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I have watched modern Tanaka and that is not true. I have to disagree. Ever since he got away from the garbage wrestling, I feel like his work has improved exponentially. He got in incredible shape, and learned how to work a safer style. He's much more versatile than he used to be.

Tanaka toned down his style dramatically, and has been better in the last 5 years than at any other point in his career. He seems fine, health wise.

Can you imagine if Kevin actually made it to France? It would have been like a kid's version of Taken.

I was literally just about to come here and start posting about Home Alone. It's on my yearly Christmas rotation. I had seriously never given the "ticket in the trash" a second thought. That blew my mind.

I have this wonderful image of Taz hucking the two of them around like it's 1996.

I'm very happy that Dallas has now won 2 out of 3 against Houston. That's going to go a long way in the division standings. Rockets are a disaster without Harden.

What we had happen with CAWs, is that the character models would get swapped, and you'd get a cheap loss. For instance, say you hypothetically do Adrian Neville vs Connor O'Brien. What happened in this scenario is that their movesets, animations, everything were swapped with each other. So you play as Neville with O'Brien's moves, and if you win, Neville gets the loss. That's a mean ass glitch.

Man, me and my friend noticed some massive fucking bugs in Universe mode when you use created wrestlers with custom music, or with tag teams. I'm sure others have seen em too. Some of this is almost game breaking level bugs.

Taker-Edge was always buttcheeks to me. I didn't see the Mania match until a day or two after, and I felt extremely underwhelmed. The Cell match made me want to quit watching WWE entirely.

I can't help think this is more to do with your changed attitudes towards wrestling and less about wrestling itself. Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Terry Funk, Roddy Piper, Iron Sheik, and arguably Hogan himself all share three things in common relevant to this: 1) They are some of the biggest stars in of the age in wrestling you seem to be referring to. 2) They tend more towards the theatrical than the intimidating. 3) I, at least, don't think they're any more believably tough than Austin / Punk / Bryan / Angle / Triple H / Sheamus. There's this weird attitude in wrestling fandom where the idea that a random fan could "kick such-and-such's ass" keeps popping up as a comment. I don't understand that at all. Have you seen random wrestling fans? Or just regular people in general? There's a viral video right now from a bus in Seattle where a mugger with a gun is robbing people. One guy decides to bum-rush him and it leads to a struggle. That's how most "real" fights go unless there's someone with martial arts/combat training involved. Pro-wrestlers, assuming they don't have military past or take some form of combat training (which many do), still have an edge in that they are essentially professional athletes and they are used to taking an incredible beating on their bodies night after night. Ray Misterio could probably kick most fans' ass if it came down to it. I probably did a horrible job of making my point. It's not so much whether or not the guys were legit badasses, it's that you believed they were. Because no one took any shit. It's more about presentation than anything else. Guys back then were projected as guys you don't want to fuck with, and everyone felt legit. Now it seems like everyone is pretending to be all of that. I dunno, I guess it's hard for me to really illustrate what I'm getting at, but it makes sense in my head lol.

Gambler is legitimately my favorite jobber ever.

My view is this. I saw 2 of the 3 Hunter/Brock matches(Summerslam and Mania), and they were both boring, plodding affairs, and I will stand by my statement that Brock was made to look like every other Triple H opponent in those matches. The Punk match was at least exciting and far more compelling. Until this supposed superman comeback, it mostly followed the Brock/Cena blueprint. I have ZERO PROBLEMS with the Heyman interference because he's a goddamn heel manager and it's his job to cheat. I never got the feeling the Brock only won because of Heyman.

All of Punk's offense seemed desperate too me, which is exactly what it should have been. I didn't see any of this shit that the rest of you did. I did see Hunter more or less make Brock look like everyone else on the roster though.

Have the Suns been this good at shooting 3's all season? They are lighting us up so far tonight.

The match was amazing, but I still would have had Brock go over Cena.

Damn, I came here specifically to post this. You did right when I pulled up the reply box haha. I like the logo.

Most fights are over in like 30 seconds so cardio doesn't mean anything. Maybe those bar fights where people just wrestle each other to the ground. but I've seen plenty of fights that have gone over 30 seconds. Perhaps but I highly doubt cardio is the deciding factor in most fights unless you're in a controlled environment. I dunno, I was attacked by a guy who was floridly psychotic, but in such shape that a couple of whiff punches had him winded and incapable of carrying on. And this is what I'm talking about. In fights most people just try and punch you as hard as they possibly can, exerting tons of energy on punches they may or may not land. Tires someone out fast. Anyway, any guesses on who Batista's first program is with? Cena.

Heenan cheated for Andre.

Also, heel managers are supposed to cheat.

Oh yeah, when I was a kid, I thought Buck was buttcheeks. Last couple of years though, he's one of my favorite guys to go back and watch.

I hope not, because that's not what I was aiming at. To be fair, I think Bryan is well trained enough to kick someone's ass. I was thinking more along the lines of the guys that are presented as badasses or someone we're supposed to find believable, but obviously aren't. Punk looks like a guy who could kick someone's ass in a bar fight. He's not all muscled up or anything but he just looks like a guy who'd bite your nose off or pull some other ridiculously terrible thing to win a fight. He looks scuzzy tough if that makes any sense. And I've met D-Bry and while he's a short guy, he's not super small next to an average person. He's built pretty well. CM Punk as Bobby Hill? I accept that. I see Punk as a Gribble type. Pocket sand! I always felt like this is exactly how Corey Graves should be booked.

Sounds like someone forgot to pay his air bill... That's what he does.

Does that consider the fact that Love grabs like a billion rebounds, though? It seems like half of their offense is Love grabbing the rebound and outletting to a fastbreak.

More specific to my point, the company does an awful job of presenting these guys as someone that could kick your ass, and the guys working don't project that. Guys take too much shit now, and tell too many jokes.