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The Miz is the best promo in the WWE and no one wants to admit it

Vince: Good to see you again, Tajiri! You grew your hair out!

I do find it very "interesting" that most fans will concede that race-baiting angles and even homophobic ones are in poor taste, but when you try to take their woman beating away from them, it's all "WHAT THE FUCK SJW TRYHARDS" There is exactly one good argument for intergender matches - the one about there being so few women to work with in some promotions. I have a feeling more women might be interested in getting into the business if the only major North American promotion didn't utilize state-of-the-art "all women are bitches" booking.

Ok....I'll bite. Lucha Underground? Don't like it. Tried it. Did nothing for me. Women wrestling men? Don't like it. To me it complicates and looks even dumber than pro wrestling does on it's dumb days. Jim Cornette? He's old school and doesn't apologize about being old school. I too am old school and don't apologize about it. The difference between me and Jim? I don't have to be a roaring prick about things I don't like. (See my LU response above.) Happy Friday!

Lawler really does make this show infuriating

Transitioning to film might be a problem for Nikki, as she has the range and shows the same amount of emotion as a tree stump.

WELCOME TO YOUR DEATH VALLEY DRIVERETTE~! And it begins again. ~!~ Honey, I saw you yesterday on my way home Baby, I craved for you today SINGLES GOING STEADY so I decided to phone So why don't we get together soon and get on our own ~!~ DAICHI HASHIMOTO/ KAZUKI HASHIMOTO/ TAKUMI TSUKAMOTO vs ATSUSHI MARUYAMA/ MASAYA TAKAHASHI/ TOSHIYUKI SAKUDA- BIG JAPAN PRO WRESTLING- 2/2/2016- [RASMUSSEN]: Hey! YOU MIGHT WANT TO SKIP TO.... This is your old pal, Dean. I used to be somebody in the online wrestling community and now I just kinda write wrestling reviews when I finally defeat all the reasons I have for not writing- each of which are preposterous, thus making their grip on the writer that much more infuriating. I am in the middle of writing the next sentence and I am noticing that it just might be the biggest run-on sentence I've ever written- which is impressive because I suck at a crazy little thing called restraint and truly love a good ridiculously long sentence, and I believe THAT I MUST BE FREE! The Hashimoto boys are actually called collectively Team Yamato and I will now figure out if I've seen Tsukamoto before, much less if I have ever seen the three fellas they are wrestling; because the problem with driving 85 hours of wrestling directly into your head every couple of months- as I have kind of settled into a seasonal viewing/reviewing cycle, in that I quit watching wrestling for month and now I have actually been watching a lot of wrestling the last couple of weeks- especially after being hipped to the RuTube channel for whoever used to post everything I wanted to watch on Dailymotion, having actually found a DEEP NET-ESQUE place to put all the fabulous wrestling that has spoilt us for so long- and also there is the development where- for those who used to read these in the 1990s when I was a struggling, comical drunk, note that I haven't been drunk in 15ish years and I have four children, ranging from 10 to 19, SO note that the first three of my kids brushed off all attempts to ever really give a shit about wrestling until my 10 year old got WWE Y2K16 (or whatever its called) for his million dollar PS4 and is now just fucking PSYCHOTICALLY into wrestling. It's like the first time you watched the Super J Cup or the first time you ever got a Dave Scherer comp (or your first Schneider comp for you slightly younger folks.) THUS I have actually been forced into watching WWE after a like 10 year hiatus. Man, is WWE annoying. I hate the whole enterprise. But it is also really fun to see wrestling through the eyes of a child so it is also pretty great. Fatherhood is pretty awesome. So anyway, the POINT is that I have probably reviewed matches with the non-Team Yamato guys in the last two years, but memories of them did not survive the last giant three month Shoving Of Puroresu Guys Into My Head epoch and THUS YOU get to be ENRICHED by the knowledge that I am looking at these punks with fresh eyes and YOU the gentle reader can revel in the fact that I can't remember what the fuck I said before and I have not the WILL to go back and try to defend anything I said. Well, that was lot of build up but I didn't want to act like nothing happened between the last Driverette and today. ...........HERE. Tsukamoto is Largish-For-DDT DDT guy. Maruyama has mask of a tiger and was a Osaka Pro guy it appears- since he was trained by Super Delfin. Takahashi is from the Asuka Project (yes! The Asuka Project! Kenichiro Arai is their champion. He beat this same Takahashi for the title. After watching this match, I would watch that.) and has been a death match guy for 3 years with a major in JUDO! Sakuda is a Big Japan rookie. I assume his teeth will smashed into powder by Kazuki Hashimoto. What a weird card. This feels like a young lions tournament- if your young lions are actually guys working in a sun glasses kiosk at the mall during the day. Let us view the YamatoCARNAGEmatchBASHING~! Man, Tsukamoto looks even scummier in this match than his cagematch.net mugshot. He is taller than... WAIT! That's Daichi Hashimoto- MAN, he is getting fat and seedy looking. I BACK HIS PLAY ONE HUNDRED PER CENT! YOUR DADDY WAS SHINYA HASHIMOTO. If you want to be a second son wastrel, scouring the underbelly