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NintendoLogic

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  1. NintendoLogic replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees
    Have you not seen 2/28/93 vs. Kawada or 7/29/93 vs. Kobashi? I consider those to be the two best matches of his career.
  2. NintendoLogic replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees
    As I recall, the story on Henry is that he really sucked his first few years but improved a lot after going down to OVW to be retrained.
  3. NintendoLogic replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees
    What "really good stuff" did he do besides doing well in a limited role?
  4. NintendoLogic replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees
    But having carte blanche to go out and have the best match you can isn't worth much if you suck. What indication do we have that Haku would've had main event-caliber matches if the bookers had taken him off the leash?
  5. NintendoLogic replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees
    In what ways was it harder? Be specific.
  6. I think "great match" is being defined too narrowly here. A match doesn't have to be a 30-minute main event epic to be great. There are plenty of matches that go less than half that that I would consider great. Given that, I think lack of great matches is absolutely something that should be held against someone.
  7. My top four of Jumbo, Misawa, Kawada, and Kobashi is pretty well set in stone. After that, it's pretty fluid.
  8. Real talk, playing hide and seek with an imaginary foreign object is the dumbest shit ever.
  9. NintendoLogic replied to Grimmas's topic in Nominees
    I'm pretty sure I've seen every notable Flair match (I haven't seen the Brody broadway, but you'd have to put a gun to my head to get me to sit through that), and I've found that the ones that are held up as being not typical Flair matches end up being basically typical Flair matches. The ones where Flair is a babyface are obvious exceptions.
  10. Of the nominees who currently have threads, I'd tentatively rank them as follows: Jumbo Misawa Kawada Kobashi Flair Funk Bret Eddy Hansen Santo Liger Tenryu Aja Rey Hokuto The group between Hansen and Hokuto is a total crapshoot for me. I could see myself putting them in literally any order.
  11. This is the first time I've seen Charlotte in action, and I have to say that I really dig her touring heel champ act. She has a viciousness about her that I like a lot. So naturally, they're apparently turning her face.
  12. Superstar Billy Graham is far more culpable in that regard, and he was one of the inaugural inductees. So I doubt that's the main thing holding JYD back.
  13. NintendoLogic replied to Smack2k's topic in WWE
    I was wondering what they'd do with the guys whose signings they made a big deal about. Like, it seems weird to announce that you've signed Fergal Devitt and then have him show up in NXT as Mickey O'Malley.
  14. NintendoLogic replied to Smack2k's topic in WWE
    Not in Rey's current state.
  15. Dave once said that every old-timer he talked to besides Bret and Austin thinks Punk is shit. So I don't see him doing very well among former wrestlers. Also, there are plenty of perfectly logical reasons to oppose Daddy's candidacy.
  16. Here's what Meltzer wrote about the R&R's HOF candidacies back in 2009:
  17. I think that to be a big match worker, you need to be able to craft a satisfying narrative arc, which requires a strong grasp of things like psychology and structure. Regal never really demonstrated that-at least, not until recently.
  18. The problem with ECW isn't that it was bad wrestling (though it certainly was that). It's that it made wrestling as a whole significantly worse. The damage ECW did to American wrestling can hardly be overstated. The supplanting of traditional brawls by stunt wrestling and the rise of annoying fans who do everything they can to put the focus on themselves are arguably the two most appalling trends of the past two decades, and they can both be traced back to ECW. And it's not like it produced tons of greatness to counterbalance this legacy. In fact, I can't think of a single positive trend that it bequeathed. ECW's rightful place is on the scrap heap of 90s trash culture alongside the likes of Jerry Springer and Marilyn Manson.
  19. Why should an announcer put over everyone and everything as great? After all, not everyone and everything is great. Even the thickest fan realizes this, so when announcers try to pull the wool over the fans' eyes so blatantly, it hurts their credibility. Jim Ross had enough respect for the intelligence of his audience to use code words like bowling shoe to signify he realized that something was completely unsalvageable. I've argued before that when someone like Gorilla tells you that Hulk Hogan is the world's greatest professional athlete, it carries more weight than when it comes from someone who thinks everything is amazing. And I would submit that getting Hogan over is more important than getting Van Hammer over.
  20. Don't forget LA Park vs. Mesias from 12/5/10. Possibly the best AAA match ever, for whatever that's worth.
  21. Some guys just can't handle PWO.
  22. My favorite incident involving the over the top rope DQ rule is from Flair/Windham at Battle of the Belts. Flair tosses Windham over the top rope while the referee is distracted, and Mike Graham explains that the rule is necessary because that sort of thing leads to serious career-threatening injuries. While he's doing this, Windham pops up without a scratch on him and goes up to the top turnbuckle to do a missile dropkick.
  23. Pleasure-Promos where the heel insults the local sports team. Always puts a smile on my face. Displeasure-Shoot style. All of it. I just don't see the appeal of a fake fight where guys do nothing but kick each other and roll around on the mat when the real thing is readily available. Then again, I have no interest in the real thing either.
  24. The only 90s All Japan match I know of that bears even a remote similarity to MMA is Kawada/Albright.
  25. The risky highspots never really went away. In fact, it seems to me that they've increased to compensate for getting rid of blood and chairshots to the head.

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