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I'd rather have people snorting blow right out in the lunchroom.

A lot of people seem to draw a line in the sand with the Benoit incident RE being a fan, but for me Misawa’s accident in the ring is the day any passion I had for wrestling died. There was an element of culpability that I don’t think we as fans ever addressed about his death because we had enjoyed that hard hitting high impact style so much over the years. When I found out what happened I just felt a bit disgusted and dirty about the whole strong style thing and taking enjoyment from it, no problem with clubberings and stiffness but the head and neck drops and going above and beyond the call of duty suddenly left me cold. Haven’t watched any puro since and with what happened to Shibata and Takayama after I don’t think any lessons were learned. Seeing some recent NJPW gifs of apron moves and high spots to the floor I’d say ditto there too

I work with people who microwave fish in the office

My first exposure to AJPW was when my friend bought a comp tape from someone that had a bunch of Misawa vs Kawada matches on it and When Worlds Collide, which was also my first exposure to lucha. Anyway, I was blown away at how awesome Misawa vs Kawada was. Misawa especially. I liked him more than Kawada at first. Maybe it was the green and white tights (his tights became the template for so many CAWs I would make in Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy and other games)? Maybe it was the fact that Misawa just looked like a regular dude, like a banker or something. Watching that comp tape lead to me getting even more AJPW comp tapes. I mean, this was this shit. It was fucking awesome. I loved it way more than NJPW. And then I got into Noah after that because my favorite AJPW dudes (Misawa, Akiyama, Kobashi, and Vader) all left to start Noah. However, one question remained...how the fuck was someone like Misawa able to just repeatedly get dropped on his head by a power bomb from Kawada, a lawn dart suplex from Vader, chops from Kobashi, lariats to the neck, other moves to the neck and crown of the head, etc. I couldn't understand how Chris Benoit needed spinal fusion surgery, how Angle needed spinal fusion surgery, how other people in WWE or WCW suffered similar neck injuries when it was the AJPW and Noah guys getting dropped on their head and neck. And then Misawa suffered the most horrific in ring injury I could ever think of. Internal decapitation. I had no idea anything like that was even possible. By this point, I had stopped watching Noah, and really much of anything from Japan. I didn't have the time for it. All I really knew was that in the time before Misawa died, Noah had come down a lot from the highs they experienced after splitting off from AJPW. I still don't know exactly why that was because the top guys in Noah seemed like bigger stars than anyone else. Anyway, I just didn't know what Misawa was up to except he looked extremely worn and rough in some pictures I saw of him. I caught wind of his death on here first. I was just...numb. I couldn't believe he was dead or how he could die like that, but then I thought back to that question of how could these guys just get dropped on their head and necks like they were. Eventually, the bill comes due and that's fucking sad. As a wrestling fans these guys seem immortal despite so much evidence to the contrary. At least, that's what it used to seem like. When people like Misawa, Eddy, and Benoit all die for different, but wrestling related reasons, it makes you question what you're watching and why you're watching. It's really fucking sad. Really sad. As a fan, am I supporting this shit by watching it? Did I cause some of this to happen? Why do things need to be this way? If nothing else, those three passing away really made me detest seeing any sort of head and neck dropping, and hard blows to the head, or getting way too gassed up to fit in with WWE. Despite the price Misawa paid, you still see this utter bullshit where guys, top guys even, are taking these awful head and neck drops. A dragon suplex or straight jacket suplex or half and half suplex or whatever used to be HUGE deals. Like, holy shit, this guy is fucking dead. Now it's just a fucking transition move for Kenny Omega or Sami Zayn or whoever. You see Kenny or Sasha spiking someone on their head with the reverse rana. And then there's everything with Kota Ibushi. I said in the Dominion thread that I really didn't like the match and that was before Alvarez even chimed in on it. When I heard him say the same, I at least felt like I wasn't alone in having a bad taste in my mouth from watching shit like this. It's just unnecessary. When are these guys and girls going to learn that the bill comes due? Don't let Misawa's death be in vain. Learn a lesson from it. Work smarter.

I'm just going to put this here because I feel like it and it amuses me but I think one of the women in one of the major US companies should be obsessed with Garfield. Maybe someone like Dana Brooke could go to catering and always demand lasagna, and she could also sleep in a box with a blanket and a teddy bear. She would then need to be woken up for her match. Her promos would also be just her thinking sarcastic things about her opponents, and she'd never actually speak with her mouth. Also, she'd refuse to work on RAW because she hates Mondays. That is all.

I wouldn't like that at all. Unless they had Teddy Long come out to announce the change.

Man I feel like my friends Gladys and Bertram Warrior would not like you painting their last name with such a wide brush. That tweet was hilariously misguided though yes.

You're a strange idea.

And I don't believe in Chris Jericho, but somehow, he still fucking exists.

b I don't remember him doing this move either but I guess he switched up his moveset when he was Black Tiger.

NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS Carmelo Anthony - 0 Jeremy Lin - 1

Unless he believes that demon works for Sullivan. ?

Chad Gable can be the John Arbuckle who is the only one that sees her after he had his psychotic breakdown.

Let's be honest, WWE as a whole trying to glom onto Pride is unpleasant. They've literally never pushed an out LGBT superstar.

I put on my Ultimate Warrior T-Shirt for the first time in several months several days ago. I wore it around the house for a bit, then when I went to the bathroom and saw myself wearing it in the mirror I felt......dirty. It was actually the first day of this month, Pride Month. I took it off and won't ever wear it again. Ultimate Warrior was one of my favorites growing up, if not my absolute favorite for a good year or two. I love the character from that time. However, I just can't support him anymore because of the person behind that character. While looking at the shirt in the mirror, my thoughts were of people seeing me wear it and it perhaps bringing back some nostalgia for them and maybe even getting a few high fives or shout-outs here and there....but then also of maybe even one person seeing it and knowing what he had said those years back and the views he had on the LGBTQ community, and thinking that one person might think that I felt the same way and was somehow supporting it.....no. Can't do it anymore. So that shirt is now gone and out of my rotation. Round about way to say.......yeah, Fuck Dana Warrior and her tone deafness with her post/picture trying to "celebrate" Pride Month with his image.

Isn't it a little early to be yanking your fans' chain like that? Especially after (regardless of the circumstances) backing out of Page-PAC?

Who knows? Maybe he and Zelina are into pegging.

I'm a dessert any time person. You know the saying, having a sweet tooth? More like sweet teeth. Love fudge, chocolate fudge and chocolate fudge cake.

Someone needs to pull Dana Warrior off twitter immediately. She really doesn't get the concept of memory and the ability other people have to use it.

Not going to post them since it's a crap-ton of pictures. But wwe.com has a bunch of wrestlers posing for Pride month. Which kind of reaffirms my stance that while I abhor Vince and the shitty decisions him and others make I really love the wrestlers that work for him. https://www.wwe.com/gallery/wwe-superstars-pride-month-photos#fid-40367069

Nah, he got banned.

I clean a trio of banks so I wouldn't be surprised if it goes on there. I mean these people have Bill O'Reilly books on their shelves and instructive photographs on the lunchroom wall that say things like "MAKE RULES" (in real big letters) "for the 99%" (in real small letters underneath) so you can imagine...

KENTA spoke with Chris Charlton for ten minutes. Things of note: --He won't confirm any plans with New Japan or anywhere else past the G1. But he's with New Japan now because it has a global platform, and he can show the world KENTA, rather than Hideo Itami. --Nothing about NOAH specifically. --He does want to wrestle Okada at some point, mostly just because he's the champion right now. Naito, also. --He wants to kick Moxley's ass, to show that while he was "stupid Hideo Itami" and Dean Ambrose was at the top of WWE, there's no gap between them. --They weren't just trying to milk the audience; Shibata had to point for so long because he couldn't find the entrance. This is fun:

I can't remember Eddy ever doing this exact move any other time. (And it did finish the match, thank you very much)

Better yet... Cuban Assasin has this move in his arsenal, but he never uses it, it’s just a scare tactic. His opponents just agree to his demands for a draw.

Feelings.

Sid rules. Said it once, will say it again until all the motherfuckers understand. Any one of us could stab a coworker, and we'd get fired for it. Sid stabbed a coworker and got fired for it. Then they hired him back and made him world champion. Twice. While the guy he stabbed still worked for the company. All hail King Sid

Allow me to clarify, a gimmick about being out would stink in Vince McMahon's WWE.

Leave The Purple Haze and Maya Singh out of this, sir...

Carpeted and with pillows, like ancient Egypt?

No way this isn't a bad rib. SMH.

I'm more likely to run into a bear than a person at my job in between shift changes.

This is hard to agree with considering wrestlers do these things for the fans, who pay to see them. At the same time Art is Art. If you want to do some fucked-up shit I will probably watch it. Am I complicit? Probably. I didn't hold a gun to your head though. ...It's complicated. Anyway, Misawa was great.

I hope it’s Dustin personally. I want to see that dynamic in action and he’s already got a match against the Bucks coming up so you could use this match to inform that one. Plus Omega/Dustin just sounds cool to me.

The story is actually kinda hilarious. Some guy quit the Pats over the Kraft scandal, but still went to Kraft's house for the ring ceremony. He works for the Texans now. He was apparently talking to Caserio, and they fired the GM the next day. So the Pats are basically alleging they offered Caserio the job at the party without permission to talk to him. They also denied Houston permission to talk to him last time they were GM searching. So either the Pats are being petty as fuck, or the Texans are being shady.

Any lot lizards?

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The way my mornings going I might end up putting that one to the test

Johnny Got His Gun. Never seen it but the video for "One" is enough.

Is Moxley watering his plants naked? lol Anyway, here's your reminder that Naylor is a good egg and a good follow on the twitter dot com