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You would think that after 4-5 months, and a title change the program description would be accurate. But, TNA/Impact/GFW is gonna TNA/Impact/GFW.

I like that Braun restrains himself to a mere three pieces of bacon. I guess four or more would be excessive.

Because it's always fun to see what Braun eats

"Scott Steiner as local restaurateur who was witness to an attempted murder" is my favorite example of Scott Steiner away from the ring.

Just found this site a few days ago. It's been a blast reading through threads, catching up on news and reading opinions. Appreciate all those who contribute to this site! Thanks!

The Bar just got a lot lower.

I think Luger was really uninteresting to me in the ring, but he could show fire on promos. Part of what really soured me on him was his head. I always thought he looked weird. The mullet looked strange on him and, yeah, he just looked awkward to me. His matches were fine, I guess. By the way, listen to the heat in this match... Two babyface teams going at it and Scott Steiner comes in and gets a bigger reaction than Sting. For the life of me, I can't remember what the programs were at this time, but I'm going to assume this is when they had the two different world champions and Rude was one of them. It makes me think they badly missed the boat on Scott vs Sting back then. Oh yeah, one other thing from this clip, I fucking LOVE the sound of the ring when someone bumps on it. I've always loved that about WCW. It sounded so distinct. Going from memory, NJPW's ring sounds like this too I think. It has such good oomph to it. I love it. The WWE rings sound find when someone bumps on it, but nothing comes close to how the WCW rings were miked up.

WWE Creative couldn't reignite a pile of sticks and tinder if you spotted them a tank of lighter fluid and three blowtorches. I mean come on. Most people thought Bayley was a can't miss prospect -- "the female Cena," everyone said -- and look where we are now. The writing for her was so bad that she's getting booed. It's gotten so bad that we've come all the way around to questioning whether she was ever really good or if was just "NXT smoke and mirrors." Which is funny because wrestling is supposed to be about a combination of talent and smoke and mirrors. That's WWE creative. It runs talent into the ground and pushes everyone, save a select few who are either Vince's favorites (Cena, Roman) or just too damn good to be kept back (Styles), to the middle. They do this over and over until you wonder why you liked a certain wrestler in the first place. So back to the Hardys. Even if they'd come in with the Broken gimmick on day 1, creative would have gotten involved and pissed it all away in short order. Partly because they can't help but step on their own dicks over and over for all eternity, and partly because they just can't abide seeing something they didn't create get over. Or it would have been a constant fight over the direction of the characters until Matt got fired again.

Just watching the 11/16/09 RAW from MSG...and damn it looked so great with the old school aisle and minimal staging.

I know this should go in the gif thread, but this is another Mike Awesome moment permanently etched in my brain. Poor, poor JT.

The least surprising part of the story is the owner of the restaurant being Greek. My biological father, who is a cook, said to me several times that he wanted to open a restaurant with me. I had no interest and I don't particularly like to cook. Even so, all Greeks know each other and are somehow connected to the Diner Mafia.

Fixed that for you.

Yeah, but broadsiding someone with your car looks weak compared to the Steinerline.

I'm shocked nobody put up that clip yet. In lieu of using the original video, here's a little Simpsons twist on it:

I loved Tanahashi/Naito, great match. I have no idea how tomorrow and sunday play out. There are 2 huge meaningful stories going on, one is Omega being able to finally overcome Okada. The second is Naito's 4 year long story coming full circle of not only getting to Main the Dome, but winning the title there. I can see Omega taking tomorrow, but Naito winning the whole thing, because THAT would be the completion of his ascendency, which I'm going to go right out and say that wrapping that up and cementing Naito as the Kawada to Okada's Misawa is way more important than putting Omega in the spot, and I say that as an Omega fan.

For a sec, I thought Sting was wrestling a Japanese cheerleader. Fire Pro, what have you caused?

GO BACK TO SPORTS ILLUSTRATED!!!

It's not Lex's fault a pallet of ICOPRO was delivered to his house

Little Miss Bliss.

I can't help but feel his WWF career would have been a lot more successful if they'd just run with The Narcissicist gimmick for at least a year, it was such a note perfect character for him and he pulled it off effortlessly

I said it months ago. I don't think NXT should be doing 100% of the build up for these characters because only a fraction of the main roster audience is watching NXT. Bayley isn't "NXT BAYLEEEEYYYYYY" to the casual audience. She is just one of the many women who have been brought up and whom WWE TELLS the audience is important instead of allowing her to show it. Sasha and Charlotte work on the main roster (despite some terrible booking) because their characters translate well in a way where you don't necessarily need to know the entire backstory to get who they are. With Bayley you absolutely need to watch her arc on NXT to get the character. Same thing with American Alpha. The casual audience didn't get what they were about and WWE creative didn't put the effort in to show it. They just tell the audience "THESE GUYS WERE GREAT ON NXT" I'm sorry but that doesn't cut it. Most people say "who gives a fuck what they were on NXT"

Poor Mike Sanders. Being Above Average isn't bad. C's = degrees

The real dummy is Sasuke. Am I right!?

