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As an amusing anecdote, Mr. Nick Bockwinkel will walk into the general lockerroom, even if he has his own dressing room, and not only shake everyone's hand, he introduces himself to each and every individual and asks their (often) gobsmacked names. The man is a super class act, and defines not only the honorific of "world champion" but he IS his gimmick. I have seen him treat the lowliest of indy scum workers (myself included) as you would think he would treat a seasoned veteran of ring and road. honored, RAF

Abeyance! Someone got a new word of the day desk calendar. Gonna be so many new hobos wandering the streets after next Monday: - D-Brine, the smelly little shrimp. - Zig Zag, zigging and zagging through traffic to get to cars to wash their windshields with his pink rags. - Coffee Can Kingston just standing on the corner shaking his coffee can for spare change. - "Unhappy Cause He's Nappy" D-Young - "Will Trade Redemption Points For A Hot Meal" Titus O'Neil - Zack Ryder

This could easily go in the sports forum but I think it belongs here instead. Thanks to the magic of Ebay, and a good friend looking out for me, I have acquired the actual game jersey that my brother-in-law wore for his brief time with the Durham Bulls (yes, the team from the movie) in 1990. Players don't usually get to keep their stuff so to have this back in our family 23 years later is just awesome!

By far the best race photo I've ever been in. My first marathon win also, which certainly endears the picture to me further.

This was the first RAW that I have watched since god knows when and the thing I noticed the most was the lack of Jim Ross and how there was weird silent seconds of non commentary. Which seems strange with a 3 man booth nonetheless. How long has JR been gone? What's the deal with Dolph Ziggler? I think I know his face from one the Spirit Squad kids but can't name him at all, he's cool though, looks like an 80's guy all orange with bleached blond hair and bumps like a motherfucker. Dean Ambrose, on the other hand did, nothing for me. Kinda weird having a face lose a title match on the PPV and then have a non-title rematch the day after and giving him the win. BTW double arm suplex from the 2nd rope? Wow. Ron Killings I know, Fandango too because The Natural kept posting gifs of him in the various Pictures Threads and I had to investigate the hype. And the song oh my god the song. Him and the girl can't dance for shit though, so when they turn face I guess they'll have dance lessons? Dusty's so slim!, good for him. lol fuckers "WHATing" Dusty, man fuck everything. See, big ass segments with wrestling acting aka bad acting is definitely not my thing, but eh fuck it it was alright I guess. The best thing about this was that getting punched by Big Show is being sold like being elbowed by Misawa and kicked by Kawada at the same time. Dusty was dead. So many divas?! And they're not all blonde white girls! Holy McMahon! Actually none of them are blond apart from the chick commentating. AJ is the only one I know, again because of pictures and gifs and The Natural, she was awesome at the booth. The match was short but way better than I expected. Cool. I LOVE Sandow, he looks so evil and I loved that video of him going to SD Comic-Con (again I thank The Natural). This match was pretty bad though . Apparently Sandow is Mr. Money in the Bank so why is he losing meaningless matches against RVD? BTW why does RVD have his own personal hispanic announcer? LOL Apex Predator. Who the fuck comes up with these names? Randy gets a pretty meh reaction considering he's the top heel. I like Miz though, I briefly remember watching back in 06 or something, cool kid. His parents are glorious. Crazy psycho Randy is the best Randy though, but again the crowd response was lukewarm at best. Scratch that, Heyman is the top heel. Holy shit Ryback can't talk for shit, the only thing I know about this guy is that FSW loves him and everyone else not so much. Heyman made this, the kiss was funny yet bizarre. Ugh bullfighting gimmick. Man I hate bullfighting, that shit is still legal over here and I fucking hate it. Thankfully killing bulls in the arena was ruled illegal awhile ago, still sucks and fuck everything about it. Tag match was good, I'm kinda unsure who was heel and face though. Only guys I knew were GIANT BERNARDO and Claudio, but I'm gonna go on a limb and say the Samoans are Anoa'I kids. Claudio's giant swing makes everymatch 5 stars. Who's that survivalist looking guy? He kinda looks like Dutch Mantell. Bayou looking dude was fun. Who's this? Is reigns an Anoa'I kid too? Dudes looks kinda samoan. Unless they're having Danielson doing dark matches I'll love everything he's in, the crowd popping huge for him makes me super happy. Man, 5 or 6 years apart from wrestling and I'm already kinda bored with Orton and I was never a big Randy hater. A little more interference during the match from Tyler Black and Ambrose would have been cool, btw where's Jimmy Jacobs?, seems like he's the only ROH guy that was not invited to the E party. Black still bumps like bonkers, jesus h. christ. The faces' run-in, Dragon's celebration on the dude's shoulders and all the YES! chants almost brought a tear to my eye. IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT! This post is longer that Lex Steele, I'm sorry.

