I Finally Watched Control Your Narrative... 

someone count how many times I say “what is going on” seriously tho i never usually make vids like this so if you want more like it lmk

I'll give this to CYN: a guy being dragged away by the locker room because he used a super kick is actually pretty funny.

CYN is for people who have watched fight club over 20 times, and have the rules down in their head like gospel, but still believe the main takeaway of the movie is “fighting with your bros is fun” It’s obvious. That repeating the first rule thing gave it up immediately.

No Superkicks allowed! But the friggin Worm? No problem. 😂😂😂

I'm all for Wrestling Promotions trying new stuff - I like the lighting and some of the camera angles. But a lot just feels like being different for the sake of being different, especially the rules.

CYN: No superkicks, canadian destroyers or top rope moves allowed. Also CYN: Scotty 2 Hotty wins the promotion's first ever match with the worm.

I liked when CYN was just EC3 cutting promos by himself.

CYN seems to be created by people who loved the rules that Bill Watts tried to bring into WCW in the early 1990s that everyone hated

EC3 lost me when he put his own set of rules in an event that's literally about a wrestler controlling their own narrative.

Love it how the crowd is dead when the people around the ring are more excited. Not a fan of CYN it’s weird and too many edits/messages.

CYN has a good talent pool and the cinematic style is unique, but the rules are dumb and they try to hard to push the "we are edgy and different" image

CYN: Here's the footage. Editor: Thanks. How would you like it put together? CYN: _pushes kilos of coke forward_ Editor: Uhh...

CYN - No superkicks or suicide dives. CYN - Here is The Worm

Honestly puzzled as to why exactly EC3 has become so bitter towards the entirety of the Pro-Wrestling landscape. For WWE it makes sense given how badly booked he was following his failure to get Dean Ambrose (EC3's debuting feud for the main roster) booed (because the company unusually announced Ambrose's imminent departure ahead of time). But Impact & AEW? I'm still a few puzzle pieces short as to understanding why.

CYN, a promotion by people who loved Fight Club without actually understanding Fight Club

I felt like I was watching cutscenes from a poorly made wrestling game

Imagine having a wrestler getting dragged out of the ring as if he did something very bad, but that thing is simply hitting a super kick.

I’ve said before and I’ll said it again, CYN was good as a gimmick for EC3. Not a promotion.

Control you narrative= Have creative control over your character. End result, Entire Locker character trait= All are tough guy

You watched it so we don't have to: Thanks for taking one for the team.

All of the proper nouns and vague terminology in the opening reminded me of something, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it at first. And then it hit me. This is Destrucity all over again.

"What was Flip Gordon just doing there?" Well...he was....flipping 🤷‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

AEW: we did the impossible. We established ourselves as a pro-wrestling alternative! CYN: so you’re saying there’s a market? AEW: well yeah but.. you’re going to need money, some established stars to get peoples eyes on the brand, a lot of money, a good platform, and the best product you can possibly make to get people to stay watching- CYN: I ban Super kicks

With all due respect to the people involved in it, (and respect to you Top10 for watching it) CYN looks like the most self indulgent BS I have ever seen in my life.

i remember being excited about EC3 being out of WWE waiting to see what he was gonna do and then all ive seen is him being super weird and trying too hard to be mysterious and serious? i have no clue what the point of this is

I like how you can throw thrust kicks to your opponent's torso and that's fine, but if you aim the same move just slightly higher it becomes a superkick and you get DQ'd. Clearly they put a lot of though into their wannabe Fight Club rules. I wonder if you could get away with doing a Code Red instead of a Canadian Destroyer since they're technically different moves and the rules only prohibit the latter.

It seems more like a youtube documentary on low budget indie wrestling promotions than actual wrestling show

Loved it when Kross broke the chains of his corporate overlords but elbowing a dude he’s definitely controlling his narrative

I swear to god, EC3 read Fight Club, or worse, just watched the Fight Club movie for the first time and then thought how cool it would be if he made a wrestling company that was a Fight Club ripoff.

This promotion is gonna go the same route as the others that promoted "going back to the roots of wrestling". It'll eventually crash, burn, and the people involved will go back to the major names

It really sucked and having Adam Scherr ranting like he does about being “held down” by other promotions is really just sad for the whole concept…

Not gonna lie, your narration was the only reason I kept watching. I would have turned this off any other day. I too am now a fan of Manbun Jesus.

Could've been worse but I can't justify the time when MLW, WOW, and NWA all exist with fewer problematic aspects.

Worst promotion of 2022 so far

From the moment I heard the concept of Control Your Narrative I knew it was gonna be a goddamn clown show so never bothered with it.

