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Today marks the 21st anniversary of one of the great moments in wrestling history

To be fair, I don't think anyone ever gets over Macho Grande.

Lemmy

(copious amounts of PEDs, vascularity, and a taste for watching muscular men show off their bodies in the guise of "bodybuilding competition")

Feel like this should be an ad for a travel site. "Work got you down?"

Probably because Shawn was too pilled and coked up to actually be involved. He probably just sat in on meetings in a hat and sunglasses like Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's.

Talk about Virgil's dick is usually the point when I know a thread has outlived its usefulness

Thanks, but I'll pass. I mean, do you know what happens to a butter-based frosting after six decades in a poorly ventilated English basement?

Not sure why, but I can picture William Regal being asked that, and him saying, "Johnny Saint seems to be doing fine."

So the same guy who apparently is willing to trade his 2nd best (maybe best) player because he missed his exit interview is now being accused from a draft pick of falling asleep during the pre-draft workouts.

Re: Ziggler on @Midnight, crossposted from the TV thread

http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/12407304_947618448624671_1756466934_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTE3NzE1NDMxNzU5NzIyNTg0Mw%3D%3D.2 RIP

If there's a video game cut scene or knee pad HOF, Ahmed is a lock.

Aren't we a tiny bit lucky that Triple H is a fan of pro wrestling though? I mean we aren't getting shit like NXT, CWC, UK wrestling and the MYC with anyone else running talent relations. We probably aren't seeing Nakamura or AJ Styles in main event matches either. None of that stuff is shit that Vince would do or care about. I'm not sold on WWE being automatically awesome once Hunter takes over but I think it could have been in a lot worse hands than it is. He seems to really love history and the legends and all that jazz too.

Prime Time Wrestling: Ken Resnick asks Slick why he decided on the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff when he was looking for wrestler's contracts to purchase (or purchase half of in this case). Slick's answer? As a black man in America, he understands the persecution and discrimination that they face as immigrants. Slick is the absolute best.

I was there once for the Labour Day Classic, and the Bombers actually won it that year, so I have been afraid to go back since. The McDonald's across the street from our hotel was not open for breakfast on Labour Day. So fuck that province.

Get well. Get well soon. We want you to get well.

Petrol, you magnificent bastard. You never let me down. I'm going to get you a slice of cake from the wedding of King Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson, circa 1937, price, $29,000.

The part about a restraining order was what was missing from Alex Riley's theme.

It's just the most baffling decision. One, I can't believe Ainge didn't out bid the Wolves for Buttler. Two, I can't believe the Bulls agreed to pick swap. Three, they picked another power forward, which has to mean they're passing on Mirotic. Four, despite clearly goi g into rebuild mode they sold a possible second round steal to the Dubs. I mean, if the Warriors, the most succesful team in the league, are willing to spend 5 times more than what the guy will even earn in his Rookie year just to draft him, maybe he's worth keeping. And on and on and on. There's just sooooo much to unpack in terms of stupidity. Do they think they're going to attract some free agents? With what? Jimmy Butler was the lure for other free agents. No one's going, oh that well run Chicago orginization, surely they'll build around me and we'll get titles together. Especially when all the succesful people players and coaches we've had have left and told everyone the office is a bunch of coniving dickwads who put spies in the lockerroom. Jesus they fired a Coach of The Year, hired their guy, and then failed to give him anything he needed to run his brand of basketball. And are clearly positioning him to be the reason for the team's failure. Bulls forever but fuck these clowns.

Also, we have a team jacket for you.

this one? https://zippy.gfycat.com/UnequaledQualifiedKakarikis.mp4

I split Pogo out because he deserves it From the WON http://www.f4wonline.com/japan/tetsuo-mr-pogo-sekigawa-passes-away-66-years-old-237866

I think that's an At the Gates logo on Bray's vest. Neat.

Heaven doesn't want him and Hell is afraid he'll take the place over. RIP Mr Pogo.

If you care about cinema even a little bit, you need to see the movie enclosed in these spoilers. I'm not effing around, guys.

Much like the axiom about the best characters are people's personalities turned up to 10, so too are their demons.

