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Wrestling occurs in a really narrow space where WWE is both the progenitor and caretaker of its history. What I mean to say is the likelihood of there ever being some archive where you can put on a pair of white gloves and view the ppv is very small. The historical value is undeniable but it's also not like footage has been totally lost. I think the problem with putting Over the Edge on the network is in edifying a "clean" version of the event. Pat themselves on the back for not showing him fall, or the immediate aftermath, then air Mark Henry's poem a million more times. I just don't see a way for WWE to use the broadcast itself in any form that doesn't re-victimize his survivors. Personally the two parts I find most affecting are the pre-match promo on the Godfather, and Lawler's thousand yard stare when he returns to the table. Knowing what happens, the sense of doom radiates forward and backward equally. By the time you're done clipping you've satisfied no one and also deeply compromised the historical value. Should've just put the main event on the History of the WWE Championship dvd and been done with it forever.

If you're still going on about me when I hadn't posted here for almost all day, it wasn't a "poor attempt", you've been "trolled". Though frankly, all I've done is mocked someone who's being such an ass that he's left himself up for being easily mocked. Consider this, my friend, there are many, many people on this board who don't like when I usually take a run at Victator like this and post that I should shut the fuck up. In this thread, not one person has told to stop fucking with you. Not one. Look, Chuckles. Just because none of us want to get involved in this massive heap of argumentative bullshit that has absolutely no upside doesn't mean that you're suddenly serving an important and valued role in the community. Antacular's ridiculous arguments are one thing. You jumping up and down going "Look at me! I'm a good troll now! Hurray for me!" is pretty much just as excruciating.

THIS is pro wrestling, people. THIS.

The more movies Miz makes, the less time he has for wrestling. It's a win-win all around.

You're forgetting the good bit. Kieran Richardson can pull his shirt off with his psalms and his John 3:16. Well Gerrard 3:16 says you playing Championship football next season, while we're winning this motherfucker.

Some poor Malaysian guy was travelling to his first Everton game tonight only for the game to be postponed at the last minute. Thanks to thousands of retweets on Twitter – it was arranged for him to meet the manager and players https://twitter.com/ric_wee

From Reddit. "Why Hoth was denied the Olympics"

I find myself actually of being in overall support of Antacular's original position regarding it making ethical sense for the WWE to avoid featuring OTE 99 on the Network. However, the pomposity of his inability to realize that others may not be predisposed to agree with him (for a variety of reasons OTHER than "they are a bad person"), coupled with the majority of his arguments in "defense" of his position being a semantics about morals vs. ethics and name-dropping philosophers finds me enjoying everyone taking the piss out of him in this thread. Even if you are correct, being a dickhead about it doesn't endear one to most (a lesson I've learned many times over).

If it falls off the bone, it's not a tear. Just good marinating.

Since some of you clearly couldn't handle it - Display Name Changes are now only allowed once every 180 days. Those who abuse it will lose the privilege entirely and you will be forced to use the name you picked as your log-in name

I wish at some point they would put Demolition in.

Ryder is totally a squib.

No they'll shorten it to Ba and team him up with Eric Rowan.

Uncle Milty and the gang have a chair all warmed up for him. Can you imagine the Heaven roasts?

Oh man, I laughed out loud pretty hard at tromataker's Benoit crack.

You might want to see an Allergist, you keep coughing when you see images of animals.

Deadspin dug this up from ten years ago. Absolutely hilarious.

My theory has always been that he killed his wife in a fit of rage, realized what he had done and killed his kid so he wouldn't have to grow up where his mother was murdered by his famous father and all that would go with it.

May be beating a dead horse with this post but watching the attitude era for the fist time, I think they should go back to giving everyone in the card angles. Sure back then most of the time the angles were bad but even the dumb ones sometimes led to success. For example the Terri Runnels Invitational Tournament, was just a dumb excuse to have a tournament with the acronym of TIT and for goofy sexual innuendo between Terry and Lawler but it led to 4 of the most over wrestlers of the 2000s (Hardys and E and C) because it gave them a reason to have that ladder match at No Mercy. Nowadays most of the undercard isn't over at all and I think that's because they have no storylines and thus the crowd has no reason to care for them. I don't remember the last time Big E Langston had a storyline and he's the IC champ and seen as one of the future big stars of the company. Edit: Also why do they put the best interviews, promos, in skits on the App. No one watches that, at least show them at the arena during commercials instead of a million WWE network commercials.

