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  1. Greggulator
    He was great in the Varsity Club. Kevin Sullivan going from Satanist to Varsity Club had to be trippy for the people watching WCW in Florida Bray's 26. Do we have any DNA tests to prove Kevin Sullivan isn't his real dad? He'd be around the young Rotundo family at the time.
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    It was extra great since their first promo saw Steph talking in super polished corporate marketing branding lingo and "niche" audiences. The power of the people made them shred the pantsuits and brass nameplates and reveal their true characters. So much better than, like, spray painting their limo or stalking them backstage while the New Age Outlaws try to protect them. Sometimes it seems like this company is making genuine progress in story structure because you know that was what they would have done five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago. Do we thank Punk fans for accidentally handing them this idea? Daniel Bryan's first anti-Authority thing was to key up Randy Orton's car. That doesn't fit him at all. I'm so glad they got away from him doing that stuff and instead forcing HHH and Steph to cave in this manner. They figured out how Bryan works best -- it's by defending himself with honor and rallying the people, not by vandalism or revenge attacks. It's really great to watch them figure it out.
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    It was extra great since their first promo saw Steph talking in super polished corporate marketing branding lingo and "niche" audiences. The power of the people made them shred the pantsuits and brass nameplates and reveal their true characters.
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    Either way, Austin was a bad person, too. He stunnered a lot of innocent people (and women) during his days.
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    Austin also essentially invented the Tea Party movement.
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    This angle is such a great metaphor for the current economy/life in the US. Austin killed it as the rebellious anti-hero against the evil, rich boss. My brother pointed out to me that he was the first anti-hero to have popularity. Tony Soprano and Don Draper and Walter White soon followed. Daniel Bryan's someone so completely different than this. He's an indie rock version of Stone Cold. Matt D coined it best after SummerSlam -- he's the Austin for kids who can't pay their student loans back. It's not necessarily political, but there are a whole lot of people in the WWE universe who are talented geeks who don't look the right part. We go to ComicCons and collect 7-inches and were in AP classes... but because we majored in liberal arts and didn't join a frat or couldn't afford an Ivy League school, we're stuck underneath the trust fund elite and their hand-picked managerial class. D-Bry taps into that. He's the right hero for the right time.
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    I watched in bits and pieces because my totally legal (uhm...) feed was crap tonight. But: 1) I saw Brodie Lee in Chikara just a few years ago. Now, here he is, sharing segments with Hogan and Cena in the build to WrestleMania. That's awesome. That segment ruled. Bray looked like he belonged there -- he just has that charisma and magnetism that only the greats have. His retort later on in the show was so great, too. TIIIIIIIIMMMME 2) I really love The Shield intrigue. I love them back on the same page AND getting in Kane's face. They're slow-burning a break-up and a potential face turn all at once. That's great. 3) The YES! Movement segment was terrific. How can anyone hate on that? They've had people more over than Daniel Bryan before but they've never had a wrestler who felt more like the people who are in the stands and watching at home. D-Bry surrounded by a bunch of fanboys chanting yet while Steph and Hunter acted like Judge and Mrs. Smails when the Twix bar was in the bottom of the pool in Caddyshack was terrific. Now we got the matches we want. That was golden. 4) I don't like Sheamus and Christian so much but they worked a really great hardcore match in Memphis. That was a perfect read of what to have in front of a crowd.
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    I ended up voting for Punk. The dude certainly had some down moments this year but had plenty of good-to-great stuff throughout most of the year. Brock provided me with entertainment only during a few stretches, the best of which focused around Punk. Punk got to run around against The Shield for a while. Lesnar's second best stuff was against... man, damn if I remember.
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    Not sure if I should put this here or in music, but this was in Peter King's column today: "South By Southwest looks fun. To those who attend: Worthwhile to go one year?" I don't really follow the NFL too much and am not a fan of Peter King. But I am obsessed with his column and its weirdness. His "Coffeenerdness" stuff talking about baristas at Midtown Manhattan Starbucks locations brings me neverending joy.
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    I'd lean Punk just because of more TV time. Punk was really inconsistent but when he was on he was terrific. The Punk vs. Heyman stuff was a really great B-Plot with two of my favorite promo guys ever. Punk was very game in trying to get good stuff out of Curtis Axel and Ryback. I do like his face-in-peril tag work a lot, too. That one end segment in Seattle was one of the best moments of the year and he carried it. I love Lesnar so much, tho.
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    I'm watching Volador/Dorada now. I have absolutely no idea who these guys are. What promotion is this taking place in?
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    The main thing that jumps out to me in this War Games match was how insanely gross Rick Rude's tan/baby oil combination was during this.
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    Oh yeah, I watched Rey/Eddie from Hollywood Havoc '97. That match is still so, so, so, so great. I keep harping about what developmental means for the WWE -- where character work is as big as in-ring work. I think the shining examples they are showing guys of how they want them to perform as is Regal and Eddie. This match is just perfect. Rey looks SO small in that match, too. Eddie's gassed out of his mind. Rey's worked a WWE style so long that I completely forgot how revolutionary he was when he broke through in ECW and later WCW. He was just the most graceful, fun and insane workers of his era. Eddie was such a great foil. I'm going to be watching the debut of DOOM from whenever that was later on. That's my favorite ring entrance debut ever -- "Her Strut" with stern ass Woman walking down as a skull drops with a ton of dry ice with two bad masked dudes. That was one of the highlights of my childhood.
