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  1. Why does Goldberg chasing the other guy look so funny?! Either way this is a 6 star HoF first ballot gif.
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  2. There’s art and then there’s capital-A Art. That painting, my friends, is Art.
    4 points
  3. My favourite part of Football Manager 2018 is how it changes the location of the 2022 World Cup near the start of every new game. Fuck Qatar and fuck FIFA.
    4 points
  4. Impact has been on a tear and the 7/12 episode was outstanding. The LAX stuff continues to be good, King is excellent in this role, I’m really glad he’s getting a continued push on TV. He’s been a favourite of mine for a long time. I said a year or so ago that Allie might be the best pure babyface they have and she was great against Shotzi who I thought was pretty great. That wacky surfboard/ back slamming thing she done was interesting. Josh Matthews name dropping Jericho during this match was pretty weird. Eli Drake is great all around, he took a meaningless backstage skit with Grado and made it great “I don’t want to wrestle him, I want to wrestle HER” was line of the night. Aries promo was great, he really feels like a huge deal in Impact. the main event was the most fun match I’ve watched in such a long time. The combination of those 6 guys could wrestle each other for the next 6 months and Impact would be worth watching. The Madison / Su Yung stuff really shows how Impact understands what made the Broken Hardy stuff great way more than Vince understands / cares. It really shouldn’t work but it’s done with the right amount of kitsch and charm that it works great in Impact.
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  5. Still no diagnosis (that I can see), but maybe this is a positive sign.
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  6. Is this your way of asking us to name random Canadians you have heard of? I'll start. Will Sasso.
    2 points
  7. Agree that Minoru is showing some of his GHC reign of terror tendencies. Obviously he picks his battles these days, and should, but... The case I’d make for Jay is that he does a great job of combining heel stuff with straight-line violence, and visibly trying to win. So, so many heels build matches around getting the face a comeback pop, and it ends up being transparent and thus—paradoxically—taking me out of the match. They don’t want to win a fight or hurt the face, they just want the fans to clap at the right time. Jay, on the other hand, takes the obvious thing and hurts it. Near the rail, he throws you into it; near or on the apron, he throws you into it; take his head, he drops you on yours; drop your head, he throws you into the mat; etc. He has more signature offense too, of course, but I really like how he filled the match by just doing the obvious “as the crow flies” attack—on top of being a real prick.
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  8. Just needs Benny Hill music and you're set.
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  9. Fuck FIFA is always a correct statement
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  10. I echo the fuck FIFA and Qatar sentiments. Special one goes out to Sepp Blatter, you twat.
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  11. Not to mention the horrible human rights violations in building the stadiums much less the general political climate of Qatar (and Russia).
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  12. Main event was great, but hooooolllleeeee fuck, how do you have someone kick out of a stomping package piledriver?
    2 points
  13. If Charles Oakley wants his fucking chips, you give Charles Oakley his fucking chips.
    2 points
  14. Shazam first official image: @Betsy Zeidler.
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  15. Someone tell Gedo Russo that every faction doesn't need to have a civil war at the same time, please.
    1 point
  16. I'm somewhere in the middle on White. I don't think the main event holds a candle to the Juice match. While I enjoy Beech's take on White's offense and control segments, in that he will take whatever is given to him and really go over the top with the violence rather than do a bunch of rest holds to keep the crowd into it, he did in fact lose the crowd about halfway through his lengthy assault on Okada. I don't think that's all on White, though. Okada has a tendency sometimes to give too much control/direction of a match to his opponent and this was a case of that. We rightfully praise him for his ability to work within the parameters of his opponent's match and style, but sometimes he gets a little lazy and goes into complete passenger mode. Outside of that incredible moment where he was tired of Jay's shit and got up after staring at Jay to choke a bitch, I felt he mostly mailed it in. I actually like the goofy adjustments to his character because it shows how much of his personality and character was defined by the belt and by being The Man. He's lost without it and trying to find a new path, unsuccessfully so far. So while that may hurt match quality right now (and the G1 is never hurting for match quality), I think it makes perfect sense for Okada to play around with ideas he's probably been saving up for the better part of a year. White is so close to being something incredibly special. Perhaps if you take into account his age, he's already something very special. But there are just a