NXT pops up on Hulu sometimes on Wednesday night/Thursday morning.As of now, here is a list of the main people on the roster. BO DALLAS -- Bo's the current NXT Champion. He's a long-haired goof. They originally cast him as a Cena-like hero for all. However, everyone crapped on him because he was so terrible. They just tweaked him where he's essentially the same persona, but with a tinge of sanctimony and self-obsession, and he's now this really good heel.SAMI ZAYN -- Sami's formerly known as El Generico. He's a very nice person who is into pop-punk and ska. That's his gimmick. He's a good person. He's really courteous (and a bit flirtations) with Renee Young, who does backstage interviews on both Raw and NXT. Sami recently had a killer series of matches with the We The People group. His match with Cesaro got legit Match Of The Year hype (not as good as the SummerSlam matches but still REALLY good) and his match with Jack Swagger was great as well. He's currently stepping up against Bo Dallas. Bo claims to be Sami's "mentor" and is totally delusional about their relationship. ADRIAN NEVILLE/COREY GRAVES -- Neville was previously known as Pac. They're a forced tag team that currently have the belts. I kind of hate them both. Neville has a lot of great moves but is sort of a snooze. Corey Graves is a punk rock type who is a total snooze.THE ASCENSION -- Rik VIctor and Conor O'Brien. They have some vague, undefined supernatural gimmick. They have some big power moves but are largely UGH.TYLER BREEZE -- A fashion model character who takes selfie pictures of himself on his cell phone non-stop. He's awesome. AIDEN ENGLISH -- NXT jobber who just started getting a push. The only real artiste in professional wrestling who sings showtunes on his way to the ring. CJ PARKER -- Goofy 60s relic hippie. XAVIER WOODS -- 90s obsessed black dude who is also getting a PhD and has two master's degrees. Sort of a really confusing character. LEO KRUGER -- South African hunter of men. He wrestles really well as his character. THE LEGIONAIIRES -- Sylvester LaFort is their manager. He's a scumbag French guy obsessed with MAKING ZE MONEY. His first charge is Scott Dawson, a redneck trailer trash guy. The latest addition to his stable is Alexander Rusev, aka The Bulgarian Beast. Rusev is on his path to being awesome.PAIGE -- Current NXT Diva's champ. She's "The Anti-Diva." She's pale-skinned with dark hair and a bunch of piercings. She's fierce and rough and a total star on the rise. EMMA -- Goofy Australian who is beyond over with the crowd because of her amazingly dumb dancing. She's also pretty good in the ring, too. Really fun character. BAILEY -- Nerdy, awe-struck diva who has an offense based around hugging her opponents. Very funny character. CHARLOTTE -- Ric Flair's hyper-athletic daughter. SUMMER RAE -- She's Fandango's dance partner. She's a total mean girl. SASHA BANKS -- Newly turned heel diva noted for her terrible acting. There's also some NXT alumni you should familiarize yourself with:THE WYATT FAMILY -- These are the bayou looking dudes who showed up on Raw. They're led by Bray Wyatt, who is a backwoods cult leader who has hinted that he is the Messiah and we have entered into the end of days. His flunkies are Luke Harper (the dude with the black beard who is awesome) and Erik Rowan (the dude in the sheep mask who is still pretty raw). They just got the big promotion to Raw a few weeks before SummerSlam. Until then, they just wreaked havoc and chaos throughout the promotion. Bray's one of the best promo guys in wrestling right now. They're my favorite stable. BIG E. LANGSTON -- He was last scene on the main roster as AJ's best friend/enforcer. He was a face in NXT known for making refs count to 5 after his finish. He has a really interesting, unique charisma and sense of humor.

