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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 20, 2024 0:02:46 GMT -5
So, we're just not even giving Katana a chance? Katana Chance is a stupid name, that's my point here. These are the jokes, folks. I guess it's a better name than her cousin, Wakizashi Serendipity.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 19, 2024 23:25:57 GMT -5
I really think it’s gonna be Nia. I doubt it's gonna be Nia, because then you have to find a woman to beat Nia, who in turn can drop the title to Liv for the inevitable Rhea/Liv feud. Because I doubt they are gonna go Nia -> Liv, especially with Liv apparently being a heel now. I feel like they could do a heel vs heel here, if the idea would be "Nia wins, then Liv beats her so she's not seen as being given the belt just for hurting Rhea." It'd be better if Liv just outright won the thing, but I could see the reasoning if they felt like it'd increase Liv's credibility. I think she's credible as it is, but I'd be able to see the logic in it.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 19, 2024 22:55:46 GMT -5
Probably commentary on like, Metal or something. I don't think his ceiling was going to be high.
I think maybe a bigger What-If, though, is that if they did find something for him, if that'd have contributed to Booker getting the King Booker-strength push sooner. A big mark against Booker for years was that he was frustrated with road life and openly considering retirement from practically the word jump in WWE, and this was said to be the bigger factor in why WWE wouldn't pull the trigger with him, being concerned that he'd bail on them. (Not entirely unfounded, given Brock would do the same when he became unhappy.)
What is said to have changed things was Sharmell. He suddenly became reinvigorated and much more willing to commit to sticking around, as traveling with her reduced his loneliness presumably and road weariness.
All of this is to say, if Booker's brother was around, maybe he'd have been less of a malcontent and thus things like the Triple H feud maybe don't play out in the same way.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 19, 2024 20:54:36 GMT -5
I don't get why Athletic Commissions have anything to do with Professional Wrestling anymore. It's that simple! I understand why they want to ($$$) but it makes ZERO sense. I was listening to an old timey wrestler dude (he's banned on here but I swear I have a point to this post) and he was talking about how even in the 80's/90's, he had no idea what the f*** the commission actually does beside take some money, lazily make sure folks have a pulse before entering the ring, and just generally being a nuisance. Seems to be pretty universal disdain for these governing bodies. Cornette has intimated that part of it was to help territories maintain their monopoly on certain, well, territories for their mutual benefit, since obviously the cities and states made more money if business stayed strong, and shittily run shows by fly-by promoters could damage a town's interest in wrestling. More modernly, I think it was Lance Storm who conjectured that it's mostly just to collect fees and to be able to pull a license if someone does something egregious.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 19, 2024 2:15:19 GMT -5
Christian would work.
Hangman really doesn't need to be facing Swerve until such time he beats him.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 19, 2024 1:47:38 GMT -5
A lot of stuff comes down to his lack of taste, but Zelina Vega being cut from the 9/11 show because of shit time management is easily in top 10 contention for outright dumbest booking decision. Even Vince himself was mortified and, according to Zelina, profusely apologized, and this came before she got the Queen of the Ring and tag belts, probably as a "uhh whoops". Not that either of those things undo how indefensibly stupid that was, granted....
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 19, 2024 1:23:05 GMT -5
Kyle O'Reilly looks like he's tried out for multiple Doctor Squatch commercials.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 19, 2024 0:49:38 GMT -5
Richard Steven Horvitz, but that's mostly becuase his voice is pretty unique. Some of this is just flat out down to people that hire the voice actors wanting the same as they've done. Hamil for instance has done a bunch of voices that do not sound like the Joker, like when he's the Trickster he's basically using his own voice, and his Solomon Grundy and Swamp thing voices are different than the others as well. Blum did Starscream in a transformers that was nothing like his Spike voice... but people hire Steve Blum to be Steve Blum. Skips from Regular Show is definitely another time Mark was deviating from the Joker stuff.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 18, 2024 23:53:04 GMT -5
I think my personal spite move in with all of this would be to do some women's tournament where you have Nyla and some other available trans woman make it to the finals, taking place in Oklahoma, and then announce in advance you're donating the gate from the show to a trans charity. Kind of technically following their stupid bigoted-ass directive while doing everything you can to tell them to f*** themselves in regards to it. Nyla vs VENY would be a pretty rad final, or Abadon, but I am sure the latter would just result in Oklahoma misgendering them, naturally.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 18, 2024 11:28:39 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, Jamie Senegal (Daffney's daughter) and Edith Surreal (the former Still Life with Apricots and Pears) Kidd Bandit would be another that actually had wrestled in AEW repeatedly VENY is another trans wrestler who has wrestled for AEW, albeit for the Japanese tournament Hikaru Shida put together that brought Ryo over. She has teamed with Nyla before in Japanese shows and tweeted in support of her during this. She's basically one of the top freelance joshi wrestlers, anyway, so I'd certainly love to see her pop up in AEW stateside, regardless.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 18, 2024 2:39:43 GMT -5
