switchbladeera
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Post by switchbladeera on Oct 4, 2024 12:28:25 GMT -5
Pls nobody report this stuff cuz cryptic butt plug has me genuinely in tears laughing.
Re: ospreay that's what I mean by subjective. What Jmann said is a very valid criticism and opinion of his style. Personally, I love the gymnastics and no selling. Feels like an athletic ballet and I like that with the right wrestlers. No selling always made sense to me cuz like if I'm in a fight, I don't want to show the person I'm fighting that they've hurt me. I want to act like nothing is affecting me and just keep fighting back. Likewise the collapses at the end of sequences made sense in that regard too. Done just enough to keep them down for a minute and then you catch your breath before you try to strike again. But, all subjective my thoughts on it aren't worth any more than others just the way I see those types of matches and why I really enjoy them.
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Post by K5 on Oct 4, 2024 12:59:06 GMT -5
I agree that Ospreay is the best in the world right now, but the choreographed gymnastics mixed with all the no-selling is absolutely ing terrible. And it happens every match. that’s pretty endemic throughout aew down to the indies and is for sure an issue. the work rate has gone through the roof in the last 20 years, but psychology and working the crowd has suffered as a direct result Jake the Snake said that he didn’t yell in 80s promos because every other guy already was. stand out by doing what the others aren’t. that’s why MJF stands out - while everyone is trying to be hyper athletic and fit destroyers and apron bumps and dives into every match, MJF can talk the crowd into a frenzy, which is becoming a lost art.
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Post by switchbladeera on Oct 4, 2024 13:44:01 GMT -5
Nooooooo 😭😂. Glad I screencap'd it, a memory I'll have forever 😂.
Taz is gonna be out for a while, getting knee replacement surgery. Hope he recovers well those things can be really gnarly on the recovery end.
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Post by TKO Propagandist on Oct 5, 2024 5:46:23 GMT -5
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Post by switchbladeera on Oct 5, 2024 13:31:22 GMT -5
It must be killing him that not only are they out lasting nitro, they're making more profit too. That said I'm feeling like I wanna go on a bit of an old school wcw rewatch kick some night soon. Just, not the shockmaster.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Oct 5, 2024 15:11:08 GMT -5
It must be killing him that not only are they out lasting nitro, they're making more profit too. That said I'm feeling like I wanna go on a bit of an old school wcw rewatch kick some night soon. Just, not the shockmaster. As a WCW fan, it's been bad enough to live through 20+ years of WWE revisionist history. Now because of Bischoff, WCW gets further used as a joke because AEW has outlasted Nitro and Thunder. Tribalism from two companies and their fans have now taken WCW even further into oblivion.
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Post by TKO Propagandist on Oct 5, 2024 15:25:48 GMT -5
WCW 96-97 & AEW '19-21 have earned their place in the top 5 greatest periods in wrestling history for a company in terms of quality.
It's just sad that WCW 99-2000 is number 1 for the worst period. But no matter what online oldheads say, AEW 22-present hasn't come anywhere close to that in a million universes. WWE 2018-2021 isn't far off tho
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