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I feel like Vince doesn't really believe that a wrestler can connect with fans solely through work, which is odd because more guys in his company are wrestling like WWE is now a workrate promotion and some, like Rollins, are getting over with the fans because of it. In that one way, WWE fans are becoming like old-school WCW fans, in that if you work in the way they like, you'll get over with them even if you can't cut it on the mic.

OK, watching this WWE 24 on NXT, and there is a lot of great stuff, but I have to ask: Was the pop for Blue Pants at the Brooklyn NXT show the biggest one they have had at a WWE show since WM 30? I might be forgetting a pop that big, but I don't think I am. Also, with all that talk about how Dusty helped Bayley shape herself as a wrestler, it occurred to me for the first time that Bayley is essentially Dusty Rhodes for the new millennium. Which means...yep, Sasha is Ric Flair for the new millennium!

Nah, I think it's the first time for me, but I wrote that because someone else used a Perfect Strangers analogy on this board in some other thread, maybe a few days ago, and it tickled me. Or I could have done so and just forgotten that I did in which case I'll stop because I can't step up to Ben's level of dedication to inserting Buck into various booking scenarios.

If they wanted to save Rollins in the short term, they should break him away from the Authority and make the New Day his dragons. He desperately needs guys with charisma as his backup, as much as I loved J&J Security. Plus, Seth Rollins as the Larry Appleton to The New Day's Balki Bartokomi seems like it would actually be pretty entertaining.

It says something about 2015 WWE when my favorite hot trios team gets a segment with a McMahon and a main event segment where they destroy Cena and instead of being excited about it, all I can think is that the old guard is going to leech off of New Day's heat and kill them dead on every RAW, Smackdown, and PPV for the next month or two. Dread, that's what I feel. Dread.

"Casa de Bunk Buck." Fucking absurd.

I watched this today. Owens and Jericho had a decent match and The New Day's promo was fantastic. Big Show dying for us all was hardcore, too. Otherwise, not good. Rollins is one of the worst dudes on the roster in particular, and Cena's PWG ace act is overdone. The rest of it was jibber-jabber that I've seen before enough already, and I don't even watch RAW (just select New Day/Rusev/Owens segments later in the week).

That was like a seventeen-minute-long live-action Homestar Runner skit, so of course I absolutely loved it. New Day is like black millennial DX at this point, so I'm sure for some people, that video will be too much, but I am in that exact cultural demo, so I welcome more super-long videos of these guys acting like jackasses.

Is there going to be a DVDVR community on PSN? Just curious. I probably don't play most of the games that y'all do anyway, at least multi, but I'd still be interested.

Bummed to see Joe and Bálor beat Enzo and Cass. They clipped the hell out of this match because we went from opening standoff before the break to hot tag after it. It looked like it was a hot match though. I really wanted to see Crews and Gargano do some more counter-wrestling. Great athleticism out of both guys that really made the exchange fun. Gargano slowing things down with holds probably wasn't the match they should have decided to wrestle after that opening exchange. I still think Crews gives too much to his opponents right now. I feel like after Vince really sees this dude, he's getting the "next John Cena" push on the main roster for some reason. OK, Dana mispronouncing "hyena" and then Emma chiming in with "She says it like that" to help Regal understand was really funny. Also love the off-screen video Asuka murdering people terrifying Dana and causing Emma to bail. Prediction: After Bayley retains over Sasha at Takeover: Respect and finally earns Sasha's (ahem) respect, Nia Jax comes out and destroys Bayley and also maybe Sasha. Nice stalling suplex from Billie Kay there. "You're nothin' but a Billie goat" is so absurd that it made me laugh. Emma is an awesome heel with the hi-five fakeout to the kid in the crowd and kicking Billie's arm away from the tag nonchalantly and such. Fine tag match from these guys. I'm just a huge fan of Tyler Breeze's act. Man, I wish he was the champ right now. Clever boy, adopting the Killswitch Unprettier. Also much better than the Beauty Shot, which I just don't buy as a flash knockout-type move. I am SO excited for Takeover: Respect. The card looks stacked. The tag matches are going to be awesome, and I'm really looking forward to Jordan and Gable vs. whoever comes out of the semis of the tournament and, of course, Bayley/Sasha IronMan. Nice hype video to finish the show.

