NintendoLogic
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Any payoff was going to be weak. The laptop ended up being a deus ex machina to move the storyline in whatever direction they wanted any given week. That's the risk you run when you don't have a clear end goal and just make things up as you go along.
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I do think we're seeing a gradual shift in the philosophy behind the women's division. Filling the division with bikini models when you can do Playboy shoots and swimsuit videos is one thing. But when the product is PG and none of them can work, what is there for them to do besides host Kiss Cam segments during commercial breaks? And the WWE schedule is a huge pain in the ass if you don't have a passion for the business. So the Maxines and Bellas of the world are increasingly deciding it's not worth the hassle and walking away.
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I think talking about a feud needing the belt is backwards thinking. The primary goal of a promotion should be to get its titles over, and removing the TNA world title from its centerpiece feud does the opposite. Personally, I would've liked a Savage/Steamboat deal where Storm gets back at Roode by taking the one thing that means the most to him.
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I feel like TNA put itself in a position where all its options were suboptimal. They pretty much had to put the belt on Aries the way they built it up, but it kind of takes the steam out of the Storm/Roode program.
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Has the NFL been strongly influenced by MMA in recent years? The EPL? John Do you have a point? MMA is a sport. If it's a sport of such great influence, you'd think the Big Boys of Sport would be influence by it... rather than say... Entertainment Companies. John I was talking about professional wrestling promotions being influenced by MMA, not MMA's influence in general. Anyway, I think the MMA in ROH thing is being overstated. It's not like Kevin Steen and the Briscoes are busting out rear naked chokes. It's coming from guys like Davey Richards and Kyle O'Reilly who are already marks for the stuff. That's also why I think blaming Cornette for it is a mistake.
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That there's no market for it now that the real thing is readily available.
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Isn't this true of shoot style in general? I certainly think so, but not too many people here seem to agree.
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Has the NFL been strongly influenced by MMA in recent years? The EPL? John Do you have a point?
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Every promotion has been influenced by MMA in recent years. ROH just doesn't have the talent to draw nationally.
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The point I was trying to make is that struggling promotions are like a Rorschach test. A lot of people will decide that whatever they don't like is the reason the promotion is struggling. Some people see an ether soaked rag and conclude that ROH sucks because it's become Smoky Mountain of Honor. Others see a Hybrid Fighting Rules match and conclude that ROH sucks because Cornette is drinking Meltzer's MMA Kool-Aid (I really wish that talking point would die).
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I think it's funny that one group of fans thinks Cornette is trying to turn ROH into Smoky Mountain while another group thinks he's doing too much faux MMA.
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I haven't pored through all the 1992 Observers, but in his writeup of that year's Bash, Dave says that Jushin Liger "was nowhere near his usual level but probably wasn't allowed to be anyway."
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It made sense if he was going for the Double-Chickenwing. Not if he abandons it once they start to pick up the pace.
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It's one thing to work holds if you're going 60. But five minutes of arm work in a 15 minute match is a bit much.
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Steamboat's arm work is one of the things I like least about him. It never led to anything and was little more than filler.
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I think mid-90s Shawn had good punches. I don't know why he largely abandoned them in favor of chops after his comeback. Anyway, we've been over this before, but Shawn is pretty much in the same boat as Ricky Steamboat in terms of having relatively weak offense. It's true that Steamboat was presented as a skilled wrestler who could get a pinfall at any time. But Shawn had the Sweet Chin Music as his great equalizer. And Shawn was facing guys significantly larger than him more often than Steamboat, so being able to knock someone out was more important than being able to roll someone up.
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At the risk of starting this discussion again, there's a pretty big difference between having a temporary rush of adrenaline to fuel your comeback and disregarding targeted limb work so you can get all your MOVEZ in.
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I don't really like this question. It automatically excludes Japanese and Mexican wrestlers, and within the US, the list of guys who are both all-time great workers and all-time great talkers is pretty short. It's pretty much just Flair, Lawler, Austin, Eddy, and maybe a couple of other guys.
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I'm pretty sure it's always Lombardi who plays Doink and Kim Chee and any other role you can just stick anyone into.
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The Japanese wiki apparently says that people being pissed off by AJW shows running late and causing them to miss the last train was one of the things that killed the 90s joshi boom. Fair enough, but that has nothing to do with how entertaining the shows were. That'd be like calling Wrestlemania X-7 the worst show of all time because the Austin heel turn was a factor in the decline in the WWF's business.
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If you want to make sweeping pronouncements about Shawn's career arc, you should probably watch his 1996 matches.
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Having watched Blood on the Sand, I'd put it above the Rockers match from the 91 Rumble.
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I had said in the past that the ladder matches didn't hold up that well, but I was going off old memories. When I rewatched them recently, they held up surprisingly well. I'm still opposed in principle to matches where physically beating your opponent is a secondary goal, but they were mostly worked like pseudo-Last Man Standing matches where the focus was on the ladder as a means of incapacitating the opponent rather than a vehicle for stunt bumps. I prefer the first one. The second one is almost as good, but Shawn blowing off the leg work hurt it a lot.