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Y'know what I was thinking after that really great promo where Cena brought the intensity and invoked Make-A-Wish, just the thing to drive his fans wild, and Bryan brought the intensity and invoked Japanese wrestling, just the thing to drive HIS fans wild, and Cena slapped Bryan and Bryan refused to slap Cena back and that sleepy Sacramento crowd had finally been woken up and was going nuts? I was thinking "I hope HHH comes out. That's what this needs."

I was hoping Mark Henry would stand on the steps, pick up the ring, and dump the other 19 guys out.

Ban. "Cartwright?"

Tenryu punched him so hard he turned him into Akiyama.

Season 2 will be the way that the WWE introduces Mike Bennett and Maria (well reintroduce Maria). INSTANT HEAT~! I will now spend the rest of my night reflecting on the fact that I just was fantasy booking Total Divas

Or, you know...have Punk get his skinny fat ass kicked terribly and actually be humbled and act like a fucking human being that needs to overcome adversity instead of an entitled twat Godmode sue that acts like he's above it all and easily dismisses every opponent and cuts promos where he calls himself "the best" 50 times. It's a character growth moment. Of course, since he got the upperhand right before the ppv, I'm pretty sure Brock's gonna snap his arm with a kimura.

I would have aced the post-video test if we got to watch Demolition Man in class. "Ooh! I wonder if I can play the accordion too!"

Everyone is sleeping on JBL comparing Khali/Natalya to the Missing Link and Dark Journey.

Let's wrap this whole thread in a neat little bow and declare now that whoever wins the March Madness pool gets a Ribera replica jacket.

But it means we get to see him start a match with headlock take downs and monkeyflips while JBL says something like "John Cena can wrestle when he wants to, Michael." Shit he may even do a missile dropkick if we're lucky.

2 years ago, nearly everytime I embedded a video of WWE guy the video would get pulled at their request in 48 hrs. Just long enough to cast a vote. So I figured someone was participating and then after a poll would close they'd act like they were doing their job.Oh how I wish the'd pull people posting recordings of their WWE video game matches instead. That shit is the running for most annoying part of March Madness. So many fucking video game matches.

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Man, my kahagas are sweating like crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxXcQ77DDM Big Sean feat. Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica - Control (HOF) The first verse is the best Big Sean verse I recall, but you can skip to 3:00 and get to Kendrick. This is the song of the day. I've heard people who don't think Kendrick dropped one of the greatest verses in rap history, but I think he did. And I think it's a calculated step to get people to actually, you know, try. I adore the verse and I eagerly await the responses; far more than the current trends, hiphop is about battle.

Also known as: Life...all life.

Wrestling: You can work as hard as you want, but you'll never get past a certain point without fortunate genetics or friends in the right places.

I love that one of the tags is for Tina Turner. Now I gotta go listen to the Thunderdome song.

Thank God for Alpha Brain.

My guess would be Magneto. He did have the line about Stryker being the only other man he met who could manipulate Adamantium like him. Oh how I'd love to see this on the big screen

When I was twelve, the WWF had the likes of Sparky Plugg, Doink the Clown, Tatanka, and King Mable. I don't want it to go back to that.

Oh, and HHH's heel turn is so being telegraphed his Maddox Pedigree should've been sponsored by Western Union. Just stay the fuck out of my main event McMahons. Jesus. The two of them are doing fine as "faces who don't respect each other" (Randy's oncoming heel turn is enough overbooking). As it is, the finish is 100% going to be: Bryan has the match won, HHH pedigrees the fuck out of him, drags Cena's lifeless corpse over, 1, 2, 3. "I hear voices", RKO, kickout at 2, Pedigree & RKO, 1, 2, 3. New corporate champ. Yuck.

For whatever reason when I look at the thread title I keep expecting scholarly wrestling conversations to be taking place. Where's mookieghana* when you need him? *The Jess Nevins of wrestling!

Wrestling will never be like it was when you were twelve. Get over it. /thread.

Whenever I think about what they should do next booking wise, my answer is always "they should make a faction!" it's what I thought they should do with Punk/Lesnar/Shield at Mania. It's what I think they should have done with Ziggler finally cashing in before that (with Flair turning on Miz, etc). I kind of think they should do that with Orton/Shield now (playing up the fact that the Shield wanted "justice" right up until they ended up in the suits as the new Vince-backed Evolution). I'm not sure what this says about me. I think it's that i grew up with the Dangerous Alliance or something.

I wonder what they settled on. Or if the fact that they scheduled a PPV was enough to satisfy Alvarez. Regardless, it's still extremely shitty that the dispute happened in the first place.

Not to bring up an old topic but I just wanted to point out what an enormous MARK Tommaso Ciampa is for watching a wrestling show that's not his own and enjoying it:

Cause Koko was awesome.

I'm so glad WWE added Triple H as guest ref for Cena-Bryan. I was getting so excited for that match that I was actually considering shelling out the money to order the PPV. Triple H's addition assures that I will be more than content watching a decent-to-shitty stream online.

Forgive me a brief aside: How could WWE put out their Attitude era set and not include a montage or some other retrospective on all the instances of Jacqueline's titties popping out by "accident?" Missed. Opportunity.