This feels like the perfect post to end this thread on.

That may be true. His entrance sometimes looked like the Bernie dance.

True, but dating Steph certainly didn't hurt. Actually, it probably did. Based on their WM entrances, they're into some kinky shit. I wonder what their safe-word is?

He should have paid Tunney, who I hear was very open to bribes.

And locked his keys in his car at Titan Towers. Vince thought he was the first one in and the last one out.

"Both these guys! Both these guys!"

I thought Mauro was excellent on the Cruiserweight Classic, I enjoyed him doing NJPW on AXS and I like his boxing work. I really only noticed the forced pop culture stuff once he got to Smackdown. I tend to believe people can get inside their own heads when changing jobs and feel they need to perform a certain way, even if they were perfectly solid taking a different approach previously. That was the impression I got from the stark contrast in his SDL performance vs. everywhere else I'd heard him previously.

Lots of the same bad habits and relatively narrow knowledge of the broad spectrum of wrestling for someone who is packaged as a snarky expert. I did say rich man's. People forget how much we all loved Striker at first on ECW. He's no Craig Johnson.

The lack of remorse I had about putting someone on a stretcher with their head immobilized kind of scares me now. It was just kind of a freak thing, two of my teammates had the ball carrier wrapped up, I went on for the clean up hit, he fell forward at the same time, my full weight right on the top of his head. Ironically enough, he had been the tackler that broke one of my teammate's arm earlier in the game, they wound up in the same room at the hospital, and the kids was afaik, fine so I'm not still carrying guilt, but yeah, I wasn't at all concerned until hours later.

Apparently Bray was a hobo king 80 years ago. KIND LADY LIVES HERE GOOD SPOT TO CATCH A TRAIN Titus posing for his new album, urahmatic. Goldust looking like the circus gimp at Sheamus/Braun's carnival.

Exactly that one. Thank you!

I think in this case we don't have to look for conspiracies.

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Now that's how you get heel heat.

The funny thing is those 2 aren't even the scariest in that picture.

Nothing should happen if people know what his legacy is. I think he adores the undefeated record (rumor is he trademarked 50-0), but at this point, he is clearly bigger than the undefeated record. He spent the majority of his post De La Hoya career defending his victories, choice of opponents, and when he fought said opponents that being undefeated was an after thought. Marquez was a junior lightweight/lightweight. Mosley was too old and took too much time off after beating Margarito. Victor Ortiz lost to Marco Maidana and quits a lot. You haven't fought Miguel Cotto yet. You're ducking Manny Pacquiao and the steroid thing is just camouflage for that. etc. etc. Then after all that's done, you can't retire because people want you to fight Canelo, Gennady Golovkin, and whomever they dig up that they feel can beat you. However, if every boxer had to fight every up-and-coming fighter who builds a name for himself, they would never retire until they got beat the fuck up and the sport retired them just like a bunch of fighters through the decades. To take something away from Ice Cube's "True to the Game", they don't care...they'll have someone new next year. Much of Floyd's legacy is being able to dictate the terms of his career. He had some notable fights under Bob Arum, but he wasn't going anywhere under Top Rank. He could barely fill up 1/3 of an arena. He bought out his contract with Arum for basically nothing, and as not amicable as it was to say the least, he was able to leave James Prince. Floyd hooking up with Al Haymon was the best career decision any athlete has made, and it pains everyone to say that. He went from a non draw with just P4P accolades on his side to the most lucrative athlete (especially for the amount of times he competes in a given year) we've seen especially in combat sports. He has been able to do that taking fights he wanted to take. He realized maybe seven or eight years ago that the belts meant something but if outside people dictate who has them and can fight for them, they're just nothing more than trinkets that get passed around a lot. I'll never forget when he was on 24/7 and said all belts do is collect dust. That's pretty much it. I remember when he didn't care if one of the WBA belts was on the line, and the WBA was pissed. Then, the next fight or the one after that, the sanctioning orgs were trying to add every made up and real life belt they could add just because they want to be associated with Floyd. Floyd Mayweather brings the value. Not the belts or the rankings or the P4P lists. And a good portion of that happens to have seeped into MMA. Conor is his own beast, but you can tell Floyd has influenced a lot of his choices. Last April and just shortly prior to that (the single man press conference after beating Aldo for one) was something out of the Floyd Mayweather playbook. From Conor, many of the fighters are repeating the same ideas that Floyd trotted out just years before Conor did. The idea that belts aren't the be-all, end-all. The idea that they want fights that allow them to make the most money and not necessarily the next top contender. The idea that they fight when they want to, against who they want, and whatever division they want to fight in. People always thought this, but they were never outwardly saying this and in the same open manner before the Money Mayweather era. It just wasn't the sale. People jump on concepts that have been proven to work. What folks and pundits were saying was Floyd being selfish years ago has manifested itself into an entire culture in mainstream combat sports. That is Floyd Mayweather's legacy.

