WrestleMania Weekend Thread

[BigBiss]

If you thought Friday night was good you should have seen me work as ACH agent on bourbon street last night ...

 

[EmpireWF]

Rumor has Sting showing up tomorrow night.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

The Young Bucks © v. Kota Ibushi/El Desparado @ Invasion Attack (4/6) ***3/4
Tomohiro Ishii © v. Tetsuya Naito @ Invasion Attack (4/6) ****3/4
Hiroshi Tanahashi © v. Shinsuke Nakamura @ Invasion Attack (4/6) ****3/4

Marked out like I was 7 years old when Nakamura won the match with the Bomba Ye with THE OTHER KNEE.

Also, awesome AJ Styles run in. YOUNG BOY. I'm guessing he is the new leader of BULLET CLUB?

I love how Invasion Attack has become this big show for New Japan. Awesome show.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

It is pretty awesome being a fan of wrestling right now.

New Japan is putting out an amazing product. Two years later, they are still firing on all cylinders and infusing a ton of English speakers.
The WWE is filled with great stuff, you just got to sift through hours of footage every single week. Their top programs are solid to great.
Awesome wrestling in the Indies and around the world has never been more accessible.
Old stuff has never been more accessible...AND NOW ITS IN HD!
Business is starting to pick up as well.

Just this weekend, I've got four ****3/4 type matches. Numerous other *** quality stuff. And WrestleMania hasn't even started yet.

 

[SethMode]

Larry, I don't want to sound like I'm as clueless as I'm likely to sound, but is there a significance to the idea of a 4.75 star match? Is it just that you don't give 5's out easily?

I will now go back to just quietly reading this thread and never commenting because I feel out of my league.

 

[EmpireWF]

Hey Fed, Pollock got a (in-character, but still...) response from Barrett about the linear title stuff VOW started.

but is there a significance to the idea of a 4.75 star match? Is it just that you don't give 5's out easily?

Pretty much.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Larry, I don't want to sound like I'm as clueless as I'm likely to sound, but is there a significance to the idea of a 4.75 star match? Is it just that you don't give 5's out easily?

I will now go back to just quietly reading this thread and never commenting because I feel out of my league.

5-stars is perfect. No flaws. The work, the crowd, the atmosphere, the stakes, etc. It doesn't get thrown around lightly. Many have what's called "the five star fear" and never give one out. I went like 10 years without doling out a 5-star. It's like saying something is so good, that you can argue it's the best of all time and meet practically zero resistance.

It's a harder curve, than say, a 5-star movie or album or book. It's intended to be rare. Can't be tossing out the 5-stars all willy nilly. You can lose your nerd cred that way. If you slap the 5 on something, people are going to watch, and you better be right.

Hope that makes sense.

EDIT: **** is considered "great". Anything over 4-stars is generally in the running for Match of the Year most years. ****1/2 or higher is a serious MOTY contender practically any year.

 

[SethMode]

5-stars is perfect. No flaws. The work, the crowd, the atmosphere, the stakes, etc. It doesn't get thrown around lightly. Many have what's called "the five star fear" and never give one out. I went like 10 years without doling out a 5-star. It's like saying something is so good, that you can argue it's the best of all time and meet practically zero resistance.

It's a harder curve, than say, a 5-star movie or album or book. It's intended to be rare. Can't be tossing out the 5-stars all willy nilly. You can lose your nerd cred that way. If you slap the 5 on something, people are going to watch, and you better be right.

Hope that makes sense.

EDIT: **** is considered "great". Anything over 4-stars is generally in the running for Match of the Year most years. ****1/2 or higher is a serious MOTY contender practically any year.

Totally does. Thanks Warner. ***** explanation.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Larry, I don't want to sound like I'm as clueless as I'm likely to sound, but is there a significance to the idea of a 4.75 star match? Is it just that you don't give 5's out easily?

I will now go back to just quietly reading this thread and never commenting because I feel out of my league.

Warner pretty much answered it. When you give it five stars, its gotta be FIVE FUCKIN STARS. I'm a bit more liberal than say, Warner, but still, those five stars can't be thrown around. I'm a sucker for a good story being told in the ring with actual plot developments, so I will push something to five if the story is fucking awesome...see: CM Punk v. John Cena @ Money in the Bank a few years ago or Johnny Gargano v. SHINGO last year during WrestleMania Weekend or Davey Richards v. Michael Elgin a few years ago at Showdown in the Sun. Might not be 5-stars to the nerd GenPop, but man, those fuckers hit my sensibilities and I pushed'em up. Anything that brings out my inner mark fan...it gets a big boost.

Everything needs to be right to hit that plateau...and not all of those things are under the performers control. You could have a great in-ring product, but...the announcers suck...or the crowd sits on their hands...or its a mid-card throw-away match (ie: stakes aren't high enough)...and its going to keep it from reaching a certain plateau.

 

[JayDizzle]

Hogan, Austin AND The Rock kick us off?

The deck's stacked tonight so far.

 

[JayDizzle]

I love that while Rock and Austin spilt beer all over themselves, Hogan shotgun'd the two he got from the Time Keeper.

Can't wait to see more after seeing that opener.

 

[Ravin]

Wow they starting right off with Bryan and HHH.

 

[EmpireWF]

Can they possibly push Bret/Owen as the best opener in WWE history?

 

[JayDizzle]

Dunno if it's smart to put the one match EVERYONE wants to see on first.

If it's at least *** or better, it'll be hard to follow.

Also, Triple H looks like a goddamn He-Man villain.

 

[EmpireWF]

Sasha Banks and Flair's daughter were two of the women in HHH's entrance.

 

[JayDizzle]

Sasha Banks and Flair's daughter were two of the women in HHH's entrance.

Takes a lot of hard work to get a position as one of Skeletor's personal Throne Bitches.

 

[JayDizzle]

Looks like Danielson's gonna try to out-wrassle the Game...

Good early start to the match with this feeling-out process.

 

[Ravin]

Stephanie needs to stick to pants or longer skirts.

 

[JayDizzle]

Send the check to Bob Backlund, courtesy of Dat Chickenwing.

...and here's the Crippler Crossface.

Just let that hold go, H.

 

[JayDizzle]

So we almost have 3 Germans, a Tiger suplex and NOW?!

A Sunset Flip-Bomb off the 2nd rope.

Criminy.