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  1. That’s because, as Masters of the Powerbomb, they each knew the other knew numerous technical counters and escapes to the powerbomb, and thus trying to powerbomb the other would most certainly lead to utter failure and defeat.
    6 points
  2. Death Valley Driver -> Velvety-haired lard
    6 points
  3. The Hurt Business is all that matters and the only dudes who aren't cowards. What a visual. Give them ALL THE GOLD...
    5 points
  4. I love these projects but I always forget how they will be the death of me. I am not even a quarter of a way into my first ballot entered and I already have a winner for the "most infuriating movie title and director for my excel file" locked up
    5 points
  5. 5 points
  6. The numbers on the jerseys appeared to be fruit roll-ups.
    5 points
  7. If the goal of that ending was to make The Hurt Business the biggest faces on Raw then it was well-done. They looked incredibly bad-ass coming out in suits and manhandling Retribution despite being outnumbered
    4 points
  8. I'm not a Heat fan in anyway, but the number one lesson in basketball is fuck the Celtics.
    4 points
  9. I made a Twitter account for these. I've got a bunch ready to post there so I won't spam the thread myself every time I think of new ones, but here's a few i'm especially proud of: Stephanie McMahon = Champions Methane Hunter Hearst Helmsley = Halt Her Ruthless Enemy All Elite Wrestling = I Sell Elegant Twirl Wrestling Observer Live = Loving Terrible Swerves AEW Ratings = Teasing Raw
    4 points
  10. I tuned in for the last little bit and holy shit the last 10 minutes of this show were the Dunniest Cuts that were ever Dunn Cut. My god. I legit have a headache what the fuck.
    3 points
  11. I fucking hated that spot during the Nitro days because you have people who never did a powerbomb try one just so Kidman could get that spot in.
    3 points
  12. I like anagrams. SETH ROLLINS = Stoner Shill HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN = Hunky Hog, Hollow Load KEN SHAMROCK = Shank Me Rock DWAYNE JOHNSON = Owned Any Johns MICK FOLEY = Lick My Foe SHANE MCMAHON = He Sham Conman CODY RHODES = Rod Shy Coed KENNY OMEGA = Many Knee Go TONY SCHIAVONE = 'Tis One Anchovy DARBY ALLIN = Drily Banal DUSTIN RHODES = Reddish Snout CHARLOTTE FLAIR = Clitoral Father ROMAN REIGNS = Moaners Grin DEAN AMBROSE = Debase Roman / Semen Aboard BRANDI RHODES = Ho Sired Brand HIKARU SHIDA = Radish Haiku TEDDY LONG = Oddly Gent BUTCH REED = Beech Turd OLE ANDERSON = A Olden Snore BULL NAKANO = No Anal Bulk HARLEY RACE = Rarely Ache JIMMY SNUKA = Junky Maims MATT HARDY = Thy Art Mad SAMMY GUEVARA = Ravages Ya Mum ALBERTO DEL RIO = Irate Bordello THE BIG SHOW = Be With Hogs
    3 points
  13. I don't think anyone ever answered you. Games as a Service is the term used to refer when games have continuing "roadmaps" for content to continue to drop after the initial release, more specifically behind paywalls, like MMO's, games with Season Passes or regularly released DLC, or stuff with microtranactions. Biggest examples are games like World Of Warcraft, Street Fighter V, Battlefront II, Pick a Call of Duty, Dragon Ball Fighterz AND Xenoverse 2, Destiny 2, Rainbow 6 Siege, DOTA2, Fortnite, Red Dead Redemption Online, and Grand Theft Auto Online (although to be fair, in Rockstar's case, RDRO and GTAO both can in theory be totally Free To Play if you spend enough time grinding money). It more focuses on Online multiplayer games, as single player games don't necessarily *need* the DLC to be enjoyed (like Arkham Knight), but the online games you won't have access to all the stuff with the Vanilla versions that you would with all the DLC (like fighting games having characters locked behind pay DLC that you still have to encounter online, as some of those DLC characters end up being Tier S and such), Or higher end gear, or full expansion content in the PvP area (like WoW).