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    Spending my Sunday watching: 1) I watched The Shield vs. Cena/Sheamus/Ryback from EC 13. That match was awesome. I missed this PPV. Just a textbook Shield classic. I love Cena's face at the end of this -- looked like when a NBA team loses a game at the buzzer. Great job. 2) Followed by The Shield at WrestleMania last year, which I also missed. Another great match but not their best. I don't know how much of that was their fauly and how much was because Orton and Sheamus weren't really feeling being in an opening card match. 3) Now watching Sting's Squadron vs. Dangerous Alliance at War Games! I haven't seen this in... man... I have no idea.
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    Glad I saw this. I'm watching ECW N2R 97' right now. Justin Credible and Mikey are on and Jason is of course at ringside. What was Jason's whole deal? Was he a worker? Was he a backstage guy? What was he? Also, Mikey and Justin were 21 in 97? Whoa. Jason was the World's Sexiest Man. He was a wrestler in the early days of ECW who didn't have a lot of success and ended up as a manager for The Impact Players/Justin Credible and, my memory might be failing me, but a neverending string of pretty unmemorable ECW goons.
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    Luke Harper's not just awesome, but he's also a sign of things to come. The dude is a great wrestler and also wrestlers great as a character. And he has a great character. He's one of the best products of WWE developmental -- I know he had indie/Chikara experience, but it's not like he had the tenure of any of other guys who came up from the indies -- and it shows. His wide-eyed stare, kneeling before Bray to offer a sacrifice, his creepy promos, etc. NXT really places an emphasis on that kind of work. But people might have the commitment to character that Harper has, but there aren't a lot of dudes his size who can also hit a tope like he can. The IWC would explode if he and Cesaro had a match at some point.
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    What are your thoughts on Kana? I have none and am not voting in this round. Not voting in rounds for people I don't know but am gladly using the tournament as a means to use my voice on wrestlers I enjoy. Why do you want to crush my rights to freedom-of-speech?
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    I might push to have Rollins win this entire thing. Has anyone been in as many great matches as he has this part year? There are a near infinite amount of Shield trios stuff. He was in a ridiculous amount of great tag matches -- including him and Reigns against Cody/Dustin. Their two matches were my favorite matches from last year. I think the first tag match at SummerSlam for their jobs was my favorite tag match since that one Clash where Ricky Steamboat appeared and tagged w/ Dustin against The Enforcers. I liked the Raw match better because it was masterfully tied into every other important angle at the time, but the first one was pretty much perfect. The dude was also just in what's a Match Of The Decade type of thing and what will probably end up as the best free TV match of the year as part of the best feud in ages. I never saw him on the indies. I really liked his stuff as a henchman, screaming stuff like "WE'RE GOING TO END YOUR CAREER BRYAN!" with his raspy voice. But he's just stepped up so much the past few months as The Architect holding things together. I really would like to see him in another tag team after The Shield runs its course. I'd love to see him in a babyface tag team with someone like Sami Zayn. The dude is on a career arc to becoming one of the great tag workers of all-time. He's seriously everything I love about wrestling.
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    I have seen no more than 15 minutes of TNA in my life. But Spud has been a part of those 15 minutes. That dude is absolutely terrible. Like the worst ever bad.
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    Cesaro is the WWE's MVP. He can fill so many part of a promotion. He showed in the buildup to the EC he's a legitimate main event guy right now. He's been a huge part of a really entertaining mid-card tag team act that has done well as both a serious threat and in a comedy role. And he drops down to NXT and has MOTYCs with some awesome, really fantastic matches and storytelling. His Sami Zayn and Regal feuds were awesome stuff from start-to-finish. Daniel Bryan might still be the best. But now he's a star and he has that role. Being the top guy is the most important part of the show. But Cesaro fills more roles right now and does them all to perfection.
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    Yeah, that Shield segment was great. This whole storyline has been so terrific and compelling. I like where they left it at right now -- the house of cards almost toppled, but hasn't quite yet. They're on the same page, but who knows for how long. Rollins has totally stolen the mat out from both Reigns and Ambrose as member with most potential as a solo act, I think. The dude is an absolutely fantastic professional wrestler. I might launch a campaign for him to win the tournament.
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    Here's some anecdotal evidence as to why the Network rules. My brother hasn't watched the WWE in ages. He keeps abreast when something that sounds cool happens -- Summer of Punk, etc. But he got more into UFC (he used to do jiu-jitsu) and just with limited time and energy he just lost interest. But he got the Network because the price point is so ridiculously great and has spent the past few hours watching childhood hero The Great Kabuki matches on WCCW. And then he watched some current content. He heard about The YES! Movement stuff already and is getting caught up now on The Shield vs. Wyatt stuff. He also made another really salient point: "The WWE predicts pop culture and entertainment trends better than anyone. The first antihero wasn't Tony Soprano. It was Steve Austin."
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    Poor remembrances of a tag team aside, that article really shows how important the WWE Network might be in the overall entertainment industry. Like they keep saying, they took out the middleman -- they control the content and the distribution on a level we've never seen before. All of the MLB/NBA channels are essentially just different distribution models -- it's a way for me to watch Golden State Warriors games that are broadcast in a traditional way. But the WWE? They absolutely hit a home run with this. The PPVs and NXT alone are worth it, let alone all the archives. This could really become the future of how we consume entertainment products.
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bbo0_5IwAg#t=85 This is the full version of Adam Rose's theme music. I would listen to this on the real. It has a Fratellis-sorta thing to it, but with a cool garage lead vocal affect. Does anyone have a lead as to who made this song?
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    I love anytime The Shield get to do out-of-ring appearances. They're legitimately funny dudes. I love the juxtaposition of the baddest dudes on the roster being on some really lame Good Morning AM local programming. I bet Dean got with the news anchor.
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