few things missing. I'll say this, his character work as being the Kylo Ren petulant brat that think he's outsmarting everybody else is really fantastic and he's starting to nail the character aspects. I think he can keep polishing that part of his game, continue with the extreme and sometimes simplistic violence, and still round out some of his pacing and timing issues to become a contender for best in the world. Suzuki and Tanahashi are two masters who are so perfect together. This wasn't as good as the February IC match but still a great truncated version of it with Tanahashi getting some revenge. That inverted dragon screw and the sell job by Suzuki absolutely made the finish. I thought he legit blew out his knee for a bit there he was so convincing. But, and this has been my criticism of Suzuki when many were anointing him to be the best or second best, his match structure is way too rigid and sometimes falls into the lazy/predictable category. He kind of broke that mold over the past year or so but he does fall back into it quite a bit when he's at his worst. This was somewhere in between in that it made sense to dominate the still nowhere near 100% Tanahashi and to build on their previous encounter. I thought YOSHI-HASHI/Makabe was really fucking good and about the best permutation the match could've been. Taichi and his glorious smedium trunks tho. I really still feel uncomfortable watching Elgin even though he's committed to losing some of his unnecessary body fat and hopefully toning down the bombz. And was it just me or did he drop the arm selling more or less whenever he was on offense? He'd shake it out after hitting his moves as normal the odd time but I thought if the match is going to be structured around EVIL attacking Elgin's arm, it should've not been dropped so easily. White Meat Babyface Page is the best version of Adam Page, as I said in the ROH/All In thread (I forget which). That was a great showing from him and Fale looked extra surly, as he really put his weight behind some of those tosses into the seats. Fun stuff. The undercard was fine. Goto gave Narita a lot and both looked really good! I CAN say something positive about Goto, there! The CHAOS tag was really neat aside from the miscommunication between YOH and Ishii. I LOVED Yano trying to stop himself from cheating with the urging of SHO and the referee. Tomorrow's match should be a blast. Overall, an easy 3 hours that mostly breezed by though it didn't have a MOTYC level match. But three matches in the 4 star range if you're not above such things is pretty great. The Ota fans seemed way, way more into Naito than Kenny, so tomorrow's match'll be interesting. G1 is here, yay! My second favourite time of the year!
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  17. And I just got my 114th Platinum trophy with Evolve. Servers are ending on September 3rd 2018. DO NOT PLAY THIS.
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  18. That has been a misconception of Broly by both the part of the fanbase that irrationally hates him and irrationally loves him. My guess is Toriyama saw potential in the parts of the movie that showed glimpses of Saiyan Culture. The revenge story of Paragus and of someone who epitomizes the violent nature of Saiyans. Battle Of Gods and Resurrection F, the two new movies. Toriyama wanted to do it for the younger audience that did not see the movies in theaters. But he ended up unhappy with how it turned out. I don't know why they did not split the movies into episodes.
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  19. Okay, with my buddy Steve Yohe's permission, I've dragged his bio of Bearcat Wright over here for discussion. The case is a bit of a strange one as none of us were around to see Wright wrestle. Well, I was, but I would have been a little kid, not exactly the best source of information. The big negatives all center around his "bad attitude", his double cross of Blassie in LA and similar stuff. I've often said that one thing to look at seriously when discussing a potential HOFr in whatever sport is what did their contemporaries say about them during the time. I have little use for reminiscences years after the fact as it's pretty much a given that in the case of jocks, the older they get the better they were and this extends to their contemporaries. However, when it comes to a bunch of white guys talking about a black man in the early 1960s, I'm taking the grain of salt approach. That said, here's Mr. Yohe's excellent work: ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* This is one fact that can't be disputed....he was the 2nd best black wrestler of his era...until Rock...his only competition was Bobo Brazil....and Bobo was a no brainer who went in on the first ballot without a argument. And Wright was a better worker than Bobo. Brazil had a great look & a huge style. Wright earned his stasis by his work. So why is it so hard for #2 to get in, when #1 doesn't even need to be thought about. There in no doubt that he was used terribly in Minneapolis & Winnipeg early in his career. While he got a nice push in Honolulu & Australia (1953)....he came home to be jobbed for years in Minneapolis. Doing his recorded it just pissed me off. Everybody does jobs when your starting out...that is a given...but it's hard to job a guy who is 6' 7". Losing to 5 8" guys in hard to explain. The move would have been to job him some & then moved him out to someone looking for a big guy. There