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I thought Law & Order: SVU was the one that covered crimes involving seamen?

If he cuts a promo before next year's WM and tells his opponent, "no more half measures," I'll shart.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Can I divorce my hometown? Because these Baltimorons wearing Rice jerseys and defending this clown make me sick.

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.

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.

Wasn't he working as a realtor when he died? Though, I'll admit, probably not a very good one

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.

By the way, this is the worst local TV spot to hit the DC area since Eastern Motors

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

It may have been from one of the competing magazines like Wrestling Eye or the Main Event, but I remember a story about how Honky Tonk Man made a deal with the evil spirits of the Mississippi Delta in order to become so dominant in the WWF. I guess the best explanation for such a chump holding the IC title so long was that supernatural forces had to be involved.

He lost by DQ...like the only DQ in PWG history and once again, who cares? 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.

He’s somebody who thinks more of himself than really exists....Nobody cares about Vince Russo at Spike TV...Nobody cares or knows who he is. God Damn. That should go on his tombstone. As someone new to this iteration of DVDVR, can one of you please explain what "stuffing instead of potatoes" is a filter for?

He's got some rough mileage on him

I really like Silas' character and promos. I even like that he looks like Bill Cowher (I'm a Steeler fan). I have always thought that. It freaks me out how much he looks like Cowher. Maybe they can find a Mike Tomlin lookalike to manage him (his gimmick is that he tries to trip his opponents as they run the ropes).