StretchMediatedHypertrophy
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"Why do you look so goddamn good in everything you wear?"
Not what I had in mind. The spray-on cuts aren't so much my thing.
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What I would say to Punk is that Punk should've gotten the fee change for the Mexico tour in writing if they did agree to $20,000+. Not saying they didn't screw him over, but in situations like that and you are haggling over pay, you got to get it in writing. Verbal agreements are meaningless in business.
You're right to a point, but most business relationships of lasting value are built on a certain amount of trust. If you have to get everything in writing, then you're in a bad place and it's probably time to move on.
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I look forward to Daniel Craig being asked the inevitable question........
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That was reported in February; Jericho has had a similar issue since 2008 and manages well enough.
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He probably got bullet points from somebody, though he may of course be lying.
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I don't think he actually needs the kick if he's going to jump like that - but he should totally be busting that out here and there; Santino was doing a sort of Stunner as part of his offence so I see no real issue.
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The last Wembley taping sucked, and I think they may have hurt the draw. We'll see I guess, but I am not sure why I'd go see the current roster have 5 minute matches.
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Cesaro didn't make Swagger relevant, if anything Zeb made them both relevant. But right now, Swagger is the more compelling character. He'll have to stop hurting people if he wants a push, but I think he's been pretty good in the babyface role and I think it's a pity he was replaced by "the arrival of Erick Rowan" at Survivor Series.
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I know; sad state of affairs when you're overjoyed about beating the team at the bottom of the table - but so it goes. Rodgers seems to have made a call re:Gerrard. Sunderland at Anfield on Saturday - three points there and we're rolling.
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Looks like there won't be much of a roster if Styles keeps going.......the thing about not tucking your head doesn't play if you're going to fall on your ass, as he just did against Kojima.
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Winning the Elimination Chamber wouldn't matter in this fantasy scenario, considering it occurs after WrestleMania now.
It does???
Yeah, apparently it will be moved to June. Wouldn't surprise me if Rollins cashes in here.
The idea is that Lesnar will meet whoever wins the Rumble.
It is a bit ridiculous that noone has asked about where the fuck Lesnar is on RAW. I mean, a champ just needs not to show up now to avoid defending their title. I understand that Lesnar kinda has them held to ransom, but they could at least explain this on TV.
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It's still difficult to access the actual AoW site, though I see the itunes list (I refuse to actually install itunes though) - can anyone recommend any of the recent podcasts, other than the Punk one obv?
Although Colt has obviously decided it was worth the risk, there is a question over how much heat he has with WWE - is anyone hoping for a development deal now going to avoid his show? I hope he's got a good line up of follow-up guests so that he can capitalise on the attention.
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I'm probably one of the few people who wouldn't mind another Miz WWE Championship run. If you book him like the Honky Tonk Man, it would probably work very well.
Or they could just give him in the IC Title and give him a Honky Tonk Man style run there. That belt needs SOMETHING to rejuvenate it. A year of people chasing a guy and failing to beat him might do the trick.
I think a simple thing WWE or any promotion with tv could do is put up a graphic when a champion wrestles stating how long they've held the belt, maybe number of successful defenses, win/loss record against their opponent, etc.
People are so into fantasy sports and statistics these days that quantifying wrestling seems like a natural fit.
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A little bit peripheral, but Alexei Sayle (Old British Alt-comedian, you may remember his recurring appearances on The Young Ones) wrote a piece on why ballroom dancing blows - I thought it was quite amusing, partly because it's kind of a parallel with the Fandango gimmick shift:
If you see a couple performing a proper Argentine tango, you are watching a dance created in the brothels of Buenos Aires that reeks of melancholy and sex and is accompanied by complex music that has grown alongside the dance and is inseparable from it. Then you watch the ballroom version, all gurning faces and robotic, angular, hideous movement, which on the show is generally accompanied by awful music that has absolutely nothing to do with the dance; you are seeing a great popular art reduced to a terrible travesty. An Argentinian friend of mine said: “When I see ballroom dancing what I always think of is impotence.” And he is right, a dance between men and women is always to some degree about sex but there is nothing more sterile and uncarnal than ballroom.'gurning faces' - I think he's actually seen Summer Rae!
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It took him about three years to reconstruct himself to the spot where he probably should have been all along.
Yes. I think his overpush kinda hurt him more than helped him......though he's probably found a way to live with main-eventing Wrestlemania and being the only heel other than HHH to walk in and out with the WWE Title.
I was thinking about this today....The Miz kicked out of a second AA against John Cena. To me that was so incongruous that it should have become part of his gimmick i.e. nugget that won't flush. Felt like a missed opportunity, and at least a face-turn would have been based on something.
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It was a best of TNA at Thanksgiving or something.
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What Punk settlement? I guess I'm in the dark about this.
Well there's just been a thread locked, but basically WWE and Punk have come to a legal agreement vis a vis past and future royalties - but any terms are for us not to know and not to find out.
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I'm guessing Cody didn't take a shot at Colt for no reason. Colt probably made a comment in the past, about 2nd gen wrestlers getting signed, not having paid any dues. Colt is kinda a bitter guy.
Colt made a comment about a 2nd generation wrestler not being seriously punished in FCW after nearly killing someone in a drunk driving accident. He was talking about Ted Dibiase Jr and all news articles said the other individual in the accident was not seriously hurt.
Well played sir. According to this, http://www.mc.edu/beacon/spring-2014/features/wrestling-calling DiBiase fell asleep at the wheel so Colt's comment is pretty fair comment I'd say - assuming that's what he was talking about.
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The Miz has pretty much always been fine as long as he's not actually in the main-events, or trying to work babyface. His new gimmick has really given him a new lease though.
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We won. That is all.
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If I'm going to get labelled a gimmick poster, I may as well run with it and point out how allowing me to unleash the BANHAMMER would solve all of this.
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Digging a hole deeper? You're a strange character using the word "transphobic". Your triple h love is admirable however.
In any event, no, Gabe worked with a friend of mine from high school. Nothing to do with booking, had to do with some shady business practices. He's a shithead.
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I doubt Vince says much on Austin's podcast. I wonder if Austin even brings it up.
Austin looks like shit if he doesn't, and Vince too probably. Vince is probably better off saying that he doesn't want to turn this already planned interview into a response to CM Punk's near 2 hour podcast; he'd take issue with some of the things Punk said, and there are other sides to this story, but broadly speaking he is entitled to his opinion and there are always things WWE can do to improve.
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Cody Rhodes has denied that he was referring to Colt Cabana who he 'doesn't know' (vaguely plausible given that Rhodes was on the RAW brand, and that Rhodes was finishing up in OVW when Colt went there) - I doubt anyone really believes him though.
The Steve Austin Show
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Yup. Go on LinkedIn and read the Pulse articles and you'll be able to speak like this in no time at all. Not that I'm recommending it.