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Post by HMARK Center on Feb 6, 2021 16:08:10 GMT -5
Watching some more VENY/ASUKA material after only seeing bits and pieces of her work before, and good Lord, I know the pandemic makes everything tough, but the fact she's a free agent means Khan should have a pen and paper ready for her ASAP. She's not just a really gifted athlete, she also just "gets it" with regard to what makes pro wrestling as a performance tick...and she's just 22, I think.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 6, 2021 16:13:57 GMT -5
Watching some more VENY/ASUKA material after only seeing bits and pieces of her work before, and good Lord, I know the pandemic makes everything tough, but the fact she's a free agent means Khan should have a pen and paper ready for her ASAP. She's not just a really gifted athlete, she also just "gets it" with regard to what makes pro wrestling as a performance tick...and she's just 22, I think. There's no doubt in my mind this Tourney on the Japan side is doubling as scouting for AEW This is also a reason I can logically put down as to why they haven't just gone out and signed more american talents. There's a chance they might sign a few of the Joshi talents like VENY or Maki Itoh to paper during this thing.
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 6, 2021 16:50:04 GMT -5
There have been plenty of men who weren't the best technicians, but also were such great characters that they became stars base on that alone. Not everyone needs to be a Daniel Bryan or a Bret Hart in the ring. I think Maki will be like Britt Baker where she can get over big with the AEW audience with just her character work. And it's not like she's Mel or Velvet Sky out there.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Feb 6, 2021 17:24:02 GMT -5
Now, while the idea of the pop idol itself require a little bit of explaining, I think the overall concept isn't all that different from how celebrities tend to be treated in the western world and the idea of stan-culture and such. From there, I think anyone can understand the struggle of persuing a goal or a dream only to flame out, and she dealt with it by entering pro wrestling where she could take all her frustrations and insecurities out of her opponents. All you really need to do is take the tried and true method of "Delusional Artist Who Thinks They're Huge", like Jeff Jarrett, Honkytonk Man, and 3 Count, and just join it in progress where reality has set in and she's allowed to be frustrated by not having the life she that was due to her as an idol. I mean, hell, other than how they're reacting, that's Hangman Page, the most popular gimmick in the whole company outside of maybe Orange. He didn't fulfill expectations in his mind and he's reacting to it with insecurity. Maki's just embittered. But there's a couple of important nuances there. There's her performances itself, like the singing and stuff, although I think lots of people in the west look at that kind of singing and choreography and vaguely recognize it as something young Japanese women do, so it won't be too confusing. But a lot of her backstory relates to the extremely f***ed-up, exploitative idol thing, which... I dunno, I guess in the west we all know, like, models have to starve themselves to stay thin, but idols, man. This whole machine designed to chew up and spit out teenage girls. Just personally, I was shocked when I learned about some of the ways idol stuff works that's considered totally mundane and acceptable. It's not like her entire character is a satirical comment on idolness, but a lot of it is about her mistreatment in the industry, how she was lied to and belittled and cast aside, and ambivalence on whether or not she deserved it. I guess a lot of it can be explained by the announcers; "Hey, her company told her she'd never succeed because her face was too big, so she centered her entire wrestling offense around headbutts." This isn't some big difficult thing. It'd just be easy for all the nuance to get sanded off and for her to just have a character that's "vain Japanese brat," and that would lose a lot of the punch.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Feb 6, 2021 17:29:05 GMT -5
Watching some more VENY/ASUKA material after only seeing bits and pieces of her work before, and good Lord, I know the pandemic makes everything tough, but the fact she's a free agent means Khan should have a pen and paper ready for her ASAP. She's not just a really gifted athlete, she also just "gets it" with regard to what makes pro wrestling as a performance tick...and she's just 22, I think. She did an awesome lighttube match in DDT which was so much funnier and tenser than a story about trying to make the other person break a lighttube should ever be.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 6, 2021 17:31:59 GMT -5
There have been plenty of men who weren't the best technicians, but also were such great characters that they became stars base on that alone. Not everyone needs to be a Daniel Bryan or a Bret Hart in the ring. I think Maki will be like Britt Baker where she can get over big with the AEW audience with just her character work. And it's not like she's Mel or Velvet Sky out there. One of the most over characters in all of wrestling right now is Billie Kay Timothy Thatcher who is a workrate machine is ratings death right now on NXT Workrate is good, and it helps... but if you have a good endearing character? You're set for life in wrestling.
