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Meohfumado

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Will they get 650k watching tonight, or will the ratings freefall continue?

Olympics ending should help a bit.
 

scourge

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Does Ricky Starks even still work for AEW? What about Adam Copeland?

I don't know what Sammy did to get suspended but he must have almost killed someone for it to be this long.
 

Barry_BondsMVP

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Does Ricky Starks even still work for AEW? What about Adam Copeland?

I don't know what Sammy did to get suspended but he must have almost killed someone for it to be this long.
I don’t know about Ricky. Last I heard he was wanting to go to WWE. Edge broke his leg a few months ago.

Sammy I heard was moved to the other show?
 

Wiggy

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Sammy got suspended for not following concussion protocols with Jeff Hardy. Some people think he was kept off tv when they brought in Sasha Banks due to shit he said in the past (him getting fined & suspended for that was fucking crazy town), but it apparently wasn't the case.

When he came back, creative plans were to make him a heel, but he wanted to be a face, so he voluntarily went to ROH, instead.

Or something along those lines.
 

IschKabibble

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Nice to see this place pick up some steam again. I've been getting into WWE since Vince left. It's a much different energy. But I struggle with AEW. Every time I watch it fails to keep my attention.
 

SongExotic2

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I was reading what Brett hart thought about wrestlers the other day. One of them was Walter / Gunter whatever. He doesnt like all the leg slaps and chops.

I thought wtf is a leg slap?


Apparently when he was in the audience front row for him Vs whoever, the kids in the crowd slap Thier own legs when a chop or kick lands. And it pissed bret off because the art of the sport was selling it as real in his day and now they are all in on it.

Made me think of hot when swerve killed wheeler with 3 ninja kicks that all had slap...
 

Wiggy

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Bret finding a way to bitch about WALTER shows just how bitter, cantakerous, and likely a gigantic pain in the ass he really is.

There's a lot of dipshits in the ring today, but WALTER sure AF isn't one of 'em.
 

Koma

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I can’t figure out how to upload pix from my iPhone??

There was/is a “no leg slap” sign that was put up in the NXT training center a few years ago. When done well and with the right camera angle a leg slap can add something. Unfortunately it has been way overdone, especially with any superkick and any YoungBucks match.
 

Meohfumado

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Yeah, he's still the saltiest there is, the saltiest there ever was, and the saltiest there ever will be.

Bret has always hated chops. But not sure how anybody can hate on Gunther. But yeah, they've had beef because of his comments about a Sheamus v Gunther match in Cardiff.


I went to a show not too long ago in Cardiff, a pay-per-view, it was embarrassing to sit in the front row and watch all the kids in the audience slap their leg as the wrestlers slap their leg in these kick spots where they pretend to kick each other with shin pads and slap sounds over and over.
To realize that the crowd is in on it, the entire floor is clapping and slapping their leg. I'm going, 'we used to try and make it real, what happened?' Everybody is in on it. It's a big giant charade. I had a hard time feeling the fan part of me come to life. When I watched Dungeon Wrestling and I'm watching this young girl [Zoe Sager] wrestling, just watching her take someone over in a headlock and having a real headlock on was so much more than anything I saw in Cardiff with the wrestlers over there. It goes back to simple art.
Wrestling is an art form. 'All art is simple.' Wrestling is a simple art that is really just storytelling or good vs. bad, most of the time, anyway, and it's an easy story to tell. Wrestlers have been doing it for decades and wrestlers from 2005 up don't know anything about telling stories or what headlocks are,"
"When I see wrestlers today just slapping and the crowd going, 'wooo' and everyone keeps slapping, one after another and these guys have welts all over their chest and blisters and their chest hurt that night and they go, 'Geez, I was an idiot tonight and let somebody slap me on the chest as hard as he could 500 times and my chest is killing me.'
That's what they used to do to the jabronies back in the old days, they would chop them, beat them, and slap them. I would never let a guy slap me and chop me. Ric Flair is the only guy that ever chopped me. He usually got to me in the end where I would tell Ric, 'you can give me one chop in the match to get it over with,' but as far as the match goes, I'm not going to sit there and stick my chest out for some guy to slap me on the chest for an hour.
That's not what wrestling is. It's not about hurting yourself. It's not about coming back to the dressing room and feeling...everyone knows that it's not real, right? They all know what's going on. So why are you letting someone slap you and chop you and whip you across the chest and hurt you and you're in pain all night and you wake up the next day with blisters all over your chest and then do it again the next night. It's just stupid."
 

SongExotic2

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Yeah, he's still the saltiest there is, the saltiest there ever was, and the saltiest there ever will be.

Bret has always hated chops. But not sure how anybody can hate on Gunther. But yeah, they've had beef because of his comments about a Sheamus v Gunther match in Cardiff.
Gunther fired back with it's a shame that bret isn't in any shape to settle it.in the ring.

Or something like that.


But I was pointing out I didn't know people slapped the legs (the audience) that's why it sounds so loud on TV. The house call 3 times sounded like he got hit with a fucken bat. It's because the audience slap their legs. I didn't know that until recently.
 

IschKabibble

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Gunther fired back with it's a shame that bret isn't in any shape to settle it.in the ring.

Or something like that.


But I was pointing out I didn't know people slapped the legs (the audience) that's why it sounds so loud on TV. The house call 3 times sounded like he got hit with a fucken bat. It's because the audience slap their legs. I didn't know that until recently.
It's the wrestlers who slap their own legs while throwing a kick to fake the sound of contact. They'll slap their chest too when throwing a punch. Bret's gripe is that it looks dumb, and I agree. He never had to resort to things like that to make his offense look believable.
 

SongExotic2

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It's the wrestlers who slap their own legs while throwing a kick to fake the sound of contact. They'll slap their chest too when throwing a punch. Bret's gripe is that it looks dumb, and I agree. He never had to resort to things like that to make his offense look believable.
Read it again. He said all the kids in the front row were doing it. In on the act.