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Really, though. PAUL FUCKING HEYMAN. There was this magical break in that sequence. It started as just a normal Heyman/Cena promo...and then it was over, right? And Cena was leaving and the music was ready to cue...but then...Heyman laughed. He laughed that laugh that was just other worldly. And it was like a second curtain rose and we were going into a new place all of the sudden. A place where Brock Lesnar only hears three things: "One, the referee who has the power to disqualify him. Two, Paul Heyman who strategizes his greatest victories, and Three....the suffering of his victims." And then a place where this happens: "CenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksCenasucksOH SEE IT GETS TO YOU!!!! Don't you just want, one time to tap into that hatred and that disease and that rage in your soul and turn to that fat unemployed drunk slob in the sixth row ONE TIME and say SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!! One time. One moment. That's all it takes and it turns forever...Do it with me! and then when you give in to that hatred...THEN you CAN BE THE ONE!!!!" Fucking hell! The best thing about that promo is that it essentially was the pitch that Heyman would make to Cena if he actually wanted to turn him and represent him. It was Palpatine trying to turn Luke right in front of the guy he would replace. It was the speech that we never got to see Heenan give to Andre but was only implied. But here we got to see it, sort of. Heyman was just playing, but he was also practicing for when he makes that pitch for real. And then at the end moving form baiting him into turning, to daring him: "Because, John Cena, I believe in you. I believe you have it in you...But My client thinks you just don't have it in you." Goddamn I love that man.

So Ziggler had access to Miz and Mayse's house and got naked pics of Miz. We learned a lot about Dolph tonight.

Russo is probably the last person in pro wrestling I would want to have to interact with to be honest. Maybe in another fifteen years and even then not to hear him shill a fantasy league. I'm not saying we'd be better off with Marty Jannetty sitting around the campfire telling us about drugging stewardesses in broken English but it would be close. Some people just don't deserve this place.

He'd have to get used to fighting within his own weight class tho.

Vinny: "They know nothing about the wrestling business." Spike exec: "What Vince Russo is saying is complete nonsense." I don't know, sounds like they've got a pretty good handle on the wrestling business.

"TAKE ME TO HARLEM." "Sorry, I'm going off duty-" " I SAID HARLEM. "-but-" "HARLEM." "..."

I always thought the "devil's advocate" gimmick could have made some real money.

Yeah Orton's sucked for a while.

I'm totally ok with Rippa and co. letting Russo register on one condition: His user name must be EBR090.

I"m guessing someone at ESPN decided to say "fuck it" to their job:

It should also disqualify you from any team except, well, right now Seattle. Frontrunner.

"Yes I would like to replace my Ray Rice Jersey with a Ray Lewis jersey please"

Spoiler! Bruce Willis was dead the whole time! Did I do it right? I think you overestimate how much I like you...

I worked tonight, but I can't wait to see the Heyman promo. AMC should start a show called "Better Call Paul," where Heyman sits in an office and cuts promos on the different wrestlers who walk in.

It was inevitable. That guy was nuts.

A buddy of mine who is an EMT responded to Heenan's place last week. Said he was fine but clearly couldn't communicate to well. When my friend who recognized him, spoke to him loudly Heenan mumbled "I can't talk, but i'm not def." He also apperently signed his form "The Brain," and flipped off the EMT's when they left.

Last place New England Patriots is the greatest phrase in the English language, and for the next five days, I will be rubbing it in the nose of all the bandwagon fucking Patriot fans I know.

John Rabe ‏@johnrabe 15h If #NFL saw video, Ray Rice "punishment" is indefensible. If they didn't, it's because they deliberately turned their backs. Bad either way. John Rabe @johnrabe · 16m #Ravens and #NFL can't have it both ways. For months they've implied, "If you'd seen the full video, you might not be so hard on #RayRice." John Rabe @johnrabe · 22h The #Ravens didn't release Ray Rice when they saw this video. They released Ray Rice when YOU saw the video. Remember that.

Yesterday was solid. My son came to see me act for the first time ever. We snuck him in for my one act, which is as close to a children's show as I'm going to get. Afterwards he told me he was proud of me. Can't describe how awesome it is to be on stage and hearing your kid laugh at you. Also got cast in what will be batshit insane production of Macbeth. Riding high, riding high.

My 12 year old got redistricted this year. Brand new school, but he's only in the second year of Middle School. He's had to move around quite a bit in his life, generally small moves, but a lot of new starts, so it's always a little tricky. Apparently, his entire GT English class, including the teacher, watch Doctor Who, so they start every Monday morning talking about the episode. It bodes well for the new year.

Whats one more person on ignore? The more the merrier.

Lost in all of this is that Janay Rice is probably in a shitload more danger than she was before. Going by that tape, he was already a violent nutcase with a callous disregard for her life before all this went down...and now he's a violent nutcase who likely blames her for ruining his career and costing him millions of dollars. And is going to be around the house a lot more.

