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If a 90 year old announcer cutting a promo talking about waiting 25 years to give a receipt to a manager for pouring flour on him isn't pro wrestling than I don't know what the fuck is.

[Werner Herzog] There is something sickening and powerful about watching a 40 year old man dressed in casual CEO vest and jeans, delirious from being beaten about the head and face, crawling back toward his younger, stronger attacker to keep getting beaten all because he knows that its the only thing left that might make his twisted old father acknowledge his existence. It is the true face of the so-called circle of life. Not a happy tune sung by cartoon animals, but a slow drumbeat of terror and desperation first whined by a newborn as the adult male turns and strides back into the wilderness leaving it to its fate. The father will never accept the son because the father is driven only by the primal need to sew his seed and devour his enemies while the son, even now as a middle aged man, reverts instantly to that of the mewling hungry kitten desperate for protection and, haunted by a lifetime of his father's lessons in cruelty, the only skill he is capable of passing on, now performing this clownish martyr show to prove to himself that there is still hope to experience love in this world. And all the while, the man cub knowing that what will really happen is that the slowly withering old man will puff himself up one more time and roar that the boy has once again disappointed the family before driving away with a woman young enough to be his grand-daughter. It is why the circle of life should be rewritten as a song encouraging the early euthenasia of the older generation unless they are childless. Let the will to procreate wrestle with the will to survive. We can call it the circle of impotent undeath. I would still have it sung by a cartoon baboon because I love that guy. [/Werner Herzog]

This man is a national treasure. That's all.

A better payoff to the 205Live thing would've been Asuka beating up Enzo.

They should repackage all of the misfit and weirdo wrestlers as Kurt Angle's various children and assorted relatives. The Angle Family can be the new Addams Family. A wild-eyed Kurt could spend the whole of Raw making bizarre announcements while blowing up electric trains. Plus, The Great Khali would make a perfect Lurch.

I thought a lot of the ending was to humble Rick. He clearly defeated the United States only to lose the family to someone like Jerry. If the president had defeated him, Rick could live with that. But there is no dignity in losing to Jerry.

Also a guy who has been left off the 205 roster inexplicably while he continued to go nowhere feuding with Baron Corbin. And yeah, he's a total let down. Kurt builds it up as there being one guy who can challenge Enzo and it's...Kalisto. On a roster where you could pull any number of dudes from NXT, namely Hideo Itami, and many of them would instantly get a good push off of being the guy to free up the cruiserweight title, they went with a very bland and disappointing choice. And then to hear Tom and Corey try to sell it as a big deal just made the whole thing fall incredibly flat. WWE just doesn't do surprises or reveals all that well. I was foolish to forget that and to think that this time would be different.

All the cruiserweights can't touch Enzo. Who is left to challenge him? WHO I SAY?! Gargano? Nope. Hideo? lol no Someone we haven't even seen yet, like Rush? Hahaha, oh, just wait. It was Kalisto. Yeah. Fucking Kalisto. You gotta be fucking kidding me.

The Shield debuted in Indianapolis, Survivor Series 2012. Seth Rollins tore down the Shield on the post Payback 2014 RAW, also in Indianapolis. Same building too. Next week's RAW is in Indianapolis...

I'd have much preferred the Shield reunion was a 3 on 1 TLC match with Braun, and an ensuing 20 minutes of them trying unsuccessfully to keep him down Michael Myers style.

Kalisto...ahahahahahahahahaha. All that build up and it was for Kalisto. I swear you could see and hear the air being sucked out of the building.

So, this isn't the *best* Halloween Havoc match of all-time: That distinction belongs entirely to Eddie vs. Rey from HH '97. [stephen a voice] HOWEVA [/stephen a voice] Goldberg vs. DDP is my *favorite* match ever from Halloween Havoc. Up until the Brock match at this past year's Mania, this was easily the best Goldberg match -- which is a low bar, since your other option is maybe the Scott Steiner match (also Halloween Havoc, I believe). But this was a genuinely kick-ass match. Everything about this, from build to execution, was so well done (aside from, yanno, WCW actually airing the fucking thing properly on PPV). I was absolutely geeked for this at the time, as I loved both guys but was slightly more of a DDP fan. I thought the build-up of his ability to hit the Diamond Cutter possibly making the difference was brilliant, and I didn't mind Goldberg kicking out. My one complaint: Six months later, Page finally won the championship and had that odd heel run that only lasted a month. If they were going to get the belt off Goldberg, turn Page heel and give him the title, I wish they'd run this rematch at Starrcade; have DDP win there, but only after cheating his ass off because he "knew what needed to be done;" then build to the conclusion of a trilogy with Goldberg winning it back after a chase.

Trips himself shared it.

They couldn't, you know, replace it with a piece of art/statue that isn't a crass monstrosity?

There's an awesome anecdote that Lance told Meltzer on his radio show a few years ago about that angle where a fan kept badgering him about who was the guy who attacked him on Memphis TV, and Lance kept telling him that it never happened, that there's no way he'd ever agree to take a bump. And the fan was so adamant that Lance eventually looked it up on YouTube and was shocked to see it actually did happen. "Can you believe that I have no memory of that?...I mean, of course...at my age you probably CAN believe that..."

