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  1. When I think of missed opportunities in wrestling, WWE denying us the chance to see The Rock sell the 619 is way up there.
    6 points
  2. 6 points
  3. Juice is the absolute poster child for getting out of the system if they aren't really behind you.
    4 points
  4. This isn't the Halloween episode of ride along we deserve. It's the episode of ride along we need.
    3 points
  5. I don't think this board could handle a "Who Has the Most Mundane Life?" challenge
    3 points
  6. Something someone pointed out a while ago made me think twice about the idea of PED users being pariahs: in the 60's/70's/80's all those guys were being fuelled by pills to the point that bowls of greenies in the clubhouse became a longtime gag. Can't it be argued that they were a performance enhancer as well because they were basically drugs that allowed players to play at a high level and get through a long season? I don't know if I fully agree with it but it really made me think and at least challenged my assumptions on the issue.
    3 points
  7. His piledriver in the tag match looked sick tho. Haku for G1. Haku vs. Yano! Where da fuck is Fale btw? P.S. There was an awesome fan experiencing NJPW for the first time in the row ahead of me and he was just losing his shit for everything. Added so much to the night and it was like having a personal David Crockett.
    3 points
  8. That sounds rad and I'm pissed I missed that but what an experience today was between eating lunch with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Legion of Honor museum and then this perfectly paced, spectacular card that over delivered big time. I don't have a tonne to say beyond witnessing NJPW wrestlers' spots live gave me a whole new level of appreciation for their athleticism. Some of the stuff you see the juniors pull off on tv and it's just a thing is not just a thing live. And the excess is unavoidable for both the Lee and main event matches because of what's come before. I also dug Lee and Hiromu countering so much because they've wrestled a hundred times and they've shown it in the past and are coming up with new counters to counters and new methods of killing each other. I think I preferred the ROH version of Cody vs. Kenny to this but it was still everything the crowd wanted and then some. The ladder spot was the best visual I've ever seen at a live show. Just beautiful. Really fun match but this will hopefully go down as the night Jay White matured as a wrestler and found himself. Just an unreal heel performance. And great stuff with Josh. If we get warmaster vs. switchblade out of this too?! Damn. I guess I did have some rambling in me. This really hammers home how badly I would like to do a G1 holiday in Japan next year, hitting up Korakuen and Sumo Hall with maybe another city or two in between.
    3 points
  9. After all the crap he has gone through I am soooooo happy for Cormier. He absolutely deserves this.
    3 points
  10. What a tidy little post-fight circus. In this day and age, two terrifying, smiling 40 year olds shouting at each other with that perfect mix of corny and legit really hit the spot.
    3 points
  11. Sun-Drop is the best. Sun-Drop’s number one.
    3 points
  12. How has this show not fucking happened yet?
    2 points
  13. Man, I miss bounty angles. Way too pro rasslin for WWE.
    2 points
  14. Good to see Act Yasukawa doing wrestling shit while drinking alcohol, even if she'll never actually wrestle again.
    2 points
  15. I actually do subscribe to this viewpoint. I completely believe that the main reason baseball players back then were doing coke and other amphetamines was to keep them getting out of bed, and keep going through the long-ass baseball season. I don't know whether it's "better" or "worse" than more recent PED use; but I completely think that they were using illegal drugs to gain a competitive edge.
    2 points
  16. Yep. I want rid of Brock Lesnar.
    2 points
  17. "Wow, ya done fucked up now..." "See that motherfucker run?" - Josh Barnett "The lack of control here is ridiculous. I wish they'd get their shit together." - Jim Ross Best part of the show, and this was a great, great show.
    2 points
  18. I have long thought that the rampant amphetamine use in baseball should be taken into account when talking about PEDs, but writers back then were so allegiant to the team that they would turn a blind eye to anything they saw so as not to besmirch the good name of the franchise and also fuck up the gravy train they had going with covering the club. A lot of these dudes that crucify guys on the gas have no issue with Mantle ripping through a handful of greenies to pick him up off the floor after a late night of boozing. If you take issue with one, you should probably be pissed about the other. Cooperstown is a place full of guys that don't belong for one reason or another, a number of them just for being friends with Frankie Frisch. Who gives a shit if some drug users are in there? I respect the hell out of the HOF as a museum, but who gets enshrined there hasn't mattered to me for a real long time.
