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  1. At least she got to decide who she married. I mean, if I was engaged, and my fiancee put our marriage up in a ladder match, I would probably dump her ass too.
  2. I thought it was pretty good for an AJ Styles promo.
  3. The manager isn't bad as a kind of direct-to-video equivalent of Paul E. The Warriors on the other hand...
  4. What the hell is a post modern chair shot anyway? Because hitting the guy over the head is now wrong, doing anything but that is ironic in some sort of way? If they made a storyline about how chairshots to the head are banned by head office, and the whole storyline was based around the two feuding wrestlers cooperating to work in a chairshot to the head in their match without anyone from head office catching on, that could arguably be postmodern. Much like the late-WCW "they'll have to improvise a finish!" faux-shoot bs. An argument could be made that Russo and Ferreira and their whole fascination with "worked shoots" was a debased form of postmodernism. But not here.
  5. From PWInsider.com They're just missing the 'W'. Also, nobody complaining now better ever suggest bringing back the Horsemen again.
  6. But... but... wet hair, you guys? How could you like Bret Hart when he had wet hair?!
  7. Random Question of the Day: Is there a Best of WCW Saturday Night set?
  8. Hobo Hero?! Hobos?! Ohnoes! The Big Shobo Hobo Dallas My God guys! This reminds me of Butch Doink, Luke Doink, Mo Doink and Mabel Doink. Shouldn't it be Kassius Hobo? With: "The Hobo F'n Show" Rob Van Dam Hulk Hobo Hobeau Beverly The Hobro (a scruffy and disshevelled Zach Ryder) and Jim Duggan trading in his 2x4 for a bo staff
  9. This discussion shows how very subjective our tastes can be. I'd take Ryder over Riley any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
  10. Del Rio is someone who is fine in the ring, but who leaves me absolutely disinterested whenever he's in the World/WWE TItle picture. He gets too much tv time, and he really hasn't done anything interesting for me since feuding with Rey. I'd rank him slightly higher than the Miz, which is damning with faint praise. Worst wrestler on the roster? Probably Khali and Hornswoggle, but they don't really wrestle anymore. Jinder Mahal? Mark my words: Luke Harper can go. You won't see it right away because of the position he's in, but as Brody Lee he was good, and put on a solid farewell match against Eddie Kingston that I got to see live.
  11. Question: Is Sin Cara just going to keep injuring himself until his contract runs out? Seriously, has there ever been a more brittle pro wrestler on our TV? He makes Mr. Kennedy look like Cal Ripkin.
  12. Missed the first half hour or so of this, coming in just as they were recapping Roode/Hernandez, but I enjoyed what I saw. I'm surprised no one's made a joke about the Anonymous Raw General Manager being in the backseat of the Hummer. Mr. Anderson may not have been the most inspired guy in the ring these days, but he's still fun on the mic now that he's the VP of Aces and 8s. I wish everyone got a title, though. Like Executive Assistant Wes Briscoe, or Garret Bischoff, Customer Service Representative. I have never liked Sabin, and I like him even less in this current run. TNA seems to have a knack for overlooking good X-Division guys in favour of the boring "normal" ones (see them putting Not!Trent Baretta over a couple of guys with actual hooks two weeks ago.) Weird to have Manik (that's Kinam spelled backwards!) chilling backstage without his mask, talking about his real identity. Also, I hate the Suicide/Manik costume. It is so obviously a video game costume, and it looks all awkwardly padded in places. Still, I'm glad to see them giving the X Division some spotlight time lately. Aries/Styles was good except for the really shoddy double pin finish. That was some Bully Ray level getting into position by Aries. As much as I liked Aries/Styles, though, Gail Kim and ODB had the match of the night. The Knockouts are really bringing it these days, aren't they? I wonder if the quarter-hour breakdowns are reflecting that. Amusing moment: Kurt Angle tells the five members of Aces & 8s that the MEM will take on "any five of them." I guess technically Bully's in there too, but he's a little busy. And boy, does Adam Pearce look low-rent after the August1Warning reveal. Never seen the guy wrestle, no opinion on him as a human being, but his attempt to piggyback on the publicity was Matt Hardy levels of embarassing.
  13. I'm one of three mostly-lapsed WWE viewers in this household, along with my girlfriend and our roommate. And I think, if I had to sum up why we've stopped watching, it'd be as simple as this: It's boring. I'm a fan of a lot of the in-ring action as far as the wrestlers go. But there's nothing to care about. You get the John Cena storyline, which is pretty much one of two angles: Cena is sneak-attacked/suckered by a heel (Ryback, Henry - in back to back months!), or Cena has tension with another face. And you always know it will end with Cena coming out on Raw to talk, with or without the belt. If the McMahon's are around, you get to watch them threaten/intimidate/emasculate, and then you get one or two secondary storylines which barely register and are often recycled without even filing the serial numbers off. For instance, I like the Wyatt Family. But "three outsiders beat up a guy" is a schtick they just did with the Shield. The two groups are very different, and their video packages/introductions were great... but their effect on the show is pretty much identical. I'm not going to get into fantasy booking, but if you write "backwoods cult" and "mercenary group" as interchangeable, you're doing something wrong. It's frustrating. I want to enjoy the shows. Hell, I gave them $40 for Money in the Bank because it (and the Rumble) are really the two PPVs in the year where something interesting might happen. There's probably more folks on the roster who I enjoy than at almost any point in the last 20 years. But if I sit down and watch Raw for 3 hours, I'm going to spend a large chunk of it bored - and then they'll re-show or re-do about 40% of it on SmackDown, so there's no point in watching that. I don't demand a lot of soap opera at the expense of actual wrestling, but if you're going to base your show around narrative, it has to be good (or at least engaging) if you want to succeed. The best, most consistent storytelling they've had in the last few years was when the wheels fell off the last "season" of NXT and you had the Bateman/Maxine/Curtis/Kaitlyn love triangle and Matt Striker getting kidnapped.
  14. Don't forget Chris Benoit, "Master of the Cripple Crossface". Buffer was phoning it in so bad he was like a pre-millenial Mike Adamle.
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