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I would say the tenets of heel announcing are as follows: It's the referee's job to enforce the rules, not the Wrestler's job to follow them. Cheating in pursuit of victory is justifiable if you get away with it. The babyface wrestles within the rules not because they have an overarching belief in fair play and honesty, but because they're an insecure egomaniac trying to curry favour with the fans. If the babyface eventually breaks the rules, it just proves they are a hypocrite who doesn't actually believe in fair play and honesty like they claim. However, the heel commentator is not a hypocrite for condemning one wrestler for cheating (whilst praising the other), because he says he isn't. Babyface commentators are just corporate puppets who unquestioningly accept things they're told, and need to be educated out of that mindset. If the heel wins through any means, it's a clean win. If the bayface wins, he obviously cheated somehow (even if he didn't). Just follow those, and you're within the Ventura/ Heenan playbook. People who think that being the heel announcer is as simple as just being a dick and nothing else don't get it.

He's got a face made for radio and a voice made for smoke signals.

Still my favorite wrestling game. I have an acquaintance who has one. I remembering winning the Royal Rumble with Demolition Smash. It would have been better if the game came out a few years earlier when Ax was still around.

Sam Roberts has no redeeming qualities in the wrestling business.

Yeah that is really the only Cody match that really gets me excited at this point. So is Dustin gone from the WWE? Also thought it was interesting they bleeped out "Stardust'. Just a great video. That should be shown as many times as possible because that is probably the real main event of the show

when did hobbits grow balls and start talkin tough? I would eat a large popcorn and down a 32 oz. Coke while reading the story about how Sam Roberts got KO'd. He's not doing his job well, I hated him when he was a "babyface" too. Also, fuck Rosenberg.

SOLD.

Someone in the chat called Fallah/Scarlett: The Diva and the Goliath which works and they were fun as a team. Rosemary beating the crap out of the Firefly was surprising. Tessa vs. Gail was been so well built up and the main event while short they use every second of the time they had to make it matter. Bound for Glory to WWE poaching Gail was the 1st true Women's Revolution on USA TV (Before that IWA-MS's division which led to SHIMMER) so many great matches in that time that are worth going back and watching. Still don't know how they mess up Roxxi's storyline after the head shaving because that was a money angle and the crowd was super behind her.

AEW also hasn’t fucked up a single push yet.

If you want to see an American promotion that knows how to book a Women's division so that everyone looks strong and nobody looks weak, watch Impact. It's very good right now.

So Ace Steel is having a match IN MILWAUKEE. I believe that was the guy who was helped. With Dave Prazak around the ring . And then a rather skinny mystery man decides to help out. ??

TON of WWE themes throughout the NHL playoffs. Have heard Angle, Austin, Rollins, Lynch, Warrior, Roode just off the top of my head this past week. Sure there's been others too.

They just played Becky Lynch's music to hype the crowd during the Carolina/ Washington game.

I really don't think we are getting the full Jinny in NXT UK. As a wrestler yes but the levels of how hated she was in Progress and other places hasn't been reached just yet Two ibig debuts from the tapings

Guy that they put in the battle royal this week.

Holy fucking shit. I love this roster. And having Dustin around to help bounce ideas off of and potentially agent is a huge get.

OHHHHH SHIIIIIIIT

Spoiler from the NXT UK taping today

One for the Bugenhagen fans...

Local talent

Yes. I am a little confused about what you're expecting regarding the nuances of "actually good" vs. "overachiever." And why wouldn't Buddy, the heel, dominate on offense? You act like he's some scrub. He's main roster, just had a months-long title run, and was called up well before Dream. He's certainly higher on the ladder than Dream is now.

I'm not even playing the video.

Impact is really incredibly well booked from a logic standpoint. It has other problems, but that's not one of them.

I like it, but I'm a sucker for such things. Wrestlemania 4 is still one of my favourite shows. Re-watched it a year or so ago for the first time since like tape days and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the matches. Short, yes, but all were pretty fun. That said, I would have probably felt ripped off if I had ordered it on PPV. But 30 years later, it's a neat little oddball of a show. Doom getting jobbed out doesn't bother me, as it was one of the events that led them from being Doom to DOOM. And the SST looked great.

Great Luger show. I love how Lex switched gear for all 3 of his matches wearing different colors. Luger/Flair is always good and of course the epic Muta mist bump.

