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So I'm currently sitting in an all day legal seminar. The lunch time entertainment is Joel Gertner. He's dropping Big Dick Dudley references to silence in front of a couple hundred middle aged lawyers. I feel like I'm dreaming this.

See you next Monday

On Sheamus: If you can watch the whc match with Big Show from HIAC a few years ago and still say he's never had a great match... We'll never agree on pro wrestling.

The whole match was played to a Nexus win, with Miz interfering against Bryan, Cena against 2 Nexus people and that DDT on the concrete. Losing directly after that move against super smiley Cena and looking like the biggest jobbers that ever jobbed killed their momentum. People overlook how well the ending stretch was though. After the DDT spot, instead of pinning Cena, Wade had Gabriel hit his 450 move. And he didn't go to hit it ASAP, He took a good 2 or 3 minutes. Look enough for Cena to at least roll out of the way. Once Wade realized what happened, he charged in blindly and got tripped up into the STF. Which worked for me because Wade showed that no matter how collected and mature he was compared to the other rookies, he himself was still vulnerable to his own rage and inexperience. In place of actually discussing your points, take this: You're the worst.

I had to new get a new driver's license and photo and was at the local DMV. When I was sitting there, this dude taps me on the shoulder. "Yo, you know how to spell the word 'mannequin?'" I spelled it for him. Right when I was about to ask why he needed to know that, my number was called.

Vince McMahon I maintain that an amnesia angle where Vince comes out in his loud blazer and thinks he's the play-by-play guy again would be golden. Triple H and Stephanie would just let him be since he'd be out of the way of their plans for world domination.

The Henry/Sheamus match that ended by count-out was fucking fantastic. Monster movie shit.

I think Bryan in the rumble is going to be a bait and switch.

*cues Rex Ryan's music* DID SOMEBODY SAY FOOT? Him with that defense is a scary thought.

Oh yeah, the Nightfall, holy shit. Having maxed out Vision of Cornflakes, Hezen Vengeance and Pocket Infinity makes that a cake walk. In the Omnigul fight, I went in, fired off three rockets at Omnigul, popped my golden gun special and hit Omnigul with 3 out of 4 shots, and then threw my solar grenade thing and she was hurting bad. Like I said, such a cake walk this week and way easier than it was before when there was lightswitch and arc burn. Stupid arc burn.

I've finally stopped being quite so lazy and started going through this thread and adding people on PSN. Only on page 2 so far.

Being an NFL fan is like Qb's, if you have two, you have none. . .

First guy to drop a Lord of the Flies "Sucks to your assmar!" reference becomes my new favorite wrestler

That is absolutely brilliant.

I blame my fingers and autofill and the fact that I really don't care

Tim Livingston posted this on facebook: http://www.bayareasportsguy.com/brian-murphy-knbr-jed-york-jim-harbaugh/ It's an interview with Jed York that got "vaguely hostile". It's glorious. You can hear him shifting uncomfortably in his chair around question 4. Also getting called on his "hold me responsible" is one of the best moments of sports journalism in the last 10 years.

Didn't NXT actually offer a plausible explanation for that? Define "plausible". Husky Harris is a vessel for "Bray Wyatt," who I assume is a spirit of some kind. We can also infer that Husky Harris had a mental breakdown and invented the persona "Bray Wyatt." The latter is realistic and the former is plausible in the WWE Universe, which contains The Undertaker and his random supernatural powers. Bray Wyatt killed Laura Palmer. #spoilers Jesus, Mark, It's 2014. Bray killed Hae-Min Lee. I didnt realize that had someone possesed by an evil spirit. Maybe i should listen after all.

People keep bringing up Wade being injury proned, he has been more proned to being stepped over for terrible people: - 2010, Miz - 2011, Zeke Jackson - 2012, Jericho/Sheamus - 2013, Fandago/Miz/FUCKING CURTIS AXEL - 2014, Swaggie Like if they had just pushed the guy instead of jobbing him to Sheamus or some suck ass performer, he wouldn't be getting "hurt so much." And I like Sheamus, but Wade is clearly better than him in every way except for milking a ten count. I will agree that Mark Henry isn't a guy I remember a lot of matches from. But fucking hell that Summerslam 2011 match with Sheamus is pro wrestling.