No one answer. I want to keep it a mystery.

"She's a gold digger and is stupid for not leaving" is this week's "Well, Jennifer Lawrence brought this on herself for taking nude pictures on her phone."

Looks like shocked Undertaker guy is coming for Lesnar.

Tom Brady is alone in last place.

y'all thought I was messing around. Two of you are on Jaecation for 3 days. When you come back try not to respond to each other. And don't ever. ever. ever. publicly ask for an admin to ban some one. We hate it. Carry on.

One of the recent WWE documentaries had this map pop up and I thought to track it down today- I wonder if there's any chance WWE will ever put together a Memphis wrestling documentary. Doesn't Lawler have a lot of their tape library? If not a feature, it would be cool to see a doc with mini chapters each highlighting various prominent territories that were popular over the years. Getting rights to such a thing would probably be a mess though.

Luke Wilson should play Austin Idol in the Memphis wrestling movie that'll never be made.

I'm one of those 400 people in the crowd at those PWG shows and thus I feel entitled enough to believe that AJ Styles should do a job for me to enhance my viewing experience. I also reserve the right to completely forget about the result of that match and AJ's existence on the card as soon as one of the Young Bucks does a superkick in the very next match.

Now that's what I'm talking about. Good man. Los Santos needs a few good men. Of course, that'll change to me cussing you after your 10,000th kill of me in the night's first deathmatch. The mayor's office issued a statement yesterday to all Destiny players: "You can stick Saturn up Uranus, boys." So are you at the point yet where the aliens take you up in their ship, give you an anal probe and the Scott Baio gives you pinkeye? You can do like I do - join a gym and never go. I've belonged to my current gym for four months and have gone twice. At least it's really inexpensive. They love me. Every day it's "I've gotta go to the gym tomorrow." Tomorrow never arrives, it's weird. That youngurn's gonna be a football player. No matter what the sex (but I think it's gonna be a boy, right?), name the kid Johnny Football. I'm serious. Imagine the press coverage. During the 2008 presidential race, someone from my hometown made national news when he named his girl "Sarah McCain Palin." Melraz, Robert and I were "fighting" these two last night who would go into glitches, go into passive, go into passive in glitches, you name it, they did it, and pretty much every time they weren't in passive, they were getting dominated. Mel leaves, so Robert and I keep up the pressure since we're the only four in there and we wanna run them off for ran-off room no. 2. Then Robert says "this room's full," and sure enough, the room pretty much magically went from 4 to 16. We start chasing other dots, 'cause those guys are just passive-mode babies. Frickin' five seconds after Robert goes to find another dot, he finds 18 of them. I'm like (dammit, Robert) "I'm headed your way." As soon as I arrive, the place thins out (coincidence, I'm certain) and it's down to us 2 against one guy. He's doing very well against me and staying even with Robert. Then here comes a jet. Jet thrashes me, killing me about seven times before crashing. I said to Robert "watch this asshole, he's gonna come back in in passive." No, he came back and proceeded to stick a sniper rifle so far up my ass the barrel was sticking out of my mouth. He proceeded to thrash the living shit out of me, just beat me unmerciful while I cowered in a corner. I got a real fluky kill on him late, so I think the final total was 14-1 or something. Not fun. It's amaing how the game can go (for me) from kicking the shit out of someone to getting the shit kicked out of me so easily.

The missed flight did lead to this fantastic tweet, however: ILYASS? ‏@ilyassking1 My Drawing of @GoGoACH

Brock vs. Henry Brock vs. Wyatt Brock vs. Sheamus Brock vs. Dolph Brock vs. Orton Brock vs. Cesaro Brock vs. Ambrose Any of those would excite me. Brock vs. Big Show??? Fuck youuuuuuuuuuu

I've told you, RUkered, it's the dude's first day AND he's hungover and he's wrecked twice. His day's been going bad enough already, and then you kill him? I will if it's a mission and I need a helicopter really badly, but usually I'll either steal a helicopter or let him fly me while I pour another drink and eat a snack. It's a good break. The airstrike works about 1 out of every 10 times, but CHEESIS~! is it fucking hilarious when it works. It's probably killed me more than its kiled the dude I'm going for, but who cares? It costs $6 grand, but who cares? And AxB, we are in agreement on the SUV and Muscle cars. I don't really know about the Muscle cars 'cause they've came out with so many, but I haven't heard any real chatter about one being the best. Plus they all cost money and the Gauntlet is SO easily stealable. I think the Huntley accelerates better than the Radius, but that's it. The acceleration edge is SO not worth $250,000 when probably one out of every thousand races are SUV races. The Radius is incredibly stealable. Let's see, if I had to have just one in each class: Super: Entity or Zentorno Sports: Massacro (Elegy's a fine car for the cheap) Sedan: Tailgater Coupe: Exemplar Muscle: Gauntlet Sports Classics: Monroe Compact: Issi for the cheap, Rhapsody for the not (so few compact races, the money spent may not be worth it) Off-road: Sanchez Motorcycle:Bati 801 SUV: Radius (unless you're loaded, then the Huntley) Robert, I just laugh when someone comes straight at me in Freemode. It's like "are you that stupid?" BOOM "Yep, you are." Oh, and I guess just about everyone in Los Santos is headed off to Uranus or Saturn or whatever, but rest assured the Four Horsemen of Los Santos is keeping a grip on the 20 or so who remain. "The Nature Boy" Melraz, "The Enforcer" Robert C, "The Outlaw" RUkered and me, Paul Roma.

