03-09-2022, 05:15 PM
|
#4021
|
|
UnModerator
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia.
|
There is nothing to deny the physical dexterity and effort required for the spots they do. The issue isn't that they look easy or bad, the issue is they look stupid in the context they're done and then they're usually completely no sold by the guy receiving them making them look even more dumb. Every match has the guys working like a hulked up Hulkster with the ability to just ignore everything.
__________________
THANK MR DEMKOCPHL Ottawa Vancouver
|
|
|
|
03-09-2022, 07:07 PM
|
#4022
|
 Posted the 6 millionth post! |
Jeff Hardy debuts.
Jeff Hardy debuts with the HARDY BOYZ theme!!!!
|
|
|
|
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Ozy_Flame For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-09-2022, 07:52 PM
|
#4024
|
|
Norm!
|
Meh, Jeff Hardy just has never interested me all that much.
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
|
|
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to CaptainCrunch For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-09-2022, 08:00 PM
|
#4025
|
|
Norm!
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Bingo . . . The thing I have noticed in the spot-fest era is too much 'prep' time to get ready for a move. This is why classic moves, fast-paced action, chain wrestling, and strikes are so much more believable.
Seven guys linking arms and waiting almost a full 10 seconds for a turnbuckle bodydrop spot is just . . . . ugh.
|
It drives me crazy to be honest, it sucks me right out of the match, to the whole, this looks stupid and fake.
I also hate the whole 8 person suplex things that they do in things like rumbles.
I like a bit of realism in my wrestling, its why I loved guys like Vader because they looked like they were actually pummelling someone (and in his case he was). Or Bret's work, he bought a huge amount of realism to his matches.
AEW to me is to much and I hate to use the Cornette term. Indy ####. Blood is cool and all, but things like Blood should be saved for matches that really matter. 8 million flips looks stupid especially if the person can't do a punch or kick to save his life.
It just feels like nobody is trained in Ring Psychology. Every Wrestler gives that and the term story telling, but the newer wrestlers have no idea what it actually means.
Paul Heyman talks about not needing a lot of this get all my cool moves #### in. Not when a good story telling smart wrestler can make a sleeper look like the most devastating move ever.
I still remember in Stampede Wrestling and I loved this. A wrestler would actually be submitted with a sleeper. Yeah I know. And then after the match the Wrestler would have to be worken up or as Ed would scream "Brain damage could occur".
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
|
|
|
|
|
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to CaptainCrunch For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-09-2022, 08:06 PM
|
#4026
|
Posted the 6 millionth post! |
I'll take a Vader vs. Flair or Sting match any day of the week over spot-fests.
It's funny. Sammy Guevara doing a Spanish Fly or 540 splash does not have nearly the same impact to me as a Vader Bomb or a Flair Figure-Four.
|
|
|
|
|
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to Ozy_Flame For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-11-2022, 09:41 PM
|
#4027
|
|
aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
|
Welp.... apparently Pete Dunne debuted on Smackdown tonight as a lackey for Sheamus named Butch. And during the match between New Day and Sheamus/Ridge Holland, Big E took a belly to belly from Ridge and landed on the top of his head. He was stretchered out and in his video from the medical facility, he said he broke his neck.
Last edited by CMPunk; 03-11-2022 at 09:44 PM.
|
|
|
|
|
03-11-2022, 11:33 PM
|
#4028
|
|
Norm!
|
Absolutely frightening, I thought the worst when his body stiffened up after he landed on his head. Glad to see that he posted that he could move his digits and his strength felt fine.
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
|
|
|
|
|
03-11-2022, 11:36 PM
|
#4029
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
|
|
|
|
|
|
03-12-2022, 08:08 AM
|
#4030
|
|
Powerplay Quarterback
|
__________________
Sent from an adult man under a dumpster
|
|
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to darockwilder For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-12-2022, 03:41 PM
|
#4031
|
|
Norm!
|
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
|
|
|
|
|
03-12-2022, 09:51 PM
|
#4032
|
|
First Line Centre
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
|
The best part about this is to the fans shocked pikachu faces, Jeff took the time to dance on the ramp on his run in while Matt, Sting and Darby were getting their faces pounded in
|
|
|
|
|
03-13-2022, 10:17 AM
|
#4033
|
|
Norm!
|
https://wrestlingheadlines.com/scott...heart-attacks/
Quote:
WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall is reportedly on life support at the Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, GA, according to PWTorch. He suffered three heart attacks on Saturday night.
The WWE Legend previously fell and broke his hip which led to him being placed in the hospital. Per the report, he underwent hip surgery last week, but he then suffered a serious setback when a blood clot got loose.
|
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
|
|
|
|
|
03-13-2022, 11:48 PM
|
#4034
|
|
First Line Centre
|
Prayers for the bad guy. Absolute legend. Come on Scott, kick out on 2!
|
|
|
|
|
03-14-2022, 07:44 AM
|
#4035
|
|
Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
|
Really not looking good for Scott Hall:
Quote:
The family of Scott Hall -- the wrestling legend who was one of the famous founding members of the NWO -- will "discontinue" his life support on Monday ... his good friend Kevin Nash announced.
Nash, who wrestled with Hall in the WCW and helped form the NWO with the 63-year-old in the late 1990s, said doctors will end Hall's life support "once his family is in place" later Monday.
"I'm going to lose the one person on this planet I've spent more of my life with than anyone else," Nash wrote on his social media page late Sunday night.
"My heart is broken and I'm so very f***ing sad. I love Scott with all my heart but now I have to prepare my life without him in the present."
|
https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/14/wwe-l...n-nash-mourns/
__________________
"If Javex is your muse…then dive in buddy"
- Surferguy
|
|
|
|
|
03-14-2022, 09:05 AM
|
#4036
|
|
Norm!
|
Very sad to read, and all from a surgical blood clot. It sounds like the Bad Guy had really turned his life around, so at least the last few years of his life were probably a lot better. But the guy was an absolute legend in the ring during his early WWE days and right up towards the end of his WCW days.
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
|
|
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to CaptainCrunch For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-14-2022, 09:09 AM
|
#4037
|
Posted the 6 millionth post! |
I'm putting Ready or Not by the Fugees on loop today in honor of the Bad Guy.
His ladder match with Shawn Michaels at Summerslam has influenced modern professional wrestling in so many ways, laying the foundations for some of the talent you see today.
|
|
|
|
|
The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Ozy_Flame For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-14-2022, 09:54 AM
|
#4038
|
|
Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I'm putting Ready or Not by the Fugees on loop today in honor of the Bad Guy.
His ladder match with Shawn Michaels at Summerslam has influenced modern professional wrestling in so many ways, laying the foundations for some of the talent you see today.
|
I am going to watch that tonight.
His 1996 debut on Nitro was something else.
|
|
|
|
|
The Following User Says Thank You to the_only_turek_fan For This Useful Post:
|
|
|
03-14-2022, 11:41 AM
|
#4039
|
|
Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
|
I had no idea this thread existing. I was a HUGE fan 1993-2001.
Do you guys listen to the Conrad Thompson podcasts? Something to Wrestle With, Grilling JR, and others?
Scott made such an impact in 1996 with his appearance on Nitro after the Curtain Call. The start of the Monday Night Wars.
|
|
|
|
|
03-14-2022, 11:45 AM
|
#4040
|
|
Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta
|
Speaking of that era is this more of a Bret crowd or more of a Shawn crowd?
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 02:40 PM.
|
|
