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Seth Rollins V-Trigger, Rainmaker, Slingblade combination

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#1 ·
Nice shoutout to the three best wrestlers in NJPW.

Kenny Omega - V-Trigger



Kazuchika Okada - Rainmaker




Hiroshi Tanahashi - Slingblade



Seth Rollins Combination

 
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#4 · (Edited)
Sick moves. Seth is an elite wrestler in his own right, but he's been around that WWE style for so long that just lately people seem to forget that. Don't sleep on Seth Rollins, technically the guy is top tier if given the right opponent. He's put on some great matches in his career, Seth just needs to remind people what he can do to get that buzz back.

Seth Rollins is one or two 5 star matches away from getting a "thank-you Seth" chant the next night on Raw: along with getting back his 'smart-fan-buzz' (I hate that phrase) and cementing his babyface status in the process. What we saw tonight was a step in the right direction, that was a fun match; a match that if it had been given more time and no interruption could have tore the house down: but I get it that the interruption was necessary for them to tell the story they wanted to tell.

Guys like myself who follow indie wrestling, or enjoy ROH or NJPW tend to respect match quality over anything else. If WWE ever want to turn a wrestler who has roots in indie wrestling babyface, all they have to do is have them put on a 5 star match at a PPV; then use the applause from smart crowds the next night on Raw as the catalyst to cement the turn: it's that simple.
 
#45 ·
tribute as in taking other wrestlers moves. it's something i've noticed him doing his entire wwe run. whenever someone in nxt starts doing something that looks cool seth coincidentally starts adding it to his move set. so now he's branching out to new japan as well.

i guess if it's not in wwe then it's not stealing. nothing else exists right?
 
#10 ·
The reason this particular slingblade is being singled out is because he doesn't usually do the short arm setup for the move. Since the short arm setup to the clothesline is Okada's finisher, and the move Seth used directly before that was basically a soft V trigger, it's safe to assume this was a knowing New Japan reference.
 
#13 ·
Seth strikes me as an extremely competitive guy. Seeing the WK main event and all the buzz it generated likely pissed him off, not in a whiny way but in a way where it will make him step up his game. I saw that combination of moves as a tribute but also "I see you, and I'm coming for you."
 
#27 ·
I think it's great that some wrestlers always try to improve and diversify their movesets in order to increase the in-ring match quality.

Especially in WWE that in difference with other wrestling organisations seems to focus more on the mic/promo quality and has the in-ring one getting unfortunately a bit of the backseat with those "5 moves of doom" that makes matches less fun (at least to me) to watch atfer a while as the repetition start to show when WWE constantly book the same wrestlers against each other with the same 5 moves sequences.
 
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