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9 hours ago, Mr.Showtime said:

I wrote a review of that match for this very site a couple years back (posted by Onyx2). I never want to see it again haha.

https://ukff.com/topic/139074-hell-in-a-cell-the-ukff-reviews/?tab=comments#comment-3186709

As mentioned above I also enjoy the Doomsday cage match, you can't beat the Booty Man and his frying pans!

 

Loved the review! Thanks for sharing it.

1 hour ago, The Cutting Edge said:

Triple H vs Scott Steiner at both Rumble and No Way Out 03 both pretty ropey but I enjoyed the build and matches.

Goldberg matches especially the longer ones where more goes wrong 

Yes, exactly this! I loved their Royal Rumble and No Way Out 2003 matches for some reason! Probably the excessive belly to belly suplexes.

Been lurking and posting occasionally here for years, desperately trying to come up with a decent idea for discussion. Hope this floats your boats.

For some reason, I love awful matches ... sometimes. For example, the Undertaker vs. Big Bossman Hell in a Cell match at WMXV is something I enjoyed at the time, and still enjoy to this day. I also love the No Mercy 1999 (UK) show for it's utterly dire bouts and ridiculously short runtime. Perhaps it's nostalgia, or perhaps I'm just rather strange, but these particular bouts are some of my favourites of all time, and I have no proper idea as to why.

So, which bouts (which were panned by critics and/or fans) do you love for some reason?

How the fuck did I forget about that one?  My bad.  Thanks for reminding me.

1 hour ago, Sheffbag said:

Where's the magic finger??????????? (ask Steph)

 

Shawn Michaels does a lovely piledriver in that video. I can't remember any other times he's done that move, for shame. >_<

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Selling my ROH Best of 2019 DVD sets. They're official and mint condition, purchased from WrestlingStore.co.uk.

8 Discs, all volumes 1-4. Great sets with lots of fun matches. Normaly £19.99 each + postage, I'm selling all volumes for £30 including 1st Class P&P.

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23 hours ago, BomberPat said:

"King's Road" is like "Strong Style", in that it's more of a marketing gimmick than a defined style, but if I were to try and define it;

King's Road was AJPW's house style under Baba, in the same way that Strong Style was NJPW's under Inoki. The philosophy of Strong Style was, loosely, that pro-wrestling was a martial art, and should take influence from other martial arts - so incorporated more legitimate holds and strikes, and eventually grew into multiple shoot-style offshoots. King's Road was more about wrestling being its own distinct form, with less influence from other disciplines. It was about eschewing the boundaries of martial arts in favour of more drama, more US-style brawling, and so on.

What King's Road came to be about as AJPW developed was escalation - a finisher that may have worked in your first match with a certain opponent being kicked out of in the second. Within a match, the offence will build logically from the beginning to the end, almost like how some wrestling video games require you to build up some momentum, or damage your opponent a certain amount, before you can hit your bigger moves. 

I'd say that in terms of match structure, modern NJPW owes more to King's Road than to Strong Style because of that focus on escalation, and a big late '90s AJPW influence in terms of big finisher kick-out closing sequences, and lessons learned across multiple matches - a finisher that worked in match one between the same two wrestlers being countered in match two. But it still takes a lot from the Strong Style ethos in terms of the strikes used, MMA influence on realistic submission holds (over more dramatic "wrestling" submissions), and so on.

That was a fantastic read. Cheers.

On 2/12/2020 at 3:57 PM, HarmonicGenerator said:

Reminds me of that Godfather / Val Venis team name 'Supply and Demand', which I remember being accepted in school at the time because it was in the WWF Magazine once, but I don't think ever made it to TV. Did they ever even have a team?

Godfather mentions that the team were called Supply and Demand during his episode of WWE Photoshoot. Like yourself, I don’t think it was ever mentioned on TV.

The Undertakers entrance circa 1998-1999. The amazing music and the awesome pyro when he reaches the turnbuckle.

I work for the guy. What do you need?

Matt Taven is pretty decent.

2 hours ago, Cheapheat said:

Thanks mate, appreciate the heads up. What's up with Taichi? Is he just shit?

Yes.  He's quite shit.

He's an average Wrestler that relies too heavily on the same tired spots.  The Japanese fans seem to have some sort of 'X-Pac Heat' for him.

I'm having some trouble playing the Network on my Android Phone and my kids' Hudl tablet and iPhone.  I have a great Fibre connection in the house with superb speeds, and the Network runs perfectly on the XBox One and Laptop, but whenever I try to play it on my Samsung Galaxy Andoid Phone, the Hudl or the iPhone, it seems to buffer and change quality when I'm watching On Demand content.  The live stream plays perfectly on all the devices, which is odd, and other video streaming (BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, Netflix) all work 100% perfectly ... but whenever I try to watch, say, an older PPV event or archived show, it buffers every 15 seconds or so.

Anyone else had similar issues or can offer any advice?  Ta!  :-)

It helps if you just view ROH Wrestling as a video game, but in real life.

It's the only way to explain the stupidity.

I know this chap, but not personally. He wears wrestling tees wherever he goes - I've seen him in several Dudley Boyz T-shirts and D-X shirts (circa 1998) in my local town center.

Kofi is the definition of "stale". As the above poster said, he runs through the same routine every time he's out there. Personally, I enjoy watching Kofi's matches to a certain degree, but his offense can look really, really fucking weak at times ... well, nearly all the time actually ... and he can be incredibly sluggish.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting him to start potatoing people for stiffness' sake, but surely he can make things look a little more realistic.

There's been more gruesome stuff in Money in the Bank matches.

 

In front of crowds 50 times the size, for presumably a lot more pay. That piledriver on the ladder, if either end of the ladder had slipped, he'd have been driving his head into the canvas from 6 feet up.

 

It's a great spectacle, no doubt. Is this ROH's biggest PPV of the year?

I would say so, yes.

As far as I'm concerned, ROH's "big five" are Final Battle, Glory by Honor, Supercard of Honor, Death Before Dishonor, and Best in the World.

Very good PPV yesterday i thought, You can tell that Delirious how has full booking power. This, Glory By Honor and the last load of TV tapings have been a step in the right direction. Everything from Final Battle is good to great, Wolves vs Fish and O'Reilly and the Ladder War were the best matches of the night. Looking forward to what lies ahead in 2013 for this company.

Agreed. My interest in ROH has increased significantly recently, thanks to the aforementioned improvements.

Hopefully, things will continue to improve in 2013 and beyond.

I actually like it.

 

It's a bit "different" and I personally think it looks better than the last one at least. Then again I still think they should of kept the original design, but maybe just update the logo.

 

My only gripe is all three of these belts don't really follow the same sort of design scheme. It is just me being picky really, but as with the WWE had the old "Winged Eagle", IC and Tag team belts following a similar look, and then in the Attitude era with the "Big Eagle", Oval IC and new age tag belts and so on. Current WWE is a mish-mash and also really annoys me a bit.

Yes, that annoys me as well. NJPW and NOAH have it right, in my opinion. The GHC belts are all similar and look great together, and the NJPW (IWGP) Belts are expertly designed to all compliment each other perfectly (well, except for the new NEVER Openweight title, which was a shit idea anyway).

Blimey; that last gif had me cringing.

Is it just me, or is that table WAY too far from the turnbuckle?

Didn't ROH get a new World Title Belt not that long ago, or is time slipping by too quickly for me?

Having said that, I do like the look of this new belt. It's quite ornate.

Zack 'Diamond' Gibson looks a little like 'Stunning' Steve Austin (circa 1992-1993) with his new hair-do.