We all watch a fairly wide range of wrestling, so across all your favourite/usual promotions:

Who is that one wrestler above all others that you just can’t get into?

Do you hate their wrestling style? Is their character boring? Do they just not do anything for you? Hate the performer (keep it civil)? Was there some angle that soured you on them? Let us know! (and obviously do feel free to mention multiple people if needed lol).

  • GeekFTW@kbin.socialOP
    2·
    9 months ago

    I’ll load up on a few now that I’ve had a mediocre sleep:

    Punk: Overvalued. When he was in his prime he was hot shit. Now post-prime, he’s smoldering shit but we’re supposed to think he’s the BeSt In ThE WoRlD lol.

    Anthony Ogogo I just cannot give a fuck about. I care more about my bowl of popcorn than I do about Anthony Ogogo and I just don’t get it.

    FTR is my current AEW piss break. I liked em as the Revival. I liked em when they showed up in AEW and started off. Then Dax decided to do the whole ‘piss people off with my podcast comments and then 24-72h later play it off like I didn’t say stupid crap’ bullshit and Cash is just dumber than a tit under an cruise ship.

    Deaner/Maclin/Edwards in TNA. Zero interest, none of em do anything for me.

    Nanae Takahashi. The second I see any wrestler in Stardom booked in a singles match with Nanane ‘That don’t work for me, sister’ Takahashi I know the next 11 mins are best spent making a sandwich and packing a bowl.

    And if I can be allowed an honourable mention for a promotion as a whole: Sukeban, just fuck off lol.

    • kessleragain@beehaw.org
      2·
      9 months ago

      The one time I think I enjoyed Deaner was when I was starting to watch Impact during lockdown and he and Jake Something were paired up in WrestleHouse. But that was probably more about WrestleHouse being exactly what I needed at that time.

      I’d already forgotten about Sukeban. Haha

      • GeekFTW@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        9 months ago

        I’d already forgotten about Sukeban. Haha

        For the best lmao. I love how Bull Nakano interviewed Rossy after BR canned him and she asked him how he liked Sukeban and his response was basically 'eh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ’

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      9 months ago

      Edwards in TNA

      his “evolution” to hardcore style in 2018 was actually so well done, check out that if you haven’t seen it.

      • GeekFTW@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        9 months ago

        Just my own opinion of course:

        • Poor production. Last show I watched (I’ve seen 2, I forget if they’ve done more than 2) was shit. Soon as a 3-count hit fucking bright strobing lights went off around the ring into the cameras.
        • The commentary is hot garbage (but because of the product imo).
        • The ‘characters’. I have no problem with Legally Distinct Wrestler™. Edge came to AEW. He can’t be Edge. We have Legally Distinct Edge™ Adam Copeland. Sukeban went the extreme route and made up personas (which imo are shit but thats fully subjective) which are unrelated as a whole to the people portraying them, but in the same breath acknowledges their real life accomplishments as the characters own, breaking the line between the two. Is Lady Antoinette this weird old-French-style (idk lol) woman who we have never seen before come to Sukeban with her Dangerous Liaisons team? She can’t be, she has Risa Sera’s exact title wins listed! She can’t be this new person, Lady Antoinette never won shite. Pick a lane, they’re either portraying new characters for the promotion to keep them separate from their existing ring personas, or they aren’t.
        • The title belt. It looks like a wonderful piece of art that would be presented as a trophy, or a big special occasion gift like on a retirement or something. It looks like a piss poor title belt for a wrestling promotion.
        • The outfits are basically half cheap fetish gear, half random good-will clothing. Dangerous Liaisons and the Harijuku Girls are basically wearing vinyl, leather/pleather. I’ve said it a dozen times but in the event first Saori Anou sorry sorry 'Countess Saori’s tits almost fell out at least 3-4x during her match, all of which is because they are supposedly a (for lack of a better term) ‘front’ for a fashion designer (who co-incidently works in vinyl, leather and pleather lmao) to show off clothing and outfits they make.

        Edit: And to be clear - No complaints about the wrestling. All of these women are world class wrestlers and they know how to do their job well. It’s just…I like cosplay in my wrestling but this is straight up cosplay.

        • MolochAlter@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I can see the problems lol. I only saw the first show (yes there were only 2 as far as I know) and I didn’t know that they did this “different characters but performer’s accolades” thing, that sounds stupid as fuck, pick one.

          Shame cause the idea of a promotion set in its own pocket universe where the performers could be reinvented as their own separate versions, with Bull Nakano as commissioner no less, sounded pretty fucking rad.

          Lack of commitment to the vision it seems.

          • GeekFTW@kbin.socialOP
            2·
            9 months ago

            Yeah like the overall aesthetic and how they’re doing things just…isn’t for me even as a joshi puroresu fan but if they at least stuck to it fully and didn’t list Stardom, TJPW, Ice Ribbon etc title wins for everyone on their site and talking about it during commentary then I’d at least give it a passing grade.

            I’m also not a fan of that outfit Bull Nakano was wearing but she’s Bull fucking Nakano she can wear what she wants lol.