Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 490: 16 Weeks with Eric Bischoff

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My picks...

Cain by DQ
Rollins via BS or "ref stoppage"
Team Hogan
Fury
Viking Raiders
Humberto
Styles
Mansoor
Natalya
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My picks

Who
Actually
Still
Gives
A
Shit
About
This
Show
Natalya

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Eddv posted...

Show
Natalya

Big Show is back?
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Kenny Omega is cool
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Kenny Omega somehow still gets me to root for him despite things like this.
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Was able to catch the last maybe 45 minutes of AEW now on my cross country trip.

Jack Evans is still one of my favorite wrestlers. That dude does something new every time I see him and he's just crazy creative and athletic.

Glad I can catch the tag team tournament finale though!
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NXT doing a womens WarGames is great. The division is so stacked
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Between this and SAO outfit, Kenny Omega sounds like the goofiest fucking wrestler ever.

Still never seen a match of his...somehow.

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Theres one on WWE Network in the Hidden Gems
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Another live NXT experience.

God that crowd suuuuucked.
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Also Finn Balor and I made a lot of eye contact.
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How did you not melt
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Everyone around me was going nuts except me.

I assume he was annoyed by my smoldering indifference.
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Also when I get home let me tell you about Team Kick vs Kabuki Warriors might have been the worst booked match NXT has ever had. Not the worst match, but the booking was God awful.
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Too bad this woman got banned from Full Sail

https://ringthedamnbell.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/tumblr_ntiu1ra2jc1rg89a6o1_500.jpg
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I would not let Finn face fuck me.

Although there's very few I would let do so anyway.
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I see that Kenny Omega showed up dressed as sans.

Which, while entirely awesome, seems like a waste on an episode of AEW that will get obliterated by the World Series.
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Well its Halloween

He even had a video where NJPW was taunting him to return to them and end his sadness FOREVER
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Was he filled with DETERMINATION?
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TheRock1525 posted...

Was he filled with DETERMINATION?

https://twitter.com/kennyomegamanx/status/1189190395583840256?s=21

Off to #AEW for some #AEWDynamite . Feeling an odd sense of determination...

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The bigger issue is what Schiavone or JR probably thought. Excalibur MIGHT be a video game fan, but I bet the old guys were like, "What's a skeleton wearing a jacket for?"


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Strife2 posted...

The bigger issue is what Schiavone or JR probably thought. Excalibur MIGHT be a video game fan, but I bet the old guys were like, "What's a skeleton wearing a jacket for?"

but all the old people were watching Poppy on NXT
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Strife2 posted...

Between this and SAO outfit, Kenny Omega sounds like the goofiest fucking wrestler ever.

Still never seen a match of his...somehow.

...Jesus Christ dude

You owe it to yourself as a wrestling fan to watch some of the best bout machine!!
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Steiner posted...

but all the old people were watching Poppy on NXT

Same thing. No one who watches wrestling would give a fuck. I think Omega dressing as Sans isn't too bad because it's a Halloween gag, but WWE comes off as chasing the celebrity thing way too much.

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ExThaNemesis posted...

...Jesus Christ dude

You owe it to yourself as a wrestling fan to watch some of the best bout machine!!

I live under a rock. I only saw a Young Bucks match 3 weeks ago...

Wanna say I'm not making excuses, but sitting down to watch wresting has been a lower priority lately when trying to work to save money. I have some free time, so maybe today even. But still. 20-30 hours of work, and 20-30 hours of Twitch takes up QUITE a bit of headspace that I don't get to sit and watch a wrestling show much anymore.

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Theres wrestling on Twitch if that helps! Thats where Omega vs Fenix aired
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Depends on when. I'm probably streaming when they are on.

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Impact streams Tuesday nights

AAA Saturday nights
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R Truth wins the 24/7 title in the middle of the US Title Battle Royale

Humberto Carrillo wins the battle royale to face AJ Styles later today
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Strife2 posted...

The bigger issue is what Schiavone or JR probably thought. Excalibur MIGHT be a video game fan, but I bet the old guys were like, "What's a skeleton wearing a jacket for?"

