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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently GCW is in London so I guess I'll watch some big meaty women (signed to AEW and TNA) slappin' meat in the middle of the day!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Aw, yeah, MLW coming back in March. :') I have such a soft spot for Canadian promotions :3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] n7gifmdn 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why do bad guy use the ropes whilst pinnign their opponents? Not only is it against the rules, in most every case (maybe every case?) it acutally would give you less leverage and make it easier for the good guy to kick out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The idea is the heel is putting more of their bodyweight on their opponent than they would by having their lower body on the mat.

Pro wrestling logic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not only is it against the rules

Hence you're question "Why do bad guys.." :P They do it because bad guys cheat and a big visible cheat everyone can see works good.

it acutally would give you less leverage

Bad guys are also stupid, and wrestling logic does not hold to normal physics. Look at the irish whip afterall lmao.

[–] n7gifmdn 2 points 1 week ago

I remember hearing a story about the Briscoe brothers growing up and wrestling in the backyard; they thought they just couldn't figure out how to do an Irish whip.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We are on Wrestlemania ~~IV~~ XIV in our Attitude era watch. Things really picked up for n '97 and '98. 1996 was a bit slow. It's been a lot of fun getting to watch through Raw and the PPVs since I wasn't able to for the original run

Edit: I knew my Roman Numerals looked weird

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I recently found Music League and was wondering if anyone would be interested in doing a wrestling themed one. The way the site works is you're given a prompt and a few days to pick a song to go with it. Then you have a few days to listen to the playlist made of everyone's songs and vote on your favorites. I will say the site requires Spotify, so if people would rather just have a weekly thread to post YouTube links or something I don't think it would be that much more work. My main idea for prompts so far would just be to give that week's wrestler new a licensed theme, but I'd be open to ideas if this is something people are interested in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have Spotify but this does sound like a fun idea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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