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Post by AwamoriRock on Feb 6, 2021 17:37:40 GMT -5
Watching some more VENY/ASUKA material after only seeing bits and pieces of her work before, and good Lord, I know the pandemic makes everything tough, but the fact she's a free agent means Khan should have a pen and paper ready for her ASAP. She's not just a really gifted athlete, she also just "gets it" with regard to what makes pro wrestling as a performance tick...and she's just 22, I think. She's really good! Before the pandemic she has originally picked up the VENY alternate name to perform on that gay brunch thing in the US, but of course it was canceled. I think she's gonna remain freelance for a while but it's clear she planned on wrestling more and more overseas. (The German she hits on Hino of all people at the end of this clip is impressive.) Watching some more VENY/ASUKA material after only seeing bits and pieces of her work before, and good Lord, I know the pandemic makes everything tough, but the fact she's a free agent means Khan should have a pen and paper ready for her ASAP. She's not just a really gifted athlete, she also just "gets it" with regard to what makes pro wrestling as a performance tick...and she's just 22, I think. She did an awesome lighttube match in DDT which was so much funnier and tenser than a story about trying to make the other person break a lighttube should ever be. Yep! This was probably one of the top of 2019 for me. The setup is great too. She is feuding with Akito and gets excited when he picks a light tube death match, only to reveal he can only withstand one tube so the stipulation becomes them having to wrestle extremely cleverly without breaking the tube--meanwhile the tube gets its own entrance and is revered/cheered by the crowd.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Feb 6, 2021 22:52:45 GMT -5
Yes, ASUKA/VENY's light tube match from Peter Pan a couple years ago was great.
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Post by AwamoriRock on Feb 6, 2021 23:29:24 GMT -5
ChocoPro 89 will have a double main featuring Ryo Mizunami vs Yuna Mizumori, and a tag of Best Bros (Mei Suruga and Baliyan Akki) vs. Emi Sakura and VENY/ASUKA with Hikaru Shida as the special guest referee, which is fairly interesting, since that's like half the Japan side of the bracket plus Shida reffing. Since it'll be free on Choco's YouTube it would be smart of them to promote it a bit as a preview.
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Post by Yamashita Enforcement Division on Feb 6, 2021 23:40:57 GMT -5
ChocoPro 89 will have a double main featuring Ryo Mizunami vs Yuna Mizumori, and a tag of Best Bros (Mei Suruga and Baliyan Akki) vs. Emi Sakura and VENY/ASUKA) with Hikaru Shida as the special guest referee, which is fairly interesting. I was really hoping with Hikaru Shida in Japan to run the AEW tournament would mean an appearance at ChocoPro. Also please put respect on the name of Baliyan "Two Main Events In One Day" Akki.
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Post by AwamoriRock on Feb 7, 2021 0:10:09 GMT -5
ChocoPro 89 will have a double main featuring Ryo Mizunami vs Yuna Mizumori, and a tag of Best Bros (Mei Suruga and Baliyan Akki) vs. Emi Sakura and VENY/ASUKA) with Hikaru Shida as the special guest referee, which is fairly interesting. I was really hoping with Hikaru Shida in Japan to run the AEW tournament would mean an appearance at ChocoPro. Also please put respect on the name of Baliyan "Two Main Events In One Day" Akki. Unless it changes, the show is on the 13th, 10:00 AM Japan time, which is probably so AEW fans can watch since it's free anyway. Agree, hope it puts eyes on Akki.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 7, 2021 1:26:59 GMT -5
Emi had some good trash-talk for her former student, saying that Hikaru ought to learn how to be a referee, since her days as champion are coming to an end, something to that effect..
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Post by chrom on Feb 7, 2021 16:31:25 GMT -5
Jamie Hayter who was apart of the early division days before Corona won the RPW Women's Title from Giselle Shaw today.
Either would be good for the division
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 8, 2021 3:00:33 GMT -5
Jamie Hayter who was apart of the early division days before Corona won the RPW Women's Title from Giselle Shaw today. Either would be good for the division Hayter was simply not signed due to her commitments at the time, no clue if that has cleared up or not, but everyone liked her when she competed.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Feb 8, 2021 11:38:20 GMT -5
Leyla Hirsch vs. Thunder Rosa (Round One of Women's Title Eliminator Tourney) is booked for this Wednesday's Dynamite.
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Post by markymark on Feb 8, 2021 11:50:43 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Feb 8, 2021 11:56:45 GMT -5
I'm thinking the most logical matches for the rest of the bracket's round are Tay Conti vs. Britt Baker and Nyla Rose vs. Anna Jay, mostly because neither match has happened yet and the other combinations produce either a heel vs. heel match or a repeat of Tay Conti vs. Nyla Rose.
Probably the tournament proceeds with the Britt/Riho/Rosa/Nyla top tier advancing, and anyone who said Rosa vs. Britt was definitely the US final will be right.
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Post by AEW19 on Feb 8, 2021 12:25:17 GMT -5
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 8, 2021 15:31:45 GMT -5
I think you got the wrong thread.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 8, 2021 16:52:09 GMT -5
I think you got the wrong thread. PAC can be a beautiful woman if he wants to be...
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