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  1. One of the first things I thought when Cesaro joined Heyman was how awesome it would have been if Hero had worked out and the Kings of Wrestling became Paul Heyman guys.
  2. Orton should just wear a suit with no slacks during Evolution promo segments. /I wore such an ensemble to the Rocky Horror Picture Show once.
  3. Whenever I'm wearing a jacket, I channel Ric Flair when taking it off by throwing it on the ground and dropping an elbow.
  4. What I do like about all this is that it's not obvious where things are going right now and that the unpredictability could potentially lead to some interesting angles. Of course I don't have an overabundance of faith that the WWE won't botch things completely, but what they do with Rollins and the world title picture is ambiguous enough to be interesting at this point. It seems as if they're really playing Bryan's health situation by ear as far as what they do with the world title - either have some bullshit match with Kane, maybe where he gets himself DQed right off the bad and doesn't do anything that physical just to keep from being stripped of the belt for non-defense or if they're actually going to pull the trigger on someone new (possibly Cesaro) being a transitional champ. I'm pretty sure that by Survivor Series they'll play up Rollins having some big moral crisis and eventually turn on HHH and company to re-join the Shield, but in the meantime I'm interested in how it plays out. Rollins getting some singles time to shine would be nice and freshen things up a bit, as would seeing Reigns and Ambrose fight some other people.
  5. PWI et al used to talk about him as if he were the next big thing before he went to WCW. He definitely had a lot of the tools to be a big player and always tried his best with whatever he was given. I had hoped he'd have a decent run post-WCW but I guess WWE were never interested, plus he probably makes a better living as a physical therapist anyways. I've been trying to find a Devon Storm/Sabu match from WCW Worldwide forever but have always come up short.
  6. Work was really busy tonight so I had the show on mute and wasn't really paying attention to it for most of the evening. I'm reserving judgement for the Rollins turn until they actually explain it. The options I can think of are him being tired of holding shit together for Reins and Ambrose, HHH simply paying him off, or some bullshit like they did with Big Show where HHH bought the mortgage to Rollins' house and is holding it over his head.
  7. Wyatt/Cena was a hell of a lot better than I was expecting it to be. I'm hoping they move onto something else for both guys now. Breaking up the Rhodes was the most telegraphed thing ever, not to mention a terrible idea as neither one will stay over outside of the team. I get needing to have the Usos in Cena's corner but if they were going to do this they could have at least had this match be for the tag titles or #1 contender or something to make it seem like it had meaning instead of a vehicle to the obvious breakup. That Kane/Bo/Kofi bit was the most pointless thing ever. Main was decent but Evolution having that massively long stretch where they dominated really sucked the heat away. I really hope they put Alicia, Sandow, and Swagger in a JOB Squad type group of people who snapped due to excessive losing.
  8. Tango & Cash and Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man - two 80s (or early 90s, which is practically the same thing) buddy cop movies that are so trope-heavy that they border on self-parody but are also awesome and really should have spawned sequels.
  9. I don't have my tapes of 02 ROH anymore but I recall Cornio sucking on commentary then too. But like I've said before, I'm ok with him commentating if it keeps him from wrestling.
  10. Chris Meloni will always be Keller from Oz to me, but I think his best role was the camp cook in Wet Hot American Summer. "I'm gonna go hump the fridge"
  11. They need to sign Kozlov and make him and Rusev a team. You would need to get the Road Warriors circa late 88 to stop them. Did Sylvester Terkay ever have a foreigner gimmick or just marketed as a shooty type guy? He'd fit in such a stable.
  12. I wonder if Sonny Ono ever developed all those disposable cameras he used to take selfies with during his ring entrances.
