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He was on Tough Enough, but didn't win.
Completely agree about King's potential. Of everyone in ROH, he's the guy I think has the best shot of becoming a star in WWE someday.
Good look, boring to watch, has stereotypical ****y black wrestler act down, not much else going for him. Has WWE written all over him.
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I was fuming when Cena hit the AA on Rock. Rocky will get his revenge!
Personally I loved it. Screw the haters, Cena is the truth, kids love him, he wears purple. The Rock is a hateful D-grade actor whose schtick is 10 years out of date and his delivery is nowhere near as sharp or precise as it used to be. He needs to learn a thing or two about hustle, loyalty and respect!!!
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I just started watching a great show on the Science Channel called Idiot Abroad. It starts the awesome Karl Pilkington who many of you might know from Ricky Gervais animated HBO show.
On this show they have Karl going all over the world interacting with the native culture. It is just great, I often wonder if Karl is just a great actor or is he really as dense as he comes off as on television.
Awesome show, I love Karl Pilkington but I am not sure if he is really dense so much as well ... just has a different way of looking at things. He can be quite inciteful in his own little way at times.
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Last time I checked Dragon Gate was pretty much just doing spotfests anyway...
And even Jack Evans can sell better than Teddy Hart. Or Matt Cross.
And that's terrible.
Last time you checked they probably were, I have not watched anything they've done in years but originally Dragon Gate "spotfests" had flow, smoothness, a seamless series of transitions and counters between moves at a beautiful pace which was only possible due to using workers only trained within that system and style of wrestling, as soon as they started bringing in foreigners and too much outside talent they lost what made them special. To put it in TEW terms it was like having a whole promotion where almost everyone had good chemistry with almost everyone else. Jack Evans was a major part in bringing that to a halt because his spots were so contrived, over the top and required far too much assistance to be able to work within the confines of the style.
Teddy Hart worked his high flying into matches much better (which is a scary thought) plus had the advantage of being completely bat feces insane which was entertaining on many levels. It's one of my biggest disappointments in wrestling that his H2 Wrestling promotion never ran a show because that would have been superb if only because I wanted to know what "The Alienist" Alex Shelley gimmick was all about since the thought of a wrestler who is an expert on the legal aspects of mental illness seems bizarre. But, I am going way off topic now.
Matt Cross, eh, lacks the insanity but I'd take him over Evans. Nothing he's done has ever bothered me hugely and he's athletic in a less annoying way.
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I book the travel for the project. Thom Beers, Phil Segal, Eric Lange, as well as the cast (Mike Crowder, Tom Roberts, etc) and production staff. Humongous step up from 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom, lemme tell ya.
If you feel like booking me a holiday or two at the production company's expense I'd appreciate it. It's not like there's likely to be a line producer or anyone who keeps track of where the money goes.
I'm interested to see how this one turns out and how it was all filmed. I had to do a safety film for a mining company once (yeah, one of those real exciting induction video type things) and by god it was a nightmare. Cameras and damp, dark underground locations don't really get along so well so kudos to the crew for producing this one, though I imagine they were smart and spent most of their time above ground.
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Teddy Hart is gonna be pissed that someone stole his job then.
Oh man, you guys suck. Teddy Hart is so much better than fricken Jack Evans. Jack Evans run in Dragon Gate single handedly put me off that promotion for life and I will never forgive him for that. Seeing all those wrestlers I loved since I first saw Toryumon scrambling to make one of Evans' moronic spots work just made me sick. Die Jack Evans you annoying little toolbag, die die die die die!
Okay, now that's out of my system let me just say that the Matt Cross hate baffles me almost as much as the Johnny Gargano love. What's the big deal with him? I ain't seeing it.
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Well, if 'Deadliest Catch' was about watching fisherman...fish and Ice Road Truckers was about watching truckers....truck, then Coal is about watching coal miners mine. But for once, it's a show where real people are actually themselves. Mike Crowder is one of those types of guys who could run any company and have everyone from the mailroom guys to the board members, ready to jump on a grenade if he needed them to. In a world of reality shows devoid of reality and people thinking they're hot stuff because they got knocked up at 16 and someone pointed a camera at them as a result, it's nice to come across a project where the people are themselves, not what they think will look better 'on the teevee'.
But more than anything else, Coal is an example of why I always tell people that I don't work. I sit behind a desk, in front of a computer most of the day. The worst injury I can get on the job is carpal tunnel. My grandparents and great grandparents (and so on) worked. Those guys at Cobalt work. You'd have to pay me A-Rod money to work in a mine. Watch the show and I'm sure you'll agree. It gives you a real sense of "Well at least I'm not that guy".