As for positive old-school wrasslin' game memories: Going to my cousin's house and playing (IIRC) RAW for SEGA Genesis and FINALLY beating the WWF Championship Tournament mode. Making up ridiculous move names in the first Smackdown. My best friend talking another friend into buying an N64 solely for WrestleMania 2000, and it being totally worth it (for us at least). No Mercy. Seeing my friends go from super excited for ATTITUDE to completely mortified when they discovered it was just a shitty "update" to WAR ZONE. I still remember the collective "WTF?" reaction when the two had a match, only for Vince to pop up on the TitanTron and reverse the decision for no reason whatsoever.

But what if while Cena's out they bring back Hollywood Batista. Triple H pays Batista the big bucks to just wrestle Daniel Bryan a couple of times and protect Randy Orton. The old squad back together trying to save the WWE from the shitty RoHBot invasion.

PM Good Helmet.

When I first started following EPL I instantly bought into the romatnic mystique that Arsenal are run by a bunch of bizarre inbred 17th-century Lords and Ladies who had fallen under the spell of an equally bizarre French Svengali...and that this concoction was more interesting to follow than another oil billionaire buying sharknados full of talent. How much is true and how much was "Arsenal way" PR to justify raking in money and never payng any out, I'm too much of a lazy dimwit to ever find out. But I don't care. I remain blissfully a mark for old-timey English shit and they seem pretty old-timey. ...although the very name "Cambridge United" mentioned upthread tugs at the dusty used-bookstore of my heart.

Long story short, the ex-Spirits owners got (I think) one-sixth of the annual broadcasting revenue from the Spurs, Nets, Nuggets and Pacers (the surviving ABA clubs) in perpetuity. As you might imagine, they made out like BANDITS on that little deal. To quote Wiki: the owners of the Spirits, the brothers Ozzie and Dan Silna, struck a prescient deal to acquire future television money from the teams that joined the NBA, a one-seventh share from each franchise, in perpetuity. With network TV deals becoming more and more lucrative, the deal has made the Silnas wealthy, earning them $186 million as of 2008, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and $255 million as of 2012 according to the New York Times.[1] (The NBA nearly succeeded in buying out the Silnas in 1982 by offering $5 million over eight years, but negotiations stalled when the siblings demanded $8 million over five.) On June 27, 2007, it was extended for another eight years, ensuring another $100 million-plus windfall for the Silnas. Presently, the Silnas receive $14.57 million a year, despite being owners of a team that hasn't played one minute of basketball in 35 years That has to be the best sports contract of all-time.

Austin was forced to retire, Rock went to bigger and better things. Orton and Cena are healthier and have nowhere else to go. You can't compare them to anyone else because even the previous generations didn't have the chance or the desire to stick around forever.

I don't see Cena as a "tweener" as much as I see a guy who booking stripped any personality he had from and told him to be the new Hogan.

You guys have such a narrow perspective on things, and it's just unreal. You're a bunch of guys who've been watching wrestling for 20+ years. Your perspective on Triple H, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan etc is not the same as the vast majority of the 5 million or so that watch every week. This is absolutely hilarious coming from you considering that you, or this character you play, can't escape an early to mid 2000s mindset for what is good. You're still advocating HHH going over just about everyone when no one wants to see that and pretending that TV ratings are the be all, end all as far as indicating what people want. If that were the case, why are live shows packed full of people wearing Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, and John Cena merch. What, those shirts were the only ones that were clean when they were on their way to Raw to watch the legends of the early 2000s? Maybe the reason why those guys shirts sell out first is because they're just that eye catching? Raw, SD, PPVs, whatever need two things to be functional: People watching at home and people showing up to the arena. If CM Punk were this massive turnoff that you claim he is because your narrow perspective, then, gee, you would think there wouldn't be so many CM Punk fans buying a ticket to the show. Your troll game is strong as of late, that's for sure.

I don't know, if you don't like the characters being heavily used on television, you won't enjoy it as much. Personally, I don't want to see Alberto Del Rio, or Christian, pretty much ever. That's just an example. Plus I just can't get over the feeling that Smackdown just doesn't fucking matter, at all, even a little bit. Anything of importance won't ever be on Smackdown. Half the time the matches that happen are just re-done on RAW anyway. If a story needs advanced, they'll do it on RAW. Smackdown is completely skippable.

Dolph was backstage acting like Kaitlyn's sidekick.

I had a PS1 before an n64 so I was stuck with War Zone and Attitude for a while. I remember being super hyped for War Zone because I was such a huge WWF fan and was really excited to finally be able to play a non-arcade WWF game. Of course it sucked but I played it a ton and enjoyed it at the time. The TV's flying in from the crowd are still lulzy to think about. Same goes for Attitude. LOVED how much blood there was in that game. Then I was at a friend's house and played WCW World Tour on the n64 and was convinced I needed to get that system. I wound up getting an n64 that Christmas with WCW/NWO Revenge. My friend and I played that at each other's houses for hours upon hours. We would do the 40 man battle royals where it'd be pinfall only and stuff. So much fun. I was ridiculously hyped for Smackdown Just Bring It and wound up being really disappointed because it just wasn't that good. I really liked VPW 2. I mean, it's the same engine as the WCW and WWF n64 games so of course it'd be great, but it was awesome because it didn't have the slowdown/glitches No Mercy had. I also thoroughly enjoyed the Fire Pro that was released in the US for the PS2 and have had some fun playing King of Colosseum 2.

"IF I CAN BE SERIOUS FOR A MOMENT...." [cue "It's Raining Men"]

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

A DVDVR vote.

"It's our year " - Liverpool fans

Well I guess I'm a Sharks fan after this happened