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Father and Son.

Smackdown falls on Halloween this year. If the former Bollywood Boyz aren't dressed in Dr. Suess-type outfits as "Singh 1 and Singh 2," I'll be thoroughly disappointed.

Damn that opening segment was everything. Fucking beautiful. Braun like "The only thing I care about is PILING BODIES!!" This security guard deserves a bonus

I think if you can legit no sell a flamethrower (remember Elimination Chamber 2010), you get to pick and choose what you kayfabe sell.

Sasha keeps having everyone's best match. She's still, like, ten percent slower on everything than she thinks she is, but somehow it doesn't matter. The matches are put together well, and the crowd always reacts. Pretty much the moment we're down on any woman, Sasha can hand them a showcase. Given she already worked in two forearm exachanges and a pop up from a knee strike into another knee strike tonight, maybe she should just be the one to work Nakamura?

Of all the ways they could go with Kurt/Jason... 1) The Watts Stratagem: Kurt cluelessly pushing his son and accidentally turning him heel, which is Kurt's natural status but not Jason's 2) The Russo Elective: Jason lying about the whole thing and turning out to be a natural heel using Kurt 3) The "Young O.J." allegory: Jason being a smiling happy star in interviews and then having a mean streak and losing control in his matches and being a total psychopath 4) The "WWE Creative guys resent being around women who can mostly beat them up": Having Emma come in to be the evil bitch that turns him heel because girls ammiright? Three of those could be fine. One would suck so hard.

Personally, I don't want Heenan to say nice things about Hogan. Even knowing they didn't shoot hate each other feels wrong.

Guys! Talking Smack is back.... on Tout!

When you're betting on pro wresrling, it might be time to seek out help. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem: 1-800-Gambler I don't gamble, but I assume one of the greatest jobbers of all time, The Gambler, does not answer the phone.

He could be Dallas Machine.

Maybe Cass should invest in one. Skinny-fat Test is the best way to describe him. Sadly for Cass, I don't think he'll ever be as over as Test when he wrestled Shane O Mac at Summerslam '99.

Grossest thing in this thread so far.

Please don't believe the Irish Insider's nonsense

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I like the idea that this whole episode was about people remembering or trying to remember their role: Deanarys remembers "Hey, Varys, I am a fucking totalitarian and I think I'd like to see someone dribble piss down their pant leg right now!" Arya remembering "Hey, I'm a wolf/psychopath...fuck home...my home is a river of my enemies blood!" Jon remembering "Hey, I'm a Stark! I need to do something butch and dumb that will get me shivved!" Theon remembering, "Oh yeah...I'm Reek and this world is not for me!" And the Dornish remembering "Oh, yeah. We suck at pretty much everything!"

Unless it was a promo, in which case Terry Funk would say "Fuck you, you low down, good for nothing, egg sucking son of a whore! You're a dirty dog! You're less than a dog!" Foul mouthed Terry Funk is best Terry Funk.

"Iron Anderson has always been a walk-behinder!" "The view never changes, baby!"

You have to add "weekly" in there because soap operas have RAW beat by an enormous amount.

I support this as long as the fake Machines still hail from the Japanese island of Fuyutu..

I mean...

Their finisher was actually a pop up belly to back suplex.

Terry Funk says, "Go fuck yourself." Actually, he probably wouldn't, because he's a really nice guy. But you get my point.

Sounds like something that would've made the old WCW Observer quotes thread.

They could spew a refreshing seabreeze.

I'm semi-stealing a line I saw, but The Disgusting Adventures of Samwell Tarly is the worst thing to ever happen to television. I WAS EATING VANILLA ICE CREAM, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.

Since the discussion of mist spots has come up

I wonder what Kevin Owens' reaction was when he was told he was jobbing to Shane at Summerslam.

Saw an article that said the AJ/KO finish was botched based on "reports". The "report" it referenced was rovert saying it looked botched on twitter. What the fuck has happened to the internet?

I for one am glad they were actually able to wrap up filming of it up despite Silas Young's dastardly on set attack!!!

Here's some bits of (fantastic) news from Carlizilla after he did some poking around in the game's code: Fuck.yes.

That somersault senton by Nia is the first of her finishers that looks like a guaranteed match ender. Hope she's keeping that long term

Okay, yeah. Gordy making an entire venue run for the hills wins. Now I want to see that versus the "NOBODY POTATOES ME" Hansen freakout.

Maybe it was her "I'm being left off Summer Slam fuck this shit" face. Drifter was awesome in NXT as well. They just never gave him much to do.

