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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
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@stockcar86 said in WWE Network:
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
Those guys are far too normal looking. Where are the natural Andre sized Giants and chronic steroid abusers ?
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@mn5 said in WWE Network:
@stockcar86 said in WWE Network:
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
Those guys are far too normal looking. Where are the natural Andre sized Giants and chronic steroid abusers ?
WWE, that's why they are going away from wrestlers from other companies, and training ex-footballers and other athletes instead. It goes in a cycle (every few years, Vince gets a bee in his bonnet), but never works that well because the great wrestling booms in the past have been built on experienced wrestlers from other companies, not home-grown athletes turned wrestlers.
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Watched AEW All Out. The best PPV wrestling show I have ever seen. So many amazing matches.
Here is the tag team match - Lucha Brothers v Young Bucks. Surely the match of the year so far. Damn, you can really feel the emotions in the crowd during that match. Match starts 5 minutes into the video
