Technico Support
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I liked Disco on the show but he seriously lost credibility when, during the whole Russo/TNA/Spike thing was going down, he insisted the best way to get the real story would be to call Russo and get him on the show.
Next we can call GWB and get the real story on Iraq's WMDs.
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Great point. 4-5 years walking around as campus celebrities and having a completely different set of rules than regular students turns these guys into sociopaths and narcissists. How about we get rid of college as a minor league and institute a real minor league instead?
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Hitting kids with carrots never helps, I agree.
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Corporal punishment doesn't make a kid afraid to do wrong, it just makes them afraid of their parents.
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NCIS: LA barely has anything to do with the Navy. The show revolves more around terrorism plots and trips abroad. NCIS cases are mostly crimes involving seamen in some capacity.
I thought Law & Order: SVU was the one that covered crimes involving seamen?
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If he cuts a promo before next year's WM and tells his opponent, "no more half measures," I'll shart.
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NBC did an interview with a handful of present and former NFL wives and they've been showing it on the Today Show and on affiliate news segments. It's worth a watch just to see what Stockholm Syndrome looks like right there on video.
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I haven't seen BOLA yet; all I know is footage from the preview videos for the shows. The video for night 1 shows the ring entrances and Elgin doesn't have the belt. AJ is carrying his NJ belt, though. As far as precedent for ROH and PWG, I remember Austin Aries came out with the ROH belt sometime between 2009 and 2010 when he worked a handful of PWG shows while he was ROH champ, but I don't think any ROH champ has done that since. I know Cole didn't.
If the whole issue is all this pearl clutching over what the esteemed Tokyo Sports going to say, and how the fans will feel, than why limit it at jobs? AJ wrestles in front of thousands in NJPW. Won't pics of him working an American Legion hall diminish him and the belt, too? I remember feeling embarrassed in 2004 looking at pics of Misawa, hailed as a legend on the message boards, working in front 300 people at a rinky dink Mike Modest show. Did fans in Japan see those pics and have the same WTF reaction?
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I'm thinking about finally picking up some PWG shows. The thing I do like about the promotion is that it's one of the more inexpensive indies to follow due to ten shows a year. I do not like their shipping cost, but that's a minor gripe.
What is a good starting point at this point without spending too much to catch up? I was thinking of just either starting with the March or May show.
If you only want to pick between those two, I'd go for the May show (Sold Our Soul for Rock n Roll). The March show was Mystery Vortex II, which is what they name their shows when shit gets all changed up due to injuries, etc, and they don't even announce a card. To me, MV2 ended up being a mixed bag and there was no intrigue in the main event because you knew they weren't putting the belt on Candice LeRae.
If you want to go back a little further, last year's TEN might be a good start.
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How would you want it delivered? Really, I'm interested.
No problem. In my own opinion, and YMMV, it needed to be delivered with no "style" at all, like a real human being just talking to you. Less polished, more off the cuff, or how about do away with the script entirely? Maybe it's my nigh worthless mass comm degree talking but the way he did it came off as really phony. There's broadcasting and there's talking. He came off like a polished broadcaster just broadcasting some bit of info, not a real person expressing an urgent opinion on a very important subject.
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Whoever wrote that for James Brown is a winner.
Exactly. Between his reading style and TV voice, it came off more contrived and scripted than a WWE promo. Something like this didn't need to be delivered in the same style as today's lineup updates.
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Can I divorce my hometown? Because these Baltimorons wearing Rice jerseys and defending this clown make me sick.
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For all of Triple H's flaws, at least he'd never deny being in the wrestling business.
That's a huge reason I'm looking forward to HHH taking over. He's not ashamed of wrestling and doesn't come off like he secretly wishes he was something else like Vince does. I do hope he has more control over the day-to-day than Steph when it happens, though, because crazy is an inherited trait.
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He gave Frank Mir a career. The loudmouth douche was set up as a tomato can but won on a fluke and he never shut up about it.
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I think he was also exposed in WWE because his size was such a non-factor there. He was big for ECW and Japan, then not so much for WCW, and definitely not so much for WWE. And facially he looked like a dude you'd get a home loan from.
Wasn't he working as a realtor when he died?
Though, I'll admit, probably not a very good one
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PWI's ratings back in he 80s were solid, too. The Road Warriors were ranked as the #1 tag team in the world forever, even though they didn't hold the belts most of that time. Pretty good gimmick.
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By the way, this is the worst local TV spot to hit the DC area since Eastern Motors
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American advertising has gotten so homogenous that there's a commercial that always airs during football where I'm not sure if it's for:
- Dick pills
- Big fucking trucks
- Shitty American lager
Until the actual product shows up. Essentially, they're all "manly men doing manly things, manly, definitely non homo things that you need our product to do."
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I think he was also exposed in WWE because his size was such a non-factor there. He was big for ECW and Japan, then not so much for WCW, and definitely not so much for WWE. And facially he looked like a dude you'd get a home loan from.
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OH MAN Wrestling Superstars' dream matches were the shit. I remember they did a tag team tournament where the gimmick was the current teams were all mixed up and picked out of a hat, so you ended up with something like Eaton & Morton vs Lane and Gibson in a semifinal. They also had an issue where the dream match was Hogan vs Tyson. I loved all that as a kid.
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Apparently, marks for Japan care a lot. Everything in wrestling is phony, it's all just business and nothing matters in 2014...except the main title from the magical land of hentai and ritual ball washing.
Common sense and fanboy-ism are two different things. AJ Styles losing to Roderick Strong is on the net in a matter of minutes. Shortly afterwards it'll reach the japanese online fanbase and from then on it could easily reach something more accessible like say Tokyo Sports. But it seems you'd rather troll than think and provide arguments.
Buddy, I'm not trolling. I just don't see it. Not everyone who disagrees with you is trolling. Come on, man.
If that's the concern, that fans in japan are giant marks who will lose their shit over a their champ jobbing, then I guess that's cool. I give them more credit than that, though. I think a lot of the issue here is smart mark American fans who take Japan too seriously.
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All boner pill commercials must die. Every single one features a guy who is a total grey haired schlub or, at the very least, looks like granpa got into the Just for Men stockpile and isn't fooling anyone, who absolutely looks his age, while his "wife" looks like she just strolled off a MILF porn set.
Man: kinda chubby, wrinkly, dull, looks around 55-60
Woman: Sela Ward at her milfiest, looking maybe 40ish
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Wow, I'm glad I haven't downloaded that one yet. I was fretting over having the time to finish the marathon Meltzer/Semp show. Problem solved.