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I can't remember if it was you guys I have heard talking about the faces Kenny Omega pulls. They do the Terminator stuff with him, which was goofy, but in the way that you can imagine a wrestler having a goofy entrance for a big match. But then he comes out pulling these weird faces. I've only seen the entrance, but it still makes me think that Kenny Omega is a bit ridiculous.
Anyway, it's a bit off-topic, but feel free to answer it if you want a break from the New Japan stuff: Who in wrestling do you think pulls the best facial expressions? And who has the worst?
P.S. Fuck The Young Bucks. Does anyone else find them flippin' boring? Pun intended. There's no meat with the potatoes...or is it potatoes with the meat? It can't be the latter, because there is certainly nothing meaty about The Young Bucks--except the giant metaphorical dick they collectively have in the mouths of we, the modern internet fan. I'm not sure if they personally have done this, but I'm getting sick of independent wrestlers who do a whole bunch of meaningless, vapid shit an "evolution of the art form" when they have stripped their matches of all psychology. A cinematic equivalent (and I ususally hate these about wrestling, because they're more than a little different) is removing all plot, character and structure from your film. These guys aren't producing "art," they are producing your latest Michael Bay blockbuster where you can barely tell the fighting robots apart. The Young Bucks might be genuinely aware they are doing that to draw attention to themselves, but they are at least enablers of that vapid style.
Sorry if you have any fans of that style around The Big Oaken Table, but their attention span has probably lapsed by now and they stopped listening by the time I got to "pun intended." I quite like Trent Baretta though. I hope he's improving leaps and bounds over there.
Oh, and Happy fucking New Year.
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