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$5 wrestling and the Freight Train exploitation comedy is really one of the worst things

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

I hope this works and the picture isn't gigantic.

Nothing is more markish than "workers" having some unwritten code of how to act like a "real worker" and sitting around judging whether someone is conforming to it or not. Except, maybe injecting who knows what into your body so your pecs pop better when the lights hit you because otherwise some 70 year old perv won't notice you and tell his daughter and her husband what a fucking stud you are. Fucking marks, man. BURN IT TO THE GROUND, AJ....OLD MEN, ROID JUNKIES, AND MARKS!!!! BURN BURN BURN!!!!!!

It's about the context of the story, not whether it's realistic or logical. If two wrestler's decide to tell me a story about one guy trying to break another guy's leg throughout the match and the guy with the nearly broken leg starts doing springboard dropkicks with no ill effects, that takes me out of the story. It doesn't have to be like a real life fight, it just has to have a continuity to what they're trying to tell. I've seen several matches where a guy gets his arm worked on and his finish is a lariat. And that guy tries to use that arm for the lariat and it fails him. And the smarter guys(from a character standpoint) decide to switch arms. It's a cool bit of psychology, that makes a match that much more engaging. It's not about being more realistic, it's more about the creating a story that connects with the audience through context.. You can do that with any style of match. There was a HUSTLE match in which a guy was shooting lasers. Psychology in that match was brilliant.

I measure my age in Cusacks. I've always been two or three years younger than whatever age John Cusack is playing at any given moment. (He always plays a few years younger than he is, since he's actually 40 fucking 7 now!). Which worked out, because I would then see his movies on video a year or so after they came out and we would match up prefectly and he could be my template for what the next part of my life was supposed to represent. It worked out marvelously. So, when he was playing a nerdy freshman in SIXTEEN CANDLES, I was in Jr. High. When he was playing a directionless 20-year-old in SAY ANYTHING, I was a senior in High School. When he was getting ready to deal with his 10 year high school reunion in GROSSE POINTE BLANK I was just a couple of years shy of my 10 year reunion, too. By the time I saw HIGH FIDELITY, I, too, was in my early surly thirties. And when he looked back at it all with regret as a 40 year old in HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, I was 39. (and by the time I saw that on cable I was there). The one that hurts is GROSSE POINTE BLANK. I saw it in like 1999 when I was right there...one year to my 10 year reunion. I seriously related to that movie...it really hit...then the next time I saw it was in, like 2008 and I wasn't sure how I was supposed to react to it. Martin Blank was still 28. He was still headed to his ten year reunion. And here I was coming up on my 20th and pushing 40. I wanted to relate to the movie the same way I had...and I could remember those feelings. But that moment, and all it represents was gone. That whole thing about clearing out the mess of your twenties and starting over as an actual adult...I'd been through it and past it. I so wanted to be Martin Blank again...not whatever the guy's name was in HOT TUB TIME MACHINE. Close enough to 20 to still be able to horse around in your old girlfriend's parent's house one last time and be quoting The Specials and expect the people around you to remember something about their life when they hear it. But close enough to 30 that you don't feel threatened by anything back there in that past and are, in the end, heading off in a completely new direction that will end up defining your life more than any of that previous decade will. But, shit, now I've crossed two years into the 40s and Cusack is a fucking mess now and I don't know who I'm supposed to check in with on Starz anymore. I feel more Paul Giamatti than John Cusack right now and that's not the place to be. Fucking Giamatti.

Are those new or did I just never notice them before? NOT talking about the action figure.

Paul looks like he was the newscaster in Gotham City when it's discovered that the Joker has put poison in make-up and hygiene products.

Remember. Heyman's the guy who dumped Brock for Big Show when Brock was champion and then dumped Big Show for Angle when Big Show was champion.

A. Problems with Execution. B. Problems with Theory. I know it's a lot of fun to be ironic and point out how people have been complaining and are still complaining but it's completely missing the point.

Mikey D totally botched the acapella version of "I Surrender Dear." He's lucky Baby Bing didn't break out his trusty sack of sweet Valencia oranges.

Hank dies, Jessie turns heel, and Walter finds the cure for cancer.

Well of course he has aids. Bob Orton often aided him in difficult situations. As did Paul Orndorff.

Marks.

Man this is reaching almost abusive levels with the Panthers. You love them week after week and they do nothing but break your heart. Maybe football would be more enjoyable if I just turned the tv off at the end of the third quarter.

