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which of course inspired this

Is there any footage of El Bronco's WWC run with the Spin the Wheel Make the Deal gimmick? My memory is that it was super over.

Memory is he never watched it, was surprised at how well it did in poll results and still hadn't watched.

Probably six months after Atlantis v Dr Wagner mask v mask and a year before the Dr Wagner v LA Park mask v mask

Why would that matter? Outside of the recent Mania Taker series, I can't think of a good match HBK had when matched against a great worker. No one holds that against him. Not sure why being good at one man shows is somehow valued as being more important than being able to step up to the plate and perform in a two man show.

The WWE has been booked for shit for a while. Traditionally top star has the world title and the rest of promotion has been built around building up opponents for top star/world title. For some reason they've ignored that formula since 97 and so you have Cena not having belt for majority of time and promotion unclear as to wether the goal is to build opponents up for title or build opponents up for Cena.But blaming that on ADR is stupid.

There is no reason that TNa couldn't sell out every arena in KY running Sting and Steven Borden v Hulk and Kamal Hogan.

Who?

Every two years or so we get a Jon the Don Ritchie match from England. He works a style that is so over the top in it's old school Britishness that John Mccrick complained that his archaic style would keep away new and younger viewers. He's always worth watching.http://youtu.be/uVNDE1v63bc

Shane is the only one who was actually able to walk away from wrestling. I think that makes him the most successful Mcmahon. Of his brothers Scott is probably the best at working charismatic heel (unless you count Badstreet). Never seen the Kentuckians so not seen any Grizly Smith , but Houston is a bump freak who can still deliver when not in jail.

I'm not sure what the point of this whole thread is. Is the store that sells 1000 $10 purses a better business model than the one that sell one $10,000 purse? Is the store that sells one $10,000 purse a better business model than the one selling 1000 $10 purses? We all know wrestling does good ratings but high end advertisers aren't interested in it. People can make money off shows that have a smaller but wealthier viewership.

I don't know, I would never count Camila out. She is about as fierce of a competitor as there is on this show. Remember her trying to climb that wall after Big Easy quit? She is a monster, Jemmye on the otherhand is horrible. Jemmye/Camila beat Diem/Aneesa largely due to Jemmye actually being smart enough to figure out how to lift the rope.I mean yeah she's dumb as shit, but clearly clever in right context.

He had a rep for having a big head in Mexico.If you hire Kevin Nash you should not be surprised that you got what you paid for. Rey had been using his finisher as a secondary move for a couple of years with Jericho doing Atlantis finisher as a reversal. People knew how to take his moves. EMLL is always realy well booked and has heels ready to pair up with faces they are elevating. And so Averno was in a position where position of upcoming guy who beats Averno in his exchanges meant something. I don't know if just being job guy brought in who eats Mistico's offense well would mean shit. The WWE does a lousy job booking Cena or Alberto as faces, I have no idea why anyone is surprised that they did a lousy job with Mistico.

But that was in IWAMS... where Necro was regularly booked to slice himself up after being "discovered" by Pondo. If Necro wasn't willing to do the crazy deathmatches, would he ever have made it out of the Texas indys? He worked Savio Vega (TNT) in main event in Puerto Rico pretty much doing straight Buzz Sawyer crazy brawler type stuff.

While very light on his wrestling career, the Wikipedia page for Two Ton Tony Galento is super fun and worth a read:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Galento

92 Nikita? What the hell? When did that become a thing? It's not a thing. Not sure if that would be Nikita's peak inring year.I'm not sure what Pitbull 1's or Fred Ottman's peak year was. I wasn't sure and still not sure if point here is to say 2000 was HHH's peak year.Or if point is to say it compares favorably (wasn't a quality drop vis-a-vis) Austin's 99 or Steve Austin's 2001.

Can someone explain the argument being made here.Is it that 2000 was HHH's peak year for inring work? Is the argument that 2000 HHH was better than 2000 Kuroda, 97 DDP, 89 Luger, 92 Nikita, 2006 Booker T, 2001 Austin, 92 Dustin, etc?

I haven't had an observer sub in years but between the Rob Ford arm wrestling match:http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/22/rob-ford-to-arm-wrestle-steely-biceped-wwe-star-hulk-hogan/and this amazing commercial:http://youtu.be/sYTOT4BNYVo I'd like to lobby for Hogan as promoter of the year.

I'd watch. There was an episode of Ru-Paul's Drag Race where the drag queens were trained by Joey Ryan and I want to say Oliver John to compete in the WTF! fed.

You'd think Ross knows where enough bodies are buried that they wouldn't fire him.

It's becoming an increasingly popular move. There was an Animal Planet series "American Stuffers" about the family of an Arkansas taxidermist who specializes in the procedure.

Professional wrestling is it's own sub-culture with its own rules and continuity that for a vast vast majority of people that watch, they buy into or "suspend belief" to participate in as fans. Pro wrestling is its own "alternative reality game". I think that if Chikara is going the route of LARP, they are simply limiting their appeal to people that are interested in both pro wrestling, and RPG. Look at it this way: How many of the folks that occasionally pop on Raw and enjoy a couple of beers would even think of watching Chikara to begin with? Now, how many of those guys are gonna read a 78-page thesis about Archibald Peck then check out a Chikara show? Hell, how many of the people that attend Chikara shows (or buy DVDs) are willing to read that 79-page thesis? It is like the opposite of "selling out" - instead of diluting el producto to become more appealing to the mainstream, Chikara is becoming more obscure... which will drive some fans away while giving others giant boners. It is similar to how if you have an indy that runs the occasional bloodbath, and that appeals to a certain loyal segment of the audience...so they turn the violence up to 11, and eventually it is non-stop blood and death matches - which just don't appeal to everyone. So I kind of enjoyed the pdf, it's all the elaborate detailed booking that Chikara specializes in, without any of the mediocre wrestling. This is them playing to their strengths and hiding the weaknesses.Of course there is a new Maragaret Atwood novel out too.

I'm not on here a ton which means I don't get to do that much moderation.But reading a lot of the longer threads here and they are cluttered up with people posting "why are you discussing this?" "why does anyone care about this", "please end this thread" posts. This is a discussion board where people discuss stuff. If you don't want to read that discussion, don't read it. But whining like a baby, "why are people talking about this thing I don't care about" doesn't contribute to anything. STFU, people who do care are talking...not everything is about you. I will start giving people time outs for crying when grown folks talking. You've been warned.

My understanding of the math of vote (and no one really understands Meltz math), is that if you vote for more than one guy in category diluting own votes. So I'd back Rippa and suggest voting one or two candidates: Cien, V III feel like the top two to go with.

I like how the early reports are Dave went crazy and by the end it feels more like Chapelle as Bob Dylan plugging in, with crowd yelling "I'm Rick James Bitch" instead of "Judas".