Packages and openings are exactly the reasons we don't need super slow mo anywhere near wrestling.

Why is the Observer free this week? http://www.f4wonline.com/component/content/article/110-wrestling-observer-newsletter/33185-sep-23-wrestling-observer-newsletter-questions-regarding-the-future-of-tna-hulk-hogan-jim-ross-retirement-wwe-night-of-champions-and-aftermath-cmll-80th-tons-more

The entire Norton-Holmes fight is on YouTube. It will not let you down.

It will be interesting to read Dave's first-hand comments instead of his second-hand reinterpreting what Carlos or Dr Lucha or Kris sent him. Meltzer's comment on Sombra/Volador Jr's spotfest was stupid. He's seen insane spotfest just on Dragon Gate and various indy shows and raved about them, yet this one didn't suit what he likes in wrestling. His rant on these guys doing spotfests and possibly getting hurt makes Dave sound like fucking Zbyszko nowadays. Injuries can happen with anyone at anytime. Look at La Sombra, he's done crazier spots (that dormilona into a somersault plancha on Tama Tonga) and doesn't get hurt, but he jumps over stupid Taichi and sprains his ankle. Didn't Orton break his arm or something punching the mat in the past? I thought he was way off on Blue Panther (spending more time pointing out he's old) and he doesn't get Rush. Also, by the way, that one guy who sent feedback and said Blue Panther looked old and looked like his grandpa...FUCK YOU...You wish your grandpa could tap young motherfuckers out with the nudo lagunero & teach you the proper way of maintaining your lazy ass in shape. See now y'all made me angry...I'm gonna go watch TV...

That was pretty awesome. WWE needs to use that for a new Raw opening ASAP. Also, Emma's slow-mo hair toss...

....Or people who don't watch the show posting for no good reason.

To be fair, a lot of the 25 page threads are shitgimmick posters and bitchery at each other.

Great news Justified fans...the next season will feature more Wynn Duffy. Wynn's Dixie Mafia resourcefulness always plays well with Raylan's smart ass bad ass and Boyd's hillybilly genius. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/cleveland-browns-1999-present-summed-one-incredibly-sad-184203507--nfl.html

For the stat people, Richardson was fifth in RB elusiveness last year and leads the league this year in elusiveness according to Pro Football Focus. I know, shocking that teams stacked the line and committed to stopping Richardson and let Brandon Weeden attempt to beat them. Playing with a respected quarterback will do wonders for him, and I think he has a Shaun Alexander type of career for the Colts.

They should shut up if they're not Native Americans. Or have red skin. Like Mike Shanahan.

We need more lapsed fans to post time capsule wrestling reviews.

and his tumbling squad!

Or Illinois' Secretary of State.

What does it look like without any Pogs on it?

Well it would reveal they are essentially the same party.

Fuck the homicidal maniac shit dude, let's just sit in our car, watch the sunset, and listen to the radio. My girlfriend, who has never seen a GTA game before, has been watching me play and often chides me for being so boring. So I end up saying things like "I will go kill those guys when this goddamn Bob Seger song is over" a lot more than I ever thought I would.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It wouldn't work. "If I lose this job, I'll just go back to wrestling in armories" is a response that easily translates into every facet of his life...including the ladies...

Actually, only Dolph Ziggler has to do it every show. Unfortunately he forgets all the time.