of the industry that your daddy helped create, looking for part-time construction workers to punch in the face, I am all over it. Talk about pathos. Sakuda gets in a lot hilariously botched offense early to set up his immediate death later, as one who has watched these matches for a few decades would assume. Takahashi tries to bring the STIFF to Daichi Hash and thus we rejoice, as this gets all skull-busty and fun. Tsukamoto is also really seedy looking and he will lay it in. I might have to follow him if I can remember him past May. I need to note also that Takahashi will take a beating and fire back, so I dig him. A third guy tags in and he doesn't have a mask so I'm guessing it isn't Maruyama. Unless he lost his mask. YOU, the beloved reader, will probably not lose sleep over this detail. Rookie boy and Takahashi beat up on DDT guy until Daichi Hashimoto tags in the fucking crushing and bashing and stomping and annihilating and smashing and stretching and gouging and mauling of the rookie kicks in. They don't totally murder him but they do hit the median amount of justified kicks to a rookie's teeth to warrant pinning him, so you have that. Nine minutes of WORTH IT just because you can catch up on Daichi Hashimoto transforming into 1995 Tommy Rich right before your eyes. http://rutube.ru/video/1a58fb4e6b9e38a4ecb0fc1fcf566dfb SEIYA SANADA vs TATSUHIKO YOSHINO- BIG JAPAN PRO WRESTLING- 2/2/2016- [RASMUSSEN]: I watched TNA for a while but I missed the Sanada X-Division title reign. You, the one reading, and You, the one who follows TNA very carefully, will inform your gentle writer if I should lose sleep over that fact. Yoshino is from fuckin GUTS WORLD!so I know who I am going for. I'm pretty sure I reviewed his title match against Diasuke and I think I liked it as much as I liked the Diasuke vs Gannesukke match. I'm sure there is a 4 star match against Mr Gannesukke sitting next to some really disturbing pornography on the hard drive of the GUTS World audio-visual specialist. This match has a chance to be cool because Sanada was trained by Osamu Nishimura and GUTS World is actually a really thread-bare version of MUGA, THUS they actually start the match with a lock up and arm bar sequence. HA! I am fucking into this now. MUGA! MUGA! MUGA! Dradition. Straight into a kneebar/headlock sequence! DRADITION! Front Chancery! DORY FUNK, BITCH! Then Sanada reverses into a tricked out takedown that Yoshino reverses into a standing kneebar! TATSUMI FUJINAMI, MOTHERFUCKERZ~! Headlocks and reverses into take-overs into a first nearnfall. This is fucking WAAAAAAY WAAAAAY more than I thought this would be. If there is no highspots, I will declare this an early Match Of The Year Candidate, 70's Throwback Match division. CRAVATE, fuckin CRAVATE out of a quarter Nelson. IT SAYS FUCKING "WRESTLING" ON THE MARQUEE, MOTHERFUCKERS! Sanada is back to the kneebar until Yoshino escapes and gets to a VERTICAL motherfucking BASE! GORDON SOLIE, DADDY! Sanada loses his cool in a MUGA way by- AND THIS IS THE MOST FUCKING MUGA/DRADITION/FUJINAMI/NISHIMURA way to lose your cool- he doesn't go for a headlock, he INSTEAD lands a European Uppercut. If you can't dig that, then go back to your thing you young people do. Euro-UpperCut and the hideous concession to the Modern World by dropkicking Yoshino while Yoshino is sitting down. Oh man, that shit needs to go away ten years ago. Sanada returns to the 70s by hitting a Murdoch elbow across the throat of Yoshino while Yoshino is hanging off the ring apron. I await Yoshino to punch Sanada in the face and Sanada to check if his tooth is still there. En Lieu, a dropkick to the head as he dangles and Sanada follows up with a piledriver to the mat. Yoshino becomes confused and sells the pile driver as he rolls in the ring- in that he is stuck in a netherworld. I saw Blackjack Mulligan piledrive Harley Race onto the cement floor of the Norfolk Scope in 1979. Race sold it and bled like Blackjack shot him in the face with a gun. The modern piledriver in Japan is a transition move in these junior heavyweight affairs to set up your 120 pound wee folk to do a 360' spinning thigh-slappin' Backstabber! for TWO! Yoshino feels the Dradition and holds his head as Sanada gets the second nearfall of the match. Yoshino sells it as Sanada LEANS INTO A CHINLOCK! This match is fucking awesome. EUROPEAN UPPERCUT! And then Sanada puts Yoshino on the toprope and we are about to lose our MOTY-70sTBD candidate, but first the ninth commercial for that Witch movie. Damn Russians stealing Daily Motion's most annoying business models. Yoshino elbows Sanada to the mat and hits a Missile Dropkick, thus skipping the 80s and heading directly to the mid-90s. Yoshino hits a DDT- which is 80's- but it isn't the finisher, so it is a 90's DDT. Yoshino goes for the nearfall and goes directly into a kneebar at two- which is a 90's Kazuo Yamazaki type of thing. Sanada hits the ropes and does a little selling before clamping on a headlock- 50's/60's/70's wrestling- and they start trading chops (all wrestling ever). Yoshino unviels his 90's FMW Gannesukke roots by hitting a Thunder Fire Powerbomb for a nearfall. Sanada hits a Missile Dropkick and they trade a really elaborate and fun roll-up sequence. Sanada hits a Diamond Cutter, a Tiger Suplex Hold and then wins a perfectly nasty Dragon Sleeper Variation. I THOUGHT THIS WOULD SUCK! It didn't! The dream: They have a 45 minute 70's match in GUTS World. http://rutube.ru/video/8d6246e5c7deab72aec68b9a024946b4 TOMORROW! I'll write about something if I find something I am interested in! WORD.

