#babyface in peril

[blackpoolcockclub]

via dilf-in-peril

watching the clip from last week's Dynamite of Samoa Joe confronting MJF and MJF literally just can't go five seconds without making fat jokes huh

[samijey]

Ilja Dragunov vs Trick Williams IV - NXT Spring Breakin' 2024

One thing I really appreciate about this match is although it was babyface vs babyface, everyone involved knew most fans wanted Trick to win and really leaned into it with Ilja toeing the line and acting almost heelish while staying true to his character - something he started hinting at in their previous match at No Mercy where he even got the crowd to boo him by provoking them.

All of this worked really well against Trick's resilient underdog story and made him come across as probably the "most" babyface version of himself thus far - Melo had just openly turned heel, so naturally the heat drew itself in that case, but to achieve the same effect against another babyface whom he has less backstory with and no big betrayal to fuel the match was pretty smooth.

This moment (that, mind you, happened during a picture-in-picture ad - yes, I zoomed into the damn screen to make these gifs, that's why they look so fuzzy) perfectly demonstrates this, complete with Trick pulling off the sparkly eyes while he's in peril (Sami Zayn would be proud), and the defiant kick he gives Ilja, who's taunting him... and proceeds to deliver a beatdown that wouldn't feel out of place in a Gunther match.

[dilf-in-peril]

Well, I have to agree, that Jay White main event was an absolute farce and burial up to the point when I turned it off.

And the whole ridiculous thing of selling my leg like I'm dying to doing a move with no effort to selling like I'm dying again aside... It's starting to dawn on me... I just don't think MJF has it in himself to be a babyface. He's an absurd kind of guy. His facial expressions are cartoonish, his outbursts of anger are vulgar. It's not just that his actions are still heelish, when he fires up he just looks monstrous. What he's doing in the ring just doesn't evoke sympathy the way a pretty face in peril does.

And that's fine, no one expects Kane to be the face in peril. He's just miscast in this role.

[thlayli-ra]

so...... i noticed you have at least one headcanon for punk x drew, la knight x roman reigns, punk x la knight, and and la knight x drew mcintyre. theyre all amazing conspiracies theories btw. i think the only shipping swap left that you havent talked about it is drew x roman and punk x roman reigns. do you think you have any headcanons for them? i personally think roman and punk has a lot of potential, but maybe i just think both of them are very attractive!

Ohhh ok, time for me to get a little creative.

So... Roman and Drew. Let me say to begin with that I'm not as clued up on these two since neither are in my 'inner sanctum' if you will. I recently came across some photos though and WHOOPH!

There's hair-pulling, chair humiliation spots, Roman fully dressed while Drew's in just his trunks... all the good stuff!

And Drew was peak babyface Drew here too facing off against nasty heel Roman backed up by his Bloodline and I am SUCH a sucker for a babyface in peril!!!!! (Tenderise that blue-eyed cutie for me guys!) Despite being the larger of the two, Drew is definitely the sub here (he's too damn pretty down on his knees!) and who can resist when the bigger guy is getting dominated by the smaller guy, although Roman is hardly a 'small guy' per se.

There's also a very compelling story here. I found it interesting how Drew brought up the whole 'Chosen One' angle with Punk when it works so much better with Roman (perhaps they did do this, I can't remember. Please correct me if I'm wrong).

Drew can brag about being the one handpicked to be the face of the company all he wants but we all know it isn't true. Especially not when he's face-to-face with Roman - the true Chosen One! The one who went on to rise to the top, win championships and main-event several Wrestlemania's in a row, all on the backing of the powers-that-be, all despite being generally disliked by the fans. Meanwhile Drew floundered on the lower mid-card then was rejected from the company altogether.

Not only is this a chance for Drew to finally prove himself, it also holds a mirror to what could have been. How Roman has become corrupted by the power and the accolades, while Drew spent some time away to rediscover what truly mattered to him, who he truly wanted to be and returned a bigger, better version of himself. Now, he's finally ready to claim what's rightfully his!

Just a pity that Roman prefers Drew beneath him...😏

Now.... Punk and Roman, hmmmmm *strokes my long, twisted beard... if I had one...)

That's an interesting one! In typical Punk fashion, this one requires a bit of blurring the lines between reality and fiction.

There's obviously a history there (................. oh sorry, I just noticed that bruise on Punk's thigh in the gif and stared at it for a solid ten minutes!). Punk has claimed to be the one who came up with the concept of the Shield and they were meant to be working on his behalf in the beginning.

However... that concept never included Roman! Punk wanted Rollins, Ambrose... and Chris Hero! It was the higher-ups who insisted on Roman or 'the pretty one' as Punk said, witheringly. He also lamented having to 'make Roman look strong' and while us Punk girlies (ng) know that he was complaining about management not trusting him to sell (SERIOUSLY, WTF??? HE LIVES TO SELL!), many took that as a sign that he hated having to put over Roman.

Both men rose to the top of the company albeit in very different ways. While Punk had to constantly fight and politic for his position on the card, getting himself over despite the push-backs from management to the point that they could no longer ignore it and even then still having to fight constantly for recognition, Roman had it all handed to him. Punk has never main-evented a Wrestlemania, even when he was WWE Champion. Roman has main-evented NINE!

Fast forward to now and things have changed drastically. Punk is on his last chance. His come-back, which started off glorious, is now sitting under a dark cloud and this is his last hope of fulfilling the legacy that he left unfinished ten years ago. Roman is the man who filled that void while he was gone and holds every accolade that Punk could possibly dream of. Roman is no longer the green, dewy-eyed kid that Punk had to 'carry' in their earlier matches - he is the Tribal Chief! The Head of the Table!

And he is going to make CM Punk his bitch!

[orleans-jester]

Ellie swerved throughout the streets, hair flying behind her, helmet-less. Hands in pockets. Letting her feet do all of the controlling. So why did she tell Babyface about the dream? She wanted him to know before they settled in there for a while. Not just a last minute invitation because their lives were peril but actually staying, living, Babyface working and Ellie doing ... what? She really didn’t want to enroll. She felt better being a secret intruder, someone who didn’t belong and utilizing the resources. That felt fine, there were so many people missing, dead more like, that she didn’t feel bad about taking their spots in the food line or finding some of their clothes and using it to her advantage since she didn’t exactly bring much with her. She’d figure it out. She’d find something. Just as long as it was her and Babyface together, and they both knew what they were facing by standing there.

She’d been so in her own dead about this dream that she hadn’t actually thought that there would be outside reaction to it. She told Dale and he pretty much said that sucks, and they moved on. There wasn’t anything else to do about it. There was a part of her that thought that Babyface was going to be the same. A damn homie that sucks, it could have been worse, it’s been a long time, you’ve been living in Halloweentown for a couple of days and you didn’t get anymore dreams so maybe it’s okay, maybe she forgot about you, maybe Oogie had a lot more bigger fish to fry now. Not whatever Babyface was going through.

The bank and the gas station. She had gone to this one herself with Elsa, changed over some of her cash. Not all of it, just whatever she had on hand. This was a pretty big city, she was glad she knew the right one to go to. Saw Babyface out of her periphery by the gas station. She avoided the driveway into it, since there were cars coming in and out, and grinded against a rail on a short staircase. SHE DIDN’T FALL. She’d celebrate that later. She usually fell. But like Chumbawamba, she gets back up again, ain’t nothing going to keep her down. For now, she tried not to look surprised and happy with herself, turning to stop and hopped off near her - boyfriend? They never established. Her boy. She was his girl. That’s all they needed to know.

“Hey you,” She said, kicking the board up, caught it, and tucked it under her arm. “I wanted to apologize. I should have told you in person rather over text. That was really un-rad of me. I’m sorry.”

[pepsi-maxwell]

genuinely nothing better to me than the "babyface in peril" tag

[cavenewstimes]

Tommy Dreamer & Bully Ray Discuss The Perils Of Cody Rhodes As WWE's Top Babyface

Feedzy Read More  By /July 19, 2023 7:19 pm EST Despite losing in the main event of WrestleMania 39, Cody Rhodes remains a central part of WWE programming. On the latest episode of “Busted Open Radio,” Tommy Dreamer said Rhodes is “being groomed as the top babyface.” However, Dreamer also believes that Seth Rollins and Finn Balor are making their own cases for dethroning Roman Reigns, which…

[blueonwrestling]

You know it's quite ironic, I think the young bucks would come off as amazing white meat Ricky and Robert babyface instead of, and I say this as nicely as possible, Rick and Morty smarmy guys, they have an unbelievable amount of ability to sell in peril but they come off as just too cool for school.

