having trouble getting through regular nxt episodes :\
― qualx, Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
really don't need to see an emma squash match for any reason and wrestling central just needs to be banned
― qualx, Sunday, 22 November 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
vince, hogan and cena hopefully cut a joint promo on isis under an american flag tonight
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 22 November 2015 07:29 (eight years ago) link
good match, trainwreck crowd
― qualx, Monday, 23 November 2015 02:45 (eight years ago) link
spoilers?
cool, i guess. there was a long stretch of "...that's it?" there, and seeing how samey WWE's been all year, where literally nothing actually happens at the top of the card and none of these characters ever change, i was fully expecting roman to go over dean clean with neither of them turning heel and dean hugging him and getting him a room temperature water afterwards. that was disappointing. i felt good for roman! but i'm glad SOMETHING happened, yikes
― qualx, Monday, 23 November 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
trying to imagine a mindset where having a guy who's looked like an absolute chump for the last six months (including like an hour ago) as your world champion seems like a good idea.
maybe i'm just somehow more of a mark than most people who attend wwe shows but i would have been totally okay with roman getting to bask in his big moment, aside from the wonky scripted promos he's been great from wrestlemania onwards.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 23 November 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
isn't the ideology at play "any heat is good heat"?
― Mordy, Monday, 23 November 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
I for one love 2 watch Emma stamping on fools
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 23 November 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
sheamus got the briefcase and usually that = championship, plus he's a former multiple times champ. I don't see what's weird about it, he hasn't been booked to look much worse than seth during his run
― qualx, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
also I think the people claiming he isn't getting the 'right' kind of heat are fooling themselves. good heat these days is always gonna fool smarks into thinking it's bad heat because he isn't out there acting like owens, who they love for acting like that. sheamus is getting a legit reaction out of people by being so unpleasant
like ko does good heel work but smarks cheered him when he destroyed sami. the heat sheamus has right now is the best they can hope for
― qualx, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
everything is meta when kayfabe is this dead
― qualx, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Heat is heat and that's why Eva Marie is your new NXT woman's champion
― Mordy, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
Based on how much they keep leaning on this trope, I actually wonder if at some point someone made a plaque in the creative room that just says "Faces on chases that are traced to briefcases shall be the whole basis of our cash-making stasis."
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 23 November 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
There's also probably a little post-it note underneath saying "and make sure that TLC includes some staircases"
i'm done now
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 23 November 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
Cesaro out for upwards of 4 months, dude can't catch a break
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
Wrestlemania main event gonna be kane v heath slater at this point
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
there is a clear difference between eva marie's heat and sheamus's. eva marie wasn't even supposed to be a heel! sheamus is irritating and bland and unpleasant on purpose and also still a good wrestler and performer in general. people just don't like actually not liking a character. everyone wants to see him lose the belt, they just have the wrong guy taking it off him.
― qualx, Monday, 23 November 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
rollins recovery apparently ahead of schedule (yay)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/WWESheamus/status/669965088959373312
a heel move as vile as sasha banks making izzy cry imo
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 27 November 2015 01:19 (eight years ago) link
next up him, barrett, and rusev should walk down the aisle very slowly and side by side while reigns is trying to make his entrance
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 27 November 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
i wish there was some website that told me whether it's worth it to watch raw before reading recaps/spoilers. i'm always worried i'll miss the 1 episode that doesn't suck.
― qualx, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
time to watch royal rumble 97! it's getting good
― qualx, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
should I watch raw
― qualx, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
no
― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 10:48 (eight years ago) link
Shit didn't realise they'd uploaded all this old shit to the network. A full 18 months of nwa world championship wrestling from 85-87, a few new eps of wccw, plus little tasters of mid-south, awa and smoky mountain. I've never seen any of this stuff, looking forward to diving into it.
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
and now a few episodes of Stampede and Global Wrestling (was that the promotion's name? I get confused very fast when all those southern territories start merging and disappearing in the early 90s). The new episodes all seem to be focusing on the earliest days of major WWE stars -
Mid-South - Ted DiBiase, JYD, a very young Shawn MichaelsSmoky Mountain - Chris JerichoAWA - Shawn MichaelsUSWA/GFW/wahtever - Steve AustinWCCW - Sting, WarriorStampede - Bret Hart, Dynamite KidThe NWA/Crockett 85-87 stuff is obviously pretty heavily focused on Dusty and the Four Horsemen.
Just random episodes atm, except for the NWA WCW stuff which seems to be a pretty complete run of shows. I hope to god that this focus is just a promotional tactic to get eyes onto this stuff and they're gonna keep uploading and fleshing out each territory so that you can start watching and following the feuds and stories.
I know that some wrestling fans came to the Network hoping that we would see this kind of material get made available, but seeing all of the icons appearing for all of these territories in the "Vault" section really drove home to me for the first time what an incredible resource the Network might end up being.
We know already that they've got Mid-Atlantic and Florida stuff in the archives, not to mention all of their own pre-1985 stuff. If they could get complete (or near complete) runs of all of this stuff up over the next few years it'd be fuckin amazing.
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 3 December 2015 10:42 (eight years ago) link
I mean already the fact that you can start off with the Great American Bash 1985 as a little primer to where things were in the territory before jumping right in and following the tv from November 1985 right through to September 1987, stopping off to watch Starrcade and Great American Bash as you get to them - this is fucking magic! So much better than watching the events in isolation.
I watched one of the first episodes of Mid-South last night, very cool format - it featured Cowboy Bill Watts presenting a recap of one particular recent feud involving Butch Reed, Junkyard Dog and Magnum T.A., showing highlights of multiple matches and a couple of title changes - I like this format! Music is all overdubbed though, which looks/sounds weird as hell. The intro music to the show is so gooood though, I'd never heard it before.
