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I work for our city's minor-league hockey team and we had a post-game meet & greet at the casino last night since it was the last game of the season. After being there a little while, I look over at the Casino bar and see a guy sitting by himself having a Miller Lite. He looked familiar but I could only see him from the side. A short time later while the hockey M&G was still going on nearby, I see the guy fully turn around to check out the scene and holy shit it's RICKY STEAMBOAT. Turns out IWC out of Pittsburgh ran a show at the casino earlier in the evening and brought him in for the weekend. Needless to say, at that point, I completely abandoned all work duties and introduced myself to him. We literally spent the next hour bullshitting at the bar. Everything from Mid-Atlantic to Jay Youngblood to WM 3 and the buildup with Savage to the Flair Trilogy(his favorite was the Clash VI 2 out of 3) to working with Rude & Austin before he retired. Super, super nice guy. He actually asked me for a picture since I bought him a beer which was unexpected and cool. Definitely one of those moments I'll remember for a long time.

Yes. We've all been crowned the King of Pancrase, at some point in our lives.

And while I'm ranting, can we please stop with the "Randy Orton is an asshole! Shits in bags !" stuff? Number one, the shit story has been debunked, and even if it's true, it happened a long time ago. I heard an interview with him a few years ago where he totally owned up to being a giant asshole in his youth. He offered no excuses, owned it. But now, he's a happily married guy who is chill and grown up. This weird fan obsession with never letting people move on from shit they once did that they read online is bizarre. People change and evolve, even pro wrestlers.

This is making me laugh way too hard:

That's no laughing matter.

Isn't the whole "Styles knocked out JBL" thing total bullshit? If I recall correctly , which is a total crapshoot, what actually happened was that Styles did indeed stand up to him and hit him, but the whole knockout thing was just Internet bullshit. And Styles is an ultra right wing cunt, so fuck him. And before anyone says "But JBL...Fox News... he played a racist on TV so he must really be one cause Texas and accent"..putting aside what he may or may not have done, at this point of time, the dude is not a racist. Watch the JBL Legends shows and that's pretty clear. Shit, during the Micheal Hayes interview he looks right at him and says the Confederate flag is offensive and represents hate and evil, and he's not that good of an actor to be that convincing. By the way , Hayes' reaction is priceless. And does anyone really think that Mauro's bi polar issues are all just "JBL WAS MEAN"? Stop it. The ailment is so amazingly complicated and unpredictable and awful, that being in the dopey wrestling bubble about it is just stupid. Besides, Vince in his headset yelling at him is far more likely to have put him on edge. And more importantly, Shane McMahon's jeans are disturbingly tight. That style needs to go away.

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As if there weren't enough reasons to love Nia above the usual ones that involved women being hurled around the ring by their hair.

JBL apologist... Humblebrag, predatory relationships with strippers, rinse, repeat, yawn.

Just read the Bix thing on Deadspin and the other article linked there, and that's some particularly low shit, even for wrestling. I'd read somewhere that McMahon didn't like Ranallo, which is his right. So just man up and fire him, pay him for the rest of his contract, whatever you need to do, just wash your hands of him. But instead, he sends in his goon Layfield to harass a guy who has a much-talked-about problem with depression? Jeezis, how fucking low is that? Maybe I'm a lil' too sensitive here because I'm bipolar, etc., etc., but this just seems unnecessarily scummy.