I'm late to the party here but I wanted to echo the praise Roman Reigns is getting this week. He looked fantastic and it wasn't all just Bryan doing magic tricks. His moves looked great, his trash talk was top-notch and, yeah, he killed Kofi on the way out. Bryan has been amazing but I hope the Shield continue to get some sugar too because they've been a HUGE part of Bryan's ascent as of late. Oh, and might I add, Heyman and Dusty should have jobs waiting for them at the WWE "Sports Entertainment University" teaching promo 101. They were both awesome for different spectacular reasons. I am sorta fat and sorta ugly but I own my house and have had some sex.

Has there ever been a better case for adding a dislike button? Cue someone saying "that's what the ignore feature is for," but I don't want to ignore anyone! I just want another way to tell you that your opinions are bad and you should feel bad. TEAM BILLIE!

Somewhere, Lou. E Dangerously is hoping they really do have a script of the entire last year of CM Punk with some names crossed out.

Savage. Absolutely savage.

Miz's dad is Zap Rowsdower?

He wrestled a some matches with his old man there in Zero-1 and the Vader Time shows. I wasn't expecting much when I saw his FCW look: He looks like a hitchhiker that's about to rape you. He looks like a Miz cosplayer.

Just got a Highspots emailer, alerting me that $5 Wrestling's new event is ready for order, and so help me, fuck you, to whoever started using numbers for letters (I blame "Thir13en Ghosts"), because "5EVER" now either looks like "sever" or "fever." Definitely not "five-ever," which is actually an entirely different reason altogether that I fear for the future of my daughter's education.

And then the 1-2-3 Kid stole it from him. So I think it's a Minnesota virus now. I have to admit, that kinda brought back the dislike of Waltman again, after giving him a pass from 2011. Torn anus or not, you just don't steal a man's bread-and-butter gimmick.

BACK IN MY DAY PEOPLE USED A PHONE AS A PHONE

Dammit to hell. Stupid cut and paste. It is fixed now

Eli Roth's homage to 70's Italian cannibal exploitation movies, The Green Inferno, (like there needed to be a tribute to Cannibal Holocaust...) has now got a distributor and should see a wide release. Hurry up and make Thanksgiving already, Eli.

278) A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN 1992 - 135 Points - 3 Votes (Highest Vote: #2 Rippa) DIRECTOR: Penny Marshall STARRING: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty Placement On Original List: N/A IMDB ROTTEN TOMATOES (77%) WIKI NOTE FROM RIPPA - Y'all suck... except my bestie CSC

Hogan's contract is almost up. Jarrett's profile is growing behind the scenes. Hogan had another boat accident. A seemingly unrelated event or perhaps Col. Parker on behalf of Double J sent Cheatum the evil midget to speed up Hogan's exit.

