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They misspelled massage and youths in the Lawler headline.

No, but Otunga's there!

Well that clears things up

The giveaway for me would've been, Punk wouldn't have thanked anyone.

Abyss is going to burn the building down when Dixie takes his red Swingline stapler.

Sage cut off the dude from Arcade Fire RIGHT before the Bernie endorsement. Pretty epic use of celebrity game MVP speech if I do say so myself. If this was TNT they would have asked a follow up health care question before transitioning to a Chuck vs Win Butler debate. Man, ESPN sucks so much.

Jerry Only is the third most recognizable member of The Misfits and they haven't really been "The Misfits" in decades. It's like if Duff McKagan started touring as Guns 'N Roses. I got a kick out of the interview because I kind of knew what to expect. What's fun is to listen to his WCW stories, then listen to Vampiro tell the same stories on AoW, then try and figure out who's more full of shit.

"Make Batman look really, really strong."

That moment when you realize that is not the opponent with red hair you want in the ring with you "Hurray! Godzilla has run Gigan and King Ghidorah out of the city! OH SHIT! GODZILLA IS LOOSE IN THE CITY!"

So I'm taking this thread over and making it my own. I'm going to be doing an Ironman playthrough on Normal difficulty. I will be renaming characters shortly, and I'll be going by "Top Posters" list.It's actually Unknown, not the Long War. But I think it should be fun to check out. EDIT: I'm making it Normal cause just everyone dying would be boring. I'm way too rusty at this game. Also, Damage Roulette, New Economy, Not Created Equally, and Hidden Potential will all be turned on. Just to make things weirder.

Bob Holly mentioned it in his book. And no, there was no given reason. When he asked why they were dropping the belts they had no real answer. I would guess the Gunns were originally scheduled to win the tourney and Billy's injury made them unable to compete, so the Gunns winning the next night just returned to the status quo.

I would say he has had a good year, but i personally wouldnt put him abovemost of the cmll people listed. Someone like Rob who prefers more high flying might have him higher than me.

I don't know if I'm seeing the comparison there, Seth is sooooo much more crisp than Jeff Hardy. It's not just about performing moves, it's how you perform them and string them together and Jeff can't do what Seth does, Seth is a better mat wrestler also and a better bumper.

I caught the end of it right after Oka/Hama and Ibushi took I think every single move on top of his head. Rippa's review of it is right. I think if you armbarred Ibushi he'd find a way to flip over like he's taking a German suplex.

Can we nominate Brie? She didn't have a good year or anything, but she did survive a Loser Leaves Ironman match with Hollywood Cibernetico. I'm ok if we pretend that's more significant than anything Cena or Tanahashi did this year.

You chose to watch that movie. You got the punishment that choice deserves.

The Jerry Only interview was Austin's most interesting podcast in months for all the reasons you guys have mentioned. Someone needs to do the research to see if those Misfits segments were popping the quarter hour ratings and pushing back against Raw's growing dominance in 1999.

How I feel about Murphy...

If he cut out half of his offense, it would make what remains mean so much more. His go-go-go approach is fun to watch, particularly during The Shield babyface run, but it doesn't really work as a chickenshit heel character. Hopefully he comes back smarter (optimism!).

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Can we have them figure out what a catch is before trying to figure out what a red card penalty is? Crawl before walk, NFL.

And then they say Owens powerbombed Sami for no reason... Well, obviously he did because that's El Generico.

Turned on the computer this morning to learn that my friend, Mark Nulty, the owner of the Wrestling Classics Message Board lost his battle with cancer yesterday. Anyone who is interested in the old school wrestling owes this man a debt of gratitude. Can 2016 possibly get any worse?

Deadpool has the best Thursday preview for an R-Rated film ever, 12.7 million, shattering Fifty Shades of Grey's record of 8.9

True.

To be fair, if it were WWE they'd both get creamed and then they'd wonder why people chant for the pie.

So this being TNA, The Creaming has already been taped right? each of them took a pie and they will just randomly put one up when they win 1-0?

Xavier Woods is clearly the brains behind The New Day and is therefore 90% responsible for salvaging Big E and finding a way for him to be the Big E that we always knew was in there...and for like literally rescuing Kofi Kingston from the endless treadmill he had been on. Right now, to me he's like a delicious young Heenan...someone who I can watch do anything near an arena and who instantly makes everyone near him a goddamn star. If there are points are ~intangibles...and oh we know there are thousands of points for ~intangibles like there are fucking superdelegates up Hillary Clinton's nutsack, then Xavier Woods is a CONTENDER!!!!!!

