him, but he does it in a very different way; Brock doesn't engage in finisher/signature spamming so that you can get a host of false finishes, he does it because "This move hurts you, my goal is to beat you, and I'm going to hurt you in order to accomplish that." Brock wrestles to win, and it makes any match he's in immediately feel infinitely different from just about any other match on the card. He's effectively the only guy that WWE can advertise that can get me interested enough to go out of my way to see a show; with anybody else, even guys I like, I can go into the show knowing I can paint by numbers, so to speak, in terms of how their matches will be structured, what the psychology will be, etc. With Lesnar, it's just "shut up, stop trying to impress the crowd, and take this beating". I do think he'd benefit form varying up a bit for drama's sake, but only when it makes sense; like, the Rollins match would've been a good time for him to vary the suplex offense, since the story should've been "Rollins is too quick and agile to get caught in a German suplex if he knows it's coming". Good post. A lot of guys have excellent matches but you get the sense they're working together to put on a show. With Brock matches it feels like Brock is trying to (effortlessly) win. You got back to your feet? I'm just gonna keep suplexing you on your head until you can't stand.
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Post by isink on Aug 30, 2015 7:53:18 GMT -5
He does new stuff: When Rollins ran away during their match Brock jumps out of the ring and takes 2 steps and hurtles the barricade. I have never seen anything like that. Or how about the match with Cena when he first came back, that was mainly punching, suplex, f5, kamura. Except there was a part where he is standing on steel steps taunting Cena like he was King Kong on a building. That match was a suspension of disbelief for me.
Its what he does isn't really a wrestling move but its something better for the match.
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