Everything posted by El-P
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Comments that don't warrant a thread 2010-2011
Morley is one of those guys that is really good in the ring, but should be better off shutting the hell up about any other subject.
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Rock-Austin WrestleMania XVII
What he said. Yeah. The Austin heel turn was a bad idea because it probably was a bad time, and they fucked him by making him HHH's little buddy, but as a moment, that ending was just amazing, it's brutal. A great wrestling moment.
- [1996-08-02-NJPW-G1 Climax] Riki Choshu vs Shinya Hashimoto
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[1996-08-19-WWF-Raw] The Stalker vignette
That was cheesy as hell, but it was part of wrestling's charm. A thing that is lost today. Who the fuck came out with this idea though ? Windham was pretty out of shape, and he really didn't do anything worthwhile before getting into Blackjack mode. Yeah, I'm the only person who loved the New Blackjacks...
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[1996-07-16-RINGS-Maelstrom] Volk Han vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka
This reminds me how much I used to adore RINGS. The most beautiful wrestling matches I've ever seen come from this promotion. Selling is not an important part of the style, I guess it takes some time to get used to it. It's really a different kind of wrestling, but it's wonderful when done by guys like Volk Han, Khosaka or Tamura.
- [1996-02-12-WCW-Nitro] Interview: Ric Flair, Woman & Elizabeth
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[1996-03-25-WCW-Nitro] Interview: Ric Flair
Woman looked ridiculously hot. Flair along Woman and Liz was so right on every level.
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- March 25
- 1996
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- [1996-03-11-WCW-Nitro] Road Warriors vs Rick & Scott Steiner
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[1996-01-01-WWF-Raw] Billionaire Ted
Self hatred. That's also why he hates wrestling as a whole I guess, because when you think of it, the best US wrestling comes from the South (Mid-South, Memphis, Crockett). No ?
- [1996-10-27-WCW-Halloween Havoc] Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage / Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper
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[1996-01-01-WWF-Raw] Billionaire Ted
One character was Russo ? Amazing, I never knew. Which one was he ?
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Dave Meltzer stuff
I loved the Model gimmick. Martel wasn't given very much opportunity to shine with it, but he also said in his shoot interview that although he loved the gimmick, his mind wasn't focused as much on wrestling at the time, as he was getting into real estate business. Lance Storm on WOL (and the context was, Lance was bitching about poorly written movies) : "Porn is like lucha, it doesn't need too make sense".
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Johnny Mantell creates $100,000 "pro wrestling as gymnastics" tournament con
Pro-wrestling as figure skating already exists. It's called ROH. Anyway, it's a stupid idea. I would guess Mike Oles would like it (yeah, I'm showing my age).
- [1996-06-16-JWP-Extreme J Night] Dynamite Kansai & Kanako Motoya vs Mayumi Ozaki & Reiko Amano
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Forgotten Good Workers/"Hey I Thought This Guy Was Supposed To Suck?"
I should have known.
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[1996-07-07-WCW-Bash at the Beach] Sting & Lex Luger & Randy Savage vs Scott Hall & Kevin Nash & Hulk Hogan
Schiavone and Jesse are my favourite WCW announcing pair. I never really felt he gelled with Bobby right from the get go, but it's a damn shame that Schiavone became so loathed during the Monday Night Wars. I love Schiavone/Jesse too. The problem is that Heenan really didn't care during the Monday Night War days, and it showed. Tony worked much better with Dusty or Jesse. Once he stopped caring and became cynical, Tony got bad, but it's stupid to remember him only for his last few years. At his best Tony was excellent.
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Forgotten Good Workers/"Hey I Thought This Guy Was Supposed To Suck?"
I was about to ask the same question. Very underrated worker, and no, he never got his dues, and never got the push he deserved in the US. What are you watching from Perez : Japan, PR, US ?
- [1996-07-07-WCW-Bash at the Beach] Sting & Lex Luger & Randy Savage vs Scott Hall & Kevin Nash & Hulk Hogan
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Forgotten Good Workers/"Hey I Thought This Guy Was Supposed To Suck?"
Yes. She was quite good in the '93 interpromotional stuff I've seen. But she wasn't in any of the highest-profile bouts, and JWP is much much less watched than AJW. The few I've seen from Mighty Inoue from the late 80's early 90's was quite good. Talking about JWP, Commando Bolshoi is a damn good worker that was considered a dud because of the clown gimmick. But she's quite the trooper, and apparently was still a quality worker in the 00's from what I heard.
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Indiana man sues WWE...
This lawsuit craze is so retarded.
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Forgotten Good Workers/"Hey I Thought This Guy Was Supposed To Suck?"
Joshi has been pretty much forgotten as a whole. I never was under the impression Bull was underrated or anything. I always heard of Bull as being as great if not better than Aja. Ditto for Ozaki, who's been pimped nonstop for ever. I can see why people would not like Masami much because of her late SuperHeel antics, but anyone who's seen Devil even as late as the early 90's knows she was awesome, not to mention her 80's work. Kyoko and Kansai have been pimped as great workers forever too. Yagi is not exactly the lost 90's super worker, as she was always referred to as a great worker, it's just that people didn't pay attention. The last lost great worker of joshi puroresu was Naomi "The Bloody" Kato. No one watched Jd'. Really, as far as joshi worker go, Kandori fits the bill perfectly, she was way better than she was pimped to be in the late 90's when I got into puroresu (the opposite of Hotta). Cuty Suzuki was much better than she was ever given credit for. Asuka has been exposed years ago as a sometime spectacular (in a highspot sense) but formulaic, spotty and selfish worker. One day I'll watch joshi puroresu again. I guess.
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Comments that don't warrant a thread 2010-2011
Holy shit, that's pretty heavy. Hopefully Saturn turned his life around for good now, but hearing how you can fall off the cliff so easily is pretty scary. Glad the man is alive and getting well.
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Vince McMahon vs. The World
When did Vince take over Montreal from Dino ? Was that an important market as well ?
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Dave Meltzer stuff
Superstar Billy Graham, JYD were pretty shitty workers.
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Acknowledgement of wrestling history
I think Gorilla called Carlos Colon a youngster too in the Rumble 93. Of all people, Gorilla screwing up with Colon's legacy ?