Saying a certain female wrestler was "no sylph-like figure" was way up there too.

It's 1987. Fade up on the dingy, barely furnished offices of Overseas Film, a company that would eventually amass a catalog of three movies and then fold within two years. Sitting in front of the producer's desk are young actor/writer Jeff Moldova who recently took the industry by storm with his work as "deputy No. 2" in the t.v. movie Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo. Next to him sits Randy Grinter whose entire resume reads "Key Grip: Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things" What could possibly convince you to give these two idiots your money? Let's listen in to their pitch. "Okay, you take the Canonball Run concept of broad stereotype casting gathering together in teams, but instead of a car race...ready?.... ...it's a paintball tournament." "Yeah. Like Enter the Dragon but everyone is really good at paintball playing. Like the best paintball players IN THE WORLD!" "In the world?" "Well, in Florida." "Paintball is that hot?" "Oh my GOD, DUDE!!! It's THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE! There's a paintball center in Van Nuys. It's like everywhere! By the way remind me to tell you about a really great investment opportunity in Van Nuys when we're done with this." "But they're not called "paintball players" they're called 'blasters' because that's the culture. You gotta know the culture." "We've done a lot of research on the culture." "Then you add a slasher killer/whodunit component!" "Will there be lots of hillbillies?" "How many can you take?" "I can take a lot of hillbillies." "Done." "Ninjas?" "One." "Overt racism?" "Why? Is that a minus for you?" "Not at all." "Then we're good." "Will there be hot guitar licks blazing constantly?" "Is it 1987?" "You know it!" "So wadda you think?" "Almost sold. Do you have a poster?" "Oh God. Is that a gun made out of hillbilly woman?" "A paintball gun made out of hillbilly woman." "Do you see that pile of money? I just orgasmed hundreds of thousands of dollars I made selling bootleg depeche mode cassettes for you to use on this project." "Hundreds of thousands? Dude, We need like 10% of that." "You don't want it?" "Don't need it. Here we already mocked up some proof of concept stills." "Whoa." "Yeah. And this is our lead." "Oh. Oh, god! yeah, that looks terrible. Here let me just scoop most of that money back up." "Good call, Broheimer." "Do you have a director?" "Yeah! Well...we have a stunt guy who says he can direct. He's so cool too. He did stunts in, like The Terminator and TRON and Sharky's Machine! He's so badass." "Okay, but has he ever directed anything?" "Huh? Nah." "nothing?" "..... ......nah." "Has he ever done any 2nd unit directing at least?" "Oh, yeah!" "Anything I might have seen?" "Uh...I think so. Just a little thing called Soggy Bottom U.S.A." "....." "No? Nothing? I really thought you would have heard of that. Ok, how about HIGH SCHOOL U.S.A.?" "WITH MICHAEL J. FOX, NANCY MCKEON, AND TODD BRIDGES?" "THE SAME!" "THE MOVIE WHERE TODD BRIDGES INVENTS A ROBOT????" "YOU KNOW IT!!!!" "CAN I MEET THE ROBOT?" "The robot was pretty obviously a laundry basket on top of another laundry basket. It's not real." "Can I meet Todd Bridges?" "We'll need to get him a day pass.' "Get me a meet with Bridges and I'm in." three weeks later: