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He did. He no-sold it.

My thoughts on this post

Did I just read that Jarrett is a Steve Jobs type figure?

I blanked on the name and pictured Todd Pettingill instead. Imagine that

A Gallagher with a sledge hammer gimmick? Ridiculous.

Bryan kept quiet because using an active wrestler to get themselves over when there's not going to be any payoff whatsoever is Stephanie's gimmick.

That would've happened regardless of who was booking.

That's why I kicked your Bryan out from under your Bryan!!!!!!!

We talk about WWE here nonstop and there's a WWE folder too

Why do I bother having a Japan folder?

It'll all be ok when Miz beats Omega in the second round in March.

I saw Anthem and thought, "The same people that provide me with health insurance also own The Fight Network?" I am old and dumb. Or, I am a genius as it would be pretty awesome to be able to be on the TNA roster and get a discount on health care benefits because you're a company employee.

Is that the Cheeseburger guy I've heard about?

Not when it comes to John Cena. To me, when it comes to Cena, AJ has been nothing but the cavalier competitor save for his alliance with the Club in the beginning. He did not back down when he was alone and walked in, beat up John Cena, and walked out. It's Cena who has yet to acknowledge it. Take the promo for instance. Shit gets intense, and Corbin comes down. John brushes AJ aside and makes a remark stating that he "won't get a fight out of Styles" so he challenges the toughest guy in the ring. Barring the fact that Corbin sounds like a hyperventilating kid on the mic at the time, he ignored the guy that beat him three times and brushed him aside as if a.) AJ is not champion, and b.) AJ did not just beat Corbin clean last week, and c.) AJ did not just beat him three times in his last 5 matches. He ignores probably the biggest threat he has faced in his career only to short change him and AJ made him pay for it. Was it a cheap shot? Yes. But John just dismissed AJ as if he were nothing and got knocked the fuck out for it. He does not see AJ as a challenge. He sees him as a contrivance and that would be really annoying if a guy whose ass I kicked just brushed me off. It was Cena that declared that he does not recognize the New Era and dubbed it "My Time is Now" Era so he is aware that he has been the man for ever and is aware that the show no longer centers around him anymore and he wants it to again. He is the one who rejects the notion, that no one brought up or believes by the way, that AJ is his replacement. He is the one who seems to be against an era that brought on longer women's matches, more capable characters like Cesaro, Sami Zayn, and Kevin Owens, and a more egalitarian approach to the show and the roster. Cena is the guy saying, in the face of all of that progress, "what about me, guys?" as he getting Hollywood deals, hosting SNL, and living in a mansion with his girlfriend who he strings along and her sister and her sister's husband. I know Cena is the face. But Superman still wrecked those buildings and brought on an alien invasion because he had to find out who he was. Batman left Gotham's fear toxined vagrants alone after he made it a point to bring Ra's Al Ghul and Crane to Gotham and left Gotham's corrupt establishment alone as they continued reap the benefits of a torn down Gotham that thus led to a radical overthrowing of the corruption by the Joker. Cena's goody two shoes act kept us from a lot of good shit that we could have had earlier whether he willfully brought it on or not. If Superman winning means we are going back to recession or slavery or continued corruption, I do not care if the guy who represents progress is Lex Luthor.

After no-selling death, he powerbombed the shit out of it and went off to find Ernest Miller.

The main was 13 minutes away from 1 hour draw and it NEVER felt like that.

They've got the empty arenas part down.

Norton is 55 and looks like he never left NJPW.

J-E-Double F won't be happy with that, he probably thinks "Steve Jobs" was his production notes to Sting back in 2008. In all seriousness if Jeff's return gets a step closer to Don West back on my TV then go for it. If they can somehow write off everything from The Bischoff / Hogan era until present, Dallas style, with Matt Hardy (V1) waking up in bed, hearing the shower and finding Shark Boy in there, then I'd be pretty much okay with that. It was all just Matt's wacky nightmare.

Fortunately y'all were distracted, and thus missed my early entry into the most pathetic GTA death of 2017 contest. I was going after a CEO vehicle - the one where somebody gets a DUI out in the hills, and you steal his car as the cops are arresting him. Took a buzzard up there, and decided to land it a couple hundred yards north of the car. Tried to exit the chopper as soon as it hit the ground. Unfortunately, the landing was hard enough that the chopper immediately bounced about 50 feet back into the air. I fell out and face planted in the middle of the road. That didn't kill me, though. Then some NPC car rolled up right next to me while I was still on the ground. The chopper came back down and landed on the hood. Both blew up. That was what got me. I managed to get killed by my own buzzard 3 times yesterday (walked through the tail rotor once, parked the thing on uneven ground and got launched by the main rotor as soon as I got out the other time). Maybe I should consider walking.

