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When you listen to the crowd reactions that Roman Reigns receives, a lot of it is the same women in the crowd that cheer for John Cena while all the men in the crowd chant "Cena Sucks." Didn't mean that comment to come off as demeaning or a generalization. But no one can deny that part of what is driving the Roman Reigns hype machine in WWE's eyes is his popularity with female fans. Hell, I'm not entirely unsure that WWE doesn't already see a backlash from hardcore fans coming and are positioning Roman Reigns to step into John Cena's "wrestling hero to women and children/bane of male Internet fans" shoes for the future.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Daniel Bryan and Dean Ambrose split the "Internet favorite" vote resulting in the more general populace fans and women being just enough to propel Reigns to the top.

Viewing the Saturday Night Main Event from right before Wrestlemania III, two random observations: 1. It's stunning how much the opening segment, with brief 20-second promos from each wrestler highlighted on the show got me way more excited to watch this than the "last week on RAW/followed by 20-minute opening promo" gets me for RAW. I definitely think it would be worth experimenting with doing something like that at the start of RAW every now and then - or even an episode where they have one of these at the start of every hour. It just seems like the more I watch '80s WWF that little touches that were meant to draw the casual viewer back then and get them caught up on storylines quickly could be easily more effective even in 2014 than the current formula. 2. I know the touring cycles were different back then, but it also seems nuts in hindsight that they ran a major Saturday Night's Main Event taping in Detroit a mere five weeks before they were back in the area for Wrestlemania III. It's a good testament to how hot the WWF product was back then that they drew 20,000 people for this taping and then fairly immediately after filled the Silverdome.

Did anyone outside of Argentina know about Titanes En El Ring before the Youtube era? Just curious if it was circulating much in tape trading circles or if its something Meltzer would have been made aware of and wrote about once or twice in passing. WWF was panned critically for how much of a "cartoon" their product was comparatively compared to most NWA promotions in the 80s. I can imagine if someone showed a tape of this to Verne Gagne in 1983 he would have lost his shit.

If these guys aren't part of the stairs match I am cancelling my WWE Network subscription:

Watching the 1987 Slammy Awards, one of my favorite "guilty pleasure" bits of '80s WWF cheese. Vince singing "Stand Back" is still hilarious after all of these years, but man I would love to have been able to pick the brain of old-school guys like Jack Brisco, Bruno Sammartino, and others of similar ilk when they saw Harley Race getting hit with a pie by Hacksaw Duggan and having a wacky backstage brawl surrounded by a donkey.

I love the silence on commentary when they came back from commercial to end the show. I was still a year away from being on the Internet at the time and I totally bought the end of that episode as real.

That Andre quote is way scarier when you imagine him saying that while he has that giant baby smile on his face.

Honest truth, if they got the guy that hosts United States of Bacon to be a color commentator, he could be a "next-gen" Don West. Dude is super enthusiastic about the bacon he gets to consume on that series, and if he could translate even a tenth of that enthusiasm for TNA that would automatically be a 1000% improvement over the current commentary situation.

Sadly, Bill Dundee as TNA Champion in 2015 will be a better idea than multiple real ideas they end up coming up with.

If Revenge of the Nerds came out as is today, it would get savaged as a "rape culture" movie. I definitely dont think "tricking sorority girl into letting the nerd go down on her because she thinks he is her boyfriend under a mask" would go over too well.

The three ECW Home Video shows they have right now are under the ECW Exposed header in the Vault section along with short video clips here and there.

got home from work and fired up ECW Cyberslam '96 for my first viewing of it since the late '90s. Only about 30 minutes in so far. The Pillman promo is still intense, but the overall "worked shoot" hasn't really aged well, and Shane Douglas damn near derails the entire thing but shouting "He's shooting! He's shooting!" near the first open microphone he can find. But I'll be damned if I can't get enough of The Sandman laying waste to sacrificial lamb scrubs like The Bad Crew and The Dirt Bike Kid, and Taz destroying the shit out of Joel Hartgood and Donn E. Allen.

First thing I did when I got home from work was fire up ECW Cyberslam '96 on the Network. Watching Taz do that to Mikey Whipwreck after he already destroyed Joel Hartgood (my own dark horse pick for "sleaziest jobber ever") was pretty frigging awesome. I think that was the Taz/Mikey clip that ended up in the TV opening for a good two years or so after that.

I am very happy that Too Many Cooks went viral the last couple of days, if only to confirm that what i saw when I awoke on my couch with the TV on at 4AM a couple days before Halloween was indeed what I actually saw and was not just imagined.

20 bucks that on this Monday's episode of RAW there wont be a single mention of Daniel Bryan being part of the Giants celebration and that the production staff is pissed that the video package of John Cena inspiring the Royals to victory they put together will never see the light of day.

My biggest issue with the superhero (and other self-conscious franchise) movies now is that when I go to movies I look forward to seeing a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. But by Marvel and Warner Brothers basically telling me "theres a ton of movies coming out and they are all interwoven together" that I am never going to walk out of their movies with a sense of story closure and fulfillment because everything will just continue to build to the next movie until the profits stop coming. These movies are basically 200-million dollar episodes of a TV show at this point.

-Billy Jack Haynes' Hat vs. Jerry Lawler's Crown in a "Winner Gets To Leave A Number Two In Michael Hayes" Match -Seconding the 20-Doink Invitational Royal Rumble idea, but due to a paperwork error one of the contestants is Roderick Strong. -an eight-on-eight DVDVR Meme Elimination Deathmatch - one team consisting of Ideas For Movies Starring Mark Henry vs.The other team consisting of Chris Hero's Fat Rolls - Special Referee: Robert Gibson's Lazy Eye

Best Tenay "I know who that is" moment ever. "That's Shocker from the McDonald's commercial!!!" That one's good, but my vote goes to "That's Suicide! From the TNA Impact Video Game!"

I apologize if this got posted at some point, but I caught a preview of WHIPLASH last night. This flips the shit out of the "inspirational-teacher drama" tropes, and JK Simmons has one of the most viscerally powerful performances I've seen in a long time.

And late into the night for the East Coast, another highly ranked team goes down. The Pac 12 race is a frigging mess right now. I really wish Facebook and Twitter was keeping track of how many people posted that Krusty The Clown "What The Hell Was THAT!?" Clip today. I cant imagine that college football fans didnt set a record for that today.

To those that had 2014 pegged as the year that an episode of WWE RAW featured a segment where the Rev. Jesse Jackson raised the hand of a dude in a bunny suit after a post-match beatdoiwn...ah fuck it, I doubt even the feveriest of fever dreams ever saw a vision like that coming. Though it seemed like a wasted opportunity to try to get another Titus O'Neil push going...do a segment for the Komen foundation that might theoretically start a face push if handled right, followed by putting him over as a friend of the Rev. Jesse Jackson...and then letting his partner get a fluke win and then the segment ends with Los Matadores and Adam Rose/Rosebuds reigning supreme. That said, Luke Harper singles push on the horizon...I'm on-board with whatever else I need to be on-board with to witness that. And it's stunning how Dean Ambrose's awesomeness even raises WWE's attempts at "prank comedy" to a new level.

LOL non-Apter mag's clunky attempt at creating its own storylines: