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Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 07:45:43 No.19430649 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>19430654 >>19430664 >>19432462 >>19433269 >>19433829 >>19435508

>thanklessly has better TV matches on throwaway C-shows from 20+ years ago than any of the "workrate banger" merchants on TV today
How did he do it? What was his secret to consistency?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 07:46:55 No.19430654 Report

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>>19430649
Good training

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 07:52:07 No.19430664 Report

Quoted By: >>19430739 >>19432172 >>19435662

>>19430649
Japanese lightweights were workrate banger merchants Anon, but you're allowed to like them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 08:09:58 No.19430739 Report

Quoted By: >>19430757

>>19430664
They were workrate banger merchants, today's guys are "workrate banger" merchants with quotation marks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 08:14:03 No.19430757 Report

Quoted By: >>19431188 >>19432029 >>19432165 >>19435662

>>19430739
So what you're saying is, that being a smark was cool back then but now it isn't?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 10:37:15 No.19431188 Report

Quoted By: >>19431195

>>19430757
You're so upset lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 10:39:54 No.19431195 Report

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>>19431188
Getting invested in a short debate hardly makes me feel upset, though I suppose since you're laughing your arse off you're actually right

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 15:57:14 No.19432029 Report

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>>19430757
this but unironically

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 16:34:34 No.19432165 Report

Quoted By: >>19432466

>>19430757
Pretty much. Back in the day the dudes in the crowd with smarky signs were always normal looking men in their 20s. Now they're 40+, fat, and balding.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 16:37:10 No.19432172 Report

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>>19430664
Tajiri actually had a personality and was unique and funny

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 17:46:07 No.19432462 Report

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>>19430649
He always tossed his opponents' salad the night before the match.

Something about "chi" or some sort shit. Dunno. Sure could shine a butthole, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 17:48:20 No.19432466 Report

Quoted By: >>19433290

>>19432165
>20 years ago smarks in their 20s are in their 40s now
no way

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 21:08:51 No.19433269 Report

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>>19430649
>How did he do it?
I don't know why but I also had this thought and the only conclusion I could come to is Tajiri is the GOAT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 21:12:15 No.19433290 Report

Quoted By: >>19433312

>>19432466
Most of them stopped taking wrestling so seriously so only the most vile ones remained.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 21:15:49 No.19433312 Report

Quoted By: >>19435657

>>19433290
The worst part is that the ones that left never got replaced by younger smarks. So now you're left with an aging audience that demands that the companies pander to them. Most young people die of embarrassment when they turn wrestling on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 23:11:41 No.19433829 Report

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>>19430649
He had quite a number of trademark spots that the crowd would always pop for. Also, he mastered the thigh slaps before they were spammed to death.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Dec 2025 23:48:08 No.19433979 Report

Quoted By: >>19435481

Honestly this may be why I can't get into AEW
25 years ago they'd all be sunday night heaters
how times have changed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:04:52 No.19435481 Report

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>>19433979
the actual truth is that the WWE C-shows in the early 2000s were absolutely stacked with great talent that was cursed to come up too early to move up the card
for example if paul london opted not to sign with WWE in 2003 and kept working TNA, ROH and japan he could have had a career like styles or danielson. he was on their level in the ring and had the same "secretly charismatic vanilla midget" thing vibe to him but burnt out way too soon.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:10:11 No.19435505 Report

Quoted By: >>19435752

Midcarders back then are cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJr5w-amdJk

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:10:40 No.19435508 Report

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>>19430649
It's really bizarre to me. I don't understand why modern wrestling is considered good when I can watch old matches and they are always miles better. I was watching a random fucking drew mcintyre vs matt hardy match from pretaped smackdown era and it had better pacing and timing than any modern slop

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:19:24 No.19435547 Report

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cause he's japanese you racist

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 05:58:06 No.19435657 Report

Quoted By: >>19435826

>>19433312
This is any hobby that doesn’t renew itself properly. The issue is, there does need to come a certain time of acceptance where you realize the mythical “new” (young people, women, foreign market, brand new casual viewers) audience they keep chasing is never going to materialize. Mistreating the only people who actually care about your product will eventually be the death of your industry (looking at you comic books)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 06:01:14 No.19435662 Report

Quoted By: >>19435821

>>19430664
>>19430757
not really. nobody was arguing if tajiri was actually the best wrestler and had the best matches. you liked him because he was funny and the mist was cool. smark back then meant someone who didn't like boring crap. now smark means loving boring crap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 06:33:50 No.19435752 Report

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>>19435505
Both these guys are still extremely active which is cool. Tajiri's still full time in Japan and Rhino was signed to TNA until fairly recently.
Also speaking of former ECW guys who are still wrestling full time, somehow Masato Tanaka is still going strong after taking more nasty unprotected chair shots to the head than possibly anyone. And he's still good, too.

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Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 06:59:58 No.19435821 Report

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>>19435662
>now smark means loving boring crap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Dec 2025 07:02:11 No.19435826 Report

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>>19435657
There are still little things they could do that won't piss off the core audience. Like banning wrestlers from wearing skinny jeans.

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