This might be on the best promo pieces WWE's done in a long time. Totally different than the usual stuff they do.

I'm dissappointed his chyron said "witness" and not "genetic freak" or "big bad booty daddy." That's just a wasted opportunity.

Scott Steiner should have taken the opportunity to plug his Shoney's.

Fale vs. Daryl will be 8 Stars, no doubt.

Just everybody watch the damn match. It was awesome. All 4 guys at their peak.

This is what happens when you hang out with the White Rabbit Tribe.

I'm saddened to learn you have me on ignore.

Because it was a predictable cliche that felt out of place in LU. Like I can buy bringing your family to the Sportatorium where everything is presented as athletic competition on the up and up, and heel attacking them would violate the norms. The Temple is presented as a questionably-legal underground fight club where bystanders are constantly in danger. Not to mention Rey is supposed to be the wise old master who knows what everyone is capable of on this show. He won't let Dragon Azteca Jr mix it up with Matanza or slightly-unhinged Puma, but he's gonna let his wife and kid sit ringside with Worldwide Underground around? It's certainly less sleazy to use Dominic now that he's 20 (unlike forcing him into that stupid angle with Eddie when he was 8), but the whole thing was obvious from the moment they showed him and made Rey look like an idiot.

I have no idea how you could shit on either of those movies.

I think Luger was clearly good from '87-'91 as an all-around talent. I also think Luger's character work is underrated. I enjoyed him in '95 as a tweenerish-heel who was taking advantage of Sting's trust and good nature, and his Total Package work in '99-'00 was actually quite good, even considering that it contrasted to the sea of crap in WCW. For that matter, I liked the Narcissist, too.

I would agree with this, which is why it's really important for Mauro to shut the fuck up with his stupid hip-hop references. Two black dudes in the ring doesn't mean it's automatically time for "Hey can I talk about rap now?! I know black culture!! MIGOS!!!"

This is like Uwe Boll talking shit on film critics. Dude, just stop. Also, this: Fuck do I hate this kind of intellectually dishonest comeback. "You can't criticize what I do because you've never done it." It's always a telltale sign of a really stupid person, someone with no other defense, or just a flat out asshole. Or possibly a combination of the three.

I'd say it was like Lucy and the football but that would suggest competence.

Could it be Braun just doesn't know what kind of girl he is?

I think you could have retold the Bayley underdog story on the main roster by getting over the idea that while she became the ace of NXT all the Horsewomen have upped their game while on the main roster and Bayley is lagging behind again. They should have had her struggle, especially against Charlotte never getting a singles win, and build and build and then pay it off at Mania when she finally gets the title AND breaks the PPV streak. It just seems so easy and simple. Plus you can be laying seeds for a Sasha turn soon after. I will agree that Bayley has struggled both with promos and in ring a bit, but the booking has been all over the map.

Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch as an Oi! skinhead team is just way too obvious and needs to happen. They can be all about bringing together punks, skinheads, and other working class youth; returning Oi to its original mission as opposed to Nazi fucks spreading their propaganda.

I mean, Karen confirmed that something happened but just said it was overblown. So, basically everyone is jumping on Meltzer for 1) reporting a story that one side confirmed 2) reporting multiple eyewitness accounts that interpreted the story a certain way. Interpretations are in the eye of the beholder, of course and ten people can have their own version of the truth they saw. This isn't exactly James Frey writing "A Million Little Pieces." And I love this new thing of "can't believe Dave because Dave gets WORKED BY THE BOYS" followed by "Well, the boys said this so Dave is clearly full of shit. You gotta believe the boys." It can't be both ways. From Karen So, Karen admits there was an altercation but says they were just working an angle at the bar for some reason. Okay, fine. I mean...weird. Really, fucking weird. But absolutely in no way refutes what was reported. If you think that Karen Jarrett and Braun Strowman, who presumably don't know each other, had some sort of incident at a bar that resulted in them going into worker mode and cutting promos on each other for the amusement of the patrons then great. The easier to believe rationale is that they were both drunk assholes. I'm sure it was smoothed over immediately but this is a weird story for people to get so defensive about.

Patrick Stewart with that much hair is wrong

My most found memory of Mike Awesome memory is during his very brief stint locally in the HWA when it was a developmental. The fans are hanging out at Chili's and he and Horace Hogan come in. A few minutes later we hear "Come on Horace, there is no food here...just Karaoke!" and they leave. We still quote that to this day. I did enjoy a lot of his in ring work as well.

Yeah...no one paid to see Above Average Mike.....

This reminds me of a bus trip where Awesome came onto the bus for a q&a. Someone asked him what the best promotion he ever worked for he replied "ECW! That place was great! What was the worst? ECW! They didn't fucking pay me!!!"

Chris Hemsworth said today that the line from the trailer "We know each other! He's a friend from work!" was suggested by a Make-a-Wish kid that was visiting the set that day.