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I think we can all agree throwing berries at him was a bad decision in hindsight.

From this week's NXT: Basically, from what I can see here, at the WWE Performance center, there's a poster on the wall telling them that, whatever they do, they should not let Dave Meltzer in if he comes to the back door.

http://www.daily.co.jp/ring/2014/01/30/0006672086.shtml I hate when people copy the WON word for word.

Recently I was granted access to a WWE creative meeting where I was able to snap this picture.

I don't know; with DB, I'm enjoying just being a fan like I was when I was a kid and desperately wanting Bret Hart or whoever to pull off a big win and become champ. Rooting for Bryan takes me back to those times when I treated it like it was real. He really gets me into it and caring about him. I'm not going to sit online dreaming up some grand scheme to cause a fan uprising if Bryan never wins the gold or anything like that, but I like that there's a guy that I really, really care about in terms of wins and losses. Other than Mark Henry, I cannot think of another person that actually gets me into wrestling in that way. It's nice. After Bryan lost the opener and then didn't get entered in the Rumble, I was legit deflated. After a day or two, I realized - holy shit, I was legit deflated! Kinda cool that a wrestler's fate can do that to cynical old me.

EVERYBODY AT EVERY WEIGHT COULD. What world are we living in? CM Punk is not a fighter.

Tabe: Watches EIGHT seasons of DEXTER, declares it "not so bad," rates it 7/10. Watches three EPISODES of THE SHIELD, declares it to be so shit he can't watch another episode. It truly does take all kinds.

Apparently Bryan Clark stole Kevin Nash's hair products on the way out of WCW, because that shit's glorious.

He looks more like wrestlin' Billy Mitchell to me.

They were all awful, and so was the show. Usually I don't like to interject just to shit on something, but Friends is an exception. No better than crap like Suddenly Susan or Big Bang Theory, somehow built up a head of steam, to the point the audience whooped and hollered at anything - hey look, Chandler entered the room and scrunched up his stupid face, best comedy ever.

All of that is true. Randy Orton is like a shitty band that is really top notch at playing shitty music. You never realize that the shitty band is actually technically proficient until you hear them covering Rush or ZZ Topp on YouTube or getting put over Daniel Bryan or Dean Ambrose on a podcast.

The real story here is that Punk was dumb enough to leave his girlfriend on the road while Batista is around.

I know these are overdone, but, hey: http://youtu.be/PYxv72zHYWc

You have rivers? I thought it was a corpse depository just filled with water.

They humanized him by dehumanizing his fans. I don't want to go to a live event because I'd be surrounded by these fucking crybaby CHUDs the whole time

You let Spurs score?

Lies and Appetite are better than every Nirvana album. And I like Nirvana.

darn the WWE for not forcing CM Punk to remain with the company against his will although if the Wyatts had kidnapped CM Punk and forced him to cook meth, it'd essentially be Breaking Bad's last season

Captain America's mom + forklift = buys

God damn, he's so creepy. I bet he beats homeless people and has their faces on display in his German sex dungeon.

Breaking news: Scarlett Johansson is an attractive woman.

You guys should wait until he... Shit, wrong thread.

MMA media asking about Punk is so freaking sad.

I look at the difference between Punk and Bryant fandom like this -- Punk is exactly that. He's wrestling's version of The Clash. He has diversity in his styles of wrestling (face/heel/submission/striker/etc.). He's loud and abrasive and wants to be the big deal. His early WWE tenure was the first album -- pretty brilliant, with a string of great hits (White Man In Hammersmith Palais/Happy Birthday to Rey's Daughter). London Calling/The Pipebomb was a call-to-arms. It exploded on the scene and made him a huge deal for a while. The Clash headlined Shea Stadium. Punk had the Chicago PPV. Punk's post-title run has been his Sandinista -- a bunch of good stuff (Lesnar and Heyman ='s Police On My Back) but a lot of a sprawling mess (Ryback, Curtis Axel, etc.). Now we could be seeing Punk enter his Cut The Crap phase, that's better off forgotten but might have a This Is England moment. Bryan could be Nirvana. The Aberdeen, Washington comparison is spot-on. Kurt Cobain was a big indie dude before Nirvana blew through the roof. He was really into K Records, which was super twee and featured Beat Happening. Bryan's friends with Kimya Dawson, who has released a lot of stuff on K Records. Both are supportive of very supportable political causes -- environmentalism, for starters. Bryan's just released Nevermind and it's starting to get airplay, but the payola-infested rock stations are still putting Guns'n'Roses and other boring rock star b.s. on the airwaves. (Nevermind was released in September '91. It didn't become number one until January.) There are a lot of people into the groundswell right now. Bryan's YES MOVEMENT is the right angle at the right time and really capturing something broader, just like Cobain really captured what was going on for a lot of alienated kids in the early 90s. I hope the first part of my comparison comes true, and Bryan breaks out as an undeniable megastar and is the top guy. There are obviously a lot of parts to the Cobain comparison that I really, really, really hope don't happen so just ignore those.

