Y'all gonna bang?

If she's lucky

Nice

4th of July season always reminds me of Lex Luger and therefore of the wonderful absurdity of Summerslam '93

Luger being carried around on the shoulders of the babyfaces while balloons and confetti fall over a fucking countout, no title change finish remains one of the funniest things ever.

On his A&E doc a couple years ago basically everyone interviewed admitted that it just made him look so dumb that there was no way they could've actually put the title on him. He'd already blown the big celebration over nothing and there wouldn't be any catharsis.

Reminds me of when AEW celebrates its ratings.

Idk, that Mania 10 crowd seemed to be pretty hot for him. But yes, even as a dumb 7 year old kid, always thought the celebration at the end was really stupid.

fucking what?

Interesting...

Only topped in ridiculousness by Drew McIntyre getting screwed out of the world title in front of his home crowd and celebrating by singing “American Pie”.

What is Joshi?

My interest is piqued. I’ve always felt that a product like AJW has got an appeal that I think even the most casual fan could latch onto. You don’t feel stupid watching women like that beat the shit out of each other. I’m skeptical it will actually come together though.

It would be nice to know what the venue is.

Yep. Stupid definitely isn't in the top list of things people feel watching ladies slap one another.


:y:

bonk

Yeah, uh, I don’t really associate slapping with AJW.

You’re more likely to get that from the men in North America today.

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I'm glad y'all are excited, because I can't see this as anything other than an overly ambitious mistake that's going to cost someone a lot of money.

Never said i was excited. I said it was interesting. Its untested waters and that brings an air of intrigue. Are they going to tap into something i couldnt have predicted? I never thought the US Indy style would become the predominant style in the globe and yet here we are.

So here comes someone witb a vision. And i see the vision and immediately think that womens wrestling doesnt even draw when the wwe is selling it like its a billion dollar idea. And with that the womens segments still hemorrhage viewers everytime they go up to bat.

But here comes a foreign investor with an idea thats completely off the wall. But its still a vision. And you can never discredit art when its done with the proper passion because then it just needs execution and exposure.

My immediate question whos bumping because youre going to need to level workers to even dream of making this work AND you need enough of them to not oversaturate the ones you want in key spots. Is the Joshi pool deep enough for that? The number of women in the US who can draw is so shallow that it kills any hope of them having real traction after 6 months.

Now i love puro, or what puro was before the US Indy cancer took hold over it, and i love Joshis when then working Kings Road or Strong Style. So i see this and think, well im in the demo they hope exists. So i can for certain see me checking the product out. No question. But will it work? Can it work? I dunno.i doubt it but ive been wrong before.

But yeah, its pretty interesting.

I it runs like 6 times a yeah in the vein of early SHIMMER i think you might be able to get something going with the right talent

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Why isn’t this someone’s finisher right now? It looks cool and seems relatively safe to take. Everyone loves cutters these days. Let’s go already

WWA is a massive trip.

The Joshi idea sounds like someone found an angel, but I’m willing to give it a chance. I’m also doubtful the talent is out there.

Can't wait for Noid to complain about this promotion when it doesn't live up to his imaginary standards.

Double Posting this because HOT DAMN LOL

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It depends on where they're pulling from. Stardom has a wealth of talent, but I doubt they'd get anyone from there. Sendai Girls, Seedlining, and Marvelous are relatively close in style to classic AJW, but they each only have 3-5 really notable talents. Tokyo Joshi Pro has some good talent too. Besides that, there's a stand out here or there, but it's mostly crap.

The biggest problem is none of these women speak english. If they really go hard into making this feel different and focus on pure sport presentation as opposed to typical story and character based stuff, it MIGHT be intriging enough to work, but it's still going to be an uphill battle.

it really boils down to what will it take for it tobe profitable. There's a not insignificant number of anime fans and they nearly exclusively consume the product in Japanese so i think the language barrier isnt a big deal as long as your goal, and budget, reflect a realistic expectation.

Any show is successful as long as it generates enough revenue to properly motivate making future shows. The bar of success isnt "well youre in 2nd place so youre a loser" any more than "well you're in 100th place so youre a loser." If the people behind it are growing their coffers then its successful. So again its all about what are they aiming for and itll be interesting to see how it pans out.

Ive contended for time something like a twitch or a kick is the ideal platform for a wrestling product. Its free global distribution plus you get the gate regardless. I think crowd funding for increasingly niche ideas is the future of entertainment as a whole. You put something like this in the right physical market and build up a healthy online following that subscribes/donates/etc i could see a scenrio where this works pretty easily.

You're not wrong, but going off the article, it sounds like they're throwing a lot of money around. I'd be more hopeful that they could successfully generate that revenue if this was a modest indy show like Shimmer.

I just noticed a show called “Dr. Pimple Popper.” It got more viewers than Dynamite. Even on the fake chart.

As of today Roman Reigns has passed Hogans title run for the longest in the "WM era".

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I know Aja had some appearances in the WWF as herself, but could you imagine the gimmick Vince would've cooked up for her if he had full autonomy?

Woulda put Hambone Hogsworth to shame.

The Meng of Women

Soooooo great

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I'd surmise there was a gentlemen's agreement for that one. "Let's just go out there and beat the fuck out of each other."

Those two had the same match for 8 months and it never got old