Triple H vs. The Rock Judgment Day 2000 Iron Man Match Before the match begins, HHH sends the McMahons to the back because he wants to make a point about being able to win on his own. The match begins with the two combatants jaw-jacking at each other. Rock works a headlock and HHH bails to the outside. Once HHH returns, he works a headlock of his own, but Rock tags him with a right and he bails again. Back in, and Rock gains the advantage after tagging HHH again, but he catches Rock with an elbow in the corner and takes control with a clothesline. From there, HHH goes after Rock's arm. He has a bunch of nifty ways of going after it; in addition to various armbars, he slams it against the turnbuckle and busts out a single-arm DDT. Eventually, Rock hits the Rock Bottom out of nowhere and gets the pin. HHH rolls out of the ring, and to his credit, Rock has to shake off the damage to his arm. Rock 1, HHH 0. The action moves outside and they start brawling on the entrance ramp. While out there, HHH takes a couple of big boy bumps into the guardrail. I think one of the things that separates 2000-01 HHH from post-quad injury HHH is that the former was a much bigger bumper. Once they get back in the ring, Rock goes to work on HHH's leg. He starts by slamming it against the ringpost and then applies a figure-four leglock. HHH eventually turns it over and rolls into the ropes. Back outside, and we get the olbigatory Attitude Era brawl in the crowd. HHH is still selling the leg, which is pretty impressive. They take it back in, and HHH takes control with a vertical suplex and a couple of elbow drops. Rock tries to get back in it by going after the injured leg, but HHH tosses him over the top rope. He tries to go after Rock, but he gets whipped knees-first into the ring steps, doing more damage to the leg. Rock tries to capitalize with a shinbreaker and legscissors. He tries for another figure-four, but HHH counters and hits the Pedigree. Rock 1, HHH 1. Once HHH regains his faculties, he busts out a Ric Flair-style choke, which leads to a slugest. Rock whips HHH into the ropes, but HHH gets a pin with a small package. HHH 2, Rock 1. HHH is still selling the leg, which is awesome. Rock wins a slugfest, but HHH tosses him out. We get more brawling on the entrance ramp, and both guys hit suplexes and sell the impact to allow them to catch a breather. Rock gains the advantage after back body dropping HHH on the outside and tries to take control in the ring, but HHH counters with a facebuster and hits a piledriver for the pin. Lawler on commentary: "Piledriver always works!" HHH 3, Rock 1. HHH is firmly in control, but he does yet another Flair tribute by going to the top only to be thrown off. HHH is really wearing the Flair influence on his sleeve in this match. We get a teased double countout, followed by Rock busting out LA MAGISTRAL, which gets two. HHH goes into the ropes but applies a sleeper, which he works seemingly forever. He tries to gain extra leverage by putting his feet on the ropes, but special guest referee Shawn Michaels (more on him later) does his best Tommy Young impression by kicking HHH's feet off. HHH gets into it with HBK, giving Rock time to recover. HHH goes back to the sleeper, but Rock counters with a belly-to-belly suplex for another teased double countout. Back up, and HHH tries to go back to the sleeper, but Rock counters with a DDT and gets the pin. HHH 3, Rock 2. They roll out to brawl on the outside some more. HHH grabs a chair, but HBK takes it away from him and puts it in the ring (foreshadowing!). Rock hits a neckbreaker on the outside to allow them both to catch a breather. Once they get back in, HHH suckers Rock in by begging off (yet another Flair tribute!) and kicks him in the gut. He then grabs the chair and blasts Rock in the head with it. Chairshots to the head make me queasy, but at least this one was protected. Anyway, Rock gets a win by disqualification and we're tied at 3. Rock is still on dream street, so HHH rolls him up with his feet on the ropes for good measure and gets the pin. HHH 4, Rock 3. Rock is busted open, and HHH goes back to the sleeper. Rock fights out, but HHH reapplies it, which proves to be too much. Rock passes out, putting HHH up 5-3. HHH refuses to break the hold, so HBK pulls him off by the hair, leading to a shoving match (still another Flair tribute!). This gives Rock a chance to regain his bearings, and HHH takes a Harley Race-style bump over the turnbuckle and to the floor. There's a little more than ten minutes left at this point and Rock needs pins, so he rolls HHH back into the ring, but HHH hits a DDT. He then goes up again, but Rock counters again, this time with a superplex. They go back outside, and HHH sets up the announce table so he can put Rock on it. He tries to Rock Bottom him through the table, but Rock counters and Pedigrees HHH onto the table, allowing Rock to get a countout victory. HHH 5, Rock 4. HHH comes up bloody as the McMahons make their way back to the ring and just beats the count to avoid getting counted out a second time. Back in the ring, and Shane and Vince try to interfere, but Rock knocks them off the apron. He then hits a spinebuster and the People's Elbow and gets the pin to tie things up at 5. Shane pulls Shawn out of the ring, but Shawn slugs him and Vince. Rock hits a Rock Bottom, but Shawn gets knocked out and DX comes in to give Rock a gang beatdown. All of a sudden, some cryptic music starts playing, and Undertaker returns and debuts his biker persona. Once he makes it to the ring, he takes out DX and chokeslams Shane and Vince. He then tries to chokeslam Stephanie, but HHH breaks it up, thus making himself a target of Taker's wrath. He hits HHH with a chokeslam and then a tombstone piledriver, forcing HBK to award HHH a fall by disqualification. HHH thus wins 6-5 and becomes WWF champion. I thought titles couldn't change hands on a disqualification, but whatever. A far bigger problem is that the ending was horribly botched, as Taker didn't hit the tombstone until after time had expired. One big problem with Iron Man matches is that it's hard to keep the crowd interested for the whole 60 minutes because they know only the last few minutes matter. The way I see it, there are two main ways of getting around that. One, have pins come in unorthodox ways so that every high-impact move is a credible nearfall. Two, have the heel build up a huge lead to increase the sense of urgency. What do you know, this match employs both. In all, this match is very smartly constructed. On a macro level, it feels kind of like a series of mini-matches strung together, which along with things like the chair spot setup suggests a heavy Pat Patterson influence. Even so, you have nice touches at the micro level like Rock getting a pin with the Rock Bottom but not being able to capitalize further because of the damage to his arm. And HHH plays the role of top heel to perfection, showing that he's good enough to hang with Rock but still willing to take shortcuts. Make no mistake, this isn't a perfect match by any means. There's too much brawling on the outside. The middle portion drags a bit. And the ending sucked and was botched to boot. The biggest problem I had, though, was Shawn as referee. He didn't do anything particularly bad, but his outfit was atrocious. His ref shirt plus daisy dukes getup was bad enough, but his shirt gets untucked at some point, making it look like he's not wearing any pants at all.Still, the pluses far outweigh the minuses, making this an easy addition to the plus side of the ledger for HHH's 2000. In fact, I'd call it the WWF MOTY for 2000.

