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**McQueen** · 10-02-2011, 04:17 AM

I dislike Michaels ridiculous pinball selling in parts of the first HiaC but other than that personal annoyance thats maybe the 2nd best WWF/E match ever.

**Chismo** · 10-02-2011, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by starship.paint

I didn't get the drama

Well, I pity you.

**TelkEvolon** · 10-02-2011, 05:07 AM

ANY match when typed up can be made to seem like the greatest match ever.

Most of the time the typed up matches sounds way better than the actual things the happen.

Especially when instead of it being factual analysis, you type it up as a story book adding moments, thoughts and feeling that don't exist and are just there to hook the reader in.

Fiction.

"Shawn takes a fall from the Cell" turns into "The Undertaker, unable to keep HBK down knows he has to do something big, something that may be pushing it to far, but HBK has left him with no other choice. As Shawn cluches with everything he has, trying to prove the world wrong, that he is not just a pretty boy, that he can take everything anyone has and them some, now is his real chance to prove that as he goes crashing down into the depths of hell. The Undertaker dareing him to rise again."

starship.paint · 10-02-2011, 06:37 AM

thanks for sharing KingCal.

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Originally Posted by TelkEvolon

ANY match when typed up can be made to seem like the greatest match ever.

Most of the time the typed up matches sounds way better than the actual things the happen.

Especially when instead of it being factual analysis, you type it up as a story book adding moments, thoughts and feeling that don't exist and are just there to hook the reader in.

Fiction.

"Shawn takes a fall from the Cell" turns into "The Undertaker, unable to keep HBK down knows he has to do something big, something that may be pushing it to far, but HBK has left him with no other choice. As Shawn cluches with everything he has, trying to prove the world wrong, that he is not just a pretty boy, that he can take everything anyone has and them some, now is his real chance to prove that as he goes crashing down into the depths of hell. The Undertaker dareing him to rise again."

yeah, I agree. It just depends on your mindset I guess. If you're emotionally invested, you think of everything that come to your mind to explain every single move that the wrestlers make, making the match all the more awesome in your mind. Thing is, for some reason I wasn't emotionally invested, so I didn't "see" everything KingCal saw.

I just saw a slow first portion, Taker beating Michaels up for quite some time, going so far as to bash him into the cage walls and ringpost, then one time Michaels sidesteps and Taker runs into the cage, and Michaels suddenly rejuvenated despite the long beatdown jumps on Taker and pummels him on the floor, and Taker can't seem to fend him off despite the fact that he took one single run into the cage and Michaels has been taking a huge beatdown.

Then Michaels in control, good cage elbow drop and sick steel steps piledriver, then he uses a chair, but of course it's not going to end with two steel chairs to the back. Then Michaels falls on a cameraman, and... beats him up? Funnily enough the fake cameraman isn't wearing the same black stuff the real cameraman are using. Meanwhile the Undertaker is nowhere to be found as Michaels bullies the cameraman. Did I think Michaels did that for the cage door to be opened? Well... I didn't think of that during the match.

Still, once the cage door was opened and the wrestlers left, that kind of defeated the entire purpose of the cage. And - where was HHH/Chyna? I thought I saw them around during the entrance. Surely they would have helped Michaels out? And Michaels escapes, and is still getting beaten up. He runs and he gets beats up, he climbs on top of the cage and he gets beats up, he falls off the cage onto a table. Ouch. I would have preferred Michaels superkicking Taker off the cage once Taker climbed up, but oh well. And then Michaels gets thrown around onto more tables. And then they go back in, and he's beaten up more - I seem to have blinked and missed the chokeslam spot here - then steel chair to the head, ouch.

Then time for the finish - boom! It's Kane! How do the announcers know who Kane is, anyway? Undertaker being frightened by the pyro and turning is pretty funny when you consider that he could see the pyro in front of him, why did he need to look behind him? Tombstone! Michaels crawls (so s-l-o-w-ly! he should have lay closer to Taker) over, drapes an arm, but Taker is dead, Michaels wins.

Umm.... I guess I'd rate it... hmm... ***1/2

and I just watched another match...

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Originally Posted by Segunda Caida

Yeah I think the Volk Han vs Tamura match is a final or some tournament, its their second match. And its on youtube.

wow what can I say this was bloody awesome. Now this was a match I was emotionally invested in. The craziest submissions, blocks and counters I've ever seen and Tamura's kicking led to a "nearfall" near the end of the match. They made every submission look very legit and dangerous, seemed like the match could end any time. Only thing is - is this even scripted wrestling? Or is it MMA?

**Cactus** · 10-02-2011, 06:42 AM

The announcers knew it was Kane because Paul Bearer was bragging about how Kane is still alive and wants revenge. Makes sense really.

But yeah, HHH/Chyna not interfering when the door was open made no sense.

Yeah1993 · 10-02-2011, 07:09 AM

Han/Tamura was a work and not MMA.

Fighter Daron · 10-02-2011, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Yeah1993

Han/Tamura was a work and not MMA.

Shoot style.

Yeah1993 · 10-02-2011, 06:11 PM

Yeah I know but if I had said "shoot style" the guy probably wouldn't have known it was a work.

**Cactus** · 10-02-2011, 06:19 PM

I really can't get into shoot style. I just find it a tad boring. That being said, I don't mind a short 10 minutes Battlarts match now and then. Oh well, to each their own.

Fighter Daron · 10-02-2011, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Cactus

I really can't get into shoot style. I just find it a tad boring.

It happens to me too.