The Damn Yeti

Well, there are a few ways to look at that. One is that he learned some type of important lesson from that feud/match and then went on to lose 4 consecutive times to the gentleman I referenced in an attempt to "do what is best for business" The other is that HHH is a racist that banged your mom.

HHH likes to do a lot of things, many of them piss all of us off, but one of those things he likes to do is lose at Wrestlemania to make someone (Cena, Batista, that Boreton guy, the original Vanilla Midget)

And I'm over here keeping my fucking mouth shut. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Cena is irrelevant to the current conversation, but the more informing hypothetical is what draws more buys Cena-Orton or Cena-Bryan.

Better than taking viewing advice from someone who has watched multiple sex tapes of Chyna.

Dibs.

My short list will be the Evil Dead remake, The Conjuring, Sinister, and maybe You're Next.

I want to watch wrestling with Gregg.

If you'll be in blacksburg over the weekend (6-8) I'll be down there watching the ACC championship game we'll hopefully be playing in. Not a live in-person event, but the drinks will be better. If not that, let me know if your travel brings you through Charleston WV, which is right in between Chapel Hill and Indianapolis.

He's working overtime.

The director really, REALLY fucked up missing the knee. Rollins bumped like crazy and it looks like it would have been amazing from a single cam. They should start showing his matches with less "cut-covering". He doesn't need it. Of course this instance was a missed cut entirely, but they rely on cuts to emphasize impact and with Bryan it is a disservice. The power bomb on Wade in the cage would have been even more gnarly without the cut.

I had completely burned this from my memory. Jesus, it was bad.

Please follow up on this. I'll probably know because my lifeforce is largely renewed by the power of children marking out for pro wrestling, but I'd still like to hear about it. Seth needs tons of love, but really everybody in the Shield does. The slow burn with them has been good. Everyone complained about them feeling like "just another group" the last few months, but I think it was 1/2 "we dropped the ball with a long term plan" and 1/2 "go out there and keep these titles warm, have good matches, build your championship legacy, and we'll have something special for you soon". I know nobody ever wants to give them credit for anything that works out, especially in the midst of it working out apparently, but none of the titles feel squandered to me and I think I know why. Everyone gets "butthurt" (that's for you McLargeHuge) over non-title matches and especially non-title losses by champions. For a group of old schoolers who spend all their free time pouring through VHS cassettes of Florida and Memphis matches I can understand the reaction. But the new 24/7, 365 schedule of the company, coupled with the total product awareness of the fanbase don't allow for the absolutes of territorial booking. Consider "legitimate" sports - a slippery slope, I know. Now this won't be apples to apples exactly, as most will be much more inclined to compare to boxing and MMA, but the schedule of the 'E is more like an NBA or MLB season that never stops. Do the Heat win every game they play, even when it's not for the NBA championship? No, but they do win a lot of them. But as long as they're "good enough" to make it to the championship game(s), then they get to have an opportunity to win the championship. Those games, with it all on the line, are the ones that matters. The announcers actually do a pretty nuanced job of getting this general idea over in different ways. Even last night it was RVD gets a chance at the PPV for the title, but only if he wins now. So it's like an elimination game, and the only way to win the big one later is to stay in it now. Nobody complains that "the Ravens stole the Steelers heat" because they beat them in the regular season and now nobody wants to see them in the Divisional round of the playoffs. Fuck off. They just want to see it even more. I think there are a lot more people who are conditioned to that today than conditioned to some antiquated notion of slow builds and unique matchups. I realize this is not some unique and important revelation, but it became crystal clear to me as I realized that I've been watching, and enjoying, and looking forward to the next, Christian/RVD/ADR match for over a month now. All three are guys I could occassionally FF past without a second thought. So yes, from someone who actually has watched 90% of the programming this year (and for years) and not just skimmed it, or read results before posting wildly intense opinions, the show is pretty fucking awesome. What they are actually doing is filling the show with a ton of new exciting faces, and giving them time to do their thing. They're featuring excellent in-ring quality, highlighting some extremely promising individuals, and even Triple fucking H is doing the best dickhead heel schtick in a long, long time. (spoiler alert, it's because they're going to make DB a huge fucking star.) My mid-show text to my best wrestling friends, "wrestling is the hot fucking tits again." They were both enjoying the show.

The only thing better than the WWE right now is the ocean of Scott Tenorman's tears floating in this sub-forum.

At the end of the first hour I thought "holy shit, they're specifically working the board" Then I came here and...

I went to a ton of shows (maybe 40ish) between 2003 and 2009, but followed WWE throughout. I was into TNA for a while from 2003-2005 or so, but that burned out pretty quickly for me. Once Joe and Danielson were gone I just didn't care as much, and I was getting older and the time and money needed to follow this niche hobby became way too much to sustain. I followed ROH and WWE concurrently because they both gave me something I really wanted, and now WWE gives me both more often than not, and ROH, from what I've seen, gives me neither. It would be interesting to plug the TV equation into ROH around the time Joe lost the belt to Aries. Could they have grown into something through Summer of Punk/CZW/Best in the World Bryan Danielson?

I was literally just reading this post while DVR'd Smackdown played in the background, and JBL said "this was Dolph Ziggler's opportunity" regarding his match vs. The Shield.So, yes.

I have never loved this place more than I have for the past 72 hours. And that includes the sleaze thread.

Whoa...whoa, whoa. Whoa? Whoa.

My favorites are the obvious, and previously mentioned Revenge, No Mercy, and Here Comes The Pain. I nearly flunked out of college playing HCTP with my CAW that was totally where Davey Richards got his shtick. Getting four friends in the Cell was like crack. I did order a modded PS2 so I could play KoC green and red. So many amazing matches in that game. The cumbersome navigation of the Japanese menus is probably the only reason it isn't an obvious #1. Best sim style wrestling I've ever played. For whatever reason I couldn't get into FIre Pro, and I tried.

Let's try this again.

Well...damn.

Man, her cookie was hanging out.

I completely forgot about that. Southern Tier, a NY brewery, also makes a great imperial pumpkin beer called Pumpking.