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  1. There was a period a few years back where it felt like PWG put a Candace vs Joey match on every show. And guess what? They were all pretty good matches, well-worked and laid out logically. Joey would get the heat being a misogynistic shithead, she'd come back and give him his comeuppance, then there'd be a finish. Pro Wrestling 101. A purist's wet dream of match structure if you could get past the "OMG man vs woman is ruining wrestling" shit. Later, he and Candace formed a pretty over babyface tag team. Have you seen any of that or do you just judge the dude's whole career based on some gifs and some higher principle of what you think pro wrestling should be? God damn Vic. I really try to be nice and not just come after people on here, and I'm sorry, but shit like this is so trying.
  2. You'd think "make fun of someone by insinuating they're gay" would no longer be an acceptable thing on TV in 2019. But this is WWE. There's something to be said here for Vince loving bodybuilding -- watching hairless, oiled, muscular young men wearing grape smugglers and showing off their bodies -- while being a raging homophobe. He's like those gay conversion guys who come out years later.
  3. It'll take a dark turn when the winner opens the briefcase only to find Jamal Khashoggi's remains.
  4. Damn, that 8% number is sad. I was going to include something about how Lio's treatment is still better than having to wash someone's balls but that's getting into whataboutism. I used to subscribe to the point of view that, "it's wrestling, you can't treat it like normal corporate America." At some point, I realized that's just a dodge that allows us to justify all manner of awful shit. And, if you're on the stock exchange, congrats, you are now corporate America. If I was hired at a new company and they told me I had to arrive early and stay late to set up refreshments for more senior members because I needed to learn to respect them and the company, they'd probably find out just how disrespectful I could be.
  5. And remember, this is the CEO of a publicly-traded company. Throwing millions around at talent he has no real plans for. Maybe shareholders should ask about this. This type of belittling, old time fraternity bullshit is dumb as fuck and has no place in a (I'll say it again, publicly-traded) company in 2019. You want a private area with food set up for "the boys?" Hire somebody to do it.
  6. Vince is this close to offering Steve Lombardi a million to stay and looking up Lanny Poffo's contract status. Dude is petty as fuck and is cutting off his nose to spite his face.
  7. This past weekend's beer was Ghost White IPA from DC's Three Stars Brewing Company. Really good west coast flavor profile IPA, definitely better than expected given the price point -- it was 9.99 and typically a good IPA will run you $11 and up around here in the DC suburbs. Cool can with a DC flag-inspired candy skull on it, too. I'll try some more of their beers soon.
  8. It's okay, I'm sure Heidenrecih hates both
  9. I think the money has guarantees but the channel does not. USA is always desperate, so they'll keep WWE on despite the ratings. But I can absolutely see Fox dropping WWE to FS1 with the quickness as soon as there's a prolonged downward trend. Wait, what? Vince's political party told me that Afghanistan and Iraq did 9/11. Your daily reminder that our sitting president is a the guy Wall Street didn't even trust to run a pro wrestling company. This is what confuses the shit out of me. Pretty much all entertainment is fragmented and aimed at a niche audience nowadays. Meanwhile WWE is doing its damnedest to target a mainstream that really doesn't exist anymore while alienating their fans.
  10. I didn't even consider option 3 like you did (people with shitty families that managed to successfully instill the "family is everything" bullshit in their heads. Which is worse than the other two!
  11. I wonder how long it will take them to get to the point where I started following PWG (BOLA 2010) https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Journey+Through+Guerrilla+Islan+d
  12. People who say that are either fucking idiots or have never had any type of real family issues so they can't comprehend what it's like to have toxic family members. "Both" is also an option. It is absolutely none of their business. Fuck do I hate it when people universalize their limited experiences instead of having empathy and realizing other people's lives might be different from theirs. You just keep doing your thing. Good on ya. Hang in there, man. If all else fails, say the goddamn words, you're gonna be okay! ?
  13. That's cool! Thanks a lot for the recommendation.
  14. At first I was going to say, "well it's a bunch of stuffed suits wanking with other stuffed suits using Bullshit Bingo terms like 'engagement metrics.' It's a circle jerk and every one of them absolutely believes their bullshit and eats it up eagerly with a spoon." But then I saw Rippa's post and a tiny bit of faith was restored.
  15. Please send gif of Razar doing that stupid Enzo dance
  16. I ended up going to Kohl's instead, where store brand workout shorts, likely made in the same sweatshops as Adidas, Nike, and Under Armor, cost 1/3 the price.
  17. All this. People still treated Luger like a star but his time to be champion had long passed. Shit, he'd been screwed out of the title due to a dumb blood stoppage (who the hell thought that would be a good finish?) in the same building in a PPV main event three years prior. That is when he should have had a title run. 1988. Sting's injury forced more Flair/Luger matches with bad finishes to the point where they made Luger so played out and stale.
  18. Holy fuck. Comparing current Jericho to the latter-day WCW incarnation of the Freebirds is so on the money.
  19. That would have been better than what we got. Hell, Ross coming out and saying, "Ric has decided to not re-sign his contract. The title is vacant. Because of these unusual circumstances, we've changed tonight's card and will feature an eight man tournament to determine your new WCW champion." I mean shit, it was a 12 match show. An 8 man tourney with no double eliminations is only 7 matches. Do that and keep the non-tourney guys for tag matches. Sure, there'd be a lot of midcarders in the tournament but shit, maybe that would elevate guys and it's not like Mania 4 didn't have midcard guys in the tournament. Anything would have been better than Luger (who had already had 1000 title shots and people didn't really care about) going in cold against unpushed tag wrestler Windham.
  20. I'm dreading Ross calling Nyla Rose's matches. How will he awkwardly shoehorn Jim Barnett "jokes" in?
  21. Independent contractors, everybody!
  22. Awesome!!!! Good luck, buddy. In fitness news, I set out for my normal five miles and change run this morning and started screwing with my normal route, like "let's just go this way instead, etc" and later, when I went to handy dandy mapometer.com, realized I'd run 6.4 miles. What's funny is I kept seeing signs for a 10K happening in the area this weekend. And I just accidentally ran a 10K. Shopping for workout shorts at Dick's, I noticed some cool Adidas running shorts on the rack, but they had no XXL. So it's one of the following: They don't think XXL dudes run They only got like one pair in stock and it sold They got a lot in stock and they all sold, and there's some "dudes of size" running club around here just rumbling down the fucking street scaring everyone
  23. Another thing I just noticed, checking out prowrestlinghistory.com, is that the building was roughly half full (7000). I wonder how many people of those empty seats were people staying home due to Flair not being there. Then again, look at this card: Even if the main hadn't been changed, and we got Flair vs Luger in the main and Windham and Scott Steiner added to the other match as a six man (the original plan), that's still a terrible card. And Flair vs Luger had been done to death by then.
  24. People chanting "we want Flair" before and throughout the show. Booing like crazy for the "we called Ric and tried to make a deal but he wouldn't come" announcement. The attempt to put heat on Flair did not work at all with the Baltimore crowd, who was always pro Flair. Pretty much a "fuck this company" and "why are we at this awful show" vibe for the whole thing. Windham was barely a midcarder at the time so nobody bought him in the main event fighting over the world title. Everybody knew they were just putting the belt on Luger. Race running in to direct Luger to piledrive Windham got zero reaction from the puzzled crowd. Nobody gave a single fuck that Luger was apparently turning heel. The the second half of the main event shitshow, a mixed tag, went two minutes because man/woman physicality was not allowed by the state athletic commission. Overall, the feeling was that nothing they booked would have gotten any type of positive reaction because the company was such a massive heel that night that it cast a shadow over everything. Still, they did nothing to even try. You start the show with a "capture the flag" scaffold match and end with the shit sandwich I just described, you're lucky the people didn't burn the building down. They should have rebooked the card and had at least a four-man tournament, maybe putting Sting over to send the crowd home a little happier. But putting suddenly heel Luger over JTTS Barry Windham went over like a fart in church.
  25. The best and, at the same time, worst part of the whole Eliminators saga is how it gave us the expression "shoot retarded."
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