    3 points
  14. I'm all for "tales and memories of booking your action figure feds" getting it's own thread. I had a good supply of the actual hasbro WWF hard plastic series that mostly carried the promotion, though anything of comparable size my brother had also got used. Bushwacker Luke unfortunately broke fairly quickly, forcing Butch to become a languishing JTTS, bouncing between doomed solo attempts and failed partnerships. Except, like that one AAAA utility infielder who for no good reason hits .430 against Kershaw or whatever, Butch turned out to have ownage on Ric Flair. Butch wasn't "good enough" to earn actual title bouts against Flair, but he plagued Flair in tag matches, non title bouts, "can't last 10 minutes" challenges, etc. So every time War Games or Survivor Series or whatever would roll around, when The Horsemen (of course) took one of the faces out before the event, it invariably backfired because the faces would recruit Butch to be the replacement, who would always be available to fill in because as JTTS he was never "good enough" to get on the big cards any other way.
    3 points
  15. Apropos of nothing (and it’s certainly not even a lukewarm take), I love watching Terry Gordy work. Every facet of his performance just screams “This dude is going to kick someone’s ass, enjoy it immensely, then go drink everyone under the table.” Even his promos paint him as a guy who would have been just as comfortable slapping your grandma as he was beating down a hapless Von Erich pretty boy. This is not a new discovery for me. Pretty sure I’ve been on the bandwagon since ‘86 or so. Just happened to catch a few matches this evening that really reminded me why I love this pro wrestling stuff we’re (mostly) all into.
    3 points
  16. Upcoming week we have a Gwyn Davies match. Remember, he's in that great Steve Veidor match. This is him super young and playing up the Scottish gimmick. He's big though, an attraction, and Guettier has to deal with him. It doesn't go well for Guettier: I love how delighted the guy in the crowd is for this failed pumphandle: You guys have all seen George Steele's flying hammerlock right? The first time you see that, you almost have to grimace and look away. This has the same effect:
    3 points
  17. joining Josh Alexander and Homicide at Josh Barnett's Bloodsport is... Deonna Purrazzo! I'm into this so far.
    3 points
  18. Harden is a great player with a few really glaring weaknesses. The Lakers drove past him on a regular basis, he often falls asleep on defense if his man doesn't have the ball (though, to be clear, he's a much better defender than he was a few years ago) and, most glaringly, when he doesn't have the ball, he has a tendency to drift towards half court and watch. The Lakers big defensive strategy wasn't double teaming Harden, it was waiting until 10-12 seconds had gone off the shot clock, then doubling him, forcing the ball out of his hands knowing he wouldn't get back into the play. It's a fantastic strategy aimed right at Harden, and I don't know what adjustment D'Antoni could make, unless he was supposed to talk Harden into becoming a totally different off-ball player during a series. Nobody, literally nobody has ever said "The Rockets/Harden choked" because they didn't win the title. It's because Harden now has three incredibly high leverage playoff games where he shot 2 for 11 from the field, two of which were elimination games and the third essentially ended the series. Because he has a tendency to look checked out in elimination games. Because he spent most of that amazing comeback sitting on the bench sulking while his teammates went crazy cheering on Josh Smith's implausible explosion. And because he's a whiny git who talks shit and flops and plays an ugly, unaesthetically pleasing style that people hate to watch, so they judge him more harshly than others. He's the best one on one scorer of his era, one of the greatest of all-time. He's probably about to get his sixth straight top five finish in the MVP race. He's great. People acknowledge he's great routinely. But he's just unlikable and has had too many high profile duds in high leverage situations, and the only way his rep, whether it's fair or not, will change is if he leads a team to a title. And his window looks to be closing rapidly.
    2 points
  19. Sell it. No reason to hang on to it Eventually you'll be able to grab one for at least half that. You'll be able to grab most of an entire later series with the profit.
    2 points
  20. Man, the Vengeance 2003 tag with Kidman and Rey against Haas and Benjamin was so good.
    2 points
  21. I'm not talking about the first round. You said he outplayed LeBron.
    2 points
  22. Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast were really wonderful names for gaming machines.
    2 points
  23. I think this might have gotten posted, but anyway, match stopped for blood loss = this thread. I checked the first ten pages of this thread and incredibly, THIS appears to not have been posted. Onita gets all sliced up and the bomb is probably the biggest explosion FMW ever had. I showed this to a group of non-wrestling fans once and everybody's jaws dropped.
    2 points
  24. I've watched the final episode of Season 2 three times. It's just absolutely perfect. As stated before, it's one of the best choreographed fight scenes of all-time. I read an interview with the producer-type people and they were pretty inspired by West Side Story and The Outsiders. It really shows as there's so much interwoven fighting and it is so theatrical. There's that one Steadicam shot where you just see fight after fight without any cuts for about a minute or so. My favorite one is when Tory and Sam just sort of slide down some side hallways out of view, which is a great way to set up the next part of the brawl while we also get to see everyone else involved. That must have been so fun to put together. They also apparently only had one weekend to actually film those scenes. They spent the weekend before rehearsing and mapping it out, and then crammed the whole thing in the next weekend. The Dmitri/Hawk feud might have been the one I related to the most. I was very much a Dmitri when I was young -- the smart nerd who was also a really whiny and annoying crybaby. I had a best friend growing up who was also a misfit. But then he had a growth spurt and became a jock and an a-hole. We spent the next few years antagonizing each other -- him physically, me passive-aggressively. We even had an "after school" fight where I predictably got my ass kicked. Although in a previous fight (and what ended our friendship) I socked him and cut his lip. I became a bit of a Hawk in high school. I wasn't tough by any means or intimidating. But I got into punk music and my friends (while total nerds) looked pretty rough. It felt great to have some level of self-esteem by running with numbers. I get the whole defense mechanism and wearing a costume to try and make people forget about how you really feel about yourself. Dmitri was no innocent in his part of the show. He was an annoying tag-a-long who was jealous that his dork friends evolved and gained the self-confidence he still lacked. But Kreese's actions to him were so fucked up, and Hawk made no attempt to find out what the bad review was about. (Even if he did, I don't think he would care.) Hawk was a total prick to him at the party. But Dmitri went really overboard to humiliate his former friend and fellow Dr. Who fan. I sort of wish that the results of the fight were split between dojos. I get why they had the results they did, since that's the build. But it would have been pretty good if Dmitri held his own before Hawk did something lowdown and dirty being the biggest heel in the teen set, which leads to him becoming the new face of Cobra Kai while Miguel is on the mend. Man, what a great fucking episode of television. Who would have thought that Cobra Kai would have been this great? I thought it would be a fun, ridiculous nostalgia thing (and it still is -- seriously, WTF, teenage karate gangs?) but it's also legitimately great storytelling. And it actually has a lot of really great themes: Redemption, what does redemption even mean, forgiveness, learning to define yourself on your own terms, when confidence in yourself goes too far, class conflict, etc.
    2 points
  25. 2 points
  26. What the Eagles O-Line thinks of Wentz:
    2 points
  27. Big Show vs Mayweather might be the all-time champion "that was better than I expected" match, at least for me. Although, Stephanie Mcmahon has a few contenders for that in her career as well.
    2 points
  28. In case you missed it, Bruce Arians put the blame for both of his interceptions squarely on Tom Brady's shoulders. First one, he said Brady read the defense wrong and that Mike Evans read it right. Second one was a "poor decision".
    2 points
  29. Jacob Fatu and Calvin Tankman are both in MLW and the obvious guys to keep an eye on imo.
    2 points
  30. I think trash is a bit strong, but he is still rough around the edges. I don't think Dabol's play calling helps, with so many designed runs, combined with passing way too much early. Against bad teams it works, but Josh isn't good enough to carry the offense on his shoulders. He needs to learn how to tuck the dam ball as well. I think he's the 2nd best qb of his draft class(behind Lamar) and wouldn't trade him for either Baker or Sam at this point.
