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Is that Spider-Man? If it is, what the fuck is the connection there? Launch party, I'm guessing?

That's a version of the Junior title that I've never seen. What era was that used in? Is this before or after the "Crown" version?

While it took you saying this for me to realize it, it's pretty goddamn nifty to see. To go a little deeper and away from NXT, you could also include Kofi in that batch. He spent almost no time on the indies, he signed his developmental deal in September of 2006 after making his wrestling debut in June and came all the way up through their in-house system.

This kid is fucking pro wrestling treasure.

I jumped in a little bit this morning, and once again, because of a large scale update, all my base tech is changed / fucked / obsolete. I think this might be my breaking point for playing the day 1 save I keep going back to or starting over. I think I'll get into a brand new game, play through the aforementioned tutorial and work out all the new mechanics, then go back and fix all the shit that isn't working in my real save.

While I love the idea of a Dungeon shirt, that wouldn't be it. If it was this image, then fuck yes: Granted, no Giant, but it more than makes up for it with King Curtis and Meng and that wild fucking mask.

Yeah, she knocked it out of the park. I've noticed that reflection in the eyeball in a lot of their single shot / talking head promos. I like it. I don't especially know why, but it just works for me.

No bullshit. I am always amazed by how easily new, ultra-talented people step right into the holes left by national signings. Really great to think about the long-term health of the smaller part of the business when that is the example being put forward.

Jimmy wasn't allowed into the country, so they pulled the team from all the shows and a signing they had scheduled

Oh, booooooooooo!!!! I just remarked to my wife this morning that at $3.25, gas is getting "cheap" again here. We just did a road trip from here to Sandusky, OH and back, and it was pretty crazy seeing how cheap it was in some spots.

It is some sort of 3D / VR gimmickry. Here's last year's SummerSlam highlight from those cams:

Get right the fuck out of town!! Talk about a missed opportunity. Punk Rock Bob Backlund is the stuff that pro wrestling dreams are made of. I'm imagining the same kind of dedication to the gimmick that he ran with for the 1994 heel run. Backlund as some kind of enviro-punk berating us about the damage we are doing would have been some kind of wonderful. I'd buy Backlund's zine in a fucking heartbeat. Fuck it, bring him back right now and put him with Bryan and Rowan.

The dude that made that Rock N Wrestling style statue is on Instagram, and his shit is HELLA nice. He does mostly wrestling stuff, but every now and again a character from a different arm of pop culture will show up. https://www.instagram.com/thejokr914/

Fuckin A right. I saw that Santo was going to be there and copped my $15 GA ticket right then. I don't really care too much in either direction about Cain, but that's still pretty badass to get to see him. I'm pretty sure that Vinnie Massaro and the PWR dojo is responsible for his training, so I'm sure that he'll get the same kind of shine that we just saw at TripleMania I wonder if he and Santo will be tagging together? Lots of times the featured booking is in a singles for the main, in June they did Bárbaro Cavernario and Carístico as a singles match. But with Akiyama last month he was in a 6 man, and when they brought in Liger last year, he tagged with Misterioso against Puma King and Rocky Romero. Really, who gives a fuck? I get to see El Hijo del Santo in a HS gym in the town I grew up in.

I keep figuring that Fatu will end up as a huge deal for someone somewhere, and obviously, MLW thinks the same with the way he is treated there. There was a report back at the start of the year that he was "under contract" with them, but I can't imagine it's any kind of anything beyond not being able to work somewhere that has TV or streams PPV or something, because he still shows up all over the fucking place. He's on damn near every PWR show, he works APW all the time, I have seen him at EBPW once or twice, plus he does Midwest and Southwest indies, on top of PCW ever so often and random shots in TJ for The Crash. Dude gets around and it shows, because every time I go a few months without seeing him, he's better and better.

Delano, CA is the North / South cutoff as it pertains to gang affiliation. Above Delano is Nuestra Familia, below is La Eme. The best answer is typically the southernmost 10 counties in the state. Monterey, Kings, Tulare and Inyo Counties all have flat southern borders, making it pretty easy to draw a line across the state: I am Northern California born and raised, and grew up in San Jose, which is pretty goddamn close to the geographic midpoint of the state, but realistically is nowhere near what is considered to be Southern California.

The app on my Fire stick just flat out doesn't work, but it also doesn't look like an update has pushed to it yet. Everything comes back with a super generic error message about being unable to play video. The 360 app was discontinued, so I guess I will have to try to watch on the PS4. What a bummer, I am like 3 weeks behind on 205 Live.

Just when I thought I couldn't love him anymore, he does this!!

Damn near 600 bombs and 3000 H, who is discounting his candidacy? He's not in the HOF because he wiggled his finger and copped some "never have I ever" shit at a Congressional committee in March, then got hosed in August for the gas. He'll get in after the first batch of tainted names get in. He might even be in that first batch with Bonds and Clemens. Baseball was okay with the rampant amphetamine usage for years and years, and for whatever reason don't consider that to be performance enhancing, so lots of guys from the greenies era are in the HOF. The steroid guys will get in eventually as well.

Yo, that sucks. I totally understand the business side of this, and the idea that as an FA signing, he has underperformed. But goddamn, that seems so fantastically heartless to cut him loose 2 days after he comes back.

I had never heard the story before, but apparently, yes. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19980915&id=AqNUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ajsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1717,3899049

I can see that angle, for sure. As much as I dislike LowKi, the deal he does on the double stomp with his knees tucked into his chest while at the peak of his jump always adds to my enjoyment of his doublestomp. Granted, he's probably just doing it so he can blast full force on to someone, and hence we have come full circle as to why I can't enjoy his shit.

I wanted to go and dig into whatever weirdness Shawn Spears v MDOGG20 is going to be, but my wife is out of town camping, so I'm solo with our Boys and I don't feel like dragging them to Daly City and hoping they don't get bored. Hit it up and post a review!

I'm not sure I follow here. If I jump directly on to someone with both feet, that is going to hurt me more than it does them? Is my opponent wearing a full suit of armor?

Dietrich went yard in like April and pimped it a little bit, and they've been off to the races ever since. Lots of traded HBP and jaw-jacking, and the benches have cleared once or twice in past meetings. But Amir and Yasiel were ready for some shit last night!