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I like that Dean arrived in a cab and clearly had no money to pay. Dean has always had trouble separating cabs, ambulances, and buses, and police cars. They all kind of seem to do the same things to him. So there's no way he's clear on which ones he's supposed to pay for, which ones he is supposed to jump in front of and hope they stop, and which ones other people put you into. Like, he got there tonight probably by jumping in front of one kind. And he left by being put into another kind. And that is how transportation works for him.

To be fair, I doubt that he's married to AJ for much longer. He has a history of walking out on contractual obligations after the Royal Rumble.

So, he feigned illness to get out of seeing Fred Durst in concert? Well played, Mr. Taker.

Meanwhile at King of Trios

You have to approach beating Brock Lesnar like a quest in a role playing game. If you can get the magic brief case, and let John Cena spam Lesnar with AA's until his HP runs out, thenpay the dollars and maybe get lucky with a brief case shot before the bell and maybe a finishing maneuver if you have enough MP. If you're worried, keep leveling up by beating Cesaro a bunch of times.

They're sitting on Fort Fucking Knox with Ambrose. But they'll fuck it up. Can Vince get declared infirm and just hand the place over to Trip already? Goldust's face paint was fucking amazing.

I don't consider anyone that covers wrestling to actually be journalists or reporters.

As someone who was anti-Austin during the Attitude Era, yes, I want Brock Lesnar to destroy Steve Austin. And before Lesnar throws the first German Suplex I want him to whisper in Austin's ear "This is for Stacy Keibler, mother fucker."

Steve Austin will be 50 by the time Wrestlemania comes around and his neck is made of tissue paper. Brock Lesnar eats people...and their cars. Is this really what ANYONE wants to see?

Last time we saw Ahmed, the only thing going down was a record number of plates at catering.

So for the bulk of the match Brock is just wandering around taking shits.

The only thing that would have made Ambrose in a taxi better would have been him in an un-marked white van in which he opens the door a bunch of illegal workers pop out and escape All this talk about Cena vs Brock at Hell in the Cell is so depressing because we all know Rollins vs Ambrose would be incredible in a cell

Are you saying that you don't want anyone else to write for Dean Ambrose or that you don't trust him to write for anyone else? It's not that I don't trust him, I just want all his attention on Dean. It's too important for him to be distracted by the Kofi Kingston's of the world. To be fair, WWE Creative themselves aren't even distracted by the Kofi Kingston's of the world currently.

Why? It's not like he's exerting any type of energy with his arms when he applies the STF.

Whatever plans they had for Reigns, the reaction Ambrose got tonight should make it pretty clear who to plug into that spot now. Dude could honestly be their next Austin (in terms of character, if not crossover appeal).

When someone grabs the ropes are you allowed to just pull them off the ropes into the hold again without letting go? That's some Sheamusy babyfacing

I predict that the Carolina Panthers will do their part to make the world a better place on Sunday. Cause: Carolina opens up their first two drives with touchdowns. Effect: Steeler fans in the stadium become sick. They no longer feel like eating. Chickens saved: 50,000 Cause: For the third week in a row, Carolina holds an opponent to 0 points in the first half. Effect: The entire city of Pittsburgh simultaneously shuts off their tv's at halftime. Electricity saved: 11.5 million watts Cause: Run defense is stout, holding L. Bell to under 70 yards rushing and no TDs. Effect: The combined groans of the remaining Steeler fans and fantasy football noobs who started Bell even though they know our D is legit increases CO2 produced by 1000%. Plants created due to increased CO2: 78.6 billion Cause: By the fourth quarter the game will be well in hand as Carolina has a 3 TD lead. Effect: Steeler fans will leave the stadium in disgust well before the fourth quarter. Traffic will flow as smoothly as if a game never occurred. Families will be in a pleasant mood the following Monday. Workplace productivity will be through the roof. Total dollars generated in Charlotte on Monday alone: 1.9 trillion. Cause: A late field goal will add shame onto an otherwise boring game for neutrals. Effect: Pittsburgh will look to tuck their tail and run, but Luke will cut their tail off and use it for his War Headdress for next weeks WW3 vs. Baltimore. Total asses beaten: 53

That a man was dead, leaving behind his wife and young children?

