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I thought his arm propelled the ball enough to call handball, but then again, the official missed a Leicester handball in the box that should have been a penalty earlier on in the game, so it all evened out. This is an absurd opening weekend. So glad for Sir Pat Stew that Huddersfield won!

This sounds like a great script for a John Singleton movie!

I was so looking forward to hearing a bunch of raving Arsenal fans yelling "Wenger out!" on their YT fan channel, but then Leicester decided to stop playing defense after the eightieth minute. Though one of those last two Arsenal goals was assisted by a clear handball.

"Scott Steiner as local restaurateur who was witness to an attempted murder" is my favorite example of Scott Steiner away from the ring.

The Steiners were great. They got the best match out of Curtis Hughes that I've ever seen by a long, long way. I love intricately-structured tag matches and all, but I also love bomb-throwers, and the Steiners were the best bomb-throwers around.

I think Luger was clearly good from '87-'91 as an all-around talent. I also think Luger's character work is underrated. I enjoyed him in '95 as a tweenerish-heel who was taking advantage of Sting's trust and good nature, and his Total Package work in '99-'00 was actually quite good, even considering that it contrasted to the sea of crap in WCW. For that matter, I liked the Narcissist, too.

Wrestlers are clannish, weird people with severe ego problems? Nah, I can't believe that! STOP MAKING STUFF UP DOUBLE-TALK DAVE, YOU CAN'T WORK ME!

Mr. Socko being the ultimate neutralizer of Joey Ryan's dick is analogous to Damien being the ultimate neutralizer of Andre the Giant. That sort of thing is timeless. I don't hate it. Then again, white guys from the south getting overemotional about pro wrestling (especially to make money) is also timeless. Really, the only losers here are the people who care enough to argue about it about it on boards like Cageside Seats or whatever.

Every day? What are you, a trillionaire? Make a damn sandwich at home every once in awhile, bruh.

This is a legit question and not a setup for a joke: Are there any good Insane Clown Posse matches (or, if you wouldn't use the word "good," "fun-though-flawed" ICP matches)?

...which has partially ruined my enjoyment of old-school WoS in large part because Breaks is one of my favorite five wrestlers ever. Please tell me that Catweazle hasn't been doing anything from killing family members to tweeting "FOREIGNERS OUT! #Brexit" lately. I can't take that, man. There are wrestlers who I actually like after seeing people add tweets from them too, so Niko is right that having wrestlers on social media works both ways. But man, I already lost my ability to enjoy The Cosby Show and Gnarls Barkley albums over the last couple of years, so the last thing I need to do is to submit myself to greater disappointment by reading Twitter too much.

Being a black wrestling fan is pretty much waiting for people that you are a fan of to let you down. This is why I stay away from Twitter. I don't need to see Ricky Steamboat or Daniel Bryan tweeting that BLM are the real terrorists or some shit. I only have so much left to cling to here. And yeah, I know that if I didn't enjoy entertainers with shitty viewpoints, I'd never consume entertainment, but it's harder for me with pro wrestling because even though they're basically actors, the line between the actor and his or her part is so blurred that it's easy to get attached to wrestlers that you really like. Sometimes I think about wrestlers that have passed that I love and I'm thankful that at least I never truly have to know their views about this stuff. Like, if Rick Rude were alive in 2017, there is a decent chance that he would be tweeting some shit that I would hate, and that would ruin my love of WCW '92 on a number of levels. Fuckin' Twitter.

Enzo should think about it for two seconds, say "fuck the business," and go make money being a hanger-on at parties who guest DJs and shit. I can't imagine that it's worth the money or the CTEs to put up with these fragile dumbasses at his workplace who are so focused on protecting da biz, even if he's also a dumbass.

This didn't have the part with the dude in the front row crying with joy, which is my favorite thing about the win.

The WWE's product (just testing this board upgrade's filter) is probably still as stagnant as it was when I was watching, so there really is no reason to pay for the Network unless you like old wrestling (which I do, and which was the real reason that I paid for the Network when I had it). If they were firing on all creative cylinders, the major shows/PPVs would be enough to drive people to the network. They need to fix their creative process. That last sentence is the most obvious thing that I've written on this board to date.

/mjcry

I don't know if Road Dogg was better off the cuff. Most of his off-the-cuff stuff that I remember, I only remember because he cursed a lot or used slurs. Point me to these good Road Dogg promos that I don't remember, please.

If you really wanted to insult Vic, you should have talked about how shitty Demolition were. I mean, I like them, but I'm just saying that this is how you get to him. Whether or not Enzo is good probably depends on your age and how much/what type of hip-hop you're into. Dude is the perfect hype man. He should be a manager, as others have said, and it's too bad that Vince doesn't utilize them. He should be hype man for Titus Brand wrestlers, really. That whole idea is an idea that should work if they got behind it, but they won't for many reasons. I digress. Enzo is a good mic worker, I think, and his in-ring bumping is all he needs besides that to be a solid managerial type.

Ibra is coming to MLS, apparently. Even with his knee being fucked, I still think this signing is awesome because old man Ibra was banging them in in the Prem last season. He'll find space in the box. Hopefully not against the Sounders, but I'll enjoy watching it.

Enzo has charisma of a sort, so he should go do literally anything that isn't catching CTEs for shit pay and trash booking. I'm sure he has enough connections to get something going in L.A. Anyone with anything resembling a lifeline out of the company should probably focus on taking that instead of on wrestling good six-minute matches on Superstars every week. I'm also sure that the black folks in the locker room think that supporting Trump is enough of a reason to dislike someone, but I'll refrain from going further down that road.

Oh shit, are you a "You Must Remember This" fan too? Though that pod might as well be renamed "Women Getting Treated Really Shitty In Hollywood."

At 24, the key decision-making parts of her brain are still developing. I had two degrees, a job, and a car at 24, but I still did random stupid shit occasionally that I look back at ten years later and wonder about. Plus she's on drugs, so that's not going to help. She's also essentially a battered wife whose "He didn't hit me, I just fell down the stairs"-style Twitter posts are an indicator of some trauma from the relationship. I have much more understanding for her even if she's making terrible choices. Some of that is on her, but some of that is physiology and some of it is being terrorized by a cokehead piece of shit.

I actually did listen to that WTF podcast. She's had a pretty interesting life, actually. Her stories about using Wheel of Fortune winnings to buy vending machines while she got more into wrestling and then did a non-TE reality show to get into wrestling school were remarkable. She seems like a really nice person.

Two observations: First, this should have been tagged "shame." No reason, just, you know, a suggestion. Second, Awesome Kong was must-see TV for me when she was feuding with Kim and Wilde in TNA. That legit might be my favorite thing that the company has ever done, even over the Broken Hardys and the Joe/AJ/Daniels stuff. Kong is also really good in GLOW to the point that I think that she probably has a solid career in TV ahead of her.

Joe being angrier than a motherfucker has always been money on mic and in ring. Except for the Nation of Violence thing, but whatever. Joe and Brock looked like they legit wanted to come to blows. Also, this is why the PG era is good - when people actually get to cussing, it actually has some impact. There was some kid in the front row who was shocked when Brock dropped that S-bomb, like he couldn't believe it and he just knew things were going to escalate. I'll have to see whatever match comes of this someday. The last time I saw Joe this intense, he tried to turn Finn Balor and some random security guy into two matching puddles of grease.