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Let's see if this works Based on various conversations - I finally figured I should upload this. http://youtu.be/I9jvNV9I9Rk Just a note before anyone bitches. I ripped this off a DVD that I made of random matches off of my copies of Dean's perm tapes. So it is basically 4th generation. But it is definitely good enough for government work.

Fantasy Booking Warning: Orton unifies the two titles this Sunday. Monday's Raw opens with Orton and the Authority in the ring claiming there is only one true champion, champion of champions, when unfamiliar music hits. AJ Styles walks down to the ring, grabs the microphone from Stephanie, and proclaims that are still two World Champions. He raises his TNA title triumphantly. The Authority and Orton stare at him in silence momentarily before breaking into a fit of laughter. Styles lowers his head in shame and walks to the back...never to be heard from again.

They all look like something a bird left on my windshield.

Dayamn.

We've all had that thought.

My first born child will be throwing with his left arm from the age of 4 months

Today I am youtube chaining Senegalese wrestling videos, thought you guys might enjoy some African Catch rasslin. That entrance blows anything Wrestlemania has done out of the water.

OK, this is where I get off. DVDVR won me over on Mark Henry and Chris Masters, but Ultimate Warrior pimping is a bridge too far.

"So there's a guy that spins around?" "Yes." "And he's called the Top?" "Yes." "And he dates a woman who used to be a figure skater?" "Yes." "And her name is the Golden Glider?" "Yes." "And there's another guy ..." "Please don't ask about the Rainbow Raider." "I was going to ask how you pronounce Killg%re." "Oh."

The only people who see Ryback and don't think "Goldberg" are kids and the internet crowd that overthinks it. I always wanted Ryback to scream crazy coke/roid promos, but he never did and his actual promos, outside the bully stuff, are just dreadful. It's really hard to buy into the guy. All the head shaking and snorting and stuff looks so phony. Some of that is the writing, most of it is the fact that Ryback is just some normal dude who works out too much.

Raven had the best theme music.

Goddamn there's some anger in this thing.

Still don't get it? People read your thread, but you cant have Michael Cera getting a Rimjob on the same list as Children of Men and claim thematic elements-! It's a foolish list that can't be tied together by any tone or style.

Is no one talking about this? http://youtu.be/6FgfOi_E_3U

Carrying the tie theme:

I don't know if I have anything constructive to say about Ryback's push, but I see people say Goldberg wasn't a good wrestler and was worthless after his streak died, and that is just wrong, damn it. First of all, Goldberg got really good at one point and was having good matches. Everyone points to the Havoc match against DDP, but he had good matches against Scott Steiner too, and he was a legitimately awesome big match worker on a consistent basis by the time he got to WWE. He got better pretty quickly. People always say things like "But, but, but the Lesnar match" when the crowd was the reason that it sucked and "But, but, but Regal made him look terrible in a random Nitro match" when that isn't the case at all and it was a legitimately awesome competitive six-minute match before Spear, Jackhammer, Splat. It's like people are desperate to paint Goldberg as sucky in the ring when he was absolutely not. He was green at one point, but he never flat out sucked. Second of all, Goldberg was rendered worthless by WCW's (mostly Russo and Nash's) stupid booking. He was still amazingly over, but he was made to look like an ass by the nWo numerous times (see: Fingerpoke of Doom, where how Goldberg is treated ended up as the very worst thing about that angle), ended up turning heel for some bizarre reason when the fans still wanted to see him destroy the nWo for good, and then ended up stuck in a feud with Totally Buff which he lost and was then taken off TV and pretty much killed dead at a time when the fans obviously wanted Goldberg/Booker T for the title and would have been open to Goldberg/Steiner for another round of matches, too. WCW tried to kill his heat about a billion times and then finally, when they couldn't do that, they simply took him off TV. He was absolutely not worthless inherently; he was just made so by every booker that he came across from the time that Nash started booking the shows.

This argument is dumb for a myriad of reasons, but the biggest one is simply the fact that Ryback wasn't even the guy's first gimmick or quasi-main event run. The fact he had his run as Skip Sheffield in the Nexus should kill idea of him being a main eventer dead since: 1) Him getting injured is a big part of what made the angle no longer work (hence he's not dependable, so Vince would never put the belt on him and give him a bigger workload after he couldn't handle the workload of being protected in a 8 man group) 2) He was in the ring with top stars constantly during that run (and hurt people in that run as well) so he really had no excuse for being as green as he was and still is. 3) If he had such great charisma he would have found himself in the #2 turncoat role of Nexus but nobody was ever really clamoring for him to get in that spot (that went to DB and then Otunga for God's sake). 4) HE WAS THE LEAST OVER WRESTLER ON NXT SEASON 1 BY MILES. He wasn't competing with the Cena's and Taker's of the world. He was on a show with 8 other complete unknowns on an even playing field and couldn't get a soul to notice him organically to save his life. So what makes you think he has the required it factor to be WWE champion? Even if he was over, it clearly wasn't anything he was doing right. His push against Punk was no different than the flavour of the week heels Cena and Hogan get fed during long title reigns or what Flair used to get for his NWA title reigns. He was never EVER gonna touch that belt, they just needed a guy to keep Punk busy. Saying "he was over, why not give him the belt" is like saying "hey, Earthquake was over after he squashed Hogan that one time, why not give him the belt?". Cause it makes no goddamn sense in the long run.

