Topic: Wrestling Fans Unite!

@Tasuki Killer seat dude! I have only been to one live event, and that was for WWE Raw a few years back. A pretty fun time for sure when you are that close. My seat was a little further back than that.

@Dpullam I have been to several events myself, dating back to the early 200O's a few WWE house shows, a few Raw and Smackdowns, I was even lucky enough to go to 2009 The Bash, but never had seats that good.

I actually watched that episode of Dynamite then other night, since I record every Dynamite and Rampage and saw me on TV a few times, mostly blink and you miss part. The most predominant part that I.saw myself was during Ruby Soho's promo..

Will definitely go again when they come back this way.

@Tasuki Oh yeah. Totally! I plan on going to a few more live wrestling events as well. I just have to figure out how to work it into my schedule. My girlfriend and I both enjoy watching wrestling each week and we both went to our first live event together. I definitely want to experience that again.

I just watched the Main Event from Backlash 2020, this is another match I'm assuming the world has already forgotten about, but this ended up being a hell of a rabbit hole for me.

I was trying to find context as to why this was billed 'The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever' before the match even started, I couldn't really find an answer to that, but I did discover loads of fascinating behind the scenes stuff about this.

Namely in that whereas taping matches in advance isn't uncommon in WWE, this match wasn't just taped in advance, it was actually like a fully edited product, spots were apparently done over multiple takes and angles, and put together in post, more like a traditional show or whatever.

I know that added sound affects to simulate specific crowd reactions/atmosphere and enhance the impact of moves isn't new in WWE, but it is different when they do that stuff on the fly live versus actually editing it all together in post to create a specific product of intent. I wonder if at one point this is the future WWE foresaw for itself.

And that is ignoring the stuff in the match itself, Greatest Match Ever? Dunno about that, but this felt very different to the modern WWE Main Roster style, but I mean that in a good way. Obviously no idea how much of it was done in the editing room and how much was in the ring, but some of the sequences and counters here were smoooooth, and snug too. We got blood. The punt. Swearing. Lots of sadistic Orton moments. Just a fun time.

This has to be one of the longest non-gimmick one on one matches in WWE history, right? And maybe it was a little overlong, not everything paid off (like the early portions with them targeting specific body parts or whatever), but generally I thought it had a good cadence. Not overkill fast like it can be in some indie matches or whatever, but snappier than the usual Main Roster pace I tend to usually find feels a little too slow.

@Pizzamorg Yep, I've pretty much forgot about it. I can't even my reaction to it at the time to be honest.

I vaguely remember a promo in the build up about why it was THE GREATEST MATCH EVER but I can't remember what it was. It probably was a marketing thing to one keep the feud fresh and two to counter AEW's rep of being the five stars wrestling show. Randy Orton sold it best on twitter a day or two before the match by saying something along the lines of watch the match to see how we F it up.

Almost forgot night 1 is tonight. For the first time in months though I'll be going out with my buddies. A rare occasion that happens 1-2 times per year.

Something of interest if you have Gamepass in the US you can watch Wrestlemania for free this weekend.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/03/new-xbox-game-pass-perk...

I'm watching 'mania on and off throughout the day, fugde watching it 5 hours straight!

I'm not sure why Theory is being built up as I don't see it myself but both Trips and Vince backed him so maybe I'm missing something. It felt like a very Raw match, not bad but very standard yet it gave Cena a chance to do something and put someone over so fair play.

I enjoyed tag match, lots of fun spots. I'm a big fan of The Street Profits and I'd love to see Montez Ford be a future main eventer so I'm glad they won.

Logan vs Seth was great. Is Logan Paul the first wrestler since Owen's death to use a zip line? Logan Paul really is impressive for a celeb but I've still got no idea who he is. I can't tell if Seth is heel or not, its one of the things I like about AEW were stuff like that doesn't matter as much however WWE always put an emphasis on it which makes it confusing.

This is history now, or at least in a few years when forums become ancient history.

What a ***** surprise WWE's golden boy keeps the title. And this is why I stopped watching WWE.

WTF I'm not against the heel winning or anti-Roman but you can't have a part time timer who has both belts for this long and dejecting the logical big night kick point for a change. I'm not even really a Cody fan as I found his matches in AEW and New Japan overbooked, his Hell In A March was great though, but he's the best guy to do it. Best smark guess is with the sale they want their strongest champion possible as the face of the company.

Now you got the problem of there's no one left. Jey White is coming in but even as a New Japan champ he was fairly weak, there's the trio of AJ Styles, Orton and Big E who might be coming back but they feel like they would a program rather than dethrone Reigns, the same with Edge, Lashley and Finn who would work a program rather than dethrone him, Bray has been a complete misfire since coming back, weak talk of Omega and CM Punk going to WWE but I can't see that happening, if The Rock didn't come back for 'mania he's not coming back so sod it make Jinder Mahal champ again for the heel heat!

@TheBigBlue do you mean there as in you were at 'mania or just you watched it?

lololololol

Part of me respects WWE's audacity to keep this going, but this largely just feels like what happens when a creative company is too big to fail. They can **** up every way possible, they can do whatever they want, you don't matter. I'm just glad Cody's like 3rd in terms of guys I want to see beat Roman, but I still wouldn't have done it.

Anyway, this is why I don't pay too much attention beyond the PPVs. As cool as the recent storytelling is been, AEW is the only one where I care week to week, and despite an awesome show, I'm once again justified in this opinion.

They must have been sitting on this until 'mania was over but UFC and WWE are merging into one company. It sounds like a left hand - right hand situation. Vince is gonna have both UFC and WWE report into him rather than he's bookings WWE but who knows how that's gonna play out.

Although the top story should be Vince's new shoe polish hair and 70s porno tash!

Yeah I saw a few of these comments on twitter, but not enough: Vince looks like he wants pictures of spider man

Just call him J. Jonah McMahon

Well, didn't see UFC buying out WWE. Not quite sure if this is a good thing or not. I guess it depends on who's in charge of WWE now.

@Tasuki people were throwing everything out there as to who would buy WWE, even Saudi was mentioned but in all honesty, it was probably the most likely scenario. Wonder how many crossovers we’ll get now that UFC is under the same umbrella as WWE. Conor Mcgregor also said he would break Paul Heyman’s jaw in 3 places on tweeeeeter so who knows that wackiness that could happen at this point. I will be here for it however

@TheBigBlue Yea I saw all the rumors from a Saudi Prince to Disney to Comcast even saw a rumor that Tony Khan and his father at one point had talks.

Like I said it all depends on when will be in charge of WWE. Hopefully they will keep Vince's hands out of it.

Vince is the Co-CEO apparently but him and Dana are just Endeavour employees now. Triple H is still the lead Creative guy, thank god. Vince mighta made Cody stardust again

@Colonel_Mustache I am calling it now Ultimate World Wrestling Fighting Championship Entertainment.

So I guess this means that AEW won the war then.