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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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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 13:08:49 GMT -5
Queen of Hearts is fun, but Gloria's fantastic.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 13:03:53 GMT -5
The F5 can really look devastating sometimes.
Similarly, KENTA's Go 2 Sleep. Punk's has rarely been anywhere near as good.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 12:58:13 GMT -5
George Gulas: Though, Greg Gagne looked like Kerry Von Erich compared to this goober. An even bigger bean pole who looked like he should have been an accountant rather than a wrestler. George was the Worst Nepo Baby in wrestling history mainly because his dad Nick just kept on shoving this guy down fans throats, which ended up killing his promotion. Everyone quotes the “Daddy said you have to sell,” story (understandably so), but my favorite is when he was riding to a show and the guys pulled off at a rest stop to eat bologna sandwiches because that’s all they could afford with what Nick paid them. George got on the pay phone to his dad to say, “We’re having a picnic, daddy!” Anyone who has seen Smoky and the Bandit, I’m convinced that George Gulas and Junior are the same person. I sort of feel like if George came along in another era, people might have latched onto him ironically as this laughable shmuck, but that trying to present him as a top guy would even then make people balk. If Nick had the humility to A. not try to f*** Jerry Jarrett over, and B. just had George be in nothing matches and hand out vouchers to [insert local business sponsor] , he would have kept himself in business longer. Trying to ask guys like Harley Race and others to carry the doofus was his undoing, along with f***ing Jarrett into thinking he was a partner and expecting him to just accept it.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 10:48:51 GMT -5
Hardly fills me with joy. I find the Samoan wrestling style to be very generic and interchangeable. Big, powerful and relying on a handful of high-impact strike moves--superkicks, running arse to the face, a running corner splash/clothesline a samoan drop variant, clothesline etc Jacob Fatu takes the style and elevates it to a different level. Like Umaga but more athletic. Also, I know Jacob had a criminal past, but I've never heard anything like the Shelly Martinez story with regards to him, so uhh, certainly a lot easier to enjoy.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2024 0:28:18 GMT -5
It's just not worth getting hung up on. Never has been.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 14, 2024 23:53:53 GMT -5
I imagine part of it might also just be in, like... Nobody wants Roddy as champion. Nobody. It was stupid when they started building it, it was stupid when they did it, it's stupid now. Meanwhile TK has some weird fixation on trying to make Kyle a top guy. So might as well kill two birds with one stone and hurry up and give Kyle the belt to see if it improves both he and the title's standing. I am cool with it having happened, Orange Cassidy as champion was totally tapped, but yeah, I'd be totally cool with him losing it to Kyle, or really, quite a few people at this point. Roddy got the belt, good for Roddy, give it to someone people are more invested in now.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 14, 2024 23:29:34 GMT -5
Choosing not to put the belt on Scurll doesn’t mean they had to put it on Taven. But that would mean that the belt would've stayed on Jay Lethal and not many people wanted that, as he was especially stale at the time. Yeah, Taven was a better option, I do genuinely think he was, even if he's probably one of the weakest ROH champions in the belt's history.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 14, 2024 10:53:41 GMT -5
TIL: WWE asked Dog The Bounty Hunter to appear on Mania 27 but he wanted too much money Not surprising, given it's an easy guest spot to pitch. Heel is slippery and keeps escaping Face's justice. Heel tries to walk out on a match, again, Kevin Owens-style. Dog the Bounty Hunter drags him back to the ring and chucks him in, and Face finally gets to mete out justice. Commentary probably makes some jokes about this being the end of the Heel's bail jumping or something. Jim Ross possibly makes it weird by getting too specific and saying the Heel has "lost his Luster".
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 13, 2024 22:53:08 GMT -5
Not in the movie, but I can't help but think of Alan Rickman commenting when Tim Allen became emotional during a scene and declared he didn't like the feelings he was having and went to take a break, "Oh my god, I think he just experienced acting."
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 13, 2024 21:13:48 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Gambit doesn't need time travel to be saved. He died before in the comics and Apocalypse revived him as a Horseman {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} He wasn't dead when he became a horseman. He was very much alive and volunteered for the procedure thinking that that would allow him to essentially remain himself. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}In one of the first episodes of the original, the Morlocks kidnap Scott and Jean because Callisto wanted to make Cyclops her lover. In the comics, this same story happened, only it was with Angel. All this is to say, the show doesn't mind massaging the details to fit when they want to do a story, so this wouldn't really preclude them from going that route. It'd also make it that much more personal, and it isn't like Apocalypse doesn't love his biblical references, so him engaging in a little bit of Lazarus action with Gambit is right up his alley. Not saying I think this 100 percent is what happens, but I can see it as a possibility.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 13, 2024 8:31:31 GMT -5
I wonder who will take it off him and if there will be an unexpected buffer title change to get it back on a NJPW guy. Naito fans have to be pissed but who is going to take it? Naito will just win it back Probably so, yeah. If it's at Forbidden Door, hopefully the t-shirt comes off.
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