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Minoru Suzuki vs Orange Cassidy announced for JJSB 4 Welp, that Okada-Omega match from a few years back had a nice run as the greatest pro wrestling match in history...

You don't need to know the questions to know the answer is cocaine.

In what should’ve been done many, many, many moons ago—will turn 43 in April—I’m finally moving out of my parents house; just received word I got approved for an apartment I’d been eyeing for months.

Getting back to "they don't know why Austin and Rock worked" I think it's at least partially true. They don't get that Rock could get away with horrible, stupid lines because Dwayne Johnson might literally be the most charismatic man on Earth. So they give guys who simply aren't The Rock similar lines and it bombs (and now sanitized versions of those lines) They get that Austin was the rebel fighting his boss, but they don't get that AUSTIN ALWAYS WON. Okay, not actually always, but way more often than not. When the heels got heat on him, it worked because it didn't happen every week. He outsmarted Vince nearly every week. And they had Vince be the one getting embarrassed every week, not the actual wrestlers. To use an example from one of the two episodes of RAW I've watched in the last three months: Seth claims AOP isn't backing him up. KO is positive he's lying. Rey offers to help Owens, KO says no. Rey gives him a lead pipe to use as a weapon. Fast forward an hour or so, KO is looking for Seth. It's a setup, of course. In 1998, Steve Austin would've whipped Akam and Razer's asses, stunned Vince and drank beer while Rollins ran for his life. KO got beat up three on one, looked like a moron for turning down help and not accounting for the muscle he knew Seth had. Nobody got over.

They could go backyard style and just have the crowd be the rest of the locker room

all we can do is hope everyone traveling arrives and makes it home safely.

Hopefully we'll get nuclear heat. Still remember Elias and Kevin Owens: Want to bring up Kevin Owens spinning on the stool as Elias strummed and the look Elias gives after THAT line.

My body is ready for these shows.

As a Falcons fan, my pettiness level is off the charts right now. Kyle Shanahan's tears give me life. And Nick Bosa crying over not getting to meet his hero in the White House is just gravy...

Oh yeah?!?!? DOINK AND BATTLERANGER IN WAR!

Doink vs Onryo.

If you were to hold a gun to my head back then and ask me which one of those gentlemen would be working in WWF as an alligator hunter, I would be dead.

I disagree, brother. Pivoting to Shida is the way to go even if Riho were better than her by a bit because she's there every week. Riho is a good underdog who has a solid connection with the crowd. Shida isn't that but I think she's more capable and able to do a wider variety of matches.

I still think Shida would have been a better choice as champion. I thought that then and still think it now.

I'm happy to have contributed. You're welcome.

I know this will come as an "OK boomer" comment but there needs to be a rule where you have to celebrate within 20 yards of the line of scrimmage. The team turnover celebrations don't necessarily bother me it is the running 60 yards down the ring to go near the end zone that pisses me off

Riho has been absolutely great every time she's been in their ring, so I might actually watch Dark for once

AEW Dark tomorrow will feature: Jungle Boy & Marko Stunt vs. Sonny Kiss & Brandon Cutler Hikaru Shida vs. Mel Colin Delaney & Shawn Spears vs. The Best Friends From the Jericho Cruise: Kip Sabian & Penelope Ford vs. Kenny Omega & Riho

So did Mahomes officially break The Madden Curse?

We need another Raw like after the 2015 Rumble then. Except there's no Ambrose walking in from the blizzard...

For my reaction, we turn to Mr. Keith Lee:

Beyond Championship Wrestling (which is Beyond Wrestling rebranding since they're finally crowning their first champion March 1st, on the TV pilot) have shown the plates of the belt on twitter. Can't link from phone, but there's a seahorse, a Pegasus and a Gryphon on there. Because when you're World champion, you're champion of Land, Sea and Air. They have not yet revealed the strap, so it might possibly be pink and green tiger striped leather. But probably black or white, most likely.

Earthquake is one of those guys I just could never see as a face.

You are an evil man

Graig is letting his jealousy over having five fewer Gold Gloves and bitterness over his idiotic first name cloud his judgment.

The bigger problem right now with the "how do you rebuild Roman Reigns" thing is that WWE, like any other wrestling promotion, doesn't truly realize the ultimate issue to save the wrestling product flies in the face of every entertainment business manifesto: Sometimes, you just have to let someone walk away. Whether it's an excursion, whether it's firing them, letting them show up in some other promotion and get fans excited about them, then see what happens later, whether it's "how can the fans miss you if you won't go away? So...uh...GO AWAY!", or even if it's "you're a failed experiment, we need to give the roster an enema. We don't really care. Go to AEW or New Japan- go be their problem, but we're better off without you"- sometimes, to make a bigger star, it's not even about "turn them face!" or "turn them heel!" , but as serious as 'you have to let them walk away." Drew McIntyre's success right now should be seen as the best example of that. McIntyre was always pretty good, but never quite clicked as a big prospect. He was a failed experiment, he tumbled down the card. No one wanted him as a heel, they barely bought it trying to make him flirt with a face turn in the Kelly Kelly stuff, they didn't totally buy in when he did comedy...and ultimately, the best thing WWE could do was to fire him, let him walk away. He gives the WWE audience the chance to miss him, he gives the smarks the chance to see just how good he was outside the company. He comes back, he's put it all together, and now it seems like it's finally taken.

