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  1. I've worn the I'm A Hugger t-shirt to a few concerts. Get a lot of hugs, once two girls wanted to a selfie with me. One person SCREAMED Bayley at me. First time I did it, my friend was mocking me for wearing it until three girls in a row walked up to me for hugs. He then apologized.
    12 points
  2. They'd still be calling these teams the Cleveland Rams and Boston Patriots, for starters
    6 points
  3. Well, in defense there, he is trying to be an old-fashioned heel and was a very good heel in WWE, so I'm sure he'd love to keep being able to draw ex-PAC Heat in AEW.
    6 points
  4. I am sure that the NFL likes that Romo is pretending that the ref are making up shit up on that Rams penalty. I mean they probably were but still
    5 points
  5. I know it says legitimate but man, I keep seeing Turner and keep getting concerned we're in for a repeat of ONE where multiple sources claim Turner tv and it turns out almost all of it is on the Bleacher Report app and they do a monthly highlight show in the middle of the night on TNT. I will believe it when it is announced.
    5 points
  6. Reminds me of the year that I wore an "I Broke Wahoo's Leg" t-shirt to the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. Almost everyone asked me "what do they sound like?" I say almost, because the one dude that got it was one of the members of Turmoil
    5 points
  7. I am so glad we have Romo doing this game instead of prick face Joe Buck.
    4 points
  8. How can you not love this. It’s Do Fixer vs Blood Generation at a Mid South taping filmed at Irish McNeil's Boys Club in Shreveport
    4 points
  9. You don't need to give me some love for Buddy Rose. He's always blown me away.
    4 points
  10. There’s too much going on in this picture
    4 points
  11. It's because Duggan went to college
    4 points
  12. Anytime we look back on this time and wonder why Dean is done with doing hokey shit, I feel this is the post we should all reference
    4 points
  13. You want his name to have zero syllables?
    4 points
  14. El Desperado: a role model for children to look up to and defender of fighting fair and clean.
    4 points
  15. NOT EVEN THIS MUCH CASH MAKES UP FOR HAVING WATCHED THIS SHIT. FUCK MAROON 5.
    3 points
  16. well I mean hopefully this is the part where they stop selling the limbwork and start hitting their usual highspots, but...
    3 points
  17. If no semi decent act wants to do the halftime show just bring back the Elvis impersonator magic show.
    3 points
  18. It would be better if something scrolled along the bottom that said, "Adam Levine's sleeves gave him hepatitis", but I'm mean spirited like that.
    3 points
  19. Super secret guest of honor halftime performers.
    3 points
  20. it also helps that Charlotte is so innately believable as the "Corporate Champ" in her own right. She's a wonderful foil in this regard. Ric Flair's daughter, classic blond bombshell look, bigger and stronger than the other woman such that she can plausibly overpower them without having a Nia Jax bodytype that would instead typecast her as "monster heel". Of Course the office would pick her. Austin eventually had The Rock as an establishment foil, and while The Rock had plenty of his own "un-corporate" Attitude Era swagger about him, he was plausible as a preferable Establishment Option to the defiant Austin. After all, The Rock had movie star good looks (as was eventually proven), the family legacy, and the unintentional context of the failed Rocky Maivia experiment to prove that Vince/The Office was willing to force this guy on the unwilling audience at the expense of "Their Choice". [Now, why Austin was supposed to be so much worse of a "rebel" and "anti-establishment" Corporate PR nightmare as a champion to be opposed at all costs when DX era Shawn Michaels was the current champion, I have no idea. But Austin was so over it didn't matter, I guess. And Vince McMahon was directly intervening and there was the Bret screwjob on Michaels' behalf even if that could no longer be overtly referenced. But I digress.] Cena and more recently Reigns seem to have lacked that foil, and that makes it harder to "buy" them as anti-establishment choice. Orton should be this for Cena (they came up from OVW together and wrestled for the belt like 500 times so they should've been foils and it even could have worked) but John Cena, especially once he becomes the top guy, becomes wonderfully kid and merch friendly, happily the face of the company in public appearances like Make A Wish. Meanwhile Orton racks up a history of wellness violations, gets heavily tatted (not that youngsters today have the stigma against tattoos that older generations still have, but again, corporate boardrooms are stereotypically that more conservative older generation). You're going to try and tell me the "establishment" is anti-Cena and pro-Orton? Pfffff. Later on, there's CM Punk, who's similarly tatted, doesn't even have the wrestling family legacy that Orton has, a guy who is well-known and proud to be NOT a Vince/WWE creation (even keeping his indie name instead of being rechristened with a WWE moniker like virtually everyone else) and whose contract disputes become such public knowledge they have to get worked into storylines. No Way is Cena ever going to be able to win a battle of anti-establishment street cred with Punk Who's Reigns got? Lesnar, who's barely around and who he can't beat* anyway. Daniel Bryan, who poses almost all the same problems as Punk did to Cena, (and who much of the audience perceives, rightly or wrongly, as having to be benched due to "injuries" so he'd stop overshadowing Reigns) especially given that Reigns is chiefly a WWE product (unlike his stablemates and other potential foils, Rollins and Ambrose). He's The Rock's cousin. Reigns has wonderful credentials as an "establishment guy". Which simultaneously makes him a very hard sell as an anti-establishment guy. Particularly when everyone else either has more anti-establishment cred, or has been booked into non-factor status as the company goes all in on bulding up Reigns and/or building up Lesnar to ultimately feed to and make Reigns. Why would the establishment be so opposed to Reigns (even if it wasn't known that backstage Vince was very interested in making Reigns the guy)? Particularly when there's a dearth of better establishment options? I guess they tried to make Rollins into this, but it doesn't seem to have "taken" (and I wasn't watching closely enough in 2015 to be able to tell you why, you guys probably already have a better handle on the answer to this). I guess the favorable and unique terms of Lesnar's contract can make him viable in this "establishment" role. But, like, he needs to lose at some point. Otherwise the audience cheers for Suplex City until they get tired of him and just sit on their hands during it. And, in the background of all of this, a 22 year tradition of the company booking itself as a heel promoter, and teaching the audience that The Establishment Choice is the bad guy who you're supposed to boo, because interventionist GMs make the Corporate Champ into a Goliath who anti-establishment David will (or should, anyway) eventually beat.