Or people just using his initials you child.

Agree. I feel like the only people who really get rewarded are the ones who are able to pour a large amount of time into the game and constantly grind through bounties and and missions to level up vanguard and crucible points.

The Black Bo Dallas http://deadspin.com/high-school-football-players-speech-will-make-you-belie-1637427231?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

IIRC, they made the offer to Tammy, and she took them up on it so many times that she's the first person that WWE has formally ceased offering to send to rehab. they didn't even give her a plaque for being a bigger fuckup than Jake Roberts and Scott Hall

"You had a stroke? which side of your body is affected?" "Um... I don't know" "This should be obvious" "I meant.. I had a heart attack!" "Uh huh" "If you have $25 to spare, I'll Snapchat you"

L.A. Park is due for a WWE run, damnit!

WR is my favorite position on the field but I wish they could do something about seemingly every WR complaining about a penalty every time they get breathed on on an incompletion.

I think that talk has more to do with the fact that assuming he doesn't just plead out your looking at a year plus before a trail. hes 29 now so your looking at a 30+ year old at a position that doesn't have a great +30 year old track record. Yea I am assuming he is smart enough to plead out, once that comes in he would get his suspension and he should be cleared under regular rules by next year (mid-year at the worst). And there is no way that AD wouldn't be good enough to be a RB in the NFL next year. But he would have to get the trial cleared up and do the apologize/counselling thing post haste, the longer it drags out the less likely he will be able to come back. And no, I don't think a person should be suspended indefinitely for what AD did, nor honestly what Rice did although obviously both deserve suspensions. Whether a team wants them or not with the PR issues is another matter, obviously I don't think teams should be required to play them or something. Rice is done in only because of the video, and people have been happy to point out that Hope Solo is still playing even though she has an active domestic case open so its not just an NFL issue. The worse crime to me is how easy Rice got off in the criminal system, why people are more angry at the NFL than those prosecutors is beyond me. The NFL is a business that looks at profits, the court system is on paper the place that should be giving the real punishment. EDIT: Sorry waldo, I think I edited my post so I didn't double post before you Liked it, so I won't hold ya to liking the entire thing

Max and Rudy

All the talk in this thread is depressing. Either Cena wins or we have to have another older star return at Wrestlemania.

I really want to see Ahmed Johnson in the dying days of TNA just pearl river plunging everyone and leading a 20 strong crowd chant of "YOU'RE GOING DOWN"

