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Apparently this match is going to happen.

When FSW was banned, his essence dissipated and infected part of the board.

Sorry, but I like that name is better than Edge. . . . Peter Boyle is apparently a fan of that luxurious hair on Damon....

I hate you all. With the passion of many supernovae.

I present the following without comment.

Thanks to my buddy slimy, sorry for the image quality, but you should be able to make out all the codezzzzz

I just contribute that to being contrarian to what was going on at that time, which is ironic since Overeem being a top tier HW (and/or future Fedor destroyer) became overwhelming opinion on the internet. I remember him just showing up against that Korean bum on the first Dream show and being big as shit. When Valentijin fought in Sengoku (IIRC) around the same time, he was just freaking massive as well. It ballooned from there. You had this gargantuan man fighting in Dream, K-1, and then Strikeforce. When we were in the Brock Lesnar era of heavyweight MMA, the air of legitimacy became so important. But that's how star-making seems to happen some of the time in MMA. Nick Diaz fought some decent to good fighters post-UFC, but the way people saw him made you think he was going to pee down GSP's gaping neckhole if they ever fought. If MMA fans can't find a good foil within the UFC, they will go looking for them elsewhere and anoint someone. However, that's the inherent problem with trying to create stars. Internet or cult of personality legitimacy isn't the same as real legitimacy. These guys become popular (with or without the resume to match the popularity), we go on a mary-go-round of the UFC trying to bring them in, and then the UFC underpays or overpays (90% of the time it's overpay seeing how the ratings and buyrates have been) them to finally get them. Once the ship starts going down, it becomes this Carnival of Sadness. It goes from "oh shit, they signed him!" to "oh shit, is _________ going to get cut?". The UFC is in a rough position because it's not pro wrestling. If people want "stacked" cards, there is only so long you can protect an Alistair Overeem if you even want to do that in the first place. They gave a one million dollar signing bonus (peanuts to Zuffa I'll admit) to someone who never challenged for the real legitimate heavyweight title and delivered an underwhelming buyrate for the biggest fight of his career. But if the UFC never signed him in the first place, people would have went on and on about how the UFC can't make the big fights.

Behold the Vision:

That's the Power of Love!

I can't be the only one who couldn't work out which one was Natalya's real face there. Unfortunate pose.

I'll give you guys some time to think over exactly how you guys should approach this better. In the mean time, it's the weekend, go outside. I'll let you know when you can have this back.

I remember being 9 and finding the entire CMLL set at a dollar store at the Sawgrass Mall. I wasn't so lucky with the AAA set, I have Cien Caras and and La Parka though but they're much more expensive than the CMLL ones. The AAA set and the mini figure set are both awesome. I also love the Magnificent Wrestler Mego-like set of lucha figures, they were sold in singles or box sets with 2 figures, a ring, trophy, and belts. The street vendor ones aren't bad either, the "newer" ones I've seen on eBay like Rey and Wagner have really good paint jobs, much more so than the older ones that Highspots sold. AAA Kelian miniature Cien Caras Magnificent Wrestler Street vendor wrestlers

Well hey, CMLL action figures! (boooooooooo) and also, AAA! (boooooooooooo}

The NHL Network is so spectacularly disappointing in regards to old footage that even if it did exist it probably wouldn't air. I got the Network again a few months ago after not having it for 4 years and they're still showing the exact same shit. I don't know how many times they've aired the Tugnutt 70 save game but it has to be into the triple digits. It's such a shame that they're so God damn lazy about it.

I've insisted that Gullen sounds like the Heel Pro Wrestling Manager equivalent of J Peterman from Seinfeld. Is this Jarrett's yard?

One thing that really jumps out at me in these early Nitros, and the accompanying ppvs, is that they were clearly really high on Eddie, and to a lesser extent, Malenko. Both guys were featured nearly every week(especially Eddie). Eddie rarely did any clean jobs, pinned Pillman, went to a draw with Badd. He was one of the last 9 guys in the ring at WWIII, and got to hold off Arn and Flair for a stretch in that match. Malenko nearly beat Sting. Obviously, Malenko pretty much reached the level he should have. He was a featured guy every week, got huge pops, and was a strong US champ. Eddie however, never got there. It seemed like once they were gearing up for the NWO, he got lost in the shuffle. I can't help but wonder where guys like them would have ended up if there were no NWO. Also of note, it seems like they were much more interested in protecting some of their "homegrown" guys at the time. Craig Pittman, Eddie, Kurasawa, Malenko, Benoit, Norton and Harlem Heat were all kept very strong at the time. Not sure why they went off the rails in that regard.

