General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Leon TrotSky]

The way I remember it is Newborn UWF was mostly works, and its successors in order of most works to most shoots were PWFG < UWFi < RINGS, then the offshoots of that were Pancrase and PRIDE which was shoots

 

[Chris]

Most of the fights themselves were shoots but you were recommended how losing might be better for you and your health sometimes

 

[Comrade Khan]

and ya heavy Yakuza implications muddies everything

 

[Comrade Khan]

Most of the fights themselves were shoots but you were recommended how losing might be better for you and your health sometimes

yeah this kind of shit lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

pretty clear mafia bullshit lol

 

[Chris]

They were even worse about blatantly booking squashes than UFC too

 

[Chris]

For guys they wanted to get over like Bob Sapp

 

[Comrade Khan]

not that shocking to me tbh, boxing and pretty much every fighting promotion ever has always had criminal elements to it in its history at some point

 

[Chris]

Which that's above board to me, not really shady. But very pro wrestling logic even if the finish isn't fixed lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

its a sport made for betting in the first place lets be real

 

[Leon TrotSky]

Back to TNA's first Monday night show: they had as one of their big debuts Orlando Jordan

 

[Leon TrotSky]

He didn't debut as his character, he debuted shilling 5 Hour Energy

 

[Comrade Khan]

Which that's above board to me, not really shady. But very pro wrestling logic even if the finish isn't fixed lol

''tune up matches''

 

[Chris]

Back to TNA's first Monday night show: they had as one of their big debuts Orlando Jordan

can you find a complete list of who debuted and returned just on that one 2 hour show

 

[Comrade Khan]

I loved those in the UFC games lol