A Torneo Ci-Bear-netico??? Sorry, I'll show myself out. I think with Cesaro's giant swing from last week we might see a return of spinny moves on the indies. Davey Richards will probably do a 17 minute 38000 revolution Airplane Spin.

Asking either the Eagles or the Chargers to put away an opponent is like two Black Holes colliding.

Oh and you know who the Skins have to cover next week? MEGATRON~!

That may teach Brandon Meriwether to stop leading with his fucking head. Idiot.

Some people do love ass to ass.

The new Performance Center really does have everything.

I try not to ever put over my wrestling career on here, but I had to mention that I legitimately took an airplane spin for the first time in my 10 year career tonight. It was the most awful experience I've ever had lol.

Yeah but my parents had no clue. They didn't buy me it and post a video of me sobbing like a typical french surrender monkey and kissing the fucking case.

AJ is tiny without fake tits and can wrestle. To her, this means a lot. Who are a bunch of marks to shit on her?

Here it is if you want to see it:

The WSOF card just delivered one of the greatest all time comedy KOs. Ric Flair-esque!

Oh Gran Naniwa - I miss you so

That wouldn't be a bad gimmick if they didn't have Ryback doing the bully schtick. Pair him up with Alex Riley as the "hanging onto his glory days" 30-something. In fact, they could be a good "aging Biff Tannen's gang" stable. Just give one of them some 3D glasses. I'm into this. Them: "WE! HATE!" Crowd: "MANURE!"

I don't think I've fully accepted everything that happened tonight. That was one of the most tragic hours of television I may ever see. Until next week.

I cannot fucking take this for another 14 games. It is not a good sign when the Saints' offence is being outperformed by the D. Have to give at least some credit to Tampa but a lot of the issues were there last week as well.

Hey, Keep it down now, VOICES CARRY!!!!!

DEANDRE HOPKINS!! TEXANS! Thank you for saving my DVDVR Suicide Pool! Never pick inter-division rivals!!!!!!

Jesus. Can we just get rid of this "psssst...I'm going to call timeout right as he snaps the ball...." shit and just kick the damned thing.

BUFALLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Was she channeling David Crockett?

Riley Cooper makes a heck of a TD catch Too bad he hates minorities

Really? That being a 3 round fight bothered you?

First thing I'll be doing is check if the cops attack me when I try to record them during one of the random arrests in Grove Street.

expertly screen captured from yt

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.

I eagerly await the angle where somebody runs out and rips up Charlotte's $5000 pants suit and she cuts a raving interview in her underwear.

"At least I got a finisher at this point. I hadn’t had a real finish up until then. I used something off the top rope back when I was Sparky Plugg: either a cross body, a splash, or a kneedrop. After I’d become “Hardcore,” I usually won matches by using foreign objects. I did use a pump-handle slam sometimes, but Vince Russo came to me around the time they were starting to push the hell out of Test and asked if I would mind giving the move to him. “Do I have a choice?” I asked. He replied, “Not really.” So why ****ing ask me?! I tried the Falcon Arrow for a while but didn’t really like it. It didn’t help that Russo wanted to call it “the Hollycaust.” That got stopped quickly when the office decided the name would offend a lot of people. After I watched a whole bunch of documentaries on the subject, I understood. It’s something people don’t want to be reminded of. To try and shock people, Russo probably would have pushed for me to use it to beat Bill Goldberg, Billy Kidman, and all the other Jewish wrestlers." - Bob Holly Yes, he had to watch documentaries on the Holocaust to get it.

What a bastard. Owing one of the biggest stars in wrestling 15 bucks and a hotdog. I hope if he's faking he really does get cancer.

These shows are fantastic, keep up the great work. If the belt history becomes a path you guys are going down, a WCW Cruiserweight or the World Class TV title lineage would make for fascinating radio. Or, if you felt like spending six hours talking, you could just read verbatim a list of every USWA tag title change.

Wrestling fans might actually be the worst audience to try this in front of. Sounds like it would go over about as well as an anti-racism angle in 1960's Alabama.

I was like "A topless lady!!! Oh wait that's a dude!!!!"

Nurse Burgundy to the rescue, with bandages, lollipops, and warm sponges ready to go! (I don't do windows or bedpans) As for Rex? Only the best bedside manners will do.

Man City third shirt confirmed, and it is fucking boss.