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  1. As long as Scott Steiner comes into my bar and straightens out middle-aged white boys who take the phrase "No, we don't have Coors Lite" like a bat to the fucking skull and middle-aged white women from the suburbs who can't handle the world "No" period, he can lead the charge and I'll follow him into the breach any day of the goddamn week. Take it from a pro wrestling fan and a bartender: Y'all really don't have a damn clue how exactly punishing this job can really be. I take a lot of pride in what I do, I enjoy what I do, and I bust my fucking ass. I work four nights a week and make great money. I get to leave work at home. There's a lot of pluses to working in this industry and I'm not ignorant of that, by far. At the same time, I get no paid time off. No insurance. If I want to take a vacation, there's paying for it, and then there's losing money on top of it by taking the time off. I'm on my feet up to ten hours straight with no break and in the process of serving one customer, I get hit with something to do by two or three others. Then there's dealing with customer expectations, drunks, assholes, coworkers, bosses, etc. People have a sense of entitlement and flex their "power" over me in a lot of subtle fashions, on top of controlling my wages, despite their shitty behavior. That's regardless of whether they're aware of it or not. Also, I'm not a woman. I ain't got shit to complain about compared to them. To sum it up: We're workers, just like you. This is a REAL job. It's one of the realest jobs you can have, and the fact that I don't have to have a degree to do it and I have to serve people doesn't make it any less legitimate. Never get that twisted and never fucking flex your power over me, because straight up, we're all in the same boat. We're on the same side, and most of us are trying really goddamn hard, a lot of times against circumstances you have no experience with or a goddamn clue about. Don't come at me about unskilled labor, either. You come back behind my bar and make a burger and fries while cracking six beers and making eight shots and cashing out Keno and not fuck any single one of those things up. Do it for ten hours straight. Then get some shit about "You don't smile" or, well, anything, really. It sucks just as much or more as the job you hate and the boss you wanna backhand in the teeth. I'm right there with you. Bottom line is, a lot of the problems can be solved with this: The best thing on the menu is you reading it and making a fucking decision. Yes, there are some maniacs in my line of work, and some of us do suck. They don't last long. The rest of us take care of the rest and far more than you know every damn day. And we come in to your job and make it real fucking easy on you. Don't be Jim Cornette. Be Daniel Bryan. And if you sit down at my bar and say "Genichiro Tenryu", I'm buying you a round.
    16 points
  2. It's not like he'd put up a struggle.
    10 points
  3. I'm pretty sure that people are having such a tough time with this for a pretty simple reason: because Seth Rollins is everything that is wrong with pro wrestling.
    8 points
  4. Ric Flair can get me to do practically anything short of loaning him money.
    7 points
  5. Rollins is far from the best wrestler on the planet, and I guess today can be the day that I go ahead and concede that WWE doesn't have the best wrestling. But...what exactly would you guys have him tweet? "I'm a mediocre wrestler forced into a role I'm terrible at, working for a company with a product so stagnant that even its most loyal supporters are having trouble defending it." Sounds like a really stupid thing to say if he wants to keep his position, right? Twitter isn't a fucking truth serum. It's marketing. The idea that he shouldn't be publicly supporting the company he works for is ludicrous.
    7 points
  6. Hate to say it, but I think they'd really have a tough time flying in Chris Adams.
    6 points
  7. Gorilla Monsoon will roll in his grave if he found out there are now actual timeouts in wrestling lol
    6 points
  8. I would have to agree with you in terms of sheer volume of talent. However, that poses the question, if I have an orchestra with the best horn section in the world and all I ever have them play are compositions for stringed instruments is it still the best orchestra?
    6 points
  9. Watching Crockett Cup 86 this past week and then WWE Stomping Grounds tonight, it finally dawned on me and I put two-and-two together. Baron Corbin is to 2019 WWE what Black Bart is to 1986 JCP. He is a perfectly fine heel wrestler to have floating around the lower edges of the midcard and be a JTTS. But holy shit, no one wants to pay money to see him in the main event, even if his purpose is just to get beat up and lose. Baron Corbin being in the main event scene despite the most stacked talent roster in terms of in-ring work would be like if Magnum TA didn't have the car wreck, won the NWA World Title at Starrcade 86, and his first challenger instead of Flair, Tully, Arn, or Nikita, was fucking Black Bart.
    6 points
  10. Yaks? I think Stevie Ray has something to say about that.
    5 points
  11. Tired? I have more energy than you can possibly imagine! I'm basically Owen Hart and Koko B. Ware!
    5 points
  12. Pro Athlete speaks in cliche Internet: Athletes are so boring Pro Athlete speaks plainly and how they feel Internet: OUTRAGE! HOW DARE YOU EXPRESS AN OPINION! STICK WITH SPORTS!
    5 points
  13. From what I can tell, Rollins wasn't even defending the company itself. The creative process, Vince, the scripted promos - all of the things that play into the "crowd vs. company" dynamic that they've built - none of that was mentioned. He only talked up the in-ring wrestling. While it's clear that many disagree, if we're just talking about the in-ring work, that isn't all that controversial a statement. Last night's PPV matches were all well received here outside of the match that Rollins himself was in. Of the many, many criticisms levied against WWE, very few of them seem to be about the actual in-ring work. If we're talking strictly in-ring, can that many modern-day companies really be seen as that much better than WWE? I could see people arguing NJPW, but others?
    5 points
  14. Seth Rollins has blocked Bryan Alvarez on Twitter At a minimum that makes him smarter than my dumb ass
    5 points
  15. I mean, he could have simply praised his coworkers without inviting comparisons that are, right now, not favorable, and starting an argument he's not equipped to win. I don't think anyone is being needlessly hard on Seth for being a company guy; he's just wrong. It's fair to point that out.
