Snakes In The Ball Pit => How I choose to spend my time => TeeVee => Topic started by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 06, 2015, 11:51:03 am
Title: Real talk 'bout fake Wrasslin'
Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 06, 2015, 11:51:03 am
So, after hearing a few mentions of pro wrestling on here and on the podcast, I'd figure I'd start a thread to discuss pro wrestling, one of the best/ dumbest things ever.
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Post by: Emperor Jack Chick on February 06, 2015, 12:04:45 pm
I saw Mick Foley do standup. It was mostly weird wrestling stories.
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Post by: crow on February 06, 2015, 01:06:14 pm
I got copy of "Legends of Mid-South Wrestling" (the territory in Louisiana and the rest of the central South) in a secret santa, and I'm enjoying it. It's got Junkyard Dog, Ted DiBiasi, Magnum TA, the Road Warriors, young Jim Ross and lots of others. It's pretty cool, and the psychology is fantastic.
Also, everything in this Earth is really dumb, so wrestling is just really cool.
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Post by: Isfahan on February 06, 2015, 06:42:32 pm
Wrestling seems like one of those things that was cool to make fun of, then became cool to like ironically, then became cool to appreciate as a smark.
My interest in it started and stopped with making custom wrestlers of people I know in the WWE video games and using indie-wrestling documentaries to people-watch.
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Post by: Tiny Prancer on February 06, 2015, 07:10:07 pm
I'm not really a fan of wrestling but it kind of fascinates me for how utterly silly it is and how totally seriously it plays that silliness. It's kind of sad that the glory of 90s wrestling has passed, but it's hard to have people be unironically in love with something like hulkamania now. I feel like wrestling plays itself best when it just straight-up treats itself like it's superhero stuff, to be honest. (I think Mexican masked wrestling gets that better than american wrestling does, but then again considering how many masked wrestlers were nuns and priests doing it to save the various orphanages they worked at it kind of comes with the territory.)
also, if we're talking about wrestling, might as well post this:
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 06, 2015, 08:14:32 pm
It seems to me that a lot of people grew out of wrestling as kids once the "magic" was gone, but come back to it once they realize how much work and production goes into it. Learning things like how some moves are gimmicked, learning behind-the-scenes craziness, and being able to look at stuff now from a "smart" perspective is real fun.
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Post by: crow on February 07, 2015, 02:16:25 am
I fucking hate smarks. They take all the fun out of it. Sorry to tell you this, but wrestling isn't just about workrate. If it was, Dusty Rhodes wouldn't have gotten over. It doesn't matter how smart you feel, a mark's a mark.
For all of you that don't understand how it can be loved from a pure sport perspective, check out New Japan Pro Wrestling. In Japan, it's treated like a real sport, so there's only bare bones gimmicks like "a guy that likes wrestling," "a guy with a lot of money," "a guy that is flamboyant" and "a young up-and-comer." Up until recently, all title matches started with the Japanese national anthem. Guys actually hit each other in the face, and actually mat wrestle for 30-50 minutes. Check it out on DailyMotion.
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Post by: Acierocolotl on February 07, 2015, 10:21:32 am
I used to like wrestling as a kid, ain't gonna lie. It was my favourite Saturday morning cartoon. Evil doers brought to justice with bodyslams! Perfect kid's entertainment.
Geremy Tibbles, maybe a couple years back, turned me towards this Chikara league. Some of it is really absurd, and that's fine--they're beyond ridiculous. But when they actually wrestle, there's some impressive athleticism on display. Forget everything else, those guys really know what they're doing and it's an amazing spectacle.
El Generico springs readily to mind.
(And I have a fondness for Five Dollar Wrestling, which is basically the F+ of the ring.)
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Post by: Fatty Bo Batty on February 07, 2015, 12:11:58 pm
I agree, smarks are the fucking worst.
Botchamania is the thing that got me back into wrestling in a big way.
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Post by: crow on February 07, 2015, 03:29:31 pm
I used to like wrestling as a kid, ain't gonna lie. It was my favourite Saturday morning cartoon. Evil doers brought to justice with bodyslams! Perfect kid's entertainment.
Geremy Tibbles, maybe a couple years back, turned me towards this Chikara league. Some of it is really absurd, and that's fine--they're beyond ridiculous. But when they actually wrestle, there's some impressive athleticism on display. Forget everything else, those guys really know what they're doing and it's an amazing spectacle.
El Generico springs readily to mind.
(And I have a fondness for Five Dollar Wrestling, which is basically the F+ of the ring.) Acierocolotl, February 07, 2015, 10:21:32 am
Chikara is the best Lucha in the world now that the Mexican feds are dead.
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Post by: Cheapskate on February 08, 2015, 12:25:21 am
When I was in Japan, I visited a DDT show at Korakuen Hall. One of the title matches was a Blindfolded Lingerie Match between two men. As near as I could tell, one of them challenged the other to this match because he thought the other guy didn’t know how to unhook a bra.
The previous night’s DDT show featured a match between two wrestlers who showed up at the arena very tired, so they held a Last Man Awake match. They brought a futon to the middle of the ring and one competitor successfully pinned the other onto the futon, tucked him in, and sang lullabies until he fell asleep.
What I’m saying is that DDT is great.
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Post by: crow on February 08, 2015, 08:40:13 pm
The posters of ballp.it are a bunch of roodie-poo candy asses and the crow is gonna take your posts, shine em up real nice, turn em sideways, and shove them straight up your candy asses
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Post by: crow on March 30, 2015, 12:47:52 pm
Wrestlemania was really good. Workrate was fine, lots of good psychology. Brock vs. Roman vs. Seth was great, a match of the year contender. I agree with Big Dave and Bryan who said it's one of WWE's best PPVs ever
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Post by: jorty on September 06, 2016, 04:47:32 am
There's some NJPW guys coming to NZ later this year and hoo boy I really wanna go. ;w; http://www.sakuranz.com/
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Post by: Cheapskate on September 06, 2016, 03:52:18 pm
One of the highlights of Beer Garden every year is at some point we get a ghost story. This year the goal was to scare Yukio Sakaguchi with a spooky tale. Sakaguchi refused to be involved but was forced by the others to enter the ring. The lights went out and Danshoku Dino took out a flashlight. He shined it over his face and explained the challenge to Sakaguchi. Different wrestlers will enter the ring Royal Rumble style and it’s up to them to scare Sakaguchi with their tales of horror. Sakaguchi will have to pin or submit someone to stop the stories and end the match. DJ Nira snuck up to Sakaguchi and gave him a fright to start the contest. Nira began his story about a summer beach camp but Sakaguchi jumped on him. Kouki Iwasaki was next but his story about the old inn next to the old high school was also cut short. Soma Takao wanted to tell his tale based on a real life experience with a futon but Sakaguchi wanted none of it. At this point Sakaguchi was so scared he was lying down flat on the canvas. Dino then produced pictures of Keisuke Ishii’s parents onto the screen behind them followed by a loud scream. Sakaguchi flipped out and attacked everyone in the ring until Dino caught him in a Lip Lock. Daisuke Kiso was going to count Sakaguchi out but stopped himself because it was his turn to tell a story. His story involved an apartment dweller watching a policeman drag a woman smeared with blood into his car. It ended up scaring everybody in the room. Makoto Oishi was the final entrant but his story was actually just him gossiping about a wrestling buddy who went on a date that ended with a night in a hotel last Christmas Eve. Dino asked what made that a scary story? Oishi said it’s because the woman lied about liking his friend and that’s scary. Sakaguchi finally had enough and put Iwasaki in the Cobra Clutch so he could end the damn contest. Sakaguchi said he probably felt okay after that. He held a toast for the fans but was interrupted by a blackout followed by a distorted video on the screen of a creepy woman saying “Cheers”.
