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[Wrestling] It was the Best of the Super Juniors, it was the worst of the super juniors...
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If we really cared about the wrestlers overall long term health and well being, we would choose not to watch any wrestling.
I don't know every detail on the medical side so there could always be an exception to the rule, but for the most part surgeries are covered by the company unless talent insist on covering some charges.
Meanwhile on WWE, they disagreed with Paige's doctor that she needed neck surgery (after her second suspension) and made her pay for it herself because of that.
A more serious situation, which Dave obviously didn't talk extremely in depth about (it's likely going to court at some point once Natalya's eventually canned), was the Tyson Kidd injury, where at least a few people backstage thought he was faking and refused to call an ambulance, causing an argument. Nattie had to drive him there. The neck injury was of course severe enough that if they dilly-dally'd with "is he faking" "or not" for much longer, he very likely would have passed before making it to a hospital.
Dumb as the Shibata headbutt was, he was rushed to ER immediately after getting backstage, because New Japan knew the collapses were Not Good and certainly Not Faked.
Steam
But do you honestly believe New Japan wants wrestlers to unionize either, or be classified as anything other than independent contractors?
Oh and one more thing, New Japan would let Daniel Bryan wrestle for them in a heartbeat. I don't see how anyone can defend or condone that.
Your first question was "are they better at treating their talent", which I definitely do believe. Not once in the last 4 years, let alone in recent memory, despite any grudges they might have had with talent (again can't recall any) did they believe someone was faking a severe injury or lying about needing major surgery.
I can absolutely buy they don't want (or at least wouldn't benefit from the existence of) a union. The independent contractors thing I maintain is stupid as fuck everywhere that tries to exploit that shit. But there are absolutely ways talent are better treated in New Japan, and with health being the start of the subject, the addressing of serious injuries and immediate response to it is a strong example of it.
Steam
I would argue the Paige and Kidd examples are exceptions to WWE's injury policy and not the norm, but that doesn't make the company right either of course.
I'm not getting this...it's just static, right?
And in fact I won't be watching a full Raw for the foreseeable future.
So, when the commentators were running down how fast and strong and talented Joe is, my grandmother only had one thing to say. "He's fat."
I lost it and couldn't explain to her why.
Isn't the train thing still free to view? I forget
They need to do a sequel
That parodies Train to Busan, and at a random stop zombies enter and the wrestlers have to still have a match while fighting off/running away from zombies
Steam
This is art.
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This is incredible
Steam
The only way that wouldn't be awful is if they immediately turn on him and everybody including Bone Soldier makes him out to be a chump and he's never seen again.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
Right but most likely you aren't gonna see that anymore unless you are using public access channels as all cable and satellite tv stuff I've seen, if not coming in correctly, just gives you a blank screen instead of static. Similarly, when I turn on my tv, it starts out blue instead of a bunch of static.
Neville/Aries was a clinic as always and it's time to stop segregating these guys from the main roster.
Bayley losing her title was for the best, her reign has been shit, she's been pretty much an afterthought and they robbed her character of the absolute pinnacle of her story by having her achieve her ultimate dream like a month before Wrestlemania. Every other win will always be less than the first should have been. Alexa all the way.
How did Jeff lose a tooth? I can't see it on the video.
Holy shit that House of Horrors match was a shitshow and the crowd was right to shit all over it. Think Bray is teetering on the edge of unsalvageable at this point.
Braun destroyed Roman to send the crowd home happy.
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Walls were broken, but I'm not sure if there was an actual room-to-room transition via wall.
Then why even have a house match?
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Sheamus kicked him in the face.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Good god, that midcard is the most stacked.
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If true the winner will get Brock at GBoF.
Here's a short video of the Kaiju Kids performance from the recent NYC show.
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It might be the best Raw only ppv since the brand split.
The list of NWA Champs is pretty sad.
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Steam
The first two or three matches were phenomenal... Then I watched the leftovers so my rhythm was all off but I went back and watched and it certainly stayed good.
If only we had known back in the '90s what would happen if we bought so many copies of Siamese Dream.
I kinda doubt he remains champ now.