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In it's still real to me news today, a juror in the Hogan vs Gawker trial juror #27 was dismissed today because he felt betrayed by Hogan joining the NWO 20 years ago.

The Miz represent the lineage of great heels such as The Mighty Atlas and Hans Schmidt. Real, proper heels. No one wants to cheer The Miz. Who would want to cheer The Miz? He's The Miz. He goes out there, exists and is-by proxy-extremely annoying, gets REAL heat-and then gets punched in the face by Roman Reigns. Or kicked in the heat by Kofi. Or AJ Styles or or or OR. It's formulaic, but it's a wonderful formula pro wrestling is based on. You may like cool heels-maybe you gush over Ric Flair saying how many cars he has and how many women he's slept with. Maybe you love Shawn Michaels making goofy faces and doing crotch chops. Me-I need a Bill Dundee to piss of Jerry Lawler and make him punch him in the face. And that's what Miz does. No wonder his feud with Lawler ruled. Ishii was trained by Tenryu and Choshu, and if you couldn't guess I like Riki Choshu a lot more than The Mighty Atlas, Dundee or Lawler for that matter. Ishii kind of has an advantage here. For years he was this really good midcarder, occassionally popping up in awesome brawls in a Big Japan or a Big Mouth Loud. The Wataru Inoue carry jobs were incredible. Finally New Japan pushed him and he started having all these great matches and it seemed like he could do no wrong. Yet here we are. His matches never relied on hierarchy as much as, say, Honma's do now, but it was definitely there and it has been lost over time. That is most unfortunate as selling is one of his strongest suits and what made so many of his matches worked. He dropped stuff like that and replaced it with more modern puro tropes and now I'm somehow supposed to believe that is five foot tall guy is some incredible badass guys two heads taller than him can't beat in strike exchanges. I'm said to have seen it happen but I have really grown tired of the one type of match Ishii insists on working over and over again, and him doing stuff like no-selling during the entire WK match and trading suplexes in the rematch has done him no favours. Keep wrestling classic. Vote Miz.

This question works perfectly if the voice reading it is Lord Alfred Hayes. -RAF

If only more football players and wrestlers smoked weed.

Having Jericho turn before any of those Y2AJ shirts could even arrive in the mail is some hilariously evil shit.

And 10 minutes later he used that glove to pay off his bartab at the Tampa Hilton.

I can't believe Greggulator found a way to "wait and see how this plays out" this thing. He proposes here that Jim chain himself to the proposition that the future actions of a bunch of irrational unknown human actors who have already demonstrated self-destructive or immoral behavior will, in the future, be rational and moral. If one needs any more evidence that his optimism over a WWE booking is misplaced...

Roman Reigns gives me no joy. His overall persona seems to be properly rated, but the dude is somehow overrated in the ring around here. Like, he has had more opportunities that anyone else in this tournament and the results are usually meh. If the goal is to have an average WWE main event that doesn't try to be anything else then the dude is your guy. I prefer my top WWE guys to mix it up a little, or you know, actually be good enough to break out of the everything-is-good-nothing-is-great WWE long match formula.

It's the perfect book for a glass table.

Peyton Royce will forever have a place in my heart for that tweet.

Reigns HAS improved his in-ring ability. It wasn't just Lesnar/Reigns for MOTY, but he was on fire during the early part of the year and having four star matches each PPV (even bringing guys like Big Show to four stars earlier this year.) In the ring, he's improved to a damn good main event-style wrestler. Booking wise he's shown flashes of being able to succeed well that are destroyed by WWE's inability to give the top stars any internal logic beyond "whatever he was written to do this week is what he'd do in any given situation"- but even TLC and the Raw afterwards (where he had Boston and Philadelphia excited to see him kick Authority ass and win the World Title) proved that he can succeed. That ties to the bigger issue right here- unlike people like, say, Alberto Del Rio and Sheamus (where they have every tool you could ask for except "the fans just ain't buying what they're selling", it seems to have gone worse with Reigns, where the fans have gone further to "The fans REFUSE to buy what Roman Reigns is selling, because no matter how good Reigns is, if Roman Reigns makes it to the top that inevitably means THEIR guy [whichever indy alumni they choose this week] WON'T." As a result, fans basically chose to ignore that Reigns became good less because "is he good or not" and more "You can't become a great wrestler! WE WON'T LET YOU! Even if you become good, WE VOW TO MAKE YOU FAIL!" Reigns is probably going to lose this match. And that's the whole point.

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Some Bossman gifs

Well this is going well

It's about damn time Stan went in.

The older I get, the more I realize that naps are fucking AWESOME.

That's an awesome way to get out of jury duty.

I liked the Kofi match

10 down, 200 more to make up for.

I only noticed now - as I work on the html - that Dean didn't come remotely close to spelling Mr Gannosuke's name right

The Steiners are sociopaths and wrestling is a fucking weird industry

Sympathy vote for Breeze, cause he rescued that dog.

Rewatched the main event. McGregor was doing really well, landing heavy to the body, busting up the face, until halfway through the second he suddenly dropped his hands and started standing straight up in front of Diaz. At the start of the second, it looked like the cutman had stopped Diaz bleeding, but then he missed a punch and slapped himself to open it back up. Is anyone saying Holm was exposed as an incomplete fighter in the 2nd and 5th rounds, and it just proves Rousey beat herself back in November? Because that seems like the sort of thing someone would say. Maybe we'll get a Hot Potato title at Women's Bantam now. Why is Bantamweight lighter than Featherweight? A bantam is a chicken. Chickens are heavier than feathers. Unless there's an absolute shitload of feathers, obviously.

