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Is it possible you can slow down and look at how much of a hilarious snob you're being? You liking Mark Henry wrestling matches doesn't make you more sophisticated than people who don't and it's absurd that I should even have to say something like that.

Dunno if anyone's read Bruce Hart's book (Picked it up for $1 at a book sale) (it's okay, so far), but he tells an amazing Terry Funk story. Apparently back in the 70s, or so, Dory Funk Jr. invited Bruce and his brothers to visit him down at his ranch, so Bruce, Smith and Bret Hart drove down there one summer. At the time, Dory was touring Florida, so Terry offered to show them around. He invited them to the wrestling going on that night which the Harts excitedly took him up on. En route, Terry offered Bruce some chewing tobacco, which Bruce had never tried before but not wanting to look like a little kid, gleefully took him up on. Bruce didn't know that you were supposed to spit the chaw out and kept swallowing, at which point Terry started cursing and apologized to the brothers that his air conditioning was on the fritz and now his power windows weren't working either. Being that it was the South in the middle of the summer, it got hotter and hotter in the car and Bruce, gleefully swallowing his chaw spit, got sicker and sicker and finally asked Terry to pull over where he "puked his guts out" beside the road. He said that when he got back in the car, Terry's smiled and his air conditioning and power windows miraculously started working again. Even better, was Terry then asked if any of the Harts wanted to have a hand in the night's matches, Bruce volunteered and Terry told Bruce that in the main when Boris Malenko put the face (I can't remember who it was) in his dreaded submission hold that Bruce should jump the rails, get into the ring and jump on Malenko's back. So, in the main, Bruce gets out of his seat, jumps the rail, slides into the ring and jumps on Malenko's back, at which point Bruce overhears Malenko say "Hang on, I've got some mark on my back". Malenko then gave Bruce a hard snapmare into the mat, wrapped his fist with his chain and reared back to pummel Bruce at which point Bruce began yelling "Kayfabe! Kayfabe!" in order to let Malenko know he was supposed to be running in, only Terry hadn't told anyone about it. So the police dragged Bruce out of the ring, handcuffed him and threw him in the back of cop car. Bruce says he remembers panicking about having to spend the night in jail in a foreign country and what he would tell his parents when he saw Terry Funk approach the police and was relieved, thinking Terry was there to save him. Only it was then that he heard Terry shouting to the police "You've got to lock him up and throw away the keys! He endangered the lives of everyone in the building!" It was only thanks to Lord Alfred Hayes coming over and vouching for Hart that kept him from being thrown in jail that night. Amazingly, Bruce and Terry became good friends, even after that!

Do I need to start hating Scott Keith? Yes. But that has nothing to do with the hive mind.

COVER YOUR FUCKING TRACKS FAT SPANISH WAITER.

There was damn near a riot when my school banned snap bracelets. You were also not allowed to dress like Kriss Kross. I don't see what's so bad about that watch. Did they also ban dancing in your town until Kevin Bacon drove up in his VW Beetle?

This may have been posted but if it was it didn't load for me.

He'll move all the jobs to India and everyone wll geek out 'cause Ring Ka King's back.

I would make Sabu World Champion until I run out of money. And maybe book myself in an angle where I get stabbed with a gold spike.

To me, Henry is a lot like William Regal, or late in his career Eddy Guerrero (although, to be clear, as much as I love Henry, he's not as good as Eddy was.) All three of them had the same thing I most loved in all of wrestling: Every single second they were in the ring, every single thing they did/do, had/has a purpose. They would never do something just to be doing something. Every move, every gesture, every bit of bad-ass Mark Henry trash talk, every time they play to the crowd... All of it meant something, and worked to move the match along and held a purpose. There aren't very many guys I have ever seen that do that. Mark Henry is one of them, and I fucking love him for it.

Of things people haven't already mentioned for the reading comprehension challenged: The Sheamus feud had multiple good matches. The Orton feud had good matches. The Big Show feud had great matches. Then there's the Evan Bourne series from ECW. There's the CM Punk series from last year. As for why we generally look down on people who don't like Mark Henry, it's because a lot of what he does that stands out is nuanced. Yes, there's the obvious presence and great looking offense, but Henry does so many of the little things so well, and you actually have to pay attention and think to notice it. Frankly, if you are paying attention and thinking and giving a damn about what you're watching, you really can't miss it. It's that obvious. In fact it's so obvious that I'm okay sounding like a dick about it. If you don't like Mark Henry and you can't understand what he does well, then you really aren't very good at watching and understanding pro wrestling and how it works. That's okay too, though. I think FSW would be glad to help you learn.

