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Post by Manute Bol on Aug 31, 2011 17:17:00 GMT -5
NatGeo is rerunning it right now and I'm recording it to watch later tonight. Anyone seen it yet? Any good?
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 31, 2011 17:30:15 GMT -5
I was going to start a thread about it too. I'm watching it now and its pretty good so far...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 17:37:20 GMT -5
We have a thread about it somewhere. I liked it and it was kind of interesting.
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Aug 31, 2011 18:27:53 GMT -5
I watched it. It was interesting, mainly because I know Inferno from his time in Ohio Valley as part of the Jersey Shore Crew with Nova and one of my favorite valets ever Trudi DeNucci. And then Shiima Xion who was clamoring for an ROH shot and is now in TNA.
It was a very interesting look behind the scene... I do have to say that Delirious has improved his english dramatically ;p
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Post by J.O.B. Squad on Aug 31, 2011 21:27:11 GMT -5
Never heard of this till just now,would love to catch it sometime if I ever see it on there,can anyone basically give me a synopsis of what it's about?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 21:38:19 GMT -5
Never heard of this till just now,would love to catch it sometime if I ever see it on there,can anyone basically give me a synopsis of what it's about? Just a reality documentary focused on certain aspects of the independent. More so, two bookers/promoters from a promotion called New Wrestling Superstars, I believe...and two wrestlers trying to make it big. Danny Inferno, a former developmental student with the WWE, trying to make it back to the big time, and Shima Xion (currently Zema Ion in TNA), a newcomer to the business as they have tryouts with Ring of Honor. I could've cared less about the douchebag bookers personally, as it gave a dark light of the indies, but as soon as they go towards Inferno and Shima more later on, it's some good stuff. |
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Post by Manute Bol on Aug 31, 2011 21:42:23 GMT -5
I just finished up and really enjoyed it. It reminded me at times of an episode MTV True Life and at other times of the story of the indie guys in Beyond the Mat.
I'm now officially a fan of both Danny Inferno and Zema Ion, and I'm definitely rooting for them both. Any reservations I had about either of them went right out the window when they cut their promos at the ROH tryout.
Speaking of the ROH tryout, it was really cool hearing from Chris Hero and everything out of Jim Cornette's mouth was gold, as expected.
The only people who didn't come off too well in my opinion, were the promotors of National Wrestling Superstars. Has there ever been an indie promotion booker who don't come across like a total sleaze ball?
All in all, I thought it was a great one hour documentary that is well worth checking out.
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Post by Error on Aug 31, 2011 22:30:39 GMT -5
The guys at NWS are total carny sleeze from everything I've heard. Making fun of them was at one time a regular part of the RAW Post Game I used to listen to. It got to the point that it was just too easy to make fun of a company that promoted themselves as family friendly and in touch with the modern day only to book B. Mahoney and Snitsky in a "Loser is thrown through a door match" and rip off the Judy Bagwell storyline another week.
As for the special, according to PWInsider:
Don't know how good that is for NatGeo. There has been talk that if it did well, it could become a regular show though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2011 5:27:42 GMT -5
The only people who didn't come off too well in my opinion, were the promotors of National Wrestling Superstars. Has there ever been an indie promotion booker who don't come across like a total sleaze ball? What about them gave the impression they were sleaze balls? Putting the one guy in a match he didn't want to be in (against the fat guys) is poor match making, but I didn't see them doing anything necessarily sleazy. They dealt with troubles like guys being late to shows, and talked about the struggles of running a small promotion. |
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Post by caylor02 on Sept 1, 2011 7:53:03 GMT -5
The guy wrestling Inferno was midwest indy wrestler, Mark Sterling. Good worker and has been working all over the midwest. He helped train me as a referee.
Back on topic.... I really liked the show. I thought it would be cool if they did a reality show about it, anything with Jim Cornette is gold as mentioned earlier.
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Post by Kris on Sept 1, 2011 10:16:54 GMT -5
NWS are in fact the laughing stock of the Jersey indy scene. As for Inferno, he used to be a good wrestler, but not so much anymore. I find it funny that they tried to play it off that Cornette and Inferno didn't know each other. That's a total work.
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Post by Scooterdust on Sept 1, 2011 11:51:01 GMT -5
A couple guys I worked worth are in that documentary. The guy dressed up like a butler and the guy he managed (Maxwell and Alex Reynolds). Yes, the NWS are laughed at on the indy scene.
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Post by blake6905 on Sept 1, 2011 12:28:57 GMT -5
when the promoter was giving his speech to the locker room, anyone notice tommy dreamer in there?
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Post by corndog on Sept 1, 2011 14:24:19 GMT -5
I liked it alot, and pretty much agree with everyone else on liking the wrestlers, but not the promoters. I would love to see this become a regular series. Hopefully they do better indy promotions like Pro Wrestling Ohio.
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Post by Dragonfly on Sept 1, 2011 14:31:35 GMT -5
Wasn't NWS the promotion that used to book/hype a character called... um... The "N-Word Taker?" I remember reading about that on the DOI a few years back. I totally lost any all respect for them after that. This documentary didn't put them into my good graces.
And as a fan, it's interesting to see guys in the "background" that you're not only familiar with, but have paid to see on more than one occasion. We spent a good ten minutes discussing whether or not those guys would be a good fit in ROH.
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Sept 1, 2011 18:14:15 GMT -5
NWS are in fact the laughing stock of the Jersey indy scene. As for Inferno, he used to be a good wrestler, but not so much anymore. I find it funny that they tried to play it off that Cornette and Inferno didn't know each other. That's a total work. Cornette said that it had been a few years since hed seen Inferno... i'm taking that to mean back in his OVW days. |
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Post by alliedbiscuit on Sept 1, 2011 18:21:36 GMT -5
when the promoter was giving his speech to the locker room, anyone notice tommy dreamer in there? Yes, I woke up my dog yelling DREAMER! |
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