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  1. Longing for the day when I hear Taz refer to Don Callis as a “fountain of misinformation.”
  2. Oh lord, I'll never forget Brandi's clumsy promo where she tried to explain the Nightmare Collective's role within the Nightmare Family. All she needed was a PowerPoint with an org chart.
  3. Oh man, I feel for you. When we were house hunting the first time, maybe 15ish years ago, we were looking at one house and the realtor saw polybutylene plumbling in an otherwise decent house and he immediately directed us to just turn around and walk out.
  4. OY LOIKE HOW BEW'IFULLY BROKEN YEW AH or some such Joker and Harley nonsense. Oh god fuck this movie. Eric and Shelley are supposed to be decent people who live in a shit neighborhood, killed at random. Not whatever all this is. Honestly, just change the names and make it a continuation of the Crow mythos and it's fine I guess. But yeah, this looks like shit.
  5. Vincent gets a lot of hate here! I don't mind him at all, I just don't see the point of the cult gimmick in wrestling in general. I think the only time it was done well was with Sullivan in Florida, but that was at the height of the Satanic Panic and I guess his gimmick was "we're evil and don't care about winning titles, we just want to hurt your heroes." But ever since then, every cult gimmick has just stepped on its own dick as far as execution goes. That's just an inherent failing of the concept, though. Because really, in kayfabe, why would a cult want to be involved in a sport? Really, if you want to modernize the cult gimmick, then the flunkies have to lay down their lives so their leader can win the title, and the whole time it's really obvious their leader doesn't believe a thing about his own message and is just using them to get the belt and get rich.
  6. It was lost in the Picture in Picture segment, but Carlie Brovo is absolutely from the Ricky Steamboat school of selling. It’s glorious. Some people sell for the back row. This dude was selling for the back row in some other city. They initially announced the House Rules match as an “Open House” match and I immediately thought about Julia and Adora battling throughout a house for sale while a realtor frantically tried to stop them.
  7. I haven't watched WWE in over 8 years, so I missed most of Mercedes' heyday and am pretty much unfamiliar with her work. Coming in cold, I'll say she has incredible charisma. But she also comes off very inauthentic, and that's at the feet of her being "WWE born and bred." Walk out of the entrance, be sure to hit that pose we came up with for you, walk to the ring in your specific character fashion, and do the pose again, etc. It's just so manufactured and fake. And that dance. Jesus Christ. That fucking dance. After her very good promo, she danced. And danced. Same move. Over and over. It was like she didn't know what else to do. Same thing at the end of the show. Fuck. Jaw at the fans, climb the ropes and celebrate, go slap some hands. Anything. But she just kept spamming that same move over and over. I was overwhelmed with secondhand embarrassment. As much as WWE feels like they need to retrain bad habits out of experienced performers, I think that should go both ways. WWE Style presentation creates products, not people, and it's glaring how disingenuous it looks when they show up in AEW and do that same played out stuff. Mercedes' presentation felt like a TGI Friday's waiter got a new job at a decent restaurant and showed up on day 1 with 41 pieces of flair. Or the guy who plays Goofy at Disneyland got an office gig and showed up in his Goofy suit. Just so out of place and weird.
  8. I always loved the 5-parters where the Joes and Cobra had to travel the world trying to beat each other to the parts for whatever McGuffin they were building (Werther Dominator, etc.). Also the one where the Joes were scrambling because they were getting phone calls telling them that a guy called THE VIPER was coming, only for it to turn out to be the window cleaner, who had an accent (here to "vipe your vindows").
  9. It’s because they can’t call her The Boss. And it took me until this morning to make that connection
  10. I often joke that this is the one time of the year that anyone gives two shits about the Dropkick Murphys, but that's pretty cool.
  11. PAC never got his rubber match. Note: PAC demanding has “ROOBAH MAHTCH” lives rent free in my head.
  12. Villanova University is just two letters away from “Villano University,” which I’m sure is a much better institution.
  13. I don't like the "hold the hands and stomp on the face" move. It feels unnecessarily over the top violent while at the same time being incredibly phony. 5-10 unprotected head stomps and the ref isn't stopping the match/opponent isn't going unconscious? They've mitigated it somewhat by turning it into a chest stomp, though.
  14. "Gee Vince, I should go work there to get a better look. You know, for research and all."
  15. If you’re like me and just bought a PS5 after years of being an Xbox guy (I realize that’s a small group) Fire Pro is currently $7.50!
  16. They were my first thought, too. But yeah, they’d need to segue away from the weightlifting salad tossers gimmick first.
  17. The Acclaimed could improve so much back in the regular tag division. Alas, it seems they’ve settled into 90s AJPW opener territory.
  18. Nope. I posted it multiple pages ago. Firing Vince lets them say “the bad man is gone, nothing to see here.” I mean shit, the Netflix CEO said as much a day or so afterward. I hope I’m wrong and maybe more will come out in discovery and trial (if it gets that far) or in the criminal investigation, but I’m cynical about it all. The rich and powerful always seem to evade justice.
  19. Seriously. Like in what world is beating 3-4 guys in a tournament and then jobbing to the world champion on one of the year's biggest TV episodes a bad thing? Miro's idea of good creative seems to be "I beat everybody, I get the belt, then I beat everybody again."
  20. Speaking of Joe, word is that the spot Joe had earlier this year (win an eliminator tournament, then lose in a title challenge vs MJF at Grand Slam) was earmarked for Miro, but Miro turned it down so Joe got it. Maybe if he was a company guy instead of pulling a "that doesn't work for me, brother," he would have the world title by now.
  21. Hearing discussions of Mercedes' recent comments had me thinking of this thread and Vince's Jedi mind tricks/cult programming. I think anyone who worked extensively for WWE, especially someone like her who was "born and raised" there, would have similar feelings regarding the eventuality of going back there, especially when viewed through the lens of the company hammering the point home that nothing outside WWE is worth anything. A more interesting discussion is the shorter list of people who probably have not allowed themselves to be brainwashed to feel that way. I think of a guy like Steen, who, though he grew up a WWE fan, had a long pre-WWE career where he made money and never thought he'd ever get there anyway. I think guys like that likely don't buy the "if it ain't WWE, it ain't shit" line.
  22. Miro and Andrade were both vocally unhappy in WWE. Then both made no qualms about letting everyone know they were unhappy in AEW. You tell me you met an asshole in the morning...
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