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Hmmm... might have been just the board having a moment. I just posted a video and a gif with no problems.

Just testing

I totally forgot Rikishi showed up in TNA when Christian was wrestler various Samoans to prepare for Samoa Joe. For some reason the only full match of his I can find is that ridiculous reverse Battle Royal. Oh and this...

They have talked to Reynolds and I believe he has a standing offer from them. The last reports I saw are that he is just seeing if anyone wanted to give him a better deal. Uggla won't make me happy either but it would be WAY less infuriating than Brandon Phillips

Royals sign Omar Infante to a 4 year, $30 million deal. Thank the maker...

And I guess we should post this http://youtu.be/FM3HUeCMT-s

RIPPA RETRO WORKRATE REPORT – APRIL 3, 2013 (by PHIL RIPPA) Into April! Only Eight Months Behind! WHAT WORKED Poor poor crippled Oliver Gray. Replaced by Bo Dallas. Why they haven’t stripped them of the tag belts yet is beyond me. Anyway – it’s Dallas/Adrian Neville vs. The Wyatts. I have already mentioned how much I like Neville against the Wyatts, especially a Neville vs. Harper so the key really for me is as long as Dallas doesn’t muck things up this will be good. And it is. I could watch Neville selling Harper’s Big Boot on a loop. Adrian Neville – Face In Peril is better than Bo Dallas – Face In Peril. Plus, Dallas and his creepy eyes might as well be Robert Gibson so it all works. The Wyatts probably do too many jobs but now I am picking a nit. William Regal shows you how to do a fucking announcer beat down. I am giddy because it means, I AM ONLY ONE FUCKING WEEK FROM REGAL/OHNO!!! Summer Rae/Audrey Marie vs. Sasha Banks/Paige. Why yes thank you very much. The norm for women’s matches is that they are, at a minimum, fun and this meets that standard. The match is more a vessel to tell a larger story as Summer Rae still doesn’t want to fight Paige so when Paige gets the hot tag, Summer Rae does a 4.4 40 to the back. This leaves Paige to squash Audrey Marie and we move on. I do feel a little bad for Sasha Banks because she is so tiny compared to the other women on this show. Granted, Summer Rae is tall but still. Now, being tiny works in the context of this division as her getting the beat down looks good and makes the ladies offense look better. Maybe a rematch could be longer and focus on the in-ring work. Also maybe someone could pick up Paige’s jacket from the aisle. Connor O’Brian cashes in on the #1 contender status he won in the three way so him vs. Big E Langston is the Main Event. This will work just because they play the entire Langston theme so I am already happy. Everything else is gravy. Which is lucky since the match isn’t that good since O’Brian gets blown up applying pressure to Langston’s trapezius. This is a total burial of O’Brian as he gets beat in about five minutes and Langston even gets to do the five count on him. That makes me question why NXT bothered to spend two weeks on three ways trying to find a #1 contender when that is going to be the payoff but HEY! Like I said, I got the full Big E intro. WHAT DIDN’T WORK Tony Dawson “THIS IS OVER” Count - 4 Besides the reminder that I need to look up what song is used in the Mania hype video – I am so over it. Thankfully this was the last show before the PPV so this should be the last time I deal with it. So yeah, the announce crew this week is Tony Dawson, Kassius Ohno and Brad Maddux. I write that sentence now; we shall see what side of the column they end up on. It is the bottom half. As a trio it is awkward because, ignoring the usual fact that Dawson is not good at his job, you have two guys who are working heel gimmicks attempting to doing the heavy lifting. Maddux especially was trying to do too much as he seemed to fill like he was supposed to be doing play by play any time Dawson took a breath. Maddux needed to be settled down but Dawson definitely doesn’t have the ability to do that. Ohno went long periods of time without saying a word. It was to the point that I would often forget he was there. Oh that’s right – he wasn’t because Regal beat the shit out of him. So yeah… I don’t need a Dawson/Maddux pairing on a regular basis. How can I play Rockpocalypse when I don’t have Michael Cole telling me how to download it?

You mean besides this...

Big E Langston would probably be the better guy to pair him up with since the short squat guys wouldn't look as visually awkward as Reigns towering over Rhyno. That being said - I would enjoy all sorts of matches

Variety is saying that Naked Gun is going to get remade with Ed Helms playing Frank Drebin

I am posting this just because it exists

AH-HA!!! I knew I wasn't crazy.

This really is going to irritate me all day - I know there was an angle where they were doing the Heel is going to face a random name drawn out from a hopper. I know that one time the winner was Rikishi. I think THINK it was against Triple H but I am not 100% and I can't find anything on Youtube... yet...

Not fucking Too Cool. Just Rikishi. If he had stuck around the WWE, I feel fairly confident that he would have gotten a long time service title run like Kane did. Anyway - the Rikishi Driver definitely was my go to finisher when making a CAW

Logan is getting $16.5 million So... yeah...

My collection of sports cards (mostly baseball but I do have from football, basketball and hockey) currently sits in random tubs around the bedroom. I had been able to store them at my parents but a few years ago my Mom threatened to throw them out and I couldn't let that happen. Of course they are worthless but I spent so much time on them, yeah... I also enjoy how all of us are ignoring "Wrestling Tapes" - my last box will be tossed the next time I move but that is only because I have converted everything in it to DVD Tangentially - my Dad had two huge collections of things that my Mom and I are still trying to figure out what to do with. Stamps (which I did a little with him) and he had a HUGE collection of tape cassettes of Opera at the Met performances that he recorded himself. I suck at eBay and know I will get bent over if I do it that way. I would keep the stamp collection if I didn't live in a shoebox apartment. Stupid everything.

Found this on the Torch so apply whatever skepticism you want

I said this last night on Twitter but I have seen Rockstar Spud for like 30 seconds now - he is being grossly underutilized by TNA

The Rockies are giving Boone Logan a 3 year/$14 million deal. I enjoyed Logan but yeah... have fun in Denver

Yeah - Youtube is FILLED with amazing Kaz Hayashi matches after the death of WCW I will say this about Raven - he was always willing to let the "lesser" guys look real good in his matches against them. Granted, he might also paralyze them but still

I was going to make up a penis joke because I wanted to be silly. So I was like "Okay - this will work better if he has a hot wife" And yeah... apparently McCown married a former call girl. I had no idea what to do with that piece of information. EDIT - WAIT NEVERMIND!!!! That is CADE McCown who married the former call girl. Josh McCown's wife/girlfriend seems totally non call girlish

Dean had some folks working on it but I don't know what happened with that. I myself have tried to sift through the just file of death but outside of seeing thread topics... yeah... it is an unformatted text block wasteland

Yeah - I have a rip that I can put on Youtube... just for some reason my converter doesn't want to do more than the first 2 or 3 seconds. As I said - that will be an issue for tomorrow.

Was there ever a "good" explanation for that match where they had Ryback quit against the Miz?

Okay - I put up the match against Fit Finlay. http://youtu.be/UYwxNtHb-1s The Liger match is giving me some issues so that will be tomorrow's project