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They weirdly showed a lot of respect for the German announce table both at Summerslam and at Raw. I was expecting someone to go through that table as well. It's almost like they're afraid of the Germans. What's up with them having their own table anyways? They wanted to know why everyone's been so negative lately. All they hear is NEIN NEINTY NEIN.

The video up on the website is him being stretchered out so I am not quite sure how he could have "refused medical assistance" without it looking really poorly on the WWE doctor's (not that they don't make questionably sketchy storyline decisions all the time) EDIT - Ah-HA Found the story you were talking about - so yeah, the WWE doctors are as good as the Mets doctors I was so hoping for a quote from WWE attending physician Dr Vinnie Boombatz.

Said upset: Chemnitzer 5-5 Mainz 05 (3rd division Chemnitzer win 5-3 on penalties) 3-3 after regulation. Chemnitzer about to win in ET when Mainz equalized on a ridiculous strike from behind the halfway line.

They need to go full-on STOP THE MATSUNAGA with Brock from here until Mania. Have him destroy ring announcers, referees, commentators (leading to JBL attempting to stem Brock's tide in vain). Give Stephie an F5 so Trips realizes how she's on the shelf because he gave Brock carte blanche to wreak havoc. He puts the boots on one last time, gets stretchered out. In a perfect world, Bryan's at 100% and ultimately brings the belt home via some super-violent gimmick match.

Thought Stephanie was shockingly good... which is why the booking was so infuriating to me. The match shouldn't have been about her getting shine and out-wrestling Brie at any point, much less for 70-80% of the entire match... she needed to be stooging for the woman she's been playing mind games with, trying to put a wedge between her and her man, etc. Basically the match was about treating her as a wrestler when she's been anything but over the last 10 years. Brie works from the bottom the whole time and still loses. That isn't effective revenge, that's her being completely incompetent against a non-wrestler.

The Brooklyn Cyclones offered them the date instead of TNA and they took it. Pretty sure the team subsidizes it to an extent, so they wouldn't take too much of a bath.

Here's a better crowd shot. They probably had 1500 or so- a good indy crowd, just not nearly enough to fill an 8000-seat stadium.

Grew a beard, turned heel and joined the Bullet Club. I think that's the correct order.

Have at it!

I'm guessing 1500.... they could probably get away with announcing 2000. I like outdoor wrestling shows alot- the vibe is fun, especially when you're right next door to the world famous Coney Island boardwalk. That said, GOOD FUCKING LORD that crowd. They made the "last call" announcement and it literally looked like they called for intermission as 500 people RAN for the concession stands. It was the single dumbest thing ROH did all night because the "fans'" collective IQ dropped about 50 points right afterward. I wanted to set those assholes on fire after they completely ruined the Alexander/ACH match and tried to do the same thing for the tag title match. sabremike: "Maybe they should stop selling streamers?" Me: "They should stop selling BOOZE." So when exactly did Mark Briscoe turn into the Cuban Assassin? Papa Briscoe and the Kingdom were hanging out on the boardwalk before the show. You had to see Maria's reaction when someone walked up to shake her hand. "You're not going to stalk me, are ya?"

Quick heads up since I slept on getting this up and running- I'm giving everyone an extra week to get their teams in. So the leagues scoring won't actually start until Week 2. I blame myself.

This.

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ Standard league Password: 1970697-440895 Head to Head league Password: 1970697-442258 In it... to win it. (nice pop)

Is that a young less old Haruka Eigen? Pretty sure it's Masanobu Kurisu.

Also won the Tony for One Man, Two Guvnors a few years ago. I had the pleasure of seeing it and he was an absolute force of nature... he 100% deserved the award.

I knew it was only a matter of time before some indy dude tried to finish his opponent off with a house. Trips' next signee: Bill Ding.

So strange that Bill Cosby is the last truly great and famous stand-up comic alive from my fandom. What makes him the anamoly? And then there's this.

My theory about the music is that there's a big jukebox linked to the PA system and the guys all have to enter PINs for their theme to hit.

"Next week on Magnum PI, Magnum goes undercover to investigate drug-running operations at the wrestling federation... only to be drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with their heavyweight champion. It's not fake when the stakes are high."

I so wish the WWE would stop running angles that require their entire fucking roster to stand on the stage looking like chumps. There's something awesome about Paul Orndorff rocking a hipster mustache that would make half of Brooklyn go pants-free.

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