Infinity Land Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 41 minutes ago, westlondonmist said: The camera work on that is terrible, you can't see the guy moving out the way. Looks like the guy is just purposely jumping on to a ladder with nobody on it. That's what I thought was going on! And the two guys at the steps were shocked wondering "What is that f**cking idiot doing???" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted April 3, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 3, 2022 I don’t understand these bumps. Does an agent stand backstage going “…and then I want you to jump from one ladder and crash through another” as if he’s planning a match with his wrestling figures and not real, live people with bodies that they need to live with into old age? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 22 minutes ago, Your Fight Site said: I don’t understand these bumps. Does an agent stand backstage going “…and then I want you to jump from one ladder and crash through another” as if he’s planning a match with his wrestling figures and not real, live people with bodies that they need to live with into old age? It's been over twenty years mate and Michael Hayes still doesn't understand how fucked up you can wreck a body of a man in their early 20's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BigJag Posted April 3, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 3, 2022 Bloody hell! Is he OK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, BigJag said: Bloody hell! Is he OK? Dunno. Doubt he’s doing a convincing ‘YMCA’ any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BigJag Posted April 3, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 3, 2022 He's sporting an arm brace in his twitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members quote the raven Posted April 3, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 3, 2022 It makes me wince watching that. "he wanted to go viral"............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Only watched the Ladder match so far but what a stupid pair of bumps Sikoa and Waller took Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Yeah, that might have been the most dangerous ladder match I’ve ever seen. Given how new some of the wrestlers in there are, it just feels reckless to send them out there to perform in a match like that. It wasn’t fun to watch. It felt like a match that could have a very serious outcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted April 3, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 3, 2022 (edited) I wonder if “going viral” will be worth quadriplegia. We can’t be far off from being able to ask someone. Edited April 3, 2022 by Your Fight Site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fatty Facesitter Posted April 3, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 3, 2022 Although there were some enjoyable parts, this felt a million miles off of the quality of Takeovers of the past. A common misconception is that a big part of the legacy of the Takeover specials was simply about the in-ring element - whilst it was excellent, the storytelling in general would culminate in a gripping fashion and everything felt massive even without that element. This felt a bit flat in comparison, even with Grimes' big win for instance. Maybe it was the crowd, maybe it was the average, overly-polished build-up in the weeks leading up to the event. But it just never felt like the massive deal previous instalments have, or a big changing of the guard, a real ushering in of a new era, or anything close to that. I felt a lot of the newer crop didn't look polished and, at times, looked quite lost. You do have to make allowances for this being the first show of this size and scale for them, and it'll be interesting to see the improvements the next time we have an NXT show in this scale (Summerslam weekend?) to see how further they've developed, again referring to the in-ring and storytelling aspects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 3, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 3, 2022 On 4/2/2022 at 10:29 PM, Gay as FOOK said: Here's the bump, for context. The poor lad looks fucking terrified up there. There's just no safety net on that landing at all. Whoever fucking booked that should be fired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Didn't Io Shirai also take a horrible bump in one a while back? Honestly I'd be happy if I never saw another ladder match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 4, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 4, 2022 WWE being so keen to make sure everyone knows not to “try this at home” and yet have the wrestlers do stuff that shouldn’t be tried anywhere. The gradual escalation from “bumps off a ladder to the mat” to through tables, and through tables on the floor, to this level of bullshit, is absolutely ridiculous. ITS A WORK. There’s enough things that can go wrong with human beings simulating violence to each other without incorporating such a dangerous inanimate object and expecting sudden impact with the body to not risk catastrophic injuries. The moment Joey Mercury had his face obliterated by a ladder, that should have been the end of the ladder as anything other than to jump from or at a push slam each other from, and that was 15 years ago - it does NOT need to be thrown, swung, jumped onto or slammed through. Absolute fucking joke. Every bit as reckless and stupid as some of the hardcore antics they used to denigrate and backyarders they claim to discourage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westlondonmist Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 7 hours ago, The King Of Swing said: Didn't Io Shirai also take a horrible bump in one a while back? Honestly I'd be happy if I never saw another ladder match. Nothing wrong with the idea of ladder matches as the ones from the 90s (although there was probably single figures in WWE) used the ladder to tell a story, and a good one, without the silly bumps. The problem is with the idea of having ladder matches monthly and each trying to outdo the previous one's big spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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