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The WWE couldn't handle The Natural Dustin Rhodes. That man took down the Stud Stable.

Honestly thought this was going to be under the ...Of the Day subfolder.

Lawler was much better as a heel at the national level because his act was so in tune with Memphis. His AWA matches as a face were technically solid, but lacked the emotion of Memphis. On the other hand, his heel work in World Class was awesome, and his initial WWE run and Bret feud was really good. He has since had strong matches as a veteran face in WWE (King's matches with The Miz are arguably Miz's best save Daniel Bryan series), but his best national work was as a heel. However, very few smart fans do not enjoy Lawler as a face in Memphis.

The thing about the audience in the attitude era that always gets me is that for every wrestling related sign, there are about five signs of Cartman.

Paul looked like film nerd Valhalla: "Listen, I got a position in this town, a reputation...somebody's gonna be ruined."

I love you Tabe, but are ramblings of a mad man.

Duggan's like "YEAH! PUT ON WORKIN' FOR THE WEEKEND!"

I get the difference between the Divas title and the WWE title of all things, but really, it's the only belt she could win...and a dream's a dream. Your second point of it happening on happenstance is more valid. Another valid point that only Bryan seem to make is that it's a belt that just rotates from woman to woman in WWE. Pretty much 75% of the women who have stuck around longer than a year and a half have gotten a title run at this point. Still though, if she's happy about it, who cares? I don't think it's about being a mark. If she throws a tantrum over losing the title to someone like Naomi, then yeah, it applies.

Blackman was awesome.

I commend Bob for actually going out there and educating himself on the subject even if he waited until he was 40 to do so.

Matheny: You'll not take her while I live. Hurdle: Then I'll take her when you're dead.

As long as he doesn't turn hardcore bible thumber, Ol Johnny football is the best heel college football has had in a LONG time. . . I hope he starts acting like a bible thumper just to troll the hell out of ESPN, Tebow fans, etc. He's awesome and I don't even think he's a heel. More of a Steve Austin-esque face.

And there's your play of the game/week/year right there. . . .

You know what? No receiver named Norwood should ever be allowed to line up wide right. . . just saying.

And why did they need to re-use a title from a Matthew Broderick movie about testing radiation on monkeys?

Went back and watched Taker vs. Michaels at WM 25. My god what a great match. I wasn't a big fan of the 26 match, but this one is damn near perfect. Pacing, timing, psychology, false finishes....this match and Rock/Austin from Mania 17 are the perfect examples of the "sports entertainment" style of WWE main event matches. It's been 5 years and I still thought Taker had him after he reversed the skin the cat into a tombstone. Taker's facial afterwards is absolutely priceless. The faceplant into the floor and Michaels' reaction afterwards, begging for the 10 count, trying to win by any means necessary is very believable. The whole good vs. evil, HBK praying to the heavens before the moonsault only to be caught for the tombstone....just fucking beautiful. Top 5 Mania match of all-time for me.

Wasn't there a scene in the past few episodes where Walt was sitting there getting chemo? I thought that settled the issue about whether he truly had cancer again.

Has the first "benefit show" been announced yet?

I'd previously looked for this clip, unedited, but couldn't find it. This is probably one of my favorite Austin moments: http://youtu.be/fAglSncw8Vw

