Phantom Lord

I know WCW wasted a LOT of money bringing in Buffer for Nitro's. Why was he announcer what looks like a WCW Lowcard battleroyal.

I never liked the idea of this cloud technology. I'm happy being a dinosaur with manually transfering photos off my mini sd card to the computer. Apple is currently at $102.50 a share. I could have sworn it was at a couple hundred a share. Anyway, despite this I don't think it will take big of a hit tomorrow. It might fall, but with the new Iphone 6 coming out it will be right back up.

Exactly. It doesn't matter if he's broken down now with no neck and about 100 pounds overweight. We still remember the Taz who could suplex anyone on their head and choose to believe that he could still do that to anyone at any given time. It's a shame they didn't fully transform Joe into the new Taz when Taz debuted in TNA. Joe becoming the successor to the Taz Dojo and all things FTW would have been great. Around that same time there was a brief staredown between Taz and Homicide during a Cide/Joe match on Impact. For those 15 seconds I wanted to see Taz throw down with Homicide.

I think you all in the last half day have given more thought to all of this than WCW did. Hogan's only interested in putting over Hulk Hogan.Sure the logical thing would have been to build up to a legit Hogan/Goldberg rematch with no bullshit. But even if they did that (say for The Great American Bash in a cage or something), at the last minute Hogan would have used his power and made Goldberg look weak in the process. I mean hell, look at Hogan now. Despite being 61 and brittle as anything he's trying to con his way into a match with Brock Lesnar just so he can get the win back from the match against him on Smackdown. Goldberg was doomed the moment he beat Hogan in the Georgia Dome.

The Simpsons marathon has been great. But man these later episodes are really night and day compared to the earlier ones. The later ones still have its moments, but its really few and far between.

Paul E. Dangerously would have been the prototype villian of the week on Hunter or any other late 80's cop shows.

I gave Sid the finger at a WCW House show at the Meadowlands and he looked in my direction in 91. Scariest moment of my life up to that point.

I watched The Wolf Of Wallstreet the other night. Damn it was really good. Okay yes it could have been maybe 45 minutes less, but aside from that it was a really great dark comedy. I'm thinking Leo should have won the Oscar. I don't think he'll have a better role than this for a while. The only thing that I was sad that didn't happen was when they're on the boat, the FBI agent says "one day I'll take this boat". Later after Jordan is going to jail he just walks by without saying something. I mean if there was ever a moment for one to gloat it would be right there. Just have him turn and be like "you never got my fucking boat". Though he was right in the end when they did the scene on the train. I love that in real life the real Jordan Belfort is now selling some system where its essentially how to bullshit people...but ethically.

You have to admire anyone who got blacklisted from the Tonight Show for LIFE (though Fallon rightfully gave her a pardon) because of when she did her own talk show and didn't ask for Johnny Carson's blessing. That would have killed a normal person's career, but she kept on thriving. I can't really begin to imagine a world without Joan Rivers pissing people off.

When was Bullet Club ever cool in the first place? Most of those guys would have been carrying Vincent's bags to Thunder tapings in 1999. It's Japan. I guess that's supposed to mean something. Workrate...stars...yadda yadda. More talk about DA BIG GUY. I damn near lost it when he did the Ryyyyyybaaaaaackkkkkk....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz while still mouthing rrrruuuullllllllleeeeesss at the end. Holy shit. Its Jason and Fonzie as the referee. Is this WCW or mid 90's ECW?

I think the big things are: - The wrestlers actually look like and behave like people you'd see walking down the street. I can see myself running into a Dusty at the bar or a Lawler at an autoparts store. I don't see myself running into a Hogan, Andre or Ultimate Warrior. - Taped from a studio. Continental made that switch around 84/85 and you can easily see the differences. - More focus on hometown stuff with local charities, businesses and people involved, especially with Memphis. I'm pretty sure you could find Lawler or Dundee without much of a problem in Memphis if you tried. Good luck trying to flag down Hogan. - More focus on blood/violence - Southeastern and Memphis ran some pretty vicious angles for their time and had no problem spilling the blood. Same with the NWA. - More focus on family/relationships - The southern promotions were ruled with families whether it be The Armstrong's, The Fuller's, The Anderson's or others. The WWF never really got that. - More about honor and being a "man". - More willing to cross the line and be un-PG. - A lot more punches and basic moves for finishes as opposed to the "finishing move" like Hogan's legdrop, or Savage's elbow and so on. You watch a Memphis show from 1986 and a WWF show from the same period and they are absolutely nothing alike. You would never see Macho Man put Miss Elizabeth's hair up in a match, but Bill Dundee sure as hell would put his wife's up. Heyman explained it perfectly on the newest Stone Cold Podcast. The WWE is all about the face being the be all end all. Everything revolves around them. You know if something happens they'll get their revenge. In the NWA, it was about the journey of the face trying to get that revenge.

