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Speaking of Scott Steiner...

FTFY

This is what I'm picturing Total Disaster Insurance Man: Now, before I give you the check, one more question: ah, this place Moe's you left right before the accident, this is this a business of some kind? John Cena's Brain: Don't tell him you were at a bar. Huh - but what else is open at night? John Cena: It's a pornography store. I was buying pornography. John Cena's Brain: Heh, heh, heh. I would never have thought of that.

Oh. My. God.

They were in bad shape at the time. My uncle was an opening match JOTS for the WWE at the Garden in the late 70's/early 80's. When the NWO happened, Vince called my uncle and asked him if he would come back. Promised him a new character and an IC title run, maybe more if the character stuck. My uncle had moved on from wrestling and was working an office job at the time. Vince called my uncle at his job. My uncle turned it down because he did not want the travel schedule. He wanted to be around his wife and kids. They were more important than the money. Here is why I will always have a soft spot for Vince. Instead of thanking my uncle and hanging up, Vince asked about his kids. Opened up about how much he was scared of Ted Turner with his open pockets. Vince was terrified of losing his business to TNT/Turner/WCW. How he did not like doing the Attitude stuff because he did not want Shane and Stephanie to be around that but he felt like he had to do it in order to save his business. They spent an hour talking about kids, wrestling, and everything under the sun. Vince never had to do that, especially for an opening match JOTS. But he did. At the time, Vince was very worried about the WWF.

...fucks sake...Rochester!?

So here is an airport story. I was traveling out of Spokane around 2007/8 and Raw was there the night before. The concourse there is really small and I was in the same area as most of the roster. I remember Cena, Bautista, Arn Anderson, Matt Hardy and a whole bunch of others. I stood right behind Punk, Evan Bourne and Hornswaggle boarding my flight. Hornswaggle was in first class, Punk somewhere in the back and Evan Bourne and I were sitting in the front row behind first class with a empty seat in between us. Have you ever had that empty seat beside you and the plane is almost full and you are praying no one is going to sit there? Me too. It had to be near of boarding and right in the doorway appears Mark FUCKING Henry standing there, and I am not looking forward to this at all. Turns out he was sitting in the very last row of first class and the seat went empty. And just to tie it back to the previous pages, I hate it when people talk to me at an airport, so I sympathize with those who have to deal with it on a regular basis.

Vince no selling two torn quads is the most Vince McMahon thing ever.

Stanley Cavell in the philosophy department at Harvard used to put it this way: "It no more counts towards the success or failure of a work of art that the artist intended something other than is there, than it counts when the referee is counting over a boxer that the boxer had intended to duck." Suck on Harvard brain stuff, Road dogg!!!!!!

I suggest people track down Sandhagen vs. Alcantara. Marajo gumby'd one of Sandhagen's arms, Sandhagen somehow escaped, and then he proceeded to beat the everloving shit out of Marajo as payback.

It should be noted that in the fight that preceded Harper walking out, Jamontay Clark literally got knocked out of the ring, landed hard as hell on the uncovered floor, and then ran back as fast as he could to beat the 20 count (the amount of time a boxer has if they find themselves out of the ring). Two things here: 1. Usually that's the end of the fight because people either pretend to be seriously injured (ex. Kermit Cintron vs. Paul Williams, Javier Fortuna vs. Adrian Granados just this past June, and two separate Bernard Hopkins fights including his retirement fight) or incapacitated for real (Hasim Rahman taking that horrific spill against Oleg Maskaev). To see Clark gallantly jump back in the ring for a fight he eventually took even more of a beating in juxtaposed against Harper walking out tells you a lot about boxing. Certainly the theater of the unexpected as Larry Merchant coined it. 2. Will Ospreay would be proud of how Clark worked the crowd with the break the 20 count spot.

No compete clauses are just the cherry on top of the shit sundae that is the WWE independent contractors farce.

I'm going to be so disappointed if he's NOT sitting ringside, like an NXT debutant, at All In complete with "Aaron Neville Jr." or some rad equivalent indie name.

And all of that just to go to Cleveland.

If ZSJ can work heavyweight as a lanky beanpole, Neville definitely can. Just go ahead and inject that match into my veins.

An absolute legend.

Suikoden I and II are still amazing.

This was one weird episode. I think it speaks volumes about LAX segment that people started discussing about car silencers and ghost boys.

Zero G is such a good lucha name, surprised nobody used it yet.

Adrian Neville was a good ring name. WWE's habit of shortening names bugs the hell out of me. At least Apollo Crews got his last name back. If I were a wrestler, I'd make up my ring name using dropped parts of WWE names. ex. Antonio Alexander Adrian Langston

No yob.

You know, that’s an interesting thing. I mean, the Pac name is kind of stupid now since everyone already knows him as “Neville”, not that I liked it to begin with. What else could he use though, that wouldn’t be the dirt worst? I’ve got it! ”Zero G” Ben Satterley. I’m not kidding. Do a few shows, and you can just shorten it down to the nickname. Everyone already knows who he is. It’s a smooth transition. Seriously.

