Technico Support

Bad opinion that I should feel bad about? I watched the Last Battle of Atlanta and thought it was pretty dull. In that match, there any rhyme or reason to when the announcer counts vs not counting, by the way? I also started the hidden gem Windham vs Flair match and got all misty for the good old days. I know I mentioned him before, but that announcer (Tom Miller, maybe?) was the fucking best.

Teaching head chef Paige that not every food item should be boiled or deep-fried is taking longer than expected.

Forgot to post the gif I was referring to, which he actually entitled "post surgery progress." I get the feeling box jumps only exist so crossfit bros can do one rep for the 'gram. How can they be a real exercise you'd do to exhaustion when, if you're too tired to make that last rep, but you try, you're fucked?

She walks to the ring with a German Shepherd and a jar of peanut butter

Cool topic. I'd love to hear a wrestler (maybe @Marty Sugar )give their perspective on ropes vs cables. I feel like WWE's use of ropes is antiquated but what do I know? Are they using a smaller ring now on Smackdown or is that just forced perspective from the new camera setup? Speaking of smaller rings, I remember seeing a match on one of the Wrestling Gold DVDs between Terry Funk and Harley Race and the ring was so tiny that the only way to safely do a vertical suplex was to start the move in one of the corners!

LOLLIN at this because yeah, doing high box jumps and other crossfit lunkery when rehabbing a blown back was really smart

Ponderosa and Sweden House!

I can't quite make out who's doing that move but he's a monster.

That's a pretty good story, one I hadn't heard before. The "injuries and drugs" thing was reported by Alvarez, as outlined in this summary of the whole situation. He also mentioned that WWE asked Angle to go to rehab and he said no.

What's that? I thought the generally accepted story was that WWE simply did not want to re-up with him at all because he was a liability (drugs + injuries + drive to keep wrestling a hard style) and didn't want another dead wrestler on their hands. That's pretty much the opposite of "I wanted to go part time but they only wanted me full time."

Even when doing a coming clean, tell all interview, Kurt's working.

"United States of America Flag" sounds like a Vince-ism, up there with "championship opportunity" and "series of matches."

I spoke with a coworker who binged the show and he enjoyed it a little more than I did. Maybe that's the way to do it. I didn't even even consider "is Tyrell real?" to be an actual plot point because making him also a part of Elliott's psyche would be a bridge to far even for this show's dishonest narrative.

My DVR window for ROH is like 3 hours so I'm always ffwd'ing through 15-60 minutes of Castle.

The existence of technology in this show is directly proportionate with whether the plot needs it to exist. And LOL at that fucking season finale. I can't wait for the apologists to justify it but the people here who were defending it haven't posted in this thread in weeks.

I wonder if it was an easy labor or if there were... ...hard times

He's a worker. He's probably acquired $10,000 worth of free Tapout gear and will wear it until it turns to dust.

Give him a break, he's Samoan

Thanks! It's 12/22/91 MSG if anybody wants to add it to the watchlist. Their search function has really improved...I just entered "Hogan" "Flair" "Madison." Speaking of curfews, my worst curfew story was when I saw my first Great American Bash tour show in July of 87. The main was Dusty vs Tully in a barbed wire match and the show had been running long by that point. It was getting close to 11pm and Capetta announced that they'd "struck a deal with Arena management to extend the curfew." The crowed popped for it but we knew we'd been lied to when Dusty hit Tully with a gimmick and pinned him less than a minute in.

Pretty sure they're ghillie suit pants and yeah, they look like shit.

God damn. Best dip that shit in some Tarn-X.

In the days when WWF would run house shows in the same towns every month or so, they'd run the main event before intermission so they could announce the main event for the next show at intermission and start selling tickets right away. For example, maybe Hogan vs One Man Gang would be the main event and the match would be the last before intermission. They'd fight to a double countout or maybe Gang would be DQ'd. Then they'd announce a rematch INSIDE A 15 FOOT HIGH STEEL CAGE next month with tickets, conveniently, on sale now at the arena box office. As a poor youngster, I always marveled at the ballin'-ass motherfuckers who would go buy front row seats right then and there.

Jersey Kidd ("laughs for other reasons"), ripclawe. Man, this is taking me back. I'm trying to resist the temptation to change my avatar to an Alizee gif.

Rude was right, it really is an upper body business.