Girlfriend whines about getting married? No sells it and acts cool. Girlfriend whines about arguing with her sister? No sells it and acts cool. Girlfriend whines about her insecurities and not being able to relax in his home? No sells it and acts cool. Girlfriend puts sweat clothes in the nice clothes hamper? WHAT THE FUCK? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

As soon as I saw Children of Men occupying the same list as the Matrix sequels I said "fuck this thread." Outloud. My neighbors heard me. I hope they were watching Four Brothers.

Seems like the first thing Fandango's dance partner should be able to do is dance. Summer Rae can not. Fandangirl had the perfect balance of elegance and snobbiness. She was subtle, giving off the vibe that she wasn't really a bitch, just someone who happened to be with a bit of a dick. She was realistic. Summer Rae is too over-the-top, too mannered, too distracting. She's too obviously playing a character. I dont' want to come off all weird about Fandangirl the way some people do with AJ, so I'll just close by saying that I'm possibly in love with her, and if she was selling her shit on ebay I would probably buy it.

Maybe Col. Parker got Bunkhouse Buck to send his nephews The Young Bucks to poison the Briscoes' chickens in order to create a chicken shortage so the Colonel could increase the price of his chickens.

It's the Fargate.

Cena or Orton wins, and then HHH comes out, congratulates the winner, says they're retiring the two belts or whatever unified belt they're making, and then announces himself as new champion, revealing an undisclosed third belt.

Don't be ridiculous. That gumpy clown clearly couldn't deliver in a main event match, and the idea that he should have been put over and had the promotion focus around him is dipshittery

Woah, hey, let's not knock on the purveyors of the Go Cup okay? Let's see WWE design something as delicious and yet easily portable, then we can talk.

Maybe he just wanted to rub his balls in Batista's face.

@CMPunk: It's difficult to always try to do business the proper way with a company that refuses to practice the same standards. Oh shit! It's on! Shit's getting real! Business is picking up! The goose is cooked! No jazz before the rumble! Yeah....probably means nothing.

All this technology is making us antisocial.

Yeah, I mentioned that about Saracen. When he broken down, talking about his life and family, holy shit, I was crying for a good long while. He had all of this pent up emotion and frustration throughout the series until that point and then he let it all out. It was beautiful. Some other stuff I fondly remember is the season two premiere, or maybe season three, but Julie works at the pool and has the hots for the guy she doesn't even know while Saracen twists in the wind. I liked that plot because of how realistic it felt. I also loved the Landry/Tyra relationship that ended with Landry getting stood up. Landry would later wind up with the suuuuuper cute girl in his band. And I'm surprised you didn't mention the biggest plot hole, which was Saracen having a massive apartment in Chicago as a student. Downtown, or hell, even in a surrounding neighborhood, that place is at least $3000 a month. Couple that with tuition and one wonders how he's making his money.

Are you really retiring on top when your last "win" was a fight you didn't win?

I think saying that there was never a loud Goldberg chant for Ryback is a little ridiculous because in the early days of his push, he would receive loud Goldberg chants that the production crew tried to drown out by piping in "Feed Me More" chants.

Somebody just lit the Zeidler Signal.

You gotta do, what you gotta do. I really like watching Rikishi vs big guys that he can credibly bump against from this period. He eats Kane and Undertaker's offense so well and yeah, he tends to do it with everyone but it's less jarring with these two. SPOILER: the best part of the match is Undertaker's facial expression when Kane and D-Von do the Wasssup spot. The Last Ride on Christian is pretty nuts too though.

You can see Warrior improve every match thru 1988. By 1990 he was good and knew what he was doing in there. Though it seemed like the more he improved, the more charisma he lost. The Ultimate Warrior is honestly the most underrated guy in history from pretty much every perspective.

That picture would have made for the greatest Survivor Series match EVER.

A super intelligent gorilla with telepathy= RATINGS!

He probably walked out when Indy dropped the rocket launcher. "Well, he gave up. Nazi's win. What a downer. They should have brightened it up with a little Asian sidekick "

I think I might have actually read that before Kansas. Such a great writer, Kansas is a book that at the end, you're only possible reaction is "So THAT'S how they did it!"

Notches on the bedpost hahaha woooooo!

Really fun show. The whole first hour was a blast, and I loved Spud's silly tie. EC3 got about as close to real heat as you're going to get in TNA now, and he and Sting have some chemistry together. Glad to see Madison back and using her evil wave for good. Aries was the MVP of the show with the X Title match being very good and his stuff in the FoF match being a highlight. Gunner maybe turning heel was something, I liked the tease of Hardy joining Dixie - shame they're setting the world title situation in theory, in a goofy bullshit match next week. http://jayreviewsthings.blogspot.com/2013/12/tna-impact-12-12-13-feast-or-fired.html Screens - BIGFOOT'S BEEN FOUND! http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/axoup5jnh8tgxddmald0xk5656aappzz

I didn't feel like Warrior was gassed in his big matches though... When I think of Warrior vs. Hogan, Slaughter, Macho, Rude... he had some working boots on.

I admit that I want to like SHIELD much more than I actually like SHIELD. But it's tolerable.

Can they get the tattoo modified to say "MT"? For "Merg Turdfuck", obviously.

Call him Alan Jackman and give him a slightly homophobic country singer/Wolverine gimmick.

Which would explain why Cole is constantly explaining how to download the app. Trips and Steph keep hoping Vince will take the hint.

BIX YOU SON OF A BITCH THIS IS YOUR BABY

Kiku Hase!

Poor Naito. I have a feeling that Goto-Shibata #87 would have gotten more votes.