When they announced it, I had visions of the dogs running around inside the hell in a cell. The Poonjab (say it like the Undertaker) was everything the Kennel match could have been (minus the dogs).

Anything sweet here is refered to as candy. But yeah this episode looks terrible.

I'm sad that this never happened to Hornswoggle at any point.

Oh wow, Rusev as The Champion Of America would be so great. As for Cena, this is why the WWE should take more of a lesson from MMA. Build up the rematch until at least Survivor Series. Since everything hinges on the Network now, it wouldnt matter if the rematch is at NOC or two months for now. Once they subscribe/resubscribe that's all that matters. I think the only thing to explain what happened last night was Vince demanded rewrites an hour before the show or something.

I missed most of the show tonight on account of being out during the first half hour and then watching the Emmy's. AJ going all Mickie James on Paige was wonderful and if she had tried to kiss Paige on the lips the entire internet would have imploded tonight. Oh yeah the match with Paige and Nattie was good too or something. Moving along, from what I watched of the Bella Twins promo it was so over the top terrible. Nikki going mega heel was all kinds of hilarious. If they dubbed it into Spanish I would not be surprised that they lifted this whole angle from some Telenovela. The thought of Vince watching a Mexican soap is tremendous. I tuned in to see Cena suplexing Bray Wyatt and then him doing his Terminator Cena pose and I was like what the fuck is this shit. Then they have the nerve to turn the main event of RAW into the main event of a Smackdown. The only thing I can figure is Big Show and Mark Henry are with Cena because Brock made them both his bitches. So Cena gets revenge for them. God what a terrible show. I have the last hour on the DVR so I'll watch it again tomorrow but I don't see my initial thoughts improving.

Wreslting logic is something that no one will quite understand. If it were any other business on earth, everyone in any position of power in TNA would have been shitcanned years ago. But since its wrasslin...its par for the course.

I was just reading about that earlier. Inoki and Bob Sapp are running a show in North Korea. That's not a misprint. http://www.newsday.com/sports/mixed-martial-arts/bob-sapp-ex-nfl-lineman-tops-bill-for-pyongyang-fight-night-1.9092702

I'm convinced it annoyed them that she was so over with the crowds. It's that old rasslin mentality where "well its great you're over...but we don't want you over". Of course it can be said that TNA always resented that the women out drew the men. ODB they always screwed around with (bad pun...I know). But they did it to her like they did to Eric Young for years. Star and stop pushes...gone for long periods of time. But she'd always come back and always be over.

Saw Sin City: A Dame To Kill For earlier today. I thought it was pretty good. Some of it was ehh and I'm really not a fan of everything being green screened, but that all seemed to work for it. I also saw it in 3d and for once the 3D seemed to actually work (probably cause I was high up in the theater). Eva Green is so good at playing someone bad. Also Eva Green in 3D.

TNA should do the Newhart ending. Mike Tenay wakes up in bed from a nightmare and Tony Schivaone is next to him and Mike talks about how he seemingly relived the last five years of WCW. Except it lasted way longer and there was a midget in a trashcan. Tony looks at him and tells him it was just a nightmare...but we're out of time so he'll see him in the morning.

Didn't buy it, but my Uncle got me that APA shirt at WM 18. I wanted the other APA shirt. It's never been worn and someday I will somehow get JBL and Ron Simmons to sign it.

I made one in a design class for AJ Styles (mock up never went online). It was 2002. Me and a friend in class thought that TNA was gonna be something and AJ was pretty damn awesome. Ahh. Youthful optimism.

This guy has it all wrong. He should grow a long white beard and brand himself as Boogie Woogie Jr. Find Paul Jones and he'll have work for life.

People always go on and on about workrate this...workrate that. I don't care about it. The whole Indy style of wrestling that was made popular by ROH and others is really boring to me.