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@Kruse said in WWE Network:
@Godder said in WWE Network:
@MN5 said in WWE Network:
@Godder does anyone still actually watch it ? Surely not compared to all the characters and glory days of the 80s and 90s
I do, but only PPVs, not the weekly stuff so much. NXT was great for a period, but isn't my cup of tea currently. Royal Rumble is the next PPV, so I'm sure that will be fun.
This... every 3 or 4 months, on a weekend, sitting at home feeling particularly stupid/hungover - I'll download every PPV since the last one I saw, and waste a few hours. Often skipping through most of the shit actual wrestling.
I fucking love me a Royal Rumble... even if you can pretty much write the script yourself ahead of time.
- Gimmicky old character makes an appearance... who's it gonna be this year? The irish dwarf? Some old guy? The italian guy with the sock puppet?
- Some big/power player comes in, cleans the ring, dominates for a while
- Somebody eliminates somebody else, who throws a tantrum, and eliminates the first guy from outside the ring... creating a brand-new feud
- Tag-team partners work as a team, until finally one eliminates the other from behind
- Kofi Kingston makes some ridiculous move to save himself from being eliminated, probably jumping from the ringside barrier back onto the ring
It was bloody good in 1989 when Demoliton drew numbers 1 and 2 and had a battle, they then teamed up on Andre the Giant who was 3 !!
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@MN5 said in WWE Network:
@Godder does anyone still actually watch it ? Surely not compared to all the characters and glory days of the 80s and 90s
I caught an episode of smackdown or raw over the break when I just came across it on tv one night. Still find it odd with no crowds but there seems to be more special effects etc now. The show had Triple H fighting Randy Orton which I was quite looking forward to but some stupid shit went down... Triple H got out a sledge hammer from under the ring, the lights all went out and then the sledgey was on fire. Then some random emo looking chick came in and shot something from her hands into Randy's eyes and he was farked and the show finished. Was all rather odd!
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@JK said in WWE Network:
@MN5 said in WWE Network:
@Godder does anyone still actually watch it ? Surely not compared to all the characters and glory days of the 80s and 90s
I caught an episode of smackdown or raw over the break when I just came across it on tv one night. Still find it odd with no crowds but there seems to be more special effects etc now. The show had Triple H fighting Randy Orton which I was quite looking forward to but some stupid shit went down... Triple H got out a sledge hammer from under the ring, the lights all went out and then the sledgey was on fire. Then some random emo looking chick came in and shot something from her hands into Randy's eyes and he was farked and the show finished. Was all rather odd!
Yeah - with the no-crowds thing, they've taken the opportunity to take the bullshit-level to another... well, level.
I suspect the sledgey-on-fire thing is a remnant of the last PPV, where the final match was a "whoever sets the other guy on fire, wins". Fucking ridiculous. But, fair play, with the lack of crowds - they were able to do something where it really did look like he sprayed petrol all over the other guy, and his entire body was on fire.
Brings a whole new emphasis to the classic...- Kids, do not try this at home.
Undertaker fought a "bury the other guy alive" match a while back, in a farm yard, including throwing each other off barn roof, etc.
The antics of the "comic relief" level people... fuck. Just, cringeworthy... and that's with a starting point of "I'm watching professional wrestling". -
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@stockcar86 said in WWE Network:
I didnt know Christian was still wrestling? Had seen a few of the others had made a comeback, particularly Morrison
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@jk I mostly watch AEW these days - only the PPV events for WWE. Christian turned up at the Royal Rumble last month.
IMO, AEW has the better wrestlers (Rey Fenix, Orange Cassidy, Hangman Page, Sammy Guevera etc) plus better matches/storylines. They are way more innovative too. WWE's innovation seems to be limited to bringing back Goldberg...
There is an awesome womans elimination tournament underway in AEW. The first round of the Japanese half of that is available on AEW's YouTube page. Some amazing wrestling. Maki Itoh is incredible
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On last weeks Dynamite Paul Wight gave the teaser about a big signing "future hall of famer" to be revealed in today's PPV. My money is on Christian, or (hopefully) CM Punk. I'd really like it to be Okada. Just please not Kurt Angle...
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@godder said in WWE Network:
I see Paul Wight aka the Big Show in WWE has just signed with AEW.
I saw Big Show in a ( terrible ) movie set in Prison. When you see him up against people who are normal sized it really brings home what a monstrous human being he really is.
Also pretty damn agile for his size and strong as a fucken ox.
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Interestingly it looks like he has joined AEW as a commentator, not a wrestler. Probably a good move not to take too many more bumps at his age after many years of wrestling.
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@mn5 said in WWE Network:
@godder said in WWE Network:
I see Paul Wight aka the Big Show in WWE has just signed with AEW.
I saw Big Show in a ( terrible ) movie set in Prison. When you see him up against people who are normal sized it really brings home what a monstrous human being he really is.
Also pretty damn agile for his size and strong as a fucken ox.
He is legitimately massive and it comes through in interviews too.
On the strength, when he was in WCW as the Giant, he had a match with John Tenta (Earthquake in WWE) in which they got the leverage on a bodyslam wrong (the wrestler being slammed is supposed to lever off the other wrestler's leg, a bit like a handstand) so Wight just muscled him over anyway. Tenta was around 450-500lbs (around 210-235kg) and a former high level Sumo wrestler, and Bobby Heenan was legitimately impressed on commentary.
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@godder said in WWE Network:
@mn5 said in WWE Network:
@godder said in WWE Network:
I see Paul Wight aka the Big Show in WWE has just signed with AEW.
I saw Big Show in a ( terrible ) movie set in Prison. When you see him up against people who are normal sized it really brings home what a monstrous human being he really is.
Also pretty damn agile for his size and strong as a fucken ox.
He is legitimately massive and it comes through in interviews too.
On the strength, when he was in WCW as the Giant, he had a match with John Tenta (Earthquake in WWE) in which they got the leverage on a bodyslam wrong (the wrestler being slammed is supposed to lever off the other wrestler's leg, a bit like a handstand) so Wight just muscled him over anyway. Tenta was around 450-500lbs (around 210-235kg) and a former high level Sumo wrestler, and Bobby Heenan was legitimately impressed on commentary.
Good old YouTube, at about 3.29 in..........The Quake did help him but still, what an insane feat of strength none the less.
I still reckon of all the guys I’ve seen that the Warlord is the best put together, most physically imposing I can recall. It’s a wonder the Powers of Pain weren’t considerably more popular than they were.
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HUGE news. Kenny Omega competing for the Impact World Championship at Rebellion
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I'm getting bored with wrestling, might take a break.
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@stockcar86 said in WWE Network:
I'm getting bored with wrestling, might take a break.
AEW:
I got bored from about 1998. That’s when they cracked down on them and they had to stop taking roids.
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Just watched Summerslam, then watched the latest AEW Rampage.
The opening match from Rampage was so much better than anything in Summerslam. This is just from a weekly tv show, not a PPV.
This video just shows the last 5 minutes of the match, which had action like it for the full 15 minutes. The quality of wrestling is so much better in AEW than WWE at the moment.
Lots of reporting recently that WWE's strategy is to take big guys and teach them wrestling, and that they have ceded the recruitment from the independent circuit to AEW, and its partnerships with Impact and NJPW.
I know what I would rather watch
