DTTS' Official Ask A Poster: DLVH84
 

Hi there. We either never or rarely interact. Let's alleviate this tragedy with an open interview.

1. Who is the greatest mind in professional wrestling today (ie. currently participating in the wrestling world)

2. Who is your all-time favorite wrestler?

3. What makes a good wrestling match for you?

4. What was the last live wrestling event you attended?

5. How many wrestlers do you know?

Question number two will have 43 answers.

Only if he cheats.

Billy Gunn

Correct.

Really thought DLVH84 would have replied back by now.

Oh no

DLVH84 is currently masturbating to this thread and the upcoming wrestling hipster-ness he is about to unleash on it.

1. I would say Verne Gagne, as he was the first man to have his territory break away from the NWA monopoly.

2. Flyin' Brian Pillman. Because he was way ahead of his time with the high-flying and the Loose Cannon persona.

3. It's complex to explain it, due to the various styles I've seen, but I would say a straight up match.

4. The last live event I ever went to was Bound For Glory in Atlanta in 2006.

5. I've met The Naturals, Ron Garvin, Alex Wright, and Chris Benoit.

i think you got no.1 wrong

I'm sure, the Midwest (AWA) was the first territory to break away from the NWA back in the 1950s.

the question was currently :o

I'd say Paul Heyman. He's very smart and knows what works in an angle, feud, etc, as long as it's not running the company financially. The same thing goes for Michael Hayes as far as booking goes.

:y:

Paul Heyman is no longer in wrestling.

True, but when he was, he was a great booker.

I'll accept it though since his website has wrestling articles on it.

What was your favourite non-North American wrestling match from October 12th 1984?

I haven't started watching until 1988.

My apologies, although it's a shame as I was hoping we could discuss Akira's debut in 1984 against Keiji Mutoh at a New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) event in Saitama, Japan.

Keiji Mutoh is pretty great, to be fair.

I've watched The Rise and Fall of ECW a lot lately so I'm partial to any mention of the greatness of Paul Heyman.

Who would you rather have Chop you: Kenta Kobashi or Kensuke Sasaki?

do you think you could beat up Mr. Fuji?

While awesome in it's original incarnation, is the old AJPW King's Road style the worst thing to happen to wrestling?

Give me a more full explanation of kings road and why you think it was bad for the industry please.

I think I have an understanding of kings road but I'd like to hear what you'd say it is.

Misiwa in the fucking grave, for one.

kings road works a lot like hardcore to be fair. you always end up trying to raise the bar until the only way to raising said bar is by doing 400 head drops a match.

in a long enough timeline it isnt viable

Gotcha

One-two head-drops should finish a match. Four max if it's Undertaker or HHH.

Depends on the length of the match but I'd say 5 or six is a good number. To be fair though, that would also limit the number of dead on head strikes. Like shouldn't be able to take more than 8 or so before yr knocked out. If they are precise.

Head-drops is not the same as head-strikes. And no, that's fucking ridiculous. One botched tombstone piledriver pretty much kills a guy, it's stupid to have a guy survive that many. How about focus on counters and actual mat-wrestling (or even top rope stuff) instead of risking paralysis by allowing some exhausted midget attempt to pretend drop you on your head and neck continuously while you no-sell it until it's no longer an option.

High risk used to mean something. Impact moves used to matter. Now brain-busters are about as common as restholds...fuck, THEY ARE RESTHOLDS.

Ive landed on my head a number of times and not been injured. Yeah any of them could have been fatal but not at that exact angle obviously.

However I agree that it is an uneccesary risk. I think mat work and wrestling is much more important.

I'm just tired of people fucking dying or getting concussions over this kind of shit.

You Cn land on yr head from a backdrop, flapjack, northern lights, or belly to back release suplex. I mean they are letting seth rollins do the curb stomp in wwe, and that move fucking sucks. Oh and Vladimir kozlovs chokeslam with he leg is for some reason the stiffest bump.

BTW I was talking in kayfabe about the strikes.

Maybe not physically...

Hey I don't think its affected me mentally. But probably has effected me mentally.

It really just depends on whether or not you were borderline retarded before you began getting dropped on your head.

Before? Began? Brother I am in a state of eternal headdrop. Still more intelligent than most of the population according to tests. But I don't know hoe much that means toward general intellect other than the ability to retain information. But anyone will think they are smart. Ones own intelligence is pretty hard to be honestly objective about.

Destor pretty much covered it. But the hard hitting style where guys basically "learn" from previous matches, which results in reversal/counter strings to get more intricate (which is cool), but also results in guys taking multiple big moves/finishers to go down, and also stronger versions of finishers.

I mean, in Dragon Gate I've seen guys kick out of Cima's Schwien off the top rope. I mean, come on.

And the problem now is, or at least recently, is that certain places in the American indy scene have bastardized it rally bad, so it's less about "learning" and building a story over time, and more about "let's hit each other really hard and have a ton of head dropping moves and finishes in a match that doesn't really need it."

So the reason I think it's bad in the long run is that instead of using psychology, it's disregarding psychology for fancy spots.

I'd agree with that

Getting dropped on your head = workrate.

The curb stop Seth Rollins is doing is nowhere near as bad as the one Super Dragon does.

This is Clox we're talking about. He could probably land on his head from a headlock takedown.

That's how great khali killed a dude. Not personally. But if you tuck yr head instead of turning to the side and taking a face bump, and yr high enough, instant death.