    5 points
  16. What Seth Rollins considers one of his "epic" matches, Okada considers premature ejaculation.
    5 points
  17. The food wasn't that good, the place was a converted 7-11 or other convenience store from the look of the interior. It was also in a really sketchy part of town, so bad that cabs would not be dispatched there after dark (as we discovered when we tried to get back to the hotel). It was a memorable evening although the great man himself wasn't there (I use "great" in all senses). Our party of twelve included the convention's Art Guest of Honor (we were on hand for the World Horror Con), and Alan had a midnight presentation to do, fortunately a cabbie stopped in for some grub and agreed to take five of us back to the hotel (and why not, it was like a $40 fare!) That left seven of us stuck at Abdullah's with no way to get anywhere. To the rescue, the lovely Asian woman who was the hostess (and turned out to be Mrs. Abdullah), offered to give us a ride in the Abdullah van if we didn't mind dropping off the cook and dishwasher first. Hell no, any ride's a good ride! We made it back to the hotel and mentioned that there was a party the next evening and we would be delighted if ABdullah would come as our guest, gave her our room number and figured a 80% chance of hearing from him as wrestlers tend to respond well to free food and drinks. Sure enough, next day about noon the phone rang and it was the great man himself, Kathy was the one that talked to him and he asked if he could bring a couple of friends, Cactus Jack and Teddy Long. She said of course, the more the merrier and told me he kept calling her "sweetie" and had an oddly high-pitched voice for such a big guy. Well party time came and I went outside to meet the trio when they showed up, wouldn't you know it, they no-showed... RIP Abdullah's House of Ribs and Chinese Food, the world needs more places where you can get fried chicken gizzards, babyback ribs and a plate of chow mein.
    5 points
  18. Wait till she finds out about what's under the suit.
    4 points
  19. 4 points
  20. 4 points
  21. God damn now I know why Seth is pissed
    4 points
  22. We need a show with Seth trying to get investors in a box of 81 Donruss Baseball that he can rip open on youtube.
    4 points
  23. Ehhh... Flair used to do it too. But that’s Ric Fuckin’ Flair. He can sell me on getting ebola. Seth sounds like Bobby Budnick trying to sell you on his obvious scams.
    4 points
  24. I guess Seth is feeling the pressure because now he is going on twitter bashing fans for crapping on the product. He is constantly telling people how this is the best roster in the business today. Maybe it is but when you have a main event featuring completely on Baron corbin and Lacey Evans the argument is completely meaningless. Maybe it is but when you have commentary so awful you listen mostly on mute it is completely meaningless. The really funny thing is that all he has to do is look at his history. I mean when he was passed over for the Ring of Honor championship in late 2008/early 2009 they had one of the best rosters in the world. But again awful booking killed it and the bookers desire to push Jerry Lynn because The Wrestler came out made it meaningless.
    4 points
  25. 4 points
  26. ??? Samoa Joe will be fighting for the WWE Championship. ??? That is your main takeaway from tonight. Also, Undertaker should have been a little more careful about his investments.
    3 points
  27. What dream in hell involves Flip Gordon?
    3 points
  28. Dusty convinced a perfectly good socialist into being a turn coat because his irresponsible buddy ended his career over his love of joy riding. Dusty is the real American Nightmare.
    3 points
  29. Still in his wedding outfit.
    3 points
  30. I like that Vince just discovered that real sportsball doesn't go to commercial during play. This XFL relaunch is bearing fruit already. Announcing time limits would be a lot easier way to get your matches in before commercial break. If they leave the clock on the tron, it'll also give people something to count down to during Rollins' matches. I hope Double J has taught Vince about the Fox Box for the SmackDown move. WWE does currently have maybe the most athletically superior roster of all time. They've got like 300 people though so the damn numbers game works out in their favor. They can't present anybody like a star for shit though. They've got to stop listening to the nerds. For all the crying about Punk or Bryan during their pushes, they never moved the needle. The Women's Revolution resulted in a quarter of the female audience leaving. They need to just go back to basics and feed The Big Dog, baby girl. Serve him up a new heel every couple of months and push him down the marks' throats.
    3 points
  31. Those are fond memories that I can look at, but can't touch.
    3 points
  32. I was with Seth touting the roster and I’m fine with the champ puffing out his chest, but when he tells Ospreay that Ricochet is a better version of him and calls him “little buddy” he’s just being a dick. That’s been Seth’s issue, he can’t see the line between heel and face bravado.
    3 points
  33. The cool thing is nobody said any of this shit when Victor Quinones called W*ING the best wrestling in the entire world. W*ING 1 WWE 0
    3 points
  34. Remember when the MO of these topics were 'post cool pics' instead of 'post random shit a wrestler said on twitter'? Good times. Here's a reminder
    3 points
  35. That sell though. Loved JYD
    3 points
  36. It's not really relevant that he's wrong. He is in a position where he has to support the brand. Rusev wouldn't be tweeting all the things he tweets if he were the top champion instead of being stuck in catering. I'm not sure I understand how it's a heel tweet for him to defend the wrestling aspect of the company. If that makes him a heel, I don't see how Becky is a face.
    3 points
  37. Is this the answer to the question, "Name a wrestler who could go out and outwork Seth Rollins tonight"?
    3 points
  38. As fun as this sounds, the day after tomorrow makes 31 years without a drink, so I'll pass. Just sayin'.
    3 points
  39. Meng getting a blowie from a ref while getting maced by a dude in a mullet wig is the weirdest image posted here in a while.
    3 points
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