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Anybody else shoot only watch wrestling for the wrestling?

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:12:26 No.8965508 View View Reply Original Report

I’ve never really liked a storyline. It I wanted good storytelling I’d watch an actual tv show.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:13:24 No.8965515 Report

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go watch organize wrestling

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:14:01 No.8965519 Report

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>>8965508
No you aren't allowed to enjoy a wrestling match anymore or else you will be called a "workrate mark"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:14:11 No.8965520 Report

Quoted By: >>8965528 >>8965619 >>8965660

>>8965508
this + the coom. people who actually think AEW and WWE are great television for kino storytelling are just admitting that they’ve never watched another tv show in their lives outside of some gay anime shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:15:16 No.8965526 Report

Quoted By: >>8967572

>>8965508
I watch wrestling because i honestly shoot unironically believe it's an astounding work of post-modern art and it's probably the most unique American art form ever

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:15:17 No.8965528 Report

Quoted By: >>8965546

>>8965508
>>8965519
>>8965520
This is getting sad ojama

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:16:09 No.8965532 Report

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>>8965508
that's why i watch puro and lucha
i watch american stuff because it tries to be tv

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:17:11 No.8965539 Report

Quoted By: >>8965660

>>8965508
Thats what I do, I only watch japanese matches im interested in. I dont care about gay storylines I care about the athleticism and the match itself

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:17:57 No.8965546 Report

Quoted By: >>8965578

>>8965528
lol Ojama lives rent free in your head so much that you missed the part where I called AEW bad storytelling too. Ojama thinks AEW is the peak of television

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:19:32 No.8965562 Report

Quoted By: >>8965595 >>8965660

Nah I’m with you 100%. I liked the Hangman Adam Page storyline from 2020 but that’s the last time I actually enjoyed a storyline and even then it wasn’t like I was glued to my screen.

I think with wretsling it’s always been more about being invested in the wrestlers than actually being invested in the stories. Wrestling fans will always say it’s about the storyline’s but that’s because they’re desperate for wrestling to be seen as something other than it is. Like a wrestling story can make zero sense but if the wrestler people like wins the feud they still pop anyway because all they really wanted was for their favourite wrestler to win. I think the attitude era is a perfect example of this. None of the storytelling during the attitude era was good at all but people were invested in the wrestlers and the personalities of the wrestlers. You can ignore bad storytelling when you have wrestlers you want to see win.

But yeah for me personally I like sawdust kino. Couldn’t give a shit about 20 minute exposition promos that I’m only half listening to while I do other shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:19:32 No.8965563 Report

Quoted By: >>8965595

I watch wrestling for the storylines as well as the match quality but in general I prefer the more simple New Japan/Noah type storylines over the wackier shit. There's exceptions, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:22:25 No.8965578 Report

Quoted By: >>8965660

>>8965546
Ojama doesn't exist you fucking retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:23:51 No.8965588 Report

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>>8965508
i don't watch any of today's stuff
i just watch old wrestling and only the matches. any talking shit i skip over or fast forward.
i do like when they have the little promos inserted in the corner during a match. that's the way promos should be, quick and to the point and with a match going on that i can watch so i'm not bored.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:25:13 No.8965595 Report

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>>8965562
>>8965563
I agree with these two. I don’t like the format of American wrestling storyline’s where you go back and forth for months with promos and I agree that people care more about the wrestlers than they do about the storyline’s

The storytelling I do like is the Japanese style where it’s more about long term rivalries and win/loss records. Stuff like Naito finally beating Okada and Kobashi/Misawa. Not even going to pretend to care about MJFs villain origin story in his CM Punk feud.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:26:28 No.8965600 Report

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Yes. I enjoy a good promo. But I mostly watch compilations of older wrestling or Japanese wrestling.
A good match tells it's own story, I don't need to know one if someone spilt coffee onto someone else or fucked their dog.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:27:10 No.8965604 Report

Quoted By: >>8965624

>>8965508
I've learned to watch wrestling both unironically and ironically. I laugh and shit on the stupid shit and then i get really invested by good wrestling/promo/storytelling. The only bad wrestling to me is boring wrestling like current AEW and pandemic era WWE or just wrestling that looks completely shit and fake in an unfunny way like Omegay and his butt buddies' matches.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:28:15 No.8965612 Report

Quoted By: >>8965699

this thread is cancer

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:29:22 No.8965619 Report

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>>8965520
This. The worst type of wrestling are the people from the cody Rhodes Reddit post that was posted her yesterday. I legit don’t believe they are as invested in that shit as they say they are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:30:06 No.8965624 Report

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>>8965604
pretty much this for me. i don't like anything too choreographed looking, that's why i don't like much woman's stuff or AEW in general. they all have that same style and it's too fake and rehearsed looking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:34:31 No.8965660 Report

