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NEW WATCH PROJECT!
I've decided to rewatch every episode of Lucha Underground and put together a recommended match guide thread for it!
Gonna keep a spreadsheet and rate every match in the series. Every match that's 3.5* or higher is going on this thread.
The worst part about this stupid fucking rehashed discussion is that Bryan was 100% right. Especially in kayfabe. Miz IS a coward!
Everyone thinks The Miz won the argument because he yelled really loud. Which just about sums up the intellectual capacity of wrestling fans, really
The AEW Cycle:
*Big match happens on AEW Dynamite*
AEW fans: "7 STARS"
Anti-AEW wonks: "LOL look at these dumb freakazoids. This shit doesn't draw."
*Ratings come out*
Anti-AEW wonks: "LOL IT DIDN'T GET 900k/1m/>1m THE DUB IS DEAD"
WBD: *greenlights 5 more hours of AEW TV*
If Chuck Taylor is actually done, him going out with a bloody parking lot brawl on the C-show against Trent is the most Chuck Taylor thing of all time. Truly one of the greats.
Everyone shits on The Elite until they wrestle a PPV match. Then it's all praise until an out of context clip of them lands on one of those anti-AEW meme accounts and then everyone's shitting on them again until the next PPV.
I'll never get it. Nobody else has matches like them.
AEW definitely Restored The Feeling
The Feeling of absolutely incredible matches followed by the stupidest shit you've ever seen in your life to close the show
Dax, why are you going harder at Dave Meltzer for giving a fairly innocuous take on something than you do at Jim Cornette for making racist, sexist, and defamatory comments about your co-workers? Co-workers who include Kenny Omega, Riho, and Hikaru Shida?
We'd like to know.
Dave, with all due respect, fuck off. Like, in the most respectful and loving way, I mean that. When you decide to get two sides of a story, then speak on it. Thanks dude.
@PseudoSerial
I feel like any other WWE wrestler would answer this way, but I think Cena would ponder it thoughtfully for a second and a half and then answer "Luigi".
Sammy springboarding onto a ladder immediately after taking a bump on a BARBED WIRE LADDER might be the worst spot of the year other than that Shotzi DDT.
It sucks so much ass lmao
Some random guy in Uruguay: *coughs*
WBD: *greenlights another in ring AEW show*
Tony Khan: "Hey guys! So... uh... you've been ordering a lot of AEW shows. Can you take another look at Ring of Ho-"
WBD: "FUCK NO" *greenlights an AEW cooking show starring The Dark Order*
@OtakuSupreme
@BackupHangman
Are you saying that it's a good thing that wrestlers got injured, sandbagged, removed due to politics, and arrested for DUIs because it could make Tony Khan make the show better
Are you fucking serious right now
"DANIELSON WINNING ALL THESE MATCHES IS PREDICTABLE"
Yes. But what's not predictable is the damage he takes in them and the ramifications that it's going to have on the Iron Man match. That's, you know, the entire story.
Timothy Thatcher is coming to AEW.
Darby Allin is TNT champion.
Keith Lee and Swerve are about to tear it up in their feud.
Gunther is taking over the world.
Drew McIntyre already has.
AR Fox is about to be in the same match as KENNY OMEGA.
Evolve never died, baby.
@alucardsfate
@WrestlingHumble
That's not how Omega wrestles at all. I feel like everyone writing Omega off as a Teddy Hart-esque spot monkey has never actually paid attention to his matches.
Theory's matches would actually run the risk of being interesting again if he wrestled how he did on the indies.
"WWE fans hate actual wrestling"
False. We just appreciate the promos, segments and character work. Those are things that allow us to connect with certain individuals.
Most everyone today is really good at the in ring stuff. What can you do to make me care? That's what we want.
@FuegoDelSol
Lackluster story with a great match.
A great match can actually drag a lackluster story into "decent" territory if the match itself tells a good story.
Conversely, a bad match can ruin a great story completely and make it not worth watching at all.
The worst part is that I do think that this exchange is good. And when you fit it into the mythology of pro wrestling? It's even more interesting because you can point to it as a reason why Dragon fought to come back.
Sadly, WWE stans have absolutely run it into the ground.
It's not gatekeeping to say that Liv isn't joining The Bullet Club. Because she's not.
It's like saying that jamming with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in 2022 makes you a member of the Beatles. That's your logic right now.
Also lol at calling NJPW "the indies"
I feel like the kinds of people who think Dean Ambrose is way better than AEW Jon Moxley are the kinds of people who think Friends is the funniest television show of all time
If you don't think that "people hate billionaires who exploit them, commit numerous crimes worldwide, and get constant tax breaks because they're lazy jealous dipshits who hate success" is an evil statement? If, worse yet, you think it's "facts"? You're chronically uneducated.
Saying "this is like WCW in 2000" is not a substitute for calling something bad.
You have never watched a second of WCW in 2000 if you compare it to any modern TV wrestling show
@PapaRaintism
"YOU'RE A COWARD BECAUSE YOU GOT HURT AND THEY WON'T LET YOU WRESTLE AND YOU WON'T LEAVE TO GO WRESTLE (which he was trying to do)"
?????????????????????????