I backed Broken Age on Kickstarter...which reminds me, where the heck is my boxed copy? Anyway, brutal month. I have two of these games from Humble Indie Bundles already. Others may fare better (hopefully). I wish Kung Fu Rabbit was instead a port of Kung Fu Chaos from OG Xbox somehow.

I can't believe they even released that game. And that's post-patch install! I still play THPS and THPS2 on Dreamcast and even THPS2X on OG Xbox occasionally, but I checked out on the series around THPS3. It's sad to see a once great series reduced to an abomination like that. On another note, I found a reason to own a Wii, and that reason is Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.

It's a fun game. It's totally easy, so if you're looking for challenge, you won't find any of it. I died approximately three or four times, and I died zero times after I gained the ability to brand and mind control enemies. I paid sixty bucks for the vanilla game, and I think that it was worth it, if only because screwing up the line of military succession in creative ways kept me playing for quite awhile.

Blah. Black Flag is awesome, but I got it at launch. Not a SMB fan and I have it on Steam. What's on Vita?!

Yeah, that Jason Segal one. Awful, awful, awful movie. I never thought that I would dislike anything that involved the Muppets, much less dislike that strongly. But that's for another thread.

In retrospect, this would have been the very best way to end Goldberg's streak without it seeming cheap or forced. People believed that 1) the Diamond Cutter equaled death and that 2) DDP could hit it from anywhere at any time and immediately turn the tide of a match. DDP getting the win off that Diamond Cutter that popped the roof off the place at Havoc would have been totally accepted by the crowd. DDP, by the way, started to really get over as early as '95 in the feud with Badd. He would hit the Diamond Cutter and a lot of people were throwing up the diamond in the crowd. And remember, he decisively lost that feud.

This show is pretty much a puppet extension of 30 Rock with Kermit as Liz Lemon. I guess I can see the Larry Sanders comparisons too with Piggy as Larry, Kermit as Artie, and Fozzie as Hank Kingsley, but either way, it's for people who are adult Muppet fans from way back. Personally, I think they should revive Muppet Babies and show it on the Disney Channel if they want to rope in a new generation of fans (which I don't think is the purpose of this ABC Muppet show). Anyway, even if kids see this show and don't like it (and since it's out of their wheelhouse, they probably wouldn't), nothing can be worse than the garbage that was the Muppet Movie revival from a couple years back. If I didn't already love the Muppets, I would have never given them a chance after that.

Yeah, you Eva haters are getting Reddit/Cageside Seats-level obsessive about it, and it is beginning to permeate my glorious little respite thread from the shit in pro wrestling, the NXT thread. Come on, guys.

I thought that 2011 had more to it than Booker T and Nash returning. Punk and New Nexus cutting off the ring before getting tossed and the near-win for Santino at the end were also awesome. That was the same year, right? The 40-man?

I think Bischoff is my favorite bullshitter in pro wrestling. He's such a slick talker, but quite fun to listen to. Also, man, I'd love to see Ken Shamrock fight Meng in a random parking lot in 1998. I'm sort of sorry JBL mentioned that. Now my life feels incomplete.

Shit, before I read El Dragon's post, I was wondering why Bayley would want to see a supercut of their feud set to Frank Sinatra.

This is where you and I part. I have no clue what would make anyone think that about Alexa Bliss. She's pretty good in her heel role and is a high spot wrestler who does them clumsily half the time. To be fair, she could suddenly break out a la Sasha Banks, but there's not much there that hints at that possibility so far.

I think this post gave me cancer.

This show was no great shakes wrestling-wise, but the character and promo work was so awesome that I was cool with it. Even Eva Marie showed some good personality.

I know we're talking realistically here about what Vince might do, but I don't want to see any of those guys at WrestleMania unless it's in the role that Hogan, Austin, and Rock were in at WM 30. I want new stars there. Cena and Lesnar are fine, but they should be putting over Big E and Reigns respectively as the next two big stars. Otherwise, I'm pretty much sick of seeing any of the Monday Night Wars era guys being trotted out for programs. I'm way over it.