FUCK YEAH. Full Moon was my a massive part of my VHS childhood. The first 3 Puppet Masters are worth a look. The third one is where the Puppets stop being bad guys and start killing Nazis. After that...you're on your own. You should also hit up Demonic Toys and Dollman vs. Demonic Toys. I guess you could/should fit in Dollman, but when I was a kid I'd already scene so much Making Of material on it from the Full Moon Studios featurettes that it wasn't necessary. There's also the Doctor Mordrid and the Subspecies movies. After somewhere around 1996/97, they started cutting even more corners. They went from standard B movies to "oh I think they ran out of film and just stopped" movies. I certainly wouldn't use "Retro Puppetmaster" as a reference to what the early Full Moon days were.

They'll never get Reigns right because they don't know what made Austin or The Rock work. I doubt we see significant change until Vince passes away. He won't walk away. He guided WWE to its height but now can't maintain it. I suppose there's a certain Shakespearean quality to that but that's entertainment.

I'm not sure if it was mentioned anywhere on commentary, but I'm guessing Hybrid2 were wearing AAA La Parka tribute gear this week.

And it's not even "oh, he made the same mistakes again"

Shanahan now presiding over the two biggest collapses in Super Bowl history.

Them thinking Seth could be one of the biggest stars is one of their problems. Especially when they had Dean Ambrose under contract. The selection process for "top guy" is completely flawed. They've got Big E doing comedy for the fifth year in a row when he might be the most charismatic guy in the company. The New Day is great, but every one of those guys could be doing more. Someone mentioned Ziggler. That guy should be a HUGE star, instead of going through the motions whenever a top heel needs a lackey. Zack Ryder was never gonna be Hulk Hogan, but there's no reason he couldn't be prime Tito Santana. Rusev Day is another GREAT example. Sure, they got Daniel Bryan right, but only after their shows were hijacked by fans for six months. There's no reason to expect different. They're gonna put the Smackdown belt on Roman, and it's gonna get a better reaction than any other time he's won the title, and Vince is gonna interpret that as "goddamn, pal, I told you." And they're gonna start sending him out there doing his "Samoan Cena" act he was doing that the fans weren't buying. The problem now is that they can't reform the Shield to take the heat off of Roman. That whole angle was as egregious an act of "fuck our customers and what they think" as I've ever seen. Strowman is getting huge reactions, but instead of taking advantage of the hottest babyface they'd had in a couple years, they go out of their way to cool off Ambrose and Rollins, and kill off Strowman, derail McIntyre, and, well, Ziggler didn't have anything going, so he was fine, but you're ostensibly killing off four top guys so the fans feel conflicted about booing Reigns. It's fucking brutal. And I think the over-reliance on Lesnar may finally be what deals a serious, undeniable blow to their profits. Just about everyone I know that watched before the Lesnar return has stopped, due to it being "the same shit." My one complaint about the tv show "The Office" is that it feels like sometimes the writers punish you for caring about the characters. "Oh, you want Andy to have a redeemable character arc? Fuck you, here's a boat." Nobody makes you feel like an idiot for investing in characters emotionally than WWE.

That reminds me, I really wish I could make it out to Vegas for The Scorpions with Queensryche residency.

Jennifer Lopez could tell me to crawl on the floor and bark like a dog because it would entertain her and I'd bark so loud the neighbours would have to call the police.

So if you are wondering what Joey Janela's incredible Super Bowl Halftime Spring Break announcement: ??

Makes sense; he'd fit in with all the other has-beens who have a Vegas residency to extend their careers

I think one of the biggest mistakes was not going with Roman winning at Wrestlemania 31. The one long term plan they had they abandon at the last second. Relying on older stars to promote shows in lieu of younger guys. No one is special. Hell, not numbering Wrestlemania reportedly because Vince feels it makes it sound old. Meanwhile other sports stake their prestige on the history behind everything.

A good match is a good match. See the death match thread. If I like Chamber of Horrors when I watch it I’ll be proud to like it. Raven vs The Pitbulls Terry Funk and Stevie Richards vs Cactus Jack and Raven That whole series of events from Starrcade 91 involving Abdullah the Butcher that spanned over a few matches Wow I better be careful before I give away how much fun Abdullah the Butcher in WCW was for that 1 year

Vince should create XBA, XHL, XLB. Then XWE.

My son just said: A= 1 B= 2 C= 3 etc.etc Then E+D+G+E = 21 Edge was number 21 in the rumble

Just got caught up on POWERRR. Zicky Dice is the hybrid P.S. Hayes/Diamond Studd-era DDP this business needs. What a magnificent scumbag with absolutely no redeeming qualities. I love it. That is all.

FTFY.

I hope it's 2 hours of her vaporizing white nationalists.