were a lot of killer heels in the 50's (Kowalski, Kiniski, Von Erich, Miller,) who needed a big face to work with. But the Stechers (Dennis ?) kept him around for years as a jobber. Minneapolis had to have been one of the worst places for a black to work. When the owner of the Washington Senators was trying to move to Minneapolis, a reporters in the city ask him why he wanted to move to their town. He said, in 1960, "there are only 15,000 Negros in your city". What Black guys did Verne Gagne push? Not even Bobo. Getting stuck there jobbing, when he had talent & had been pushed in other territories with good results, probably drove him nuts. A black guy arguing with a white boss probably wasn't a good thing in the 50's. I can see why this treatment stuck with Wright & maybe that's why he fought for everything he got. And maybe created his reputation. Some of that is earned, but how much is unknown. Another thing that can't be disputed, (maybe I see this because my back ground is Los Angeles)....no one can write an article or story about Wright...without all the negative stuff that was outside the ring...and in most it leads off the story. I'm not saying it's all untrue...but it's stuff from the 1950's to 1970's from white people about a strong willed black. Bruiser Brody & Shawn Michaels had terrible reputations.....and there are others. And it didn't stop them. Yes he refused to give the WWA Title back to Blassie & it killed the territory for a long time. Killed the glory period of Blassie, Carpentier, & Destroyer. But the was the end of 1963, with the death of a President and the very peak of the civil rights moment. He was the first major black World Champion, and he had to have had great pressure to keep it, so.... A smart promoter would have worked with him (he was a huge draw) & just pushed the title change back until he was cooling off. Getting all upset, sending Gene LeBell out to assault him, and breaking KF and getting the business exposed on TV....was a bad move. Not smart. Then after driving him out, Jules Strongbow spent years trying to find another black wrestler to replace him. That wasn't resolved until they got Bobo Brazil to work full time. Strongbow even brought Wright back three times. The Destroyer ( who was a white guy under that mask) refused to job & unmask to Hercules Cortez & let to Portland. Did they send LeBell after Dick? No...they brought him back & made him world champ two more times. But Beyer wasn't black...was he? I think the territory went dead, not because of the double-cross, but because the fans lost the hero they were into and supporting. And they also got lied to by the promotion on TV, when they knew the truth. Strongbow & the others were & are great guys. Mike LeBell maybe had problems. But The Olympic, in my believe, wasn't a racist place. But in the early 60's a intelligent black worker standing up to a white boss....would most likely get a bad reaction....from just about any white boss. In my mind Wright should get credit for standing up. Wright probably knew he couldn't get away with stuff that whites could.....and he did what he felt was right. I don't know if everything he did was right or not....or if he was a good guy....it's just not enough to keep him out of the WON Hall of Fame. Another thing you have to look at is that a major babyface didn't have many places to go where he could be the long term #1 in a territory. Bruno & Rocca had NYC, Carpentier had Montreal, Thesz had St Louis, Pepper Gomez has SF & Texas, Snyder & Bruiser had Indianapolis, Ilio had Buffalo, Baba & Inoki had Japan, etc. Heels could also turn face & be very good in those positions. For a major black wrestler in those years....you had to rule out everything in the South (until the 1970's---both Brazil & Wright stayed away from there). For Wright he lost NYC & more important Washington DC...then Detroit....to Bobo Brazil. You just couldn't be good....you had to find a spot. I think Bearcat Wright thought Los Angeles was going to be his city. And it looked good...until. Another point I want to get to....Wright was never going to drop the title to Ed Carpentier. So he never refused to drop the title to him. Faces didn't drop titles to face in 1963. I was there, the match had draw written all over it. If Carpentier was going to get the title, he'd have beaten Blassie early in the year. That was not a good match & Ed had been in a car accident & didn't look his self. The third Blassie/Wright match at the Olympic had been pulled back because of the reaction to Bearcat. First they pull Varga in with him & then Carpentier...and waited for the right time for the third Blassie/ Wright match & the title change (the booking style was doing every thing in three's). The Carpentier match was just entertaining "fill". Dave keeps telling this story in the Observer & it upset's me...because it's wrong. It's in Blassie's book, but Blassie got everything wrong about the Wright period & I can prove it ....with logic. In 1963, Jeff Walton was just a fan, so he really doesn't know either. Ok...Wright's working style. I think he was a great worker & today's fans may not get it from the few films we have. So I worry. He had a unorthodox style...that's why he was popular. He was playing a wrestling Harlem Globetrotter, and it was over with white fans. He had long arms & legs but weight 260 pounds with no fat. I think he quit boxing because in the 1960's no expert in boxing thought a tall boxer could fight. They