Naylor

I don't want to know what you're writing checks to FSW for. I assume it's butt stuff.

The way I understood the stip HHH lost all executive power and couldn't make any decisions to influence talent. However, the way I understood it, and what I expected, was that there was no rule that he couldn't become talent. I would have had HHH as a surprise #30 in the Rumble, with the explanation given the next night, with him getting Eliminated by Bryan but coming back in and sledging Cena leading to his elimination. HHH then says his goal is to make sure Cena never breaks Flair's record- by getting the title himself and screwing Cena every chance he gets unless he brings him back to power, in which case he'll give him every opportunity at it.

I am so glad the work wifi works. Watching Hardcore TV at lunch means I'll be able to finally watching these as I held off for a little while. And the resume watching elements of the Network make this so convenient now. On the second to last episode for '94, and can't wait to get into '95. A lot has been said about Shane Douglas relying on profanity in his promos. I agree on that but feel his promo work has been overlooked because of that. I found in watching these shows that he's been really underrated in selling a match. He did a promo hyping his match up with Ron Simmons that at most had the word "damn" in it. This was also the one where he washed his hands of Ric Flair for not answering his calls. And it was tremendous. On top of that, it went about 5 or 6 minutes but it never at any point dragged like today's interviews tend to do. Promos aside, he was very deserving of being the main guy in ECW.

Ladies and gentlemen, with the regular season now in the books it is that moment you've all been waiting for! No not the playoffs or Gronk's next photoshoot; it's.... The 2014 Top of the Bottom Awards Ceremony! That's right! Now before we get on to crowning one team as the Top of the Bottom, I would like to introduce the 2014 Top of the Bottom All-Suck teams! The players and units were chosen carefully after hours of caffeine fueled stat crunching over at Football Outsiders and only come from teams in the rankings. Sadly they did not have stats for players in the secondary, but with teams this bad who needs a secondary? So without further ado, here are your 1st and 2nd team All-Suck players! 1st Team All Suck Players: QB: Blake Bortles - Jacksonville RB: Toby Gerhart - Jacksonville WR1: Cecil Shorts III - Jacksonville WR2: Cordarelle Patterson - Minnesotta TE: Levine Toilolo - Atlanta O-Line: Tampa Bay D-Line: Oakland 2nd Team All Suck Players: QB: Josh McCown - Tampa Bay RB: Daren McFadden - Oakland WR1: Pierre Garcon - Washington WR2: Allen Hurns - Jacksonville TE: Mychal Rivera - Oakland O-Line: Jacksonville D-Line: Atlanta Let's give a quick round of applause to the players that truly personify the Top of the Bottom! So seeing as how the final adjusted rankings have already been released, it is not time to present to you the Top of the Bottom Goodell Trophy: Isn't it amazing? So now allow me to present to you the 2014 Top of the Bottom Champion: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers! It takes a true lack of effort and talent to be able to rise to the top of the worst and Tampa fought tooth and nail all season long. Enjoy this lovely trophy and your first round pick and we will see you next year right here on Top of the Bottom!

Problem with Big Show as a heel announcer is that after a week they'd turn him and he'd be a babyface announcer. Then he'd turn again. And again. And again.

She wishes...

Main Event Miz was good.

This is what I've chosen to end the year with.

The man actually said "The Redskins are winning off the field" You can't make this stuff up

Adam being the 'Bill Cosby' of WWE is RIGHT THERE and should be done. There is so much WWE can do with the douchebag party guy that may or may not slip people ruffies. I see a violent streak coming. "Oh!? You don't want to party anymore!?" *Kendo Stick to the face*. "Not having fun are we!? No problem!". *Steel Chair shot to the back*. WWE should get really ridculous and have Adam Rose FORCE a party on someone under the guise of 'fun'. Imagine someone like Ryback or Bryan coming out to cut a serious promo and then all of a sudden confetti starts falling and Adam Rose and The Rosebuds come to the ring and start dancing essentially cutting off Serious Promo Time. Rose of course would turn that impromptu party into something that is all about him and will attack the orginial speaker. I hope WWE doesn't give up on the guy because with just some more creative juices put into him, he can become easily one of the most unlikable characters in WWE.

