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Post by Pete on Jul 31, 2024 16:43:32 GMT -5
I am fine with whatever. However, I remember one card from winter 2023 Pro Prime for a Purple Haze was critiqued and questioned up and down and almost outright derided. I just find it ironic that seven months later we are arguing that Beau James was more on a loop than Indies guys which is why he should be a Legend. Not sure how much of a loop Mikey Whipwreck or any 90’s/2000’s legend had but, ok, you convinced me Beau James is a legend and not an indies wrestler. He’ll be an 8(5) or an 7(4)and he will be a fantastic lower card talent. And if Beau comes out in a set/Prime cycle that's hyped and advertised as being devoted to pre-expansion territorial wrestling, then yes, that might be cause for some blowback. ECW guys being "Legends" was a precedent set in the very first black-and-white set which had Sandman in it. It had a semi-national TV reach via SportsChannel, it eventually had PPV, and its ideas and talent were actively being scouted and pilfered by the Big Two. Whether one wants to dispute that notion or not, it's kind of after-the-fact. (And of course both Sandman and Mikey had WCW runs anyway.) |
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Post by malicelover on Jul 31, 2024 17:29:04 GMT -5
I am fine with whatever. However, I remember one card from winter 2023 Pro Prime for a Purple Haze was critiqued and questioned up and down and almost outright derided. I just find it ironic that seven months later we are arguing that Beau James was more on a loop than Indies guys which is why he should be a Legend. Not sure how much of a loop Mikey Whipwreck or any 90’s/2000’s legend had but, ok, you convinced me Beau James is a legend and not an indies wrestler. He’ll be an 8(5) or an 7(4)and he will be a fantastic lower card talent. And if Beau comes out in a set/Prime cycle that's hyped and advertised as being devoted to pre-expansion territorial wrestling, then yes, that might be cause for some blowback. ECW guys being "Legends" was a precedent set in the very first black-and-white set which had Sandman in it. It had a semi-national TV reach via SportsChannel, it eventually had PPV, and its ideas and talent were actively being scouted and pilfered by the Big Two. Whether one wants to dispute that notion or not, it's kind of after-the-fact. (And of course both Sandman and Mikey had WCW runs anyway.) Pete, you are basically arguing both ways. What you argue makes Beau James a legend, doesn’t apply to a number of Legends, which apparently doesn’t matter. The pro prime was fine - the character the wrestler in question embodied was from the pre-National Expansion era, which if we are honest, Wahoo wrestled in the first Starrcade which was like three months before the first WrestleMania, and several others wrestled during that time. They wanted to give a Purple Haze and it was fine. Again we were tremendously spoiled by Pro Prime from 2022 - which is probably a once and a lifetime Pro Prime. All that to say - it seems like sometimes we change the criteria to allow us to complain only when it suits us. This is supposed to be a fun game that brings joy. Beau James if signed comes as a Legend gets zero complaint from me. |
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Post by Pete on Jul 31, 2024 19:09:25 GMT -5
I've said my piece on the Andrew Anderson thing ad nauseum but I didn't even want to bring him up. I was only responding to the contention that he was analogous to Beau James. I disagree.
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