Whenever I think the world is just out of 80s slashers, like that I've seen so many that there can't be any more....there are still more. And they are still adorable in some new way. This is a new way. As much time as I spend stalking 80s references and horror movies I still never heard of EVIL LAUGH (1986) until it popped up on Bizarre TV (Roku). maybe the crappy title helps make it obscure. BUT LOOK AT THE EPICNESS OF THAT POSTER!!!!! IT LOOKS LIKE DAVID HASSELHOFF AND FARRAH FAWCETT ARE BATTLING THE ACTUAL FIGURE OF DEATH DURING A HURRICANE!!!! On one level it's about as generic as you can get for a crappy B movie slasher that premiered in a crack house and was distributed by Vestron Pictures. It is not in the least bit scary and there is basically zero gore (production budget of $30,000 mostly raised from family members). But it is also pretty great. It holds your attention with genuinely funny characters and a fun mid-80s vibe, a hilarious recurring tune that seems to be the only cassette these people own: Horrifying? Only until you give in to it and learn all the lyrics. We gonna have a little party tonight. We gonna rock & Roll until the mornin' light We gonna dance and [indecipherable] I'm gonna make it with you We're gonna party the whole night long! SURRENDER TO THE REAGAN ERA!!!!! Yes, there are far too many closeups of gender un-identified butts in unisex 80s shorts to not raise questions in you that you maybe have been avoiding having to deal with. I think it's time. And I think this movie is as good a vehicle for coming to terms with things as anything else. Forget the plot because it is literally a deliberate mashup of every other 80s maniac movie ever to the point where you can't really tell if it's a parody or just parasitic. But even with that much cheeeeeese and that fucking song...there are a few really great performances and, more importantly, a weird mixture of fun and disturbing trivia. I can only begin to catalog the surface of the vast array of weird junky future movie and world history and horrors flowing across the 12 inch color Magnavox CRT screen of anyone lucky enough to rent this in 1986. - We have a lead character played by a then-25-year-old Ashlyn Gere who any bro who was between 18-25 in the 90s knows was a massively huge VHS-era adult film star. She was also on the X-Files because I think she was one of the porn ladies that Duchovny was obsessed with. This is before all that and she is not only gorgeous but a really good actress. She does a full on I-Know-What-You-Did-Last-Summer meltdown near the end fighting the killer "COME OUT HERE MOTHERFUCKER SO I CAN BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF." Guys, she's pretty good. She's kind of magnetic on screen as the final girl. Seriously, regardless of the direction her career went, you can tell she was going to be a big deal somehow. But along with her we have: - Director Dominick Brascia who the previous year was this guy in FRIDAY THE 13th PART V: A NEW BEGINNING. I think I post this picture four or five times a year. That's how much I love that scene. That is slasher film royalty. He also did this Stephen Furst impression on Night Court: But Googling him, sadly leads to some sort of possible scandal from last year involving some whispered and some outright shouted accusations that, right at about this same time, he sexually abused Corey Haim. This is a real thing that has happened and is still like a breaking tabloid story. This is an Enquirer-level thing that involves the fat guy that got the axe with the candy bar abusing Corey Haim and/or Corey Feldman and somehow also involves Charlie Sheen. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD WHEN YOU CAN"T TRUST THAT FAT GUY FROM FRIDAY THE !#TH PART %???????? FUCK 2016 ALL OVER AGAIN!!!! - If that's not dark enough...That guy's best friend in life was Scott Baio's brother Steven...Oh yeah! Steven Baio...brother of the new head of Propaganda and minister of Arts under Dear Leader. He not only wrote this movie, but also appears prominently and gets his head microwaved. This is not good film-making. It's funny because the whole time he's telling us what we all know "This isn't going to work, dude. You can't turn on the microwave with the door open! This isn't doing anything..." Splat. MOVIE MAGIC!!!! - Look closely enough at the credits and you see that the movie was produced by the director's mom and the writer's mom "Lori Michelle Baio" and "Ann Brascia" That's straight up amazing. I'm not sure I've seen that before. - But IF THAT"S NOT ENOUGH! Also in this movie is Jody Gibson who would go on to be arrested and convicted in the 2nd biggest Hollywood prostitution ring of recent years. As "Sasha of the Valley" she had a stable of hundreds of high-end call girls, and when her little black book was put into evidence names like Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis showed up. That picture, however, is not from her trial but from Phil Specter's murder trial where she dramatically appeared as a surprise witness for the defense claiming that the victim had worked as a call girl. The judge ordered her to be silent and placed a gag order on her. SHOCKING!!!!! - AND IT GOES ON!!!! This movie somehow relates to the bloody Balkan civil war! It also stars Karyn O'Bryan who started her acting career as Jonny Depp's love interest in his 2nd movie...the amazing USA UP ALL NIGHT classic PRIVATE RESORT. It's Saturday Night in 1988? TIME TO WATCH PRIVATE RESORT and Experience Puberty!!! But she did not go on to molest the Coreys or conspire to acquit a murderer, or give yearly Xmas presents to the head of Trump's SS. She went on to become a war photographer winning like awards for working in, like, Kosovo and Haiti taking pictures of refugee children. This is her now: But she was also the confusingly hot lady in that weird series of commercials for Black Angus steak house a few years ago: WHY IS THIS MOVIE TAKING US IN SO MANY CONFUSING AND DARK DIRECTIONS????? Think about this! Watching this movie you see a bunch of young people...just starting out...that would end up going is such different directions: - Famous Porn star - War Correspondent - Prison for running a massive Hollywood brothel - infamous possible Corey Haim abuser - Brother of future Minister of Alt-Right Culture But not just that. The score was written by the guy who wrote the "Theme for Charlie Rose." Did you ever imagine you would know who wrote the theme for Charlie Rose? Did it ever even occur to you that that was written? That they don't just tune into the quiet storm every night at the same time? But man, this movie is funny and funny on purpose. There is this guy in it...Barnie...who is basically outlining SCREAM ten years earlier. He instantly wants to leave when they hear the legend of "Martin" the killer from ten years ago. He spends the entire movie trying to convince everyone that it is stupid to stay in the old abandoned house. He lays out the rules for them, begging one guy not to have sex with his girlfriend because that will piss off the maniac. When he's found alive at one point he yells "fuckin' damn right I'm still alive!!!" and at the end he makes sure that the final scare can happen because "the killer is supposed to come back." It is hilarious and pretty ahead of its time. That guy did not act much after that. He became some kind of weird tech. consultant for colleges and has this amazingly absurd website. And this is one of his cats: And another guy in this movie went on to be in Cop Dog. COP DOG!!!!!! FUCKING COP DOG!!!!! The family movie about a boy's cop father being murdered in front of him and then his police dog who is maybe the ghost of his dead father being KILLED BY A CAR in front of him and then THE GHOST OF THE DEAD DOG WHO WAS ALREADY POSESSED WITH THRE GHOST OF THE DEAD DAD COMING BACK TO HELP THE KID GET REVENGE... This movie should be called "Double-Possessed Dead Pet Cop (where the cop is also dead and your dad)" But I guess that was a little unwieldy for marketing. THIS RANDOM 80s SLASHER MOVIE ASKS YOU TO THINK MORE ABOUT THE NATURE OF EVIL THAN DANCER IN THE DARK!!!!! and I give it: TWO SHIRTLESS HECTOR ELIZONDOS FROM PRIVATE RESORT UP!!!

I heart Nia Jax

Blackman isnt so much of an asshole, as he is just an intense dude. On the occasions that I've talked to him, he did tell me that he was looking for an excuse to go at JBL. He also told me a story about him and Big Show almost going at it, it just seems the morals to both of the stories were: leave the man alone when he doesn't want to be bothered.

It's nearly 4AM here and I'm talking with you jokers about Suge Fucking Knight of all people... Let me close by saying that the traditional recording industry sucks balls and that the Internet was the best thing that ever happened for artists. A big "Fuck You" to the recording industry, and as Kenny Omega would say "Good-night and GOOD-BYE"

So basically we all agree that Knight sucked balls at finding or developing talent.

I think it's likely that JBL is a dick/said some stupid shit to Mauro AND there's a ton of other stuff going on in Mauro's life that led to him basically stepping down is what it sounds like. But who knows.

Your wallet? in the champagne room?

Your defending JBL is weird. There's more than enough personal accounts of JBL being a total dick. So either EVERYONE is lying and making a big deal out of it, or this is all being blown out of proportion.

Let's start a gofundme with the goal of buying a ticket to an upcoming Smackdown right behind the announcers desk and giving it to Bas.

Wouldn't know, never been on the fucking thing. Yeah, I have a Facebook account but my wife is the one who uses it. I waste enough time here without screwing around telling people what I had for lunch or posting pictures of my cats (who, BTW are all really cute and photogenic).

If by "shot on" you mean "shot with a gun", that's his one chance of winning that fight. And even then, it's not that great a chance.

You know Walmart is publicly traded and are a million times shittier than WWE.

Fuck, dude. It's a good thing I didn't go because I probably would've passed out on the way back to Vancouver. Sounds awesome and I'm glad you enjoyed it! My bud was saying Cobb had visa issues and didn't make it, so I'm glad to hear he eventually got there. Pentagon said he and Fenix will be coming to Defy eventually in his message explaining why he wouldn't be there. Also, "firearm" instead of "fire alarm" is so much better. Is this a new Trump edict? All fire alarms will be replaced with a middle age white guy with a handgun who will shoot off if he smells too much smoke.

XWA, who brought over Kota Ibushi & Gota Ihashi last month, just announced Daisuke Sekimoto's opponent for July... KEITH LEE

They left out the Kerry Von Erich in a bodysuit version.

Three years since Warrior passed away. I remember constantly battling with workrate smarks when I first got online about how great and unique the guy was haha. Always believe

There were something like 25 WCW World title changes in 2000.

Shinsuke YeahOh Nakamura. WWE has nailed Swagsuke's entrance music and entrance.

One of my favorite ribs:

Sadly because they're probably too focused on being artists. There isn't a gene of music where the ratio of successful artists to broke ones isn't skewed toward the negative. You can't just single out R&B. The bitter truth is that any artist in the music business needs to learn the how business side works as well and they need to take extra care to mind their personal finances and guarantee that the legal shit is on the up and up.. Easier said than done as nearly every episode of UnSung or VH1's Where Are They Now? seems to prove.

Somebody is making that money though. It's just not the artists. Record labels love screwing over artists. Especially poor ones that likely have a limited shelf life, and even bigger bonus if they aren't white.

