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June Wrasslin’ |OT| IT’S SUCH GOOD SHIT
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I mean, fair game to TNA. They made women's wrestling amazing back when WWE was peak divas, and they still don't get enough credit for that. Wouldn't be surprised if they pull this off too.
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They dont get credit because it mostly has to do with how they ran the division to the ground. overbooked the beautiful people, refused to pay gail kim so she left for WWE (the money she wanted was the same amount they paid jenna morasco... yeah.) Then they ran out Kong, put men as knockout champion. There is more. But yea, they had a great women's division but they destroyed it at thee end.
True enough, sadly. It's a damn shame too. They had it all with young, original talent. I really do hope AEW stays the course.
Hey come on Kong was her own fault because of the Reby stuff.
Whoa.... never thought I would see FURY mentioned in a wrestling thread
I must've missed this but lol
Removing the tryhard bullet club nerd shit is a good thing at least
Removing the tryhard bullet club nerd shit is a good thing at least
no no no. the first time she left when Hogan and his goons came in TNA and her incident with bubba.
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wish it was out on pc
Also, watching the OSW recap of that era of TNA sort of illuminated that it was pretty dogshit with women and sort of fumbled into having that division
samoa joe, LAX, MCMG, women's division, gail kim vs awesome kong. most of the things that were hot in TNA they fumbled upon. They just ruined them when Russo "wrote" for them. sigh... stop making me relive TNA guys, thinking about how much talent this company wasted is making me depressed/angry.
If we're going by gifs:
Oh, what might have been.
god I love that gif
Occasionally, intergender matches can be really good. Though this isn't always the case (Veda Scott and Asuka/Kana have some pretty good intergender matches), the best intergender matches tend to be the ones with bigger women IMO.
For instance, years ago there was a wrestler named Hailey Hatred. She was really good altogether, but her intergender matches used to be great because her physicality was intense.
To me, they are just like any other match style, some people are good at them, others aren't.
One of these themes is good. The other is ironically good. RoH remains the worst.
Compared to smaller shows, absolutely not. And AEW at least has fucking pyro.
Man, Callihan's really trying to get that Moxley match so people will actually care about him, huh?
Orange Cassidy vs Kylie Rae is one of my favourite matches of the year. When the match-up is good, I don't personally think it matters what gender the competitors are, and if you can buy Mysterio beating giants then you can buy a woman defeating a man. Also, it's pro-wrestling, it's not a fight - there are rules to mitigate physical disadvantage, if properly paid attention to. No closed fists, for example.
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I've only heard the new record but the show was pretty sick
Guitarist is the guy behind these shows. I've been to a few and they're a unique fun time
hell yeah, now I can just say Bullet Club sucks without any qualifiers
I'm a true believer that legit pushing indergender wrestling as something good, fun and normal would actually help narrow the gap between genders in a bunch of aspects, it means more exposure and bookings for women, potentially better pay (which the indies desperately need), and would overall improve/increase the development of female wrestlers.
Having said that, this is all from the persepective of a man, so maybe I got my shit wrong and/or I'm being naive on certain aspects of how women get treated in the wrestling industry and I'm open to be educated.
Having said that, this is all from the persepective of a man, so maybe I got my shit wrong and/or I'm being naive on certain aspects of how women get treated in the wrestling industry and I'm open to be educated.
Before the July Wrassle thread is up one last fun thing.
Kawato San in CMLL on excursion got a belt.
Kawato San in CMLL on excursion got a belt.
Yes. I'd rather watch that than Corbin vs Seth. Or Ziggler vs Kofi.
The Elite vs Lucha Bros/Laredo Kid felt like it had 0 story telling to it. It literally just felt like 6 guys put together choreographed spots and just hit them for pops. Which I get is fine, people love that stuff and it gets the Twitter GIF fans, but it just really kills the vibe for me in a match.
AEW is perfect friend, it's the best wrestling ever in the history of wrestling.
AEW is perfect friend, it's the best wrestling ever in the history of wrestling.
Can't tell if you're trying to do a bit, or not but yeah I"m not going to just drink up those kind of matches because FIGHT FOREVER type shit. Fenix is talented, Omega is talented, those matches can be a lot more than they are.
It was a black hole for great talent. People I liked would go there. I'd give it another shot and it would be unwatchable nonsense.
I mean... You're watching a promotion with 0 TV. The only reason Cody vs Dustin worked is because they're brothers. I didn't like Omega vs Jericho, but at least they had over a year of history from NJPW. That Lucha Bros match is this kind of half-baked feud like everything else in AEW at the moment. Laredo Kid just popped out of nowhere. Until they get TV and have storylines going you're going to get little if any storytelling.
Fuck that Charlie Morgan news really sucks :(
Hope she can recover long term, not to wrestle, just so it doesn't give her issues when older. This shit ain't worth it.
Hope she can recover long term, not to wrestle, just so it doesn't give her issues when older. This shit ain't worth it.
no bit, I agree with you, and I think theres major rose tinted glasses syndrome going on with AEW just because of the hatred towards WWE. People out there saying AEW is the best wrestling in the world, when I havent seen anything remotely close to NJPW, or even NXT tbh (oh no the horror). And let's not forget people defending the unprotected chairshot to the head. But hey, opinions I guess.
And I actually liked that tag match heh. The Mox vs Janela hardcore shit did nothing for me tho, but those never really did anything for me in any promotion.
I think about people like NIkki Bella with herniated discs and cysts on the brain and neck surgery and shit then think about guys like Dragon Lee, Janela, Kodaka, Takeda, Ibushi etc etc and I just don't know how. Could be that Nikki doesn't know how to bump or whatever but even then its just.. I dunno.
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Well, you're trying to compare 3 shows with an established history of brands. It's not really fair to say people have rose tinted glasses and that nothing compares. AEW has a much more diverse show than both NJPW and NXT between actual talent, and their in-ring styles. That's more interesting to me than WORKRATE champs NXT
And I don't know who was defending the chair shots here, and hell even on Wreddit. Most people seem to feel the entire spot as wholey unnecessary, and did not need a chair at all to get the message across.
Let's clarify. Are people saying that about FyterFest, or were they saying that about All In and Double or Nothing. The latter two are great, and I'd definitely put them over your average NJPW event if only because they have a working tag division. I start my watch of every NJPW event by skipping the meaningless ass tag matches. They're also better shows than NXT, though I'll come back to that.
There are doubtlessly people eager to crown AEW as the best promotion, even if that's unreasonable to do until they have TV and we can see how that works. But I don't think thats as common a sentiment here.
In any case, with FyterFest there's more frustrating stuff than All In or Double or Nothing. I don't know who booked that Cody/Allin match but it sucked. Allin crawling around most of the match isn't a great showcase. It's reminiscent of the match Cody had at All In, except that had pomp and circumstance and a title belt involving Cody's lineage. (It also had a good boy in it.) This had nothing.
Having said that, I appreciate AEW's willingness to take chances. Hunter has turned Takeover into a science. Take five matches, four of them involving titles, turn them into a PPV you have 4-5 times a year. It's amazing and Takeover has not disappointed in 25 shows. But. It's formulaic. It denies other feuds certain relevance if they don't involve a title. The women never get more than one match.
AEW is continuously changing and figuring things out, and I like that. But yeah, I can't act like FyterFest was untouchable in the way the first two were. And I don't expect Fight for the Fallen to be it either.
It's almost as if... they're getting their bearings...
The July thread is now up at https://www.resetera.com/threads/july-wrasslin-ot-fuck-this-shit.126635/
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