Quoted By: >>8965675

>>8965519
>>8965520
>>8965539
>>8965562
>>8965578
these faggots watch fake fighting hahahaha they’re like “oh my goodness who will win the fake fight!?” hahahaha

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:34:35 No.8965661 Report

Quoted By: >>8965676 >>8965691 >>8965745

>>8965508
I don't only watch for wrestling, but I want genuine wrestling not the sports entertainment slop the wwe sloppy shop does. so I stick to genuine wrestling promotions like based AEW and based NJPW

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:36:07 No.8965675 Report

Quoted By: >>8965736 >>8965758

>>8965660
Just watch soap operas, homo

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:36:16 No.8965676 Report

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>>8965661
stick with the classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO03Eqak8bE

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:36:21 No.8965677 Report

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>>8965508
No. The vast majority of wrestling is boring, always so if there's not a story to make you interested in the match.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:37:55 No.8965690 Report

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i think we are at kind of a workrate oversaturation period. like 5 years ago pure workrate could draw but now theres so many wrestlers out there who can work a good match that it all blends in. its the characters and stories that make this stuff stand out from the pack

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:37:58 No.8965691 Report

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>>8965661
genuine "fake" wrestling

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:38:44 No.8965699 Report

Quoted By: >>8965714

>>8965612
Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:39:42 No.8965714 Report

Quoted By: >>8965742 >>8965743 >>8965758

>>8965699
y'all being passionate about this soap opera shit lmfao

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:41:36 No.8965726 Report

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>>8965508
When I was a kid I always liked the promos, segments, video packages, etc. I liked the matches but didn't hold my attention unless they were really important, like Test vs Scott Steiner for Stacy Keibler's services, etc. Now I like matches more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:42:38 No.8965736 Report

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>>8965675
just watch mma. no need to sign your posts btw

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:43:43 No.8965742 Report

Quoted By: >>8967477

>>8965714
>y’all

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:43:55 No.8965743 Report

Quoted By: >>8965750

>>8965714
Literally the opposite though you retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:44:03 No.8965745 Report

Quoted By: >>8966790

>>8965661
GayEW and gook shit isn't wrestling

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:44:56 No.8965750 Report

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>>8965743
all wrestling is the same

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 03:46:06 No.8965758 Report

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>>8965675
>>8965714
the women on soap operas make me diamonds
much more than any wrestlewhores

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 06:28:15 No.8966790 Report

Quoted By: >>8968159

>>8965745
>this is your brain on SLOP

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 06:33:19 No.8966809 Report

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I watch wrestling to get mad at the heels and cheer for the babyfaces

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 06:37:25 No.8966824 Report

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>>8965508
I like both in equal doses. If it's a good match with no story it's boring but if it's a good story but the match sucks it's also boring

Batowl

Batowl Wed 15 Feb 2023 06:37:56 No.8966828 Report

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>>8965508
Watch it all, the matches and stories and entrances and etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 06:39:58 No.8966838 Report

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I haven’t watched a full match since 2014. I fast forward through the in-ring shit and just watch promos, entrances and video packages. Never enjoyed wrestling more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 06:40:08 No.8966839 Report

Quoted By: >>8966935

99% of the Storylines are Fucking Garbage

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 06:53:55 No.8966874 Report

Quoted By: >>8967998

>>8965508
I don't understand. The wrestling is where they tell the story. To enjoy the wrestling you have to enjoy the story because it's the same thing. If you're saying that you enjoy when wrestling is bad and fails to tell a story then you're a retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 07:06:26 No.8966935 Report

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>>8966839
why do you type like a nigger/boomer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 09:59:28 No.8967477 Report

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>>8965742

why you have a picture of your BVLL saved on your harrdrive?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 10:34:25 No.8967572 Report

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I'm not with you what so ever. I like wrestling stories stories of underdogs and champions etc etc. Wrestling is a vehicle to tell sporting stories.
I enjoy a decent match but it pointless without a character or story to follow it's sterile.
It will flat out kill the business catering to people like you. If you don't like the pageantry and story telling go watch Greco Roman wrestling, ufc or some shit.

