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JBL is the wrestler I've probably done the biggest 180 on over the course of my wrestling life. I never thought anything of him as I was growing up and his title run fell super flat for me at the time, especially with Eddie not getting much of a run before hand. I think it was after he came back to the ring after his first stint announcing that I started to like him. Looking back, he was pretty much always good or at least had visible talent. Yeah, he had some super lame gimmicks in the mid 90s, but he was a poor man's Stan Hansen in the ring and usually good for a fired-up promo. He actually had some fun matches with the pre-DX Outlaws and Kai En Tai even before he settled into the Acolytes. That wasn't even a good gimmick for him, but the chemistry with Faarooq was so good, it kept him afloat for years. The title run was jarring due to how fast his gimmick changed and how fast he won the belt, but his match quality went way up as he got to work longer singles matches with high-end wrestlers. Even though he adopted some cowardly heel tactics, his matches were still mostly high-impact brawling. The length of his reign combined with his mostly cheap wins made him the ideal guy for Cena to crush and launch his main event run. Then he spent the rest of his career as the perfect upper midcard heel with his perfected character and polished in-ring skills.

http://eagles.com/news/266763 God damn it. Enough.

Yes, he explained it wasn't white boy day.

I don't see how anyone thinks Ranallo and his stilted delivery is good. Seems like people over hype any outside hire WWE makes. The guy is not good. No, he's really very, very good. Just give him a chance. Two weeks is not an adequate sample size. I've had the pleasure of listening to his work for NJPW and he's outstanding at calling the match and giving you an incredible amount of back-story without being intrusive. I'd actually go beyond "very, very good" and say the guy is "gifted". The very last thing that the WWE needs to do is curtail him by having an idiot screaming in his ear while he's trying to do his job. Mauro really doesn't require any assistance from VKM in calling matches.

Jason Floyd ‏@Jason_Floyd 4m Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Claudia Gadelha set for The Ultimate Fighter 23 Finale on July 8 in Las Vegas That season will be LHW and Women's Strawweight.

Watching Bo Dallas mugging and looking more like Marco Rubio than ever before I couldn't stop re-imagining the social outcasts as a bunch of primary losers who won't go away. Basically I saw them as: Bo Dallas: Marco Rubio Heath Slater: Jim Webb Curtis Axl: Rick Perry Adam Rose: Zombie Paul Tsongas It then made so much sense when they wouldn't stop taking the mic from each other and even sense more when Hillary The Big Show Clinton chokeslammed Jim Webb and then laid Marco out while he was taking his victory lap while a few holdouts chanted "Please retire!"

The only other one i ever remember from memory is Argus, because it was Flash and drawn by Phil Hester.

Me, last night playing some side mission in Borderlands 2: "I hate this fuckin' game." Me, today, rescuing Roland from prison with 2 significantly better guns: "WOOO, that was fuckin' awesome!"

BBC's new miniseries version of "And Then There Were None" with Charles MOTHERFUCKING DANCE is coming to Lifetime of all places.

Making the master list is the hard part. Now you get to put them into http://www.backloggery.com/and feel organised. Dota 2.

That sucks. Somebody should use a loaded forearm brace as a tribute on Raw tonight.

Matt, I think this is what you're looking for:

Reigns will eliminate Sami immediately after.

And then she gave him the Balor to Bayley suplex

I think the question you need to ask yourself is: How does Zayn eliminating Owens get Roman Reigns over?

This was the main event of the NXT Chicago afternoon show I went to.

That makes it sound like going to NXT is a punishment and place for losers to go.

I only saw the ending (working), but that was HI-LAR-IOUS. First, the crowd said "didn't you used to be Chris Jericho?" with a large amount of don't care, then the action starts and Jericho, who just got done bragging that he was gonna win the Rumble, disappears like Houdini. Then there's the Wyatts. Just absolutely shit-on silence by the crowd after their beatdown, eventually yielding to "that's it?" boos. The WWE served up a big ol' plate of the Wyatts, and the crowd said "no thanks, we're full." Hilarious. The exact opposite reaction the WWE was going for. But you know, with some creative announcing, it could've been kinda saved. The announcers should've pointed out that all four members of the Wyatt Family were in the Rumble, and you know they're gonna work together. Lesnar and Reigns may be supermen, but can they stop four guys? I also saw the ad for Reigns vs. the World Dipshit Squad or whatever they're called on Smackdown. Those matches always make everyone involved come out looking stupid. When's the last time WWE has actually learned from a mistake?

If that ending could've been any worse, Bray Wyatt would've jumped out of a hologram.

Boy that segment with Vince and Steph drawing the numbers was astonishingly bad television. Just want to get that out since it got overshadowed by that mess of an ending.

I want Flair to induct Sting so he can turn on him.

FUCK...FUCK....FUCK! This past couple weeks have been shitty. One of my favorite bands. Really good song writer. FUCK!!!

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IIRC, the WWE released Simmons the day they showed the breakup angle and Simmons' "firing" on SmackDown. I believe Simmons was going to make the transition to road agent, but was let go due to personal issues (but would return about a year later for on-screen cameos).

He literally just helps guide Juvi into the railing. This is not the first or last time he'd try to kill Juvi:

"Miz-esque is his catching ability, wouldn't you say, Joe?"

Don't invoke the wrath of the football gods!

I've played around 10 - 12 hours of the new season of Diablo 3 with my barbarian. Loving it so far. Progressing nicely so far. Just completed my Hellfire Amulet. Up to Greater Rift 29 and do torment 6 with ease and torment 7 I'll die on if the elite packs are of the tougher variety.

Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base ruled.

Is that Christopher Daniels gimmick as lame as it sounds or is it tongue in cheek? "This medal, I received for going to a one hour draw against CM Punk, And THIS medal I received for succesfully navigating backstage politics in TNA for two year"

Why in fucks name are you working so hard to defend this? A: I would be more interested in watching if Scott were playing, yes. Know why? Cause the winner of the 3 on 3 team gets money. To most of the players there it's an inconsequential total. Not for Scott. Someone actually PLAYING HARD in the All-Star game would be incredibly interesting, and it's the main reason nobody gives a fuck about it to begin with. More players coming in to actually play hockey would be outstanding for it. B: He was traded specifically to be waived. Everyone knows it, everyone acknowledges it. If Arizona sent him down, it would be transparent but at least some what understandable. The trade that clearly had the NHL's footprints all over though? That is freaking insane. C: It was Pre set up and encouraged by the NHL specifically to get him out of the All-Star Game. Multiple major hockey writers have said the Coyotes asked him to step down and when he wouldn't, he was traded basically as punishment. That's fucking insanity and terrible. And you defending it is kinda ridiculous.

Again, the All Star game isn't even the story here. The NHL pretty openly involved itself in collusion to move a guy to a different conference and bury him in the AHL, which costs him a bunch of money. I'm sad the media (and pretty much all the fans) has already moved on from that, because it's completely out of line. Phoenix could have just buried him in the minors theselves and the NHL could have made up some new rule on the spot (it's not like they don't introduce rules mid season anyway) and avoided that, but they chose not to. The joke that the All Star game has become is completely secondary, to me.

I'll help Peyton with the HGH injections myself if it means kicking dirt in Brady's face. Sorry, johnnyboy--by far the nicest Patriots fan I've encountered.

This is canon now, right? (From SNL, so not sure if spoilers)

A few months ago I turned the feature off just so I could see if sigs had improved (I know, sometimes I'm as unreasonably optimistic as Greg at a Positivity Seminar run by Vince McMahon...) Anyway, first thing I see is this huge sig wherein this dude is seemingly being fisted by a bear, yeah, that's right, a BEAR! And the color scheme, my God, the color scheme... My eyes bled for three days... We're not trying that experiment again anytime soon.

Ethan Suplee?

Shut up Mike, you goddamn racist.

No, it was that Charlize Theron ran in straight line from a falling spire.

IMO: it might not necessarily be about whether Avery did or did not do it. It's that the cops kinda/sorta thought he did it. And decided to frame him, And ruin his innocent mentally disabled nephew's life in the process. That is the problem. There's a whole lot more to this than a basic Serial-style "Whodunnit?"

I mean, it follows Land pairing with Fraction and Gillen so at least there's something of a tradition of him tanking amazing scripts.

Less than two weeks in, 2016 can already go fuck itself. God speed Ziggy, Godspeed. . .

Jumpin Jeff or nWo Sting Jeff?

Finally watched Creed. Melodramatic and ridiculous at times, which means it was a Rocky movie. I lived for it. Everyone knows at this point that Michael B. Jordan is a damn fine actor but Sly more than held up his end. Billion stars.

Titanic winning sucked. It was a good movie, and it made a buttload of money, but L.A. Confidential was a much better movie, and I think you could make arguments for all of the other three (As Good as it Gets, Good Will Hunting, The Full Monty) being better too.