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Who is driving? RONDA IS DRIVING!? HOW CAN THAT BE?!

What are we talking about? My monitor went out.

Yakety Sax makes everything better.

Those were easily the funniest cops they've ever had on the show. But what most people didn't grasp was how the whole thing was a reference to the old logic riddle: "You have three insane monsters: A red-capped Irish screech owl, a long-necked rage peacock, and a literal re-animated garbage pile. The screech owl will peck the garbage pile to death, the rage peacock will make the screech owl cry, and the garbage pile will cause either of the other two to kill themselves rather than hear about "Dr. Peterson's gender truths." You have to get all three of them across town to the cages where they rightfully belong, but you only have two police cars and can only make one trip with each. How do you get these things locked up without fucking up Wrestlemania?"

I feel that all of us complaining about "what this board is turning into" fits very much with the "grumpy old men of wrestling" gimmick this board fosters. WE DID IT!

There are just as many risks This man is 29 years old.

Bix is on some Rupert Pupkin shit when it comes to Dave and Bryan and it's really creepy. I'd worry Bix would go full Mark David Chapman, except Dave is jacked and Bryan knows BJJ, while Bix is a shut in with the physicality of a small baby. Also, does anyone care whether the Observer pays writers? Dave and Bryan are the draws of the site. I've never read Random Jamoke #573's Raw report. A free subscription, maybe a cookie, and some exposure is pretty good in exchange for some goof to parrot Dave for a few paragraphs nobody will read.

It's really sad to me that people are saying the only way WWE should offer insurance is if smaller companies like your local indie has to as well. If you don't have an exclusive contract, you're an independent contractor and can work wherever you want and when you want. If you're signed to an exclusive contract anywhere, not just WWE, that requires you to only work for that company, you should get health insurance and be considered an actual employee. It's not that difficult to understand.

On the idea that it isn't fair for WWE to be held to a higher standard than other wrestling companies: Shouldn't being a billion-dollar publicly-traded company automatically mean the WWE should be held to a different standard than other wrestling companies? I mean, it legally puts them into a completely different class of business entity, than any other company, right?

For people that say "Why don't they just take the money to sit in catering instead of bitching about not being used," the bolded part is why.

I am going to have a grandson! Well, in white-folks-speak the term would be "grand-nephew", but the Navajo language does not acknowledge the concept, so the progeny of one's brothers and sisters-in-law are "grandchildren" as are their children, maybe doesn't make as much sense, but it is easier to keep track of. On the other hand, my older brother-in-law whose son's girlfriend is having the baby is referred to as "Grandpa", whereas I get called simply "Papa". Anyway, they've been trying for a decade to have a second child and were hoping for a boy, so we're just thrilled for them. Best of all the due date is July, so the baby might show up on my birthday or our wedding anniversary and wouldn't that just be too cool!

We would also have had Mycock puns, but Craig H made us stop. But you missed Hana Kimura photos. We can't have enough of those, can we?

Heck, just do that right after the Royal Rumble. Then give us the next three months watching Ronda, Becky, and Charlotte surviving inside of a women's prison. Ronda having to deal with hardcore inmates looking to make a name for themselves, Charlotte trying to get the info of what happened to her family, and Becky able to show just why she is "The Man." ...and naturally, because it's a segment in pro wrestling where wrestlers are locked up, also Scott Hall is there for some reason.

Sounds like a totally fucked-up place to work. I would give serious thought to dispensing a few head-kicks and resigning. No one needs to put up with assholes like that.

Ok, Ronda/Charlotte/Becky needs to be the second jailhouse match in WWE history.

To slightly tweak an all time amazing line... "Hey, this is the worst lookin' suit I ever saw! Bet if you buy a suit like this you get a free bowl of soup." ... "Oh! Looks good on you though!"

I figured out what the Lacy Evans segments remind me of

The issue to me is not weather or not WWE or anybody else should or shouldn't do whatever. The issue is, they are illegally classified as independent contractors and not a small business. They should be held to the same laws as everybody else in that vein. If ROH or whoever falls into that category, they should too. And no, people that write reviews for the observer or do 720 flips at the armory on Friday do not fall into that category.

SHIMMER finally announced a good chunk of their card and, in addition to all the very good wrestlers I was expecting, Hiroyo Matsumoto's on it!

