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CI Wrestling Thread #56

If they didn't want a big name to win they should have let Logan Paul take it. At least that wouldn't have been such a dud and would have caused somewhat of a buzz.

Outside of Jey's entrance, I don't see much there for me.
 
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If you think about it, Jey went from tag team to singles fighting for the IC title to fans worldwide getting behind him to having opportunities for a world title to winning the Rumble and ensuring a main event spot at Mania. For old school fans like myself who like watching someone go from A to B to C and not necessarily A to C (MITB, gauntlet matches, random undeserving title matches), last night was sort of refreshing. It's why I used to love career mode in WWE games. You'd start on Heat or something, then SD, then Raw and PPVs, then you'd get title matches. Gunther vs Jey doesn't scream "main event of WM" but it completely makes sense and totally works...it's just a night one thing while a Cody vs Cena match would entirely overshadow it.
He also sells a ton of merch so it’s almost an earned not given thing - the same people (iwc) that wanted Cena to win were the same that didn’t like the years long super Cena phase.

 
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What’s your favorite gimmick match format? Basically anything but the standard singles/tag/trios match

For the more hardcore variety, I’d go with an I Quit match. Runner up would be a cage match, but only win by pinfall or submission type, not a fan of the escape the cage type.

For the less hardcore variety, Ironman match. Runner up would be 2 out of 3 falls but it needs to be a marathon match. If it’s going to be less than 20 minutes match then just give me a regular match.
Elimination Chamber
 
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I get that people love to yell “Yeet” (the f*ck knows why, but they do) and he sells merch, but you want one of your top two guys to be good on the mic/ring, and he’s just not good at either. Put the IC belt on him or something, but he’d be an awful top-2 champ.
 
I get that people love to yell “Yeet” (the f*ck knows why, but they do) and he sells merch, but you want one of your top two guys to be good on the mic/ring, and he’s just not good at either. Put the IC belt on him or something, but he’d be an awful top-2 champ.
They did put the ic belt on him then Steiner got it back.

I mean I get what you’re saying but Rey got a title run and so did Kofi - it happens and sometimes loyalty is rewarded.
 
I get that people love to yell “Yeet” (the f*ck knows why, but they do) and he sells merch, but you want one of your top two guys to be good on the mic/ring, and he’s just not good at either. Put the IC belt on him or something, but he’d be an awful top-2 champ.
Let him cook. I'm sure he will be fine and maybe we get some other new runs this year like Sami or Breakker.
 
Could be worse and your only company champ is Jon moxley.
I actually don't hate Moxley. I kind of just feel bad that he's in that situation. I know he does a lot of it to himself but Tony Khan is also the biggest Mox mark in the world so he's got no one telling him no on shit. We all need that person in our life that will tell us we are being stupid.
 
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I went to the Rumble over the weekend and had a great time. My son is 9 and taking him reminds me so much of when my dad used to always take me to the matches at the Cincinnati Gardens. Some observations:

1. A lot of grown men carry around replica wrestling belts...I mean, a lot
2. The tag team match was like a Tuesday night non-conference game against Ball State in Rupp Arena. The energy was totally sucked out of that place when it happened. It was the time most went to get food, bathroom, etc.
3. When someone gets a pop when their music starts, the sound in the stadium is insane compared to what you hear on TV. the countdown and the anticipation is by far the best part of the entire night.
4. Don't know if they showed this at all on TV, but when someone got eliminated and not all 30 had come out yet, they would walk them through the crowd to the right of the announcers, put them in a golf cart and then drive by a large section of fans (picture front row of the 50 yard line all the way past the endzone). It was the golf cart of shame.
5. I remember back to the 80's and how they would have celebrities as part of the events. Streamers and Youtubers are those new celebrities now. I had no idea who IShowSpeed was (I'm 48 for reference), but my son went nuts.
6. I was bummed they didn't bring any surprise old school wrestlers out in the mens.

It was a ton of fun and we are already talking about the other PPV's we are going to go to. I love watching these things through the eyes of my son. Reminds me of when I used to cheer for Tommy Rich, the Rock n' Roll Express and Nikita Koloff.
 
3. When someone gets a pop when their music starts, the sound in the stadium is insane compared to what you hear on TV. the countdown and the anticipation is by far the best part of the entire night.
I went on Peacock Sunday to see how audible the crowd pops were for the women’s Rumble entrance given what I read. Whoever set up the crowd mics didn’t do a particularly good job, or WWE had the crowd mic volume turned way down. Perhaps a mix of both.

For example, the sound of the crowd doing the countdown was often louder than whenever people figured out who was coming out. Then most of the wrestlers come out and you hear little to nothing from the crowd. Which okay I get that for someone like Candice LaRae because no one cares about her anyway, but it was just weird for the more popular names to have little crowd noise for their entrance. Especially in WWE where entrances are pretty commonly the thing that produces the largest pops on the night.

Just felt like the energy in the venue was very poorly relayed thru the audio.
 
I went to the Rumble over the weekend and had a great time. My son is 9 and taking him reminds me so much of when my dad used to always take me to the matches at the Cincinnati Gardens. Some observations:

1. A lot of grown men carry around replica wrestling belts...I mean, a lot
2. The tag team match was like a Tuesday night non-conference game against Ball State in Rupp Arena. The energy was totally sucked out of that place when it happened. It was the time most went to get food, bathroom, etc.
3. When someone gets a pop when their music starts, the sound in the stadium is insane compared to what you hear on TV. the countdown and the anticipation is by far the best part of the entire night.
4. Don't know if they showed this at all on TV, but when someone got eliminated and not all 30 had come out yet, they would walk them through the crowd to the right of the announcers, put them in a golf cart and then drive by a large section of fans (picture front row of the 50 yard line all the way past the endzone). It was the golf cart of shame.
5. I remember back to the 80's and how they would have celebrities as part of the events. Streamers and Youtubers are those new celebrities now. I had no idea who IShowSpeed was (I'm 48 for reference), but my son went nuts.
6. I was bummed they didn't bring any surprise old school wrestlers out in the mens.

It was a ton of fun and we are already talking about the other PPV's we are going to go to. I love watching these things through the eyes of my son. Reminds me of when I used to cheer for Tommy Rich, the Rock n' Roll Express and Nikita Koloff.
That’s awesome to hear - connecting with something with your kid is awesome my dad and I shared pro wrestling as a bonding as well.

Like you said I don’t know ishowspeed either but his twitter post from rr got 500k likes and they did a pan around the Indy superstore and a few kids were in line to buy his shirt.
 
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