UPDATE 19 OF 19 - through September 12 No movement in the standings from last week, so YETI wins the 2013 Summer Blockbuster Pool! Congratulations! Since I don't get a prize for finishing second, that means that everyone down to -MJ- in seventh place will get a prize. I'll start PMing people to select their dvds. Standings 1 [- 1] Yeti - 58 points (24/34, tiebreak 0.268) 2 [- 2] Suicide King of Spades - 62 points (26/36, tiebreak 0.24) 3 [- 3] RossWB - 66 points (32/34, tiebreak 0.237) 4 [- 4] Genesis - 68 points (32/36, tiebreak 0.251) 5 [- 5] Death From Above - 68 points (36/32, tiebreak 0.459) 6 [- 6] The Erotic Terrorist - 70 points (28/42, tiebreak 0.127) 7 [- 7] -MJ- - 70 points (22/48, tiebreak 0.29) 8 [- 8] K.J.C. McMahon - 70 points (32/38, tiebreak 0.468) 9 [- 9] Gonzalez - 72 points (28/44, tiebreak 0.003) 10 [- 10] Super Ape - 72 points (26/46, tiebreak 0.116) 11 [- 11] Televiper - 74 points (36/38, tiebreak 0.004) 12 [- 12] Ligerbusa - 74 points (30/44, tiebreak 0.303) 13 [- 13] TheZ - 76 points (28/48, tiebreak 0.4) 14 [- 14] Rippa - 76 points (46/30, tiebreak 0.6) 15 [- 15] The Natural - 78 points (36/42, tiebreak 0.115) 16 [- 16] Hobo Joe - 78 points (40/38, tiebreak 0.323) 17 [- 17] Stennick - 78 points (32/46, tiebreak 0.547) 18 [- 18] blitzkrieg - 80 points (18/62, tiebreak 0.6) 19 [- 19] Pavel6969 - 82 points (34/48, tiebreak 0.003) 20 [- 20] Paco - 82 points (32/50, tiebreak 0.124) 21 [- 21] DreamBroken - 82 points (34/48, tiebreak 0.6) 22 [- 22] Mushroomjones - 86 points (46/40, tiebreak 0.58) 23 [- 23] jaedmc - 88 points (34/54, tiebreak 0.242) 24 [- 24] JRGoldman - 90 points (40/50, tiebreak 0.235) 25 [- 25] SorceressKnight - 90 points (48/42, tiebreak 0.687) 26 [- 26] IVPvideos - 90 points (36/54, tiebreak 0.73) 27 [- 27] shoogbear63 - 92 points (30/62, tiebreak 0.943) 28 [- 28] Trocar Slush Weasel - 92 points (30/62, tiebreak 1.086) 29 [- 29] Control - 94 points (44/50, tiebreak 0.006) 30 [- 30] Raziel403 - 96 points (38/58, tiebreak 0.261) 31 [- 31] gregjr - 98 points (32/66, tiebreak 0.149) 32 [- 32] Lacelle - 104 points (50/54, tiebreak 0.382) 33 [- 33] Phantom Lord - 116 points (50/66, tiebreak 0.141) Box office 1 [- 1] Iron Man 3 - $376,745,285 (28 days) 2 [- 2] Despicable Me 2 - $311,818,088 (28 days) 3 [- 3] Man Of Steel - $276,169,878 (28 days) 4 [- 4] Monsters University - $239,128,654 (28 days) 5 [- 5] Fast & Furious 6 - $224,008,865 (28 days) 6 [- 6] Star Trek Into Darkness - $203,716,697 (28 days) 7 [- 7] World War Z - $181,741,067 (28 days) 8 [- 8] The Great Gatsby - $131,945,118 (28 days) 9 [- 9] The Wolverine - $122,595,676 (28 days) 10 [- 10] Hangover 3 - $109,060,272 (28 days) 11 [- 11] Pacific Rim - $95,229,531 (28 days) 12 [- 12] This Is The End - $87,437,228 (28 days) 13 [- 13] The Lone Ranger - $85,790,291 (28 days) 14 [- 14] Elysium - $81,977,267 (28 days) 15 [- 16] Planes - $75,004,184 (28 days) 16 [- 15] 2 Guns - $66,709,905 (28 days) 17 [- 17] After Earth - $57,924,070 (28 days) 18 [- 18] Red 2 - $50,274,891 (28 days) 19 [- 19] R.I.P.D. - $32,204,325 (28 days) 20 [- 20] Kick-Ass 2 - $28,306,400 (28 days) Rotten Tomatoes 1 [- 1] Star Trek Into Darkness - 206/236 = 87% (28 days) 2 [- 2] This Is The End - 155/185 = 84% (28 days) 3 [- 3] Monsters University - 135/173 = 78% (28 days) 4 [- 4] Iron Man 3 - 205/264 = 78% (28 days) 5 [- 5] Despicable Me 2 - 122/162 = 75% (28 days) 6 [- 6] Pacific Rim - 170/237 = 72% (28 days) 7 [- 7] Fast & Furious 6 - 122/173 = 71% (28 days) 8 [- 8] The Wolverine - 138/201 = 69% (28 days) 9 [- 9] Elysium - 150/219 = 68% (28 days) 10 [- 10] World War Z - 157/234 = 67% (28 days) 11 [- 11] 2 Guns - 95/152 = 63% (28 days) 12 [- 12] Man Of Steel - 150/268 = 56% (28 days) 13 [- 13] The Great Gatsby - 117/232 = 50% (28 days) 14 [- 14] Red 2 - 52/127 = 41% (28 days) 15 [- 15] Kick-Ass 2 - 42/145 = 29% (28 days) 16 [- 16] The Lone Ranger - 51/188 = 27% (28 days) 17 [- 17] Planes - 26/100 = 26% (28 days) 18 [- 18] Hangover 3 - 36/181 = 20% (28 days) 19 [- 19] R.I.P.D. - 7/60 = 12% (28 days) 20 [- 20] After Earth - 18/172 = 10% (28 days)

