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The last time Miz was interesting was when he was in an Angry Disgruntled Man deal with R-Truth.

Yo who knew Dennis Schroder had a blonde streak in his hair and didn't tell me?

Brandon Jennings played in Italy for a year before declaring for the draft. When he was over there, his minutes were inconsistent at best. Jeremy Tyler left high school a year early to play two years overseas. His first year was with Macabai Tel Aviv, one of Europe's powers. He barely played and quit on the team. He then played in Japan's pro league (which isn't very good) and barely averaged over double figures. He's now floundering on the bench for the Knicks. But NCAA basketball has the best non-NBA coaching and the best chance for minutes to actually develop. And, probably more importantly, players also become a marketable name for a NBA team. It's essentially interning for a year or two. But the difference is that interning for most people means stuffing envelopes for some low-mid-manager while college basketball is a billion dollar enterprise.

Those remaining seven minutes she has of fame is a LOT more fame than everyone on the WWE roster right now has combined and by a wide margin. The only WWE alum with her level of fame are The Rock, Hogan, Jesse Ventura and the McMahons. And out of those, she's probably only eclipsed by The Rock. I mean, yeah, she didn't do anything for her fame except get lucky and date the most famous movie star alive for a while. But that's still mainstream fame that no one in wrestling has (and every single person in wrestling would die for in one second flat).

These stories about Sochi hotels for journalists are amazing. These are probably the hotels they should have built first, since these are the people formulating the world's opinions about the city. This is just a total nightmare waiting to unfold. What's awesome is that Sochi is Russia's SUMMER resort. It's like if they had the Winter Games in the Outer Banks. It cost them $50 billion in infrastructure. Of course, god knows how many billions of those went to Putin-friendly construction magnate oligarchs and the like. On top of it, they've had to displace longtime residents and the like to host short-track speed skating and the like. I don't want to slag on the Olympics at all. I am legitimately a gigantic Olympics nerd. I went to Lake Placid this summer and kissed the ice in the arena there. I took curling lessons. I'm incredibly knowledgeable about team handball. But why would any city put in a bid to host these things? They're gigantic targets for terrorists. The financing is insane. There's not really any payoff. I doubt that 99.9% of the world would go to Sochi even if it was a stray-dog-free utopia on earth.

Pete Rose dressed in a chicken suit...

For real, the non-divas match I'm least interested in watching is a Shield tag team match. Think on that.

D-Bry vs. Antonio? Bray vs. Dustin? Orton vs. Christian? YES PLEASE!

It also depends on what she bought the shares at. And sine she's almost certainly a preferred insider, she essentially got them for nothing and cashed out when she thought it was a good chance. HHH is also a preferred shareholder.

Stacy Keibler is way more famous than anyone on the WWE roster right now. She's real-world famous and not wrestling famous. If all they get out of it are things like "WWE personality Stacy Kiebler is seen here..." in People Magazine or whatever it's worth it. She's essentially a walking version of a billboard advertisement at a baseball game -- eyeballs to the brand.

Man, thinking about the main event last night -- that match was seriously amazing and people aren't feeling it as much as I thought everyone would. That match was epic and was a fantastic story. Bryan dominates early by working Orton's leg in terrific fashion. Orton did some GREAT verbal selling with this. I loved the dropkick on the floor spot with Orton's knee against the pole. That spot looked so incredibly vicious. I loved Orton gaining control and Bryan essentially fighting one-armed. The spot on the top rope where Bryan was fighting out with headbutts was great and nasty. But the key is the ending. I wish the announcers were skilled enough to put this over. Bryan found a way to beat the machine. In the not-too-distant past, something like a Kane run-in was costing him a match. -- ala the Shawn Michaels as guest-ref match. It's just as how he found a way to finally get at Bray, by joining The Family only to turn on him the first chance he was alone. Bryan outsmarted The Authority and finally beat the undeserving champ, just as he's on the ropes politically. Too bad it was non-title. That match was seriously great. I'd like to see if it was as good or better than their No DQ match from last spring where Bryan choked Orton out with the Kendo Stick YES! Lock. The Shield six-man was a blast. The ending was great. Ambrose stealing the pin on his quasi-rival Big E.? Awesome. Then Wyatts promo was, of course, amazing. The Shield/Wyatts match is like the Cody/Dustin vs. The Shield for-their-jobs match at the PPV. The EC's going to be fun and everything but people are way more into this match than anything else.

Also, Batista is truly the worst. I think I've said it before but aside from that end run where he had the killer "kissing babies and hugging fat chicks" line that dude was awful. I hate everything about him. His jeans tonight were so friggin' awful. Also, his music seems like something every cross-fit enthusiast has on an iPod warm-up mix. Ugh. Can they redo that contract? Or at least have him heel?

