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Let's talk Nature Boys ; one a Master of The Ring and one the Last Real World's Champion, Two books on Ric Flair and Buddy Roger respectively both around 300 pages and by Tim Hornbaker. What is there to say about Ric Flair that hasn't been said, the parts that I found most interesting where Flair's early pre-world title work in the 70's, it's just a case where if you've been on this board for a while you know most of the big stories and a lot of his career has been covered in his own book, DVDS and other books like Nitro (which probably goes in to much more depth of his WCW run). Some interesting coverage of his (technically) 2nd WWF run from 91-93 (he worked at least one squash match back in his Thicc Ric days in the 70's). The book on Buddy Roger's is more interesting in that he's before most of our time, I've seen the title switch with Pat O'Connor but only really new him as one of four men to hold the NWA/WCW and WWF title (Flair, Rogers, Savage and Hogan until you get Russo booking the belt in the late 90's) and the first WWF/WWE champ. The book takes its sweat time telling his story spending what feels like an inordinate amount of time on his early years and becoming a big draw working his way up to the NWA belt. (The first non-shooter to hold the title), What's interesting to me is the material about Vince Sr. maneuvering the NWA title onto him then pulling out making him the first WWWF champ (first by claiming that the Thesz lose was non title then later the fictional Rio win). He played a huge role in Capitol Wrestling becoming WWWF and then the behemoth that we are all familiar with today, and sometimes get treated as a footnote. Lots of coverage of the Bruno angle that really allowed him to become a huge draw. Ultimately neither of these books are on my must read list but both have their moments and would recommend them if you have a particular interest in the principles.

two films this week... First couldn't get enough of cute cuddly tardigrade aliens in Mickey 17? Then Pixar has a film for you in Elio! While not the success of Coco (both films share a creator) this is a very good tale of a misfit kid reaching out to the cosmos with some scene that do rival the Day of the Dead scenes in Coco with the breathtaking colors reminisce of early technicolor films showing what they could do. And a film about people living in quarantine isolation who couldn't relate? 28 years later (must.not.make. Sandra Bullock joke) is actually a coming of age tale. I wonder if the script was in anyway inspired by David Gilmour's (the anthropologist not the guy who replaced Syd) The Making of Masculinity. Where in indigenous cultures had manhood rituals because you needed real men to do things like hunt the mammoth, and you made young males prove their worth (I've thought that films like Fight Club and American Psycho deal with the idea of masculinity in an era where we no long hunt the mammoth). You have a 12 year old boy hunting infected with his father in a manhood ritual, and then going back out with his mother to find a doctor (there's also several scenes that makes me thing of The Rage Virus as analogist for AIDS), some shoots reminded me of Brian De Palma and the overall sense of dread knowing the Zombies could be any where at anytime felt very Hitchcockian, also a good job of a horror film that manages to primarily exist during daylight hours.

Is there a bigger name that I'm missing? Cyril Gane has the same recent record with 3 wins in 4 fights and has had two title shots as well. Not a tone of name value in the division

Reminder that Vampiro is not actually a cholo but a Canadian named Ian! (check out his documentary if you haven't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNfGJTGcQOM). Nothing on cagematch that I can find of either piper or valentine having a bullrope match, and nothing on history of wwe. Wonder what he's thinking of if not some long forgotten house show in the great white north. My whole problem with Cage is he's a 275lbs guy who still wants to wrestle like he's 220lbs. I once saw him blow a 619 in a three way against Scorpio Sky and Luke Hawx. It's like "Dude you are the biggest guy in the building let alone the match!" wrestle like it! He's actually pretty solid when he plants his feet and slaps meat!

Man the power is in fact the last to go... is Derrick Lewis v Tom Aspinall the biggest fight at HW they can do right now?

I saw her at GCW and she's but but not freakishly large or something. One thing I've noticed is that unlike the men a lot of women wrestlers seem to be smaller/ shorter than average

https://www.facebook.com/1299845179/videos/1648330649347178/ Trailer and Cover reveal for IRRESISTIBLE FORCE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GORILLA MONSOON

You know for me Piper's nadir is actually his TNA run with the wrestling is real/fake promo..

Sir we are discussing professional wrestling not the wedding you went to last week

For what its worth I believe the point RD Reynolds was making in the Wrestlecrap was that an undead zombie gimmick SHOULDN"T have worked but did. Most people think that the difference between Undertaker and other sp00ky gimmicks like Damien Demento and Papa Shango is Mark Calloway.

That team tryout sketch goes on so long I half expected piper to demand someone put on the glasses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm-M8GvgYws Jack Black Mr Crowley

I like the slow burn of Dario being in over his head

Wasn't planning on watching this but Jerry Bruickmeir and the Director where on Apple News in Conversation podcast and sold me on it. Glad I did. They really did a lot of cool stuff with technology (the racing scenes where partially filmed on iPhone) and access that really shows up on screen (actual racing footage is in the film as well). Your mention of the Paul Brothers is interesting as you have an interesting contrast between JP and his manager being about marketing, and Sonny saying that's stuff's just noise. Thirty years ago it was enough to be good at "the thing" nowadays its not enough to be good at "the thing" (music, acting, racing, sports, what ever) but you have to be good at social media. Be a Brand. Also to your second paragraph , seeing Brad Pitt with his blonde hair and blues eyes had me thinking "Brad Pitt plays Paul Newman as Sonny Hayes" The jogging scenes reminded me of Paul Newman walking the track in Winning. (If I'm correctly remembering a film I haven't seen in thirty years). Also some interesting sub-plots with women in a very masculine world of racing (I have no idea how many women actually work in F1) , and I saw some criticism about Sonny talking about "mansplaining car design" but I think that gets it wrong. He didn't just role off the couch he's an experienced driver with decades of experience under his belt (and he's shown winning a major race to start the film), he correctly knows his stuff. Yes see this film while its still in IMAX

Yes I believe they used meters instead of feet (American's and brits) making it too big instead of inches instead of feet making it too small Also Chris Jericho did a "which way to the stage" bit in WCW one time leading to him ending up outside the venue

Do they go dark and gritty or live action cartoon?

There was a house show clip recently of CM Punk coming out wearing a towel and a shower cap

The Stonehedge thing actually happened to Black Sabbath

I believe the second one was due to them being told not to due the brutal ladder spots due to WWF getting heat for promoting violence towards children

It really shouldn't be a surprise that Bret could have a solid match with Glen Jacobs, Kane had a very solid body of work. I think they had a cage match at some point that was fun

Bobby Jenks of the 2000 WS winning White Sox had passed away at 44 due to stomach cancer

Is that Daniel Bryan?

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I recall it takes a minute for Lucha Underground to really find its footing. Also I'm totally "what a maneuver!" Vince Macmahon with the actual names of moves these days myself