With this being the 100th anniversary of Bear Bryant's birth, Manziel would be signing his death certificate if he did that. Some crazy Bama fan would kill him on the spot, on national TV.I guess we're forgetting A&M has a right to Bear Bryant. Kentucky probably more of a claim on the man. But do we think Tide fans care about that? He's theirs, damn it all! The average Alabama fan has neither the knowledge nor the mental capacity to appreciate that fact.Get the fuck outta here with that. Every Alabama fan is aware of and appreciates the shared history A&M has with the Bear. God, the Junction Boys stuff is part of his legend. The vast majority of the fanbase was glad to have A&M join the conference because of that very fact. They also share Gene Stallings who won the 92 title at Bama and is (or was, not sure if he still is) on the Board of Regents at A&M.It's far more likely that Johnny Football has no idea that Bear coached at A&M than your average Bama fan.

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Sure that's The Big Wiggle!

Nothing to be confused about. Since she's been doing the backstage interviewer gig she's been tremendous. She actually brings a sense of realism with her style and subtle reaction shots.

How does it keep up with the news like that?

If I took the time to photoshop Vince in uniform he'd be in a jet ski race with Tank Abbott.

Canadians and Australians rejoice. Lucha sets are on the way.

I hope something heavy falls on your pinky toe.

The tattooe's arms are bigger than the kid's.

Correction. Just Meet is a baseball thing.

Looks like Hera's been slapping Io around a little.

The WWE line of thinking bugs the hell out of me. They always say that Cena was the only one who didn't cash in MITB for a title win and blame it on giving Punk a week's notice. Cena had the match won when Big Show interfered for the DQ so it was hardly Cena's fault that the cash-in wasn't successful. As for the other part of it, RVD gave Cena about a MONTH'S notice on his cash-in and still won. Thus is wrestling, though: History only matters when it's relevant.

"Dillon! Yoooouuu son of a bitch."

"It's Stephanie McMahon's belt, she just lets you hold it."