Olbermann is on Jonah Keri's podcast this week. God I miss his show

And not a damn one would say it to his face.

Kevin Owens has a good Sharpshooter. Probably because it's taught in high school gym class in Canada.

Me watching this game.

I was there for that debut, my first-ever wrestling show. Even at age 13 it was underwhelming. If you would have told me at that show that 2 years later they'd be in a red-hot feud with the Horsemen over the WWF tag titles, I would have told you that you were very stupid. But it would have been me who was the stupid. Absolutely one of the anchors of that tag division until the end and probably my favorite WWF tag team ever other than the Hart Foundation. Is Demolition in the Hall of Fame? They should be. EDIT: also, best theme song...ever.

Captain Britain and MI13 and Mighty Avengers v2 were great team books with Blade in the cast. Don't remember the last good solo story I read.

Thing is, he brought that on himself. Don't like people reacting that way to you? Don't give them reason to. Stro, I tried to tell you months ago how you were coming off, but you knew better (as always) and insisted that if anyone didn't like how you posted, it was their problem, not yours. I've got you on ignore, hence why I didn't respond.

A character like The Miz shouldn't win matches by hitting a finisher. Miz's finishers should be a handful of tights, feet on the ropes, brass knuckles, exposed turnbuckle, etc.

I really missed LeFort when he was taken off TV. He was a one-trick pony but, damn it, I enjoyed that one trick!

If you take the decade as a whole and include various movies, William Atherton deserves a mention for best 80s Heel.

If she got high and ruined a ppv main event, they'd have given her a title run.

Just say he moved to Boyle Heights and used to live in the Latino section of Paducah, KY. Problem solved. PJ should team with Paul London. (aaaawoooooo Darewolves of London) I'm so sorry

My partner was asking me who I was rooting for in the big game, and I said I'm torn, because I want to see Cam win because it will bother dumb racists, but I also have been annoyed by Vincey Greene's football ego all year. I was told that racists feeling bad is a better reason for rooting interest than being internet mad, so GO PANTHERS.

...unfollow

So this showed up in my Twitter

I personally wouldn't proclaim Demolition the best team ever, but I can see the argument especially considering the handicap they were saddled with.. Eadie, Darsow, and Adams managed to work within the confines of the Demolition monster brawler gimmick even though they all had extensive backgrounds. Eadie left his Masked Superstar arsenal in the locker room just as Darsow shied away from breaking out any of the signature moves gleaned from the billions of spots spots he'd used over dozens of gimmicks. And then there was Brian Adams, trained by Inoki and possessing a solid boxing and karate background, yet he did not incorporate any kicks or utilize his pugilistic skills when donning the Demolition Crush gimmick.. All that unused technique and Demolition still managed to stay in the title picture, wrestle smart, work stiff, and get convincing wins over really good teams. Demo kept it simple. They just beat people up. Best team ever though? I think my vote would go to either The Road Warriors, Williams / Gordy, or Hase / Mutoh, I think it is sad that the youngest member of that team died first.