K, this is my favourite thing so I'll spoiler tag it due to sheer amount of McGifs.

My money. Have all of it.

Please give us The Shield vs. The Wyatt's (Bray, Braun, Harper).

Villain’s cheating heel-ish tendencies vs. Callihan’s Dirtbag heel cheating would be fun. I am all onboard for Impact introducing a ghost boy character. Maybe it’s Su Yung’s undead bastard child!

Hiring a Central American military junta to disappear him was my solution but that works as well.

A phone recording of a sneak peak is out there. It’s over three minutes long and seems to be the first scene of the new season. It’s good. I love Ted Danson.

Watching again, Rowan sure as hell went out of his way to be the biggest hoss possible in that match. If he had to go he wasn't gonna go quietly and every boot, crossbody, even the final bump through the barricade made him look like a total monster. He also showed no sign of injury the entire time. Great job. Renee's blood-spatter black leather jacket was super dope too, btw

I assume the first thing said in the corner was "The check has cleared right"

I should've put an additional spoiler warning in this thread since they swapped the main events with this week and next week vs how it was taped, my apologies on that.

I hope this Impact player is Bound For Glory.

Naito agrees with @Archibald‘s notions

Should I just skip these threads until the whole run of shows from this set of tapings have run? Because unfortunately, I’ve been spoiled on a big angle for presumably next week. Maybe in the future one giant catch-all spoiler thread and then post-show threads when these air? If it’s only me though, I’ll find a way to suffer in silence. I know DreamBroken normally drives the Impact discussion, so I’ll leave it to his discretion.

No Vince, they're not booing Eddie. They're saying Wooo Eddie!

OH... and this too: ???

I was more impressed that they could run over a person, killed them (from the looks of it), and not make a damn sound. Can you put a silencer on a car these days? Or are we finding out that the kid was actually a ghost and they somehow killed a dead person

Hell, remember when we only saw Jack Tunney like six times a year, tops? Good times.

I wish I could remember which Austin podcast it was but he had a really great monologue where he talked about how the WWE has made the promotion itself a heel due to all of the heel authority figures. He contrasted that with how Bill Watts played an authority figure. He basically just ran down matches and was there to ensure everyone, heel or face got a fair shake. They never blathered on about who the "face of the company" was and all of that.

Nope. Just global force gold

Insofar as everything around a match can make the bell-to-bell story stronger, I think this moment really did. (also lol @ Kenny would’ve hit him)

@Casey is gonna hate you. ------------------- Wait, who the fuck shits on Don West. He was often the only thing making long stretches of TNA watchable.

I thought it was kind of weird but also funny that none of the heels stepped into rescue Stephanie. Everyone there was like

Rule 1: 80s Hansen was different than 90s Hansen. Rule 2: 80s Hansen vs someone directly paying him was different than 80s Hansen against another opponent. Rule 3: To a lesser degree, 80s Hansen was different in the US than 80s Hansen in Japan.

Doesn't really suit either of their personalities but I guess you could put forth the idea that Riddle was tripping balls on PCP and thought Black was a dinosaur or something.

Oh so NSFW

Ishii vs. Kenny was one of the best matches I've ever seen period. It was fucking immense and my head was gonna explode like I'm in Scanners from the overwhelming greatness. The leap frog botch was whatever. Fuck it. Perfect but I can't wait for people to complain about the pace and selling. To quote a not so great man, "fuck em!" Beech, fully agree with this Kenny being way more likeable. He was only at 10.5 rather than his usual 11+ with the theatrics. I'll gladly take that. Best Kenny match in NJPW that didn't involve Okada and probably better than their G1 clash from last year. If you listened to the English commentary do yourself a favour and listen to Milano's masterpiece. Ibushi broke through the glass ceiling and while it was great imo it couldn't hold a candle to the penultimate match and had some issues (mostly the futile knee work and it felt plodding after the last match). @Archibald, the double Destino didn't feel botched. It looked like they initially teased the lawn dart the first time but Naito squirmed out of it. Naito looked like he died on the apron-to-ring German and then he did die on that counter spike whatever shortly thereafter. Ibushi fully channeling Nakamura at the end was fantastic in a coming out party/"look dad, no hands!" sort of way. SANADA should wrestle Yano every other show and find new ways to get him counted out via paradise. Great stuff. ZSJ/Juice was fantastic as well and the crowd's reaction to Juice's hand getting further messed up was what I was expecting throughout the tournament. Excited for the Long Beach match. My heart is still racing from that match. This was the big show on paper and boy did it deliver. We got our all time classic match in before the big big block deciding shows and we have what should be a huge moment of truth for SANADA in Yokohama. With Naito all but eliminated unless Yano gets a count out win over Omega, SANADA actually has a believable chance for a career defining win.