Fallah/Scarlett made a fun team. Felt Moose/Dez was surprisingly the least of the Moose vs Rascalz series but still solid, Moose catching the flip dive and swinging Dez into the steps was cool. Madison and Taya had me hoping for more of a match between them but I guess it's something to save down the line after Madison's great match last week with Tessa. the Tessa restaurant promo ruled. Loved the Kross/Mack exchange in the back, good stuff. Main event a little disappointing and I'm sad to see the end of Eli & Eddie, a shame they won't get their PPV blowoff and I will definitely miss Eli. Lance Storm makes a cool addition, I dig all the bits of ECW sprinkled throughout the year but never taking away from the product as a whole, looking forward to RVD's return as well.

I think I read somewhere that Hennig loved being in the faction, and the character he played in the Rednecks was the closest he got to his real-life personality in any promotion

Rusev and Lana are great together, except for that awful Dolph Ziggler angle and everything post-Rusev Day, where they both seem not to care. I can't say I blame them either. They could have and should have been this era's Randy and Liz minus the off-screen issues.

I'd say I'm not sure Lana deserves Rusev, but then I'm not sure any of us really deserve Rusev he's so damn great.

If you mean Roberts might strangle prostitutes and/or runaways "working" to support drug addictions, then yes.

If anyone still thinks Vince gives a shit about the personal lives and general well being of his employees...errr independent contractors after all this time, then...

You know the fundamental thing he doesn't get about heel commentary, is that you need to believe what you're saying is right, even though everyone knows you're wrong. You have to be able to say that the reason Dana isn't going to win is because she's dumb, NOT that she sucks. You need to be able to build sympathy for the face, while getting people to hate the heel (THE ONE IN THE RING, not yourself). Corey is also *extremely* guilty of this. You're not Jesse Ventura, you're not Bobby Heenan, you're not Michael PS Hayes - because they fucking got it. Is Dana Brooke going to light the world on fire all of the sudden? No, probably not. But she's certainly not going to do it by having one of the commentators say she's fucking terrible and sapping the viewer of any reason to want to watch. This is so goddamned easy. My lord is this frustrating.

I hate myself for using one of his lines in 2019, but... Business just picked up.

2024-2031 is looking up.

Then you've picked the right game.

They going to Freebird rule the world title...?

It reminded me of heel Michael Cole to a degree. He didn't put any heat on the heels, it was all on him and the promotion. He was basically telling us that we're stupid for watching the show and that we're all a bunch of nerds. Why would I want to watch that?

I look forward to watching this sometime next week on GWN.

I do truly love Wrestlefest, but it isn't even my favorite arcade wrestler. That honor belongs to Konami's "The Main Event". Although I suspect its placement on my all-time list stems from the fact that it came out first, plus the Main Event machine in my neighborhood was in a laundromat next to the best taqueria in the neighborhood, so chances were high I was eating hella fat plus fucking fools up with El Condor & The Maui Mauler.

Poor Curly Bill being left out

Yes, it was traumatic, and absolutely none of it measures up to a child seeing his mother murdered. Nora is Barry's daughter, but its not like he actually raised her. She is an adult form the future who hides much of herself from him. A reveal like this makes her all the more foreign to him. Beyond that I think you are missing the point. Learning from Thawne was understandable to a degree. It was that she kept going back to him even after she learned the truth while still refusing to tell Barry and the others. There was massive betrayal of trust there that is undeniable. Honestly, I'm more disappointed to hear he is supposed to be a big villain for next season. We don't need another big speedster villain.

Thanks, man. I don't want to clutter up this thread with my personal shit, but this was several years ago. She took a double dose of her medication (on accident?) and didn't wake up the next morning. Sometime that night she stopped breathing and went 7 or 8 hours without oxygen to her brain, which created holes, and went into a coma. She already has MS, so this entire thing was just icing on top and lead to some speculation about how/why this all happened to begin with. But somehow she came out of it, I don't know how. Her doctor speculates that it was due to the medication they were giving her at the hospital, and then he came in to consult on her case and ended up changing doses and switching out drugs for others and here we are today. She's got slight brain damage (just like my Dad), but all things considered, it could be a whole lot worse. Which is why I guess I connected with Ogogo's story. That, and he's a Bronze medal winner in a recent(ish) Olympic Games, which can't hurt things. The chances of him being a prodigy like Angle are slim to none, since I think that was a once in a blue moon type thing (although Rousey will put that theory to bed if she continues on past her Year One WWE run). Having more legitimate athletes in wrestling can't hurt pro wrestling - but it's also all in what you do with said talent (I'm looking at you, WWE - you've got Chad Gable and you're doing nothing with him!).

No one knew that All In was going to lead into AEW, so targeting the guys that helped isn't going to help, only hurt things more. If the keeping quiet shit Bubba and Mercury want to do ends up nuking the NJPW deal, RoH is dead in the water, so they should probably rethink that route.