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“That’s the most carny shit I’ve ever heard.” ”Thank you!” “Vince Fuckin’ McMahon!”

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LOOOOL the unmitigated balls on these guys. Can't hold a call-in stockholder meeting due to Covid-19, but can hold live wrestling events.

Doesn’t say for the better.

My grandfather tested positive last night. 81 years old with over a half dozen heart attacks under his belt. They sent him home to wait it out - tough old fucker's already had it for about a week apparently. Talked to him on Monday and his update was simply "Ahh, just got a touch of something, kid." If you're religious say your prayers, if you're not, send your vibes. Thanks all.

I feel like you wrote this with your feet

Spring Stampede 1994 is probably the best PPV in WCW history top to bottom. Even the Muta/Austin match which Meltzer shitted on in the Observer is a pretty good. IMO it (along with Flair/Steamboat and Regal/Pillman) was a nice change of pace considering all the insanity (the infamous Chicago Street Fight, Sting/Rude, Dustin/Bunkhouse Buck, & Vader/The Boss) on most of the card. Vader vs. The Boss is one of the hossiest hoss matches of all time. They beat the tar out of each other and Vader ends up bleeding. Dustin bled for the sake of humanity. Sting vs. Rude had a ton of heat (based on what would happen shortly after that, this has two meanings). The Nasty Boys vs. Jack and Maxx Payne is insane by any standard or year you're judging it by. Everybody had their working boots on. I wonder why.

If you need an EMT, Davey Richards is a logical choice. He's no-sold almost everything else over the years. Why would death be any different? I assume he would suplex me back to life.

Plus, the recent smoking gun when it came to what was funding XFL.

Pretty sneaky sis... https://corporate.wwe.com/investors/news/press-releases/2020/04-09-2020-215949977

That actually happened to my dad when I was a kid. Spoilered for length and apropos of nothingness:

All I know is now the idea of Roman in AEW and out from under Vince’s thumb is in my head, and that impossible dream has me horny for wrestling. Really, is there a bigger indictment of McMahon booking than him so badly mismanaging the top guy he’s most committed to? It’s bananas.

GIVE HER THE DAMN EMMY!

Current wrestling can suck my dick right now. Fuck all the selfish bastards in power who put my loved ones at risk for fucking rushing the economy, and fuck that sociopath in D.C..

Okay, you know what? I’ll give him a pass now that I realize he’s a massive mark for Fist of The North Star going by this introduction video...

Asuka is either having a ball entertaining herself or is losing her mind in isolation. Either way, she's the best part of Raw every week.

It's apparently rained enough that Ukrainian officials say the fire is now under control.

Hoping he makes it and mangles it with his bare hands somehow and makes a crude table out of its remains. "This wasn't even as bad as that time I had to remove my own kidney with a spoon just because I wanted to see what it looked like."

Here's an excerpt from an interview I did with Bad News back in 2004: One other thing I’ve always wondered, how did your family react to Roddy Piper painting himself half black? My family didn’t like it, I didn’t like it, but him and Vince thought it was a great idea. I figured that if he was going to do that he was taking his life into his own hands, plus I didn’t like Piper anyway, he was a racist, so I figured if he got beat up for it or whatever, he deserved it. What were they going for there? I have no idea. I don’t know if it was just to make fun of us, I don’t know what they were trying to prove.

We need a scenario that ends up with Asuka and Sami Zayn skanking in the ring together.

After his blind Twitter defense of WWE after Dean Ambrose left, if Seth Rollins ever gets fired from WWE, I always imagined he would be outside the arena, watching glumly as his bag and gear are tossed out of the dressing room onto the street, and standing behind him is the nerd from Robot Chicken: Nerd: "This is awesome! Now you're finally free to go full time with AEW and New Japan! I can't wait to watch Jon Moxley suplex you into a barbed wire spider web, or for you to work 40-minutes night in, night out against Sanada, Okada, and Tanahashi during the G1 Climax!!!" Seth Rollins: "Shut the fuck up! You think I WANT to do any of that shit??!!??"

Is this about Roman? Because that dude would get a fat AEW contract, cut loose and look more like a star than he ever did in WWE. He'd never need to think about MLW or Impact. Also, Roman Reigns working an Osprey-Red style match would be dumb as dirt. Him not working like that is a feature, not a bug.

Keep in mind, Vince co-wrote a movie where a morally bankrupt wrestling promoter kidnapped the girlfriend of America's biggest wrestling star AND had the guy's younger brother crippled and put into a wheelchair in order to pressure him into working a match. If I'm Roman, I'm sending my daughter to live with distant relatives in Samoa until all this blows over.

Watch Roman in interviews outside the ring, then watch his interviews in the ring. He's among the biggest victims of the horrific writing that they think is great because of Cena not understanding that Cena could read a phone book and make it entertaining.

I think you could convert a few people who are about moves. But that movement probably isn’t enough to justify it. A lot of Roman’s usefulness comes from the company man and product of the system stink he has on him. That makes for good conflicts with talents who don’t have that reputation. I don’t want “workrate fanatics” to like Roman more — I want the opposite, because it makes for more interesting crowd reactions and matches.

Other than changing Roman Reigns’ eye color for social occasions, I’ll admit I’m drawing a blank...

I doubt this is the case. The Punk interview and how they've booked him killed him. Plus he's just a fine/pretty good promo and an uninteresting character for the most part. He looks cool and is good in the ring.

Now I am actually interested in what they are gonna be watching. Anyway, found this last night. It's a blind spot for me in Bava's filmography, apparently not his best, but Bava + Elke Sommer + Joseph Cotton sounds good to me.

If you watch her videos, the former. if you don’t, the latter.

Still better than Kenny King in the group ?

Well yeah, it's pretty obvious they don't want to face stockholders due to that revelation, the fact that they continue to hold shows despite how bad it makes the company look, and probably a bunch of other things (like facing tough questions about the company's profitability moving forward?). But to hide behind coronavrus is fucking shameful and disgustingly transparent. This is the company who took pride in running a show days after 9/11, and now they won't do a conference call because of coronavirus? Please. And filing for XFL bankruptcy a few weeks in like this is like the scene in Goodfellas where they burned down the restaurant.

A Conman Thompson podcast featuring an overdone, unfunny running gag that is run into the ground in two episodes but keeps going forever? Say it ain't so.

Bad News had really bad knees so the chances of someone like Smash jacking one of them up during a take down is plausible. Also the super jacked guys like Muraco, Herc and Reed would be so gassed after 30 seconds whoever they fought could use the Homer Simpson method and push them over for the KO win.

There's some really fantastic music work in this game, especially the way things blend into one another, like when area music kicks into a harder arrangement for battles. And like: The Boss fights are NOT fucking around. The combat system is really good once you get used to it and learn how to pop around, switch between characters, and figure out the way to deal with everything. I'm finding a distinct lack of grinding. I don't know if it's that I just need to go further away to respawn the mobs, and so far I'm not falling behind any enemies (although here in Chapter 9, I'm starting to notice some stuff getting harder), and I've done every side mission so far, but I'm also way short on money (can't keep up with armor upgrades, still missing a couple pieces of Materia (like Revive) ,so I'm wondering if I'm just not "grinding" right.

I don't want to sound harsh but I think Ron DeSantis should be tossed out of a helicopter screaming in front of his family. THAT would be an "essential service" we can all get behind.

@Curt McGirt Have some Buddy Rose in WWF against Bob Backlund

Just got around to watching this. Note "JBL was wonderful to me and was like a big brother" vs. "Edge intentionally poured a drink on me on a plane" But we all have the full story on every wrestler because Meltzer, right?

Why is Jerry Lawler even on TV right now? Besides the controversy over the moonsault line, dude's 70 years old. Had a heart attack, he shouldn't even be near the announcing desk during a global pandemic.

So, as a Kentucky boy and a long time USWA mark it pains me to say this, but never put Lawler on commentary ever again. He’s not funny, he adds nothing and it’s just not a good look for the old white guy to be making jokes like “Raman noodle moonsault”. He shouldn’t be traveling right now anyway but we got to use him, talking head on network or something.

Los Ingobernables de WWE!

Holy hell that was great

Still my favorite U.S. show ever. Buck/Dustin was my favorite WCW match.

Haku is Haku, but I don't see anyway that Bad News loses.

We need Asuka and Sami Zayn skanking in the ring together.

I'm not gonna go crazy fantasy booking something that's never gonna happen, but Roman vs Omega is the match. Ultimate modern WWE main event guy vs ultimate modern non-WWE main event guy. I want it so much I almost wish Omega had gone to WWE.

By Jupiter's beard, she is a treasure, - RAF

No problem - Haku was in the WWF starting in 1985. He wins each year until he leaves in 1992.

There's no way they would let him go. Now, I could see them for punishment doing something like pushing him near the top and then pulling the rug out at the last minute for years on end. Wait, what?