The King Of Swing

4 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Yuh, he founded it.

Smash (which I think was founded shortly after HUSTLE went under) folded for whatever reason and he almost immediately started up WNC.

Basically the same promotion. 

I thought that World Wonder Ring Stardom was awful but Rossy Ogawa really out did himself with Dream Star Fighting Marigold.

Tajiri's old promotion Wrestling New Classic, sounded like the name of a tournament not a promotion. 

Killswitch has to be in his wrestling gear. Otherwise don't bother. 

Thought that Collision a bit of a chore to get through. Lots of boring filler and poorly paced, imo.

12 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

You mention them quite a lot. I honestly think you'd enjoy wrestling as a whole a lot more if you ignored them or stopped reading people like that. I don't see any benefit to interacting with them or taking any notice of them.

This. 

A vocal minority who only seem to want to drag others enjoyment down. Just seems like a miserable existence, to me.

Meh I don't really care who wins the TBS Title match.

Didn't expect Mercedes to go through the table.

Audible fucking jobber from a fan directed at Black. Ouch.

Swerve is the man and outside of that first Dynamite as champion, they've done a really good job with him. 

Storm got a good laugh out of me with her promo.

Storm Vs. Harley was fine. 

Eliminator matches can get in the bin. Swerve Vs. Cage in particular didn't need the stipulation, since they already had good reason for the match. 

Match itself was really good. 

Jericho can still fuck off. 

Solid main event.

I can buy Bruno's story considering the era.

Persona 3 Reload (Gamepass Xbox Series X) 

Completed recently in preparation for The Answer DLC (about 89 hours on normal) and it's a solid remake.

Anyone looking for something akin to Final Fantasy VII Remake might be disappointed since outside of some additions it's just beat for beat remake of P2 using the P5 engine.

Anyone looking for a challenge will want to immediately bump the difficulty level up. Like P5 it's a bit of a joke on normal, especially for veterans of Persona/SMT games.

8/10.

1 hour ago, air_raid said:

Just because something starts becoming the norm, doesn’t mean we can’t protest to try and stop it.

Never said otherwise. Just posting my thoughts on the subject. 

Fallout 4 (PS5) 

Got the recent upgrade and game crashed within the first 2 hours. 

Never change Bethesda. 

No selling big spots is pretty much the norm these days, so I can't really get too annoyed anymore.

Just watch any "epic match" these days. Selling like death one second to jumping about and hitting big moves, the next.

Overall I really enjoyed Dynamite.

OC Vs. Trent was a really fun match and their storyline is moving along nicely, imo. 

May Vs. Harley was more fun than I expected.

Please hire Mina, whenever her Stardom contract runs out. 

I'm actually into the Copeland/HoB story. Should be noted though that I haven't watched WWE in years so the Copeland stuff actually feels fresh to me. And I tend to enjoy HoB when they actually have some sort of direction. 

I liked how the Mogul Scrubs didn't immediately turn on Swerve and they dragged it out a little.

Good promos from Deeb, Storm, Willow and Mercedes. More please.

Enjoyed Jericho's match with Shibata, last week but I thought the promo this week was shit. Don't care how much he leans into critisms of himself, just isn't doing anything for me. 

Decent closing segment. Was hoping for Mox (guessing his IWGP Title reign means less of him on AEW TV) but I'll settle for Danielson.

Could have been worse of course. Jericho could have wormed his way into the match. 

Crowd sounded fine to me. Not the hottest by far but not as bad as some people say, imo.

3 hours ago, simonworden said:

Kamifuku is from Japan and works of TJPW as well as DDT. She is a rather tall girl who wore a rather saucy get up and looks very much like a model, she would certainly want a couple of minders if doing photos at wrestling conventions.

She actually got into wrestling through modeling, if I remember correctly. Spent a lot of time in the US before wrestling and speaks pretty good English. 

Remember when she debuted for TJPW and there's no suger coating it, she was awful. Improved tremendously over the years.

The Saigon Hunters, is even better.

NOAH was also involved in some sort of Yakuza scandal. Think it actually cost the promotion it's TV deal.

6 hours ago, Mr_Danger said:

Professional Wrestling, the thinking man’s sport.

A game of human chess. 

Watched the show Thursday. Was enjoying Willow Vs. Sky until the show suddenly cut off. 

Happen to anyone else? Just assumed Willow won, so didn't bother checking elsewhere.

Perfectly acceptable episode.

Not feeling the upcoming PPV at the moment, though.

I'm sure Storm/Deeb and Swerve/Christian will be good but it feels very B-PPV, to me. 

Still early days of course. 

Let's be honest Mogg loves shit like that. Remember him smugly walking around the Cunts Conference while getting pelted with abuse 

He'll be on TV banging on about "extreme lefty mobs" attacking him and his audience will lap it up. 

I really need to play both Nier's again.

Dammit Tony. You had one job. 

1 minute ago, Keith Houchen said:

Yeah same. Little Tone is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest baby face in AEW history. To a lot of fans, he saved wrestling and is easy to get behind as he leads his lads to get back what’s his. 

Plus it would be the first actual authority figure storyline they've ever done, so I can cut them some slack.

Fantasy booker wanker warning. 

A few months of Big Shaddy Daddy and his cronies fucking AEW originals over (complete with storyline sackings of people that TK was too nice to let go) and a big gimmick blowoff.

I'd probably have the heels take Blood & Guts, with the faces winning an Anarchy in The Arena or Stadium Stampede to blow off the fued.

4 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

There’s mileage in a bad guy authority figure there. Big Shaddy Cool cuts off his sons allowance and they have to fight against his wrath to save their jobs and the company. 

I'm being dead serious when I say that I'm hoping that this is what they do. Big Shaddy and The New Elite running the show like a bunch of ruthless pricks, could be a fun program.

Anyway really enjoyable show for the most part.

%100 agree that Swerve being immediately booked in a competitive match against a midcard guy, was a daft decision. Hopefully just filler until deranged Hangman gets back. 

Happy that Mina is already back. Was worried that she'd vanish until a week before Forbidden Door.

As pointed out a lot of stuff being built around the women's division. If signing Mercedes was responsible for TK getting his shit together, then I can forgive the shit few weeks. 

I'm hoping it's Jamie Hayter who is responsible for the attacks. Yeah I know, not happening 😭

Gauntlet was a lot of fun. 

Poor Big Bill looked dead in the eyes. I honestly thought that this Jericho had potential but nope, I was dead fucking wrong. Fuck off Jericho. 

Good closing angle. Sure you could see it coming a mile away but predictable isn't always bad.

Kind of funny that only the midcard guys bothered to come out. Main guys are all like fuck that mark, we've got our big money contracts. 

Steller Blade Demo. 

Looks pretty but didn't even need to finish it, to know that I'd get bored of the full game quickly. 

Naming the main character Eve is about as creatively bankrupt as it gets. Petty complaint, I know. 

Unless the full game is mind blowing, looks like a 'wait for a sale' title, to me. 

9 hours ago, no user name said:

Out of interest did people on the forum hate jericho before the allegations were made? I wasn't on it then. 

Nah. People were definitely growing tired of Jeticho, well before then.

Anyway great show. Okada teasing the Rainmaker pose, only to flip off the crowd. 

Thank fuck that Yuka was working with Emi.