The General Wrestling Thread
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I watched Raw for all of 2 minutes, and I must say, that shot from the crowd of the backstage segment is the dumbest thing since the last thing TNA did. It's unnecessary and actually detracts from the show. The crowd is NEVER interested, and often times are on their phones or are looking off in a different direction. It totally makes you question why you're even paying attention. For being a control freak, Vinny Mac needs to cut that out.
What's also awful, is this new thing they do during every match, where they show what's going on with the app in the lower right corner of the screen. It's usually two guys talking. So basically what they're telling you, is forget this match, don't pay attention, go check out the app and watch Randy Orton & Sheamus talk about this match. Huh?Comment
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Watch as two of our wrestlers shift their bodies camera-side to watch a monitor and talk about the match.
SECOND SCREEN~!Comment
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I fast forward through RAW, so, I don't ever see this second screen shit, fellas.Comment
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The problem is, it's not even second screen (which is what they are trying to do or at least think they are doing). It's literally "hey this shit sucks, go watch Randy Orton walking backstage".Comment
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The entire Cena match, all Cole did was bring up how Superman was hurt and that he maybe he shouldn't have competed that night because of what Ryback did to him.
It shows to me that:
A) Ryback's only interested in hurting Cena and can't get it done when it comes to getting the belt off of the dude; therefore an also-ran when they ran out of people for Cena to fight again.
B) The ONE guy they told Heyman to push since Punk's out/retiring and Brock only does PPV matches is fucking BURIED by Shitfuck Michael Cole; how in THE FUCK is ANYONE supposed to get over when we hear that from the announcing team?
You build Henning's kid up as a killer and give him THE greatest mind/mouthpiece on TV today and nobody cares.
Fucking kills me since they've already did this to Dibiase's kid, the Usos, Cody to an extent and I'm sure Rotundo's kid is going to belly up to the proverbial plate of dicks soon as well.
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Did anyone notice that they changed Axel's theme back to good one by the time the main event happened?Comment
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The Wyatt Family promo package was a bit different than what I'm used to.Comment
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Most of you probably recognize Husky Harris & Brodie Lee as two of the three Wyatt Family dudes.
Here is some 6 year old footage of the third guy, when he was working NOAH prelims as "Thoruf".
The guy was stiff as a board.
Interestingly, Tsutomu Hirayanagi, Ippei Ota & Akihiko Ito were among the last class of guys to come out of the NOAH dojo, around 2006 or so (along with Atsushi Aoki). Hirayanagi is the only one left, and now works as undercard heel junior Genba Hirayanagi. He mostly does comedy and is the lowest ranked member of his heel group.
Aoki looked to be a breakout star in 2009 after his great matches with KENTA, but it stalled. He was part of the mass exodus to All Japan last year, and is one half of the AJPW junior tag champs.
Ota & Ito both quit the business. One may have retired due to injury, but in both cases were probably tired of getting the shit kicked out of them by KENTA & Marufuji. That's a big reason NOAH never has rookies come out of the dojo, because the training methods are too harsh, even by japanese standards. KENTA is not well liked because of it.
Inoue was one of the veterans dating back to the All Japan days who was cut last year.
Davey Richards migrated to New Japan when the ROH/NOAH working agreement ended. New Japan cut ties with him when he faked a car accident when he missed his flight for a tour. He has been replaced by Alex Kozlov, and the Kozlov/Rocky Romero team hasn't missed a beat.
Obviously you know what happened to Thoruf.
So of these six men, five of them promising young wrestlers, only one remains, and he's a comedy undercard heel. NOAH in a nutshell.Comment
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If you haven't had a chance to listen to the Steve Austin podcasts with Jim Ross, check it out...really really good shit. Lots of talk on wrestling philosophies and old territory philosophy. Really good stuff.Comment
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