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Orton must have gotten into Hogan's coke stash before the show.

I mentioned this in the HIAC thread- Re. Russev's first loss - I may be in the minority here, but I actually wouldn't mind his first loss be something handed to him by another heel that starts Russev on a face turn. Others have mentioned him going the face route, and I could actually see it working. The pro-Russia/anti-America thing only has a shelf life for so long, and they could do pretty much the same schtick but just toned down the jingoism and focused more on him being an unstoppable brute and not so much the nationalism.

I'll mention some things I thought they actually did well with this show- For a B show they announced pretty much the entire card a week or two ahead of time. It seems that with a lot of the PPVs (or maybe it's just my growing ambivalence) that they'll have the main event and another match or two set to go by mid-month, but won't have the rest of the card finalized until the week before. This time I actually knew what was booked and why the matches were taking place. Not to mention almost every title was defended. I can't be bothered to look right now but I don't recall the last time the IC, US, and tag titles were all defended on the same show (not counting preshow matches). It made those other belts seem important. There was no world title match, but it was not conspicuous by its absence. At least for me, I didn't wonder where Brock was or why there was no world title defense. Even though I don't think the show was anything spectacular, it didn't seem to be lacking the presence of the world champion or a match involving that title. Re. Russev's first loss - I may be in the minority here, but I actually wouldn't mind his first loss be something handed to him by another heel that starts him on a face turn. Others have mentioned it, and I could actually see it working. The pro-Russia/anti-America thing only has a shelf life for so long, and they could do pretty much the same schtick but just toned down the jingoism and focused more on him being an unstoppable brute and not so much the nationalism.

How often have people kicked out of Big Show's chokeslam? I'd always thought it had been a pretty well-protected move, but I'll admit to not watching his matches that closely.

Someone brought up a few other criticisms in one of the horror movie threads, but one of the main marks against the remake is of how much darker the original is not only in tone of the story but also the cinematography and setting. The interior and exterior of the house in the original film look like that sketchy house at the edge of a suburban neighborhood everyone stayed away from because of the unsavory reputation it had. It looked run down but still inhabited - like it was the place that might actually house some creepy fundamentalist shut-in types. The interior of the house in the original was especially unsettling. It wasn't abject squalor or anything like that, but dirty and outdated and filled with unsettling religious bricabrac, especially the more morbid depictions of Jesus and whatnot. This was stuff more associated with the hellfire and brimstone types than just your average backwater fundie. I realize it was the late 70s/early 80s and people didn't look as polished back then, but you also had to main actresses who looked disheveled and slightly deranged. Nothing against Juliane Moore's acting ability, but she's too conventionally attractive to play the role, and the girl in the remake was your typical "attractive girl who always dresses frumpy and has poor hygiene but after a makeover everyone can see she's hot" trope.

Cesaro/Ziggler was a fine match with a ton of little details added in to make the selling and limb work go very well. It really needed another 5-10 minutes with Cesaro getting a fall himself to add to the tension. As much as I like Cesaro and want to see him move up the card, Ziggler has really been delivering in-ring and deserves some more time in the spotlight. I can't stand any aspect of the Miz, but Sandow has been great in his role. Hopefully he'll end up turning on Miz soon and get a chance to stick his head up above the lower card rung for a little while. Cena/Orton was like a finisher overkill indy match, only involving two utterly boring guys in a match whose conclusion was rather obvious and would not lead to anything interesting. Agreed with the initial assessment of the main event. The double bump and delayed stretcher job just came off as really contrived and trying too hard to build up tension and shock value that just wasn't there. If they'd saved that for about 2/3 of the way through the match, then had them continue for a few more minutes I would have bought it a little more. I like Bray and have no problem whatsoever with putting him into a program with Ambrose, but ending the match the way they did with yet another fuck finish between the two just made the buildup to everything seem pointless. There's no sort of resolution between Ambrose and Rollins' issues and having one guy go over clean then having Wyatt do his thing wouldn't have hurt anyone. The Show/Russev match was a better Hoss Fight than I'd been expecting. Mark Henry not turning heel was probably the most surprising thing about it.

Girl Next Door is based on a true story. It's far more sadistic and more openly graphic than another movie made about the same incident, "An American Crime", which was I believe straight to cable. According to what I've read about the situation, Ketchum's book was actually fairly accurate in describing how brutal everything that happened to her was.

