The Wrestling Thread

Why does he even call it Cinemasins 2? It's not in anyway affiliated with the actual Cinemasins. Is he just wanting to pretend he's actually part of something that people may have actually heard of?

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Bandwagonning. The question isn't why he called it that, the question is how he's getting away with it.

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Indeed. Irritatingly enough, he has a pretty big following, so I'm surprised no one dropped in and said "HEY, YEAH, WE'RE SUING YOU"

also:

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So, there's going to be a UK Championship tournament.



I hope they keep this as the design of the belt, it looks grander than the US Championship belt which is good because WE ARE JUST BETTER THAN YOU.

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Whoa, WWE giving a fuck about the UK? Colour me surprised. Although I'm confused as to why it's exclusively United Kingdom and not just the European Championship.

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UK indie wrestling is doing very well for itself at the moment, and I presume WWE wants a slice of that pie. I reckon the WCPW guys are holding themselves mildly responsible.

Also semi-relatedly, World of Sport, the classic ITV show that gave us old-school British wrestling with Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki, etc, is returning with a 2 hour special on New Years Eve on ITV1, features content from PROGRESS, ICW and PCW. Jim 'BAH GAWD MAGGEL' Ross is on commentary.

No idea how this is going to go down, most of the fan chants will be bleeped ahaha, especially with the ICW lot coming.

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Posing just to say Wrestle Kingdom 11 is currently the best show of the decade, Okada vs Omega is the best match of all time, AJ Styles is no longer the best wrestler in the world, fuck you r/SquaredCircle

Seriously, even if you don't like wrestling, it's worth watching that main event. Fourty five minutes have never gone by so quickly.

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Yo, did you catch WOS and if so what did you think? I unfortunately had to shoot off before the main event but I enjoyed how over the top and purposefully 'campy' and awful it was at times. Rumor has it ITV were pleased with the viewing figures so we're likely looking at at least one season which I'd be happy about! If ITV are gonna pay out ANYTHING for licensing though it's gotta be Like A Prayer, you can't take that away from Grado.

I loved it, but it was New Year's, and I was drunk. Which is probably the best way to deal with these things, in't it?

The Mystery entrant was quite funny in how shite it was. "Oh my God, it's the British Bulldog...'s son...and he's out again. Hmm."

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Nah, it wasn't the best event of the decade, there's still better ones.

But yes they had the best match of the decade atm, Omega vs Okada deserves those stars.

congratulations to roman reigns for being the new universal champion!

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Probably the least offensive Rumble storyline involving Reigns yet.

Like, you're still firing a nail gun into your testicles, but you just grazed the skin instead of piercing the meat.

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What an apt description haha

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haven't watched RAW, please tell me this is a joke

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RR lost the US title so you know it's going to happen at the Rumble.

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Fuck sake.

Although at least he lost the US belt, I guess. I'm assuming to Jericho?

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Oui.

Might I also add, the 2017 Rumble logo is fucking awful. Please God let it be just a placeholder and they forgot to put the 2016 logo in.

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holy shit you're right that is really ugly, it's just bland text with a red line

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I'm really not a fan of the Gotham font. It's the one that was bloody everywhere in the PS3 releases. It's also the official Eurovision font, so...hmm.

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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

Suck my dick, Adam from WhatCulture, it's time for Quick Man's 10 favourite non-WWE wrestlers of all time!

10 - Act Yasukawa was a new but relatively talented joshi worker in the Japanese promotion STARDOM. She had a very quirky character about her, and even drank in the middle of matches. Basically, she had it all. She was extremely attractive, extremely good in the ring and extremely charismatic. She debuted in 2012 but unfortunately, her early retirement on the 23rd of December in 2015 meant her time in the ring was short, no thanks to all-around bitch Yoshiko shooting on her in a world title match earlier that year and severely injuring her. The tragic story of a professional wrestler being forced out of the business they love by someone full of jealous rage pushes her into my top 10.

9 - Hayabusa, it's a one-two for tragedy here today! Eiji Ezaki, in-ring name Hayabusa, debuted in 1987 and would coast around on the Japanese independent circuit until 1991 when he landed himself in Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling, a company famous for revolutionising the Japanese death-match style. Take from that what you will. The next ten years, despite being dragged down constantly by chief dickhead and egotist Atsushi Onita, Hayabusa made a name for himself as being one of the top stars of Japanese professional wrestling. Eiji Ezaki was injured in 2001 as the result of a botched second rope springboard moonsault, landing on his head and leaving him paralysed. It had been a fantastic career ended too soon. He has since passed away.

8 - Kota Ibushi! How can you have a list of best non-WWE wrestlers without mentioning the heart and soul of Dramatic Dream Team? Currently known as Tiger Mask W in NJPW, Kota Ibushi is most known for his ridiculous level of agility, pin-point precision and execution of his moves, and for the hilarious matches and things he has been a part of. It was very sad to see him leave DDT for NJPW last year as he, along with Kenny Omega, put the promotion on the map with their dramatic matches and comedic elements. He even participated in the Cruiserweight Classic and put on my favourite match of the series against Cedric Alexander. But now that he is in NJPW as Tiger Mask W, could we see a reunion of the Golden☆Lovers? We can only speculate. Kota is one to follow, for sure.

-TO BE CONTINUED!!!-

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