Technico Support
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17 hours ago, jstout said:
That's something I hadn't considered. Could any ol' anybody buy TNA and get their timeslots?
Now is the time, guys. Let's pool our money and get apartment wrestling on POP.
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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.
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Teaching head chef Paige that not every food item should be boiled or deep-fried is taking longer than expected.
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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?
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Beastie Ally (do I really need to explain?)
She walks to the ring with a German Shepherd and a jar of peanut butter
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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!
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12 hours ago, dogwelder said:
Ian Rapoport is reporting that J.J. Watt re-injured his back last Thursday and is expected to miss a significant amount of time and maybe the rest of the season.
LOLLIN at this because yeah, doing high box jumps and other crossfit lunkery when rehabbing a blown back was really smart
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15 hours ago, RolandTHTG said:
The Mushroom Boys!
Ponderosa and Sweden House!
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16 hours ago, Technico Support said:
I can't quite make out who's doing that move but he's a monster.
15 hours ago, Vader does my taxes! said:Jeff Cobb
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I can't quite make out who's doing that move but he's a monster.
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7 minutes ago, (BP) said:
The way I understood it, Kurt had a long meeting with Vince where he laid bare his soul about being a physical and emotional disaster and addict, possibly even suicudal, so Vince finally released him so Angle could retire or at the very least rehab and come back down the road. Within months he was in TNA, and Vince has always had hard feelings about getting worked. Which I imagine adds to all the reasonable issues he's always had with brining Kurt back.
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.
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13 minutes ago, (BP) said:
I thought that was generally true though. How he got out of the contract is another matter.
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."
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3 minutes ago, joseph2112 said:
There is a lot to say about this article, but the glaring thing is everybody that said TNA was/is a bunch of enablers are dead on.
http://www.foxsports.com/wwe/story/wwe-star-kurt-angle-addiction-65-vicodin-a-day-092616
QuoteI left WWE because I couldn't get a part-time deal with them. They wanted me to continue to go full-time, and I understood that so I parted ways and went to TNA.
Even when doing a coming clean, tell all interview, Kurt's working.
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"United States of America Flag" sounds like a Vince-ism, up there with "championship opportunity" and "series of matches."
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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.
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15 hours ago, RIPPA said:
I don't know why I bother trying to record the show anymore
It is shown on my local ABC affiliate and during college football season - it is always delayed because the game ran long
So I have been seeing a lot of Nathan Fillion's Castle instead of Dalton Castle
My DVR window for ROH is like 3 hours so I'm always ffwd'ing through 15-60 minutes of Castle.
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On 9/25/2016 at 6:15 AM, kiguchi said:
My apologies that this is season 1 griping: for a show with a technology slant, there doesn't seem to be a lot of CCTVs in the settings: Elliot picking the lock of a door in Steel Mountain, Angela sneaking to work early to upload the malware on Ollie's work machine, or Tyrell inviting his boss' wife to the roof deck. None of those actions would be considered if they were aware of the existence of cameras.
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.
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I wonder if it was an easy labor or if there were...
...hard times
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8 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
You dont need to wear the Tapout anymore, Cody.
He's a worker. He's probably acquired $10,000 worth of free Tapout gear and will wear it until it turns to dust.
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9 hours ago, mattdangerously said:
Which one is the fatter Uso? I hope he's cultivating mass because he wants to make it easier to tell him apart from his brother.
Give him a break, he's Samoan
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6 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
One of the Flair/Hogan MSG matches is on the network and it's awesome. Great crowd too.
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.
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Pretty sure they're ghillie suit pants and yeah, they look like shit.
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God damn. Best dip that shit in some Tarn-X.
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8 minutes ago, (BP) said:
Were there curfews for most of the arenas or was that an MSG thing?
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.
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Wrestling Rings
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Possibly an apocryphal story, but it's hilarious to me that NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol was to blame for WWF's hard rings of the mid-80s through late 90s. Apparently, when WWF and Ebersol were ramping up to the first Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC, he didn't like how springy and fake the old rings looked on TV, so they were rebuilt with far less give.
The late 90s rollout of softer rings and Vince McMahon starting to take more bumps happened around the same time but that's probably unrelated.