Everything posted by Phil Schneider
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Good Will Wrestling #1
Should be out next week. We will be leaking the match list on the radio show
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Ridiculous quotes from WO.com columnists
SLL has written for Segunda Caida. Telling him he needs to publish on the WON page is like telling someone who wrote for the New Yorker to go write for US Weekly
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Jim Cornette: The Rookie Year Vol. 1 & 2
Anyone know if there are going to be any previously unseen matches?
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The New Japan 175
That 4/23 match is sitting at 175 on my ballot, it stunk and wouldn't have made the set if it wasn't so famous
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Comments that don't warrant a thread
Yeah 86-89 is totally killer, shorter matches too which helps. I really thought some of the North South matches dragged, but there are a ton of 7-12 minute slugfests in the last third of the set.
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January 4
It's been this shitty for ages. Don't forget: there also was a NJ Tokyo Dome with NJ vs NOAH matches on it. If it were 01/04/97 and even a *normal* NJ Dome show, let alone a NJ vs AJ theme, we would have seriously given a shit about it. John Lucha really sucks now too.
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The New Japan 175
Reading some of the comments so far on DVDVR, it is amusing to me how much of smkelly's whining has been discredited by what people are saying. He was bitching about two of the TM v. Dynamite matches being left off, meanwhile that series has been savaged by people watching, with most people wondering why we put on as many as we did. The Black Tiger v. TM match we put on has been universally panned, I can't imagine anyone wanting to see those two lock up again. Meanwhile Rocco v. Fujinami has finish at the top of some peoples first disc ballot, and both TM v. Hamada and TM v. Wright have been widely praised.
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The New Japan 175
Either Kengo Kimura or Hoshino
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2009 WON HOF thread
Dusty didn't suck in the ring, and I really don't imagine most people would argue that he did.
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Most overrated "quality" in a wrestler?
Don't forget "he throws good punches". Always an easy out for us. I don't think anyone's arguing that Jimmy Valiant is a good worker. Does his comedy shtick well, but does everything else poorly. "It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it".....the way Jimmy does a lot of stuff stinks, so I thing the saying holds true. Rayo I don't see the problem. I thought we were past the whole "aging CMLL main eventers of the 90's suck by default" thing. To be fair to the Boogie Woogie Man, he was clearly pretty washed up in the 80's. Going through the Memphis footage there was clips of 70's Valient were he looked like a pretty dynamic brawler.
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Who Is Better?
Here is one Briscoe Brothers or British Bulldogs Really a pair of teams who work very similar, and I can't see much of an argument for the Bulldogs, and I am not even a huge Briscoes fan. Your best NOAH Briscoes tags smoke the NJ Bulldogs stuff, WWF Bulldogs never had any matches as good as the best ROH Briscoes even thought they had better opponents, and Marc v. Jay is way better then the pretty terrible Dynamite v. Davey Boy match.
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Who Is Better?
Let me third the comments by NJ 80's set brethren. I haven't watched 90's Choshu or Hase in a while, but in the 80's it isn't even close. Choshu is a huge star in epic, amazing matches, Hase is the fourth best junior in the late 80s. It would be like comparing Ric Flair to Chris Champion.
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The Flair Formula
I am in the midst of trying to watch the 60+ nominated matches I have on my list to finish up the NJ 80's set, but after I do that I will dig up the match and rewatch it.
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Joey Styles' Twittering:work or real?
You can tell his views on the purpose of military intervention based on a wrestling angle?
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Wrestling Myth Busters
He called blacks subhuman and denied the holocaust. Racist isn't a term I tend to throw around lightly.
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DVD #3: MS-1 vs Sangre Chicana
Where did you get a copy of that from?
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The Flair Formula
I am pretty shocked that you liked this match, this didn't seem like a different strokes for different folks type match, but a pile of shit with both guys blowing spots and looking like crap. I liked the headlock section, but otherwise it was a trainwreck.
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Good Trope/Bad Trope
Tom Renesto worked as a heel match maker in Memphis in 1985
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Comments that don't warrant a thread
I got a copy of it a couple of months ago, actually thought it was terrible. One of the worst matches I have ever seen either guy in
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The interesting Dave Meltzer posts thread
Who on that board isn't an idiot? F4W may be the worst wrestling board on the internet. Think about what that covers.
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The Paul London Thread
To be fair, I haven't seen any of either guy for at least 18 months, but the only top class matches London has are 2/3 Falls v Dragon and the street fight with Michael Shane, and I'm not even sure how far they would hold up now, it's been so long since I watched them. I don't think I've ever seen Sydal have an actively bad match, and his match against Rave at Final Showdown is better than anything I've seen London involved in except the two matches I mentioned. Sydal is a much better sympathetic face, sells better and his execution is second to none. London can be pretty good, but he hasn't the personality or x factor to hold my attention. I don't think he ever had the potential of a big fanbase in WWE either, he isn;t as good looking as Sydal (women), his moves look less flashy (kids) and was never particularly 'cool', though to be fair on that count few wrestling characters are. I don't see what unique selling point he brings to the table, whereas I can clearly see that with Sydal. London is also Mexican and thus doesn't posses the Aryan pure blood of Sydal right?
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Comments that don't warrant a thread
Pearce is terrible, I am not a fan of ROH overkill wrestling at all, but Pearces booking has been total shit, and he seems to have no idea what the audience want. ROH feels like Russo WCW or end of the line UWF at this point.
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20 Years Ago - WON 07/04/88
What Fargos are the Fargos?