THREE EPISODES?

I admit I've probably watched a total of about 6 episodes of Friends, randomly. But I hated every single one of them, and I really fucking hate every single character on the show. Just such fucking unlikable douchebaggy assholes.

Mark Henry. Both are the strongest man in the world. THAT'S WHAT I DO LITTLE VIKING

Mark Henry. Both are the strongest man in the world.

You're the most tolerant person in the world if this is what it took for you to not want to go somewhere with a lot of wrestling fans.

What do you think is in the burgers? Iiiiiiiii heard that

Honestly? A better note would be the guys who they DIDN'T do this with. Austin. Jericho in 2000. Rock in 98. Savage, maybe? I'd be curious if people took a look at Savage. When they turned the Natural Disasters face, they still had them just killing jobbers and what not. They weren't suddenly huggable lovable guys. At the time, I thought that Michael Hayes was right and when they turned Cena, he REALLY should have given the FU to ... was it Benoit? I guess history says otherwise, but they had to completely change the way they presented guys and did business to get there?

Mark.

Tabe, you won't believe the one simple trick they try to get you to click on links!

It's like West Side Story for fucking psychopaths.

I think it has more to do with the WWE just cutting the fucking legs out from under wrestlers constantly. The R-Truth example is a great example. His heel run was fantastic, where he was making the desires of his character both immediately understandable and empathetic as well as coming up with inventive new stuff every week (he came out in a confederate soldier outfit one week, for fuck's sake!). He may not have been getting tremendous heat (although, the heat he was getting was perfectly fine), but this was contributing to some terrific television. Even the hokey wrestling stuff he did, like throwing water in a fan's face, came off far better than, say, someone like Orton would have done with the same spot. But, he was never someone that the WWE was actually going to get behind, so they took an interesting act and removed all the TV time and shoved it back down the card, and kept doing that, until he was back to "What's Up?" R-Truth again. I swear, if Roman Reigns ever dared to show something new and interesting, he wouldn't be getting pushed.

Punk's flying elbow was fine when he first started using it. It was after he started having problems with his hip that he started doing it the way he does now. I remember a match with someone (I think it was Ambrose) where Ambrose was out of position and Punk did the move reverse onto his bad hip and Meltzer reported that he was hurting for weeks after that. On Orton.....I don't get the complaint about his offense or his psychology. He has a finisher that targets the head and neck....and a lot of his offense targets the head and neck. The chinlock. The draping DDT. The euro uppercuts and forearms. The Garvin Stomp ends with a stomp to the head. Even his super finisher the punt kick. A lot of his offense looks great too. He throws the best dropkick in WWE and one of the best I've ever seen quite frankly in terms of elevation and snap. He's got a great looking snap powerslam. Throws great euro uppercuts. The RKO almost always look great and he's got the leaping ability to hit it on a guy who's on the top rope. I can see the argument that he sticks to his signature moves and doesn't change up his arsenal enough for a guy who's been on TV for so long, but that's not just him, that's pretty much everyone in the WWE. That's the WWE style.

I was annoyed enough by that poster on the base level that I didn't even bother to be professionally annoyed by it.

Should have started with The Wire first!

Phhh. When my granddad came out of the bedroom wearing a leather vest and no shirt, memaw just said it was because of his "Agent Orange" and made us go into the parlor until she helped him shuffle back into the bedroom. When Grandpa Batista tells those annoying neighborhood kids to stop playing on his lawn, they get the fuck off of his lawn. Except he'd blow up walking down the porch steps.

That reads like it was written by a Nigerian scammer. GOOD SALUTATIONS TO YOU DEAREST SIR AND MY HOPES THAT THIS LETTER OF THE KENTA FIND YOU IN SINCERE PEACE AND HARMONY

Also, this possible NSFW picture leaked out onto the net which may shed a little light on the current Punk situation. Spoiler just in case.

"Athletic Things" is giving "Poio Shirt" a run for its money as worst signifier of quality this board has come up with.

Wrestlers being not athletic enough or not athletic at all is about the dumbest fucking thing to talk about in reference to professional wrestling. I hope and pray to Harley Race that He comes and finds each one of you fucks and breaks your knee caps with some rebar, praise be to Harley Race. Amen.

Can he suck his own dick?