GuerrillaMonsoon

Anyone else catch the Australia v Philippines all in brawl last night? THON MAKER.

Think someone mentioned that OKC are $75 mill better off without Melo?

.....and Javale McGee

Lance Stephenson to the Lakers too. YESSSSSS

..............Chris Paul.

Kanyon got the US title as a result of being the Alliance MVP...

Find the Austin Rivers for Marcin Gortat trade to be very interesting on a number of front. Who made the decision to cut the coaches' kid, is bringing Gortat in on good money a sign Deandre is going, are the Wizards clearing cap space etc

Opening this one up for discussion - Situations where a guy has kicked out of something they ostensibly shouldn't have - and it really added to the match or the story being told, rather than just "its a big match, its expected to be kicked out of" or spamming finishes, or even just a real "Holy shit, no-one's ever kicked out of that!" reaction that you recall? Savage's 43698395065 elbow drops on Warrior and still only getting a 2 was....something. I'll need to rewatch Mania X-7 main to remember what went on there, but I recall that was really well done without remembering the specifics per se. Finishing stretch of the Team Austin vs Team Bischoff in 03 Survivor Series was pretty cool for this also, with Shawn just refusing to stay down. Good Friends Bitter Enemies also?

32 in October, started posting here in about 2001, where I could have sworn I was older than Bix. Apparently not.

Is it too much of a stretch to add Brutus Beefcake to that though? That promo was awful, and for all the inappropriateness of the comment - the timing was spot on, and made it fucking funny.

???. Don't. Ever. Change.

Still trying to work out who Bobby Eaton dislikes

That Gagnemetrics vignette is a must see. For all the ladies out there!

Weird Gorilla Monsoon match from Stampede in 61 is next. Doing a $500 bounty if anyone can pin him in ten minutes gimmick, but bumps heaps for this other guy, constantly going off his feet. Time limit draw and they brawl on, with nothing really gained. Such a weirdly laid out match.

Killer Kowalski vs Duke Keomuka and Mr Moto, handicap match. This is such a weird set up given they were all heels at the time (I think?), but Kowalski gets a huge face pop. This seems to be purely to get some local celebrity ring announcer over. It was pretty punch kick, and not particularly watchable. Particularly fuck finish for the time period. Guy who I'm guessing isn't Mabel runs in and lays out Kowalski. I hope it is time travelling Mabel though. That'd be something.

Going to go through this from start to finish. Someone on Reddit made a better one than mine - https://www.reddit.com/r/squaredcircle/wiki/wwe_network_shows_chron_5 Starting with the Thesz vs Gunkel match from '51. Thesz is old in '51 (35 bur looks 50) , and wrestles for another 40 years after.......working a headlock this long is excruciating. There's a nice counter that looked brutal with just dropping Thesz on his head. Does anyone know whether the autopsy findings of Ox Baker being responsible for Gunkel's death was a work, or a legitimate cause for the hematoma? Gunkel throws a nice forearm. Match ends with an on the spot diagnosis of a dislocated vertebrae! (while selling his shoulder). It's a good early fuck finish I guess, but wow this was difficult to sit through.

Don't think the Furface/Mariner gimmick was ever said to be Brutus on TV.

I don't mind the dives so much. It's just watching him work 20 minutes, and in the end only the OUT OF NOWHERE 30 seconds before the finish is what matters. There's no psychological conditioning that makes people believe that a move is high risk, as it doesn't take any toll on the guy doing it (and doing it every other match), it doesn't lead to a pinfall ever, the guy receiving it doesn't sell it at all, and doesn't factor into the finish. HHH/Rollins from Mania was his best match because they worked around those limitations in his work so well.

Its probably unfair to the specific workers, but it doesn't help when every guy does their same signature spots in the same set up every night in every match, the TV matches have the same format that you can set your watch to. Some guys have the right pacing, variety of moveset, and ability to maintain interest to either thrive in that environment or remain tolerable. Most don't, irrespective of their qualifications in other environments. It's annoying that its become an aspect of storytelling that doing anything outside of that paradigm is noteworthy, or that it requires weeks of storytelling to justify why this match isn't laid out like every other. Speaking of which, I also don't miss Dean Ambrose at all.

Can't say I've ever seen a Nakamura match that I enjoyed. Balor few and far between. Coming around to the Undisputed Era. Seth Rollins does absolutely nothing for me at all.

Jurassic World could quite possibly be the worst film I ever did see. Felt like one of those Disney straight to video films, or something starring Hulk Hogan. Certainly not $170 mill budget. Hayden Christensen level dialogue. Completely nonsensical evil bad guy plan. Lots and lots and lots of explosions. Never really paid attention to movie scores before, but this felt like a fourteen year old with a soundboard playing famous movie themes. If you're going to see this because Jeff Goldblum. Don't. In it for five minutes. Negative stars.

This is ridiculous. Bigger picture is that they booked themselves into a corner, and did well to get themselves out of it. Would have made Nia look bad losing to someone in their first match, even if it was Ronda Rousey. Too early for Ronda to have the belt, and you probably need to make allowances for the possibility/probability that she was not going to be 1/10th as naturally good as she was in that match. The end result is protecting both from dropping a fall they can't afford to, gives Alexa something to do as the cowardly heel champion holding on to her title with people invested in seeing either Nia or Ronda completely destroy her. Far more interesting storyline than just a redo of Carmella holding onto the briefcase and teasing a million failed cash-ins.

Could have sworn Reigns and Cena did that exact same segment a few months earlier

Upgrade was super fun. Bad acting, questionable plot, but fuck me was there a lot of shit happening on the screen at once that just gets you invested. Rare film where the futuristic aesthetic is done well and uses its imagination rather than "here's some generic CGI". Super obscure casting, flicking through the IMDB and realizing what obscure Australian miniseries they'd pretty much all been in was pretty cool. It felt like what might have been had Kubrick directed Highlander. 7/10 not so much for its artistic merits, but it was a goddamn fun night out.