*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

[Mike5181]

Ospreay's matches are also too long. He's had one singles match less than 10 minutes since 2020. I feel like that just doesn't make sense for supposedly one of the best wrestlers in the world. Like it shouldn't take you 20 minutes to put away a tag team wrestler like Kyle Fletcher. 47 minutes for Michael Oku back in February, Tristan Archer, Robbie X, Leyton Buzzard, etc.

It hasn't been as egregious in AEW because the opponents are higher quality but it does all just seem to be baiting high praise and match ratings.

 

[Heboric]

AEW might have signed Kamille Brickhouse, I guess a replacement of Jade Cargill so to speak. Similar type build, but also not so great on the mike. Good for her, she deserved better than those bingo halls she was appearing in.

Speaking of Ospreay, even though I think the draft is so damn lame nice to see his ex being drafted to Smackdown. Always had a soft spot for Blair Davenport / Bea Priestley. Lets just hope she is not there just to get cake thrown in the face...

 

[Heboric]

 

[sledger]

Eh, I am not sure The Rock and Vince Russo are the best people to hear from re: WCW going down the tubes tbh. I mean Russo had a pretty big hand in it, but the last thing anyone needs to hear is him blaming everyone apart from himself, "bro".

 

[Athlai]

WCW was killed by Ted selling his company. The show would've lived on as **** as it was pretty comfortably otherwise

 

[sledger]

Alvarez's book on the death of WCW is pretty much the final word on this topic anyway tbh. Not sure why, more than twenty years after the question of why WCW ****ing tanked was already answered, it is being dredged up again. Maybe a Rock vanity project I guess.

 

[Aritro]

Just catch up on the Swerve vs Take****a match from the other month. Dunno about this move, possibly of Japanese origin. Might wanna retire that forever.

 

[Aritro]

Also I've just seen Meltzer gave the Ospreay vs Danielson match six and a half stars and it's rated 9.71 on Cagematch. It's all a bit much isn't it? It was a good match but nothing more I thought. It's all subjective obviously, but I don't understand it.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Also I've just seen Meltzer gave the Ospreay vs Danielson match six and a half stars and it's rated 9.71 on Cagematch. It's all a bit much isn't it? It was a good match but nothing more I thought. It's all subjective obviously, but I don't understand it.

It depends what you are looking for in a wrestling match I guess. Meltzer loves long, modern matches where the emphasis is on lots of workrate and athleticism. So Danielson/Osprey is perfect for him I guess. I don't follow Cagematch ratings but I guess the users there must love the same sort of stuff.

Like you I thought it was good but doesn't exactly hit the sweet spot. It all depends what everyone's idea of a "great" pro wrestling match is.

 

[sledger]

Great little ppv that

 

[Athlai]

ATG crowd

 

[sledger]

Maybe I am overthinking this, but I kinda feel Backlash being the "biggest arena gate" in company history isn't quite the flex WWE thinks it is...

Given they have run arena shows with way bigger attendances before, this seems to me to essentially be code for "we made ticket prices ****ing sky high for this one". Not sure how I would feel about that as someone who actually went to the event lol.

 

[Heboric]

The upcoming Glasgow show is pretty high price as well:

WWE Clash at the Castle ticket prices revealed as over 10,000 join pre-sale

The event at the OVO Hydro will be the first of its kind in Scotland.

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From 176 pounds to 2945 pounds per ticket. Got to really like wrestling to pay those prices

 

[sledger]

That is crazy