It's pretty clear what's going on here. SHIELD makes him wear a crummy, subdued stealth costume that he doesn't like, color his shield different. Then he picks up a version of his old costume from the Smithsonian near the end. In the first movie he realized the costume could make him a better leader and a symbol.

I think I see where they are going with Swagger and Cesaro. I ain't mad at it.

Only if you don't count Keeping up with the Kardasians,

Please come back to the NFL, Bill Cowher!

Course, I ain't the grown man having a temper tantrum because people might watch something I don't want to.

They were chanting it during a Henry and Ambrose match. You are going to co-sign that? These are people that I don't want anywhere near me. I'd buy a 3-Disc set of Cole and JBL shitting on live audiences.

This is the sole change from that all hands on deck creative meeting that was rumbled about where "everything" was up in the air regarding Wrestlemania.

They could just put a skidmark on his tights and call him BM Punk

My roommate asked me why Billy was allowed to wear shorts that looked ridiculous. I said "because he's the ass man" she asked what that meant..."well he loves to love them, he loves to watch them..."

Those WAR trios keep getting weirder and weirder.

Goddamnit! I've been working on a script for years, where she was going to play me in my life story. This fucking hurts so hard.

The better Cassandro photo from last night

Oh well, i'm not too bothered about that now, the PS4 fund has officially been started! Edit: Had to take the money out of the fund for bowling tonight.

I feel ashamed that I didn't come up with this joke yesterday when I posted the Lebouef thing. Lebouef is gonna be stuck in that paper bag for a long time, because he sure as hell won't be able to act his way out of it.

I'll be honest, as much goodness as there is on a weekly episode, if I don't get an Enzo Amore promo, the weeks is probably going to be not a good one. I'm not sure WWE has had a guy come along who is this legitimately funny since Santino. I'm not sure I've laughed harder at a WWE moment in years (Intentionally, I mean) as I have at that English-Enzo/Cass promo from a few weeks back where English calls them neanderthals and Enzo turns to Cass and with a completely straight face and sounding totally genuine goes "What's a neanderthal?" and Cass just pats him on the shoulder like "Shut up" and it ends with Enzo running over English's foot. That just slayed me. Just thinking about it makes me laugh.

Yeah, there's really no reason that the power struggle between Reigns and Ambrose can't just result in Ambrose becoming the Starscream to Reigns' Megatron.

Bobby Heenan always told us never to trust a man with two first names.

The Mary Carillo thing is really magic. I've watched it about five times already. It's a legitimately great. I love how it builds. It is something that's a textbook Olympic piece for the differences between the recreation sports -- badminton, table tennis, kayaking -- that we play and the stuff the experts actually use. And then the transition is brilliant -- "However, THIS birdie has a tree-seeking device" and off she goes into this ridiculously detailed rant about backyard badminton. Her dropping names -- Christopher Burr, it's ALWAYS Christopher Burr -- is what puts this over the top. No one's watching at 3 AM when this aired. No one gives a crap about badminton. Why not make the three minutes you have to fill something that we can all understand but not express in this brilliant, insane way? Man, this is seriously epic and I'm stealing so much from this.

Pow!

I'm watching Daniel Bryan on NFL Total Access and after explaining the WWE Network the host asked him. "You gonna get some residuals off those?" And he replied laughing, "Absolutely not! I'm sure I won't."

They should have mentioned it. It could have been a pivotal scene: "I've decided to invest in a Hulk Hogan movie." "Jordan, man. You've finally hit rock bottom." as long as they invested enough money in makeup, they could have passed 60yo+ Hogan off as 43yo Hogan WWE films idea: a movie inspired by the NWO invasion of WCW where the WWF is actually backing Hall/Nash. Probably a better concept than some of their movies that were made

A collection of rocks and balls of ice orbiting a giant ball of gas being quite an excellent metaphor for this whole thread.

Here you go: Needs JR yelling, "By GAWD! How do you fake a knee drop from a Lithuanian fitness model?!?"

"More reason, oh mighty Reigns, that we should be targeting the REAL threat: John Cena's moonbase!"

On a lighter note, I loved Chavo hulk hoganing World War 3, when Jericho said it was a 60 man battle royal, and Chavo corrects his saying it was 90 men.