Also worth remembering none of these people discovered Pac, he was a star before Suge paid for his defense. Not the absurd megastar he became, but it was as much Death Row latching onto him as vice versa.

Suge succeeded solely because Dre bought into what he was selling. Full stop. Without Dre, he doesn't get Snoop. Without The Chronic and Doggystyle, there's no money to buy Tupac out of prison. Outside those three, there's nothing substantially successful on Death Row.

The thing about that though is unless you're doing it yourself, you have no idea if there is or isn't any evidence. If someone got sloppy one day, everybody going to jail and dudes turning rat really fast. There is no real reason to do any high level shit like that anyway if everything is going fine. You're on top of the world so why disturb that by taking unnecessary risks. There is no angle surrounding him that would justify him killing anyone or having anyone killed. Suge just happens to be the shadiest person around something everyone and their auntie wants to create a narrative around with no evidence.

You are wrong sir, I specifically bought a ticket to see Dave Kingman play in the Kingdome and the S.O.B. hit a homer that never came back to earth. (Well it did when they tore the place down, ball was stuck in the ceiling behind a tile.)

If people wanna see a real conspiracy...just look up Sam Cooke's death. That's some shady shit that was definitely calculated. I would be more interested in that film (done correctly, of course) than another Biggie and Tupac biopic that's going to tell us nothing in the end.

The only problem with loving Rosemary in a creepy stalker way is that she would most likely stalk you back. I don't want to end up lying unconscious on the side of the road and missing my pants like that poor redneck bastard in the The Final Deletion 2 video,.

I <3 Rosemary. (not in a creepy, stalker way or anything)

Can't we just have Joey Styles beat his ass again and take his seat?

Y'know, the first time I heard that Kevin Steen did a move called a "package piledriver", this was genuinely what I thought it was.

Dying was the ultimate changing of the question.

Knowing what we know now, in that blows to the body are as jarring to the brain as blows to the head, I wouldn't be surprised to see wrestlers constantly suffering from concussions. And while I wouldn't be at all surprised, I still don't want to know. That number can't be pretty. And like you said, if Daniel Bryan was benched because of his repeated head trauma, then why allow Tommy Dreamer back multiple times? Whenever that guy talks about his life, it's like hearing Jim McMahon talk about his. Anyway, someone brought up the amount of head dropping moves lately and I was just thinking about the same thing during the Aries vs Neville match from WrestleMania. It's not the first time I thought about it, but my girlfriend is a nurse and she's extremely squeamish over the trauma these guys are suffering in the ring. That lead to a conversation that the type of talent that they sought out was MUCH different that the type of talent they go for now. I explained that before, it was a bunch of clunky wrestlers and you never had a bunch of head-dropping moves. That's changed with HHH in charge and you're seeing more indy talent being brought in and more importantly, you're not really seeing them change up their styles that much. I'll blame it on age, but it's almost too much for me to watch. Why, on a 205 live or a Raw, is Jack Gallagher getting head-dropped repeatedly by Neville? That's just so freaking reckless and dangerous. There's more examples than that too, but much of the head-dropping nature of indy wrestling has made its way into the WWE. I mean, how many times did we see a half and half suplex, dragon suplex, straight jacket suplex, lawn dart suplex, spider german suplex, super german suplex, or tiger suplex before the last 2 or 3 years? I can't imagine it happened much, but now it's practically a weekly occurrence. Like Stone Cold says, these guys need to work smarter. If you're going to bust something like that out, it needs to be a "I don't want to use this, but I need to win and this is devastating enough to put you away" type of move. Neville's snap german should be a protected finish because of how devastating it is, but I don't think I've seen it finish one guy. And even then it makes my stomach turn because all I can think of is how damaging that is to the opponents head and neck. I like a hard hitting style, but sometimes it's too much. The 3 way tag match from Takeover is a good example of where you got an insane amount of intensity and drama without resorting to a bunch of head drops and stupid shit like that. Work smarter, fellas. Doesn't mean you have to dull it down, but there's a time to redline your performance and a random Raw, SmackDown, or NXT isn't it.

I think he was at his most selfish in the ring when he was doing the Big Evil thing but that's definitely my most favourite period. One of those strange times when, even when he was doing the most heel shit possible like bloodying David Flair and AA fans still wouldn't necessarily boo him. Of course, everyone was constantly braying for him to return to the Deadman gimmick at every moment, and that worked great to go along with his reduced schedule, and the way they got him back to the gimmick was great from Survivor Series to WMXX, but I still preferred him on the bike and with the lead pipe just being a vicious brawler. Bret Hart paid great tribute on his instagram: "WWE's all time greatest war horse" sums it up.

How about I don't want Bray Wyatt dragging any of that down