Yo-Yo's Roomie

Happy birthday, Natural. Genuinely, and I think everyone here would agree (unless Hulk Hogan lurks here), the nicest guy on the board.

Raw has really changed a lot since I last watched.

I agree with this. I imagine I'm probably at least as big a Bret fan as anybody on this board, and I'd go as far as to say that Neidhart was more important to getting the Hart Foundation established as an act than Bret was.

Thanks, my friend. I'm doing okay. Hope you are too. I really wish Sasha had left WWE during that time. I'm pretty much at the point where I selfishly want all my favourites to leave that company, because I just can't watch them anymore. What really annoyed me is that me quitting WWE seemed to coincide pretty perfectly with Sasha becoming one of the most heavily-featured wrestlers in the company. So, you know, that's about how my luck goes.

Nobody tell Vince that Sasha said her dream was to work Japan, not in the WWE, but that WWE 'called her first'.

From reading her wiki, someone should have changed the finish.

I went to that game. Not a Utd fan, but my dad wanted to take me and my sister to see a big team play, and there were none bigger than them. He picked a memorable one for us.

I was gonna bring that up. Note how her instinct is to make sure she lands on her feet, not giving a fuck about what happens to Sasha. I don't know enough about it to know for sure, but it seems like she has terrible instincts.

This is me. I'm not giving up my Premier League. I just don't get how these fuckers continue to make so much money.

I continued watching for many years after I stopped enjoying it, and even then it was only really the shitty business practices/moral bankruptcy of the company that got me to stop. What kept me doing it for so long was primarily habit, the fact that the WWF was the promotion that got me into wrestling so it always felt like my 'home' promotion, the hope that it would get better, wanting to support the wrestlers I like/d (of which there are still many) and the fact that my real life wrestling fan friends watched so it was something for us to connect over. Oh, and because I hate myself. Can't forget that one. So I do get the hate watching, I get watching even though you know it's bad. It took me a long time to finally say enough is enough.

Do we know that they took Cena? Or maybe they just said forget it then and moved on to someone else?

Thank you, my friend.

Stay strong, brother. Let the power of Hulkamania carry you thr.... No, maybe not. Tap into the power of the Yes Movement. How about that?

I'm doing good, thanks, Natch. You? I actually finished going through 2016, but just never wrote the last few shows up. Real life kind of got in the way, as I know it did for a lot of people.

It's all relative. Becky was booked like shit until she got herself over to an insane level (and that was because they made the poor booking decision to turn her heel), Bayley was booked like shit forever until they salvaged her by turning her heel, which never should have been a consideration for someone like her, Sasha was booked like shit pretty consistently, but they were happy to rely on her star power and popularity to prop p the division at various times. Alexa and Charlotte are the only two who have been booked like stars pretty much from the off and were never really made to look like shit. And I know people were argue that Charlotte's booking has been bad (and it probably has been but at least she's been booked like a star).

Trump.

Orton winning the belt here is like if Bob Backlund had cleanly pinned Shawn Michaels for the belt in 1996, having never left the company since the 70s. And then, if the rumour is true that this is building to Orton/Edge at Mania, that would be like building to a Backlund/Pedro Morales main event at Mania 13.

21:14, but I was eating soup at the same time. And I spent way too long trying to work out what Rachel Ellering's birthname could be... Leanne Sotan? Joanne Sotan? Who names their kid Minne?

I'm sorry to hear all this. I hope things work out okay for you all.

"My children have already started burning his movies". I don't even want to be human anymore. I just can't do it.

I'm sorry that you're struggling, man. Know that so many people are struggling too right now. I mean, always, but especially right now. You're not alone. And people care about you and love you. I hope you can find some comfort. Keep posting on the board.

Sure, but Heyman probably could have taken him further, but there were injuries and stuff, and losing Kante and Mahrez probably didn't help.

Axel is proof perfect of why Heyman is the best. The guy proved to be a scrub pretty much his whole career, yet Heyman took him to the IC title, one of the most prestigious belts in all of wrestling. That's some Ranieri taking Leicester to the Premiership title shit right there. Cesaro, I have nothing for.

Reading shit like this and, and I'm not knocking anyone who still watches for whatever reason, whether out of habit or enjoyment or what, I'm so glad I'm not enabling this shitty company anymore. It's kinda embarrassing to me, again no judgments on anyone else, that with all the scummy shit they've pulled, it was a booking decision that finally got me to wash my hands of them (to elaborate, Hell in a Cell Rollins Vs Bray is when I decided I wasn't going to watch the weekly TV anymore, and just phased down to the ppvs, with a view to stopping completely, and then firing people during the pandemic is when I finally cancelled the network). But I just want wrestling where I don't get made to feel like an idiot for buying into someone. Rusev was one of my favourite guys. The Rusev Day shirt was one of a small handful of wrestling shirts I've ever owned. I remember going to a Smackdown around the time it really got big, and that was the most popular shirt I saw. I remember that Mania when he dropped the fall to Jinder. I remember just laughing and shaking my head, because you can't believe it, but at the same time, of course you can. Just total disdain for the audience, and it finally got to be too much for me. I look at the talent there and, honestly, it just makes me sad that so many of them are wasting away.

I'm more offended at the idea that getting anything out of Mike Knox is some sort of miracle. Knox was a pretty good worker.