were said to lack stamina & couldn't take a punch. Ali was a big heavyweight at 6' 3" & 220. Ernie Terell was a freak & rare but not fun to watch. But as a wrestler, I think the only major star bigger than him was Sky Hi Lee. (Who is kind of forgotten at 6' 9".) In Australia they billed Wright as the tallest wrestler to ever come to the Island. So Wright was only a step below the Andre or Baba position in pro wrestling in 1953. Anyone taller was a freak who didn't last long. Wright could move & did flying moves very well. He had a corkscrew leg scissors, that I've only seen done by some lucha guys today. He had dropkicks & did Carpentier's flips and had the Rogers figure 4. He gimmick was defensive wrestling. Like Rubberman Johnny Walker, he would slip out of every hold & the heels would go nuts complaining he was greeced. Had better headbuts than Brazil and his slaps looked better than Rikidozan's chops. I think he was great, but there is no one else in wrestling history with the same style or moves. To me he passed that test without question. It's why he liked by fans...he was really different. So I could go on, but I get the feeling that the voting period is about over. I don't think he is a no brainer like famous long term stars like Londos, Stecher, Bruno, Gagne, Thesz, Baba, Inoki, Rogers, Blassie etc. But he fits the bill. He deserves a spot more that Murdoch, Taue, Sakaguchi, Masa Saito, and all the other considered borderline, and he is very important historically because of wrestling's race issue. Should go in.
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  20. I feel like I remember either DIY or Enzo/Cass said in a podcast that they, at least theoretically enforce the “only one save per team/partner” rule in NXT, so I assume that was it. But yeah, that was really awkward even if that was the reason. They could have at least covered/explained on commentary.
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  21. This wasn’t what Mets fans meant when they wished for their owner to get out of baseball.
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  22. I'm no regular CNN watcher, but I caught the episodes of their 90s and 2000s series on the television of those decades. If you want a brisk trip down some of the high points on memory lane, I highly recommend it.
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  23. If the person goes back and asks him now and converts to his religion, I'm sure he'll gladly sign one for $40.
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  24. because the sleaztastic gyrating wasn't part of the Jimmy Graffiti gimmick
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  25. Trying not to repeat what Oyaji just said, but fuck FIFA. Not just for having to shift the dates but because of the godforsaken country they'll be in.
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  26. Ooh, golf carts. I haven't come across them yet but I'll be keeping an eye out. And I'm more of a squad guy, even if I suck it's good to have backup if needed. Solo events make me a bit too paranoid for some reason.
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  27. I've been here off and on since the green board days but I can't recall what my old username was. Which is probably for the best; I'm not sure I'd want to see the dumb shit I wrote back then. I haven't watched wrestling regularly in 15 years; I'm mostly just here to chat about video games and post pictures of my cats.
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  28. Summer Rental with John Candy has to be there somewhere.
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  29. Viable number 2 is all I want. Been wanting that for the past 17 years. ROH will never be a viable number 2 as long as SInclair owns it.
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  30. Well, this overlooks a considerable point, when looking at the difference between the two (spoilered for size):
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  31. I’d argue the hottest he was was during the Evolution feud when he was protective of Eugene. If he had taken the title off of HHH after his promo, the pop would have been massive.
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  32. Sadly, Chris, that is quite common with a parent in your situation. The problem is it will only get much worse if she's not put in a place to help care for her weighed against the wishes of the family. Her health and the familial tension. My grandparents were insanely stubborn and both refused to ever get put in homes. They had a bunch of kids to help out and when it was just my grandmother with dementia they also had nurses and things and even that was really hard. With your mother it'll be even that much more difficult without the help of competent nurses and caregivers. I think your brother did the right thing and hopefully the rest don't hold a grudge against him for too long because of the emotion involved. It's sad to say it, but you have to do things like that sometimes for the greater good of the person. I hope she gets the best care and any of the stress that's been building up from it goes away over time. It's incredibly difficult to have to make those kinds of decisions.
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  33. Is that Los Miz on the outside?
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  34. It's whatever Haku says it is. If he says it's blood, that's good enough for me.
