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  1. Fighters (and wrestlers) will continue to get underpaid (on the whole) because they don't have a union. The reason why NBA, NFL, MLB players get ~50% of the money is because they have unions. I'd say it was because of the team versus individual nature of the sport, but golfers and tennis players have unions (and for pro wrestlers, actors would be comparable), so it's not an excuse. From the outside, I think that MMA and pro wrestling, as careers, breed a 'crabs in a bucket' mentality, both by the nature of the sport/business and intentionally fostered by promoters, that keeps fighter/wrestlers underpaid. They're their own worst enemies.
  2. I hadn't really watched much Tom Prichard, but, so, uh, BOTH Prichard brothers just do Roddy Piper impressions for promos?
  3. All the talk about SMW reminded me to go back and get to watching it, because it introduced me to a ton of dudes I love, none of them for their wrestling, though, Ron Wright being the prime example. Jim Cornette knew the power of a redneck calling other redneck's rednecks, and that's what pro wrestling should be, dammit. Plus, shit, I mean, New Jack, Candido, pretty much everyone on the show can talk, it's not so bad once you get over, uhh, Dixie Dynamite. I use up all my ability to overlook that flag on Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Freebirds, so there's not much left over...
  4. Chris Jericho getting the Paul Pierce treatment ('They don't love you like that') after Sting got the Kobe farewell tour would be *chef's kiss*.
  5. Damn, hope he gets better, I loved Mexico's Most Wanted.
  6. I liked Crow Sting during the run up to Starrcade, I just would have liked to see it toned down after that, a hybrid would have been good. That's a fair point and one I didn't think about, it was a good evolution of the character in that regard. I wouldn't expect him to still look the same, I think he could have kept the bodysuits and done a more hybrid character. I dunno, even though I was always a WWF kid, with Bret as my dude, Sting was the one WCW guy I really fucked with. That's fair, and, honestly, I don't think the longer dark hair and neon face paint was a great look for him anyway. In the end, it probably just comes down to nostalgia for the Sting that was there in my childhood, and, considering probably my biggest idol as a kid was Howie Long, with the flat top too (even I had one because of Howie), maybe I just like dudes with that haircut, lol. People are probably right about that type of babyface not being viable in the later 90s, too.
  7. Now that he's retired I guess I can get this off my chest. I fucking HATED 'Crow' Sting. It was really, really fuckin cool during the nWo, but it should have ended after he beat Hogan at Starrcade. The fact that he never really went back to 'Surfer' Sting is, in my opinion, a huge missed opportunity, ala Taker becoming the Deadman again, and, personally, a huge disappointment. Surfer Sting was so much fucking cooler than 'Crow' it's not even funny.
  8. *shudders* Not a world I'd want to live in.
  9. Terry Funk was old for so long that now when I see any footage of him talking when he's younger it's really strange. Like, it sounds like The Funker, but he doesn't look like The Funker to me, lol.
  10. If I wanted to watch wrestling for wrestling's sake, I'd watch the Olympics or MMA. I want to see stories that get resolved in the ring by two rednecks punching each other while encircled in cyclone fencing. Hold and counter hold is nice, but if there's no story, there's really not a point to it for me. The whole reason professional wrestling is a work is so you can build stories out of it.
  11. I didn't even know there was a roots of hip hop biography series, to tell the truth.
  12. I blame Clark Gable. Damn, Eve so far gone she can't even get a mention out here, though, to be fair, this is the first time I've thought of Eve in like fifteen years, so I guess that proves the point, lol.
  13. I only 'read' (listened to) 'Tod is God', but I have also audiobooked Hornbacker's 'Death of the Territories' and it was very, very good. I should check out more of his work.
  14. Yeah, that's basically why R. Kelly is right out for me. I guess my brain separates the worked violence of professional wrestling from the real violence of what Benoit did, I dunno. Maybe being a football fan has just conditioned me to be more accepting of CTE as a mitigating factor, maybe I just 'like' Benoit matches more than I 'like' the remix to Ignition and thus mentally parkour my way through... just wish it didn't have to be that way, but every one is terrible, it seems.
  15. This is where I've landed. For the most part it works, although sometimes it does bleed into the person's work too much for me. Like, I can watch a Chris Benoit match, but I wouldn't choose to listen to a R. Kelly track. It doesn't really make sense, but it's the only way to stay sane and still have entertainment options at this point. I know Cornette has the story about asking Lex what he would have done if he'd had to do the Memphis circuit for what they got paid, and Luger basically just says 'I wouldn't.'. Jim explains how he understood it because of where Lex had come from, but that it still rubbed a lot of the 'boys' the wrong way.
  16. Gotta finish Lucifer's story at Armaggedon. Across the Gordy-verse isn't something I knew I needed, but now I do.
  17. They're a tag team largely based on shit like NWA and movies like Colors and Boyz in tha Hood, and the whole public idea of a 'black street gang' is tied into the Bloods and Crips with is also heavily tied to Los Angeles. Admittedly, I'm from Los Angeles, so I'm biased, but it doesn't really make sense for them to be from anywhere else. It was an attempt to add credibility, just like it was for Public Enemy. Also, in Smokey Mountain, California is easy cheap heat, too. They wouldn't need it, because New Jack is like, the perfect heel for SMW, but it didn't hurt.
  18. I'll take the Liger sized Lugers as well, just gotta get the jump on a few of them while they're trying to get their shirts off.
  19. I fucking love Southland Tales, and, while a lot of it has to do with growing up in south LA/the South Bay/Beach Cities, it's just this weirdly strange movie with a lot of really fun characters. Love the musical number with Justin Timberlake, nearly everything Sarah Michelle Gellar says is hilarious, and it's one of the most quotable movies I've ever watched. 'Because I'm a pimp, and pimp's DON'T commit suicide'
  20. It's funny the stupid little things that ruin stuff for me. Well, 'ruin' is a strong word for this one, but I'm watching a supercut of the Aces & Eights storyline, and, like, I'm in for it, but, man, how many times are you just going to absolutely smack the shit out the back of someone's skull with a (clearly foam) ball-peen hammer? It's insulting.
  21. Eddie Kingston is just a very angry Jomboy and now I can't unsee it.
  22. Been enjoying Shane Douglas' podcast/youtube. It's kind of funny that this dude who was willing to run down anyone and everyone during a promo doesn't really seem to like talking shit about other people on his podcast, tho, lol. Not in a negative way, Franchise just seems so polite and proper as a person these days. He was really nice the one time I met him, tho.
  23. Buzz Tyler looks like chonky Johnathan Frakes and I can't unsee it.
  24. I got to see Terry Funk wrestle Roddy Piper at a PWG show in a hotel ballroom by LAX, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.
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