I've just started getting into Tuesday Night Titans, it might be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. The "At Home With Dr. Schultz" stuff from the first episode is just fucking staggering.
man why does no one ever talk about Dr. David Schultz? I mean I know it's because he punched that photographer or whatever so that's what people remember, but Jesus, the guy was fucking magnetic! I thought he was just an average hick, I didn't realise his charisma was so off the charts?
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 16 July 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
xpost can't forget about Cena vs Edge (my favourite was the TLC match at Unforgiven '06 in Edge's hometown, which was like the precursor to the more famous match vs Punk), at least one match vs Eddie Guerrero, the triple threat vs DX, the first Rock match mainly for the spectacle ...
It's true that the monthly PPV model is played out, especially in the era of monthly themed PPV. The storylines are timed around the PPV, when it should be the other way around. Two guys fight inside Hell in a Cell not because they hate each other and want to settle their long running feud, but because it's the gimmick of the month. Cena's "fighting champion" storyline avoids all that crap, people are dying for something different.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 19 July 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
Guys the Prime Time Players have been sneakily getting really very good while I was looking the other way. Helps no doubt that the New Day are really good (everyone should check out Xavier Woods doing his hype-man thing in this match - "Worst. Legdrop. Ever.") but yeah, Prime Time Players have somehow turned into a thrilling big-man little man combo, Darren Young was doing actual good wrestling and took a couple of vicious bumps. Titus O'Neill could get very over indeed if they keep protecting him like this.
Orton / Sheamus was completely fine, rescued by the hometown crowd going mad for everything Orton did (also because Randy Orton is AWESOME), Reigns / Wyatt going on third. Maybe I'm riding a pleasant buzz off the previous match but I am cautiously optimistic, I feel like both these guys but especially Reigns are starting to know where it's at in PPV matches.
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 00:53 (nine years ago) link
woods crawling on the floor to taunt young and then clapping like a baby is the best wrestling match of 2015
― qualx, Monday, 20 July 2015 00:59 (nine years ago) link
Haha, so yeah that was misguided optimism, they're not doing very well here
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
had this one pinned as a possible mini-show-stealer but yeah it's just standard roman match vs standard bray wyatt match
― qualx, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
i guess roman matches are only good when he's a serious underdog (brock) or when he can be dominant and cocky (big show)
those seem to be the only times he loosens up
― qualx, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
It got better to be fair. there were a couple of cool moves (they did a reversal spot off that Roman Reigns apron dropkick that was nice) but I'd hoped for more.
Ah Luke Harper, thank fuck for that
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Man Sasha/Charlotte/Nikki triple threat getting 15 mins here would be a fucking TREAT, I'm not used to feeling this way about divas matches
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
YES this makes me happy right now, I think I am enjoying this PPV... oh wait it's Brie, sure that'll do i suppose
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
oh wait yeah i remember Brie Bella is the one that sucks
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
lol I quite like the Bellas as personalities but Brie just isn't from the same planet as these two, it's actually pretty interesting, kinda like past vs future of the divas division
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
eurgghh what did Charlotte just do to Brie Bella?!! so many great submissions in the divas division right now
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
i honestly can't remember the last time they ran the same match 3 times in less than 2 months and still had such an electric atmosphere by the third match. I am very excited for this
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:50 (nine years ago) link
looooooool that springboard-stunner attempt from Cena was outrageous, dude just did a backwards starjump across 3/4 of the ring, what did he expect to happen?!
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
oh man that was such a bullshit ending. Match itself was fine, just all the same moves from their MITB fight but whyyyyyyyyy the fuck would you end it like that??? things aren't changing quite as quickly as people hoped i guess
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link
Brock Lesnar though you guys
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
so many issues with the booking of that ending
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
seriously, what is the fucking point unless they're planning on giving Grandpa his win back? Could they be that stupid? who the fuck am i kidding
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 02:48 (nine years ago) link
solid undercard ruined here by two spectacularly poorly booked main-events. really disappointed actually because the wrestling in the first few matches was quite good
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
well, cena always loses at summerslam so i can see why they wouldn't want him losing here. hopefully cesaro and/or rusev get added to the picture (and hopefully cena still eats the pin if that's the case)
KO tapping wasn't the worst thing in the world imo
hard to understand the undertaker thing though. not much else they could've done with him i guess.
― qualx, Monday, 20 July 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
woke up early to watch battleground, looks fun. but also opening this thread, yeah i forgot edge and also Cena v. RVD at One Night Stand
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 20 July 2015 05:38 (nine years ago) link
Hasn't Bray Wyatt been doing weird shit with pictures of Roman Reigns's kid? Way to want to fuck up the scary heel with starting the match with some lock ups and head locks.
Also the Undertaker never wrestled in merch. Bray Wyatt sucks these days, he really needs someone to have a word about his character development.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 20 July 2015 06:18 (nine years ago) link
fucking hell, on paper that looked like a cracking show. instead it was so dull. tag match was fun. i love the tag division at the moment, its redevelopment means as much to me as BIG MATCH JOHN and new guys in the title picture.
Every match went like 20 minutes too long, and Cena Owens III was really bad, with no storytelling at all. At best, Owens had more beef with Michael Cole than he did Cena so he lost? idgi
I wish they put on Cesaro-Rusev.
I have no interest in old man Taker in 2015. I hope he doesn't beat Bork fucking Lazer: God of all wrestling.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 20 July 2015 08:12 (nine years ago) link
i just think they shouldn't be cooling off either of Lesnar or Owens one month before their second biggest show of the year. The Lesnar / Taker stuff was straight bullshit though, Brock Lesnar should not be made to look afraid or weak by anyone, ever. Especially not by an old corpse he beat the shit out of more than a year ago.
