Loaded being cancelled really is shit but on the plus side they're back in Milton Keynes soon. :drool:
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Loaded being cancelled really is shit but on the plus side they're back in Milton Keynes soon. :drool:
This changes everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Dolph Ziggler 'flakes' on a date, person makes an eleven minute video about him. Proper meltdown stuff this.
I'm struggling to input the video properly, so here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK6s4eC5GE&sns=em
Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK6s4eC5GE&sns
She's colossally irritating.
He was too busy selling.
BOOM!
That show wasn't amazing but it was okay. Just seemed to have a few pretty boring endings. Was Bliss/Bayley botched? I couldn't work out if they brought the kendo stick down before they were supposed to and that's why it was short.
Brock vs. Jeff, though. :drool:*
* Assuming they're not going to have Jeff do two minutes of some moves and then get squashed.
I thought it was okay. It definitely helped that I stayed away from reddit and the news sites over the past few weeks so I had no idea who the favourites were.
I enjoyed the main event. The tag match seemed like a mess that wasn't thought out properly. The Kalisto v Titus v2 was actually really good.
The mixed tag match was shit (when aren't they?), the womens match was decent. I'm pretty sure Alexa smashed Bayley across the chin at one point, which was unexpected.
I thought the women's match made Bayley look idiotic and weak.
Does Seth Rollins ever actually hit the phoenix splash? Or is it just a means for him to land-and-roll?
Bayley has looked idiotic and weak since she was called up, so it's spot on really.
tag team cage escape matches are fucking stupid. i realised that when i was about 12 playing here comes the pain, I'd always make sure the CPU controlled team would have a guy escape first.
Exactly what I was saying the whole time. Why wouldn't you let one guy out and just beat the other one? Agreed the match type just doesn't work. That said, they carried it off.
Bliss Vs Bayley was one of the worst matches I've seen in a long time. It seemed to serve no purpose, and not only did Bayley look stupid, so did Bliss in the opening moments. "Oh... I've lightly thrown Bayley to the mat... that'll keep her down long enough to get the stick, may as well climb to the top and then stand there and wait for her to chuck me off".
That whole match was a fucking tragic waste of time.
The cage match and the 5 way were decent enough though and saved it from being a total waste of time.
Dominion card is stacked.
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Special Singles Match
Cody Rhodes vs Michael Elgin.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Roppongi Vice vs The Young Bucks.
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
War Machine vs Guerrillas of Destiny.
NEVER Openweight Title
Lumberjack Death Match
Minoru Suzuki vs Hirooki Goto.
IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Tetsuya Naito vs Hiroshi Tanahashi.
IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega.
I just watched (most of) Wrestlemania 33 again, and the Brock v Goldberg match really was better than I remembered. I'd say I enjoyed it more than any match other than Shane v AJ. They really nailed it.
I've seen a few things about Wrestlemania since and seen quite a bit of praise for the Lesnar/Goldberg match and I don't really get it. It was fun, I guess, but it was a quick spotfest built around Goldberg being old and shit.
Social media reckons Okada v Omega 2 is the greatest match of all time. Cannot wait to have a peak at it.
Edit: Cody Rhodes v Okada is on for Long Beach
A year or 18 months or whatever too late I watched Okada vs. Tanahashi the other day, which I believe was the first of what feels like about 90 best match evers we've supposedly had since (because if the wrestling fan community loves one thing these days, it's rendering praise and criticism equally meaningless with constant overreaction.) It was a great match and compared to the current WWE style of guys getting bored after ten minutes (if you're lucky) and starting to trade finishers I enjoyed the pacing a hell of a lot but I don't quite get the pants-wetting excitement it got at the time.
However I don't watch any NJPW so it was completely bereft of context so maybe that doesn't help.
I thought Okada v Omega 1 was easily the best match I had ever seen. I do understand what you are saying in that the praise can appear to be over the top but NJPW are going through their Golden Age much like the WWE did in the late nineties only this time the in ring Wrestling is so much better.
I wanted to watch the Tanahashi one first, I will endeavour to watch the Omega one from last year soon.
I've just watched Okada vs Omega II. It didn't come close to the first (actually the best wrestling match ever, shut up Ian :baz: ) but it was still pretty awesome.
Here's a video about the first one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP_cgLWth24
Why is Sami Zayn suddenly being allowed to look good? Are they planning to hit the Syrian market once Jinder loses the belt?
Samiz Ayn.
