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It's actually closer to 20 divorces. There were some shotgun weddings and annulments in New Zealand and Tokyo, plus the time he married Jack Veneno to avoid a riot in the Dominican Republic.

Ric Flair rising from the grave to hustle t-shirts is the most pro wrestling thing ever

They literally made Bobby Roode's career.

"Kevin Nash came out to a song by a black guy, I guess to show that he's cool"

Then shouldn't that cow be on a pole?

Lana posted this for their anniversary.... Not going to say what it looks like they're filming or Rippa will hit me again.

Yes, CPD is not participating in the National Anthem ceremony as a form of protest. The irony is delicious.

Meltzer needs to be Young Bucks bodyguard and every time they do a double team move he holds a piece of paper with 5 stars on it.

Cranston did the movie because one of his first TV jobs was voicing monsters of the week on MMPR.

Embarrassment requires a sense of shame.

Gents: There's a reason that we put off taking taking tranqs, mood elevators, or whatever despite seeing our SOs deriving tremendous benefits from same. It's because we're guys and have that stupid as fuck macho bullshit going on. "Pills. I don't need no stinkin' pills." I had this attitude gently overcome by my wife, who has been on fluoxetine for years with terrific results. "Did you take your new pills today?" "No, I didn't feel like it." "Would you skip your oxy because you didn't feel like taking it?" "Of course not , that would be all kinds of stupid, you know I can't even walk without it." "Here's a clue, you can't function without your fluoxitne either, you just don't realize it, when you don't take your medicine, the next day you spend all day back in that room listening to Jim Cornette or bothering people on those message boards..." Yeah, that pretty much nails it. : -)

"Wow. Texas jobbed to Maryland. That may be the worst loss a Texas-based team takes today." Looks at internet two hours later "Well. Baylor loses to Liberty. And that's only the 50th most embarrassing thing to happen to BU over the past year."

Sylvester Stallone has been teasing Creed 2 hard lately, and I'm excited. But also confused. It looks like they are doing Adonis vs El Hijo del Drago instead of the fight the first movie left obvious. I can't remember his name now, but the guy that knocked Donnie out at the gym in the beginning and was supposed to challenge Conlan was the obvious choice for Creed 2 and I'm discouraged they aren't going to do the obvious and relatively realistic thing.

Throw in Paul Heyman as Mr. Haney and I would watch it.

Lesson is Pro Wrestling Times is not a credible source.

Fuckin' A

Keith Lee last night at BOLA.

Words fail me:

Just out of the appointment. We're ok. They think it was contamination from skin cells that caused the troubling results. Still a week or two away but all seems well. Thanks for the well wishes.

Those Valentines Day dinners with Zahorian must've been awkward.

If it has even one single thing as amazing as Ray Velcoro's chubby literal red-headed-stepchild, Chad, and his fantastic collection of horizontally striped shirts, then there is no way someone could not watch.

For anyone who thought digital release would end the theatrical run, think again. Wonder Woman just passed Civil War domestic and is expected to pass Iron Man 3 tomorrow. This will make it the fifth highest grossing domestic superhero film behind the Avengers movies and the last two Nolan Batman films. Worldwide is another story but this just keeps being ridiculously impressive. It's been out on digital for like a week and is still pulling nearly a half million a day theatrically.

Green Ache-ers?

I think this is at least chikara's third UK tour. I know I had someone on the podcast twice before to discuss them being in the UK.

The former

Y'know, it just occurred to me that if I saw Dave Meltzer coming towards me on the street, I'd cross to the other side to avoid him. Not because I'm scared of Dave or dislike him. Actually, I would like to meet him. It's just... I cannot imagine talking with Dave Meltzer abou7t anything besides wrestling (well, MMA). Maybe Dave's secretly a well-rounded person who has a standing reservation at the theater and spends his spare time aligning his chi and writing poetry, but... that seems unlikely. Dave seems completely focused on wrestling and combat sports. I would find that exhausting. I kinda picture Dave as being Vince McMahon's bizarro clone.

I'm not crying, it's dusty in here and I have allergies.

Per Meltzer - Jeff Cobb and Matt Riddle will be making their New Japan debuts in the Tag League

She adorable...

Also a horse kicking Terry Funk and him yelling, "FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING HORSE!" on live tv.

Needs more Terry Funk somehow getting an eye injury and rambling through the arena yelling, "MY EYE! MY EYE! LAWLER! YOU SONOFABITCH!"

Hogan and Mr. T coming out to Eye of the Tiger for WM1 along with Piper entering with an actual bagpipe contingent has to be the greatest dual set of entrances in history.

He was in FCW for a year or two as a wrestler, but moved into managing other wrestlers and eventually commentary. I think he did a season of NXT when it was in a game-show format, too.