The Righteous are a cool stable from ROH I was disappointed when they weren’t with Vincent in Impact

I feel like EC#'s 2nd run in WWE fuck him up mentally. Just drove his ass crazy.

I mean, the actual wrestling wasn’t bad! It was for the most part crisp and looked well worked. The commentary, camera cuts, the commentary, the whole vibe and feel and the commentary? Nope.

Wrestlers are not allowed to do a super kick 8:34 that's technically a super kick through the gut

Anybody remember WXO? ( The wrestling promotion company Ted Dibiase ran, it ran as a family friendly company) yeah, that was better than CYN

It’s a good thing I didn’t watch this payper view event, I rather WWE and AEW rather than Control your Narrative

- The rules are kinda ok if they weren't so dumb. How come some matches "will go on as long as they have to" and someone end "when they hit their time"... it's confusing. Then Rule 8 "You have to fight" as we just saw Vincent stopping to let Killer Kross hit him...??? (I guess he didn't have to fight). - They should've just done them "Project Pit" where the nobody wrestlers had to do those rules to "prove themselves"... At least it would've had some sense because the first thing people ask is WHY? - The overlaid text was fine for me, some things were cool, should've been used as promos by someone though. How much better would've been if EC3 told Scotty that he was just nostalgia and if Vincent told Kross that he let him beat him up because he needed it... That's how feuds are set up, it's pretty simple imo. - I kinda like CYN even though I feel that they have some serious problems with the storytelling: you don't know why half of the things are happening or if they will have some follow up... feels like their NARRATIVE is a bit out of CONTROL.

Not sure if anyone has said it in the comments or not. But EC3 said that the NO #TOPESUICIDA rule is that nobody is allowed to dive between the top and middle rope. So going over the top is okay and Austin's dive through between the middle and bottom rope is okay too.

Just found this channel today,this dude is funny asf 😂,I'm subscribing.

CYN is like a weird art project

Control Your Ass should name that company

The camera cuts are annoying. The editing, especially with the captions is intolerable. Lucha Underground's underground style arena looked better while CYN looks low budget (reminds me of Impact Wrestling) as opposed to underground. The people in the crowd didn't look like they were particularly having fun. The tone of the show is inconsistent. I'm not against the banning of superkicks or whatever, but the matches were boring.

"we are a threat!" said adam scherr to like the 20 fans that stuck around

Rules make sense to me. You're not disqualified for having a chair just hitting someone with it

Thank you for putting this video up. I’ve never seen a control your narrative promotion before but have heard about it. The only thing that I took away from this was “I hate Braun Stroman‘s new haircut“. I am still lost and confused about their gimmick “control your narrative“. But they have rules and moves you can’t do. To me that would counter act their whole mission statement which is “control your narrative”. Think about it. But again thank you for sharing

Did anyone really think this was going to catch on? I’m all for different wrestling, but this whole CYN thing seemed like a terrible idea. It is a shame because EC3/Bateman is a legit funny guy and has tons of personality.

No topes, no super kicks, no Canadian destroyers. First match opens with closed fists and toe kicks.

One thing I like based on what I'm seeing on this video, is that the match finishes on one finisher. There's no kick out of the finishers stuff going on, so out of everything that they're doing, that's the one positive that I actually like.

Global Farce Wrestling very, very lite.

EC3 would have to pay me to watch this. Entertainment value looks incredibly low Killer Kross with hair is a great Gerard Butler look alike

I know WWE was probably being facetious when they said they “love competition” in response to the forming of AEW. But these wrestling alternatives are a godsend because they really give you an appreciation for WWE. It’s not perfect, but at least it’s not this.

CYN: No superkicks, no topes, no Canadian Destroyers also CYN: Get a pin off The Worm

I recognize Vincent from ROH and Bill Carr was on a lot of matches for Beyond Wrestling, he had a funny ass match with Orange Cassidy lol lots of DMX references. But yeah, nah, CYN is garbage, they are trying waaayyy too hard to be this dark edgy underground.

19:19 After he hit that Superkick, he was never heard from again.

Love your content, couldn't finish the video because CYN is a fever dream

Lucha Underground had plants in the crowd and would redo shots if spots were messed up. This does seem like it's trying to be underground, but it is not as polished as Lucha Underground lol The biggest thing that jumps out for me is how they have different types of cameras with different quality of lenses filming this stuff. If all of your cameras don't match and aren't recording in the same color space, it looks amateurish. All of WWE and AEW's cameras are synced up the same so the picture quality is consistent. You can really tell that CYN has paid ZERO attention to the production side of things. They're also using hot lights instead of LED's. No bueno.

