Southside Jim

Well yeah, but there are no games aside from the ASG for that entire week so they send all the hosts to the Pro-Am, and if you don't give a flying fuck about golf, especially non-PGA golf, or the Home Run Derby, than it's just awful.

They should recycle the blonde Imperial woman from The Force Unleashed games as the love interest for the sequel, now that TFU is non-canon. She was the only memorable part of those games.

How about we just get a complete reboot where there is no Altair or genetic memories and what not? And go full bore into "alternate history" shit: You're a former slave who escaped from a plantation and were eventually recruited into the Assassins. Now you must sneak into famous Civil War battlefields and assassinate Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart, Nathan Bedford Forrest, etc. And in the final mission, you must sneak into heavily fortified Richmond and kill Jefferson Davis.

OMG, Rick Rude was STILL wearing that ridiculous anchor-shaped disco medallion he wore in Florida and World Class in 1993?

I like how Meltzer was all dismissive of the Schultz and Abrams episodes, and then the Dr. D episode gets the second highest ratings. Pretty sure the UWF episode will get another big rating. Dr. D and Abrams may be "microscopic" in terms of importance on wrestling history, but they're entertaining stories, which the Dino Bravo and Brawl For All stories weren't.

So just how fucked up are Gedo's booking plans at this point? He was probably planning on having Naito drop the IWGP belt to Sanada by now, and then build to Okada getting the belt back in November, but now all of that is fucked up because Naito "deserves" to have a long reign with multiple title defenses, so he's having to keep pushing everything back with every house show tour cancelled. It must be killing Gedo to not have Okada as champ, and now he's going to have to wait even longer to put the belt back on him.

Anybody know who "The V" was in All Japan circa 1988-89?

Oh yeah. I think those of us working retail are seeing it before everyone else, but there is a MASSIVE disconnect between most people and the horrors going on in emergency rooms. You see that with all the Californians out on the beach this weekend and the blowback Gavin Newsom is getting, saying that live sports won't be back in California anytime soon, and people attacking de Blasio after he shut down that Jewish funeral yesterday. If they try to do a second lockdown whenever this "second wave" hits, most Americans are going to tell their governors to fuck off. Just look at Italy, where there is real anger at the government now as more and more people lack money to buy food. At the end of the day, COVID-19 will bring out the worst in people.

Dude, 60 Minutes did a story on Cannon Films back in the 80's and let themselves get kayfabed by Menahem Golam. 20/20 did all sorts of pop culture stories to pop ratings back during the Hugh Downes/Barbara Walters era. A bunch of us school kids ended up watching an episode in summer 1988 because they were talking about the popularity of Nintendo and showed 30 seconds of footage of Super Mario Bros. 2 before it was released.

One announcer who doesn't get enough love is Gator McAllister on the earliest IWA Mid-South shows. Yes, he was announcing alongside sub-human piece of shit Ian Rotten, but he was still very entertaining. I'd love to see AEW pick Gator up to do some guest announcing. Corey Maclin was awful in USWA.

What's the current status of the "teen" X-Men that Beast brought forward in time? The wikipedia articles for them haven't been updated much, beyond Teen Jeen Grey being killed by a "poison" symbiote (whatever the hell that is) and then building herself a new body out of psychic energy...or something.

For crap films like Trolls World Tour, sure. But I think most people nowadays go to the theater for the whole experience (popcorn, stadium seating, soda from a fountain instead of canned/bottled, seeing a movie with a crowd), so I think more bottom of the barrel stuff will go straight to VOD, but the event films will still get a big screen tour.

Who's the morbidly obese guy in the black wifebeater that they show in the "RoH on Stadium" promos?

Rewatching Matt Taven vs. Tracy Williams, has there ever been a worse announcing team than Ian Riccaboni, Colt Cabana, and Jay Lethal? Lethal and Cabana desperately trying to talk over each other, and Riccaboni with his forced "bombastic" announcing. And Jay does not have a future in announcing ahead of him when he finally retires. Honestly, I would rather listen to Bruce Prichard, Mike McGuirk, and Pete Doherty call a match than these three.

Raise your hand if this is the first time you've heard of Step Stool Sarah. (Seriously, that ring name sounds like a weird BDSM fetish gimmick.)

Poor Tom Baker, he looks like his caretaker was holding cue cards behind the selfy stick, and he was just reading off of them with no clue what was going on.

I wish they would eliminate the week off permanently. Those two weeks are absolute death on sports talk radio, with all the local shows sent to the SB city's "radio row" and they spend two weeks interview z-list celebrities and HOFers who have been hired to schill corporate products: Radio Host: It's David Hasselhoff and Randall Cunningham! Oh my God, what are you two doing together here at Radio Row! Randall Cunningham: Hi Frank, we're here to tell you how excited we are for the new Ranberg Hemorrhoid Cream... The only thing worse is MLB All-Star Weekend, when all the national radio shows go to the Utah Championship pro-am golf tournament, to fawn over a bored Bill Murray playing golf with Lee Trevino.

PLEASE, nobody send Cornette the video of yesterday's "training session" where Manabu Nakanishi taught some of the STARDOM girls how to do a toture rack into a German suplex. The Cornette podcasts are one of the things keeping me going through these dull days and I really don't want to listen to him complaining about the STARDOM girls doing "stupid, outlaw shit like a torture rack into a fucking German suplex!!!"

WWE 2k22 wishlist (I haven't played 2k20, so if they did some of these things already, my apologies): - No polka dots for Dusty Rhodes. Just generic black tights with his initials embroidered on the hip. - Rick Rude and "Stunning" Steve Austin will have more generic tights, rather than Rude's SummerSlam 1990 tights and Austin's "Dragon Slayer" tights. - Historical wrestlers with multiple skins will no longer have the year the skin is from appear next to their name (eg: Sting 91, Sting 97, etc.) in gameplay. - There will be a "Legends of the Rising Sun" DLC pack with 80's/90's guys who aren't under contract to FirePro (All Japan/NOAH, All Japan Women, FMW, etc.). The All Japan/NOAH guys will be from circa 1994-1997 (ex: Kobashi will have orange tights and come out to "Sniper," Kawada will NOT come out to the version of his theme song with the acoustic guitar intro but rather that version that starts with the thunder clap, Misawa will not wear a ridiculous "court jester" jacket to the ring.). Onita, Hayabusa, Kanemura, Mr. Pogo, Matsunaga, Tarzan Goto, Masato Tanaka will be the FMW entries (NO KODO FUYUKI!!!!). - No film grain on the historical arenas.

I vaguely recall either Zach Arnold or Stefan Picksi alluding to the fact it was more that Norton refused to do a pinfall job and they didn't want to have Hashimoto lose another high profile match as he was being "protected" for the Naoya Ogawa feud.

"He was eventually released and lives in of all places France." How the fuck does someone who committed murder and multiple arsons NOT get life in prison?

https://deadline.com/2020/04/love-is-blind-ozard-spenser-confidendial-netflix-q1-1202914248/amp/ As a die-hard fan of the Spenser novels, it kills me that the awful Mark Wahlberg version was a big success.

Those people on the webcams "cheering" on an endless loop while Goodell announced the first two round picks was so dumb. If anyone who was in those videos is reading this, they have this new invention called "dignity and self respect." You guys should look into it sometime.