Way to job out your champion as well - Seth Rollins is a ragdoll that can't even get near giving Brock Lesnar a fair contest (good) but an old-as-hell looking 60 year old fuckin Undertaker can scare Brock just by looking at him menacingly and then give him a bunch of finishers uncontested (none of which looked very good tbh, not easy to Tombstone Brock I suppose). Brock shouldn't get scared of anyone ever! He never got scared at his fucking Streak match, whyyyyy did they do it this way ugh I'm actually making myself annoyed just thinking about it. even if he goes onto Summerslam and beats Taker's old ass this is still the wrong thing to be doing with Brock
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 20 July 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah there is going to have to come a time when someone goes toe to toe with lesnar but dont make yr champ look like a bitch and have it be a goth pensioner
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ybZ1FoP.gif
― Mordy, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit that is just the greatest gif ever haha
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Monday, 20 July 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
imo undertaker's goth pensioner look would be significantly less goofy if his eyeliner wasn't so sloppy, jeez mark have some pride in your appearance
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 20 July 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
holy crap that gif is the best
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link
ko fans vs cena fans = ppl who don't know how to experience joy vs ppl who don't know how their own limbs work
that gif is a perfect metaphor for wwe 2015
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
I watched most of the G1 Climax night 1. Naito's heel act is so great but the dynamic doesn't work vs Fale. The best part was when he stumbled up the ramp after the match and appeared to collapse with exhaustion, only to land in a Burt Reynolds pose while doing his eye-opening thing. Shibata's arm is messed up badly and he needs to completely change up his matches on this tour seeing as 3/4 of his offense is hitting people with forearms to the face. You wouldn't think that asshole heel AJ Styles vs plucky babyface Shibata could possibly work, but it did. Ibushi vs Tanahashi lived up to expectations, twenty plus minutes just flew by.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
The WWE's main roster booking is definitely a bit of a black hole as of Battleground but god damn I loved the goofy house show main event finish of Raw, and cena is the greatest exuberant tag team apron cheerleader in the game
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
shibata's a plucky babyface? thought he was totally the heel at dominion
― qualx, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link
Shibata's arm injury has turned him babyface for this tour -- he can't do the vicious stuff he normally does, his offense vs Styles consisted of "spirited comebacks" and not much else.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 22 July 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/rusev-throws-a-fish.gif?w=650
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
You gotta respect Rusev's willingness to play this mostly wretched material completely straight-faced and then just kill it in the ring anyway
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 09:38 (nine years ago) link
oh man, RIP Hot Rod :( we shan't see his like again. Dusty, Hogan, now Piper - the Legends roster is getting depleted at a very depressing rate right now
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 1 August 2015 09:26 (nine years ago) link
Watching the 1984 Tuesday Night Titans was something of a revelation to me - they're in this weird place where they haven't quite broken away from what the company used to be under Vince Sr. and VKM doesn't seem to have quite decided exactly how to achieve what he's looking for. There's still "ethnic hero" guys like Salvatore Bellomo getting TV time and a push and being completely fucking useless, and the whole thing is strange as hell.
Then on the 5th or 6th episode, Piper makes his first appearance and, as someone who was too young to have ever seen Piper in his prime, I immediately got why he became such a huge deal for them. He was this whirlwind of charisma and hilarity and menace and he just blows the fucking doors off the place. He wasn't from the same planet as the rest of them in those days, he even made Captain Lou look kind of ordinary.
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 1 August 2015 09:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36b1u9zTp1I
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 1 August 2015 09:38 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8Jz9o2H_s
wrestling's a beautiful thing
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
I still can't stop watching this.
― hourspass, Thursday, 13 August 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/okadaasicecream
AJ vs Tanahashi in the G1 far exceeded my expectations, I hope Nakamura brings it tomorrow.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 14 August 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Ive fallen back in love with lucha underground. Only got like 7 episodes left. Pentagon jr. is so gnarly.
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 15 August 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
it gets better and better and better
― qualx, Saturday, 15 August 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm kind of happy that the G1 is over and out of my system. It gets dragged out over a month and that's a slog to get through (even if you're only catching one or two matches per day like I was) but the important matches get more time to shine and the wrestlers have more recovery time, so I'd call it a net win. The final wasn't as great as people seem to be saying (nor was the Jr. Heavy championship match) but definitely epic enough to suit the occasion.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 17 August 2015 07:58 (nine years ago) link
So Summerslam and takeover is this weekend, should someone start a seperate thread or are we cool?(also who is mod of this board? Is it dom?)
I heard that g1 had a ***** final and some other great matches. Ive booked Monday off work specifically for watching wrestling, so whats been good?
Paul Heyman is so good at promos i feel kinda sorry for anyone else in the whole history of wrestling.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 21 August 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
I think ken c is in charge
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 21 August 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
i've had paul heyman singing "glory glory BROCK LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESNAR" in my head all day, just that part
― qualx, Saturday, 22 August 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
"I heard that g1 had a ***** final and some other great matches. Ive booked Monday off work specifically for watching wrestling, so whats been good?"
check the early run of shibata matches, especially shibata/aj. i generally hate michael elgin but elgin/goto was great, as was most of his matches in the tournament tbh. honma/ishii was a total blast. the finals were real cool too of course
― fadanuf4erybody, Saturday, 22 August 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link