One of the few good things about CYN is that at least their finishers are protected. You won't see finisher after finisher. That said, it looks like a low-rent version of Lucha Underground, but with less intrigue and more surface-level Fight Club stanning. Also it's amusing that they have total creative freedom yet they all picked the generic "tough guy."

CYN should have been more honest and just tell the obvious: "indie wrestling troupes and cliches, NOT ALLOWED!" it would have been easily digested and understandable, but then again they did the worm! 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

Flip doing the 10f$ was the best part of the show.. should have let him do 100 😂

I’ve never wanted a company to fail more in my life than this camp of carney’s

Sad to see some good wrestlers being treated like this

You picked up on one of the issues with independent wrestling. The people who own the film equipment are very rarely, almost never, the people trained to operate them. As a cost cutting measure they have the editors also shooting the shows. In general wrestling people look for the cheapest options for production and thats the beginning and end of their thought process. Edit: the names you said were random name generator names were their real names that are printed on their drivers licenses. Bill is bill and vinny is vinny.

Man, this really is just a bunch of edgy, pretentious faux-intellectual drivel, which has no clue if it wants to play itself straight or be tongue-in-cheek. It's too weird to attract casual fans, too standard and uninspired for hardcore fans, too overbearing for idle viewers, and too stupid for attentive ones. No substance, only the ramblings of a bunch of assholes who want to seem like they're breaking the mold, but aren't clever enough to make any interesting points or do anything especially earth-shattering. Even their attempts at publicity-baiting through edgy jokes are painfully basic. I saw someone on Reddit say this, but I feel it's extremely apt: This is the wrestling equivalent of all the edgy jerks who love Fight Club, but had the actual themes go entirely over their head. They just want to watch a bunch of angry people punch each other and think it's the greatest movie/book ever, completely unaware that the entire purpose of the material is the discussion of dissociation and fragile masculinity.

I still don't understand why people think ec3 is anything. He's jacked but as entertaining and a cardboard box.

EC3 at first had a cool, rebellious vibe with the CYN but then it went way off the rails to just some pretentious artist trying way too hard. Sucks that Vince whiffed hard, he could have been something.

Nice work, mate!!

This has to be the funniest wrestling video I have ever seen 😂😂😂 I just couldn't stop laughing... This was amazing great video 😂😂

16:18, well, that guidestones reference, didn't age too well. I live 5 mins from them, well, ...I did... not anymore

Man Bun Jesus may also be my new favorite

Everybody is clearly REQUIRED to wear Black and ask for air hugs 🤣🤣🤣🤣 CONSTANTLY 🤣

The no tope, destroyers, superkicks are just a sad effect to mention AEW

Well ....Damn ! This show keeps me contradicting myself throughout ! A lot of good to great talent . Im still finding my footing with what this is all about . To be honest , id have to watch this whole show myself to get a read on it ! Seems you summed it up well . Its just a wierd show ! Thank you for giving me the rundown on it . Im STILL not sure what to think !!! LOL

Bill Carr? Isn't that the fake name Alan partridge gives to the police when he was caught stealing a traffic cone?

Cyn= crontrol your laughter. Coming to a pool hall and bingo. Halls near you

The lighting makes it look like they're having a match in Hollister.

Think I’m gonna control my narrative and never watch this promotion 😂. Genuinely the most hokey s I’ve ever seen

This promotion sponsored by Qanon

Top 10 Wrestling controlled his narrative

Ok, I too dislike flippy stuff, but completely putting a stop on that on a wrestling promotion is ridiculous. "Pro wrestling is never done is one way"

The first rule of CYN is you do not talk about CYN The second rule of CYN is you do not talk about CYN

SUBTITLE: Nostalgia is for the weak. ACTION: Scott Taylor doing the W-O-R-M in 2022.

Kross saw this vid and then called up his boy Trips

3:29 lmao why is there just one random kid? Those spectators look like they were at SeaWorld but got kidnapped and now they're being forced to sit in as the live audience.

Man bun Jesus and his panda was the highlight of this odd show

The start intro feels like a documentary

I wonder if any of their matches HIT THEIR TIMES.

@17:36…I’ve never seen anyone get pinned by a northern lights suplex until now 😂😂

... I'm actually really interested in those other 3 topics as well, holy shit I wanna see them

At first I thought that Fodder guy was Kyle Dunbar from Inkmaster. 😂😂

The project groups logo is dangerously close to the warhammer chaos symbol.

Thank you for doing the work of the gods 🥺

Ec3 has said that the bans moved are allowed, they are just gonna be used when they matter vs seeing them every match.

"No tope's, no superkicks, no destroyers"... first match features "the worm".

9:29 I was impressed With some of the moves

I like that CYN is trying to be different in wrestling. But I keep getting lost from the weird edits and the unneeded messsages