With Lance's passing, we've reached the true end of the territories as well as the death of credible wrestling announcers. Lance was a southern-fried Gordon Solie, minus the gravitas but just as believable and with a warmer personality... he was your kindly grandpa, ever-friendly but not afraid to lay down the law on those rare occasions. Tom K once had the great line about how Memphis Wrestling was like the Muppet Show and Lance its Kermit the Frog, trying desperately to stick to the format while the show inevitably broke down into chaos on a weekly basis. RIP Banana Nose.

I like how with the blur it looks like Doyle and Vampiro are attacking Vince McMahon instead of Oklahoma

I'm going to need you to roll a 20 sided die to do a perception check.

I think you're mis-crediting the real reason. Ciclope was so over that when people finally found out he was Dean Malenko they were astonished only to have their hearts crushed later on.

I assume as a giant gag, Season 4 will all be a flashback to Mr. Poopy Butthole's life during season 3 that we missed out on. Literally no referencing of anything else going on except for end of credit scenes of the mighty war being fought with Evil Morty. Season 5 will reset and focus on a different Rick and Morty and ignore the ones we know. This is Dan Harmon, these things are plausible.

I see people are pretending Kalisto isn't good. For supposedly smart fans, they are easily swayed by booking.

Mark Henry air bill ; ).

Then what's his excuse for all the other cities they go to?

I still don't know what that means.

With all the people you could have called up or brought in as a payoff to the CW angle they go with....Kalisto? He's a decent worker and all but he's not going to move the barometer anywhere, title or no title. I can't remember the last time they had such a talented roster yet manage to produce a completely hum drum product week after week. There's not much that I would say is actively bad here, I just don't care at all.

Is that Ciclope? NO! IT'S DEAN MALENKO! My God was that pop INSANE. Dean Malenko was so over in 1998.

Next Raw PPV is in a few weeks, here's what we have so far: For the WWE Universal Championship - LOL no For the WWE Raw Women's Championship - Alexa Bliss (c) vs. Mickie James For the WWE Cruiserweight Championship - Enzo Amore (c) vs. Kalisto ONE TIME ONLY REUNION *until the next time* - The Shield vs. The Bar & The Miz Some Joke About Transitioning - Finn Balor (w. Demon) vs. Abigail Wyatt (w. Bray)

I hope like half the audience changed the channel when they announced no Fashion Files.

Seamus's vulnerability to the sun makes it so he can't get enough of its vital rays essential for brain function.

Yeah, but I'm going to miss seeing that group of talent work with each other. Riddle, ZSJ, LEE, Darby, Dickinson and Jaka... This sucks.

Pssh. Lakshmi's future machine was telling the rest of those idiots that the Red War was coming well beforehand. If only they had all listened to the FWC, they would've been ready.

Can we just call this the 'We don't want Lebron to lose by 100 in the all star game' rule

I think the biggest problem with the Kalisto reveal was that Angle made an appearance to build it up. That short 45 second build up got everybody excited and when it was "just Kalisto", everybody was deflated. If Kalisto's music had hit instead of Angle's and Kalisto just ran down to the ring and took out Enzo, just as he did, I think it would've been much more well received. Such a small thing, really, but made all the difference.

Rippa did it! Rippa did it! - the calls of DEAN's followers.

2K announced no microtransactions, but really I am posting this because the top reply made me laugh:

The next thing Jeter should do is revert back to the Florida Marlins uniforms. That was world's better than the gaudy mess they wear now. I'd get rid of that monstrosity in center field, too.

FUCK YEAH VADER HELMET

A lot of Itami's problems have been injury related as well. Callous as this may sound, I think it would make more sense for WWE to just get something out of him on the main roster--205 live or not--rather than attempt a more substantial build on NXT that he may never be able to pay off. Whether he's a big enough deal to really move the needle is debatable--hell, the needle may be broken at this point--but the pop for him GTS'ing Enzo would have been way better than what they got.

You bring up an interesting point actually because Demo Crush is so low down on his gimmick list when I think of him. The first two are Kona Crush and NOD Crush. And yes, I thought the head tattoo was real when I was a kid

"He's really tall and his brother is a superstar - he MUST be a first rounder!" -- Seattle management. Diamond Dan actually has a passer rating 23 points lower than Tim Tebow.

With Jeff on the shelf, it's time for Shannon Moore to come back to help Matt cut weight, so he can challenge Enzo.

And then Kalisto comes out like a fucking dork with his shitty music. You could feel the disappointment in the arena.

His run from 88-94 is legendary: Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and 3 Into the Great Wide Open with the Heartbreakers Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers on his own Slapped a little number called "Mary Jane's Last Dance" on the Heartbreakers' Greatest Hits album and watched it go multiplatinum. Shit, in that same window he wrote "Christmas All Over Again," one of the GOAT hokey Christmas pop songs. That's a run as good as anybody's.

Right Action, Wrong Reason

Roman should not have offended that gypsy.