Still better than Newsday

Between the shade on commentary and Nia's destruction, it's obvious that this was all retaliation for Emma's mouthing off on Twitter. I swear, this is one petty ass company lol I enjoyed Sasha/Bayley as well but was bummed at the result. But I'm guessing we'll get continuation of Sasha/Alexa eventually anyway.

I for one welcome the fact that a wrestler with amateur credentials isn't using an ankle lock as a go-to move for once

She tweeted about NJPW so I can only assume G1 in 2018?

Thanks Reverend (and everyone else for the continued discussion); the possible origins in Apter mags of the gland theory feels right to my recollection. I would've been perusing them on the floor of my buddy's rec room, surrounded by Fangoria, Starlog, and Cinemagic as well, and thus I think the gland explanation resonated with me for its Cronenberg-ian body-horror elements. But I agree that thankfully the origins were not delved into too deeply on TV beyond the color typology that you cataloged in CLAW HOLD! and that others here and elsewhere have noted. And Luger's "Dick Cheney Hunting Buddy" bump is by far his finest selling...

It's nowhere near as bad as Tajiri misting Undertaker and Taker looking annoyed that someone had just spit in his face and then proceeds to no-sell it and murder Tajiri. At least HHH spent a half hour selling it once.

Also, Sasha and Bayley was quite good. I'm not sure where they are going with the women's title pictures though. Sasha and Alexa had unfinished business. I can't see leaving Sasha off SummerSlam and I can't see Charlotte being left off on the SD side.

They assumed people would be less anxious to buy them after the main event.

Just assume that every storyline is being told at a different pace so they all converge at the same time. Think of it like you are meeting friends for a dinner reservation. Some people live closer to the restaurant, some people live farther away, others drive faster, and others drive slower, if they all get to the place at 8, why does the pace of how they got there matter?

"Oh my GOD! Ho Ho Lun has just cashed in his RMB In The Bank and made Brock Lesnar tap out! How will Roman Reigns ever overcome this!"

So I gave up on watching the PP match, but when I later read that Khali came out, I had the biggest "oh fuuuuuck this" reaction. Jinder fucking sucks. His gimmick is shit. He's a shit wrestler. And you could stick anyone in this evil foreigner that's better than you role and people would boo it or shit on it because it's lame. Meanwhile, on Raw, Samoa Joe and Brock have had one hell of a program and now it looks like we'll get Brock vs Roman vs Braun vs Joe. What a difference a year makes because last year SDL was way more entertaining than Raw.

Und vee git ova da bordair, an' yew giv me only littul bit of fawkin' your coke!

She tweeted it to him.

- I think the crowd got tired chanting every 5 seconds on the pre-show. - It felt like Young Boy Tom had a rough night. It seems like there was a lot of bad calls on his part. - This was great: - Sgt. Slaughter is going to show up and punch John Cena in the throat for letting the flag hit the ground. Rusev cut his arm either on or above his flag tattoo. Things that would have made the flag match better: 1. Rusev pulling the main pole out of the ground and carrying it and the flag up the ramp rather than climbing up and grabbing it. 2. If they greased the ramp and made this like a Double Dare challenge 3. If Rusev threw Cena's flag into the crowd and they played keep away from Cena 4. If Rusev stole the flag stand off the stairs and turned this into a Benny Hill chase - So if the Fashion X Files continue, I want Pat Patterson as the Smoking Man. We got our Eddie Money call back. Konnor ended up with Tully guts in his beard. It's not safe to be a stuff animal around ringside... wait a minute.... IT WAS FALE! - Mike Kanellis' tights look like underwear a heel manager who lost a tuxedo match would wear - People paying $600 to look through the cage: A fool and his money are soon parted. - I was going to make a joke about Randy throwing out his shoulder jumping the gap between the inner and outer cage, only for him to seemingly just step across the gap and then when I thought "Wow, he just dodged a bullet", he ended up slipping for some reason and looked like he might legit torch his shoulder again. And my god, that almost bump he took when Khali came out was also scary. Also, how hilarious the Singh's just slipped through the cage. JBL saying that Singh "Did his job" dying for Jinder to get an advantage, I feel like they should do the Flintstones animal appliances "It's a living!" take to the camera as they're dead on the ground. - the biggest outrage of the night: Talking Smack returns, but with Jerry Lawler. FUCK YOU WWE. No DBry, no peace. But Owens taking credit for Talking Smack being cut back was masterful heeling.

It still blows my mind they didn't return Rusev as a face. It's almost as dumb as never face turning Bray.