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I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I think the RW act was only successful for them not only because it was novel, but because it was them. Saying anyone could have taken roids and put on facepaint and instantly have been that over with the same formula is a bit disingenuous I feel. It's like saying dress a big guy in yellow and red and give him a script about vitamins and anyone could have been Hogan. The Road Warriors aren't really a great tag team work rate wise, but they clearly brought a huge presence that made their debuts in promotions and subsequent squashes believable, memorable, and buzz worthy. Also, the Sheepherders are way better than the Nasties at basically everything.

Being from the UK makes it hard to see Paige rolling out of her boyfriend's truck to brain a girl outside of an Applebee's. She has the look for it but her accent disqualifies her.Paige looks like she'd hang out with dudes who would sell fake molly to chavs outside a lesser-tier club in a lesser-tier English city. If and when the chav crew stepped up, Paige would destroy the girl and take her can of cider.

House of Pain: Evolution 10th August 2013, Britannia Hotel, Coventry What a strange show this was. I thought I was going to some low budget little indie but it had 26 wrestlers spread over 7 matches and lasted a shade under 4 hours. The venue was a city centre hotel which can't have come cheap, and it was advertised as free entry for kids. I'm useless at estimated the size of crowds. 100 maybe? We were a noisy bunch, but that doesn't mean squat at the box office. It's not like all the wrestlers were scrubs either, star attractions were Mark Haskins and Doug Williams. Gotta worry about the financial acumen of anyone involved in this. An early highlights was "Textbook" Dave Breaks. With a picture of a schoolbook on his trunks, "Textbook" (or "Textbox" as the kids behind me were chanting) Dave is a bit of an Achibald Peck figure. Played cowardly technical heel tonight, and was loads of fun. Apparently he's usually face, where his cries of "Textbook, baby!" seem pretty over, and his act is a man charmingly deluded by a unwarranted sense of adequacy. He's a legend in his own mind, and a lower-card guy in the ring. The sense of disconnect is oddly lovable. But if you want lovable, then the night belonged to the phenomenon that is GRADO. The camp, chubby Glaswegian danced his way into the ring to Like a Prayer and the audience went nuts. He had to pause for a breather on the way down the ramp and he sat on my lap, so there's no way I can be impartial about the guy after that. But as underdog fatboy babyfaces go, he's gotta be one of the best around. He taps into the whole end of the pier/music hall side of British wrestling. He won his match against "Loco" Mike Mason (who is a dog - no, really a dog) by getting Mason to chase a ball into a cage at ringside and locking him inside. If you're not a fan of Grado's after watching the ring entrance in the match below, you're dead to me, man. And if you're not a fan after watching the match and how the crowd respond to him you're dead to yourself. Then, after 6 matches of family-friendly wrestling, the ring was stripped down for the main event. In front of a really mixed audience, we were treated to a "no canvas bare boards deathmatch". Wild brawling, staple guns, a giant corkscrew and blood. This was the weirdest experience I've ever had attending a wrestling show. How can you enjoy a spectacle like that when you can see kids getting upset by it? Just a colossal misjudgement. Solid performances from Clint Margera and Jack Jester, but let's just say the superplex through two steel chairs onto tacks on the bare wood wasn't the finish.

Shelf life, yes like everything, but roiding up and bashing fake russians was not unsustainable. Eight years of Reagan says otherwise.

So would you say that the Road Warriors aren't unlike Mark Henry in that they were given a role and performed better than just about anybody could? Seems pretty obvious that the Road Warriors are the Mark Henry of tag teams.

The Road Warriors were awesome. Who cares how great many great matches they had. They hit the ring and hurt motherfuckers. THAT is pro wrestling.

It worked for this guy. By "worked" do you mean didn't work? Cause, yeah, it didn't work. I don't know where you live but everywhere I go I hear Jesus this and Jesus that. This guy is over like rover, and he hasn't even had any tv time in like 8 years.

We've created a monster.... because nobody wants to see wrestling no more, they want divas, RAW's chopped liver.

Elsalvajeloco is your new moderator. BOW DOWN TO HIM!

Nope. Not clicking it. Nope. ... ... ... DAMMIT!

That last line of the premiere ranks up there with "I AM the one who knocks" in great Walt lines. I don't know why, but I always get the chills when Walt is so desperately trying to be a badass. I was a little worried at first, because I thought the wait had been so long, and it might not live up to expectations, but the last twenty was amazing. I just love it when characters behave exactly like you hope they would.

Someone needs to hired Badger and Skinny Pete to write the next Star Trek movie, stat.

I love Hulu Plus so much. Aside from not having to rely on DVR for WWE shows it allows me to watch NXT (legally) and love the holy hell out of it. It really is the best WWE show on TV. I really feel that I'm watching the future of WWE. Whenever some of them get called up they're going to be great. The crowd like mentioned before is perfect for this. Looking at the roster I'd say that there are those that really need to be on WWE TV. Of course you have those like Sami Zayn and Adrian Neville, but can you imagine if they brought up Paige and Emma? If they cared to make the female division better have them do matches with women like Natalya and AJ. They're pretty but are very talented and are different enough to not fit the cookie cutter mold. Charlotte with more experience will be golden, though she's great already. Hell, Summer Rae can be a good opponent if they had her wrestle. And Sasha Banks is pretty good too. Put them at different times on the roster and I think things can only improve. As for Bo he's good in NXT but I have zero desire to see him called up. Just doesn't do anything for me, singing Journey and all. Leo Kruger is good but he will fare much better in NXT than he ever will being called up. I wouldn't be against the idea of Corey Graves being called up, I think he can do well.

Can I just say that I love Gonzalez's Martina Navratilova dancing gif?

Yep. You sure showed us with those stills of extras. Why you ain't some highfalutin' movie executive, I have no idea.

BJW guys looks like they're going to star in the live-action sequel to Cromartie High. They'd need Don Frye as Freddie.

Fuck a WCW/WWF Wargames ... The kitten, the puppy and the sloth. You will TAAAAAP to their triple team finisher, "Adorable OVERLOAD '13!"

The comments section is more interesting - and on point - than his essay. The person who said he was seeing political messages where there aren't any is exactly right. I've never thought the show had an agenda regarding either US policy towards drugs or the health care system. The show has always been squarely focused on Walter. Any lessons may only be applicable to him. If I had to sum up the message of the show, I'd probably go with "Some people find it fairly easy to rationalize evil deeds. Not everyone, but some. The cancer's is Walter's beard. It affords him opportunities and an excuse for what bad behavior that he wouldn't have had otherwise.

By huffing and puffing?

http://pic.twitter.com/u5vPCz583b Hope this works....me and Bret I

... I thought the story was far better then the first game, but whatever.

If that was the sales pitch for DDP Yoga...

I got put onto this last year. Suddenly Dr. Dre doesn't seem like such a genius, seeing as he lifted the whole damn instrumental: This one too:

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS was so boring. In two distinct ways: 1) Boring in the way that there are long dull stretches where nothing of value is happening and long ponderous speeches by people no one has any reason to care about or be invested in because their stories are bland and they just aren't very cool. and 2) Boring in the way where when things are actually happening, they are so clumsy and disjointed and fragmented that you just can't parse it enough to be excited I was hoping it would be a fast, lighthearted goofy homage like NINJA ASSASSIN which, while it wasn't great, was at least competent. But instead I got something that wanted to be epic and deadpan while somehow also being ironic and "grindhousey." I get that RZA wanted to make a strong connection between old King Fu movies and the history of Blacksploitation theaters. And that's a neat idea he had and I guess it justifies the horrendously dull middle section that focuses on the most boring character (him). But he is unable to write or direct or act and that proved to be a problem. He has a great eye for the big climactic moments but doesn't know how to get to them...so he just strings a bunch of them together, but none of them hit because none of them were set up very well. Large stretches of this movie felt like an old Golan-Globus movie just in terms of static action and line deliveries and werdly clumsy directing. This was not, I don't think, the homage he had in mind. The old kung fu movies he was supposedly emulating had incredibly dynamic camera work and made visually interesting compositions out of shoestring budgets. RZA here managed to make $20 million look worse than the average TVB or CCTV martial arts soap opera cranked out with 1/1000 the money. Coery Yuen provided the absolute bare minimum of consciousness to slap together inchoherent fight scenes. Trey parker's fight scene in ORGAZMO made more sense and had more impact. Even the soundtrack was filled with dumb ideas...lots of homages to sounds that everyone agrees are cool but are deployed here as a substitute to any actual buildup...loud, redundant, distracting, pointless. When he makes a callback to Sally Yeh's iconic song from John Woo's THE KILLER all it does is remind you that you could be watching a more more fun movie right now.

So you tap a guy on the back of his head with your penis and he is driven into the ground?

I'm so disappointed that the Kane/Wyatt 'Ring Of Fire Match' is just an 'Inferno Match' instead of a match where the winner is the first man to beat his opponent down long enough in order to get to the stage and successfully sing the entire Johnny Cash song. I'm more disappointed than when I found out that a 'Chair Match' wasn't going to be a match where the winner was the first man to sit in the chair. --- Monday Night War Games Team WCW: Sting, Goldberg, Bunkhouse Buck, Barbarian, THE MONSTER MENG! vs. Team WWF: Austin, Undertaker, Bradshaw, Faarooq, Vince McMahon? Vince McMahon originally annouces The Rock for Team WWF but Colonel Robert Parker tricks McMahon into putting himself into the match instead. Dick Slater is originally announced for Team WCW but McMahon has him taken out in response to the Colonel tricking him. Team WCW responds by announcing Goldberg as Slater's replacement. And Robocop and Chuck Norris are the neutral cageside enforcers to keep both companies from trying any shenanigans.

The unlikely love affair Some lucky fans get to meet JADO Interesting Wall Makabe meets a guy BJW's cooler than your favourite promotion Milano's Mr Happy is bigger than yours

Passed my level 1 Test for Krav Maga today. At 6'3, 260-ish pounds, i am now OFFICIALLY the real life kung fu panda...

If this were to ever happen, you need to have the craziness it deserves. First, around August at Fall Brawl, you do a War Games match with Hogan, the Outsiders, Flair and Sting vs. Austin, Rock, HHH, and the New Age Outlaws. Goldberg, DDP or Bret interfere at the end, and Hogan pins Austin. Locker rooms empty out, massive chaos ensues, Austin is injured and put on the shelf. Then, instead of the Royal Rumble, you go with World War 3 in January. Three rings, 30 men from each company, every two minutes, another guy from each company enters the ring (we have separate locker rooms of course). Austin makes his return from injury and wins, eliminating whoever cost him the War Games match. He gets jumped at the end, locker rooms clear out, etc... At Wrestlemania, you debut a brand new match on the heels of War Games and World War 3: Armageddon. A War Games match spread out over three rings, World War 3 style. (If you want to get really crazy, you add the triple tower of doom or whatever it was to the cage). Same War Games teams as before, but you add Goldberg, DDP, and Bret to Team WCW and Foley, Big Show and Taker to Team WWF. Hall and Nash turn on Team WCW, revealing they were WWF sleeper agents all this time. Austin pins Hogan for the win. Following the match, Austin is again jumped, this time by the combined forces of the Outsiders and DX, who proceed to lay waste to everyone. Your story lines for the next year are the Kilq vs the World., eventually leading to next year's Wrestlemania, where you have Austin, Rock. Hogan, Flair, Sting, and Bret vs. HHH, Outsiders, NAO, and XPac. (Or Austin calls up an old friend and tells him to get their band back together, leading to a Stud Stable vs. the Kliq blowoff at Wrestlemania.)

It worked for this guy.

http://youtu.be/huNaVotiMOE I hate this.

I never knew that the Road Warriors helped start Zubaz, and were/are part-owners. It also makes the line in the LOD DVD make more sense, when Animal was talking about how Paul Ellering was legitimently their Manager - as he would take care of investing all of their money for them. So, in short, Animal made a sh*t ton of money and got to wrestle a style where 95% of the match involved him kicking the crap out of guys; his finishing move involved picking a guy up on his shoulders while his partner had to take the painful landing off of the top rope, and now his son is a millionaire NFL player. He also made Ribera jackets a popular thing before they ever were a thing. Anyone short of that is a mark.

So Fucking Suave Yes, and just imagine if he had a normal forehead. Actually, he looks like he could play Bo Crowder.

This deserves a quote "Here at Rude Chrystler, we won't turn you down, for bad credit, or no credit at all!"

Like "Here's the new Horseman Paul Roma!" NECKBREAKER DIE "Just kidding it was Rick Rude"

I could have said he would be out for 72 hours to continue the Jesus joke...but then I thought: "Did Jesue have hustle, loyalty, and respect? No, he did not."

What I like even better about this pic is that Sheik went into the HOF in 2005.

That's what sold the angle for me. I watched him do the Parka strut. Figured it was Parka and then he hit the Diamond Cutter and unmasked it was 200% gold. You aren't kidding. It was one of those rare moments where I was legitimately surprised. So awesome. Great interview. I wound up shedding a few tears when DDP told the story about how he called Macho on Thanksgiving.

That bitch had better not make Bryan cry by forcing him out of childhood home.

How DARE you, sir! Nikki Bella put on a reality show clinic last night. She turned to her sister's boyfriend, while on a private jet, and nonchalantly said to him, "and her dress was like *this*" while pulling down her dress strap and squeezing her boobs together. This worked on THREE different levels as she: *Showed Bryan something she knows he'll never have (inappropriate). *Believed that Bryan would actually want that over what he has, which is her own sister (delusions of grandeur/backstabber). *Did all of this in front of her boyfriend, John Cena - who was way too complicit in the matter (creepy). She then followed that up by rubbing her rich boyfriend's house/stuff in her sister's face, and went into a rage about overcast WA weather; the Danielson family war chest and goosesh*t. There isn't a woman on earth, watching this show, who will like her after that. Within half an episode she turned her sister face, Cena heel (if all of this isn't building to him dumping her) and established herself as the source for all viewer's rage. She did exactly what the producers would want her to do, which is why all of the advertisements featured them prominently. Good people don't do well on reality shows. That's why Nattie won't sniff a second of screen time until the wedding angle, and JoJo hasn't been seen doing much of note yet. Naomi is doing the same thing as Nikki, on a smaller scale (since her boyfriend isn't John Cena) and is doing just as good a job of turning her partner face in the process. Eva Marie is the epitome of someone who is willing to do anything to get ahead - including going along with every stupid planned/fake stunt that the producers suggest to her (pretending to dye her hair "the wrong color"; telling WWE she can dance when she can't). She even went along with a random on-camera proposal. She will be a star from this show - even if she never sees a minute of screen time from WWE. You are making a strong argument for Nikki being the lead villain of the show. I also forgot about the part where Cena said to Brie "Are you sure..." about the Aberdeen estate.However, everyone has completely no-sold Nikki being horrible! There's nothing from Brie at all about this. In fact, she fell under Nikki's sway! Unless Bryan bugs out at some point, it's a waste of a good angle.Eva Marie is a total waste of a good character. Imagine how much better the angle would have been if it was Emma from NXT claiming she can dance and then busting out her trademark move in front of everyone? That would have launched her to superstardom, especially since she and Summer Rae already have dance-off feuding experience. (On tape delay; the dance off is on Thursday's NXT.)

How DARE you, sir! Nikki Bella put on a reality show clinic last night. She turned to her sister's boyfriend, while on a private jet, and nonchalantly said to him, "and her dress was like *this*" while pulling down her dress strap and squeezing her boobs together. This worked on THREE different levels as she: *Showed Bryan something she knows he'll never have (inappropriate). *Believed that Bryan would actually want that over what he has, which is her own sister (delusions of grandeur/backstabber). *Did all of this in front of her boyfriend, John Cena - who was way too complicit in the matter (creepy). She then followed that up by rubbing her rich boyfriend's house/stuff in her sister's face, and went into a rage about overcast WA weather; the Danielson family war chest and goosesh*t. There isn't a woman on earth, watching this show, who will like her after that. Within half an episode she turned her sister face, Cena heel (if all of this isn't building to him dumping her) and established herself as the source for all viewer's rage. She did exactly what the producers would want her to do, which is why all of the advertisements featured them prominently. Good people don't do well on reality shows. That's why Nattie won't sniff a second of screen time until the wedding angle, and JoJo hasn't been seen doing much of note yet. Naomi is doing the same thing as Nikki, on a smaller scale (since her boyfriend isn't John Cena) and is doing just as good a job of turning her partner face in the process. Eva Marie is the epitome of someone who is willing to do anything to get ahead - including going along with every stupid planned/fake stunt that the producers suggest to her (pretending to dye her hair "the wrong color"; telling WWE she can dance when she can't). She even went along with a random on-camera proposal. She will be a star from this show - even if she never sees a minute of screen time from WWE.

John Cena living in a cool mansion with a slip n slide and Daniel Bryan living in a unibomber shack is exactly how I pictured their homes. I hope we get to see Brock Lesnar's cabin in the middle of nowhere someday.

I mean, if it was the finish, and it was cleared by the guy in charge, he is only responsible so much. The guy has to have some faith in his workers to be able to go out and perform. Injuries happen, yes - this is a contact sport. There is a difference between "shit happens" and recklessness. Based on the short video I saw (and the picture), to me it looked like Bennett gave it a little too much, because he was trying to keep them both on the apron - That's why his legs are straight out, and not bent. At the same time, BJ isn't tucking his fn head. If this was a spot that someone with the book thought up, and the two guys didn't want to do it, and it was forced on them, then yeah, it is 100% on the him, and not Bennett/Whitmer. Now, if this was just a move these guys did for the sake of doing it, these guys should probably be taken off the booking sheets for a few shows until they learn some fn psychology.

To change the tone slightly....Fuck you to anyone who buys one of those "cool story babe now make me a sandwich" shirts. I actually thought it might be a reference to something that I don't know, so I looked it up on the internet. Nope. Just ignorant douche bags wearing a dumb shirt.

In other news: RoH is going to be losing a lot of guys once their contracts are up.

No, it's Dolph swearing off of women because of AJ and hooking up with Big E. Dolph's a breast man then.

and THAT is why you don't doubt El Dandy.

Like The Rock beating Scotty 2 Hotty after 24 minutes.

Just got back from The Wolverine and I liked it more than I thought I was going to. It was really obvious which parts were kept from when Aronofsky was still on board to direct and which parts were added in for the SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER~! aspect. The third act does get really cheesy, but I think the end redeems it. The credits scene was a nice touch, too.