Hey. Branded to Kill for sure and maybe even Nightmare on Elm St. will be on mine. Fuck a Shawshank tho.

Glad to help. I'm independently wealthy, so I never mind helping. It cracked me way up when we were doing the resupply mission where you have to beat up the guy until his brother tells you where the supplies are. We beat the crap out of the guy and the supplies are on the screen, so I'm headed back to the chopper. Meanwhile, Roast is filling the poor guy we just beat up full of lead to add the cherry to his shit sundae. I'm like "damn, Scarface, you go." Something else that cracked me up way more than it should have (it was late): I got an invite to do something from Fidel CashFlow, one of my favorite GTA names in quite a while.

This will be worth at least two weeks of Twitter hilarity. Because people can't get over other people's subjective ratings on performance art. And Dave can't/won't stop responding.

SIX STARS!!!!

There is a lot of strawmanning here. A lot of us root for Sami and Bayley because...they are actually morally sympathetic villains. They are actually good people as characters and overcome losses and struggles and still remain pure characters. WWE's version of face comes with caveats. We have to forget that Seth Rollins nearly tried to kill Edge to get his way. We have to forget that Roman used to continuously call people who booed him losers who hate their lives and prior to that, used to be in a group who specialized in attacking people. No one is saying AJ is the good guy. We are saying John Cena is definitely not the most moral in the situation. AJ did beat Cena clean. He did beat him twice(first time not clean, but whatever). He pinned him twice clean as well(the Triple Threat was a clean victory, Cena and Ambrose are just mad that they forgot weapons are legal in Triple Threats). AJ would have beaten Ambrose if it weren't for that bullshit finish with Ellsworth(he was already climbing up the ladder and Ellsworth came out. If anything, it was comeuppance for Ambrose for using Ellsworth to embarrass AJ). Is AJ an arrogant asshole and a bully? Yeah, but he is no Triple H. He has never complained about defending his title period like the Miz. AJ during his whole title reign has not had any intentional help and has been champion under a mostly babyface GM. He has no problems with Daniel compared to the Miz. While he does win under underhanded means a lot of the time, he is still AJ Styles and still has a better arsenal than most people in the WWE. It's hard to jeer a guy who does a springboard 450 to the outside on a table. It is hard to boo someone who never has a bad match, always is entertaining within the match, and shows up to keep giving more. They did a poll on WWE.com about who fans want to headline Wrestlemania, and AJ won overwhelmingly over Undertaker, John Cena, and Roman Reigns. And this is mainly kids voting...for a heel. What we are saying is John Cena is Face in the same way as Mr. Manhattan. He is oblivious to what damage he causes to others credibility and forgets how everything he says or does is spectacle and attention demanding. He forgets how much every show he has been in used to gravitate around him. For an entire year, we watched John Cena have a US Title Open where the main motivation was beating him and not so much as winning the Title as Seth Rollins showed. No one got over in this challenge except Del Rio, but it was clear that they wanted to make amends with him. So AJ again, comes back from injury and challenges AJ Styles, the new indy on the block. Just like he did for CM Punk. Just like he did for Daniel Bryan. He set himself as the gatekeeper of the WWE. He was the man to beat "clean." So he made a big deal out of facing AJ Styles and created the buzz. And it happened. Twice. And AJ beat him. Twice. So now, AJ has conquered him, you'd think he would have gotten some acknowledgment? Instead John Cena seemingly ignores that AJ beat him twice and proceeds to belittle him as if the guy has not proven that he is better. Part of the feud had the underlining that if AJ was not in TNA/ROH/NJPW/PWG/everywhere else but the WWE, John Cena would not have been as successful. That is a threat to his legacy. You know that thing that he threw Steel steps at Bray Wyatt for? It's Babe Ruth's record when there was a Negro League. It is the asterisk to his success in the WWE. Just like Daniel Bryan was. And John Cena has not acknowledged it at all. So after a third time of losing, Cena seems to just not care that this guy beat him thrice in singles competition. He is not acknowledging the subtle implication that him losing to Styles several times means. He instead says he was injured when that was never an issue before. AJ did not target his shoulder. He did not appear to struggle when he hoisted AJ up for his super move. He was already running a relatively easy schedule. So this "not being in my prime" bullshit sounds exactly like that: bullshit. "Only JBL faced me in my prime." What the fuck kind of backwards bullshit? In that case, the Rock never beat Hogan because Hogan was not in his prime. John Cena never beat the Rock because the Rock was not in his prime. Anyone who says that they felt better than the day they loss fair and square has a reason to say that their losses don't mean shit. He also delegitimized the matches that he hyped up by using this excuse. AJ did not actually beat John Cena in his prime. That was the angle he was going with. It's this willful ignorance that damn near ruined Kevin Owens. It's what nearly killed Rusev. And people are sick of it. I have heard it so many times when it comes to John Cena's character. When CM Punk pinned him, it was "you only beat me once." When he did it again, "you cheated and the last time there was interference(neglecting to mention that the interference was on his behalf)." When KO beat him, it was the "only beat me once," bullshit and shrugged the loss off. Now we have AJ Styles who beat him thrice, clean twice, and now it is a shoulder injury? The fuck? I am all for teaching kids that it is okay to lose, but fuck that when it comes to John Cena. No one hardly remembers when he loses except when other wrestlers bring it up because it is only a matter of time before John Cena takes it back and status quo is maintained. As someone who enjoys the "New Era" that came to fruition when WWE simply looked elsewhere, I have a vested interest in seeing John Cena lose if he is in the way of it.

