Unironic Wrestling Fans

[JeffertonFromTX]

Yes, we should all support Aiden English aka Dumm Oaf. FOT and a very good wrestler with a great gimmick.

That guy is amazing. His body language and theatricality are candy to watch. It makes it even better than he is an FOT

[ScottFromNY]

Yes, we should all support Aiden English aka Dumm Oaf. FOT and a very good wrestler with a great gimmick.

That guy is amazing. His body language and theatricality are candy to watch. It makes it even better than he is an FOT

He needs to be used more on TV. The Vaudevillians should get the tag titles for at least bit and show their strength in longer matches.

He's also the only reason my girlfriend will watch wrestling with me. During Royal Rumble, she asked if the Vaudevillians were going to show up. I had to tell her "probably not for another year or so." :/

[JeffertonFromTX]

Oh, man, that just broke my heart to even think about him entering a Rumble. I'm just sitting down to watch the newest NXT special now. I'm really hoping that during the Tag Titles match we get some Vaudevillians shenanigans and at least see one perfect senton from English.

[JeffertonFromTX]

I said I would post some stuff, and I finally figured out how to do it. SO let's start with a SUPERKICK PARTY.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V_aTFBEWFM

Kevin Steen vs. Shinsuke Nakamura from ROH: War of the Worlds '14. Nakamura is, bar none, the coolest man on the planet. Him sidestepping Steen's apron senton like its nothing is one of my favorite moments in wrestling.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf3Zc65uRN0

Daniel Bryan and Cesaro tagging against Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw from a Chikara event in 2009. I desperately want to see a Chikara event live. It looks like heaven. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1QzDuhGLbE

This is just a super funny sequence to remind everyone how great Kenny Omega is. This is from PWG last year. ACH hits a stunner and Omega pretends to be the Rock.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUO1opfLY7U

And, finally, some Great Muta vs. Liger, because we all love great things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJIzfghH5AI

[Jew Heffner]

Hey! I'm new to the Best Show, new to the board, but I'm a long time wrestling fan.

I have been to over 100 wrestling shows live, have been to Ring of Honor many, many times, been to Chikara, been to several wwe house shows, Raws and pay per views, including the last three Wrestlemanias. I got to meet Daniel Bryan back in 2008 (when he was still known as Bryan Danielson, which was pretty awesome because he's been my favorite wrestler since 2006) after a ROH show in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom. He's such a great guy and I love all the success he's had. I actually was at the show when he won his first World Heavyweight Championship at TLC 2011, and I was at the Wrestlemania where he lost the belt. I also got to see him win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WM 30. I also met Cesaro a couple years before he was hired by wwe.

I wanted to be a wrestler since I was 10 years old, and actually did so for a little while, before realizing that I wasn't physically cut out to take all the punishment that those guys endure. It stinks that I couldn't do it for a living, but at least I went for it. Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all, eh? At least I got to train with Chris Hero several times, and since he's one of my favorite wrestlers it made it all the more special to me.

But yeah, I'm probably the biggest wrestling nerd around these parts. I'd be seriously surprised to find someone as nerdy as me when it comes to wrestling. I mean, the last two years I counted every single wrestling match I watched and the total for both years was over 1200.

[JeffertonFromTX]

Holy hell, man. You are a human goldmine. I won't lie, I would sell a kidney to go to this year's King of Trios. It looks to already be a big one this year.

[Dip Apesworth]

Anybody into the Botchamania/OSW Review scene? That's been my ticket back into wrestling fandom. Specifically, watching old Rumbles, Wrestlemanias, and This Tuesday in Texas from the late 80's and early 90's. Gimme Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth in the ring, and my former governor Jesse Ventura as the heel commentator any day. No one cuts a promo like Randall Savage.

I keep up to date on the current scene, although Cena being generally repellent and the hard, hard push for Reigns are just too much to bear. Thanks, Vince.

[Jew Heffner]

Holy hell, man. You are a human goldmine. I won't lie, I would sell a kidney to go to this year's King of Trios. It looks to already be a big one this year.

One of the most fun weekends I ever had as a wrestling fan was going to the 2012 King of Trios. The atmosphere at Chikara shows is absolutely amazing. The fans have so much fun and that makes the show so much more fun. If you can ever get to a Chikara show, I would suggest going. It's definitely worth it.

[JeffertonFromTX]

Anybody into the Botchamania/OSW Review scene?

I just recently started watching Botchamania and now I can't get enough of it. I haven't watched much OSW Review, but what I've seen of it I have really enjoyed.

Chikara is a thing I kinda stumbled upon after I started watching NXT because someone had told me that my new favorite Face Sami Zayn was also a masked, orphanage running lucador named El Generico and that led me to a bunch of Chikara stuff, which THEN led to me loving Chuck Taylor, The Spectral Envoy, Colt Cabana, and The Colony. I have read stuff about King of Trios and some of their other tournaments and it just sounds like an absolute blast. As a matter of fact, one of the best pieces I've ever read about wrestling period was Danielle Matheson's piece for Uproxx about that Joshi trio that made it to the finals last year, I think. It reminded me of everything that I love about wrestling.

As for the new crop, I really just pick my favorites and kinda try to suppress my hatred for some of the other junk I hate. For every time Reigns looks really strong and Cena kicks out at two and behaves like the sadistic heel that he actually is, I just remind myself that Samoa Joe is coming back to ROH, Shinsuke Nakamura is still the coolest mammajamma on the face of the planet, and that Lucha Underground is still blowing the doors off the El Rey Network.

[Jew Heffner]

Shinsuke Nakamura is my dude!!!!

[JeffertonFromTX]

His match at this year's Wrestle Kingdom with Ibushi was the very definition of show-stopper.

[Jew Heffner]

Is there a way for us to post videos in this thread? I think it'd be interesting to see what people's favorite matches are. I'd also like to post some of the matches that I think are among the best I've ever seen.

[JeffertonFromTX]

Yeah, you just take the link of whatever you are posting and take out the https part at the beginning. That's how I embedded all that stuff above.

[Jew Heffner]

Awesome, thanks Jefferton!

This is my all time favorite match, Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit from the 2003 Royal Rumble. I think it's as perfect as wrestling can get as an art form. The intensity that both guys always show, but even more so against one another, brings the best out of one another in what I think is their best encounter. They had several ridiculously good matches against one another, but this takes the cake for me. What do you guys think of this match? Have any of ya seen it?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSbs35ZCa_w

[JeffertonFromTX]

I actually hadn't seen this one before, but you are right, Beniot and Angle always tore it up when they wrestled. They were both so technically sound and were master storytellers in the ring. I've been watching some of his New Radicals stuff and I had forgotten how much I loved that angle.