SCREAMTIME: (filmed in 1983 but released in 1986) I had no idea what this is going in, but the cover art on Netflix was great: It is an expression of just how tantalizing we are to them (them being all the different kinds of monsters out there). This woman is being groped by a ghoul, felt up by a skeleton, grabbed by a corpse and licked by an evil puppet, while a banshee/ghost/monk guy is unable to sit still and let this all play out. He just can't contain himself and has to get to axing. None of them can. They just want us so much. It is nothing if not a reminder that each of us is loved. Each of us is desirable...that is to say, to every type of monster and horror and ghoul and demon, each of us is desirable. No matter how bad things may be going for you on the human romance front, your body is a wonderland to every Dracula and Mummy and Leprechaun and Tremor Worm and Warlock out there. I had never really thought about it, but the legions and worlds of horrific supernatural beings floating in and out of our plane are really consumed with an unquenchable lust for me...and you...and that's something to hold on to. You are wanted. And that's just the front. Nevermind the undead skeleton holding up his homemade collages with so much pride on the back cover. Like he's doing a book report or something. Love that guy. So the promise of an as yet unseen American horror movie from the golden moment of 1983 was too much to pass by. Well shit...it wasn't an American movie from the golden era. It was yet another UK Omnibus of which there were so many in the 1970s, a sad last gasp from an earlier era. But THIS ONE WAS DIFFERENT!!! The individual shorts were tied together by a bizarre and cheesy wraparound set in New York City. I don't know if an American company bought the British shorts and tried to make it "American" with the new footage. Or if the British company did this to market to the U.S. But GODDAMMIT, This is American in the sense that none of the British stuff is actually happening. THAT stuff is all fiction and the New York wraparound scenes are reality. Don't forget that! See, it's just like V/H/S. Two stereotypical NOO YAWK goons, one tall fat Chris Penn-looking motherfucker with sensitive eyes and one really short muscley Harvey Keitel/Benny Urquidez looking motherfucker with a chip on his shoulder, steal three video tapes and hunker down in some girl's apartment to watch them. We see the three movies they are watching. But the movies are not real... They're movies. But the three goons are real. Even though you're watching them on your t.v., they're watching other people on theirs. This is like INCEPTION, man. Apparently they managed to steal three British VHS tapes featuring movies that were only a half hour long each. Whatever. Much more important is that we are squarely in KOTTER-era New York...As the camera pulls across the skyline, you're fully expecting see Baretta warming his hands over a trash can fire. We catch glimpses of an early primitive Panasonic LCD screen ad next to a FUCKING HUGE banner for BARRY MANILOW: IN CONCERT. There's snow on the ground and according to BARRYNETHOMEPAGE.com, the only times in the Winter of '82-'83 that Barry was in New York City was from February 22 to March 6 at the Uris Theater. So we have a time frame. For some more background, I will quote from one Lenora Kaplan, denizen of BarryConcerMemories.net Indeed, Lenora. So it is safe to assume that at the precise moment we are watching these three sad idiots watch these three British short videos, Lenora Kaplan from Chicago, Illinois is getting the wig-splitted by Barry Manilow ticket scalpers. But nevermind all that. The wraparound takes us, along with the two goofballs, into a fucking Sweet 1983 video store and piece of history at 49th and Broadway called "Video Shack INC." They may well be stepping through Lenora Kaplan's dried blood and shards of her shattered spectacles to get into that store. Again, that's just conjecture at this point. Video Shack INC was one of the first video stores in all of New York. They were around before most people even knew what a VCR was, and as owner Arthur Morowitz describes...that could be a problem: This was back in the day when video store employees were paid on commission for selling people tapes that were grouped in glass jewelry-style display cases by distributor label rather than by genre. And since most of it was porn and cheap exploitation stuff...you had a salesman taking titty and gore tapes out of a glass case to show to you like you were buying a watch. And his livelihood depended on you taking that shit home so he was selling it, baby. Check out the perv in the background and just imagine what sickening cravings he is satisfying...hand in pocket...yeah, buddy, like we don't know: AND YOU ARE GETTING A GLIMPSE INTO THIS WORLD THANKS TO THIS IDIOTIC MOVIE!!! Arthur's main competition was Noel Gimbel, owner of Sound Video Unlimited, which had just started branching from music into video in 1981. But do you see "Sound Video Unlimited" in the opening segment of SCREAMTIME? FUCK NO!!! Point - Morowitz. Although they did end up in a long protracted lawsuit that wasn't settled until 1988. Sadly by the 90s Arthur was bumped by the new Times Sqaurification down to 31st and 6th in a space that is now a Starbucks and a GNC. As far as I can tell, both Arthur and Video Shack INC and any world worth living in, are all now dead. Note: The porn theater in the background is showing TABOO II. I'm pretty sure that was a famous porn, back when individual porn movies were like, famous, like where Travis Bickle would take Cybil Sheppard. As they walk past, one of our main characters makes the international sign for "Look at those huge tits on that poster!" You know the one...with two hands moving up and down in front of your chest. Let's all do that now. Okay, good. To get a sense of how much has changed, here is that same corner today: It's a FUCKING SBARRO TABOO II has been replaced by a Superdry: YOU TELL ME WHICH IS WORSE!!!! This was pre-Blockbuster, so the cases are stocked with the BIG plastic boxes that had the company logos and made every video store shelf look like some kind of temple of every conceivable color and emotion. There is a big display cutout for THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS. Sadly the movie boxes we actually see are for the three fake movies "Killer Punch" "Scream House" and "Journey Beyond" However it should be noted that the three fake VHS boxes are every bit as glorious as the real one for this actual movie: Speaking of which, I forgot that part. Fuck...I'll hit the actual movie next time.