I have missed this so much

You'd think they'd finally learn but nope. And did anybody else do a double take when Dave wrote About WWE focusing on creating new stars?

Part of my job is to work with Anthem directly. I can assure you, they are shadier and shittier than any wrestling promoter out there.

Phew, and here I was worried for a second.

Without even looking at stats - Mussina finished in the Top 5 of Cy Young voting 6 times (and another two where he finished 6th) I feel comfortable in saying more than 1 of those was great.

I just know whatever list I get from you won't have Shawshank Redemption on it

Wow...New Years Dash was everything that the Raw after Wrestlemania needs to be, minus the annoying crowd. NJPW killed it the past 2 nights!

Lets see. Money from my dad to get a TV for the garage/gym (ended up getting a 24" samsung curved HD monitor) TV Bracket from my sister for the above. Power screwdriver from my mum. New pair of trainers (sorta like the old school converse with ankle support) so I can train in the gym. Pair of weightlifting/padded gloves from F-i-l. The "grumpy" eurodisney hoodie from M-i-l. New rainjacket, wheres wookie book, marvel 1000+ piece dot to dot book, which apes the drawing style of 90's and 00's artists and other lil bits from wifey. And I bought myself a ps4 so the ps3 can move to the gym so i can play blu rays while i work out on the cross trainer.

Meltzer gave Okada vs Omega from Wrestle Kingdom 6 stars and said it may be the greatest match ever. That number isnt a typo (on my behalf, at least).

This is someone else's good news, but holy shit. A friend and former college classmate is the assistant director of an upcoming production of Night of the Iguana. Which is cool and all, but okay... They just announced the first cast member: http://www.playbill.com/article/james-earl-jones-will-appear-in-night-of-the-iguana-revival Motherfucking James Earl Jones!!

He also beat Cena clean at SummerSlam and instead of Cena coming out and saying AJ was the better man or working his way back up the card he went ghost for months. Then when he did return he demanded a title match and claimed that he was injured and that's why he lost. If that's not what a heel does then what it is.

WWE fans are getting back at them by being silent for cruiserweight matches.

She might get a desk next to Vic Mackey

They are, but they're honest about being bad guys. I rather someone be honest about being a scumbag rather than lying and manipulating under the guise of being a hero.

He's calling out Delirious!

When some questions are asked, they have to be answered.

What is a yoot?

It seemed more likely there that Hogan DID have lust for Elizabeth, and it makes Hogan's road through the '80s work: Since Hogan came in, he was given everything he wanted. Bob Backlund loses the title to the Iron Sheik, and Hogan could totally usurp his rematch clause to take the title, then never had to give him a rematch. Anything Hogan wanted in the '80s, he could have. The title, the mainstream, he was the star. It went to his head. He started ducking challengers, but he could justify it himself. He was too good a friend to Paul Orndorff or Andre the Giant- he wasn't really DUCKING them or trying not to give them a title shot, he didn't want to risk the friendship. And when both men finally saw through that and said "if being your friend means I can't be the World Champion- then I don't want to be your friend anymore", well, Hogan was right. He was protecting their friendship...and that led them to be vile villains. Hogan knew from this- he could have anything he wanted. So when Savage had the title- he wanted the title back...and hey, it's Hogan. He wants Savage's girlfriend too. Who'll stop him? He's Hulk Hogan. That means he's right- and if he's wrong Gorilla Monsoon will just SAY he's right because he's Hogan, even if Jesse Ventura or Bobby Heenan say 'uh, hypocrite much?'. He tried for it all- and in the end, Hogan got his title back, made the fans hate Savage, drove the love of Savage's life away from him...but he didn't get the girl either. Instead, he got a valuable life lesson which helped...so next year when Ultimate Warrior said "I want a WWF Title shot", Hogan said "Sure. How's Wrestlemania?".

You bastard that was my joke, I'll kill you!!!!!

Sing it to the Steiners' theme.

Takahashi isn't pulling it off