Technico Support

Had to piss in my cornflakes didn't ya?

I legitimately can't wait for Vince to finally give up so HHH can take over completely. Yeah, the guy has his own issues but nothing is as bad as Vince's straight-up lunacy. I don't think HHH has anywhere near the self-loathing Vince has about being involved with "wrestling," for one thing.

Big Johnny vs Punk was the most obvious "Let's play to the Internet" deal. I loved Big Johnny. My favorite moment of that whole program was when Punk called him "Super Dave" lol, and the live crowd popped huge. Everyone watching was already thinking the same think. The guy had such a striking resemblance to Bob Einstein both vocally and physically. It was uncanny LOL I think Punk referred to him as "Funkhauser" as well.

Speaking of Allagash, I tried their stout (Allagash black) this past weekend and it was glorious.

God I hope so. Can't wait to see Punk's inevitable social media bitchiness when it happens. Hopefully the announcers play up how Kenta created the move does it best, just for lulz.

What's worse is that it's being done on a wrestling message board. If you are on the Internet arguing about wrestling, you are by definition a smart mark. One bunch of smart marks trying to act like they're somehow above some other group of smart marks is some self-loathing, weird shit. It's like a bunch of Special Olympians sitting around calling each other retarded.

Not where i live, where people fly the stars and bars and dont tread on me flags in their front yards and drive pick-ups with the flagg on their license plates. I went to high school with a jackass who had the stars and bars on the rear window of his truck. Fucker was born in northern Michigan, from a family that has lived in area for at least four generations... Was it a rural area of Michigan? I ask because I've lived both in cities and rural areas of Maryland and I can tell you that being an ignorant-ass hick who proudly sports that flag is more a rural thing than a southern-specific thing. Same with country music.

Is Alice still on Cornette's show? I stopped listening because of her.

Hogan wanted to bring in anybody who beat him ever so he could get his wins back. Fucking loon.

Sorry but what "easily relatable stories" did WWE get across for Bryan, Punk and Ambrose? I don't mean the guys' backgrounds that smart fans already knew; I mean what did WWE do to get these guys' stories across? Punk started as a pseudo MMA dude whose "only addiction is competition." Anything else, character-wise, he had to fight to get across for the longest time. Bryan had zero backstory except, I guess, some conflict with his NXT veteran, and Ambrose was just a guy in The Shield, 3 dudes who came from nowhere with barely any gimmick except for some nebulous "hounds of justice" schtick. All these guys were defined by whatever they did in WWE storylines after their debuts, not by any backstory that writers supplied them.

That's a pretty standard move I learned a long time ago from an asshole boss. Don't want a job? Quote it super high to run them off. If they call your bluff, hey, you've just made a lot more money than you should have.

Nice strawman argument. Go from the nebulous "business parts" to "LOL Heyman wanted to be the accountant." ***** would read again.

I just recalled how TNA refused at the last minute to hire Paul Heyman because he wanted creative control and may have gotten rid of some of Dixie's favorites and/or charity cases en route to trying to steer the company into a better direction. Good times, TNA, good times.

Former Baltimore Colts great Stan Hansen?

I love the phrase "Scandal for dudes" and am really glad this show has avoided turning into that. I watched one episode of Scandal and hated the sheer slickness of it. I got the impression the whole show would be this hyper competent team of pretty people solving shit with witty quips and high fives along the way. This show could have easily been that, with Ray and his wacky sidekicks being badasses and fixing things and, handled by a network like ABC, definitely would have been. I think Ray Donovan the show has gone out of its way this season to be the exact opposite. It's no accident that one of the first cases we saw him go on in season 1 has resurfaced (the stalker) and has shown Ray as a failure. This whole season is about making sure we see that Ray is in control of absolutely nothing and it's awesome.

THE DIRTSHEETS BROTHER~! One thing that amazes me is this new wave of "smart" fans' hatred for Meltzer. I guess young dudes want to find their own way and eschew the last generation's things on principle. I know I didn't like my dad's music when I was a kid but, turning 40 soon, I appreciate it now. The thing is, they're still getting all their news from Meltzer. When I stopped subscribing to the WON site, I stared getting my news from sites like Wrestlinginc. Their comments sections are full of guys just like EN090 who shit all over Meltzer. Yet they flock to these secondhand grapz newz sites who mysteriously get scoopz every Wednesday and sometimes after Meltzer's podcast appearances. Funny how that works. These sites' only business model is "rip off Dave Meltzer a day after he does a story" and their audience is too dumb to know it.

I just joined the board (actually rejoined after a few years) but I'm a fast learner. Something tells me arguing with EN090 is one of those "forget it Jack, it's Chinatown" things.

I had to Google as well. He's so generic I thought it might be Fighter Hayabusa.

Blind squirrel, nut. Blind TNA fans are treating the Velocity deal like a victory when, in reality, they crashed their reliable car and bought a tricycle.

Everybody hated everybody and it kept getting worse. Then when you thought it was over, there's Darryl destroying the Lincoln. The show's doing an amazing job turning the "supremely competent, badass alpha male" trope on its head. It's good that the character is changing; if this was big 4 network TV, he'd still be the same guy he was in episode 1. Ray has zero control over his life, everything's going to shit, and he can't even keep some lame ass stalker away. This season is great.

You could kill a man with the King Kong Bundy figure.

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing about EN090. What's admirable is how people will accept, as fact, just about anything that Meltzer spoon feeds to them. Yeah because a guy who has been the journalist of note covering this business since before many of us were born has no credibility. Holy shit. People believe negative reports about TNA because the company is a joke. What's more likely: 1) Dave Meltzer is consistently wrong about TNA 2) This company, which has proven time and again that it can't find its own ass with two hands, has fucked up again

Oh man, "The Wrestling Ring." I remember their ads and their mail order catalog, and I definitely got DiBiase and HTM from them as a youngster. Good times. Don't blame your mom. From what I remember (and this was, what, maybe 87 or 88?), this line of figures was dying out by then and the only place to find the new ones was through specialty outlets like this.

Maybe she started out with good intentions but it's rather clear now she likes being a TV star. Not sure why else her parents turned down a perfectly decent offer from Toby Keith because he refused to keep her as an on-air character. AND she wanted to still be the kayfabe owner of the company. Not just in the storylines, either. She wanted the new owners to essentially let her pretend to everyone that she still ran the place. This amount of delusion is almost admirable.

But his ability to say the exact same memorized singalong spiel every single time mic skills are so great!