He was a utility guy. I liked him fine, and there is always going to be a spot for guys like that, but he was never a big favorite of mine or anything.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 17, 2024 16:47:51 GMT -5
Miro never had the International title. Don't post before taking a nap. Got it. You're probably thinking of a conflation of how he was in one of the initial matches to crown the first champ and his time as TNT champion. He SHOULD have probably won the belt at some point, though, really.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 17, 2024 16:44:32 GMT -5
Let me try understand something about these State Athletic Commissions. (from UK, not a thing here) In regards to wrestling they like provide doctors and medical staff to smaller wrestling shows, but certain criteria have to met. For example, No lightubes in Pennsylvania, which is why CZW did all there deathmatch shows in Delaware for a long time. But, you could just do the things that are banned anyway and just do the show, like GCW does in New York. Isn't AEW big enough to just do whatever and tells these marks to f*** off? Once or twice and then they will shut the show down the day of and tell everyone it was because AEW didn't follow safety laws. That gets the general population who doesn't pay attention to anything behind them. Then they suspend or ban all licenses that AEW is responsible for including the wrestlers, which could then trigger suspension or revocation of licenses in other states. Yeah, flauting authority provokes these types into trying to throw their weight around to make an example, the more asinine, the better.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 17, 2024 16:42:50 GMT -5
It is, unfortunately, not a joke. ...what the actual f***?! Transphobic people, including transphobic feminists, think women are weak, pitiful creatures that are men's inferiors in basically every way. Archie Bunker had more faith in women than your average transphobe, "TERF" or otherwise.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 17, 2024 0:36:05 GMT -5
Not a sequel, but at basically the end of Invader Zim, "Minimoose" was introduced, just a tiny floating moose that was, alongside GIR, a robot assistant to Zim. Zim is outright asked about him, and claims that he's always been there, despite that emphatically not being true. I imagine this was maybe a joke about this kind of phenomenon.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 16, 2024 10:40:52 GMT -5
This is interesting, because, as I mentioned above, I absolutely do not find it easy to suspend my disbelief with this sort of match, because the real injuries and blood and pain inherently cause me to stop thinking about the show and start thinking about the actors. It's actually the same for chop battles, and the reason why I hate those. The entire point of them is "this really hurts, in real, not-fake-wrestling life. Look how tough we are actually feeling actual pain." It completely takes me out of it, because the entire, deliberate purpose is to remind me about the real people in the ring, not the wrestlers involved in the story. Sure, it can be done better or worse, and I'd even wager that there's certain characters and gimmicks I could admit it working for... if it's a great character moment, that can be transporting. But man is it an uphill climb, because the spot inherently gathers everyone around to whisper "Look, THIS is actually real, unlike the rest of that fake wrestling stuff!" At the same time, we've had actual deaths in the ring occur from dropkicks and back suplexes, and we don't stop thinking about the wrestling when they happen. And I don't think it was barbed wire that's caused all the problems to Mick Foley's long term health. If anything, stuff like barbed wire, blood, etc. is more a case of something that looks spectacular and makes the audience react without doing the really dangerous stuff like wild neck bumps (although obviously sometimes both happen, so maybe moot point). Yep, hell, Foley has outright said he REALLY dislikes German suplexes and did not want to take them. His knees and back took a lot of abuse, and his head, but he did not like bumping on his neck.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 21:10:56 GMT -5
Liv if Rhea isn't gone long, the two have tons of history and obviously this on top of it.
If it'll take longer, Tiffany Stratton would make some sense.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 20:50:27 GMT -5
At their best, they can feel like a visceral release of tension, a blow off to a hot feud or a continuation of a long-brewing rivalry. They can also allow for creative spots to take things to a place where it can seem like the limits of what wrestling offense can be are being tested.
Realistically, though, only some of those matches reach that height, and many can be very performative and difficult to take terribly seriously as you watch someone patiently hold the light tubes some guy is about to crush into him, or the seconds feel like hours as someone sets up a table that keeps on collapsing while everyone watches him swear under his breath in embarrassment, blood all over his shitty tanktop.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 14:09:55 GMT -5
Bobby Eaton's Alabama Jam. It's hard to find a better flying leg drop. Bull Nakano's was definitely up there, but yeah, Eaton's is one of the best ever.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 13:31:53 GMT -5
Curt Hennig doing The Perfectplex to The Giant on Nitro He did it to Big Show again on I think Sunday Night Heat on his WWF return, too.
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