JR got to play cranky old man who doesn't understand while Tony wasnt there.

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https://twitter.com/ProWrestlingEVE/status/1189960707984502785

for the duration of Crown Jewel, Pro Wrestling EVE are offering 7 days free to their on demand service
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I'm going to see if I can find Omega/Page v. Moxley/PAC.

(Wanted Omega/PAC at All Out, but you know how Youtube is...)

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Strife2 posted...

I'm going to see if I can find Omega/Page v. Moxley/PAC.

(Wanted Omega/PAC at All Out, but you know how Youtube is...)

YouTube, the only site on the internet you won't find that match. but you can type it into your Google search engine, and it's the first result...
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jdf7w
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honestly that works for most wrestling matches
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Viking Raiders first pinfall loss as a tag team since their farewell match in ROH against Coast 2 Coast
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Thank you Steiner.

As for the tag match, Omega didn't get a bunch of time (since he was the hot tag), but I enjoyed it more than Young Bucks (if that means anything). Very fluid in the ring, even if his facials and movements are as goofy as Cornette tends to exaggerate as a criticism.

Though I will say the "Snapdragon Suplex" seems like too easy a move to just wreck people with on a daily basis. Maybe I'm just used to WWE's safer variants, but OOF that landing. He also took a nasty shoulder/head fall on lariat, so he might want to protect himself a bit more.

Then again, the story was about PAC/Moxley at the end, so I'll save my opinion till I see a singles match.

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*Starting PAC/Omega*

Are we sure Omega isn't a heel? He's showboating quite a bit, even for start of match bullshit.

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Awesome match, but there's something I noticed. I want to assume this is either Omega's gimmick, the story of the match (the announcers brought it up a lot), or just some weird thing, but whenever Omega's on offense, he's like those bosses in games who give you a tell for every move he does. He gestures around to the crowd in some way, or just...looks fucking goofy. It's like he's Edge in ring if he had DDP's Yoga smile on his face or something.

Point to the ropes: Dive
Point to the Sky: V-Trigger, run the ropes, or high flying move
Booker T "look at the hand" thing: chops
Both arms out: V-Trigger or One Winged Angel

It's like wrestlers who signal their signature move at the end of the match, but he does it before every move. He also starts running in a weird "HEY LOOK AT ME START TO RUN!" sort of thing I've never seen anyone do.

The match itself was amazing though. All that aside, he definitely moves around the ring and does all the moves very well, with intensity, and fluidity. I can see why he's one of the best, and he and PAC busted out some pretty awesome offense (a wheelbarrow into a German Suplex for instance). It's hard for me not to think, "Kenny's just play wrestling" rather than effective at being a wrestler. Again, I'm assuming that was the story of the match. Overdoing his gimmick more than normal so PAC beat the shit out of him.

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Tyson Fury is the greatest Saudi man of our era

https://twitter.com/SEW_Podcast/status/1189974169922023424
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WWE Q3 earning report out today

Only earned $7.8M in net income total so far this year through September 30th

Last year they earned $58.4M by this point

Live events still lose money

Network subscribers are down

Attendance is down

Licensing is down because their toys arent selling

Basically its a company in free fall propped up by TV deals

They would honestly be their most profitable if they only ran Raw, SD, Wrestlemania, and the two Saudi shows every year
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The Nattie vs Lacey match and especially the post match was really special. Lets hope were all wrong in our cynicism and it actually means something
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Jakyl25 posted...

The Nattie vs Lacey match and especially the post match was really special. Lets hope were all wrong in our cynicism and it actually means something

Narrator: It Won't

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They got me to believe!

Thats the goal of wrestling right? <_<
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You make it sound like the ending to rocky iv

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Thats a great comparison actually!
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why is Ricochet dressed like All Might
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Survivor Series is Raw vs. Smackdown vs. NXT
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Severed head lantern made it to Saudi Arabia

Thats a choice
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oh ya my Fiend the new Universal Champion

RAW doesn't need belts
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