    2 points
  19. I just got back. Man that was a great show. 95% Bullet Club shirts and 5% WWE shirts and those terrible overpriced jackets. Crowd was pretty on point for everything all night; reminded me of the NXT crowd in San Jose Mania weekend. Stage, ramp, lighting wasn't overly elaborate, but what a difference it added to this experience vs. when APW ran it twice previously. Floor and risers section were full. What would be called the upper deck (its not) was probably 50% full with the empty sections being right underneath NJPW's hard cam side. Speaking of which, it was interesting to see how they had their hard camera set up with the wide cam angle. WWE has theirs at the "9 o'clock" position, in relation to their stage/ramp, where as NJPW has theirs positioned at "6 o'clock" facing straight at the ramp and 'tron.' As a production guy, that stuff sticks out to me. I got into all the matches, even that Young Bucks match. The Hiromu vs. Lee was pretty nuts. After seeing him for the first time live at the KOI tourny, and win, I'm all on board with this guy. I was in line for food during the Okada and Niato entrances, and we didn't even get a rainmaker or an Oscutter, so I was bummed on that one. As mentioned the crowd was really into Juice vs. White. APW brought in White last Oct, just before his Switchblade debut in Japan and he impressed me then, so I might have been the only one pulling for him tonight. I know its pro wrestling, but were those barriers extra unattached to anything?! They were getting flattened and flipped over all night. Main event really delivered. I don't think Red shoes was awake, at all. I don't wanna go to a WWE show ever again.
    2 points
  20. Chris Charlton on Twitter said the attendance was 6333. The crowd was great except for some of the annoying chants. When they showed the heavyweight title montage Lesnar got big boos and AJ got big cheers.
    2 points
  21. The juice vs white match felt real violent. That was great.
    2 points
  22. The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?
    2 points
  23. Yeah, having Solo at number 2 in the box office is killing me, along with other things. Its only going to get worse. . . .
    2 points
  24. Cody's not a 60 minute worker, but damn if they're not doing enough smoke and mirrors to try and stretch him past 30.
    2 points
  25. The sad part is, Dunder Mifflin is how companies are actually run.
    2 points
  26. Kuetsar really shit the bed this week.
    2 points
  27. lol, the Canadian dollar sucks. I paid $120 to buy Final Fantasy VI back when it was called Final Fantasy III, when it was the hottest new shit on the SNES. Don't think I've crossed three digits to buy a game since. I also dropped another $20 on the Nintendo Power produced FF III guide, which is actually a pretty awesome collectable in hindsight and I'm happy to say I still have it in one piece.
    2 points
  28. I saw SORRY TO BOTHER YOU and I'm still gathering my thoughts...but definitely worth viewing. It's weirder than the trailer and takes swings. Feels new. Give it a shot, people.
    1 point
  29. With all due respect Craig, you are the worst.
    1 point
  30. I was initially just going to post Kerry's failed skin the cat. However, the whole ending is just shoddily executed.
    1 point
  31. That conversation is unrealistic because no one has ever asked if Coke was OK. It just fucking is.
    1 point
  32. 1 point
  33. First issue of Strange Tales that I ever saw, I was nine years-old and my life changed forever: Thank you, Mr. Ditko; RIP.
    1 point
  34. 1 point
  35. Now it makes me wonder if things would've turned out different materially if they had run Booker vs DDP the first WCW match. Booker was solid and Page was one of the smartest workers on the planet, I'm pretty sure they could've delivered a good main event caliber match.
    1 point
  36. Manos! Bloody Nightmares! Ah, good times... I've been around since the very early days when my handle was Old School John, (since shortened to OSJ), I took a sabbatical for a couple of years from pretty much every site as the writing and editing went from something I did to pay for my book collecting to a career beyond my wildest expectations, (check out the bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fictiion Database under "John Pelan"). I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up, but we'll cross that bridge in due course. In the meantime I'll continue to screw around writing stories of awful things happening to awful people and awful things happening to good people. The other half of the equation is the research and editing piece. Somehow things worked out to where I have the coolest job in the world, which leaves me plenty of time to interact with y'all about wrestling, comix, literature, action figures, films. etc. For example, giving you the Mutombo finger wag for mentioning ROBOT NINJA and not mentioning the guest appearances of Burt Ward and Linnea Quigley... Anyway, hoping all is well with you, it's really good to see that many of the folks who were around in 1995 are still here (or have returned). The more it changes, the more it stays the same... The wife asked me the other day, "When are you going to grow up and stop buying comic books and playing with toys?" (I should note that there is a semantics problem here in that by "toys" she means "action figures" and by "playing with" she means "customizing".) Anyway, the answer was "Not anytime soon, dear; not anytime soon... By the way, if I were to have Manny (my guy in the Philippines) do a new custom, should I go with The Black Terror or Fighting Yank? " Apparently she's not a fan of either character as if looks could maim, I'd be typing with my nose. ?
    1 point
  37. (drops drink to floor) Long time, dude! You must have ESP. Because I was thinking that whenever I organize my movie collection (and yes, it's still the same mess it's been for years), I would do something with my 50-movie box sets--which you did for your Movie Feast blog. I hope all is well with you.
    1 point
  38. OH SHIT IT'S KINJI FUKASAKU?!?!?!?!?! I have all the Battles Without Honor and Humanity films so he's all over my shelf now. I can't believed I overlooked that. I should have pulled the trigger on my Kino order. Those prices were ridiculous. I started out with like 200 bucks worth of shit and tried to shave it down to 75. It felt impossible so I gave up and then the sale was over.
    1 point
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