My friend, if your earliest memory of Ed Leslie is as Brutus Beefcake, you have yet to sufficiently pay your dues when it comes to the true levels of awfulness that this man was able to achieve. You are hereby directed to seek out footage from Don Owen's Portland, OR based promotion and study the ghastliness that we recall as "Dizzy Hogan". DH was Leslie with bleached-blonde hair and mustache, who spent most of his time strutting around flexing his biceps. How bad was he? Rip Oliver did the heavy lifting of their tagteam, that's how bad he was. When you are the number two guy on a team with Rip Oliver, you don't just suck, you are a veritable blackhole of suckitude capable of engulfing whole planets. Let's put it this way, he made Billy Jack Haynes seem like Harley Race when it came to ringwork to merely dismiss his work as vile would be to seriously enoble it.

Torrie made me hard pressed with some impactful larger pictures.

Not to mention Memphis, Mid South and Florida.

Question.....why do we care how much these people make for doing their jobs? I'm much more interested in how much they drink and how many rats they bang.

Losing PPV checks likely hurt folks. I presume we still have no idea how people are paid for network stuff.

The attacks on Bix here are a little much. He's not obsessive about Dave and Bryan. If you read his Twitter feed, he regularly posts stuff about journalists unionizing and such, so it's more of a "quality of life for writers" kind of thing. Dave and Bryan are just two people he has personal experience with. And to your second point, how often do you work for free? "Just do it for the exposure" is a terrible attitude to have when it comes to producing art or writing. I've been a professional writer, if I do the work, your ass is going to pay me.

I am totally here for Wentworth starring Becky Lynch, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair.

I'd most likely lose my mind if a co-worker put glue on my chair and I sat in it, ruining my pants. What kind of company condones that? The whole thing wouldn't have happened if your co-workers weren't assholes, and they should have been suspended as well.

Honestly, that's why people need to hammer AEW more than anything to force them. AEW needs to be hammered about healthcare, if only because of the "you promised every AEW wrestler would get treated as an employee and get benefits and healthcare, and you had the audacity to walk it back to "just the Elite members get it?" NO TAKEBACKSIES! If you don't give these things to the full roster, whether or not they're an 'EVP', maybe we won't support your promotion." That small-time indy won't be able to do it, but ROH and AEW might- and since AEW DID say they would do it and walked it back, they're the right promotion to hammer. Honestly, given all of the WWE workers who've been complaining about their booking and how they're being overlooked, and with how this complaint has gone through, I'd just love one of these complaining workers to put two and two together and realize they could fix both of their problems very simply by calling WWE's bluff on multiple levels: The workers are unhappy with their push. The WWE workers are "independent contractors". Therefore, a WWE worker could say "wait a minute. As an independent contractor, I'm legally allowed to work for any employer who's willing to meet my pricetag. Therefore, I can merely open up negotiations with ROH, Impact, or AEW to work at one of their events, and then say "I've already agreed to terms to work this date. If you fire me or make me cancel the booking, then you're admitting that I'm an employee and not an independent contractor. Give me a push, and I'll cancel the booking myself."

Harold Baines since the only criteria for being in the WWE HoF is not being Chris Benoit.

The only reason they should be hugging after the match is so Becky can kick Charlotte in the vag.

Fair point. On the upside, Charlotte was laying in her shots HARD even before the knee: Also, that segment was brilliantly timed given the Last Week Tonight segment made the 'wrestling is awesome when its absurd' argument, so giving three of the top stars in the company an all-out crazy segment like that was excellent. Plus its the first time women have ever gotten one of those, so in its way it made history. I'm now dying for a courtroom segment/brawl with the three of them.

What do you expect when you spend all that money on blow?

"She drove a car with no arms?!" - Jerry

Pack it up. Everybody out of the pool

Goodbye soon to the Heisei Period of Puroresu, 8 January 1989 to 30 April 2019.

30 years ago tomorrow. I watched this VHS over a hundred times.

The really depressing thing about Olivier's show on psychics and mediums is that some of them were the exact same people Penn & Teller took down 16 years ago. Not just the same scams, but the same people. Nothing is ever popping that bubble.

Meltzer has Bix signed to a Legends contract.

It wouldn't surprise me as he's done job duty for WWE before, most notably as the screaming jobber in this Bludgeon Brothers squash. His partner was Colin Delaney. On a side note, I really miss Harper and Rowan as a team.

Given what the WWE's Hall of Fame is, Brutus is a slam-dunker really. Super-over upper-midcarder, main evented on pay-per-view, memorable character. He deserves it.