Can we choose their names? Fat Spanish Waiter II or ENO9O?

If the season ended today, three of the five teams in the A.L. playoffs would be the Royals, The Orioles, and the Mariners. I don't think I've really wrapped my head around that yet.

I think the important thing we learned from the show is that Paul Heyman got the devil to sell him his soul.

I think that "Ali" did an inferior job of telling the story as compared to "When We Were Kings", a documentary from around the same time frame. I thought it did a vastly superior job of illustrating what Ali meant to the people of Zaire/Africa. As far as Ali being hated... he was definitely hated by white America,but to Black Americans and internationally, he was beloved for standing up to the establishment. The Foreman fight was his baby face turn in a lot of ways, because Ali an the fight with his brain, and he did it in front of a crowd that he was already a hero to. Americans love a winner, and it was getting hard for white America not to admit he was the best. The Greatest even! I think you are underestimating the amount of black people who found his comments about other black people reprehensible. There was a large group of black people who did love him because he fought the system, but there was also a lot of black people who hated the fact that he disparaged every black fighter with the same type of racist comments that he claimed to be fighting against more than a little problematic. I think a bit revisionist history (created by HBO, ESPN and the like) has created the ideal ending and doesn't like to look at that dichotomy. It's easy to look at Ali-Holmes and say everyone was pissed at Holmes for beating Ali because Ali was this black demi-god. However, that doesn't account for the fact Ali came out of retirement, needed the money badly in an era when guaranteed purses were getting bigger at the advent of PPV, and they tried several times to set that fight up over 2 years at least in exotic locations. The black bathroom attendant story gets tossed around like that's how every black person felt, and it was Marciano-Louis all over again for the black race (like the first Spinks fight didn't happen). I believe that's one reason they didn't go past the Foreman fight in Ali. Because there is no resolution to the story arc. Ali kept on talking shit even when he was physically deteriorating in front of everyone's eyes and making the same vicious comments. Watch him try to cut promos during Holmes vs. LeDoux and jump on the ring apron after the fight. It cannot be described as anything but incredibly sad to watch. But what you saw on Muhammad and Larry is sad, pitiful, and innocent Ali and Holmes with a chip on his shoulder. You did not see the guys from Holmes' era (the Spinks brothers, Berbick, etc.) and Ali's own era (Frazier, Foreman, Norton, etc) who also had something to prove. The amount of vitriol he had was returned in spades in the form of all the fights from Frazier 3 (Thrilla in Manila) to his final fight with Trevor Berbick. The one thing from all those documentaries that wasn't put through the revisionist filter is Ferdie Pacheco saying he shouldn't have been in the ring after the third Frazier fight. However, Ali fancied himself a business man and boxing is a business. By the time Ali fought Holmes (mind you w/ six extra years of his brain getting rattled violently in sparring and live fights), black America had changed dramatically from when he won it from Liston and when he won it back from Foreman. Sure there was an attachment with older black people who remember prime Ali, but there was a good percentage who saw it as what happens in boxing. People get the shit kicked out of them at some point. It was the exact same way for someone like Sugar Ray Leonard, who came in at the end of that "pro-black" era. He was a black hero when he won Olympic gold in 76. By the time Terry Norris beat the holy hell out of him, black people (and everyone else) didn't give a single shit. The attachment to the sport and black athletes had changed. Plus, we already saw through the facade of an iconic boxer having multiple retirements and coming back with Muhammad Ali. Boxing was all about pilfering black and white dollars together by then (see: Holmes vs. Cooney).

To be fair, NJPW did work with a company with larger presence, but they had far shittier booking.

I hate that I like your avatar so much.

Yeah, Jay Z didn't resort to violence and the worst was some ribbing on Saturday Night Live. Maybe a mild bruise. Oh, the horror. And everyone thinks she's fucking nuts now. Ray Rice knocked his fiancee out and almost killed her with the way her head hit. Then he dragged her lifeless body out of an elevator. Obvious differences are obvious.