@Kng0fTheN0rth
@BackupHangman
Early WCPW crowds were so trash. Literally just WWE fans who watched WhatCulture and were basically just there for the WhatCulture personalities. I give WCPW a lot of credit for improving quickly and introducing a lot of WWE fans to indie wrestling, but those crowds were brutal.
This tells me something important:
Orange Cassidy has sold his soul to an elder God from beyond space and time in exchange for wrestling ability and also immortality apparently.
International title OC is UNSTOPPABLE.
In response to those irritated or angered by my actions, I have this to say.
I'm not sorry. I do not apologize. I regret nothing. I spoke the truth.
And if you have a problem with it, or if you sincerely think that Edge is better than Christian, you are a cop.
Thank you.
Nobody announced anything, though. A dirtsheet reported it secondhand. However, you just confirmed it even though you guys could have kept it quiet and proceeded as normal.
Oops!
Dominik Mysterio fucking sucked, fucking sucks, and will probably fucking suck in the future too.
He didn't get good, he just sucks a bit less. He still fucking sucks.
An actual, genuine dream match for hardcore fans being used to strengthen the emotional core of a prominent title feud for the pay per view. Win/win booking.
AEW is really, really good right now.
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@ASUKASMOX
He's mostly right about MJF so far but his "THIS IS WHY AEW IS NOT THE MAIN COMPANY" crack is lame lol.
It's not the main company because it's only been 4 years.
I'm sick of watching Eddie Kingston lose. His time was 3 months ago. I don't care about this story, I don't care about the Firm, I don't care I don't care I don't care
Velveteen Dream is cleared during a
#WWE
investigation.
Top Trend on Twitter that Day:
#FireVelveteenDream
Vince McMahon is forced to retire during a
#WWE
investigation.
Top Trend on Twitter that Day:
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Hello.
Blair here.
I am going to take some time right now to address some very serious rumors and allegations being leveled at me over my conduct at last night's Dynamite taping at Little Caesar's Arena.
I'll say this up front:
All of the following allegations are true.
@ImBigD_
@shogunoflive
This reaction is weird. It's just... the truth lmao. Perfect Dark is better than Goldeneye, but in every single way it's just refined Goldeneye.
@BackupHangman
You know what I'd do?
Shingo Takagi vs. Sammy Guevara for the TNT championship. Have Shingo kill Sammy and take it.
Then you have Shingo either drop it back to Miro or drop it to Ethan Page.
@Glorious_Driver
That joke is a huge guilty pleasure of mine but only when it's made by AEW fans who are shocked by how he constantly comes up with amazing matchups that no one thought they'd see. When anti-AEW accounts try to get in on the joke, they're always painfully unfunny, so they ruin it
Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about Maxxine getting booed because I grew up with an alcoholic, psychologically abusive father in constant state of anxiety about the future. Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own "Maxxine getting booed" for almost 20 years.
@WWFCounselor
Okay, guy. What if Roman didn't wrestle Sami Zayn at Elimination Chamber? What if the story just ended with Roman beating the dogshit out of him outside of a match? After all, matches aren't the endgame and only the story matters, right?
Of course the answer is "hell no".
It's so great that the first thing wrestling fans think of when they think of Akira Tozawa is "WWE comedy jobber Akira Tozawa" because most of them never saw "top 20 professional wrestler in the entire world in 2011 Akira Tozawa"
I respect you and what you've gone through with your daughter and whay you've done to raise awareness about mental health a lot (I take Zoloft too, for the record), but your reaction to Dave contrasted with your reaction to Cormette's abuse is really disappointing me right now.
Once you stop tying your enjoyment of professional wrestling shows to how much money they make, you open yourself up to a whole world of great matches and interesting stories.
@PaulEWedding
@snowboiiii
Both are good looks, tbh. His old look was great and imposing but his new look makes him more mobile and versatile. His old look was reminiscent of old school AJPW gaijins, but his new one gives me Inoki vibes: all long limbs and sinew.
@JulianW85
I love Andrade but saying that Darby "can't lace his boots" when he's significantly more over than Andrade has ever been anywhere is ridiculous.
@oofouchoww
Venture Bros is the only one.
...Okay, it's also that, but at least it has like, you know, themes and messages and characters that aren't one note caricatures.
I honestly kinda teared up when Rehwoldt and Riccaboni talked about the current interlocking relationships between non-WWE wrestling promotions.
The Elite did it, man. They changed the world.
People are going to zone in on the surface level of this comment, but I genuinely wish more people thought the way Jack did about promos.
Unless it's a pivotal moment in a storyline, it's ABSURD for a promo to go 15-30 minutes.
Five minutes, then get the fuck out. Golden rule.
Bloodsport Bushido was what an ACTUAL Wrestling show "for the sickos" looks like.
Outside of the circles I'm in, some adjacent circles, and the circles Josh Barnett caters to, I have no idea who that show was for. It was weird, wild, pure, and singular.
And it FUCKING RULED.