Triple H vs Chris Jericho -Last Man Standing Match Fully Loaded 2000. Man I hate Last Man Standing matches. The concept is great in terms of everything but the finish. I've never seen an LMS match end without being somewhat deflating because they big spot finish is great but the ten count kills the crowd. And normally these matches devalue every finisher because they use multiple as near falls. Anyway the story to this match is that Jericho is the cocky upstart taking on the big dog. The feud is built around Jericho kissing Stephanie, then ruining a bunch of Hunter's proper rivalries by costing him matches. He also gets Hunter stinkfaced! Yes! Anyway Hunter asks for Jericho, then he and DX beat the shit out of him, and give him the sledgehammer to the gut. This means that Jericho has the "internal injuries" gimmick going on, including the mythical "bandages around the midsection". Early on, that's the story of the match, obviously. They brawl into the crowd, with Jericho perhaps unreasonably holding his own in that situation. It's amazing the difference between Jericho and Hunter in everything. Jericho looks a rung beneath Hunter in everything, slower and looser and just less threatening. At the time, 14 year old me wanted a Jericho title run as much as the next guy. Looking back on this, and a few other related videos, it's clear why that didn't happen. He just doesn't feel like a star, the way Ziggler doesn't. Anyway Hunter eventually cuts him off and there's an extended heat section mostly based around Jericho being pugnacious and gutsy and Hunter beating the shit out of him. One of the reasons I think I liked Hunter so much back in the day, is that his offence was based around his own body part rather than his opponents. I wasn't watching the pro wres critically back then, but I was always a big fan of the knee attacked Hunter did. The running knee, knee smash, dropping the knee on a downed opponent etc was different and stood out. It helped that he was so crisp with the timing too. This heat segment is pretty great, Hunter is kneeing(~!) him in the gut over and over, then hooks in a pretty neat abdominal stretch that twists somewhat in the wrong direction and yet still looks worse. Jericho gets more or less nothing in here. Hunter gets a sleeper on Jericho, which is great because he hooks in a body scissors and basically engulfs Jericho's tiny frame with it. It's like the giant squid alien thing in Prometheus. Jericho gets up from the resulting ten count, gets a flurry, then hits the Lionsault onto Hunter's knees(~!). He gets up again and starts calling Hunter out, not fighting back just getting beaten down. I believe this is what you creepy Japan watchers call fighting spirit? This leads into a good old fashioned American Pedigree. At this point in the match, Hunter is doing a great job playing the dominant veteran. He grinds Jericho down, kisses the old lady a few times, sits back and watches the count. After the Pedigree he lays along the top rope like Michaels used to, and watches the count. Jericho starts getting up around 8ish and Hunter gets mad and goes outside for a chair. This is where the match picks up the pace and really gets going. Unfortunately it's also where Jericho starts getting offence in. After another count Jericho finally gets the momentum and really if this was anyone less bumpy than Hunter, it would look gash. He throws one neat charshot leading to a standard crimson mask for Hunter then starts doing his spots, notably the bulldog that implies that his one handed shove can force a 260lb man into a chair face first. He gets the LIontamer on, which quite frankly looks like a quad popper at this point because Hunter is about four times Jericho's height. Maybe a lift fell out? Hunter sells it like death, getting to the ropes and then climbing to the second... which surely increases the pressure on his back? Anwyay Jericho pulls him in again and JR says something about the mean streak Jericho has always needed. Steph hits him to break the hold and gets a Liontamer of her own. Jericho has basically turned the tide at this moment and to be fair both guys are doing that part of the story really well. Jericho comes off as fighty and tough, Hunter comes off as a guy struggling to hold on and a little bit underprepared for the amount of fight Jericho has brought. Man I love Hunter's punches. I know you guys like the real ones, but Hunter does these cool downward "precise" ones that look badass. The end basically comes as Jericho is on top. He sling shots Hunter into the ring post on the mat, gets the sledge and hits him in the gut because turnabout as we know is fairplay. Hunter ends up on the table, Jericho sets up for a Lionsault from the wall to Hunter on the announce table, Hunter low blows him, then backdrops him through the table. Hunter pops up at 9 1/4, then falls at 10 and wins. I feel like most of what was good in this match was Hunter. It's by no means a showcase for him, or the match I'd put as the best example of Triple H's 2000 being great, but it's a pretty good showing for him. The story of the match is really well done. Jericho, shitty moves aside, is really good as the upstart babyface trying to prove himself, and the switch in the match, pretty much exactly half way through, works well with both guys. Arrogance costs Hunter what was looking like a routine win for him, but Jericho's cockiness lets Hunter back into it periodically, and also results in the finish too. It's a pretty great elevator match for Jericho, moving him up from Eddie, Road Dogg and Chyna etc in the midcard. Hunter definitely does most of the work here, and really gives Jericho a lot considering he didn't rate him, at all.

Tim Thomas to Florida is begging for a "Stand Your Ground" poster. This is the only place I'm comfortable making this joke, btw.

I don't buy Sandow ever being a main eventer. Entertaining guy on the card? Sure. I think he'd be great as an eventual replacement to Lawler or JBL on commentary. Then again, Del Rio's big gold belt is a borderline World Television Title at this point so sure Sandow can win it.

Sell yours for 175 pal, get them something that probably doesn't have Ebola in it.

Hey, they could give Peck Ziggler's spot too.

The networks just aren't going to stand for a return to the brand split along Raw vs Smackdown lines. At best, you might get a WWE vs NXT split, if they can build up NXT into a solid minor league brand that can carry it's own TV show on some minor channel. Or if they figure out a Super Gay wrestling concept (The Gay-Ass Grappling Association?) to put on Bravo. Would you watch a comedy-oriented, homosexual-themed wrestling show with a lot of characters who seem ripped straight from Stefon's Weekend Update segments?

I kept some, so I can convert them to DVD later, which deep down I know I will never ever do.

Glad to see someone else so high on the Hansen vs. Slaughter 2/23 match -- I really liked it and was honestly surprised when I had 9 matches above it.

"Do you come from a land up over? Where the women glow and the man chauffeur. Can't you feel, can't you feel the polar? You better run, but never do sober."

It's unfortunate when you work in a place that is desperate for bodies (call centers, Wal-Mart, etc.), that slackers and screw-ups aren't rewarded per se, but are kept on to fill a void while the rest of us have to pick up their slack. I'm sure there's a comment about how this burden improves one's character, but I hear your frustration. We've got a few at the casino that are like this: they make the day that much longer.

Thanks Obama. His tail is being pulled