For a couple of weeks, yes. When he utterly failed to back it up in the ring or on the mic, it would die off in a hurry. Roode lived up the song and then some. But Roode's been one of the best heels on the planet for a decade.

I doubt it. Cain, Overeem, and Ngannou would all be ahead of him off the top of my head. Plus, Stipe is still in a contract dispute. If they want Stipe to fight on the Detroit card, they're probably going to have to resolve that in the next few weeks. So Volkov would need to fight to contenders between now and next fall to get a title shot. FWIW You did hit the different announcer combination prediction.

Jarrett gets a bad rap but I enjoyed his two WWE runs. His WCW runs were mostly garbage and he should be eternally shamed for giving Russo employment but I don't condemn him for pushing himself in TNA. When he decided to wrestle he was pretty good, but got way too caught up in the garbage walk and brawl/overbooked Russo-esque atrocities that plagued WCW and TNA. Also, since I'm speaking about Jeffs, am I insane for thinking Jeff Hardy is a WON HOF contender? Was thinking about this recently. One of the most over babyfaces of the last twenty years in an era where babyfaces don't connect. Was probably the hottest babyface in the country during the last part of his WWE run and headlined PPVs. Was the bigger star in a legitimately over and influential tag-team . Helped popularize the TLC style of match, which changed wrestling. Has shown to be a draw for smaller promotions like TNA and the indies. I would assume he was a decent draw in WWE, as much as anyone can be. I think it's an interesting discussion. I mean, yeah...the drug issues are terrible and he never had a sustained run as a WWE main eventer (though if he had stuck around he probably would have). In-ring work has been hit and miss, too but I think he's an interesting case when you consider the requirements involved.

That would suck. They've been great at modernizing the sound after the three decades of Johnston.

Crossfit is a brand, and so disparate in terms of what individual gyms do that it's hard to say. Olympic lifts directly contribute to overall athleticism though; you see them incorporated into every football weights program for a reason. However, the technical component is significant. They're hard to do correctly, and even if you do them right, there is a higher risk of injury than with less dynamic movements. Which is the reason they're performed as part of a professionally supervised and programmed routine. Even then, some argue squats/sprints/dead lifts/box jumps/etc might be safer and, when combined, more effective. The point is, Alabama doesn't just fling open its gym doors, and tell its players to do whatever they think is best. That WWE does even less than that is... odd, fundamentally. We don't know how to best train/injury-proof pro wrestlers. But shouldn't the biggest wrestling company in the world try to find out? You're absolutely right that specificity matters most of all, though. Any training a wrestler does has to compliment the wrestling first.

The nWo should have turned on Hogan the next night after he loses to Sting again. Let Hogan go away for six months and come back as a good guy. Maybe with the money he was making, WCW felt like they could not let Hogan be off TV that long. But the route they chose did not work.

swindled him on some gold

People keep referencing Roman beating up a 70-year-old man, and I completely forgot that Vince actually dusted himself off to have a mini-feud with Roman. Then I was gonna say that was at the height of WWE's thoroughly transparent desperation to get him over, but then I remembered that bit with The Rock at the Rumble which was like a year earlier... Roman's career arc is like the most "lolWWE" thing ever.

Fuck "cool heels".

It's a push alright but we've seen earlier in the card a number of wrestlers with stalled pushes who came in hot. Nakamura's in a precarious position, just like Bray, Balor, Corbin, Miz, Ambrose, et. al. before him. Sure he can thrive in the midcard and make more money, but there's also a hope that he does more than that because we all know he is better than this B-show fuck finish bull. Nakamura losing on Summerslam is not like Cena getting pinned through nefarious means on TV. He needs insulating and protecting from these nickel and dime dimbulb heel cheat bollocks. He needs to not have to make a WWE Champion get his finisher right by feeding him the arm because he's too thick to remember to go under the arm. This is - potentially - a Rusev situation, a Ryback situation, a Cesaro situation. A guy with a big upside if the downsides are downplayed. This could be a mishandling at a time when there are a lot of eyeballs and extra coverage, coverage that will tail off during the 'chase' period of this angle that may or may not culminate in his eventual win. That he gets put in there with someone who can not never no way no how have even anything close to a good, let alone great, match (part of the reason Nakamura was signed, face it) and then goes under to one finisher after taking much of the match? That's not good.

Asuka vs. Ember Moon was the match of the weekend and a MOTYC. Thought it was great on my first viewing and more the second. Jinder Mahal's shit. One of the most unlikely world champions ever. He's WWE Champion while fucking AJ STYLES is WWE United States Champion. Since John Cena dropped the WWE Championship to Bray Wyatt at Elimination Chamber 2017, the booking of the belt/title fucking sucks.

After Nagata's final G1 match