The interesting thing with Jericho is they've honestly under-used him over the years with these comebacks. He clearly comes back because he enjoys wrestling, has no real expectation, and the money is good so they just figure they'll have him put over everyone under the sun. I think this laid-back attitude is reflected in his performances. Bringing him in and giving him a legitimate angle and throwing him in there with upper-tier talent shows that he has some gas in the tank. It's the mistake they've made with a lot of comebacks. They bring back guys for what we call "nostalgia" runs and ignore that these guys still have money-drawing value if put in meaningful roles. I could give a flying fuck how old guys are, you can still build important stories. The Sasha match was great, as well.

I've been thinking about that, paired with what I and others said earlier about how certain things are too close and shouldn't lead to ejection. If the league really wants to do "2 personal fouls and you're out," then they need new classifications for penalties. Talib trying to unscrew that guy's head like he was looking for Pez is not in the same ballpark as bumping into into a QB two steps too late. They'd need a new category for the really egregious, obviously-awful stuff and just eject guys for that. Shit, I'd be for one-and-done instead of two penalties if they were redone along these lines. If throwing a punch is an automatic ejection, certainly trying to remove another man's head is, too.

Level 200! FINALLY hit it last night!

Billy Corgan's office.

It is the most ridiculous thing I've ever watched. What the hell is going on with all the critics who said that this show was really well done? I'd call it a lot of things, but well done is not one of them. I think the show is too heavy handed in every single way. The race stuff has no nuance at all. Cuba Gooding Jr. is not convincing as OJ SImpson, which matters a lot. Too much Kardashian nonsense, most of all Ross from Friends portrayal of Robert. It is too serious of a subject for it to be as uproariously funny as some of this stuff comes off on the screen. Oh, but I'm going to keep watching.

There's a bit at the beginning specifically for you. 2016's Kingsman. Funny, irreverant, great action, surprising amount of heart. I loved it. Also

I like the show, but the Kardashian name-dropping is embarrassing; they've had more air time than Nicole's children.

That's what did it for me - my wife lost a bunch of weight and it inspired me to do the same. Combined, we're down over 120 pounds.

Guys, the guy who said he hadn't watched in ten years was Matt D, the D stands for Doesntwatchwwe he had a really hard time when substitute teachers did rollcall in elementary school

That;s my opinion of him, and I've been watching him practically since he broke into the business (his feud with Gregory Irons in Pro Wrestling Ohio would probably make my short list of great feuds three people saw). I generally find him meh as a babyface but a pretty good chickenshit heel.

Maybe we'll get the full story after "Andronicus' debuts in TNA.

Two versions of a car I don't want, Plus a gun I already own and would love to get rid of. No thanks. The shark card stuff has always made me curious. Not questioning the overall business model. They've obviously made a shit ton of money this way. I just wonder if they could've made more if the cards weren't so insanely expensive. $100 for $8 million in game money guarantees they'll never get a penny from me. If it was $10, I probably would've bought one or two. It seems to me that the number of additional sales they would make from lowering the price might more than make up for the price drop, Would also love to know how sales have been doing recently. They've added a bunch of new stuff. Most people probably can't afford all if it without paying real money. However, the number of people that are playing enough to pay real money for this must have dropped off significantly by now. The few times I've been on recently, I've had a hard time finding a room with more than 1-2 people in it, and I've not seen any of the new shit, outside of Benny's. What I really want to know though, like I mentioned in the general video game thread, is how they're gonna do this for Red Dead. Are they gonna have a special horse named Zentorno that has up-gradable legs, can be painted lime green, and that makes you invulnerable if you ride it backwards? I have no clue how they're gonna monetize online for that game, but I'm damn sure they're gonna try. When it does come out, it better let us hijack trains, so that melraz can drive us around.

Sorry if any posted before.

Thinking about it, Natalya and Tyson Kidd can both do it well, too. Harry Smith, not so much though, last I saw.

Finally putting on the new Dream Theater. Musically it's par for the course and excellent, but so far the lyrics play like a bad parody of a rock opera. I mean, track 2 is actually titled "Dystopian Overture."

I'm about 2/3 of the way through Tim Hornbaker's NWA book, and its kinda weird. Not bad per say, but not good either. Lots of interesting stuff, but its not well written. Poorly organized, and repeats the same stories two or three times from the point of view of different guys. Its almost as if its a compilation of different pieces about the NWA, because there is little to narrative structure binding each chapter together. I've read more than enough good history books to know what one looks like and this isn't it. . . .