Watched a bit of the first Stampede Wrestling episode earlier, would call it interesting rather than massively entertaining so far, but I'm looking forward to seeing the Hart bros as a tag team / a young Dynamite Kid
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 3 December 2015 10:52 (eight years ago) link
i highly recommend watching through 96/97. it's wild watching WWF emerging from rock bottom and seeing all the pieces being put in place, esp if you've never seen it before. shawn's about to lose his smile and i CAN'T WAIT
― qualx, Sunday, 6 December 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
i decided to watch a random raw from that period, thinking it would be good nostalgic fun, but then it started with crush vs ahmed johnson and suddenly doing absolutely anything else felt like it would have been a better use of my time
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 7 December 2015 07:22 (eight years ago) link
they really are building to survivor series, this is so bad. desperation stables! everything went to shit so you definitely don't use this opportunity to push anyone, just place everyone in meaningless stables that do nothing for anyone
the league of nations is so bad, the reigns squad (Don't Blame It On The Reigns) is so bad. what does teaming dean and the usos with roman do for any of them? unless you're building to a traditional elimination match and you can discard everything right after
― qualx, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:25 (eight years ago) link
xp it's actually hilarious how long it took for the NOD to become majority black
― qualx, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:26 (eight years ago) link
they literally had to add some random fruit of islam dudes before crush and pg-13 weren't taking up the majority of the screen
― qualx, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
they really are building to survivor series, this is so bad. desperation stables!
Survivor Series was two weeks ago, which makes the rush to create stables now seem a little odd.
― JRN, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 03:50 (eight years ago) link
roman: makes horrible 70 year old man jokecrowd: is somewhat receptiveroman: HEART POUNDINGroman: REPEAT JOKE FIFTY TIMESROMAN: IT'S ALL HAPPENING
this is the worst show on television
― qualx, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 04:44 (eight years ago) link
just in time for Stables Ladders and Chairs!
Wait, that's not the name... STABLES LADDERS CHAIRS AND STAIRS!
― nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
looool the network is missing this random raw that aired on thursday for some reason (THURSDAY RAW THURSDAY) so i have to watch it on shitty ass dailymotion?? i guess airing on thursday is too much for their complex algorithm, even though other oddly scheduled episodes are there
just so happens to be the one where rocky maivia wins the IC title and shawn michaels loses his smile
― qualx, Thursday, 10 December 2015 07:43 (eight years ago) link
anyone know if i missed anything by not watching TLC last night? i dunno if i can even be bothered catching up with it on the Network. Might watch the tag match I suppose, I like all those guys
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 14 December 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
oh and Ambrose / OWens ofc
but yeah is it worth sitting and watching the whole show?
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 14 December 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
Watch the gif of Kalisto and Jey Uso. Nothing else was worth a toss.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 14 December 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link
ah man really? :(
p. sad how over the years they've been making their own content superfluous. happened first with the C-shows, then with Smackdown, then Raw and now with most of the PPVs. so stupid, it ought to be the easiest thing in the world to put together compelling matches for these shows with the talent they've got
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 14 December 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
The tag match is that gif and Xavier Woods on commentary so is worth watching. Otherwise, mostly sad and perfunctory.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 14 December 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
onwards and upwards tho! NXT Ldn is gonna be a good show I'm sure. Feel like quite a lot is riding on Samoa Joe bringing his A-game and going in unforgivingly stiff on Balor, Bayley vs Nia Jax might be quite a fun Sting/Vader match but it'll be interesting to see how compelling Bayley can make things when she isn't working with one of the other big four
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 14 December 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
http://i64.tinypic.com/15xo2v4.png
― Mordy, Monday, 14 December 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
Tlc & raw both enjoyable. Raw has vince for the first time in over a year.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:17 (eight years ago) link
http://s22.postimg.org/tuzcqwovl/somoa.png
knew they wouldn't let him keep the name for long
― qualx, Thursday, 17 December 2015 05:41 (eight years ago) link
gable gable jordan gable gable gable jordan jordan gable jordan
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 17 December 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
takeover london was predictably excellent. bayley has now turned out two excellent matches, one with eva marie and nia jax, which is making my wrestler of the year honor hard to decide (her or sasha).
― nerd shit (Will M.), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
err i meant to say she's turned out two excellent matches that i underestimated (being eva and nia). obviously she's turned out like 101984 amazing matches in 2015.
― nerd shit (Will M.), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Both those matches were as good as they possibly could have been, mostly thanks to Bayley.
Joe vs Balor felt like it was lacking an extra gear. It was stiff and heated, but not heated in the sense of being a grudge match with a guy who turned on his best friend and was choking him out on TV every week just to be a dick.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 20 December 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
omfg i have just discovered Breaking Ground tonight IT IS THE BEST why did no one mention this on here?!!!!
just finishing up with the 3rd episode and at the moment Tyler Breeze and Jason Jordan are getting into it in the gorilla position (Jordan wants to know why Breeze is wearing amateur wrestling boots if he never wrestled at an amateur level, Breeze wants to know why all the fans are chanting for Gable and not Jordan lol) and Adam Pearce is dancing along to theme tune. other observations so far:- Robbie Brookside seems like a cool guy, I would like to be trained by him I think- Apollo Crews really is as nice as he comes across on screen- Baron Corbin is an ASSHAT and I'm considerably more interested in him than I was before I'd seen this show - the winner of the most recent series of Tough Enough was a guy called Josh and he might just be the absolute worst promo guy I've ever seen in my entire life - case in point, the promo he cuts here from 40 seconds onwards omg you guys just get this guy out there on tv ASAP, build it and they will come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHLMNqRBGW8
― Windsor Davies, Sunday, 20 December 2015 23:25 (eight years ago) link