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August Wrasslin |OT| I'll tout it to the papers if I have to

Yeah, the 16 Carat is always worth a shot, but I especially enjoyed this year's - Callihan vs Finlay and Zack Sabre Jr. vs Jon Ryan on night one were both great, plus another four tournament matches from nights 2 & 3 that made my best of the year list. Outside of the tournament, Big Van Walter has an AWESOME title match against Daisuke Sekimoto, there's an excellent tag on night 3, plus a great World of Sports rules match with Johnny Kidd. Definitely worth the asking price, imo.

Yeah. GREAT match. Strangely, I had forgotten all about it though until I looked back over the card.
 
The mid-90s death matches in Japan were fucking insane. I wish the Internet was as advanced back then. The only way to get that stuff was tape trading and the Insane Clown Posse videos. I thought Cactus Jack had quit wrestling after he left WCW until I saw those matches pop up in the Apter mags.

I remember Mr. Pogo getting paralyzed in the match with Terry Funk. Funk just keeps beating the shit out of him while he's lying unable to move. Then he goes after the crowd with a flaming branding iron, gets on the mic, tells FMW to fuck off and that Pogo is a piece of shit. People wanted him dead.
 
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The mid-90s death matches in Japan were fucking insane. I wish the Internet was as advanced back then. The only way to get that stuff was tape trading and the Insane Clown Posse videos. I thought Cactus Jack had quit wrestling after he left WCW until I saw those matches pop up in the Apter mags.

I remember Mr. Pogo getting paralyzed in the match with Terry Funk. Funk just keeps beating the shit out of him while he's lying unable to move. Then he goes after the crowd with a flaming branding iron, gets on the mic, tells FMW to fuck off and that Pogo is a piece of shit. People wanted him dead.

That's so insane. I kind of want more but kind of don't.
 

Alucard

Banned
So, how many more GAFfers are dropping out of watching RAW next week? Let's make a collective effort to make the WWE lose ratings.
 

Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
The only reasons I still watch Raw are Damien Sandow, Daniel Bryan, and Kane. And so I can know what Brandon's talking about when I read the Best/Worst of Raw.
 
Sunflower said:
That's so insane. I kind of want more but kind of don't.

Here's the match in question;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWIm-8pQis

The fireball Terry spits at Pogo is huge - crazy to think that Pogo broke his neck from that bump too.

Dragonzord said:
I'm struggling to think of a realistic dream match that he could have had and didn't other than like Macho Man and Steamboat

He never worked in AJPW, there's a few guys there I would have liked to see him wrestle during his Japan years - Kawada, Tiger Mask II (Misawa), Dean & Joe Malenko, Masanobu Fuchi, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Dan Kroffat (although they did face off in a tag title match on RAW). Also, if Owen had continued to work for NJPW in 1993, he could have wrestled Black Tiger II (Eddie Guerrero).
 

Kaladin

Member
If you're not watching RAW anymore, switch over to Saturday (and sometimes Sunday night) during Best of the Indies month. It will cost around $80 to watch everything we're going to watch....depending on if you get mp4 or DVD with some things. Also, you don't have to watch everything and could spend as little as $10 to give indie wrestling a try.

Or you could just keep watching 3 hours of Monday Night Raw live for the cost of your sanity.
 

A Pretty Panda

fuckin' called it, man
If you're not watching RAW anymore, switch over to Saturday (and sometimes Sunday night) during Best of the Indies month. It will cost around $80 to watch everything we're going to watch....depending on if you get mp4 or DVD with some things. Also, you don't have to watch everything and could spend as little as $10 to give indie wrestling a try.

Or you could just keep watching 3 hours of Monday Night Raw live for the cost of your sanity.

What if I spend my Saturdays watching Saturday Morning Slam?
 

A Pretty Panda

fuckin' called it, man
I still haven't seen the show yet. Stupid companies all in a dispute over stuff so I don't have the CW/the local channel however that stuff works for now.

I did like the commercial for the show though, only because the music sounded like something out of Power Rangers.
 

jobber

Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
If you don't want to trudge through 3 hour Raws, just record AM Raw that comes on Sunday mornings. It's a 1 hour recap show with no annoying host.
 
I still haven't seen the show yet. Stupid companies all in a dispute over stuff so I don't have the CW/the local channel however that stuff works for now.

I did like the commercial for the show though, only because the music sounded like something out of Power Rangers.

if you like jinder mahaal and alex riley its the show for you
 

somedevil

Member
So, how many more GAFfers are dropping out of watching RAW next week? Let's make a collective effort to make the WWE lose ratings.

lol, this won't make a difference because none of us has nielson boxes and were a real small minority of the fanbase.

People love complaining here but both shows are not doing great right now anyway, but Raw has Daniel Bryan who is the wrestler of year which makes Raw watchable.
 
I'm sitting here trying to think of Owen Hart dream matches, and Owen's pretty much done all of them.

Owen Hart vs Bret Hart(I think this is one of the best WM matches of all time. Between the feud building up and the match quality of the two, especially since they're technically mirrors of one another in some ways but complete opposites in others)

Someone has been reading my posts...I have Owen in my top 5 wrestlers of all time

Great heel
 

Kaladin

Member
Yeah....this thread would definitely hit SUPER NO VACANCY by the end of day Friday.

September Wrasslin |OT| Team WWF vs. The World is going up in about 24 hours.

Enjoy the apocalypse.
 

KenOD

a kinder, gentler sort of Scrooge
Why is escaping from the door even an option?

See, I like the fact someone can escape from the door because it means they can be real jerks about it. A strong dominant wrestler like André would casually walking out with the opponent unconscious or a devious snake/heel walked out laughing while the opponent is chained to the post or tied up in the ropes.

Shame wrestling in North America has forgotten that can happen and settles for slow crawls or excuse to "he hit his own partner!" mishaps. John Cena could at least do his standard heel tactics and duct tape someone so they can't get out.
 
Too many Digimon avatars man

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A Pretty Panda

fuckin' called it, man
Also thank you to Anth0ny for pointing out how great of an avatar that picture would be while in the same sentence saying how he wasn't going to use it as an avatar for himself.
 

Kaladin

Member
LOL if you don't have ratings box your irrelevant Vince doesn't give a fuck if you watch or not.

Vince doesn't even give a fuck about ratings boxes anymore. It's all about being socially active now....he can sell that to his advertisers. Seriously, one of the Did You Know's talked about Smackdown being the most socially active or some shit while it's ratings are in sharp decline.
 
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Deleted member 47027

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Admittedly, a large reason of why I like the WWE despite all the flaws are its impeccable production values. Nobody else besides Ring Ka King (which was amazing) could hold a candle to it.
 

somedevil

Member
Vince doesn't even give a fuck about ratings boxes anymore. It's all about being socially active now....he can sell that to his advertisers. Seriously, one of the Did You Know's talked about Smackdown being the most socially active or some shit while it's ratings are in sharp decline.

You mean smackdown? Because ratings for Smackdown have been doing better this summer.
 

Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
Oh man, that Jericho entrance. SO AWFUL. Notice how the Titantron video is on like a 20 second loop. It restarts from the Y2J countdown when Jericho's only halfway down the ramp.
 
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Thought I'd seen everything, then I saw that Ryder entrance. Jeeeezus.
 

SoulPlaya

more money than God
The current Kane model is of his resurrection attire that he returned with, and not his current one. That means one of the CAW Kane's I now have on WWE 12 (and it's a great one) is more up to date than this game. Shit has gotten really fucking lazy.
 
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