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Bryan Danielson vs Jon Moxley: Finding a spark of hope for the future of pro wrestling even in the midst of ultimate anguish and despair.
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I wrote this almost ten years ago (2016), so bear with me but this was my final argument for Nick Bockwinkel as the Greatest Wrestler Ever, with a special bent towards arguing against the people who said we didn't have enough of his career on tape to put him
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More on this tomorrow if I can find the words, but the real gift that Bryan gave us on the way out was a match where the fans honestly and earnestly wanted to see a babyface mete out justice unto a heel. It wasn't about the match being awesome. It was about Moxley getting his.
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Straightforward Savage squash, but I love the animosity he exudes at all times. Taking offense over the handshake refusal despite him coming in too hot; how he breaks clean but then leaps over the top rope and jaws with the front row. The world was his enemy. Total atmosphere.
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Not going to do this every week but I feel like I'm still playing catch up. Here are some quick AEW thoughts for the week so far.
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Last WrestleDream review. I am not writing about the three way match, sorry. I am, however, writing about Darby vs Brody. I am writing about consequence. Consequence is everything. Full review at the link. First paragraph below.
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Not reposting every essay (the Ospreay one is up on Segunda Caida - the Omega one is probably better off gone forever) but I am going to repost this one since it was from the same day I went down.
On Action, Progress, Meaning, and the Need to Rebalance the Scales.
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Got a jump on things given the PPV coming and I covered the Danielson/Yuta tag and... I mainly just talk about this moment and how it made me feel given what we all have ahead of us.
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Not to harp on Inoki today, but I find the lack of Inoki association with WrestleDream this year unfortunate. Maybe Mox should invoke Choshu instead actually.
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We can all relate to Kobashi here right? I know I can. Sometimes you just have to slap the world. Sometimes, however, the world just happens to be Stan Hansen.
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Nuance is a two-way street.
Reposting the essay on Ospreay, the First MJF match, and Selling in more readable form because maybe it'll be useful to someone today.
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Iron sharpens iron. Violence is infectious. Everyone has to step up in order to Stop (the) Moxley. Those that have an extra gear to find within themselves will be granted opportunities to stand tall. Those who do not will get swept under. The Revolution is here.
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Feels like it’s about time for the WWE Vault to announce the next Omni show, no?
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Sometimes you think that maybe you have all the answers, that it's your time to shine, just like Isao Takagi here, but no, even if you knock over Genichiro Tenryu once, it's just not going to end well for you. It doesn't mean you don't try though. It's a fight worth fighting.
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Super hot start to TNT/Colon vs Texas Hangmen. This followed the molten TNT face turn. Colon and TNT had been at war a month or two before but now they were passing the hidden object between each other like true brothers and the crowd loved every second.
We have the fallout from the hanging at El Deporte de las Mil Emociones, as the Super Medicos go after Eric Embry, we get our first look at a key wrestler (or is it two?) of the 90s and beyond, a battle of giants, and the return of La Pareja Increible.
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While almost every match in the French Catch collection is worth watching for one reason or another, there are a number of moments - spots, strikes, bits of technique, bits of character, worth preserving in gif form. In this thread, I'll provide them with some context.
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Inoki at the very end of 1987. His connection with the crowd. Inoki vs Riki Choshu (12/27/87), mere minutes before the debut of Vader.
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After a brief interruption due to technical difficulties, I give you the return of the successful execution of the Flying Nothing, a proof in concept and the exception that proves the rule and suspends disbelief. Some things just need to be online for the sake of reference.
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I wish they had played the music for another 30 seconds or so, but I get a kick out of this hot start to a February 88 Hogan/Bigelow vs Dibiase/Andre match. Andre was barely mobile but giving it his all (sometimes too much!) and Hogan and Bigelow were balls of wild energy.
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Crusher vs Baba - 1967. I completely believe that a guy who has this somewhere deep inside him could still be compelling, even as a standing tall babyface fifteen years later.
I used to not quite understand how Da Crusher was so over in the Midwest, then I saw him get beaten down by Bockwinkel and Heenan for two minutes without his unlit cigar ever falling out of his mouth and understood.
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@josephweirdness
Not going to make this a mutual appreciation society but that's what it is. Sometimes I'll read Joseph's review and I'm honestly relieved he covered an aspect because I know I'm not going to hit it in my own and I know since he covered it, it's well, you know, 100% covered.
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@Bowens_Official
You can be Kikuchi (easy) or even Kobashi in the Super Generation Army to come. It can be you, fighting from underneath like he did against Hansen, getting closer each time. You just have to believe in yourself. People believe in you and are ready to support you. Just believe.
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I joke that I treat this place like a message board, but during the first few weeks of having a new account, you're clamped down on your reach. Mostly only the people that follow can see things unless people really signal boost. Nothing leaves the circle. It's kind of refreshing.
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Found Footage Friday this week hangs out in 87/88 with a remarkable Idol/Rich vs Bigelow/Lawler brawl, a by the books (but such a good book) Sheepherders/Nightmares match and then big fish/small pond joy as Curt Hennig returns to Portland to face Buddy.
