Oct 17, 2017

 

Oct 13, 2017

ay wwe doesn't do that dangerous japanese stuff or flippy indie s--- they're safe realistic entertainment

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Meanwhile all their full time wrestlers get injured on nothing moves all the f---ing time

 

Oct 13, 2017

Got my BOLA DVDs in the mail today...hope to watch them at some point in the next week

 

Oct 11, 2017

@NJPWBros Not sure if any of you guys collect funko pops but it looks like the young bucks are going to have figures made sometime next year

 

Oct 8, 2017

@NJPWBros King of Pro-Wrestling 2017 is tomorrow Oct. 9th
here is the card

• IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada defending against EVIL
• Tetsuya Naito defending his WrestleKingdom 12 briefcase (and the IWGP Heavyweight title shot at the Tokyo Dome that goes along with it) against Tomohiro Ishii
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion KUSHIDA defending against Will Ospreay
• Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe vs. Kota Ibushi & Juice Robinson
• YOSHI-HASHI, Baretta & Jado vs. Kenny Omega, Cody & Marty Scurll
• IWGP Tag Team Champions Killer Elite Squad defending against War Machine and Guerrillas of Destiny
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Ryusuke Taguchi & Ricochet defending against Roppongi 3K
• Toru Yano & Hirooki Goto vs. Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr.
• Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Leo Tonga vs. SANADA, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI

 

Oct 8, 2017

I don't know who's heard of/seen it but Dante Fox and Killshot had probably the craziest, best worked hardcore match you'll ever see on Lucha Underground last week. Three falls, all could have ended as a blow away match, and they absolutely killed each other. They both looked like they'd been tortured at the finish.

Pretty much wrestled the entire second fall in (very real) glass for a hint of how bad it was. Warning, gross.

Spoiler

One of about 10-15 spots that had me cringing. Trash wrestling has never been this incredible.

 

Oct 4, 2017

Only 5 more days until KOPW! @NJPWBros

 

Oct 2, 2017

@NJPWBros

 

Sep 18, 2017

This episode was fantastic. I hope everyone in @NJPWBros is watching this series because it keeps getting better and better, they're putting a ton of work into these storylines

I think the scene where Kenny has to explain why Brandi is written on his wrist gotta be one of the funniest ever...love how they aren't exhausting or making all of their storyline payoffs obvious, keeps you wondering what'll happen next

Also the Dave Meltzer cameo!!!!!

Gonna try to watch the top matches from this show later

 

Sep 6, 2017

Just ordered the BOLA DVD's, not sure when they'll actually ship out though. Can't wait to watch.

Also, looks like TNA/GFW might be done for real this time. Jarrett has left for "personal reasons" and Anthem wants to sell

 

Sep 3, 2017

Apparently Nick Jackson landed on Dave's head last night with a moonsault

 

Sep 2, 2017

That episode was a little too chaotic into, moved a little too fast trying to develope the plot and oh my god I'm critiquing this like an actual television show now

 

Sep 1, 2017

I can't believe I'm only 2 days away from seeing Kenny f---in Omega live teaming with the Bucks!

 

Aug 29, 2017

@NJPWBros giphy actually has a gif of the wickedest ending segment to a match ever

 

Aug 29, 2017

 

Aug 27, 2017

THE ELITE, THE THE ELITE!
@NJPWBros

 

Aug 22, 2017

Im excited as f--- for Elgin vs Suzuki again. You already know they are going to beat the holy h--- out of one another.

 

Aug 22, 2017

I hope Kenny omega kills David Finlay

 

Aug 22, 2017

Fun Fact: My 6 month old is comforted by watching and listening to wrestling. She gets mad if she hears it and can't see it

 

Aug 17, 2017

I like the 5+ rating. It'd be different if it was for cinema or something, but wrestling is limited enough in how stories are told that the mold can be broken, whereas in film the benchmark has been set so often in so many different time periods that discerning between multiple levels of perfect would just be absurd. Dave also doesn't re-watch old matches, so a 5 from him in 2000 naturally wouldn't be judged the same way with the added context of everything that's happened since.

Wrestling has, at least in North America, been adhering to the expansion of a very old school, classical style of working that could only be analyzed on a critical level since the 70's/80's. When we got into the 90's, that's when the new age of sequenced, athletic type wrestling started to take over. All Japan, HBK/Bret (his size helped), the WCW cruiserweights, ECW at the time were all part of pushing for the more performance based wrestling that we've seen take over on the indies since the early 2000's, and now pretty much everywhere as we went into the 2010's. WWE is still WWE, but we know that the best guys there can transcend their limitations.

We're at a point now where these guys - Ospreay/Omega/Okada/Naito/Tanahashi/etc - have a complete grasp of the fundamentals but at the same time are breaking down all the things in wrestling that you're told to "not do" when you make it to the big leagues. They're completely changing the game, in/out of the ring, and the people in charge of them realize that and are open to that change.