I just flipped to the last page of that script for 'The Iowa Raucous' cause I was curious about the roster list and the reasons for guys not being available, i.e. Wade Barrett - injured Dean Ambrose - movie Zack Ryder - sucks Xavier Woods - black but it didn't have one. I did learn Kane's new first name is 'Corportate' though. Slam City is so tepid. Hey, Steve Austin wants his ice coffee, stone cold. Get it, kids? Cause he's Stone Cold Steve Austin. Bah. Give me a cartoon where Rusev gets The Miz to teach him how to drive so he can get his driver's license because he's tired of Lana's reckless driving (cause she's a woman). RUSEV CRASH!?! http://youtu.be/Je-ObyacA2Q

When was Andre managed by Howard the Duck?

My kids absolutely love the Slam City toys, and yes they have the CM Punk one. A while back my 5-year-old said "Now that CM Punk isn't on wrestling anymore, maybe he can really be an ice cream man now." I could barely stop myself from laughing out loud.

I'm a Lions fan and this one rings waaaaaaaay too true:

It didn't NEED to be done, but it just makes the whole thing pop..

Maybe they're setting up a gimmick talk-show host battle royal for WM? Jenny Jones Maury Donahue Springer Ricki Lake Leeza Geraldo just imagine with all of them in the ring, the pop when the next theme turns out to be:

Okay, who's the guy on the right? Pitbull

Oh my. Looks like Michigan thought the series ended last year.

I like everything about that.

One thing I appreciate about WCW's booking, guys running out to help even when they aren't involved in the storyline. See: The Nasty Boys and American Males running out to save Hogan during the mustache shaving. It seems like in today's WWE, people don't leave their orbit.

Soild.

I go back and forth about whether SMB3 or SMW is my favorite Mario game. 3 has the edge in incredibly tight level design, but definitely has some clunkers. And SMW is such a big world filled with weird shit that rewards exploration and experimentation.

Thanks a lot, I found them all.

This site might be of interest to you. http://www.whahof.com/index.html E: I think this is the game I was thinking of, rather than an All-Star game. The Whale versus the Red Army. http://youtu.be/GNPr73LgOts

More like a Loser Pays Child Support/Loser Receives Restraining Order match

That's a pretty horseshit, one-sided article that elides some pretty major facts. Don't read that. I was going to try and stay away from this whole thing because I started reading shit about it on August 16 and honestly I'm felling burned out, but fuck it. Why do you think the article is horseshit and one-sided and what are the pretty major facts omitted? The first half of the article is entirely an attack on Quinn, while the constant stream of harassment, abuse and threats that people like Quinn, Sarkeesian, Mattie Brice, and Jenn Frank (Look 'em up on twitter, they write good stuff) have received get downplayed into a bullet point. It conflates this abuse with the criticism JonTron received for including a pornographic cartoon of Quinn in one of his videos, a fact it fails to mention entirely. It also leaves out most of the other bad behavior that's gone on, like 4chan encouraging people to create fake accounts posing as minorities to support their attacks, which were about as nuanced and sensitive as you can imagine. This all makes their "Gee, shucks, can't we all just have fun and play games?" conclusion pretty disingenuous when they ignore behaviors that make gaming an unsafe and unfun space for large swaths of the population. I'm not trying to attack you or put you on blast at all; you seem like a perfectly good dude. I just didn't want anyone to think that article was a fair or even-handed accounting of events. I remember when I first came to this board there was a guy who was a reviewer for IGN that used to post here. I remember we got into a couple of arguments, mostly in the vein of me arguing that my favorite obscure jRPG deserved way better then the mere 7 it got; whereas he pointed out that a 7 is in fact not a bad score. That's one of the few things I'm happy to see die with the old boards Shit, I remember that guy. Didn't he have the same joshi avatar forever? He had some capital-O Opinions about video games.

That Swagger/Dutch face swap is glorious, I wish that was real life.

Picking Sagat is like the cheat your kid doesn't realize is a cheat until one day it finally will dawn on him why dad always picks Sagat.

We are still doing the EN90 thing. TNA's popularity, represented by Google Trends;

Sorry to keep updating this. But this thing took off like crazy! I was interviewed by ABC News about this whole weird experiment! And Business Insider also ran a piece about it!

As far as living stand ups go, for me, the line still forms behind Lewis Black.