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Would love to be able to show you guys, but I'm as annoyed by 1/88 Owen Hart just getting up like it was absolutely nothing after an Inoki falling deathlock that Inoki locked in after pointing to Doc like it was going to be a BIG DEAL as I am with anything from the last month.
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Yeah, look, I'm going to need Adam Cole to cut a promo like this Tracy Smothers one. Sorry. Things (at least the big ones that were main event angles, whether they hit or not) have to matter at least somewhat.
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@elliottswrstlin
Going to put a lot of work into highlighting the AWA moving forward. The 80s set is near and dear to my heart and it helped me really expand how I looked at wrestling. For people new to it, there's a lot to love if you know where to look.
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@PatrickEireWres
We’ve gained a lot. We’ve lost a lot in the process too. I’m not convinced what we’ve gained is worth more than what we’ve lost. Maybe they were right to say it about Rey and Eddie.
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@GarciaWrestling
@Mike4ourto5ive
@ZayKassidy
@Marq_Quen
Super Generation Army. (You’re Misawa; rise to the moment).
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Wild post-match to a recently uncovered Bigelow/Lawler vs Rich/Idol match. Lawler and Bigelow won the battle, but they lost the war. Look at that table come undone in all of the wrong ways.
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Feels like a good day for everyone to take a breath, stop arguing with one another, and watch Dusty and Akeem have a dance-off.
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Fun little transition here as Rimi (pre-Jaguar) Yokota sneaks around Tenjin (pre-Devil) Masami with a Sunset Scoot. This is some of our earliest footage of the latter and she spent most of it terrorizing the ref and lifting people in chokes.
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Slick little hip toss counter into a monkey flip by Nick Ayala in 1990. I'm not sure I've ever seen it done quite like that.
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Just playing catch up: here’s my review of Okada vs Danielson. It goes in some odd directions maybe. Also comments on Mark Sterling and Darby vs Johnny, but mostly Bryan vs Okada.
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@josephweirdness
Santito is the best hero in wrestling history. Satanico is the best villain.
Casas is a trickster god, transcending all conventional definitions. You have to catch him out of the corner of your eye yet at the same time, you can never, ever look away.
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Parallel to that, I do appreciate the signal boosts, especially of the OP letter post since some people don't realize it's me with a new handle (they just assume it's me with the old handle). It's like trudging through mud until this place decides I'm human though, but that's ok.
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@RJCity1
@DaxFTR
Cobbled together my 2016 GWE case for Bock. No one’s going to see it as I’m still in the new account probation period (flew too close to the sun, the sun being Inoki gifs) but in case you do…
I wrote this almost ten years ago (2016), so bear with me but this was my final argument for Nick Bockwinkel as the Greatest Wrestler Ever, with a special bent towards arguing against the people who said we didn't have enough of his career on tape to put him
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@elliottswrstlin
One thing I've learned as a parent is that you start kids with old stuff of quality as soon as you can and you watch it with them. You curate. It's a lot easier to build a foundation and then move forward than it is to eat a lot of modern candy and then go back. Jumbo vs Funk.
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@elliottswrstlin
They're wrestlers. They shouldn't be engaging with critics like that. They should be trying to work people instead!
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The point is that it mattered within the confines of the match as Inoki treated it like a big deal as he was locking it in and then Owen just jumped up to get more of his stuff in with Takada. Sheets loved 88 Owen, but this is a pattern from him. Maybe don’t do it with the boss?
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@TonyKhan
@AEWHologram
@BeastMortos
@AEW
@AEWonTV
@AEWLive
@TacomaDome
Definitely high on this but I hope they lean hard into the 2/3 falls structure and it’s not just an excuse to do more. It should allow for a big beatdown and big comeback and things building to really boiling over.
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I’m still a bit weird on the algorithm with the new account so if anyone comes across this but not the actual write up… I did find the words:
Bryan Danielson vs Jon Moxley: Finding a spark of hope for the future of pro wrestling even in the midst of ultimate anguish and despair.
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I'll be honest: this is the same sort of attitude I take in my professional life as well. Mr. Fuji really had it going.
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@josephweirdness
Playing catch-up, my big criticism is that I think both Darby and Garcia should have brought up the threat of Moxley. If this is going to be a central story thread moving forward, it should be on the mind of most of the faces.
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@G0AwayHeat
I’m not doing a Twitter text dump of it, but I wrote way too many words on basically that.
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@TonyKhan
@JayWhiteNZ
@Christian4Peeps
@TBSNetwork
@AEW
@AEWonTV
@AEWLive
@FiteTV
Best purely reactive match AEW can put on. They’re just going to stare at each other for ten minutes waiting for the other to make a move and make a mistake. Fujiwara would be proud (actually he’d just headbutt both of them).
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This is from Wrestling Playlists Presents Timeline '85: May Edition presented by
@pwoloss
. A previous show was heralded for "how hard Hogan worked." It's a great example of the tradition we're constantly trying to push against. 8 minutes of Muraco stalling sounds like a blast.