Punk McGruff, Chicago, Illinois, 60652

Oh? You didn't know?

The irony being that wrestling is FULL of people who have done far worse than punching their girlfriend, including first degree murder, rape, and child molestation, and have gotten away with it scott free.

Whatever happens tomorrow, I comfort myself with the knowledge that Randy Orton is nowhere near the title picture.

HOOSIER DADDY, Missouri?

Dear Wrestling Observer Forum, I am a ring attendant in a small village near Tijuana, and was convinced that all of your wild and sexy stories were complete works of fiction. Until one day...

Look, I'm gonna be straight up with you guys, someone shoulda drowned Caillou.

Two dudes should always fuck up one dude

Consider these your only warning on the matter If you are asked by an admin/mod to do something... do so. Don't act surprised when you are suspended/banned for not listening. This website and message board have been around for 15+ years and has been through several incarnations. Many of us are way older and we have attracted a newer auidence (somehow). If you can not accept things have changed - find somewhere else to post. We have a standing policy that if you post "goodbye" posts we would help you stick to your guns and ban you. The same now applies if you bitch about how much you hate it here. It definitely is you... not us. There is a new wonderful bit where people love to say amazingly douchey things to me on places like Twitter and Facebook. If I figure out what your board name is - you are banned. (Not to mention blocked on said social media.)

Seriously? Could you take the pretension down a notch or two, please? We get it, you know a lot about wrestling. You don't need to flaunt it in the faces of all us plebes. How is it pretenious? Zayn/El Generico and Neville/Pac are very well known Wrestlers online and have been on Raw. This is the opposite of pretentiousness. Actually, it is entirely possible, if you don't watch NXT and/or don't watch RAW regularly, that you have no idea what Zayn looked like unmasked and Neville could not be quickly recognizible. What's pretentious is your constant belief that there should be a litmus test of minimum knowledge across the globe of people to post here and that you find it unbelieveable that people don't match your knowledge of everything wrestling. You're like Antacular, just confined to the Wrestling Subforum instead of the entire board.

Made it to level 14 before stopping to watch lucha. Spent 10 minutes trying to do a mission on the moon where you have to get on top of that circular base before realizing i was doing it the wrong way. Dope.

Well that was... something. Who knew Leicester would Hulk up and drop the leg.

Of course, the flip side of that is the possibility of Supergirl and Flash -- whose showrunners didn't coordinate -- each using Captain Boomerang in very different ways in the same week, totally confusing viewers.

Hey, I barely know who Devitt and KENTA are, I have no idea why KENTA is spelled in all caps, and I know I won't remember/recognize any of those five once they're moved up to Raw/Smackdown full time. My facial recognition of wrestlers who jump from one fed to another just isn't what it used to be. Not that it ever was, really: I remember the first time I saw Brother Love, I assumed it was Curt Hennig, or at least some shorter, fatter Hennig relative. Anyway, since this is a photo thread and all:

Marie Antoinette is an intriguing piece of work for me, due to the post modern pop culture blender effect. Same as Moulin Rogue.

Hero's gotten a little chunky but I thought Murdoch and Gordy were the patron saints of this site? Did Kevin Dunn and Vince McMahon take over DVDVR? Are we now pushing Rene Dupree for the HOF?

Screw it, getting Destiny tonight. Now I gotta power through the trophy list between now and 2020.