07-18-2017, 08:27 AM | #41 | |
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If I were to make a musical comparison.....when I say I was never a big Beatles fan everyone acts like it's the worst thing ever said and that it automatically invalidates your opinions. "But they influenced all music! You must like SOMETHING from them!" And yeah, I do.....just as I like several Bret matches, I like several Beatles song. Again, it's not that I think they suck. I respect their accomplishments. It just doesn't do anything for me. |
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07-18-2017, 08:35 AM | #42 | |
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3 fave things that he did better than anyone. 1) backbreaker 2) double elbow off 2nd rope 3) chest first turnbuckle bump |
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07-18-2017, 10:13 AM | #43 |
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Add to that the whole struggle and twists and turns to get into sharpshooter. He made it a great finish and a really exciting part of matches he was in.
It wasn't just put it on and crawl to ropes. There was lots of scrapping and fighting and he always sinched it in so well |
07-18-2017, 10:32 AM | #44 | |
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07-18-2017, 10:39 AM | #45 |
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07-18-2017, 03:55 PM | #46 |
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Watching great balls of fire, and thought Matt Hardys punches looked really good.
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07-18-2017, 03:58 PM | #47 |
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07-18-2017, 04:13 PM | #48 | |
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07-18-2017, 04:42 PM | #49 | |
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His promos as a face werent his strong suit but he would come out with a cracker here and there and his in ring work was better than when he was a heel. |
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07-18-2017, 04:43 PM | #50 |
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Not to argue with you Kira. Its all down to taste and what connects with you. Just for the sake of convo.
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07-18-2017, 04:50 PM | #51 |
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A shining night for Bret was kotr 1993. 3 matches with 3 very different opponents ranging from good to excellent. He had to win each match without using the sharpshooter as per the bookers instructions.
He carried different injuries from each match selling them to perfection a la the perfect babyface. |
07-18-2017, 09:23 PM | #52 |
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His match with 123 kid shows just how unselfish he was in the ring. It wasnt about Bret Hart, he made it about the kid who just might be able to catch one on the champion.
At wm13 he just about made Austin. This match had more significance than Austin winning the title the next year from HBK. Even Austin says that this is THE match he watches back. His match with Nash at survivor series 95 is an absolute classic where props such as the mic cable, the turnbuckle cover and the announce table were used in ways that enriched the story, rather than just for the sake of it. |
07-18-2017, 09:35 PM | #53 |
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Nash match is a personal favourite. the other 2 also fucking rule.
I think my #1 and #2 are WM13 and his match w/Owen at WM10. |
07-19-2017, 03:24 AM | #54 | |
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The WrestleMania 13 match is often called the greatest match in company history when it comes to the WWF/E. I completely get that. It's the "correct answer" to the question, like when people ask what the greatest film of all-time is: it's Citizen Kane. Even if you don't particularly love the film, that's just the stock answer to that question. I'm not arguing with it being the greatest match in company history when I say this: I've never particularly got into the match. I tried to watch it as a young smark, and it just never gelled with me. I went back and tried to watch it recently, and maybe it was my mind frame at the time, but I just couldn't invest. It's not the same as watching it at the time and watching Austin really emerge. I get that. Maybe it's because I know the story of how Austin ended up, I can't go back and get the same thrills out of it, because I already feel like I am watching a massive star? I also find crowd brawling to be pretty shit. Austin and Hart probably did it better than just about anyone ever, but years of shitty crowd brawling after that probably taints it retrospectively for me. Again, I'm not knocking the match, but I've just never been able to really love it like it probably deserves to be loved. I respect it as a document more than anything. |
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07-19-2017, 03:25 AM | #55 |
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I fucking LOVE Bret vs. Owen. For all I've said about not getting Bret as much as others, I do fucking love this match so much. I remember where I was when I first watched it. Honestly, at the time, because Bret didn't capture my imagination that much, I actually credited Owen for more of it than I should have, haha. But yeah, this is a tremendous match.
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07-19-2017, 08:51 AM | #56 | |
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Three years in though and I think more people than not are having a tough time getting invested because they know the end game for the characters, and the result of the match itself. Add that to the sheer time commitment of trying to do a proper "re-watch" and I think you have a lot of people who are mostly just using the Network for new content. Personally, it never bothered me knowing the end game...but I can see why it would. When I have time to work on my original brand split re-watch (finally almost into 2003), I'm enjoying the shit out of the great wrestling on SmackDown. Others might be too distracted knowing that all these years later Edge is retired, Mysterio is broken down, and Eddie and Benoit are dead. |
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07-19-2017, 09:09 AM | #57 |
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I personally use it for JUST old content.
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07-19-2017, 09:35 AM | #58 |
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I'd buy the network if it wasn't for Canada being awful for wrestling. And I would only use it for old content. I don't watch very much current stuff, other than 6 star Japanese Match De Jour, IMO older wrestling is better and more authentic. Even the shitty, cheesier stuff was better.
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07-19-2017, 10:01 AM | #59 |
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I had the Network for old stuff and the NXT Takeovers, but I just couldn't keep supporting a company that doesn't give a shit. If they don't feel financial hits, then why would they change? So I pulled out. I also went a long time without making the time to watch anything, so it's not like I was actively using it all the time anyway.
With the Takeover shows -- while I do generally like them and find the presentation to be more to my taste, I know what the end-game is for NXT talent: main roster WWE. I know enough now to know that anyone I genuinely start to believe in is just going to be ruined up there; reduced to the broad strokes of the journey I've witnessed, and just placed there to be stoic through time until we get to the point where they are randomly given a World Title. Without it being its own world, I cannot really stay invested in NXT. Plus, I find that it's more of the same. The tropes and patterns are starting to become more and more apparent, and I think the "love affair" with it is over for me. |
07-19-2017, 10:43 AM | #60 |
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Just rewatching bret v diesel from survivor series 95. Diesel fucking murders him for the first 10 minutes of the match, which is no holds barred... favouring the big man, Bret out matched, fighting off a jackknife attempt hooks a leg, after a struggle, Bret BITES Diesel, turns the tide. Crowd pops big time.
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07-19-2017, 10:44 AM | #61 |
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then starts raking the fuck out of Diesel's eyes. all making sense because of the no dq stip and Hart being the underdog. He's outmatched but he's crafty, it was the best way to make sense of Bret getting any advantage when stylistically he should get murdered. #Kayfabe
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07-19-2017, 10:46 AM | #62 |
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then uses those salty tactics to give him space to go to work on the knee, slowing down the big man.
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07-19-2017, 03:05 PM | #63 |
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Bret would break the rules against hosses back in the day, as well. Especially when in a bear hug, he'd have no qualms against a desperation eye gouge. Even funnier, against the Warlord, he would polish the top of his head before biting him.
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