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@tokusalty_jacob
@OreGaTrae
@stevenfilms1998
I spent all my twenties (and a few years of my teens and my 30s, etc.) on DVDVR. You could have any opinion in the world there so long as you were ready to back it up with four or five paragraphs and a few ~s.
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For now it means I can post absolutely blasphemy like this and get away with it.
@PatrickEireWres
We’ve gained a lot. We’ve lost a lot in the process too. I’m not convinced what we’ve gained is worth more than what we’ve lost. Maybe they were right to say it about Rey and Eddie.
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@kkkc0785
We've gotten more footage since 2016. Not a ton but certainly some. Every time a new Bock match shows up I get a little worried because maybe I'm wrong and this will be the match to make the whole castle tumble, but nope, it always reassures. He's the best.
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@KTHKING_ZA
Unless I really feel like there’s some point that needs making, I chase joy, not engagement. Plenty of things in wrestling bring me a ton of joy. That’s not one.
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Claude Dreyfus vs. Daniel (or Marcel) Parmentier next. Including this crazy roll up into the corner, really more of an insult to injury thing. The chops are great too.
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@TrevorDame
NJPW was more varied than history would tell you. Check this 86 battle royal out later. Full of comedy spots inc'l ref spots. On the same night of a really serious corporate sponsor tournament. It's just this stuff didn't make TV so it's lost to time.
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More Kaiser, now vs Warnia de Zarzecki. Great elaborate set up for a perfect bit of punctuation from Kaiser's skull.
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I'm behind on Segunda Caida stuff for obvious reasons but last week on our voyage through 70s AJW, we covered the Black Pair exploding as part of tournament action. The first real heel v heel footage we've seen and it's absolutely wild stuff. Check it out.
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@LeeCasebolt
@elliottswrstlin
We’re in a brand new world full of people who don’t remember it at all. Just got to give them the means to learn for themselves. The future is wide open.
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@NotThatTomGreen
Back then programs were 6 months long and wrestlers didn't interact almost at all outside of them. This was one of the 2 times a year that the walls crashed down and it felt like one big living, breathing universe full of wild characters that actually could smash into each other.
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Annoyingly I just remembered I have the Omega one saved somewhere.
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@hollinger
My take on Kyle Fletcher is that he has good, almost precocious instincts when it comes to interacting with the crowd. He stands out during the commercial breaks. The problem is that he's in with the "So long as the fans are cheering, we're doing our job!" crowd. Bad influences.
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@TonyKhan
@Grishamfight
Then Christian basically went on to have one of the best week-to-week TV runs in the company's history. His 09 is more or less a TV Title run given the company hierarchy but he treated it he was an ace in a way people rarely got to do in the company.
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@JESnowden
@pwoloss
The fans in Tacoma were willing to go further than most crowds down that path. Maybe we’re at an inflection point?
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@Jordan_Patu
Best part of the Ospreay/Ricochet match was when Ospreay stumbled jumping up on the barricade. Ricochet took advantage. My gut says the stumble wasn’t intentional but the transition was. Regardless, it made the moment more engaging than a lot of their picture perfect counters.
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This tackles some of the issues at play in the various discussions around Ospreay’s comments from a totally different angle than everyone else. Well worth reading. You should be following along anyway though.
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@benbenbigelow
A guy just tries to hand out a pamphlet (or six) on the wonders of Inoki-ism....
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@douglaschu_
@Bowens_Official
The size to work from underneath, the execution to make it credible, the heart to overcome. The darkness to stare down. An inner light to push back up it.
All it's going to take is belief in himself and belief from the company.
The fans are already primed and ready to believe.
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@PatrickEireWres
@SergeiAlderman
Not contradicting. It should all make sense in the end is all. That shift should be purposeful and overt and ideally picked up on by commentary. In a perfect world, there are benefits and risks to shifting a strategy. It’s not just filling time. Etc.
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@josephweirdness
I thought they did well with the flow. The end of the primera was basically a hope spot in the context of the overall match.
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@urbanecowboy
Every story I've ever heard about Savage from another wrestler, especially as the years went on, tends to be about how paranoid he was as a person, but channeling that into his ringwork like this, intentional or not, just created absolute magic.
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@KTHKING_ZA
If I end up watching it at some point and have something to say, I will.
Not to leave you hanging, here's my overall thoughts on multi-man matches by way of Double or Nothing 2023:
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@theshrimpbizkit
He’s the guy who can be the future ace. It’s asking a hell of a lot from a guy like Hook to grow into that role. I do think there’s room for a Lee Johnson somewhere.
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@KTHKING_ZA
Thanks. It’s a long story. Fun piece of advice: don’t try to share Seiji Sakaguchi clips with the world.
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@elliottswrstlin
Only one close I can think of is Hector Garza towards the end, and even then it’s different.
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@maskedwrestlers
I had some ... shall we say technical difficulties, but I am back moving and did want to note that I covered this match (and it's amazing crowd) last week on Segunda Caida. Really an incredible historical relic.
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