"Real combat sports don't have matches between men and women", while technically true, is also bullshit. Leaving aside that no real fight in human history has ever begun "Lockup - Irish Whip - Dropkick", real combat sports also have weight classes. There is no legitimate fighting organization where you'd ever see Kalisto fight Alberto Del Rio, never mind Henry or Show, and yet somehow the "REALISM NOW" crowd isn't chiming in for every big man-little man match.

Some great ESPN on ESPN twitter violence after the 30 for 30 on the Bears: Also it looks like Robert Flores is leaving ESPN so apparently nobody has to tell him anymore about things Neville does on RAW or Smackdown

Is it going to be Mizarch Madness?

Everytime Daniel Bryan's health gets brought up, I feel compelled to point out that they just recently gave Tommy Dreamer, a man who publicly spoke about his brain damage issues, a month-long run. Also, Dave and Bryan decided to give Jim Cornette an hour to spout about how much he hates Lucha Underground and the business, and Cornette is absolutely so full of shit. You can tell that the only thing he's literally seen of the promotion was a highlight video of the upcoming season. The only spot he could even mention was Joey Ryan doing one of his world's strongest dick spots that hasn't even happened on television yet, and the fact that the reason the spot is over is because it got more worldwide exposure and got talked about more than anything Cornette's ever done in the business. Cornette's whole idea is that the reason wrestling isn't as over as it was in the past is because people don't believe it's "real". When that hasn't been the case since he was a child.

So I just saw Gronk apparently dry humping a host on Fox Sports and it was greeted with laughter but let Cam Newton do a little end zone dance and it's the end of the world. Racist fucking media.

You know what you look like to me, Vince, with your good roids and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, "Mr." McMahon? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure Nawth Calaina. What is your father, dear? Is he a carnival barker? Does he stink of Pancake? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the NWA.

Somber time of year for me. January 30th would have been my mom's 62th birthday; she passed away on February 11th of 2006 from lung cancer, so it's been almost ten years. I lived with her at the time(so, yeah, I lived the gimmick, LOL) and had to learn really quickly how to survive on my own with my meager radio station board operator salary. I still live in the same house with the dogs that she got about a year before she passed away (they're both 11 years old now). While I've made it this far, life is still a rocky road as I had issues even before her passing. She was never into the whole wrestling thing, but I took her to WCW Slamboree in 1999 since it was on Mother's Day and in St. Louis. She indulged me as it related to my comedy aspirations since my cousins and I would do amateur-ish recreations of our favorite SNL skits. While I'm still working on the whole life thing and I've got plenty of flaws, I hope she's proud of me.

My favorite kind of intergender wrestling is intergender apartment wrestling. Especially Russian amateur intergender apartment wrestling.

I kind of wish they said that Sexy Star's mask gave her super powers or something. It's not that far off from Black Widow in Avengers. It's all in the presentation.

It's like baseball. Not everyone from AAA gets the call. And if you're not, you need room for the guys in AA.

Misawa elbow aside, she is awful in the ring. No wait, that's fucking Brie. Yeah, sorry, she's awful.

Was it after this? They've finally found the right use for his strengths.

Many of them were pushing hard for him to get the job so there's extra motivation for them to give him a free pass. I don't really get why Monty Williams was a problem. They overachieved with a bad roster and Anthony Davis showed improvement. A lot of the basketball media tends to pick small moments from individual games to show why so and so isn't a good coach but I see that as a very faulty way of assessing a basketball coach. There's way more to the job than just what play you run in a specific moment. Speaking of which, Vinny Del Negro on Zach Lowe's podcast is quite interesting because he still seems a bit salty about getting fired from the Clippers. Zach also pressed him on some of the common media/fan criticisms of him. He had some decent responses and he contradicted himself at other times.

Okay, NOW it really hurts. Daffy's had at least half-a-dozen different voice actors, but Plucky was entirely Alaskey's creation.

Don't blame him because workers don't know when to cinch up.

Sadly, I've hit the mindset of asking why I should get too attached to any of these people. They don't seem to have much of a shelf life any more. One goes down, another that looks like him/her will take his/her place. It's the nature of the business...that's just reality.

I would find it tough to breathe too if Sting's fat ass was sitting on me

Cass just tossing that dude to the floor was one of the great squash match bumps in memory. That was awesome. Dude just straight-up at the floor. A+.

Considering she can actually sing, they may be saddened.