jamespascoe
Curtain Jerker
Retaining my cruiserweight status despite my best efforts :-(
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Post by jamespascoe on Nov 27, 2016 13:06:58 GMT -5
Lots of focus gets given to the negatives, so what things are you actually enjoying at the moment? Here's a few of mine
- Different entrance music The fact that Roode, Sanity, Nakamora, etc all have different themes that sound different to each other. You know whose coming from almost the first few notes.
-Jericho and Owens Entertaining as a duo, and the eventual break up and dyed should be tremendous.
-The Revival vs DIY A great throwback to the Wrecking Crew with the revival, and great career progression from DIY
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Post by carlmintern on Nov 27, 2016 13:49:52 GMT -5
So much at the moment
Everything about nakamura
Roode's entrance, nakamura's entrance, balor's entrance.
The upcoming fallout from Charlotte/Bailey which hopefully will give Bailey to finally translate her story onto the raw crowd
No way Jose, tye, sanity, the Aussie heels and ember moon all seeming to be on the up makes me feel like nxt is going to finally recover from the mass callups.
Will osprey main eventing at my local indie last Friday night in front of maybe 100 people, and Cody Rhodes coming here in January (Ultimate Pro Wrestling in the Dorchester area of uk)
Spoilt for talent in all divisions in WWE. I mean seriously, think about it.
Awesome podcasts after every show.
I feel it's a great time to be a wrestling fan
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jamespascoe
Curtain Jerker
Retaining my cruiserweight status despite my best efforts :-(
Posts: 121
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Post by jamespascoe on Nov 27, 2016 14:06:45 GMT -5
-you just reminded me, the surge in great British talents all across the globe. Osprey, Scurl, Gallagher, Dar...
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Post by Christian Small on Nov 27, 2016 14:23:00 GMT -5
I adore everything that Progress and ICW do, more so Progress. Those crowds are incredible, they can put on some blow away matches and have thoughtful stories to tell. I think just the British scene in general makes me happy, must be the British pride I have!
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Jamie G
Mid-Carder
I was at Summerslam '92
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Post by Jamie G on Nov 27, 2016 15:25:47 GMT -5
Jericho Goldberg Alexa Bliss Daniel Bryan not giving a fuck and saying what he feels Matt Hardy John and Wai giggling like children during podcasts Shinsuke The Usos new look and ring style AJ Styles
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Post by RKing85 on Nov 27, 2016 23:28:50 GMT -5
PWG, New Japan, Dalton Castle, Hitting the highspots, podcasts, big time entrances, Corey Graves, Shinsuke Nakamura, Best Friends, Lucha Underground (most of the time)
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deezy
Misawa
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Post by deezy on Nov 28, 2016 4:46:48 GMT -5
I enjoy wrestler podcasts proving me right in most of the things I've tried explaining to people for years.
I enjoy seeing people who couldn't run a lemonade stand, try act like they know better than people who have been making money hand over fist for almost 50 years.
I enjoy the quality of matches I get every show I watch, I enjoy making fun of the people who takes this so seriously that it makes them sound insane.
But other than that, I mostly enjoy watching wrestling. What else am I gonna watch?
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Post by kalgoroth on Nov 28, 2016 8:56:45 GMT -5
Tellingly the stuff I really enjoy is from companies who have a self-sustaining subscription/DVD model and who are not reliant on ad revenue (PWG, Progress etc). I am particularly enjoying watching the British guys breaking through internationally but like Christian Small I am bias Also enjoy most of New Japan. I have hit on a formula (borrowed from John's coverage of the G1) of skipping the multi-man tags, unless the Young Bucks or Ospreay are involved, this makes sub-4 hour shows a lot more manageable! I kind of wish WWE were more explicit in the way they structured their cards i.e here's a tag match with some guys, if you like them then watch, if not you're not missing anything crucial. It would make the self-editing currently required to watch their product (more on that below) easier to work out. I find I am less inclined to watch ROH as I get to see most of the guys worth watching in NJPW/PWG anyway i.e. Lethal, Cole, Castle etc. WWE at the moment are like the proverbial little girl - when it's good it's very good, but when it's bad - sheesh. Although to be fair, it's more 'meh' than outright bad. They've clearly gotten themselves into a rut due to their need for quantity, at the expense of quality. It's a bit of a vicious cycle - to make enough ad revenue they need a 3-hour Raw, to fill that time they need filler, because of that they are losing viewers and therefore ad revenue. Similarly with the network, in order to justify it they need to constantly create new content, however due to this the quality is low and therefore in of itself is not drawing in new subscribers, therefore they resort to giving away premium content for free to newbies in the hope they can't be bothered to unsubscribe. I really do think that they would be better off cutting the TV cord and just having everything on the network, accepting that there will never be another mainstream era like the late 90s but that they will always have a dedicated niche audience. Maybe still have highlight shows on TV to draw in casual/new viewers to the network. But that's just more negativity! To make it a positive/negative/positive sandwich, as I said there is some very good stuff coming from the 'E, most of it already called out on this thread so won't repeat. But in general actual work-rate is the highest it has ever been, just needs to be framed better .
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Post by groovyphoenix on Nov 28, 2016 8:58:07 GMT -5
But other than that, I mostly enjoy watching wrestling. What else am I gonna watch? Pron!
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Post by wigsf3 on Nov 29, 2016 8:59:17 GMT -5
Jericho's anchor scarf. And Samoa Joe.
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Post by bouyank557 on Nov 29, 2016 12:51:04 GMT -5
Sasha Banks.
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Post by thebenjamin on Nov 30, 2016 3:10:58 GMT -5
After that skit last night, Sheamus and Cesaro have won me over.
Also enjoying Jericho and Owens, Alexa Bliss, Eli Drake and the Hardy's.
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jamespascoe
Curtain Jerker
Retaining my cruiserweight status despite my best efforts :-(
Posts: 121
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Post by jamespascoe on Nov 30, 2016 13:14:32 GMT -5
I'd like to add 205 live. If they can keep the crowd in the arena I think that show can be great, really enjoyed first episode
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Post by Jason X on Dec 2, 2016 0:15:45 GMT -5
Alexa Bliss.
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