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  1. Will you stop? I'm the only one to like this comment? Seriously?! Come on people. I didn't see anything. My monitor went out.
    10 points
  2. When someone defeats Zombie Kofi, can Papa Shango yell "MAKE MY MONSTER GROOOOW" And from a cloud of smoke comes Ezekiel Jackson in tattered Kofi Gear?
    9 points
  3. This may have been posted but if it was it didn't load for me.
    8 points
  4. despiiite all my rage homicide still can't climb up this caaaage
    7 points
  5. What are you talking about!?!? 9 AOL CDs is probably just one day's worth of mail.
    6 points
  6. I wrote an essay on wrestling commentary, using a 10 minute match between Kerry Con Erich and the Warlord as an example. I'd love to hear people's thoughts on it: http://jaedmc.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-importance-of-wrestling-commentary.html
    5 points
  7. That's Dory's middle school photo.
    4 points
  8. As done for as Riley Cooper's? He only said half so he'll only get in half the trouble Riley Cooper got into. *points to noggin w/ index finger*
    4 points
  9. I'm the father of a 4 year old autistic daughter, and while it can be really tough sometimes, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I freaked out last year around this time when her mother and I got the diagnosis, trying to figure out why this happened and wondering if my old lifestyle had a part to do with her diagnosis. I had to be talked off the ledge by my friends(as well as some of the posters on this very board) until I could come to grips with it. I don't feel sorry for her per se, but I feel bad that she has an upward battle, even though she's not gonna lose as long as she has me at her side. Her issues aside, I love the little things in life that she did, like saying "daddy" as her first words, or using the potty for the first time. I'm also willing to make a fool out of myself just for her. Being a dad is pretty fucking cool.
    4 points
  10. The fantasy booking in this thread is pretty interesting - First things first you change the name. Rumor has it that Bischoff & Hogan spearheaded the idea of rebranding it "IMPACT Wrestling" but Dixie felt the TNA name had too much cache to toss away, so you got the half-assed "TNA presents IMPACT Wrestling" or whatever nonsense, and it just confused people. TNA is a stupid fucking name. Always has been always will be. Yeah, "TNA" has notoriety, it's notorious as the butt of jokes to wrestling fans. IMPACT Wrestling (or the IWF as I'd brand it) is a fine name. - Second, you're a niche product inside a niche industry. Forget about trying to be the WWE, it will NEVER HAPPEN, and that shouldn't be your goal. Focus on the things that wrestling fans want to see that WWE doesn't give them. - There's a lot of wrestling fans who want to see serious womens matches, a serious womens division, and to see women treated with respect as serious athletes. Hell, this isn't just wrestling, society as a whole takes female athletics way more seriously than in the past, and it's the 21st century, gender equality isn't going away. This is one of the few things TNA did really well at one point, and for whatever reason just stopped focusing on. I would put a huge amount of effort and emphasis into the womens division. There's enough talent out there to make the division really special. - Gimmicks and VIOLENCE. And I don't mean stupid fucking gimmicks like TNA is famous for, or juice just for the sake of it, or people falling off ladders through tables, but legit old school violent matches that are treated like the matter. I saw a WWE clip recently where Shawn Michaels was just crimson mask covered in blood, and it was shocking to me because, well, it wasn't that long ago that you'd see something like that in WWE, but it feels like forever. There are a lot of wrestling fans who want to see that sort of realism again. - FOREIGN TALENT. I've heard lipservice to the idea that WWE wants latino stars, but I don't see the proof in the pudding. Their biggest hangup is having guys who speak english and have "the look". I think Del Rio is a great worker, but we all know that's not why they hired him and pushed him like they have. Newsflash....you don't have to speak English well or at all to get over. Look at baseball. Look at UFC. Look at boxing. Huge latino stars in those sports who barely speak english. Have an interpreter for their interviews. Who cares?! If I was running a promotion one of the main things I'd do is find the best latino talent I could. The luchadores got over big in WCW almost 20 years ago now! and most of them couldn't cut promos. Yeah, I'd make it a point to have language coaches so guys could say basic stuff in English as needed, but it's really not a big deal. Japan as well. When Japanese guys are brought over and treated and pushed with respect, if they're good they get over. Historically that is the case. TNA hasn't