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Awesome article. The quoted part above is so true. Someone in another thread was talking about the media hopefully taking notice of the whole Corbin/Maroon issue and my response to them was. essentially, this.

I want to say sometime after Mania this year. Meltzer was interviewing someone, maybe Omega or the Bucks, who told the story. A higher-up at Hot Topic was in town for Mania weekend and saw tons of Bucks and Bullet Club shirts. He called his WWE merch rep asking to get some of those shirts. The embarrassed rep had to tell him that those were not WWE performers. Somebody eventually got the Hot Topic guy lined up with the right people.

On a side note, how many of Roman's tweets sound like something Doctor Doom or Skeletor would say?

I think WWE needs more social media guidelines in place than just "no tweeting after midnight." Seriously, doesn't the NBA or some other sports league bring in advisors/social media coaches to teach guys how not to be dumb online?

I think Malibu Mike was Hiroshi Hase. One of the hidden characters, the ring announcer, think, had Liger's moveset. I can't remember "Power Move name to NJPW name" but the game had both Sasuke and Power Warrior, both Mutoh and Muta, Scott Norton, Hashimota, Tenzan, Chono, Otani, Kanemoto, and the guy in long pants who did the butt bump a lot.

Power Move was the shit. You have to remember there was pretty much nothing else good out at the time, and then we got this awesome fucking game. Great memories of El Temblor (Koji Kanemoto), Area 51 (Kensuke Sasuke/Power Warrior), whatever their Muta stand-in's convict gimmick was, etc. Just awesome. Yeah, it was a port of TR1 and it led me down the path of getting my PS1 modded to buy TR2 (and later TR3). @Ryan, well it was a precursor to the Smackdown games (Yukes) but they SD games dramatically simplified it as far as the control scheme went.

Windham was nowhere near sniffing distance of the upper card at the time. To illustrate, remember that he was originally booked in a midcard mixed tag freakshow match for the card. I doubt they could have heated him up fast enough for all that to work out. The show had been promoted as Flair/Luger for so long that nobody would have bought a midcarder being hotshotted to the top like that. I was there and man, was it a shitshow. I have no idea why they didn't rebook the whole show as a tournament or at least put someone credible like Sting in the main vs. Luger. Not that it wouldn't have mattered. From what I can remember, there was no time to promote anything different.

True, but when there were hearings on sports and steroids, it was Bonds, McGuire, etc in front of congress, not the Ultimate Warrior. Because 1) lawmakers want to rub elbows with famous jocks and celebs, not circus freaks and 2) the general public thinks wrestling is a joke and would scream about taxpayer dollars being wasted if Joe Congressman was seen on C-Span grilling some phony rassler about roids. America's Pastime (tm) is sacred...who cares if drugs have killed far more wrestlers than all the "real athletes" in other sports combined? The general public just thinks of wrestlers as roided up morons not athletic enough for a real sport and too dumb to be actors. Why worry about saving them?

If "company part-owned by U.S. president's small business admin head routinely flouts independent contractor and labor laws" hasn't caught fire a press that's insatiable for dirt on this clown show of a presidency , I sincerely doubt "balding skinnyfat goon forced to lose fake fights for arguing with doctor" will. Nobody outside a very specific bubble cares about the plight of pro wrestlers. Always try to understand how the mainstream thinks of pro wrestling, wrestlers, and its fans.

In 2022, Vince will finally hit 1983 in his quest to catch up with popular culture. At that time he'll be like, "GOD DAMMIT PAL WE NEED A CHARACTER LIKE THAT"

LOL that's like saying Richard Spencer brings attention the the important issue of racism.

The look on Drake Younger's face in the last second of that clip: "Welp, that was some nutshot."

The impression that I get, and I could just be talking out my ass here, is that Crossfit and Olympic lifting don't necessarily translate to the strength or endurance you need for other activities. They just make you better at doing Crossfit and Olympic lifting.

God damn. Best to @Ace, @OSJ, and @Matt D.

I was watching someone doing those goofy-ass Crossfit kipping pullups yesterday and, as a 40+ guy, all I could think was, "I guess that's fine when you're young, but that's going to absolutely destroy your shoulders and elbows, maybe your neck, when you're older." Much like CTE, we're really not going to see the big picture until the Crossit generation is older. Ditto for Olympic-style lifting.

Doesn't Dave have a proof reader or editor? I'm assuming the job is tough to fill, with a high suicide rate. Seriously, though, I do remember an awesome response from Dave to such criticism, which boiled down to: fuck you. You try to find a good editor that works 3am on Wednesdays.

Or that pissy Livejournal post he wrote in response to HHH snubbing him at some convention or something in the early/mid 2000s. I forget the details but it was definitely douchechill-inducing.

I just started watching this show and can't wait for the main. I really enjoyed Chuck & ZSJ's first match. Who would have thought Chuck Taylor would be the perfect opponent to rein in Sabre's goofy style and get an entertaining match out of him? Rush vs Lee from the last show was pro wrestling 101. Just the absolute perfect big man/little man match. Everybody needs to see it.

I LOL'd. I've known people who have worked for Sinclair on the TV side and none of them ever suffered for a lack of stories of Sinclair's cheapness. So don't ever start your "10,000 drawing show" ideas with "first, Sinclair has to lay out some cash."

Don't disparage the good name of African tribal medicine. Their treatment for a knockout is second to none.

My stupid-ass local news station here in the DC suburbs is sending a meteorologist to Texas to cover the storm. TV news is fucking dumb.

Was Tom Miller the guy who would refer to the Rock n Roll express as "THE VASTLY POPULAR?" Because yes, that guy rules.

That FInn gif is actually a great argument for staying out of the ring. There's no such thing as "working a safe style" when you have a doofus like Jinder going shoot Chris Hero on your head because his only qualifications to be in there are "Indian, is jacked." No matter how few dates you work, you can't always account for the other guy's skill, and mistakes happen, as well. Bret Hart's career didn't end from a bad bump, either.

I'm really conflicted on this season of Ray. I like it but the writing seems a little amateurish. Any long term viewer of the show can understand the sad, awful reveal that Ray, just like his father did, is fucking around on his dying wife. We really didn't need Terry bringing up Mickey's past indiscretions in a conversation earlier in the episode to remind us. Just very clumsy, artless writing. The whole issue with Mickey, Frank, and Avi was really unclear as well. I was discussing it with a coworker and his best guess is that Avi stole drugs from the Russians and is using Frank's name in the underworld to vouch, but that's assuming a whole lot. It feels like an undercooked plot idea that needed a few more minutes in the oven. I also don't like the slow parceling out if information regarding what happened in the time jump. All that said, I still like the show. It's just a weird, uneven season so far. That first episode of Dice, though? Ugh.