[raysources]

𝐎𝐔𝐑  𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐆  𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒  𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇  𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄  𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 ,   PART  ONE     —     a collection of one - liners taken from the first five episodes of the first season of the hbo max show,   our flag means death.   slightly edited for clarity.   change pronouns as necessary.     PART TWO.

❛  i  should  have   ...   twenty  kills  by  now ,   at  least .  ❜ ❛  what  we’re  about  to  do  will  be  perilous !     very  perilous !  ❜ ❛  stealing  a  plant  is  hardly  swashbuckling .  ❜ ❛  i’d  simply  ask  you  to ,   uh ,   reframe  that  criticism  as  a  suggestion .  ❜ ❛  sounds  to  me  like  sewing  can  be  pretty  tough .  ❜ ❛  cats  are  terrifying .     everyone  knows  that .  ❜ ❛  you  don’t  think  it’ll  actually  get  that  bloody ,   do  you ?  ❜ ❛  i’m  not  a  pirate .     i’m  an  idiot .  ❜ ❛  it’s  so  perfectly  you .     it’s  so  impractical .  ❜ ❛  yeah ,   no ,   he ,   he  looks  pretty  stunned .  ❜ ❛  wait   ...   who’s  steering  the  ship ?  ❜ ❛  you’re  a  child  with  a  toy .  ❜ ❛  what  the  hell’s  a  vacation ?  ❜ ❛  let’s  say  no  to  torture .     i  think .     for  now .  ❜ ❛  when  you  kill ,   you  die  as  well .  ❜ ❛  don’t  fucking  call  me  babyface .   ❜ ❛  i’m  a  murderer !     i’m  a  dirty ,   filthy ,   murderer !   ❜ ❛  you  can’t  call  something  in  your  mind .     it  defeats  the  purpose  of  calling .  ❜ ❛  i'm  incredible  at  keeping  secrets   —   my  mom  thought  i  liked  girls  for  years !  ❜ ❛  i'm  your  king  now ,   bitch .  ❜ ❛  this  is  how  you  die .  ❜ ❛  polite  menace .     that’ll  be  my  brand .  ❜ ❛  besides ,   she’s  got  like ,   twenty  husbands .  ❜ ❛  man  for  sale !   ❜ ❛  someone ,   buy  my  booty !  ❜ ❛  you  have  got  some  world - class ,   rock - hard ,   absolutely  titanic  balls  coming  in  here .  ❜ ❛  i  actually  thought  you’d  be  dead  by  now .  ❜ ❛  don’t  kill  one  another ,   you  guys !  ❜ ❛  okay ,   well   ...   wouldn’t  that  be  crazy  if  i  was  suddenly  like ,   into  [ name ] ?  ❜ ❛  i’m  actually  super  into  that ,   so   ...   thanks .  ❜ ❛  i’ve  heard  of  you .     i’ve  heard  all  about  you .   ❜ ❛  i  thought  that  when  i  did  marry ,   it  could  be  for  love  .  ❜ ❛  i’m  the  greatest  pirate  that  ever  lived !  ❜ ❛  look  out  there   ...   those  clouds .     do  they  look  like  frankfurters  to  you ?  ❜ ❛  we  are  to  be  lighthouses  for  each  other ,   remember ?  ❜ ❛  our  life  feels  monotonous  to  you ?  ❜ ❛  this  guy’s  fucking  fascinating .  ❜ ❛  there’s  an  idea .     i  haven’t  done  that  yet .     i  haven’t  died  yet ,   have  i ?  ❜ ❛  i  know  you’re  unhappy .  ❜ ❛  i  know  we  never  would’ve  chosen  each  other ,   not  in  a  million  years ,   but   ...   all  we  have  is  this  one  life .  ❜ ❛  you  are  such  a  disappointment .  ❜ ❛  do  you  fancy  a  fine  fabric ?  ❜ ❛  are  you  a  mermaid ?  ❜ ❛  science   —   women  have  crystals  in  their  body ,   and  the  crystals  attract  demons ,   and  the  demons  attract  misfortune .  ❜ ❛  i  have  one  gun ,   and  one  knife .     just  like  everyone  else .  ❜ ❛  it’s  just  fucking  hard  sometimes ,   you  know ?     you  ever  feel  trapped ?     like  you’re  just  treading  water ?     waiting  to  drown ?  ❜ ❛  hey   ...   do  you  want  to  do  something  weird ?  ❜ ❛  we  need  to  be  a  lighthouse !   ❜ ❛  looks  like  we’re  gonna  live  after  all .  ❜ ❛  how  violent  do  we  expect  this  to  get ?  ❜ ❛  next  one  goes  through  your  fuckin’  eyeball .  ❜ ❛  you  know  fucking  nothing  about  me ,   mate !  ❜ ❛  give  me  a  chance  to  practice  my  massive  aggression .  ❜ ❛  i  think  i’m  just  so - so ,   but  i’ve  decided  to  carry  myself  like  i’m  cute .  ❜ ❛  this  is  deranged !     i  don’t  clean  things !  ❜ ❛  if  you  ever  want  to  change  careers ,   you  can  finger  my  dents  anytime .  ❜ ❛  you’re  just  sore  ‘cause  they  like  me  more  than  you .  ❜ ❛  that’s  not  a  bad  likeness .  ❜ ❛  they  laughed  at  me .     nobody  laughs  at  me .  ❜ ❛  i'm  serious .     stand  down  now .   ❜ ❛  i  could  spill  all  your  needs .  ❜ ❛  i  drew   [ name ]   naked .  ❜ ❛  have  you  ever  been  sketched ?   ❜ ❛  i  didn’t  know  people  still  embezzled .  ❜ ❛  when  you  cut  loose ,   you  really  cut  loose .  ❜ ❛  sometimes  the  old  things  are  the  best  things .  ❜ ❛  you  wear  fine  things  well .  ❜