Not often you hear something like that.Quote:
After 19 years, a dumb Vince Russo idea has culminated in the biggest boxing match of all time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...NB&sh=1adc8690
Has anyone watched the Eric Bischoff/Jim Cornette Table For 3? Basically, what happens is Cornette tells Bischoff why he's spent twenty years SEETHING about him, Bischoff tells him that he has his facts wrong, and then Cornette haha yeah mates his way through the rest of it as his entire reality crumbles in his head.
I've come to realise Cornette's massively retarded.
"You can't have the heels signing autographs! FUCK!"
His rants are a bit lol, but if he was in charge it would still just be fat blokes stiffing each other in front of fifty racists.
Or harassing fast food staff.
The mutual hatred of Russo saw them through.
Cornette is entertaining but he is a bitter loon.
Built to Destroy has been pretty good so far. Free trial of What Culture Extra if you sign up by Monday which allows you to watch it and all their old PPVs.
I saw a What Culture thing the other day going, "Actually, WWE haven't lost much by letting Cody Rhodes go." And then other stuff saying the exact opposite.
I've not watched any of his matches since leaving, be they the WCPW or NJPW ones, is there a consensus forming?
He's been pretty great in all the indie matches I've seen, I would think it was immediately obvious that he was being wasted by WWE. I always thought he was great anyway though so I'm a bit biased. I suspect he'll do a Galloway and go back in a few years.
Yea Cody has been pretty great in WCPW whenever I've seen him.
Swords of Essex Vs Prospect was absolutely fantastic tonight. Will Ospreay is just on another level to everyone else. Some questionable booking decisions particularly Kirby Vs Ligero but all round a decent show.
Do any of you lot remember the Brawl for All from about 1995? Seemingly the Mayweather v McGregor fight will be for the lineal Brawl for All title, which is probably my favourite ever piece of fight trivia.
Disco posted it up thread. It's amazing.
Is it right then? It isn't for any sort of boxing title so they should go big on that in the promos and introduction, along with Mayweather breaking The Big Show's nose and McGregor doing whatever he did in Call of Duty.
I don't think it'll play a big part in their marketing strategy. :D
Brawl for All was a real 'boxing' contest the WWE ran with it's own wrestlers in 1998. It was a complete disaster that basically killed the career of Dr Death and left them with a nobody midcarder as the winner. He was then knocked out by Butterbean in about 4 seconds (I'm not exaggerating there either) at Wrestlemania. Along with the XFL it's one of those thing WWE will never mention or acknowledge ever again.
It's on the line as a result of bizarre crossover contests though, so they should embrace the circus. They're hardly likely to lose anyone planning to buy it if their marketing strategy involves an organisation significantly less theatrical than either of the fighters.
His go around with Elgin at Dominion was very solid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
This is just the fighting version of the UFWC. Bolivia beat Nicaragua to retain that recently. :cool:
Brawl for All was just a way for Russo to see Bradshaw put in his place.
Sky Sports are doing some Attitude Era throwback thing. Stone Cold v Bret Hart is on at the moment.
If it's not the Ironman match from 97(?) then it should be.
WWE Hall of Fame injuries include Sid's leg breaking, Joey Mercury's nose exploding, Taka Michinoku's arm falling off, Bart Gunn's wobbly head after being knocked out by Butterbean.
First ever women's MITB ladder match!
Non-wrestling male "comedy" valet retrieves the case. Good work, everyone.
Jeremy's a decent enough choice to win the men's one.
At least it's not Santino.
It's best with Stone Cold talking over it.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
http://dailymotion.com/video/x2ap2si...mmentary_sport
I know it's all the same these days but Sid went all David Busst on WCW.Quote:
Originally Posted by wullie
Sabu taping his arm back together is right up there with Mick Foley ripping his own ear off to avoid being strangled by the ropes.
It's all WWE canon now so it's in like them putting Sting in the regular one, made even better by the way he had to lie there with his leg hanging off while Road Warrior Animal waddled in to stomp him to death.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco
I wonder was Tamina scripted to look like a total fucking moron in that tedious womens group promo thing on Smackdown?
Charlotte says she's going to hit Natalya so hard she'll look like James Ellseworth. And then Tamina says.... basically exactly the same thing to Charlotte.
Also that Nakamura / Ziggler match was far better than the one they had on PPV.
Tamina's attempt at a Superfly splash brings more disgrace to the Snuka name than that time he killed his girlfriend.