Wrestling Thread 5: FKA The Viking Experience • Page 293

I still don't know how Keith can do stuff like this. This is borderline superhero shit.

 

Ok, new WWE rule. No wrestlers can drink in Florida anymore.

 

Or maybe the Usos should stop drinking and driving

 

That was really close to going wrong.

Lee's strength is spectacular.

 

That can't be it. Surely...

 

And its his second incident in like 6 months.

We're told when the cop pulled the wrestler over, he reeked of alcohol ... and when the officer tried to administer DUI tests on Uso, he refused.

Uso was then arrested on a DUI charge and we're told he was also hit with a speeding citation.

 

Did he even get in trouble for the last one?

Edit: Actually didn't Usos win the tag belts a few days later? lol

 

oh god. another week of bad uso penitentiary jokes

 

big daddy dave gave Ishii and Mox 5* and Okada and Ospreay 5 3/4*

 

I have stats. Since 2012, Okada has averaged a 3.91stars per match. He has had FIFTEEN 5 star+ matches with seven different people. That is unreal.

 

And he's only 31! Dude is just on another level and absolutely will go down as one of the greatest of all-time!

 

It's absurd. The 7 people thing really blew my mind. It's one thing to just have great chemistry with Kenny Omega and they just always burn it down, but it's impossible to be that good with that many different people without just being an absolute stud.

 

That's all well and good, but can he do it away at Stoke in the rain in January?

Joke for the 3 possible English football fans, there.

 

Lol, the first thing my friend said when I shared this news was, "So they're going to win the titles back now?".

 

WWE earnings call was as expected, real bad

 

Thats the craziest part. Its one thing to have a bunch of 6-star matches with Omega....but also doing it with Ospreay, Tanahashi, SANADA, Shibata, Ishii, and in a tag against the Golden Lovers shows his range.

If you expand that to 4.75*, you add Styles, Nak, Goto, Ibushi, Naito, Suzuki, Elgin, ZSJ, and Jay White....which is an absurd range of wrestlers. Elgin and ZSJ could not be more different, and to be able to wrestle both to basically perfection is an unreal ability.

 

But not quite as terrible as expected, so the stock is up!

Im actually blown away that house show attendance is only down 2%. Figured that number was gonna be larger than the ratings drops...especially with the cancelled monday shows.

 

You get one person to lead your company, who do you choose: Omega or Okada? Setting aside things like Omega will connect with an American audience easier than okada does, of course.

 

Purely based on in ring? Okada. He's clearly one of the top talents ever and as showcased above, he knows how to work varying different styles of opponents. Plus, it doesn't hurt that his look is extremely marketable.

 

Omega only because he can be a major face or heel, i can't imagine a heel Okada although im sure it would wind up amazing

 

Wasn't CHAOS originally a heel stable? I'm wondering if he spent time as a heel back then. I only got into NJPW around the first Okada/Omega so I'm not as well versed in its history. Either way, I could see him pulling off a great heel gimmick. Would actually enjoy seeing that some point down the line.

 

That’s why I asked the question: I don’t think there’s a wrong answer but you can make such a good case one way or the other.

 

Fuck that idiot Uso

 

I think of Okada really wanted to be a heel, he could make the rainmaker thing almost like an MJF "I'm better than you" type thing