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If he were paying tribute to Phil Collins, he'd know that there's No Jacket Required.

Everything HHH said is corporate drone doublespeak bullshit. No, you absolutely do not need to be tolerant of an intolerant system because "hey man, it's just a different culture." Fuck all that. If that were true, blacks would still be confined to the nosebleed seats in Memphis. "Hey, the south is just a different culture and if they see blacks as subhumnan, who am I to judge?" I made the reference earlier, but this is like if they'd have run a show in apartheid South Africa in the 80s. I guess I shouldn't expect better of a dude rocking the iron cross. Not saying HHH is a bigot, just saying the dude is a) blinded by cash and b) ignorant. "You have to change the system from the inside" is the battle cry of zero-integrity sellouts everywhere and always has been. Call a spade a spade: they are running a show in a misogynist hellhole built on human rights abuses, and they're holding their nose and looking the other way because their greed is boundless. Vince will be dead in the next decade, has all the money he'll ever need, and his family is likely set for life as well, but they still want more. It's disgusting.

Kerry?

Everyone is sleeping on Graves actually explaining how Nak got the new theme because he didn't want the fans singing along anymore. That's next-level heel work. EDIT: That and the song title going from "Rising Sun" to "Shadows of a Setting Sun."

I only even learned this match existed yesterday. Have a gif:

Pro Wrestling Only seems like a nursing home, devoid of enjoyment of anything - whereas DVDVR is one of those gated communities for old folks that has a handful of cool old people, but also the occasional guy that’s all, “I miss the old days”.

Let's go one further and stop pretending that *WWE* itself is up to snuff with everyone's morals.

Workrate is dumb.

I did not know this until this post. Last year I started getting adult diaper ads in my margins. Every single day, every single site, men's adult diapers, women's adult diapers, almost exclusively ads for adult diapers. Especially a new kind called "Silhouettes", because they fit so comfortably under your clothing! Over a month of my margins being filled with adult diaper ads. And then one day my Pissed Jeans record - the one I pre-ordered over a month earlier - arrived in the mail, and I realized that google had taken my searches for Pissed Jeans to mean that I had a problem regular pissing my pants. As if I had googled "Dear google, how can I prevent constantly soaking my dungarees in piss?" And can we just cut to you telling me how many members of Protomartyr have been Ants?

Lawler would be the expert on giving young women payoffs

I love this

Ryder tweeted no full tears in his knee and no surgery required.

I mean they were going for "Cass was putting on his jacket and watch after having viciously attacked Daniel Bryan from behind". But without the Bryan attack being known until later, it just looked like "Cass coming out to zero reaction, putting on shit Men's Wearhouse just finished altering".

Amnesty International had a top 10 of sorts for human rights violators in 2017. Saudi Arabia is on there... but so is the United States, Europe, Australia, China, Russia, Turkey, etc. All places that the WWE tour in, some more than others. I hate to keep playing devil's advocate on this issue, but let's not pretend like WWE doesn't tour in other countries around the world that aren't up to snuff with everyone's morals or whatever.

Lyrics to the new Nak theme.

Evergreen post

Bryan's return will work out okay, unless the stick him in there with some green, uncoordinated lunkhead who doesn't know a wristlock from a wristwatch. So, re sign yourself to Daniel Bryan being killed in his first match with Big Ass.

Was your uncle a priest who was also a werewolf and terrorized Corey Haim when he was wheelchair bound?

This is why gifs are inadmissible as evidence in wrestlers’ court.

It's the libertarian dream. Knock knock knock "One second...ye........" "I LIVE HERE NOW. YOU GO." "Oh god," "STRONG LIVE. TEND LAWN. WEAK FLEE. FOOD FOR MONGRELS." "Hmmmm. your logic sound, gigantic invader. My wife and children are upstairs. They are yours to sell or devour. Before I leave may I grab a broom to fend off road warriors?" "NO. BROOM FOR ME NOW. LEAVES IN GUTTER NEED BROOM." "I see. I'll just pre-lube myself up for Lord Humungus then." "THAT GUY NOT REAL LIBERTARIAN. FIX GAS PRICES." "Yes, yes, I heard your debate on NPR." "NOAH ADAMS BIASED. ME PREFER JUAN WILLIAMS." "Of course you do." "ME HEAR SARCASM IN VOICE. JUAN WILLIAMS FAIR BALANCE." "Can I just go now." "ME FEEL LIKE YOU LEAVE ANGRY." "No, I'm fine. Just tired." "EVERYONE ALWAYS TIRED WHEN TALK MAYOR KANE."

If he was REALLY paying tribute to Phil Collins...

Previous to his injury, he spent most of his time standing next to an even bigger dork, so it wasn’t so noticeable.

Sid really was the master of the universe, and ruler of the world. Give me big dudes throwing people around over small dudes and their "fighting spirit" bullshit any day.

Thank god it's back. I didn't come to work to do work like some kind of god damned manimal.