Sounds worth a look, I far prefer a reality show with some level of reality to it. What was your role in all of this, Remi?
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I'd care more about Tough Enough if there were any names I actually want to see in WWE.
Instead, we get Matt Cross and Miss USA.
I'd take frigging MAVEN over Matt Cross...
You can have him, no seriously. You could probably get that schlub to wrestle in your living room.
God I hated Maven.
Not the biggest Matt Cross fan but he's alright.
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Come on, dude. Not cool.
It's a fricken combat sport, it's not like I can just say I hope he gets punched in the face because that means nothing to these guys. Quit being such a carebear
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What are they going to do? Sue TV Week for defamation for saying that the WWE is a wrestling company? Ridiculous, not just for the obvious reasons but also to think they can tell a publication how to write their headlines.
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I might be alone in this, but I cannot wait to see someone beat Jones. It's not that I dislike him as a fighter, but the amount of buttkissing from the announcers made me want to see him get his skull fractured just to shut them up. Seriously don't know what can be done about his speed and reach advantage though, maybe if someone took out one of his legs early but that is easier said than done.
Not sure what you guys are whining about, I thought the undercard was pretty decent throughout and had a fair bit more viciousness than usual.
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Wow. If this website is for real and still selling the stuff they say they're selling, I might actually be able to get a ton of FMW matches. Sadly, I don't want a ton, I want just enough to get a strong sense of how it's written.
So Story of the F does sound like the thing I should probably look for. I did find a couple releases on the web (Yokohama Deathmatch, where Kudo retired, and some ECW vs FMW thing...) but I somehow think the ECW vs FMW thing will not exactly be their normal stuff, and if one of their two biggest talents is retiring at the end of the night, I somehow doubt it's an "average" show there either.
Story of the F stuff is pretty standard, bit of a mix of stuff but if I recall (been a while since I watched it) it's mostly bits and pieces from different shows. The White Love tape is similar, from 98 I think, pretty standard stuff of that time. If you want later (more entertainment era stuff) then maybe Backdraft or something. Thing is, if someone wants to know what FMW was about, I would almost always insist they watch a show from the early period when Onita was in his prime, a mid period one (mid 90s, Hayabusa Kudo) and a late period one (2000ish) when it was very American influenced.
Oh and Linsolv, check your PMs
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It's not like every single major FMW show was some kind of big bloodbath filled with hot feuds or anything, quite the opposite much of the time. But approaching FMW like it's TNA makes zero sense, much like TNA's product in general
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Question for anyone: Where can I get as complete of a FMW card as possible that is neither their best stuff (nor most extreme) but not their worst either? A definitive "middle-of-the-road" FMW card. I've been doing research for a game I've been trying to get started, and I'm about 2/3 of the way through what I feel is enough ECW to really comprehend hardcore wrestling. I wanted to see if it was similar for the other really super hardcore promotion that I can think of.
I can't really make a great comparison to an event in particular, but basically I'm trying to get a sense for what type of matches they use to build feuds, instead of just payoff matches. Maybe I'm not understanding properly, but it seems like in a setting like ECW, most matches involved weapons, but not necessarily going to the lengths of an FMW deathmatch, or even all that crazy, unless it was supposed to be between either two legends (Sabu-Funk barbed wire) or a big payoff match. So... I guess the closest comparison would be an episode of RAW, except that japanese TV doesn't have that type of stuff.
It depends what era of FMW you are going for really. Their late entertainment era stuff was different from their middle period which in turn was different from their early period in terms of matches, the level of violence, the kinds of workers and the focus of the promotion.
Also, since FMW was not really the most TV friendly promotion, most of their "middle of the road" shows would have been the shows than ran on tour which generally don't seem to be available in complete form.
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"Just announced: "Jersey Shore" star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi will bring the party to WWE Monday Night Raw March 14 as the Raw Guest Star!"
I... 'll skip... that episode actually...
Maybe she can get punched in the head again. By Everone on the roster.
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You know, from what I heard, Dixie's a pretty nice person... and you know, somewhat naive.
And according to Paul London she is hot and 25 years old.
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Except knees are devastating... too devastating, if you ask me. If you ever seen a knee in a clinch or even an Ubereem knee, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, I was mostly joking (mostly because there are times when I think a UFC match needs a few knees to the head to make things more interesting) but in general yeah, they are a bit much. I once kneed a guy in the head by accident while playing football and good lord did his face look a mess
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Gan McGee kneed Brad Gabriel half to death with them in 2000, a commission member was watching and promptly outlawed them.
Damn commission always trying to hold a playa down.
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Fun show, that. Every fight had something interesting. I fell in love with Brian Ebersole. His ridiculous moves should had earned with a quick kicking, but the guy has some skill beneath the cartwheels. Dug him.
I cheered Bisping's illegal knee. Cheating? Yes. But he was the guy I was rooting for, so Yay. Everyone else watching hated ol' pillow-hands, so I was not the most popular guy in the room when I screamed "Knee him again!" shortly before the TKO.
I scored the main event 10-9 BJ, 10-9 Fitch, 10-8 Fitch. The draw saddens me, but I can kinda see how it's possible.
Yeah, I agree with most of this. It was a pretty good show from top to bottom and was something different compared to most recent UFC shows. Ebersole was awesome, really fun fighter who was entertaining as all hell. Bisping's illegal knee was weird but at least it was something different and it kind of made me wonder why shots like that are illegal when they would be so gosh darn effective. Main event results was disappointing, Fitch deserved the win quite clearly in my book. Not my favourite style of fighter but he was all over Penn.
Didn't mind seeing Siver win either since I don't really like Sotiropolous as being the guy UFC was trying to set up as their number 1 Australian fighter. Siver's balance was unbelievable.
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Y'know...I keep hearing Rey is retiring and he keeps on "not retiring"
If I were him I'd tour Mexico for big $$$ for a year and then come back for one more run. His in-ring work hasn't suffered, and he's still over. Unless he's dying to hang 'em up, I don't see where there's this NEED to retire.
I would disagree so strongly it may involve violence
I don't think I have seen anyone's ringwork suffer MORE than Rey's. The guy is a shadow of a shell of his former self and if I never saw him wrestle again it wouldn't bother me, which, when you consider he was possibly my favourite guy ever at one point speaks volumes as to how far he's fallen. The dude's knees prevent him doing anything, he's become pretty slow, he only does maybe 3 moves over and over again in every match and he is nowhere near as flashy, exciting or creative as he once was. And he is even worse live. -
I don't think it's the same think but I'm not going to pick nits.
For the record, I agree with Mr. Hilton. I really don't see any lucha influence in the WWE, Del Rio is pretty much working a regular US entertainment style, Rey hasn't been a lucha style worker in forever and the overall style, atmosphere, presentation etc of the WWE is pretty far removed from Lucha in my opinion.
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If you haven't seen it already track down the super bloody Mutah/Hase match from 1992. It's violence done right and something every wrestling fan should see.
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I've also heard hedidn't know Paul London & Brian Kendrick wore masks till they entered the ring for that same amount of time. I think he just might not pay close attention to the tag-team division.
I also remember a story from a few years ago when McMahon passed a monitor backstage, saw Kacey James on TV for a few minutes, figured he was one of the local job guys and said "Hire that man!" not realizing he already worked for them.
To be fair though, I can fully understand McMahon not paying huge amounts of attention and leaving a lot of the booking and day to day stuff to other people and instead focusing on the overall direction of the company.
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The monster push almost always works. Take a guy like Otunga and once he gets more experience and is a little better in the ring. Turn him face and let him destroy everyone in Nexus 1 by 1. First month he goes against the lowest guy. Then the following the next guy up. Then the 3rd month both of them in a gauntlet match. Followed by the big guy (whoever it is at the time) and then the leader.
I don't know if Otunga could be a mega draw but I think people have already shown some interest in him character wise. With improvement that guy could make some $$$ I think.
Otunga fricken sucks and pushing a pansy like him as a monster would make me cry. He might have a decent look (but decent is about it) and some basic charisma but he is horrible in the ring and I could not buy him as a monster. Dude is Nathan Jones level in the ring and Jones was way more believable as a monster. WWE fans might be able to go for it but I am not the least bit concerned with anyone's enjoyment but my own so screw what they think.
But for once, it's a show where real people are actually themselves. Mike Crowder is one of those types of guys who could run any company and have everyone from the mailroom guys to the board members, ready to jump on a grenade if he needed them to. In a world of reality shows devoid of reality and people thinking they're hot stuff because they got knocked up at 16 and someone pointed a camera at them as a result, it's nice to come across a project where the people are themselves, not what they think will look better 'on the teevee'.
The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*
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This sounds like a reasonable enough explanation but doesn't the entertainment industry itself come with it's own set of rules and regulations?
Also, does anyone remember when I think it was Raven was trying to take WWE to court over the status of it's wrestlers being deemed "contractors" rather than employees. Does anyone know what happened with that if anything? Because it all just seems like the further WWE tries to move away from being a wrestling company and legitimize themselves within the entertainment industry the more likely it is the way they deal with talent will have to change.