Historical European Martial Arts Thread
Please keep it kind and on topic. Also no SCA/Reenactment please.
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>>820233
First for stop the HMB hate
>>820241
HMB is trash
Some German blade porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CupEzAZ4UVk
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Another wrestling thread.
ITT: We recommend each other matches, ppvs, documentaries etc. on the wwe network which is pic related.
Armageddon 2006 fatal four way tag team ladder match.
MNM vs. Hardys vs London and Kendrick (c) vs. regal and Dave Taylor
Mercury gets his face destroyed by a ladder match.
Good match too.
>>890469
This counts as advertising
Enjoy your ban
>>890522
It's obviously a parody you fool.
A Balor debut in the coming month(s) is inevitable. How should he be booked?
>>890042
Buy attacking Michel Cole ric flier and banks and then become a jobber
in a way that doesnt make him boring as fuck like he is on nxt
>>890042
i really dont know unless he gains more character. the whole "sometimes come out in paint and crawl to the ring but i still act the same" needs to change
Build your own 5-person booking committee.
There are two potential categories:
1. 5 people, as they are today. So no, say, Dusty Rhodes or Fritz von Erich.
or
2. 5 people at the height of their powers, regardless of their current condition.
Listing one of them as head booker is allowed but optional. Go!
1. Cornette, Heyman, Gedo, Jado, Triple H
2. Dusty Rhodes (Head Booker), Heyman, Cornette, Gedo, Jado.
Prime Russo, Prime Heyman, Prime Bischoff, Jeff Jarrett, whoever the current head booker of LU is
>>885714
Why do you like Jim Cornette so much?
What Pay Per-View matches you think were awesome back in the day.
WrestleMania XX
>>876592
was that when Cena choked him with the ring rope?
What do you guys reckon is the cringiest moment in the WWE? Just found this gem, which gets my vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEK80zqUXWQ
>>890069
Man, I remember watching that shit as a kid. I just thought that he was bullying him by just pressing him against the wall. When people talked about Cole getting raped, I'd think to myself "When the fuck did that happen?".
To answer your question, any skit involving Hornswoggle.
>>890116
>tfw when I was younger I loved Hornswoggle and Finlay
>I hid a thick stick underneath the trampoline and went to as if it was my shillelagh when we were wrestling.
>That Bastard son segment when they had everyone in the roster
>It got down to Triple H
>I didn't understand the whole HHH being married to Stephanie thing and just thought Vince didn't like H because of DX
How about every time they had the Great Khali sing.
http://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/wwe-jim-ross-is-back-legendary-voice-to-call-new-japan-pro-wrestling-matches-on-axs-tv-011916
>"BAH GAWD, WHAT A RAINMAKER!"
>"THAT NAKAMURA IS TOUGHER THAN A $2 STEAK"
>"GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY, THAT KOKESHI KILLED HIM!"
.....HOLY SHIT
Sensible move by NJPW, but it's only a short-term solution.
why he get fired anyhow
I used to do MMA, a self defense system made by a teacher of mine that mixed ju-jitsu, boxing, aikido, taek-wondo, karate, judo, and other shits. He would also teach me how to take care of someone trying to slash you with a knife and people trying to charge you with batons or people aiming at you with handguns. Shit was rad and i learnt a lot. However, i decided to stop, and i am here to take advise on that.
One of the reasons why i decided to stop was because i felt that i was not improving anymore. Does anyone that did any kind of martial art felt that? that after doing the same shit over and over and over again you feel like if you are wasting time? ive never really had to fight someone ever since i learnt martial arts so i was never confident about my combat skills, that was partially why i felt that everything i was doing was completely pointless.
Another reason why i decided to stop, and this one is the real problem, is that sometimes i just feel like being violent, like if i WANT to pick a fight with someone just because, like if i WANT to fight and hurt someone else. Call me edgy, but my issue was that the more i was learning the more i wanted to use what i learnt on someone else. Is this a common problem? am i a fucking psycho? is it just something that will go away if i keep practicing or what?
Sorry if i am not used to the slang of this board, this is the first time i go here.
He may have taught you how to do it, but to determine whether or not you can do it, you have to actually do it, in sparring, or in self defense.
It's possible to do really difficult shit, be making a hoop from across the whole court, those things football players do in those self promotional commercial things, being an undisputed Kickboxing champion or MMA champion, hitting someone with a flashy Taekwondo Kick, or pulling off some aikido technique.
But it takes skill, which takes practice, all kinds of practice.
Not just technique, not just drills, not just sparring, but a lot of it.
So, how often did you guys spar, and how often did you guys try to use the techniques you were taught?
>>886504
>One of the reasons why i decided to stop was because i felt that i was not improving anymore.
It's one thing to stimulate the reward centers of your brain, tracking your improvement, noticing the big difference.