I disagree a bit, actually. Hogan's WWE return in 2002 was the best he ever was. His old vet character made his matches amazing. He was worn down and old, and you could physically beat him down and do things like get him to tap out now where that was completely unheard of when he was in his prime. However, he was still Hulk Hogan, and if you weren't careful, 47-year-old Hogan would channel up 30-year-old Hogan and then it was all HULK UP, FINGER WAG, YOOOUUUUUU, BIG BOOT, LEGDROP and it would be like eight-year-old me watching him come back against some monster of the month all over again. It was glorious. He was like an old QB with a dying arm and lessening mobility that has one more four-hundred-yard, five TD game somewhere inside him for the prime-time audience at home. It was great. I actually wanted to see him recapture that greatness, if only for the five minutes that it would take for him to sneak out a victory.

Is that your way of telling us Goldberg is interested?

The Chargers are the most baffling team in the NFL. Stop me if you've heard this before.

I don't want to see Hogan ever again.

Am I the only one that wants to hit Papa John in the face with a crowbar every time he's on TV?

Matt's argument isn't that you should like Mark Henry, it's that you should know why people like Mark Henry. And he's explained it. If you understand what he's saying than you should "get" what people see in Mark Henry. That doesn't mean that because you get it, that you have to enjoy it or like it. And he's not asking you to. It's not snobbery, it's trying to be understood. And if you won't make the effort to understand what he's saying, then I think he's got a right to get frustrated when he has made the effort to understand both sides. What he clearly wants is for you to get at least why he likes something so that he can talk about wrestling with you. It's not exclusion, it's inclusion. Come see why we like Mark Henry, stay or don't stay, just don't act like we're freaks.

Clearly you weren't around for the legendary UFC 33 show that ended any hope of it ever happening again.

I don't know what you all see but Mark Henry kinda sucks.

My 5 1/2 year old is dead set on growing up as fast as humanly possible and is obsessed on being a "big girl". She's relinquished the pacifier with no issue, potty trained herself, and has been trying to learn to read and do math almost overnight. Its all up to how fast the kids want to learn stuff. The more pressure you put on them, the more damage you can do. I'm fully indending to do the same thing with the boy, with letting him hit the milestones when he's ready. I am finding though that the boy has been doing everything almost the polar opposite to his big sister thus far. The girl had feeding issues and slept for hour clips. The boy eats everything we give him, cries only when he has a diaper issue, and sleeps for like, 4-5 hours at a clip. There is no such thing as "plans" for raising kids, you just adapt as you go.

Because you play for Minnesota.

Hahahaha please please please let that happen.

Congrats to all the proud parents and to Tabe on the new gig. (I'm hardly in the same league when it comes to writing code, but I do know it is much more fun to create something than to spend hours breaking things. I spent too many hours of my life QAing stuff for a major company when it wasn't even my job, (my job was sales to major accounts, but I got tagged as the regional "computer guy" and suffered accordingly.) My good news is also good news for anyone interested in old-time rasslin (I have to assume that there are at least a few people here that fit that criteria). Anyway, the company that I'm an editor for, Ramble House Publishers is going to produce wrestling historian Steve Yohe's book on Strangler Lewis and I've been tapped to write the intro. I consider it an honor to be associated in any way shape or form with this project, but to have my name in the book sort of vindicates all the hours and hours I've spent watching and reading about this goofy sport. The book's going o be expensive, so start saving up now. It will be well worth the money.

And the first ten thousand of those reasons are that glorious mullet. I think the Eaton/Lane/Cornette version of MX is my favorite. Their feud with The Fantastics ----> short feud with Arn and Tully ------> murder at the hands of the newly-turned Road Warriors is one of my favorite things that I have ever seen out of one team. They were just so awesome and this is my favorite Cornette work on the mic ever.

Smiling babyface Henry is awesome. Go watch the Orton gauntlet the night he was drafted to Raw.

Let's hear him out? Educate, not conquer? You're soft as hell these days. Like Matthew Stafford's cheeks.

I'd probably dump most of the roster, save for the cheap X-Division guys/anyone Spike is paying for/Aries/Samoa Joe/Hardy, sign all the Chikara guys, and basically run a league heavy on high-flyers, midgets, freakshows, masks, comedy, ridiculousness and hope that Youtube clips/Buzzfeed mentions/Facebook posts/showing up on something like 'The Soup' would bring me enough attention to run 4 PPVs a year, then do a Clash of the Champions-style show to brook the big gaps between PPVS. Something like February-May-July-October (Avoiding the big WWE shows, WM, RR, SS and SS) PPVs, with Clashes (Well a TNA version...dump that name, too) in early March, September, November and a special Christmas-themed big show in December. I'd probably also bring back the 8-sided ring, introduce a 6 man tag title, and fire Jeff Jarrett on live TV. Also, no heel commissioner.

