Technico Support
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Hearing discussions of Mercedes' recent comments had me thinking of this thread and Vince's Jedi mind tricks/cult programming. I think anyone who worked extensively for WWE, especially someone like her who was "born and raised" there, would have similar feelings regarding the eventuality of going back there, especially when viewed through the lens of the company hammering the point home that nothing outside WWE is worth anything.
A more interesting discussion is the shorter list of people who probably have not allowed themselves to be brainwashed to feel that way. I think of a guy like Steen, who, though he grew up a WWE fan, had a long pre-WWE career where he made money and never thought he'd ever get there anyway. I think guys like that likely don't buy the "if it ain't WWE, it ain't shit" line.
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10 hours ago, username said:
Given that Miro was one of the people rumored to have asked for his release/been approached by WWE and seemingly turned down... how can I put this: you have the legal right to make him stick around but you can't really force him to care or try if he doesn't want to. One can argue whether he should or not but ultimately if he's only there because he is made to (again because he signed a contract of his own free will) there's really nothing to prevent him from slow playing things the rest of his time there. Even in WWE, where this happened a lot to people we were generally sympathetic to, things generally hit a point where if the wrestlers still wanted out they decided it was no longer worth the effort and just let them go and... well if the rumors are true this has been going on for about 18 months now, if it's not getting better by now it likely ain't gonna.
Miro and Andrade were both vocally unhappy in WWE. Then both made no qualms about letting everyone know they were unhappy in AEW.
You tell me you met an asshole in the morning...
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11 hours ago, SovietShooter said:
AAA just gave the Penta Jr gimmick to him as a rival to the original Octagon Jr., who was of no relation to Octagon, and quickly left AAA to become WWE's Kalisto.
Who also worked as Samuray Del Sol in that brief stint between AAA and WWE, right?
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Rey Jr. is actually the nephew of the original, right? And the wrestler who currently works as Rey Horus (Dragon Azteca Jr. in Lucha Underground) was a Hijo del Rey Mysterio but not the first one, apparently.
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8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Juliya Chernetsky, she was a bitch the one time I met her. Although, it may have had to do with my friend telling her she could use my mouth as a toilet if she needed to.
Looooool hey man, gotta shoot your shot
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14 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Powerman 5000 just reminded me of the time on the Headbanger's Ball redux where Rob Zombie had his brother on, said something pithy about Lemmy, the brother was like "WTF" and they cut to commercial. Show returns from break, Zombie apologizes to the audience. Is fired, does not return.
What did Rob say? Was it a quip about the Nazi memorabilia collection?
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2 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Obligatory “who are you to doubt chiropractic medicine” joke
From one carny business to another! Good on him.
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I forgot to mention Dante trying to put on Zay’s durag but putting it on halfway up his head so it looked like a yarmulke or a Rosie the Riveter tribute.
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1 hour ago, TheVileOne said:
Same for CM Punk, and look how that turned out. Did the short-term gains with CM Punk outweigh the long-term damage? I think you can make an argument they did.
I mean I think with the proper promotion and support Miro could've been a phenomenal asset for AEW, and he does when he was operating on full cylinders as the Redeemer. But he had no idea what to do with Miro after he lost the TNT title. I think a lot of guys have that potential. But they also need that sustained creative push.
Those are Punk and Miro problems, not AEW problems. You can’t cherry pick two malcontents as your examples of AEW poorly booking former WWE talent.
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17 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
I'm sure one of those "ASMR artists" has recorded a version of "Relax" so that lonely men could jerk it to a Frankie Goes To Hollywood song in a different fashion than usual
Oh Christ, were this close to getting a haunting baby voice style knockoff version of Relax in a horror movie trailer, aren’t we?
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52 minutes ago, Robert C said:
Oof. Pretty sure I saw the world premier of that one. Back when the world premier of a video was something anybody even noticed.
Still remember the premier of Hot For Teacher. Everybody at CD Fulkes Middle School - home of the fighting lizards - couldn’t wait for that one.
Oh man, the world premiere of Thriller on Friday Night Videos was an event.
