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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2012 2:25:53 GMT -5
But if a submission's any good in real life then you shouldn't need to work over a body part for ten minutes in order for it to be effective. Seems like the strategy there is "Take out the guy's leg so that he falls down and is vulnerable, and then start stretching whatever body part is within reach," and to me that makes sense. Not really. You can pretty much search any random UWFI match on youtube and you'll find if they kick the crap out of their opponents's legs, they usually go for a leg submission, of if they try for the Cross Armbreaker, they tease it being locked in before the escape at least one or twice through the match. Shoot style but they were still worked.
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Post by #RUDO on May 14, 2012 19:18:32 GMT -5
Davey Richards is a Wombat, of this I am utterly convinced. I'm sad he doesn't use his given name, because Wes Wombat is the sort of creature I could grow to love. His former Tag Team partner looks like a Teddy Bear. Specifically Nookie Bear: Let's make a Wrestling Zoo that Kevin Steen can enjoy!
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 15, 2012 5:17:59 GMT -5
Where did you find a picture of a wombat in a leather jacket?
Richards, on the other hand, could use a shave.
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Post by rapidfire187 on May 15, 2012 19:01:59 GMT -5
No charisma, s***ty promos, started his career off as a bad Chris Benoit clone, a billion and one stiff kicks in every match with no reason behind them, no sells big spots just to get on to the next spot. Overall, he's your typical average indy spot monkey who somehow snowed people into thinking he's something more. The best way to describe him is as a guy who watched a lot of Benoit, Dynamite and '90s AJPW and does his best to imitate them in terms of making a huge spectacle with big "holy s***" spots and sequences but without any of the penchant for story telling and drama that greats like them had. He comes off as a mechanical imitation of what someone thinks a great wrestler is instead of a great wrestler. That doesn't sound too bad to me...
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on May 15, 2012 19:09:57 GMT -5
The best way to describe him is as a guy who watched a lot of Benoit, Dynamite and '90s AJPW and does his best to imitate them in terms of making a huge spectacle with big "holy s***" spots and sequences but without any of the penchant for story telling and drama that greats like them had. He comes off as a mechanical imitation of what someone thinks a great wrestler is instead of a great wrestler. That doesn't sound too bad to me... To me, it's the difference between, would you rather have ground beef(Davey) or real, Grade-A steak(Beniot or Dynamite). One is tremendous ,the other's a pale imitation at best.
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Post by hotshotalex on May 19, 2012 1:15:00 GMT -5
He would do well in WZW.
Wombat Zone Wrestling.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on May 19, 2012 1:31:31 GMT -5
He would do well in WZW. Wombat Zone Wrestling. Supposedly, he's been hired to do some motion capture work for a video game. MORTAL WOMBAT! (I actually like Davey just fine, but I wanted to make the joke. ;D)
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Post by Mozenrath on May 21, 2012 12:36:28 GMT -5
That doesn't sound too bad to me... To me, it's the difference between, would you rather have ground beef(Davey) or real, Grade-A steak(Beniot or Dynamite). One is tremendous ,the other's a pale imitation at best. The other two are dead and in a wheel chair. It's more like ground beef versus pterodactyl chops.
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