It's another to actually dedicate yourself to something, even if it means doing hard work.
>>886934
We usually fight the other quite often, Ive practiced for 2 years, and our teacher used to force us to do the same move over and over and over again. Usually 20 of all kicks per leg, had to do it timed with him (he was late 40's but he was fucking quick, strong, and still good lookng) or he would punish us.
That's the problem ive had tho. Whenever we would mock-fight, it was done with protective shit, timed, never to the head, etc.
I never found out, and i still dont know, how big or small my chances are of using what he thaught me to break a bone or knock someone out. That's what sparked my interest in just having a street brawl, to know that there is no need to limit myself there, to know that i could truly see how strong and good i am. But there was never an opportunity, and i began to lose confidence. Is it really that common for this to happen?
Usually signified by a wrestler being in lots of them (in the old days they'd always lose too because it was a match where they had the advantage so losing should be a shock)
>Kane - Inferno match (been in all 4, lost first 3)
>Undertaker - Buried Alive, Last Ride, Hell in a Cell
>Jeff Hardy - Ladder Match
>Big Show - Last Man Standing up (look it up, he's been in like 10)
>Cena - I quit (he's had 4 or 5 feud ending I quit matches)
>HHH - 3 stages of hell, Elimination Chamber (Kayfabe creator, been half before they became so common)
>Reigns - Royal Rumble
>Austin - Royal Rumble
>Dudleys - Tables
>Edge - TLC
>>890016
Jeff hardy is tlc you dip
>>890031
Ladder match is exclusively his domain, no one can ever claim to have the advantage over him there
Dudleys are his equals at TLC
E&C are his superiors
>>890016
> bret hart- submission match
> bret hart- ladder match
Literally invented them
> bret hart- table match
Literally pioneered and was involved in the first ever table spot
ITT: We post ridiculous pro wrestling related pages on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrible_Ted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Nonstop_Action_Wrestling
>>889599
>pro wrestling related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Males
>The American Males won the tag team title soon after they began teaming together but soon dropped the belts back to Harlem Heat, the previous champions. Bagwell and Riggs did not return to main-event status,
>main-event status
>American Males
What happened to the Royal Rumble prediction thread?
We all know what's going to happen.
>>889252
Triple h is gonna come back and throw ramen out, and get the title
>>889208
realized they're pointless as anyone with a shred of common sense will be wrong and stream of consciousness shitposting has more in common with the product.
Laugh at TNA thread? TNA General thread? I dunno lol.
>spend a LOT of money to get Maria (and her shitty talentless husband) out of their ROH & Japanese deals
>make her wear a dress at ringside
vintage TNA
>>872471
when did dat ass get so thick
>>872494
the ass was always thick m8, you probably weren't paying attention
>>872471
>CM punk got to smother his face in that ass AND AJs
what a lucky fuck
Dedicated to the only female wrestler worth watching
Virgins not welcome, please proceed to the virgin general >>868420
Finally , a Paige thread
>only female wrestler worth watching
why did you post a blank picture
>>890130
>Sa Sha Binks
She really does look like Jar Jar Binks
I can't fucking believe my eyes. They ruining Brock Lesnar.
I fill you I just finished my recording of raw and wtf happened to lesnar he's supposed to be wwe's beast and he gets beat up by the wyatt family
>>889388
He did fucking fight off the league of cucks, and did take ramens finisher
>>889396
He took two spears.
Cole's almost been in the company for 20 years now. Do you think fans will eventually like him, simply out of sheer longevity?
Which divas do you think he has slept with during his tenure?
What do you think his role is in NXT?
>>881548
>Do you think fans will eventually like him, simply out of sheer longevity?
When has this ever occurred?
Cole is a mediocre-at-worst announcer who's been mischaracterized as being terrible simply because he came in after JR, who set an incredibly high bar. People either downplay or ignore his best work with Tazz on Smackdown, when he didn't have Vince telling him what to say via headset
People criticize every single thing he says, and act like he botches more than other announcers did. I remember someone on here actually said they hated how Cole pronounces 'WWE'. Imagine someone hating you for pronouncing something correctly. That's when you KNOW you can do nothing right in their eyes
When he goes into the HOF he'll get some respect simply due to longevity. If he had left ten years ago I guarantee you nobody would've cared
As for the divas comment....I'm still thinking he might be a closeted gay man. No disrespect/insult intended really; but I heard he's married with adopted kids and no biological kids. Seems like a red flag to me...
>>881602
* mediocre-at-BEST
>People either downplay or ignore his best work with Tazz on Smackdown, when he didn't have Vince telling him what to say via headset
Of course, back then he had the advantage of working post-production with Heyman and dubbing over flubs.
His voice is, quite simply, unpleasant. Not exactly a quality you want in your lead commentator.