When i worked for mcw, i just tried to stay out of the workers' way. If they went around to shake hands and came to me, i would. I felt that i went up to them, they would think i was trying to be above my station.

That is literally the oddest fight I can think of them giving Condit or Brown. I'm glad to see Matt Brown get a higher up fight, but he's been subbed a whole bunch. And Condit gains absolutely nothing by beating a guy not in the top 10.

The best part is the context "So they gave CM Punk the ball first, gave him a record breaking title reign, but he fumbled it badly despite being allowed to be the version of CM Punk we all wanted to see. Then they had Danielson beat everybody and he's the biggest babyface the company has had in a decade"

LOL, XBOX OWNERS ARE AS STUPID AS THEIR IDIOT MACHINES.

So those Florida hockey fans eh? From the Florida Panthers preseason opener this afternoon

That sounds like me. Popsicles, trips to Dollar Tree? Yay! *pushes parental figure into dubious work*

So I played Batman: Arkham City for the first time since the 8th of August yesterday (didn’t want to play it while my Mum was in hospital). I had a big session in the main story: going back into the Steel Mill, fighting The Joker with thugs, Mr. Hammer and a Titan jumping in as ghost trains are running, playing the Catwoman section when you break into the TYGER vault, as Batman climbing helicopters in search for TYGER Master Control Program codes, climbing Wonder Tower, going up against Hugo Strange, finishing the main story as Batman and the final Catwoman section as she faces Two-Face. If you remember, I said I forgot to destroy the one remaining Titan container when you visit Wonder City for the first time. I wasn’t looking forward to going through the Subway to get it as I found it the easiest place to get lost, then Wonder City but you return to Wonder City as you head for Hugo Strange. I liked that as I was able to destroy that Titan container and end the Fragile Alliance side mission. I also unlocked a couple more challenge maps. Before I stopped, I found the third remaining Deadshot victim and narrowed the three possible locations where he’s at and completed enough riddles to rescue the fourth Riddler hostage. Remaining now from main story mode are a few side missions, Riddler Trophies, Riddles, Riddler hostages and the breakable objects. I have Harley Quinn’s Revenge as I own Batman: Arkham City, Game of the Year edition. I’m guessing as that was DLC, it doesn’t reflect the upgrades/skills made in main story mode? Don’t like that. I also have the medals from challenge mode/challenge maps which I think most people know it as, not Riddler’s Revenge. This post is getting big so I’ll spoiler tag my favourite and least favourite things from Batman: Arkham City for size.