>>8965526
Based and wise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 10:47:24 No.8967597 Report

Quoted By: >>8967976

>>8965508
When you watch real sports do they show commercials during the action? Maybe in Nascar but not in the ones that draw. In AEW and WWE do they show ads during the matches? Yep. Do they shows ads during promos? Nope. Tells you where the priorities really are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 10:58:35 No.8967621 Report

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>>8965508
>I’ve never really liked a storyline
You're cancer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 12:35:24 No.8967976 Report

Quoted By: >>8968009

>>8967597
Wrestling isn't a sport and this comparison is always so retarded. They don't show advertisements in sporting broadcasts because it's a televised sporting event and you're tuning in to watch the whole thing. TV wrestling is a TV show with a sports pretense. It's not the same thing. People who watch wrestling for the sport are babbling retards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 12:41:55 No.8967998 Report

Quoted By: >>8968021

>>8966874
Telling a "story" during a match is completely different than stories told through promos, interviews exposition etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 12:43:44 No.8968009 Report

Quoted By: >>8968021

>>8967976
>They don't show advertisements in sporting broadcasts because it's a televised sporting event and you're tuning in to watch the whole thing
wtf are you talking about some people watch the super bowl JUST for the fucking advertising commercials.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 12:46:52 No.8968021 Report

Quoted By: >>8968116

>>8967998
No, it's all the one story. The other segments build context so if you are intentionally ignoring the context then you're refusing to actually watch the story.
>>8968009
They aren't during gameplay you buffoon. And americaball isn't a real sport anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 12:47:06 No.8968023 Report

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I honestly like both because a good wrestling match with no storyline will be just that, a good wrestling match.
I'd rather feel emotions when watching wrestling and technical wrestling very often is too predictable and slow to be actually enjoyable. I mean, sure it might look impressive but suspending my disbelief in that case is really hard because I know it's a ding-dong diddly work and many holds expose it more than the others

Much rather I'd see promos where people throw fire at each other, insults, arguing, swearing when using correctly, that actually gets the crowd going more usually

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 12:48:07 No.8968030 Report

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>>8965508
I only watch wrestling for the entrances

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 13:06:00 No.8968116 Report

Quoted By: >>8968469

>>8968021
>No, it's all the one story. The other segments build context so if you are intentionally ignoring the context then you're refusing to actually watch the story.
Sometimes there is no extra "context" except the fucking match itself. Lot's of wrestlers find themselves in matches with opponent without ever encountering them before, doing promos or mentioning them in interviews. And if there was actually anything worth knowing the commentators should be able to relay this information during the match in the first place. A major problem with "stories" in pro wrestling these days is commentators do shitty jobs and theres always additional bullshit happening on social media and vlogs etc. I can't tell you how many times here I've seen someone question or criticize some AEW match and get replies of "WELL YOU JUST NEED TO WATCH BTE THEN YOU'D GET IT" like fuck that i'm not watching this extra horseshit if it's important just tell me what happened during the damn match.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 13:12:52 No.8968159 Report

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>>8966790
He's right. AEW might have good matches occasionally, MJF can do some good promo work, but in order to be good wrestling, it needs the whole package and AEW rarely does that well. MJF and Punk feud was like the one exception. Cry about it, call me a drone or piggiE eating slop. Don't care. I know I'm right here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 13:35:28 No.8968271 Report

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>>8965508
No I have mma and boxing for that. Even then there are subtle storylines

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 14:16:06 No.8968469 Report

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>>8968116
>Sometimes there is no extra "context" except the fucking match itself
Maybe if you're brain-dead or the show is booked by a moron. A wrestling promotion presents an ongoing story. Every appearance by a character is part of their story within the presentation. There is never no story in pro wrestling unless the booking is by some retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 15:50:12 No.8968977 Report

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soap opera wrestling is for women and children. real men just watch random wrestling matches for the violence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 15:56:47 No.8969015 Report

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>you dont have to like a wrestler to enjoy a storyline
AEWTIST EVERYONE

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 16:41:32 No.8969331 Report

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>>8965508
Unless you’re a literal child, I get it for sure. How could you invest in such petty Nickelodeon tier writing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 16:43:06 No.8969347 Report

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>>8965508
Yes. It can still be fun with over the top cartoon characters but for the most part I only enjoy NJPW style shit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 16:44:00 No.8969351 Report

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>>8965508
I watch to see wrestlers get hurt

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 16:46:44 No.8969374 Report

Quoted By: >>8969961

I just want to see hard hitting action with people stiffing the shit out of each other. Action packed fast violence.

I've been watching for like 25 years and I can't name 10 storylines I actually cared about. Having an entertaining character definitely helps things though. If NJPW was just guys in black trunks chopping each other it wouldn't be as good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 16:54:14 No.8969434 Report

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>>8965508
I only watch certain matches for technical stuff, that's just my interest in shoot wrestling and liking how the more technical wrestlers incorporate it. Recent examples: Angelico vs Uemura. Brock Anderson vs Daniel Garcia. Danielson vs Garcia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 18:24:35 No.8969961 Report

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>>8969374
>W was just guys in black trunks chopping each other it wouldn't be as good.
You are correct, that's why it's guys in black trunks who chop each other AND do head drops.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 18:25:28 No.8969964 Report

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