Everything posted by El-P
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Shoots Review and Preview thread
And it kinda shows when looking at his matches actually.
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Nick Bockwinkel
I knew someone was gonna drop Tenryu on my ass. But hey, Tenryu is an odd cat. That being said, at this point I'd rather watch Brock in his 50's than Flair in his 30's. He's just that much more compelling to me (and I'm a Flair fan).
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Nick Bockwinkel
Considering how great he was at 50, we could assume he smoked Flair in his 30's.
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Ricky Santana
I remember that horrendous match of his as Iceman in IWA Japan on the King of Death Match card. I do think he had some decent stuff over there though.
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Jerry Blackwell
Kinda like the mix between a short One Man Gang and a proto-Mick Foley (those bumps as a heel). So yeah, really good worker. Although he had the very annoying habit as a babyface of doing no-sell hulk up/lawler up comebacks, which always suck no matter who you are. So I prefer him as a heel. Better than Bigelow, no doubt. Vader ? Nah. Decent match. Nothing special at all. It's Blackwell, a ladder and a tool. Granted, that tool took one nice bump at the end, but he really doesn't bring shit in term of anything else, really. DeBeers is like Jimmy Golden with an offensive gimmick.
- Dean Malenko
- Isamu Teranishi
- Bobby Fulton
- Kuniaki Kobayashi
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Dean Malenko
One of the most overrated worker of the 90's. Worked in a vaacum. Kicked out of his own pin attempts so he could do cool looking sequences. Worked better as a fiery babyface, but he needed a solid heel who would push him. Great mechanic involved in some great matches, but not a great worker by any stretch of the imagination.
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French catch
Ah, my father told me once that when he was a teenager he and some friends would sneak in to watch Le Bourreau de Béthune and L'Ange Blanc.
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Riki Choshu & Yoshiaki Yatsu
Like a shoot of cocaïne in the arm of tag-team Japanese wrestling. Amazing.
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Arn Anderson & Ole Anderson
Ole was way too boring and un-bumping.
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Ted DiBiase and Stan Hansen
Is this the tag team from AJ where Hansen looked like gold (as he usually does anyway) and Ted looked like a dull and unimpressive worker ?
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The Rockers
Terrific team. The Rock'n Roll updated. Shawn Michaels at his peak (controversial opinion, but there you go). Pretty good longevity too all things considered.
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The Rock 'n' Roll Express
Better than the sum of its part. Morton was an all-time great worker. Gibson was okay and looked like crap. The tag team was awesome. And despite looking totally outdated, they could still deliver during the MNW era, as showed by matches on Nitro and Raw. Yeah. Pretty terrific team, and the picture perfect 80's babyface team.
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The Steiner Brothers
Bomb throwers. Couldn't work a proper tag team match worth a shit. Overrated as hell.
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Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi
Awesome team. But I prefer Kawada & Taue. Still, just an out of this world tag team.
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Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada
Both were overrated, especially Yamada, and I always enjoyed their opponents better, in pretty much every situations. Tons of great matches though.
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Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki
Awesome team when they worked together.
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The Sheepherders
Underrated brawlers. I'm talking about Butch & Luke. Plus people forgot that when they got into the WWF, they were already past 40 and reinvented themselves pretty efficiently. Yeah, love me some Bushwhackers too actually. Not seen enough of the other formula, and Rip Morgan kinda sucked anyway.
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Demolition
Double ax handle. Double as handle. Zzzzzzz….. Great SM look and theme song. Too bad they couldn't convey the fact they were truly demolishing their opponents though. But still not as boring as the Fabs.
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Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue
Greatest team ever ? Yeah ? Yes.
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The Rougeau Brothers
The Rougeau heel stuff is pretty cool and annoying in a good way (kinda like Larry Z). I'd need to watch their Montreal stuff. I got the feeling Raymond is pretty underrated.
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Footloose
Awesome awesome team. Yeah, the Kroffat/Furnas series is insane. Kawada was still searching himself but was already one hell of a worker and Fuyuki worked harder than ever at this point.