I defy anyone to prove that this isn't a sign Jake is relapsing again.

DTA YOU DUMB SUMNABITCH!

"The celebrity buyer of TNA you ask? That's right you guessed it, Frank Stallone."

I didn't get to post this cause the site was down but I stayed 10 days in Japan and got to meet Megumi Kudo for the first time overr the Summer. My trip is at http://fmwwrestling.us/Japan13.html

I will apologize for two things. One, if this has been posted. Two, if this is too much... but I will say it had me dyin

So... as I was saying when we were so sadly interrupted, life in Japan is pretty much a never-ending series of events so hilarious, awesome, improbable, amazing, and/or insane that you actually have to tone down your stories so as not to make everyone who hears them think you're full of shit and/or hate you because of justifiable envy. OH!saka Pro Wrestling (the kinda toned-down version): So my friend Yuji Tsuruta came out from Kobe to meet me in Umeda and go to his first-ever Osaka Pro Wrestling show. I was talking to him about how Osaka Pro Wrestling is different from AJPW: How it's less violent and not as hard-hitting, much more focused on entertainment, comedy,good-vs-evil, and fast action... and how it's a real family-type atmosphere where you don't just show up with a friend or two and sit in a hall full of strangers, but instead show up and say hello to all of your friends... I was just explaining how we sometimes bring drinks for each other, when my gorgeous friend "California Girl" showed up with a shopping bag full of beer and gave me one, thus perfectly illustrating my point. She offered Yuji one, but he turned it down, thinking he might be expected to pay for it... When I explained that, no, we just often bring bags of drinks and snacks and hand them out to our friends at the show, like a picnic or something... I think at that point Yuji understood what's so special about Osaka Pro. Yuji met Kenji and Kae and AZ and some of my other friends. Driving the point home, Kenji brought beer, too, in giant cans. I was so happy to see my old friends talking happily with my relatively new friend. That wasn't the bizarre "Oh, really, Life In Japan?!?! You're going to go there, now?" moment, though. That was all everyday-awesome stuff, the kind of thing I just about take for granted by now. What knocked this one out of the park in the only-in-Japan department was that Yun Gang Chul, the Korean wrestler who often works for Osaka Pro, chose today to debut his new comedy character: Jumbo Tsuruhashi. So, yeah: On the day my friend Yuji came to his first ever Osaka Pro show, one of the wrestlers worked his whole match as an affectionate tribute to my friend's late father.

That's the joke...

Blocked FG? This can't be life. And I have no wine! I did see a water-down peach malt liquor in the back of the fridge. Desperate times, folks.

I wouldn't mind a Hogan cameo at Mania. Something like 3MB interrupting a celebrity and Real American hits and Hogan comes down to clean house. Could you imagine the bumps that Heath Slater would take in that situation? 3MB beating on Hogan and then Warrior runs in for the save = $$$$$$$

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT AND HOW THE FUCK DID HE DO IT?!?@?@? ETA: I sure hope someone gifs that play because I don't think I could explain it if I tried.

When they're all dead the curse may be lifted.

Not the greatest show, but the main event delivered. Thank God this thing wasn't on PPV though. It dragged on like the worst Raw shows, but at least had a massive ass-kicking.

It's funny you mention that because I said pretty much the same thing to my friend the other day. I'd just book Mark Henry splitting wigs for 2 hours every week and it'd be glorious. Also, I wonder how much it'd take to get Jack Evans back from Mexico. I know he's a SUPER flippy guy but I always found him entertaining and thought that he actually had in-ring charisma unlike a lot of the flippy fellas. In particular, I loved his team work with Rod Strong and would love to see them in (not) TNA with the MCMG's and Briscoes.

Fixed!

WWE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin™ has offered you a can of an alcoholic beverage. What would you like to do? A -- Accept the Steveweiser™ B -- Decline the Steveweiser™ If you Choose "A"

This looks like some theology students receiving their degrees from a snake-oil preacher at his Shopping Center in Christ College.

History of Mid-Atlantic would be AMAZEBALLS! Of course with Sting's status with TNA up in the air right now, I hope we get that Sting 3 Disc set... someday James