FFS Clox proof read your posts,especially the ones where you are claiming to be of above average I.Q. , and yr is not a word.

Clox lands on his head when putting his socks on.

Recently watched Macho Man's first matches in the WWF...was so good. Not a single head-drop that I could see.

I'm NT defending head drops, I'm just saying I take them. I usually try not to land on my head, and haven't during a match. But during training you take a bunch of different bumps. When you her a little advanced people wanna try different moves includ those which might end in a neck bump. If you practice neck bumps enough you will land on yr head.

Hell Johny saint never bumps. But it doesn't mean I'm not gonna take em. Al snow doesn't blade, neither have I, doesn't meaning wont.

Who is Johny saint?

Not gonna deny, I love Johnny Saint. He's an old British wrestler from the World of Sport days. His matches with Robbie Brookside and Steve Grey (both I think are on Youtube) were fucking incredible.

Is English even your first language?

Not CSL obviously,his native tongue is Jive.

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me in the middle :cool:

Come on man. You've never hit yr head on the mat taking a back drop?

This thread almost took a disco turn.

dear God their pants are enthralling

Probably landed on my head maybe 3 times to clarify.

Also I trained almost everyday and now I train 2-3 tines a week. I'm definetly getting better. My training partner is a 300 pound 6'7 black dude who played college football as a linebacker. Yeah.....

He's mad good though.

He's not training me though. My trainers have both been in the business 18 years.

HEY!!!

I wear kickpads!

:foc:

I love how you specifically pointed out that he is a 'black dude'. :lol:

I put my sister in the sharpshooter once, pretty sure that makes me as much of a wrestler as Clox.

I was talking about in general as opposed to you when it comes to the training part, although with everything you say you certainly fit the bill.

And what do you mean "training partner"? As in, you only train with one guy?

you aren't the first person even this week to say this to me when I go off. tbh plenty of guys wear kickpads who are great, Punk, Jericho, Van Dam, Edge etc, just like 90% that wear them elsewhere are shitttttt. That and I bought proper boots after like my 3rd match or something http://www.tpww.net/forums/images/icons/icon12.gif

I have proper boots too. In fact, I bought them for my first match waaaaay back in 2003. :p

But I move better and feel more flexible with kickpads. And they look cooler.

In fact, it's not the kickpads that annoy me, it's the thousands of indy guys that just wear baggy PVC shorts and a tank top. So CSL... what's your attire?

If you're referring to trunks... that's what I wear. Along with wrestling trainers with 'ankle supports'. My boots are in England, no way would I plan on buying another pair here in Germany, things seem to have gotten mad expensive over here.

Needs kneepads!!! :nono:

baggy pleathers are the worst, I'd use those as reference as opposed to kickpads but kickpads are far more prevalent.

and

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2708/4...a39_z.jpg?zz=1

nah, I meant just guys that have clearly put some time/thought/spent some money on their gear, not any particular style

Just feel like listing this for the hell of it, all my wrestling attire/gear consists of:

3 pairs of trunks
1 pair of PVC shorts (but not the baggy ones, kinda like Jeff Jarretts)
1 pair of tights that I only wore once

1 pair of boots
1 pair of wrestling trainers
1 pair of kickpads (but gonna order some new ones with a design soon as mine are plain black)

2 pairs of elbow pads, but I only really use these for training
2 pairs of knee pads, one pair with velcro straps :cool:

And a few random things like wrists supports/straps/bands/tape etc.

I try to be as professional as I can. But I know what you mean, I've come across a lot of guys who wrestle in baggy shorts and a sports t-shirt whilst wearing biker boots, and they think of themselves as wrestlers.

Right now mainly its just me and octavious black training with Dave Pillman. I also train with Evan Turner.

I have trained with large groups before as well. Just not so much ATM. Differnet schedules.

I have some handmade tights that are awesome. I tried posting pics but ill have to figure it out at a time when I am less distracted. My boots I got off highspots.
Both are black andsilver. My tights have the jackass skull and crutches mixed with the punisher but its missing a tooth. One side is Gunmetal silver.

Evan Turner the basketball player?

BOOM

YEAHHHHH

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I put my kids in the Boston Crab and deliver a lot of Rock Bottoms, elbow drops etc.

By this logic they'll be in ROH by the time they hit puberty.

Clox, correct my mark ass if I'm incorrect, but isn't one of the main points of "wrestling training" to learn how to make us think you are getting dropped on your head...when you actually aren't? I believe it was Jim Cornette who said "Wrestling used to be guys pretending to hurt each other and fans believed it, now guys are really hurting each other and fans don't believe it. Who is the fucking mark?"

I'd say Kobashi.

In the old days, there wasn't many dropping on their heads as many concieve. I believe it went into overdrive, as Baba started pushing the Famous Five (Misawa, Kawada, Taue, Kobashi, and Akiyama) in the 1990s.

Kawada, Taue, and Akiyama were not even in the same breath at Misawa and Kobashi. That is like saying the WWF Attitude Era's "Famous Five" were Rock, Austin, Road Dogg, Val Venis, and Big Bossman.

Who were the WWF Attitude Era's "Famous Five"?

Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, 1-2-3 Kid

Didn't Kevin and Scott leave before Attitude started? I always figured it started a little after they left.

I'd say Triple H (as head of DX), Austin, Rock, Mankind and Vince McMahon.

They ran the entire industry.

Fair enough...but X-Pac was more in the same league as Billy Gunn and Road Dogg in my opinion.