    3 points
  21. Cena and Roman weren't anti-establishment, both have shown they're willing to play by the rules. They didn't want to be in the Authority's pocket, which caused the strife. There were indicators both would have been accepted with open arms had they wanted to be partners with the Authority. As for Becky being the underdog: * She was the first-ever SDL women's champion * Was inserted into the Sasha-Charlotte match at WM 32 despite clearly not being part of the original plan * Has always been popular with fans * Has never been mistreated by GMs and commissioners by and large * Is part of the WWE's 4HW, who all have received shine over the years While I do think Creative recognized her popularity and used that to sometimes justify not pushing her toward the title, I never took Becky as the poor little underdog who never got anything.
    3 points
  22. This looks like a championship belt that a jealous challenger tries to steal it but it raises a demon spirit and becomes a Kaiju and destroys us all.
    3 points
  23. Rams better fucking win today.
    3 points
  24. FWIW, the Bayley/Sasha matches weren't rehearsed at the PC. According to them, they literally didn't talk about what they doing at Brooklyn until the night before because Sasha was on the road with the main roster the full time. I still think the Bayley/Asuka match from RAW last year was the best main roster women's match in 2018.
    3 points
  25. Well not only were Cena, and Reigns portrayed as underdogs. They were also portrayed as wrestlers that the “Authority” were completely against being top stars. Which is completely fucking ridiculous. It worked with Austin because he was the complete opposite of the previous eras stars. Cena, and Roman have never been, or will be anti-establishment guys. That’s why Becky has completely worked. Sure she’s pretty. But she’s also foreign, wasn’t home grown, isn’t blond, and has a funny accent. She’s the opposite of the previous women’s stars, and fans have grown to organically love Becky because of it.
    3 points
  26. And that's an exception that proves the rule: apparently the common rule of thumb on the wrestling scene is 'call another wrestler by the first gimmick you met them under"...which works for wrestlers, but becomes yet another way that a smarky wrestling fan thinks they're acting like an insider but just makes themselves sound like a twatwaffle of the nth degree. ...besides, it also hurts your "insider cred"- if, as we said, we're in a post-kayfabe world of wrestling, calling people by their kayfabe names- or even the smarky "by their real names", shouldn't matter. Just call the wrestler something that has nothing to do with their gimmick or name in the first place. To me, there is no Dana Brooke, there is only Zuul.
    3 points
  27. 3 points
  28. WWE pushes their brand more than enough. They really didn't need to make their belts look like tacky garbage to do so. It's funny when you see how great the nxt and UK belts look, then see the crap representing the main roster.
    3 points
  29. Love Big Gold Belt. Best looking wrestling championship belt ever.
    3 points
  30. really drives home how crap the modern belts are.
    3 points
  31. I miss that teeth grinding, take it to the extreme version of Heyman who felt like the voice of the underdog. Now he doesn’t hide his carny sleaziness anymore.
    3 points
  32. Holy shit....I love Bayley far more then most, but YIKES
    3 points
  33. Well I'll be damned Filthy Tom Lawlor won the MLW title over Low Ki. By submission even. Even though he has held the title forever Ki losing period without tons of bullshit is surprising
    3 points
  34. Yeah I remember hearing that story. It’s definitely crazy that he doesn’t have some kind of position in the business.
    3 points
  35. Over/under on The Sandman smoking a cigarette to the ring, even though it's a lung cancer benefit show?
    3 points
  36. RE: old names vs WWE names. It's kinda like calling Tom Selleck's character in Blue Bloods "Magnum PI" because you liked that character better. The wrestler who played Chris Hero is now the wrestler playing Kassius Ohno. I understand the nostalgia, though.
    3 points
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