pushed ONE Japanese guy well. Not one. WWE has a better track record, and that's saying something because their track record sucks. TNA has had Tanahashi, Okada, No Limit, LIGER walk through their doors and not done shit with them. There is amazing talent in Japan right now that would get super over in the US. Use them. Make relationships with Japanese promotions. - Disassociate your identity from WWE as much as possible. No more "WWE" guys on the roster. If your name is associated with WWE you're out. No more Mr. Andersons. Angle I would just fire anyway because he's such a lunatic, but no more Kurt Angle. No more Jeff Hardy. Etc. etc. ECW took off when they created their own stars, or reinvented people's careers. They didn't trade off the fame that WWE or WCW gave someone, at least not the way TNA does. When they did it was done in a way that put ECW and native talent over. And eventually ECW as a brand was established, and they'd bring in guys from WCW or the WWF and it didn't feel like a shitty copy of what those companies did. Those are my big things. I think there is so much potential there for a company that does those things. That's the kind of promotion I'd love to watch, and I feel like a lot of people out there would get behind it
    4 points
  11. So it looks like Incognito may be going into hiding for awhile. If only there were some sort of word to describe his situation...
    3 points
  12. Richie Incognito is the most despicable Miami Dolphins player since Ray Finkle and Finkle kidnapped Dan Marino and a dolphin
    3 points
  13. @keithlaw Incognito should have used an NFL-approved racial slur, like "redskins"
    3 points
  14. That was exceptional; great job dude. Thanks. I've been wanting to write about it for a while, and I was randomly found myself watching that match and thought "that was kinda fun, but why?" and realized the answer was the commentary. Then I thought about how commentary makes meaningless matches feel worth your time and it's because of real world motivations. Characters today don't even have strong motivations other than "I wanna get you." If The Shield interfered in a match the Uso's were wrestling and the Usos lost, what does that mean? Yeah, the Usos lost, but what did they lose? They'll get a title shot next week. There's no concept of winner's purse, so they didn't lose money either. They just looked foolish for a moment, that wasn't even their fault. It may not sound like much, but by creating even small values for the wrestlers to compete for, allow audiences to get even more involved with the drama. It doesn't have to get uber-detailed with strict rankings and such. WCW kind of had this going on where under a wrestlers name they'd have his rank, like in boxing. It felt kind of fluid, but it wasn't necessarily arbitrary. But the UFC doesn't really have rankings, Dana takes someone who is winning and they get a shot. This isn't about making wrestling serious or mimic "real" sports. It's about giving small real world cues that an audience can relate to in order to draw them in. This still works even when we all know it's predetermined,- audiences WANT to believe because it's more fun. The better you are at making them believe the more fun they'll have. Once kayfabe was broken forever, wrestling, logically so, figured they needed to go into worked shoots to hook the audience, but that muddling of realities didn't pay off, because there was one huge hole in the concept of a "worked shoot" - all that stuff before was fake, this is the real deal! Audiences can't respond to that. It devalues what came before and what will come after. So now there's not so much worked shoots - it's more these guys are just performers and they're gonna put on a good show for you tonight, which is better - just not good enough. If we're just going to pretend it's all a show, then we can just go back to pretending it's an IMPORTANT show, like we did before. I could go on and on, clearly.
    3 points
  15. One of the coolest indy show moments for me was getting to see Sabu live this year. I still have the picture on my Twitter and I'm holding a table fragment and pointing at the ceiling like the biggest mark alive.
    3 points
  16. 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?
    3 points
  17. Hang on, are people saying Sabu is a GUILTY pleasure for them? Because there is nothing wrong with loving Sabu.
    3 points
  18. I don't want to see Hogan ever again.
    3 points
  19. 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.
    3 points
  20. As long as there's a place where BINGO is not presently being played. As long as there's a fat tub of goo in camo shorts, a cut up Megadeth shirt, and a desire to tell kids in the front row to know their roles and shut their mouths. As long as there's another fat tub of goo who has a desire to watch grown men roll around on a mat while chanting "Show Your Tits!" at women. There will always be indie wrestling.