If they're going to bring Bayley up they should keep her gimmick pretty much the same, but unlike they did with Emma actually give her some backstage promos and interactions with the other women to establish her character and give people an idea of what she's all about. The talk of the divas division made me think, with all the people WCW had on their roster in the final run, it seemed like the women's division was nothing that great. Medusa throwing the WWF belt in the trash and some extremely short lived women's crusierweight title was about all I remember from it. Were there any memorable matches from that division? You'd think with all the people they were hiring up and that they actually did well with undercard/lower card title programs they'd have done something decent, but I can hardly remember anything involving women's wrestling in latter-day WCW.

I haven't watched Gotham but might marathon it when the season is over if the feedback is mostly positive. The Flash I'm not totally sold on. It's ok, but I can't help but compare it to Arrow which is significantly better. I do wonder if the season finale will end with some asshole from the EPA going to their science prison and setting all the bad guys they have trapped down there free when they demand it be shut off.

I also don't see what all the fuss is about in that to me she doesn't look drastically different. Granted I don't think I've seen her in any movies in many years now, but in the new pics she looks pretty much the same, just older.

I've been hoping Noble and Mercury as the nu-Stooges wouldn't just be a fleeting thing and it looks like they're going to go with it more long-term.

For me, Gabriel is the prison guard on Oz who ended up going off the deep end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_hAk8D5hM

This is the Azrieal from NWA-Wildside right? I seem to remember there being multiple guys around with some variant of that name (there was a Special K guy calling himself that I think?).

Bring up a bunch of NXT guys or indy scrubs to do a run-in to save Show dressed as The Wolverines.

some older out of shape guy who has worked about a match a month for the past 30 years and once did a job at an NWA house show yet considers himself a seasoned vet and tried to open a wrestling school several times vs. some skinny 19 year old who has been doing backyard matches wearing oversize pants and an ICP shirt for 5 years that tells everyone he knows he's going to be in every upcoming big deathmatch tournament but has never gone beyond posting youtube videos of his work on indy facebook walls

The Wacky Races thing was one of the funniest bits I've seen on South Park in quite some time.

Despite its title "Summer Camp Nightmare" isn't really a horror movie, more like Lord of the Flies at summer camp (kinda like the Kamp Krusty episode of The Simpsons) though slightly darker featuring a few going crazy and killing eachother and a suggested pedo camp director. Anyways, the comment about teen camp slasher musical reminded me of the talent show scene which is the most 80s thing ever- -aquanetted hair and Madonna-like fashions in the girls' musical number -token black kid rapping the intros -the camp "bad boys" who are two bemulleted metalheads playing a cover of Fear's "Beef Bologna" (with non-plugged in guitars)

It would have worked better if Diesel's gimmick was that he suffered from some type of mental disorder and actually thought he was a truck. Some Chikara guy needs an Optimus Prime gimmick.

Did they ever reveal who stooged the club off to Lin's group? Robocop's guy at the pawn shop had a hand in it, but before he was shot he suggested that he was just a middleman. I got the impression it was Jury who gave up the rest of them. Either way, he's a major loose end that will come up soon. I guess the question now is if the truth about Tara is going to come to light- Juice knows and it's well established he's a coward who will cave under pressure, but who knows if he'll have some sort of change of heart and try to come clean about everything before the club kills him. So, Gemma may or may not be about to tell Nero what really happened. It seems out of character for her not to have a lie about what happened to Tara and the sheriff and her hiding Juice, especially knowing Nero has it in for him too. Unser knew she was hiding him, but Gemma told him the same line about Lin's crew killing Tara, though he probably doesn't believe her.

Vader did that move a few times in WCW. In fact IIRC that was what he used to beat Duggan for the US title. Isn't this the same thing as the dominator?

Have any main characters on Arrow actually stayed dead, or at least not been killed multiple times before they actually died?

That spike he carried was actually a hollow tube with a stopper/spoon gimmick on the end

Cena and Orton are two people I couldn't possibly care less about and have no desire to see in any major angles. In a sense I'm glad they're being programmed with one another because it means there's less of a chance one of them will end up doing something with somebody I actually do like watching and thus bringing anything that person is in down a notch. Putting all the rotten eggs in the same basket and leaving the basket sitting out by the trash as it were.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mpgz_the-fbi-vs-whipwreck-tajiri-1-2_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ov69_the-fbi-vs-whipwreck-tajiri-2-2_sport loved this series of matches Wasn't Guido supposedly a legit toughguy? Given that he was trained by Billy Robinson I wouldn't be surprised if he knew an oldschool hooking trick or two.

This was all I could find- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rbsc_bret-hart-vs-fit-finlay_sport