Go to the Network, watch everything pre 2000. Specifically Late 80's/Early 90's. Be happy.

Fuck The Authority and fuck this company. I'm done. Call me when Vince dies and they get a creative team worth a shit.

Just like Elvis.

I'm really mad about the treatment of Smaug. If it was going to end up being a five minute squash between Bard and Smaug, don't end the last film on a cliffhanger. Let Desolation be the Empire of the trilogy. The Gandalf / Saruman / Galadriel stuff sucked. Thorin's paranoia was lame. I wanted Killi and Tauriel to kill Bolg, not just be fodder to build up Legolas (the Cena of Peter Jackson's Middle Earth). I did like the Bard / Smaug showdown, but it should've been in the 2nd movie. I liked the Thorin / Asok death match. I guess that's it.

I feel like RZombie feels about Mark Henry except about Sheamus. I wouldn't pass the Matt D "can you empathize" test either. Beyond him being a good striker willing to give and take stiff shots, I'm not sure why people like him. I don't get it. I watch Sheamus and wish I was watching Finlay instead. That guy had a real sense of meanness that both face and heel Sheamus lacks. There's no authenticity there, no sense of seething violence brimming underneath the surface. What am I missing?

I don't see how losing at Summerslam hurt Nexus. If anything, it was smart that they stopped trying to make them equals pushed Wade as a solo star. No one got has much heat as he did for the shit he did to Cena. The night after Survivor Series, the crowd was booing him so loud, he told them to shut up because he fired Cena before cutting the promo. It was great. One thing I will remember for a long ass time was watching that promo with Barrett calling Cena pathetic and Cena took it with my grandmother. This 68 year old Native American woman was blind in one eye evoked the spirit of The Duke (that's John Wayne for you non-believers) and called Cena was a bitch for taking Wade's shit and said "John Wayne wouldn't take his shit!" She died a few months later of CHF, but I digress.. Pro wrestling is awesome when you see someone else genuinely invested in it. Only problem was he was just 'okay' in the ring on his best night against someone not named John Cena vs a Randy Orton that is fucking awful at carrying people. If Wade was as good as he is now in the ring back in 2010, there's no fucking reason why they wouldn't of put the belt on him.

Didn't NXT actually offer a plausible explanation for that? Define "plausible". Husky Harris is a vessel for "Bray Wyatt," who I assume is a spirit of some kind. We can also infer that Husky Harris had a mental breakdown and invented the persona "Bray Wyatt." The latter is realistic and the former is plausible in the WWE Universe, which contains The Undertaker and his random supernatural powers. Bray Wyatt killed Laura Palmer. #spoilers Jesus, Mark, It's 2014. Bray killed Hae-Min Lee.

For everyone that hates The Miz, that guy worked really hard in a match that ended the year with a "This is awesome" chant. Kudos to him. Way too many "weird" promos where we got to see some awkward attempts at character development. And hearing Bad News Barrett pull a Road Dogg on the way down the ramp was...something. EDIT: Cesaro needs to join The New Day and fix that crappy attitude of his...

Someday nate's daughter is gonna kill us all.

Assuming they're still together by Wrestlemania, I feel Miz should take a Scott Hall style flying back bump after eating a Stunner so we get the visual of Mizdow mimicking it. A Wrestlemania moment for the ages.

The only things I'd change about the ending is that I wouldn't have had Rollins talk so much, and I would've set it up in a way so Cena wasn't required to do any acting. I probably wouldn't have used Edge and Christian here either. Also, I would have changed the bit where the Authority come back to the Authority not coming back.

"This is near!" ........................ "THIS IS FAAAAAAAAAR!!!"

Seth hit him with the brief case and then he disappeared like a dead character fades out in a video game. I swear I saw a bunch of coins bouncing in the ring in Christian's place after the briefcase shot.

Jerry Jarrett rejected this video as "not quite gay enough."