  13. Too bad King of the Ring isn't the June ppv anymore.
  14. He needs a submission. Nothing too elaborate. Maybe the Kondo Clutch, or is that too close to Paige's finisher?
  15. Lawler is finally good for something. Man, it killed Big E completely dead when he ran in to save Duggan and immediately got the shit beat out of him by Rusev. Doesn't really do anything for Rusev, either. I thought they passed up a nice opportunity to have RVD party with the bus people to do something with RVD and try to salvage the abysmal Adam Rose stuff. Yeah that isn't doing either guy any favors. The thing with booking someone as a monster heel who just does squashes (at least in my eye) is that they lose most of their aura once they have to work a longer match and actually sell for someone. That or their limitations really get exposed when it's revealed they can't do anything more than clobber some guy with just a few moves (Ryback being a good example of this). Rusev can actually do more than just a few power moves and has a unique offensive style for a guy his size. To really get him over as a dangerous wrestler they should be showcasing the different stuff he can do and various ways he can hurt another guy. Let him get really decisive wins, but let the job guy get in a little hope offense so he has more time to show that he's more than just a few impressive power moves and could actually hold his own in a longer match with a more skilled opponent.
  16. Fandango still sounds like a constipated Golddust when doing promos. Cena's entrance reminds me of the inside of a laser tag arena in the mid 90s.
  17. I have no problem with it being 3 hours but someone (whomever it is that's always pulling those elaborate statistics out) should calculate how much time of actual wrestling there is along with how much time is devoted to recaps and other such filler. In this age of social media there's really no reason to interject countless recaps of what happened earlier. It would be nice if they cut out a bunch of that as well as the overly long segments of someone (usually Cena) going out to the ring and doing some promo that never ends. Nitro being 3 hours didn't bug me unless they had some never-ending NWO segment because they would actually have decent undercard matches on there. Give some of the undercard guys who can actually put on entertaining matches some meaningful feuds and angles and cut out the filler.
  18. Professional wrestling is definitely an acquired taste and not always the most easily accessible thing to get into. So I'm wondering how the rest of you became wrestling fans. Was it something you got into on your own, or did family/friends expose you to it? Any interesting stories about your early fandom? I'm not and have never been into any other sports. Growing up I knew wrestling was a thing, but didn't really have an opinion on it one way or another. When I was in 5th grade or so the two guys in class that I was friends with were avid WWF fans and spoke about it often. Challenge and Superstars were on Saturday afternoons at 11 & 12 so I decided to give it a watch one day. This would have been 1992 and I remember it being between Summerslam and Survivor Series. I really can't say what about it appealed to me and I can't remember the first few matches I saw, but for some reason I liked it. Starting then I made sure to catch it every weekend if I could. We didn't have cable back then so it was years before I could watch Raw live when it came on. For whatever reason my father hated that I liked wrestling, maybe because he didn't like it and that I didn't have any interest in any "real" sports. Eventually he quit caring. Despite living firmly in NWA/WCW territory I don't think any WCW programming came on broadcast tv, at least not that I could find. I was aware it existed but didn't put any effort into following it. I remember when Hogan signed with WCW I believe Worldwide or something like that started coming on, and I'd catch that from time to time. I didn't like it as much as WWF but I'd watch any wrestling that came on. As I got older I started reading all of the Apter magazines the grocery store carried and became a fan of ECW once it started getting big, despite not actually getting to see any of it for quite some time after that. When I started getting online regularly in the late 90s wrestling sites were the first things I went to, mainly following whatever links rspw had up on the main page. I kept watching the big 3 regularly into college, but once ECW and WCW went under, I pretty much lost interest. Towards the end of 2001 I went by this local video store next to college that sold all sorts of bootleg foreign, anime, and other obscure stuff and found they had a decent selection of indy wrestling tapes. I picked up a copy of CZW's Best of the Best 1 and that re-ignited my interest in wrestling and I've been primarily an indy wrestling fan ever since then.
  19. Flash was an example of "a good hand" in that he was a decent enough wrestler and could make other people look good but didn't really have "it" as far as coming off as a big star. His teams with Knoxx and Danny Rose were both entertaining and he was at his best when he had a tag partner he could play off of well.
  20. "Rebooted"? Don't they make a new PR spinoff or next generation series every other year or something?
  21. I never liked Sheamus until his series with Big Show a while back. He really improved a lot in that time frame. As far as him being a heel goes, he comes off as too much of a dufus to be an effective heel, at least to me, even when he's acting like a typical bad guy. Keep him as he is and let him feud with Cesaro. They've been dancing around that matchup for a while anyways.
  22. I need 4 other board members interested in forming Voltron. I think we can take some larger guys then.
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