    2 points
  31. Hell yes. Archer, Wardlow, Luchasaurus, Butcher, Hager, Brodie, Will Hobbs, and hell, even Billy Gunn. You know what AEW doesn't have? A real fat fuck. Like, a fat fuck who can work. Not someone sloppy looking like Barrington Hughes, but a big, round dude like a Umaga or something. Is Jacob Fatu the last of the big boy Samoans where the rest are now muscular and buff?
    2 points
  32. I keep getting ballots so that is a good problem to have. I am updated my Admin post up there with ballots received (or noted revisions) If you don't see your name and you submitted, let me know (I most likely have it - just forgot to include your name... like I am realizing I forgot to include @King Leonidas Of Sparta up there and will edit as soon as I am done with this post)
    2 points
  33. Tetsuya Naito = Auntie Toasty
    2 points
  34. Kobra Khan never won a match without using his mist on his opponent.
    2 points
  35. Day 75 (Ride 2~!) Alright, so Thursday it rained all day here. So instead of doing my normal evening walk with my partner, I did a second ride because I could not wait... for boxer vs wrestler or undead wizard vs pervert.... Hmm. Alright whatever. Floyd Mayweather was brought in because Vince was in one of his "We need mainstream cred" moods. Of course, Floyd is a huge piece of shit and deserves nothing but to get beat on. Fortunately(?) for Floyd, he knows this and has made an extremely profitable career based on this. (Though, I will personally say he was unequivocally the good guy in the Pacquiao fights, because... well, I think you can guess.) Anyway, to get a suitable opponent for Floyd, they needed someone who was much bigger than him, a veteran who could (in theory) carry the match, and a guy who's career was so inconsequential that losing to a non-wrestler wouldn't matter. Well, the Big Show checks all those boxes, so he gets the call. I should also note that the video package for this match leaves out the part where during the build Money Mayweather legit broke Big Show's nose. I can't recall if he leaned too far in, or if Mayweather just didn't know how to properly pull his punches. Either way, Show looked legit pissed off, and I have no idea why this wasn't included: Because that shit is terrifying. Show looks like he wants to kill. Money looks like a fucking dragon slayer. Instead the video makes Big Show into a heel and a guy who calls himself "MONEY" into a plucky underdog babyface. Eh. Maybe he isn't that self aware. It's basically a cat and mouse game for the match itself. With Floyd running around like he rules the earth and hiding behind his boys and Show giving chase the whole time. And it suddenly struck me... Remember how I said Rey Mysterio couldn't play heel? THIS is *exactly* what a heel Rey Mysterio should have been. Brash, cocky, arrogant, and above all else, smart. Mayweather knows his only chance of winning is by getting a flash knockout or cheating rampantly and getting a flash knockout. And Show knows that as soon as the little cockroach gets caught, he's getting squashed. But since the match is also No DQ, there will obviously be rampant cheating. Oooh there's Michael Tarver. I'm sure the other guys in his entourage are indie workers but I don't recognize them. I thought one was Shad Gaspard, but nah. Well, nothing really matters in the match until Floyd makes a mistake and Big Show steps on him. I will say Show is clearly an idiot, because I counted 3 separate occasions when he had the match won and chose to pour on more offense. Mayweather eventually grabs a chair and gives Show an unprotected headshot, that looks like it could have been a bad idea from many angles. Chairshots galore, and a right cross with gold knuckles sends Big Show to dreamland. Floyd never darkened the WWE's doorstep again. And again, given what a piece of human trash he is, good riddance.
    2 points
  36. Excalibur: He hit him with his finisher! Taz: He has a finisher?
    2 points
  37. I’m still laughing at the visual of Double J driving around with a pickup full of guitars.
    2 points
  38. I was only ever able to track down one (Xamot...or was it Tomax?) at a Garage Sale. They were all in for a rough ride when I found this guy though. Multiple time World Champion right there!
    2 points
  39. WILLIAM REGAL = Will Aim Glare
    2 points
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