You know people who complain about shitty fantasy booking? Well that's how I feel about page after page of hypothetical Wrestlemania stadium booking.

For the first time in probably close to a decade, I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind tonight. Christ what a film

If it wasn't for "NXT Godfather Triple H", "Hall of Fame Secretary of State Triple H" would be best Triple H.

I really enjoyed the 13-hour trailer that Netflix just put out for Season 5. It was definitely a step up from season 3, but I was a little underwhelmed by the fact that they set the table with 3-4 major story developments and not one of them was resolved. Who is their show runner, Andy Reid?

Bossman would've ruled it so hard if he would've became an AJPW regular.

I am mad. So that shooting star press/moonsault double knee strike that Bailey does is the very move that I always wanted to to be a finisher. Not from the top or middle rope. But on the ground like I saw from Jet Li's Unleashed, Tony Jaa's Ong Bak and Protector, or Def Jam's Fight For New York Blazing Move Good To Go. That was the move that I thought was awesome because it was viscous, cool, and hurty. But this pasty motherfucker does it and it looks lame because he does not get the elevation and it is coming from the most banal looking asshole on the planet. He looks like a cross between Michael Cera and Evan Goldberg. And he looks so damn happy all the time which is his gimmick. He is pretty much Tae Kwon Do kid whose mom keeps dropping him off at wrestling venues. But that move is supposed to be dirty. Like ,"Oh shit, I got caught sleeping with your wife, but fuck it, I am going to keep going while staring deep in your eyes" kind of shit. You just knee'd a dude in the chest and fucked up their rib cage while looking swag as fuck. This asshole just pulls it off with little emotion or sometimes is smiling like, "I am going to win the talent show, mom, look at me" look on his face like he just got cotton candy at the festival. It is pretty much a throwaway move when it should be a finisher. I like Mike Bailey and I dig his wrestling, but I don't know. I can't get past that he made the finisher of my dreams look lame as shit. I wanted this. I get this. Sometimes the dude gets boner before he performs the move. NSFW He ruined it for me. So am I going to vote against Speedball for this? Yes. And also I think AJ had a better year with his match with Nakamura and the G1 series as well. He is the only guy that I've seen get anything good with Okada that I would want to watch and his match with Tanahashi was great.

You can just listen to your old pal Casey, I won't steer you wrong.

I like Mike Bailey but his look definitely holds him back. Somebody on PWG commentary described him as, "he looks like a kid whose mom dropped him off at the wrong building for karate class, so he decided to just stay and fight grown men."

They did go to space once. It would have been great if it was holding onto another wrestler instead of being stowaways

I was going to automatically pick Aerostar coming into this. But goc makes a good point. The shit he had to put up with isn't entirely his fault. There is something to be said about making chicken salad out of chicken shit, and a lot of the all-time greats founds ways to overcome that. But man, thinking about all the bullshit they put him through I do feel bad for the guy. I'll have to re-think this for a bit, luckily I have two days.

I am speculating just as you are. Last week she's depressed. This week she's ready to go. What happened within the last week? I don't know what went on with her and you don't either but I do know that a key event happened last night that MIGHT have something to do with why she's now ready to go. And before you say anything, we all speculate on athletes every day on this board because none of us know them personally. Even the journalists don't. Without speculation there is no discussion. I can dig back through these archives where you've said "this guy is an asshole" paraphrasing.. in the football section but really how do you know? Because the media painted him in that light? So I'm crazy or a bad person because the timeline of events makes it look like she might have been dodging Holly? Did I call her a liar? Nope, I didn't. Ok. I'm more speculating that you know fuck all about depression, and I seem right.

Is Jim Cornette 12 years old in this picture? Dundee looks like he just got off his shift at the factory and is going straight to the bar for the night.

So my level 13 character decided the Museum of Witchcraft would be a fun place to spend Hallowe'en night. Good times.

Maybe he had already?

They could do Hell in a Cell in Wrigley. It takes place in October, so it's not like the Cubs will need to save the date.

Boston is really overdue for a WrestleMania but since they lack an indoor stadium, they'll never get it. I really want WWE to run SummerSlam at Fenway Park one year though. Seeing how WWE would incorporate the Green Monster into the set design would be fun.

My dad got the results from his PET scan today. All the lymphoma in his body is gone except for a single spot in his abdomen which is getting significantly smaller. Sounds like my stem cell donation is gonna work.

Last night I finally caught True Grit, and I'm kicking myself for taking six damn years to see it. It's fantastic. Could've won any of the nominations it had for the Oscars and didn't which is a crime. Above all Hailee Steinfeld and the brilliant dialogue stand out. Certainly in the top five of Coen films, maybe in the top three.

Flair's podcast is so so good. I don't think there's been a dud yet. On one side of the coin, the Prichard episode brought the fun with wild bar stories and never heard before (as far as I know) anecdotes about the Mr. Perfect vignettes. On the other, the Orndorff episode had the emotional impact of hearing an older guy excited to talk to an old friend while also lamenting a little about how he may have treated people when he was younger. Also, it was hilarious when Conrad brought up the fact that people have apparently started a drinking game for whenever Ric brings up the Ole Anderson "what good are you to me now?" story.

You put this in the wrong folder Your sig is giant The show is terrible

I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to have no idea what you are talking about.