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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:33 pm    Post subject: yes Reply with quote

How can one judge a program with only watching it 5 minutes?

For character build-up, it takes months, or perhaps years. You get to know each character and what he/she is capable of doing. You get to know their catch phrases. You choose a favourite or two and root them on to winning a title.

I don't like some parts of wrestling, like diva searches and bikini matches, but I like most of it.
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rawiri



Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="stevenisi"]I totally agree with an above post.

It's a way for grown men to get their soap opera fix without looking girly.
I mean pumped men in tights running around, with the flimsiest excuse to grab one another.

You slapped my tagteam partner! I'm gonna put your head between my legs and squeeze! [cheer]

Oh and by the way, IT'S FAKE!!! Do you get it??

If you really want to see fighting, watch mma or K1[/quote]




The story lines are fake, the wrestling isn't. You try taking multiple shots to the head with a metal chair and tell me it doesn't hurt. You try jumping from the top rope and landing on the concrete floor below with only thin padding as protection, Try being thrown from the top of a 20 foot steel cage, landing on a table, screwing your back and smashing your ankle in the process, and getting up and walking away unassisted (mankind V undertaker). If you get the chance, check out one of the guys in fashion now, i think his name is SABU...he is friggin insane and one hell of an athlete.

MMA is shite, you want to see some guys wrestling around on the ground for 5 minutes at a time BORING....K! was good till they started rigging for the audiences as well.

So pay your respects pencil neck!
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Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

stevenisi wrote:
Oh and by the way, IT'S FAKE!!! Do you get it??


It is? What? No way! You broke my wee widdle heart, you did.

PS - If it wasn't fake, people would die doing crap like that.

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If you really want to see fighting, watch mma or K1


If I really want to see fighting, I'll head to Old Town Seoul up on the hill around 6 am with fists flying.
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Merlyn



Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the WWE just isn't as good as it used to be. For me, the whole idea that it was kind of real made it more entertaining. I also agree that today it isn't so much about 'good and evil', and I think that makes it more boring as well. Looking at the characters today, I don't know what there is to cheer about. I don't like their personalities. Most look like they've grown up in hicksville. This all started with Stonecold Steve Austin I guess. Even all the best modern characters seemed to have left, like the Rock, and even he didn't compare to guys like the Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan in what I would say were the cool days of wrestling. Oh well. Hogan and the Warrior should never have faced each other either. That was the beginning of the end, perhaps.
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

laogaiguk wrote:
Also, the choreography is pretty good too. Sometimes I don't know how they dont' hurt themselves.


If you've ever watched the lower/amateur leagues, you get an even better sense of how coordinated and conditioned these guys are. It takes a lot of work to get the moves down as smoothly as they do.

Me? I just like Kurt Angle. Easily the best wrestler/character the WWE has ever produced.
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cwemory



Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea

PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How has cubanlord not found this thread?
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TheFonz



Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: North Georgia

PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

seoulsucker wrote:
laogaiguk wrote:
Also, the choreography is pretty good too. Sometimes I don't know how they dont' hurt themselves.


If you've ever watched the lower/amateur leagues, you get an even better sense of how coordinated and conditioned these guys are. It takes a lot of work to get the moves down as smoothly as they do.

Me? I just like Kurt Angle. Easily the best wrestler/character the WWE has ever produced.


Kurt Angle was a good wrestler before WWE, but I understand what you mean. I don't know Kurt Angle's finishing move though. I think that is essential to the charachter. When I watched the show Kurt Angle didn't have a key finishing move(unless it just slips my mind). The Rock, before he started doing movies, was phenomenal. The People's Elbow and the Rock Bottom. I went to a show and saw The Rock facing off against Kurt Angle. At one point I was four feet away from the action. Both of those wrestlers are ripped. Shocked I was on the on-ramp so I was lucky enough to see all the wrestlers performing that night from about four feet away. Most of the wrestlers put on a good performance. I think maybe two times in the two hours did it look like the action was fake.

The Hardy Boys were my favorite duo at the time I watched it. Those high-flying moves they would do were incredible. I don't know how they didn't kill themselves. They would jump off ladders and do some acrobatic move. Shocked

My favorite thing about wrestling is the gimicks associated with the charachters. Hacksaw Jim Dungan would carry a 2x4 and wear the American Flag like a cape. The Bushwackers would come out in full camo flailing their arms with that insane look on their face. Jake the Snake had that huge python he would carry into the ring with him, Big Bossman had handcuffs and a nightstick, The Road Warriors came in their Mad Max style shoulderpads, and the list goes on and on. You can't help but laugh and think how goofy/insane they look. These charachters are over the top and look like they came straight out of a comic book.


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Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kurt Angle uses the Angle Slam (horrible move) and the Ankle Lock (slaps it on like 20 times a match). He's got a great gimmick now and it should lead to something fun between him and Taz in the near future.

I guess that's the real problem with wrasslin' now. There are just too many geeks behind their computers analyzing every single match and rednecks shouting "Stun 'em!" for anything to be properly cheesy. Everyone has to be a badass or suck the divine rod, or they have to be a technical guru and do some crazy Nipponspanic shit in the ring. Then there's the fact that WWE has neutered like 90% of the available moves because most of them do indeed cause injuries on a regular basis, not to mention the fact that fans aren't happy with simple finishers anymore, so they've got to write crazy matches with endless comebacks and some off-the-wall reason for winning to keep nernerd fans from going apeshit about the result.
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cubanlord



Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cwemory wrote:
How has cubanlord not found this thread?


hehehe. I'm here nooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

What ever happened to la piedra...a.k.a. the rock!
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little mixed girl



Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you smeeellllllllllllll what the rock. is. cookin.
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princess



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia

PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Korea and the WWE Reply with quote

laogaiguk wrote:
WHile put togther with a very flimsy link, I would like to gripe about both.

1) Korea cable TV. I have watched Cheon Gun twice and Blade II three times this month. Seriously, why show the same movies so many times in a month. I know they change the next month, but even show a bad movie from the vault. They do show the movies a lot. Now, I honestly don't know why the show the same movie so many times. I myself go to a different channel because of this. Oh well, but if anyone actually knows the reason they do this, please tell.

2) WWE: Due to #1 gripe, I was watching the WWE. This lasted 5 minutes and I am proud of even that. Why is it popular? Why do people find it interesting? This is not an attack on it but a true question. I can see why some girls like DongBangShinGi, or people like Baywatch or soap operas, etc etc, but I don't understand the WWE. Atleast up until 10-15 years ago people mostly thought it was real, but it doesn't even have that going for it anymore ???
I think it's pretty much the same everywhere. In the US, Dirty Dancing gets shown like 3 times in 2 weeks. Also, let's let Karate Kid die once and for all. They still show movies from 10+ years ago and not from just 2 or 3 years ago. Better find something to do besides watch TV or put up with it.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Korea and the WWE Reply with quote

princess wrote:
Also, let's let Karate Kid die once and for all.


Over my dead body!

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TheFonz



Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: North Georgia

PostPosted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Korea and the WWE Reply with quote

Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote:
princess wrote:
Also, let's let Karate Kid die once and for all.


Over my dead body!

_*_


Get 'em a bodybag! Yeah!







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