    3 points
  21. Rowan and Harper are awesome. They take me back to a magical time when wrestling wasn't just bad football players, amateur wrestlers and guys with tribal tattoos doing key bumps of powdered creatine. Wrestling is way more awesome when it is basically like a weekly version of Bloodsport, with the toughest dudes from all walks of life coming together to see who is the most bad ass. The dudes in Bloodsport didn't train, or care about stupid things like "keeping their balance". All they cared about was beating the shit out of whomever. They come across like guys who would do this if they didn't get paid for it. Also, they are basically a modern day version of the Sheepherders: clearly crazy, possibly illiterate, almost assuredly rapey. The fact that I get something like that on TV every week is tremendous.
    3 points
  22. I don't get to listen to Gruden often, but this is just magnificent. After all the talk about cheese heads, he says "You know what I'd wear if I was a bears fan? A shredder" Cut to three guys wearing the same cheese grater heads that have been shown ALL NIGHT. And you can almost hear Gruden "SQUEEEE" all over himself.
    2 points
  23. 2 points
  24. I like Fit Finlay as much as the next guy, but he can't draw for shit.
    2 points
  25. Yeah, great essay Jae. This is pretty prescient to a lot of the conversation around here about WWE: Not to beat a dead horse, I just think that hits the nail on the head in articulating why a lot of people can't dig the current product.
    2 points
  26. NWA World Champ Dory Funk Jr. vs. Johnny Valentine at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on February 11, 1973
    2 points
  27. I remember when Dez basically told I think it was Roy Williams to fuck off when Roy was trying to make him carry his pads. I like that. You don't owe anyone anything. You are there to do your job.
    2 points
  28. Austin was building more towards being the "next Ric Flair" than what he became, and even then, that's probably optimistic. If you watch 92-94 WCW, though, you can clearly see they are laying the foundation for a company to be built around Dustin and Austin in the near future. Then Hogan shows up, and that just all goes away, quite quickly for Austin, somewhat slower for Rhodes.
    2 points
  29. Me signing a book at some convention or other... Please note the swank Chris Daniels shirt... With Welsh horror author and pal, Tim Lebbon;. (from about seven years ago, I am much more svelte now...) ;-) Someone took some great shots of Raven and I goofing around at a World Horror Con in Atlanta, but I can't find any of the images, nor any of the fabled trip to Abdullah the Butcher's House of Ribs & Chinese Food...
    2 points
  30. "I am relaxed." Fuck. Yes.
    2 points
  31. Dear Brian Billick, Your ass better be announcing the rest of our games for the remainder of the season/post-season Sincerely, Panthers and Panthers fans PS It's not weird if it works.
    2 points
  32. 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.
    2 points
  33. No Matt, don't eat Hamburger Nicki Minaj!
    2 points
  34. 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!
    2 points
  35. Q: Who has the best theme music of all of the times? A: Yoshi Tatsu
    2 points
  36. Smiling babyface Henry is awesome. Go watch the Orton gauntlet the night he was drafted to Raw.
    2 points
  37. Vin Diesel in his natural state: a big piece of wood.
    2 points
  38. I needed a pic of Mark Henry and went on cageside seats I guess. Everyone was all "Mark Henry was shit for 15 years waaaah" and I immediately retreated to the safety of the hive mind. How can so many shitheads be so uniform in their shitheadery?
    2 points
  39. Me and Phoebe Kay a day after she was born. She turned one week last night.
    2 points
  40. What's Davey Richards need a bag for? Isn't he just in his gear at all times in case someone at Starbuck's disrespects his soy latte?
    2 points
  41. 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"
    2 points
  42. Well, if he's going to be like that about it, I wouldn't buy it for him.
    2 points
  43. Can't stand the Bieber music. They should team up with Miley.
    1 point
  44. Hmm. Do I want guys learning in the WWE developmental center or by being the guy who carries Davey Richards' bags?
    1 point
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