Matches like that main event are why I am a 36-year-old man who watches play fighting. Awesome, awesome, awesome. I missed the beginning of the show. The first thing I saw was Cody's moonsault. Loved how much fire Dolph showed before eating the pinfall in the Wyatt match. The Shield interview was friggin' golden. Ambrose making the ghost noise was so great. This is such a badass feud. "I WELCOME YOUR WAR!" So friggin' great. Thought AJ did yet another very good job as a prissy little snot on commentary. I hope they redo the Santino/Emma vs Summer/Fandango tag match from NXT. That was one of the best comedy matches in a long, long, long time.

Dusty used to go nuts for The South Beach Boys. Fun gimmick.

I'm not one for RIP threads ever but PSH was a titan of the cinema. He's one of the mot talented actors ever. I went to his IMDB and forgot about how many insanely good movies he was in. He had great taste in picking roles and also made those roles even better. I had no idea he had drug issues. My favorite role of his was Brandt, the synchophant in The Big Lebowski. But he's great in pretty much everything.

1) Connie Britton is the most attractive woman on television, depending upon how I'm feeling about Lana from NXT. 2) IS ANYONE ELSE WATCHING BROAD CITY? It is sooooooooooooooo great.

This Chikara stuff is amazing and great. They are so creative and weird in the best way possible. The thing about Chikara that I love is that it's just fun. It's as much a live action comic book as much as it is a wrestling league. Kudos to those guys for being daring and really pushing the definition of American pro wrestling. It might not be for everyone but I think they have to be given credit for trying to do stuff no one else does.

Thanks for the nice words everyone! I have many stories about pooping myself. I don't know which one it would be. I left here years ago because at one point there was a message board about this message board. And I was a thread on the message board about the message board. People were breaking down my wedding video that my buddy put up somewhere so my friends/family who couldn't make the wedding could see. That kinda became a bit too much and I hated fighting with people. No message board fighting with people. That's my motto.

I look at the lack of a payday as playing off of athletes having guaranteed contracts. Sure, you get a bonus if you win the World Series but that's not why guys want to win the World Series.

No, because Russo's work shoots sucked. Like the one with Dustin was so friggin' bad. Compare that with Shane Douglass's ECW reign. He got over because he trashed Ric Flair in shoot stuff. That stuff was believable. Even Foley's promos were shoot-ish. Punk's first pipe bomb was great. It set up so many things. First, it got so much attention. Secondly, he mentioned HHH being married to Steph and Vince being out-of-touch. Then a few weeks later, HHH surplants his father-in-law. He also named dropped Big Johnny for the first time on TV and introduced that character. It was genius. Russo couldn't do anything that nuanced at all.

And in the post-kayfabe era, the only time the WWE gets its name out there is because of a work-shoot. The Bryan stuff got written about on the BBC's website. The Punk stuff is on TMZ. People eat up the mystery of he backstage stuff. Only wrestling can do that.

Wins and losses do matter in the WWE. The entire story of the year has been Daniel Bryan proving himself as not the wink link by winning into him not winning the belt because the game is rigged. Cody and Dustin had one of the best stories in ages and it was predicated first on them losing matches and then winning matches. Sandow's whole persona is because he can't win. Everyone got pissy because the "wrong" guy won the Rumble. They made The Shield into world beaters because they win. And they've made Reigns an impending superstar because he has gotten more pin falls/eliminations than anyone. They can do more with the secondary singles titles but that's really not that huge a deal. The only feud they had where wins haven't mattered was Punk vs. Heyman. That was about how Punk's obsession kept on making him lose matches and not get a shot at the man who betrayed him. If he kept focused on winning and by Heyman, he would have gotten their earlier. So wins there even mattered. "Wins don't matter" is a pretty tired trope. I mean, they could do a better job with the secondary belts. That's about it.

This first Harper vs. Roman showdown is going to be electric. In my dream scenario, The Wyatts go the the ring first. SIERRA HOTEL INDIGO cues up. The Shield start the march down the steps and Bray leads his boys into the crowd and the six of them just fight there for a few hours. It's just that match and EC and nothing else needs to really happen.

I thought Kyrie and Dion did actually fight earlier this year? That team is hilariously awful and clueless. Do they really think LeBron is going to go back there except for a road game? Just top-to-bottom miserable. They can have the first pick this year and will whiff on that, too, in a draft where there are going to be like 5-6 All-Stars.

My favorite thing about IRS was that he was around when the WWE was very much geared towards kids and teenagers... none of whom pay taxes!