The Wrestling Thread 2017: Thanks for the great year! New Thread Open!

Duh. That’s always how it’s always worked. Welcome to the party.

Work denied my time off for takeover and Summerslam. Shit sucks. :frowning:

Its ok we won’t spoiler the results because if you care you will find some way to watch it anyway :coffee:

The “insider terms” thing is so obnoxious.
No other industry that I’ve ever heard of gets mad about that stuff, especially 20 years after they, themselves embraced the usage all over the everywhere.

Just imagine an actor getting pissed because another actor talked about hitting their marks.
Or a comic book artist that someone called it a “splash page”.

Ridiculous.

Oh I agree completely. The wrestling world is it’s own bizarro world

Workrate

https://twitter.com/KillSteenKill/status/894022391936024577

So this happened in Montreal…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyC3_acMns

Here’s the actual context.

They could be an uneasy alliance tag team done right.

It’s a holdover of kayfabe. No other industry spent as much of its history trying to fool people that it was real and not a work.

So now, you don’t wanna piss off people like this.

I can’t imagine anyone from the current roster giving a shit about preserving kayfabe. Podcasts like Talk is Jericho “expose the business” more than a casual phone call.

Those shoots from cornette pretty much distorted reallity back in 97

Cornette hates comedy and breaking kayfabe when young wrestlers do it

But that is what he did as a manager and with his shoots

The midnights were ugly lotharuos with a gay vibe

NJPW G1 Day 15 thoughts/spoilers.

Spoiler

Ishii should’ve gone over to be honest and that’s not just me being totally biased for him. With ZSJ eliminated earlier on the night, having Ishii lose here and therefore taking him, Fale and Ibushi out leaving only Tanahashi and Naito left just makes Naito winning the group totally obvious.

I think sanada beats Omega, then setting up an evil/okada semi-final

The loss to juice puts evil and omega neck and neck

If evil beats juice and tama it pretty much gives him the block

Omega has to beat sanada and okada back to back

I see bullet club interfering in the tama match especially omega in an effort to fuck over evil

Naito/Tanahashi was a foregone conclusion when it was obvious that ibushi couldn’t catch up

Just finished lu

Holy shit dominick mysterio (guerrero) is like 6’4 and in training vince going to sign that boy

https://twitter.com/MiddleEasy/status/894273920077107200
Horrible thing to happen… thoughts and prayers.

Who?

https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/894260196498964485

Jesus Christ his neck is bigger than his head.

Japanese Wrestling Legend, he also had a short run in MMA and did acting roles. He notably had one of the greatest MMA bouts in history against Don Frye in PRIDE which was basically a hockey fight where they battered the shit out of eachother.

I wouldn’t bother, he doesn’t care.

Ah.

Takayama? Why would he be taking any bumps? He never bumps anymore. Wtf?

Otis looks like he can never fit through any doors

Had to get home through the sliding door