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Post by chazraps on Apr 30, 2024 21:44:34 GMT -5
Dark horse pick: Owens
Cody's always spoken highly of him, in-ring they have great chemistry and it pretty much ensures we can get unhinged heel Owens getting heel reactions against Cody being the face who has to do everything it takes to win.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 25, 2024 10:41:51 GMT -5
Tony better be a true mark and sell the injury at the Draft tonight. Wouldn't that make him, not a mark, but a carny? Let's keep our proper wrestling terminology straight people.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 25, 2024 0:35:02 GMT -5
HE SAID SHIT!
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Post by chazraps on Apr 24, 2024 18:47:34 GMT -5
I still can't believe WWE's idea to use him in his main roster debut was to have him steamroll all the wrestlers of color he came across. They really tried with this f***ing asshole THREE TIMES. Meanwhile, Kassius Ohno/Chris Hero never got a single main roster match. f***ing bullshit.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 24, 2024 18:37:17 GMT -5
I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. I seem to recall that he was accused of similar behaviour around the time of the original controversy. She actually described him as a white supremacist, which is interesting, I don't know if she was exaggerating, or if he really has gone down that rabbit hole and/or all those posts on Bodybuilding.com weren't just an idiot being edgy. Regardless, what an absolute dickhead. I really never thought those posts were some idiot edgelord, but rather an actual white supreamacist. Like, your garden variety edgelord doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of white power hatecore bands just to be edgy.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 24, 2024 18:34:46 GMT -5
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Post by chazraps on Apr 24, 2024 18:20:45 GMT -5
Longtime tag partners just don't have good feuds/matches. As I've said before, the wrestling angle that never works is the losing-streak-turning-face angle, and then right behind it are the former-tag-partners feud. (NOT faction members, but specifically when the two guys of two man teams feud)
Zayn/Generico-Owens/Steen and Janetty-Michaels and *maybe* Big Boss Man vs Akeem* are the exceptions. Matt and Jeff really didn't have all-timer matches until the 2016 Broken feud. I think people are mis-remembering how poorly received the Hardyz's Mania and Backlash matches were (not as bad as the Uso one was, and to be fair I've always thought positively of them and they've aged well, but people were down on them and the angle in general) Edge and Christian didn't really have the feud/matches they were capable of together until years later in AEW. Bret and Owen were brothers but didn't tag on WWF television until, what, the previous autumn? (not including the Memphis heel run that previous summer)
Nobody wants to see a tag team they like wrestle each other more than they'd want to see them wrestling together. Yes, the former tag partners feuding is unfortunately a trope, but the results have always, ALWAYS been so poor I can't understand why its become one for any reason other than it's the hackiest easiest thing to pitch. Booker T vs Stevie Ray, Road Dogg vs Billy Gunn, Bubba Ray vs D-Von, etc. They just don't click.
*This I hesitate to include as, while it was tag partners feuding, the feud was Boss Man vs their shared manager Slick driving the conflict when he wouldn't pay him for returning DiBiase's Million Dollar Belt on the road to Wrestlemania VI.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 24, 2024 8:37:27 GMT -5
Lock this dude up beneath the jail.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 23, 2024 18:01:07 GMT -5
Urkle
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Post by chazraps on Apr 23, 2024 17:56:02 GMT -5
Absolutely fabulous match. While I still give a slight personal preference nod to the Takeshita match (my MOTY which I thought was flawless and as good of a match as you're ever going to see), this was still a five star affair with a perfect atmosphere and an outstanding build to "two gunslingers bringing out their best for a showdown"-type wrestling.
Since I think Bryan-McGuinness is a lock for Wembley, I think Osprey challenges for the world title at All In.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 22, 2024 17:07:16 GMT -5
Hear me out: "Learning Tree" Jericho either feuds with or partners with a solo Max Caster...
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Post by chazraps on Apr 22, 2024 17:03:53 GMT -5
Serious idea: if they kayfabe and real life want to blur things, make Jericho's "learning tree" reinvention deal with Max. Feud, partnership, just something together. Max gets to work with a vet, Jericho gets to keep someone in check.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 22, 2024 13:34:26 GMT -5
The OJ-Cancer line on Saturday's Collision felt like something that wasn't cleared. I'm pretty sure it was cleared being that he said it and apparently all his lines have to be cleared now, but dude found the one way to make an OJ joke that made the teller look like an asshole.
And then the pee-tape line last night, ripped from 2016's headlines! Such a weird choice to end that kind of an extended set-up on. Especially after the court date punchline worked genuinely well on Saturday, mostly because that happened within the past week.
I'm not trying to evaluate him as a rapper anymore than I'd evaluate Duke Drose as a garbageman, but the gimmick worked because you'd just get 8 bars (4 total rhymes) and at least one or two would hit with the crowd. Going for an extended acapella street battle style rap could work *in theory*, but that would require every set-up to build and then the punchline being just amazing. Dude ended his set-ups with an 8 year old political joke and making light of sexual assault.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 21, 2024 15:11:35 GMT -5
His last few years in WCW, he probably had his best chemistry with DDP.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 20, 2024 19:50:55 GMT -5
HAPPY JOEY LAWRENCE'S BIRTHDAY!
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Post by chazraps on Apr 20, 2024 11:08:02 GMT -5
My top five looks like this:
1) Jerichos' First "A Lion's Tale" 2) Mick Foley's First "Mankind: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks" 3) Bret Hart's First "Hitman: My Life in the..." 4) Scott Norton's "Strong Style" 5) Bob Backlund's "Backlund"
Even if you aren't a Norton or Backlund fan, those two books are so well written and those dudes LIVED LIFE! Great stories from all over the world in them from a genuine believable perspective. Highly, highly recommended.
The ones I'd say to avoid are Lawler and Moolah's as they're both written entirely in Kayfabe (except in Lawler's he comes clean about Kaufman, but that chapter was included as a bonus book in the Jake Roberts DVD), Ric Flair's book (he has since come out against it and fully rejects it) and the Hulk and Linda Hogan books as they're full of easily disprovable lies, with Linda's being so bad she had to issue a public apology over it.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 20, 2024 11:01:32 GMT -5
Still wild to me that Jinder literally wrestled for "Tiger King" with photographic evidence and WWE didn't mention it at all at the height of the pandemic when everyone was watching it on Netflix and desperate for any new entertainment:
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Post by chazraps on Apr 20, 2024 8:09:42 GMT -5
Dang, like how do you f*** up VEER?!
Seriously, on top of a great story, he's so genuinely stylish and cool on social media and interviews. He'll be a success wherever he lands next.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 19, 2024 20:55:21 GMT -5
Dude's an underrated rapper too. Beyond the cool/funny entrance themes, his serious music is great.
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Post by chazraps on Apr 19, 2024 20:47:16 GMT -5
I'm bummed we're doing a mid-Smackdown series of releases again.
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