5 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:I never ever saw the Genesis video on TV, that was something I had to find on Youtube well after the fact. These days they show stuff from the 2000s on their Classic show so it's a rare day to see a true OG MTV dust-collector. At least Metal Mayhem got better as I only saw one Cinderella video last night instead of the usual entire block.
Kids, go look up the video for Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" to see something truly subversive and ahead of its time that managed to somehow squeak in past the censors. I think.
There are two versions of the video. One is a thousand percent more super gay and I don’t think it got much, if any, US airplay. But it is online. The other version is the one we’ve seen. Somehow all the lyrics got through, though. A top 40 pop song about trying to think about baseball or maybe Margaret Thatcher in a cold day.
Or in the immortal words of Eddie channeling Mr. T, “HEY BOY SLOW DOWN!”
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1 hour ago, tbarrie said:
I'm not a youngun, but I didn't recognize the reference. If he had mentioned Spitting Image I'd have gotten it.
That’s hilarious because I debated saying “Spitting Image” but so thought that would be more obscure.
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7 hours ago, zendragon said:
It’s sad that we’ve gotten to the point where we look back nostalgically at the time when the crackpots believed in benign conspiracies.
4 hours ago, Gorman said:I keep a spreadsheet of all of the major promotions with the wrestlers' hometowns, weights, and signature maneuvers. I shared it with the new announcer for New Japan (Walker Stewart). We gotta help each other out!
That’s awesome. I always smile when Schiavone calls a newer move or a Lucha move by it’s actual name.
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Green for credit or red for credit? I always get it wrong every fucking time.
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Much more disciplined eating this week (calories below 2000, protein 160-190g, no uncounted food at night), somehow lost 4lb! Probably half water but I’ll take it. Decent job of alternating weights and cardio all week, but just a walk yesterday (4 miles) because I was sore and not in a running mood). Saturday cheat day let’s go!
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32 minutes ago, Ziggy said:
Getting all that work done on your face in your late 30s and 40s do way more damage than good and make you age worse as you get older. Missy , Vince and Flair are the worst examples. Makes me wonder how my generation will be with the BBLs. It’s just not attractive. Missy would look so much better with out any work as she was so pretty in her younger years
Absolutely. Older people who got too much shit done earlier in life look like they’re auditioning for the Land of Confusion video.
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5 hours ago, Shartnado said:
Hail Satan!
BRB gonna sacrifice a fatted calf to see if it helps
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"Keep Damien 666 in your prayers" is the height of unintentional comedy today.
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The first time I saw Sting wrestle (not in person) would have been on UWF TV, post Blade-Runners, managed by Eddie Gilbert and teaming Rick Steiner (who was post name change, no longer wrestling under his shoot name). I am old.
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3 hours ago, Log said:
Ah, so our boy Kev got Q-pilled?
Just another patriot taken down by the deep state
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It's awesome seeing Colman Domingo getting his due after being the only good thing I remember about Fear the Walking Dead.
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1 hour ago, odessasteps said:
For once, give it up to Juan Cena, especially after his horrible take on the Vince scandal.
Cena dresses like grandpa did when he worked at the bank and talks like he spent 20 years in front of a focus group
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7 minutes ago, JLowe said:
Oh, I know, I spent 30 years in Austin, the “blueberry in the tomato soup”. But I also sorta thought Delaware was so small that it was mostly all suburbs/cities.
Hell nah man. Between Maryland's eastern shore and the parts of Delaware you need to go through to get to the Delmarva beaches, it's some real January 6 country.
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19 minutes ago, MoeCristyV.1.6 said:
Tay Melo isn't that young.
Sentence structure, and commas, are both incredibly important.
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AEW - MARCH 2024
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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Speaking of Joe, word is that the spot Joe had earlier this year (win an eliminator tournament, then lose in a title challenge vs MJF at Grand Slam) was earmarked for Miro, but Miro turned it down so Joe got it. Maybe if he was a company guy instead of pulling a "that doesn't work for me, brother," he would have the world title by now.