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![]() Not once in my life have i ever seen something that even closely resembles a "competitive sport" when it comes to wrestling and THANK GOD FOR THAT!
IF it tells a story. BOOK IT. thats all that matters to me. |
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That said, Impact has been fun since moving to AXS. |
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I ask that because just in the early years of ROH they made it very sports like. The old NWA and AWA leaned more towards showing it as a sports. Heck even the WWWF and early WWF presented it more like it was a sport. Sure you would get comedy injected into the shows, but for the most part it was treated more like a sport. This seems like it is an agree to disagree topic so I will leave it at that. As I previously said, I personally do not like inter gender matches because it takes the realism out of the product for me. The key word is for me, I am sure there are others who feel that way as well and there are others who disagree. I did not like it when they did it with Chyna and I am not a fan of it now that it has become more normal (Though Chyna was far more imposing than Tessa). Neither side is right or wrong as it is a matter of taste. People are allowed to have diverse opinions. |
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I watch wrestling because it fills the gap sports tend to miss and thats the Story. So in my opinion as long as the story is consistent and makes sense, im a happy man. |
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![]() When we go down the 'let's do it, wrestling is fake anyway' route, it becomes a slippery slope and I say it as guy similar in Astyn's age group. Again reason I say this is due to the fact Impact is already doing Joey Ryan's dick spot. Lucha Underground was a completely fictional story with dragons and time travellers and they did intergender wrestling pretty well and it was justified as most of the times Luchadores and Luchadoras were of similar size yet even they never did the dick spot.
What IMPACT is going to do next? Priscilla kelly doing her genital spot and whatever she does in general or Marko Stunt or Alexa Bliss/Sasha defeating someone like Lesnar just because we can do it or people selling for Orange Cassidy's feather-like offence? or Why not just do invisible grenade spot or the thumb in the bum spot from PWG on TV? Now having said that, the whole storyline and Calihan has been done pretty well, it's just that her killing oVe or even going for X-division title is justified considering she is better/bigger than them anyway. but her defeating Men's heavyweight champion feels wrong, considering IMPACT is still a major company globally. Look at it in this way, I have no issues with women winning cruiserweight championship as it is justified, both male and female are in similar weight class and similar sizes but it shouldn't be done with the heavyweight belt of any form. On Indies, sure, go wild, sell for invisible man and puke on each other or have dance routines midmatch its all fun and that stuff is hilarious and just don't do it on proper wrestling company's broadcast. |
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it's all about context. |
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![]() 100% agree with you man. Its wrestling i feel sorry for anyone willing to get butthurt by a storyline.
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Weve been going down this slippery slope for a very long time maybe since the very beginning of wrestling. The Undertaker is one of the biggest stars in history and hes meant to be a dead guy... (YEAH RIGHT) - and theres a billion examples of this in wrestling. The whole industry is based on entertainment not realism. Quote:
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But hey, we all agree to disagree! Ill continue to enjoy whatever wrestling is available and you guys can continue to complain about it and were all happy. Last edited by Astyn : 11-10-2019 at 04:14 PM. |
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![]() Is this the general wrestling thread, cause I think it's IMPACT thread and we were discussing Impact and my point was IMPACT shouldn't be doing stuff like this.
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I like wrestling cause it can be anything you want it to be. My point was that WWE or IMPACT still serve as gateway point for the wrestling globally. AEW is still finding international deals and NJPW is yet to actually expand globally. Things like dick flip or hand grenade are going to turn people away before they even begin to like wrestling and be dismissed or viewed as something stupid. These are 'meta' spots, hence they serve the hardcore fans and hence they are generally spotted at indies and shouldn't be seen on any of the name promotions. That's all. |
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The dick flip is something that I think is a bit crass and very dumb. Now I am far from being Puritanical, but kids do attend these shows and I just do not think that should be part of a product that is being marketed to everyone. The move is also very dumb and it is stuff like that, that make me embarrassed to be a wrestling fan. Let alone to admit to being a wrestling fan to non-wrestling fans. Oddly enough I was a fan of Joey Ryan's during his fist TNA run and I was hoping they would have pushed him a little bit more. But since he started doing the stupid "move", I no longer am a fan. |
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