[wrestlingarsenal]

[mith-gifs-wrestling]

The FTR versus Young Bucks match featured Cash Wheeler as a great babyface-in-peril, wonderful pacing, and really fun spots like this one.

[xxamorxexmortexx]

This match is doing fucking wonders for Damian right now.

He's playing babyface in peril but is still getting in amazing offense and holding his own against Sheamus and Bobby. Good job, whoever produced this match 👏

[dilf-in-peril]

Those gay wrestling blogs call every pretty boy who gets beaten up a jobber even though those are beautiful babyfaces in peril. It's not the same thing!

[gemzies]

I love that they found a way to make this match feel so different from the other tag match on the card. The women’s match had a faster pace and frequent tags from both sides, and this one featuring the classic “babyface in peril” trope in a wonderful way.

NXT does tag team wrestling so well.

[wrestlingisfake]

I’m digging the Bullet Club vs. Suzuki-gun stuff, but “DOUKI plays babyface in peril” is going to take some getting used to.

[puroresu-musings]

NJPW DESTRUCTION 2019 Highlights

Beppu (Sept 15th, 2019)

IWGP Tag Team Title Match: Guerrillas Of Destiny (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI  ***1/2

British Heavyweight Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr.  ****1/4

Kagoshima (Sept 16th, 2019)

IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title Match: El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori (c) vs. Will Ospreay & Robbie Eagles  ****1/2+

Tokyo Dome / IWGP Heavyweight Title No.1 Contenders Rights: Kota Ibushi vs. KENTA  ****1/2

Kobe (Sept 22nd, 2019)

Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Will Ospreay & Roppongi 3K vs. KENTA, Guerrillas Of Destiny, El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori  ***1/4

Kazuchika Okada, Kota Ibushi & Robbie Eagles vs. SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI  ***1/2

Hirooki Goto vs. Shingo Takagi  ****3/4

IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Jay White  ****1/2

Photos.

I’ve always found these Destruction tours somewhat arduous. Mainly because they almost entirely consist of G1 rematches in which whoever lost in the tournament can get their win back on the Destruction shows, so I never really feel too enthusiastic about them. This was generally the case here, with one notable exception. This coupled with the fact that there isn’t too much on the horizon until Wrestle Kingdom that I feel too excited about at present, though these shows did feature some gems. Here’s a brief run-through of some of the highlights:

The Beppu card on the 15th was literally “just a show”. Nothing but the top two matches were worth watching, and whilst delivering, even they had their issues. GOD defeated Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI in a very good match after KENTA distracted YH. and Tonga got the school boy pin at 21:31. Even though good, this was much too long, the finish sucked, and featured the bizarre notion that the heels would get the heat on Ishii (!), who would make the hot tag to YOSHI (!!!), who “ran wild” on the heels. Look, having jabs at YOSHI-HASHI is like shooting fish in a barrell, and to make matters worse, he regressed considerably since returning in January. He was never the smoothest of workers, but now he’s even worse, and sticks out like a sore thumb on this roster, especially seeing as how he’s placed. And it looks like he is KENTA’s next NEVER challenger, which is just the last thing KENTA needs. ZSJ regained the British title that he’d dropped a mere two weeks earlier, when he pinned Tanahashi with a grounded Cobra Twist at the 26:43 mark of yet another excellent battle between the two. This was maybe their 43rd match this year together, so to say it wasn’t too much of an appealing prospect would be an understament, but it ended up being one of their best outings together, in my opinion. It told a great story in that Tana has only ever beaten Zack via cradle, so tried to get the submission win all match, even hiting an HFF to the back, but refusing to cover, instead locking in a Cloverleaf,. This was ultimately his undoing, as Zack, who’s always submitted Tanahashi, won the belt back with a cradle. This was lots of fun, but I honestly don’t see what the point of it all was.

The Kagoshima show the next night was much better. It featured a great brawl between Liger and Suzuki, in which Suzuki ripped off the legends mask. This would play into another great angle in Kobe. ELP and Ishimori tetained the Jr tag straps in an exceptional high-flying doubles clash against The Birds Of Prey, when Phantasmo pinned Eagles with the CRII at 23:10, to avenge their Royal Quest loss. This was a fantastic contest, easily one of the best tag matches all year, that saw some spectacular highspots. Phantasmo is challenging Ospreay in Kokugikan on October 14th for the Junior Title, so that is probably going to be tremendous as well. And in the main event, hometown boy Kota Ibushi overcame the nefarious tactics of the evil KENTA, to keep hold of the G1 briefcase. This was a very devisive match (some hated it, though I’ve no idea why), which told a very compelling story in that the babyface had to overcome the cheating heel in his hometown. KENTA attacked Ibushi before the bell and destroyed the briefcase, demanding they make him a Bullet Club one. He dominated most of the match, working over the ankle Ibushi injured in their G1 outing, and Ibushi did an amazing job as the babyface in peril. The finish came fter GOD ran in, Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI sent them packing, KENTA got a near fall when he nailed Kota with his own Kamigoye. Ibushi battled back hitting a V-Trigger, then nailed his Kamigoye for a great near fall, then another to keep the Dome rights at 26:23. EVIL came out in the post match and challenged Ibushi for the briefcase, which was accepted.

The final, and biggest, show of the tour in Kobe saw a wild angle in which Liger attacked Suzuki as he was making his entrance for their multi man tag. They had a crazy brawl, before Suzuki nailed Liger with a hard chair shot, which prompted Liger to remove his mask to reveal Kishin Liger, his evil alter ego. He misted Suzuki, and referee Marty Asami, then tried to stab Suzuki with a ring spike, but Suzuki fled. Liger chased after him, laying out the Young Lions and his own team mates as he went. This was great and given its Liger’s retirement tour, he got a chance to do the Kishin Liger gimmick one last time in Kobe, the place he debuted it in 1996 in his memorable match with The Great Muta. Hirooki Goto defeated Shingo Takagi in what was, for my money, the best match of the whole tour. I loved their G1 match at Budokan, and this was every bit as good. This was a hard-hitting war in which they pounded each other for 20:27 in glorious fashion with some super stiff lariats. It also featured some tremendous sequences, before Goto got his win back (of course he did) when he put The Last Dragon away with the GTR. 

And in the main event, Tetsuya Naito very surprisingly didn’t avenge his G1 loss, as he dropped the I.C. Title in his first defense to Jay White in an excellent 29:47 contest. The first half of this wasn’t anything too exciting, but the second half was really great. Naito took some serious punishment here, with both hitting each other really hard at points. The finsih saw a crazy creative counter exchange, in which every big move Naito tried, White would counter out of and try Blade Runner. Jay tried an attempt at Blade Runner, but Naito escaped. Switchblade hit a series of devastating Sleeper Suplexes, and Naito reverses into a Dragon Suplex, went for Destino, Jay countered, but Naito powered through and hit Destino for a near fall. After another great counter exchange, White finally turned a Valentia into a Blade Runner and won the belt to suck the air out of the room. I had hoped White would win here, as I see more legs in him being I.C. Champion than Naito, who’s at the Nakamura stage where he’s had the belt so many times at this point, it essentially means nothing. White mocked Naito and LIJ in the post match, but Hirooki Goto ran down and laid him out with a forearm, setting himself up to be the first challenger to the new champion, so his win over Shingo wasn’t as arbitrary as first thought.

NDT