More evidence that DDT is the best. (https://dramaticddt.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/ddt-beer-garden-fight-2016-shuten-doji-day-results/)
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Post by: jorty on September 07, 2016, 01:53:25 am
How do you watch DDT stuff because it sounds like something I'd love a lot oo:
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Post by: Cheapskate on September 07, 2016, 02:18:10 am
You can see some of their matches on their Youtube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/user/ddtofficial)
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Post by: jorty on September 07, 2016, 10:01:04 am
You can see some of their matches on their Youtube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/user/ddtofficial) Cheapskate, September 07, 2016, 02:18:10 am
Who is LiLiCo and why is she perfect? ;w; Also thank you for the link!!
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on October 05, 2016, 03:52:13 pm
So this Lucha Underground thing ain't bad
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Post by: znarf on October 17, 2016, 02:13:29 am
But who else has seen Kaiju Big Battel live?
eagerly awaiting Kenny Omega vs Rainmaker
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Post by: Eider Duck on November 11, 2016, 11:07:17 am
So seeing wrestling live is so much different than watching it on TV
I went to the taping of WWE Smackdown in Glasgow this week, and my god, the crowd was lively as hell. I heard the crowd was a bit muted on the broadcast but believe me, they never shut up for about 2 hours (Apart from when Baron Corbin came out. Which made it pretty funny when he slipped on the apron. The moment he did that, a chant of "YOU FELL OVER" broke out, no sympathy whatsoever.)
The dark matches involved a fight between Dean Ambrose and AJ Styles, which was pretty fun. At the start AJ took of his shirt and tried to toss it into the crowd, but because his throw was weak it landed pretty far from the barricade. Didn't stop one eager guy from trying valiantly to grab the shirt by tipping himself over the barrier. He didn't succed but my goodness did he try. I also loved Breezango showing up in kilts
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on January 14, 2018, 09:03:45 pm
Nick Gage is maybe gonna kill someone irl
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on March 20, 2018, 07:11:11 pm
Daniel Bryan is back bayyyybeeeee
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Post by: Eider Duck on March 24, 2018, 11:10:55 am
And now there's a chance that at some point The Miz will get his head kicked off like it was a football!
I also hope Daniel Bryan and Nakamura face off at some point. That's the Daniel Bryan match I'd love to see happen the most.
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Post by: positive stress on March 24, 2018, 11:08:53 pm
hi I never post on here anymore but I've watched some NXT and some Smackdown and the Royal Rumble and it's dumb as hell but pretty entertaining and my friend literally wrote his master's thesis on Daniel Bryan and I'm v excited to see him do the wrassling okay bye forever
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Post by: Eider Duck on April 09, 2019, 01:37:06 pm
The Kofi/Bryan match at this year's Wrestlemania might be one of the best matches of 2019. What a rollercoaster of emotions. It was fucking awesome
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on September 03, 2019, 05:42:51 pm
Chris Jericho lost his title belt because he wanted to drink at a chain steakhouse. We stan one king
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Post by: Eider Duck on September 10, 2019, 10:46:41 am
And the belt wasn't actually stolen, but possibly left on the limo roof like you'd leave a coffee cup on it when getting into a car.
I'm so glad that AEW made Jericho the champion now!
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on October 02, 2019, 07:56:15 pm
First episode of AEW Dynamite pretty good so far, Pac vs Page is a nice matchup
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on October 02, 2019, 08:32:36 pm
Oh shit that Riho vs Nyla match delivered, Nyla had a sick spot where Riho was gonna hit her from the top rope but got deadlifted.
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on October 02, 2019, 08:48:52 pm
Probably my one complaint would be a lot of end of match interruptions, obviously they gotta set feuds up, still real killer
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Post by: Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop on December 26, 2020, 08:42:53 am