SID was nothing but a spot monkey but check out his workrate:

Looked over post match interviews. I think one with Ishii is interesting since we usually don't hear him talk much: Speaks some truth and gives important advice for Henare and then goes back to his tough guy persona "But I don't care what he does". I suppose Ishii was actually impressed by Henare's performance? Because I don't remember when was the last time Ishii said more than 1-2 sentences in his promos/interviews. Naito reframes his match into being not about IC title, but about him humiliating "The King" and stealing his treasure that is not a treasure in the first place. He also mentions how he was beaten by Zack, but if he beats Suzuki... what does it mean for Suzuki-Gun? I think we all want Zack/Suzuki to happen at some point and this could be a good starting point for that story.

The booking of Daniel Bryan is just truly awful. It's back to the underdog, little man who gets laid out shit. What a fucking terrible way to present him after all this.

Who is your favorite wrestler and why is it Pete Dunne?

... we are supposed to hate TM vs DK now? I hate the internet.

Client: "So I feel like my employer is just not valuing me as much as they should, what advice do you have?" Low-Ki: "Then stop working there" Client: "Should I find another job before giving my notice?" Low-Ki: "I don't understand what you're saying? Just don't go back there." Client: "But I have to finish some projects fi-" Low-Ki: "No you do not. That is not the warriors way do not let them tell you what you do." Client: "What's the refund policy" *Call ended*

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake You are both correct, of course. TM/DK was a revelation, a distillation of the most exciting parts of a match concentrated into a sugar-rush, like the freedom of having an ice cream sundae for breakfast. There was was, in hindsight, a sacrifice of story-telling and pacing, but the context was ideal: that time, place, participants and type of match (New Japan Juniors) and -here is the most important factor- the whole goddamn card wasn't like that. It takes the headlong overkill of youth and new ideas to swing the pendulum and steal the influence away from the tenured lumbering oldsters of the era who have not updated a style for more modern times. Will that dessert-for-breakfast lead later promoters to serve nothing but sugar (excitement) and providing not real nutrition (emotion, stories)? Well, of course, and there is a small audience for that too, but the the resulting sugar crash made a lot of folks appreciate the other aspects of thee Craft of Rasslin. Moral: eat balanced meals, kids, maybe not every meal but certainly on a day-to-day basis. Moderation tempered with indulgence, I say. - RAF

I'll never understand people not liking Booker.

I understand the idea of giving Bryan a feud with a mid carder, because Bryan alone is a big match. Its why the Road Warriors were rarely tag champs. You get your Roadies match and a tag title match. But they should really be getting the most from him right now, since they don't know how long they have him. Do a big build to the Miz match and have Bryan destroy him. Then do Nakamura, Joe, Jeff Hardy and AJ. This is why I hate the Brand Split, we are artificially losing big matches. Things like Bryan vs Braun or Balor or even Seth Rollins. We have this sit on the pot culture in entertainment. Nobody focuses on doing the big thing now. Instead everything is about whatever is next. Also Nakamura's new theme is great.

Saudi Arabia are already allowing women to compete in sports events within their country, like a marathon type event earlier this year (the winner announced she's going to try and compete at the 2020 Olympics) and a cycling race a few months ago. In 2012, Wojdan Shaherkani and Sarah Attar competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics representing Saudi Arabia. I think WWE could have pushed the issue, but it's their first time visiting the area so they likely didn't want to press their luck the first time around. It's not like there isn't a precedent for women wrestling in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi) with those bodysuits, which they'd likely have to do whenever they're allowed to compete in Saudi Arabia. The only difference in the attire is that they'd maybe have to wear a hijab - and sports companies like, for instance, Nike, already makes them.

I'm taking my kid to see the Avengers film. Fuck Saudimania.

And now for something completely different: NFL logos re-imagined as pro wrestlers.

This last page in my head:

Interesting to see a modern Gaijin vs. Gaijin NJPW Main Event where both guys are proper dojo grads and the North American Indie influence is cut way, way back. Compare this to something like an Omega/Elgin match and it's night and day. Strong showing from both guys, and it seems like the character work from CUTLERY DEVIANT~ is looking a lot closer to what it *should* be. Certainly closer than the stinker with Hangman. White's choice to properly break the table with the elbow drop was a good call both in terms of spectacle and psychology, the "barely roll the shoulder" nearfall was fun and the finish was simple and swank. Both guys have a ways to go - it's obvious this match benefited from the two of them knowing each other so well and planning a lot of stuff out - but I'm more sold on something like a Finaly G1 run than I would have been a day ago.

Oh DDT...

It took almost 10 years but I finally got my lady into wrestling. Sure she only wants to watch Eddie Edwards and Allie matches. Not sure why she chose those two. But cause of this she ordered the Impact PPV on the FITE app. Gonna watch it tomorrow night. With LU being between seasons,Impact is my current favorite sports entertainment weekly show. I love NJPW on AXS but to me that is a wrestling show.

I wouldn't vote for Kane simply because you can't trust him. How many heel and face turns can you expect during his term? ...and hooking another man's balls up to a car battery while standing him in a bucket of water. That's something you'd expect out of the POTUS.