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  35. My goofy relationship with the interWeb is that I am mostly a lurker/consumer, with no desire to debate or share with strangers, and even here in thee confines of DVDVRbbs I still prefer to absorb others observations opinions and views, and I often feel like putting in my $.02 could skew the discussion and also I am lazy. However, OSJ has just gone above and beyond with this topic (and the SMIchaels marks have moved on (trigger warning: SM vs. Flair retirement match is in my top 25, I am a complex man), so I feel moved to add several disjointed but sagacious thoughts into this here mix. The WON HoF is really really good, mostly because of all the hard work put into it, as well as the transparency of it's voting process. Rassling is a difficult subject to be objective about, and a HoF brings this right up to thee surface: - Meltzer has a really heavy influence on his readers, both (overtly) in his opinions and (subliminally) in what gets featured. My first WON was the Bruiser Brody death issue. I remember wrapping in $5 bills in notebook paper, the ink feathered with beer drips like some damned Bukowski/nerd lowlife, limericks about DC Drake adjacent to my latest address and requests for "more Cactus Jack coverage, less Lucha spot show results, be nicer to Dusty". Oy. Thee mighty ChokeHold zine (Lance Levine was/is such a smartie) once ran a piece on how to read the WON ("skip over the MMA section, scan the totally worked results parts for indy shows you were at and laugh at the attendance figure that DM dutifully printed..."). Even reading the soberest , most centrist journalism requires knowledge of the context and an active filter on the part of the reader, and DM, Giant Baba bless his heart, is no journalist. Pro wrestling newsletters are no place for journalists, RASSLING IS ABOUT EMOTION and that means opinion and prejudices and imprinting from when you were a shaver watching with your grandma/seeing your first Japanese third-gen ladies VHS tape/getting worked for drinks by Sandman (and loving it). - So you are a smartsmartysmart mark and maybe even have taken some college courses or read some Sontag or McLuhan or GMarcus or even RICHARD Meltzer (very applicable to this here thread) so you can decode the palimpsest of thee holy WON itself and be unswayed, and you can parse your own emotional attachments/revulsions (this is why grown menfolk defend the ringwork of The Anabolic Warrior, I guess) nevertheless you are still hampered by what wrestling you have access to. Back in the day (see $5 humblebrag anecdote, above) you had an excuse even if you were the most dedicated of tape traders AND lived in a major (but not too urban/e area) AND had the right cable TV, but even today's YouTubez/streaming/digital/restored/thee Vault of Vince era can merely make one realize what is missing. I dig how Melzer is trying to slice up the votes to give weight to thee nonAmerikan promotions and the historical figures of the past, but c'mon if you haven't actually sought it out AND watched it and liked it, you are not voting for it. - Thee crazy wrestlings is loco, there are so many factors involved that even an intelligent litmus like the Gordy Test cannot take it all in. Workers are in thrall to bookers who are getting paid by a promotion, you can get de-pushed these days because you aren't using the InstaSnapChatGramTwit as well as some other goon, or maybe the announcers have a hard-on for football players, or maybe you are getting over with the gimmick that was supposed to sink you... Your veteran voters are marks for tough guys, yeah, but some like the hookers and some like the shooters and some like the barfighters. You are a vet and that fellow that you knew in the lockerroom who always paid for the first case of beer is up for a vote but maybe to the wrestling journalist (ecch) he's just a carpenter who never put enuff asses in seats. - Remember those super big year end WON editions, like portrait legal size paper with these gnarly staples and pastel covers that the HoF results used to get published in? They really need to get collected, there was some random stuff in them, and pictures! In fact, some modern archivist & scholar needs to do a history and analysis of all the years of thee WON HoF (OSJ, I am looking at you), NOT DM (the syntax, yow), work with him and reprint the old results and such, and add some commentary and hindsight and perspective, now there's a history of thee (modern) biz and the fandom surrounding it. The hard work of tabulation is done, so an overview would be fabulous. - Here is an intriguing exercise: pick your own favorite as-of-yet-unenshrined wrestler, and justify to why s/he deserves to be in, work backwards if you will. Use your emotional responses, or try to be coldly analytical about it. Maybe you have similar-minded friends who will tolerate your viewpoint, and augment it or even debate you in a civil manner. Or, you could post your opinion on the interWeb and watch your hatred for humanity grow. - RAF (for thee kids) --- tl;dr - nice job, OSJohn!
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  36. ?? The Twin Peaks thread will never retire!
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