Territorial

More like 5 years. Gaylord was in the UWF (Watts version) at least by the end of 1986 and was in WCCW for awhile before Global launched.

Apartment Wrestling gone terribly wrong. Wait.... There's a way for apartment wrestling to not go wrong?

I kinda liked WCA when it first came out (I picked up every issue when it was released), but even for the time, I never thought it was "good". I was thrilled when Byrne came on, and it's not a terrible scripting job by him, but, yeah, the character assassination plotlines really undermine his run. When I reread his WCA run last year, I was surprised how little I enjoyed it. David's Hulk run might be my personal favorite long run on a superhero book. He kept the book interesting for years and years, through a shit-ton of artist changes, crossovers, and changes in direction. The Joe Fixit run doesn't hold up well for me, but, at the time, it was a great change of pace from the McFarlane run (which had an overall arc and darker, more serious scripting), McFarlane's style has aged really badly for me - when I reread Spawn recently. I was thrilled when he stopped doing pencils - but his style fit Hulk really well. Actually, I need to go back and reread David's Hulk run. About the time the Pantheon storyline wrapped up, I started drifting out of comics, so I don't know that I ever finished the run.

FYI: For people on Comcast, HIMYM is now available On Demand. This means I can probably catch the season for the first time since s2.

Personally, I enjoyed The Blacklist. I didn't get a "Spader's her Dad" vibe, but he obviously has some connection. I'm definitely wanting to see where it goes.

I haven't watched "How I Met Your Mother" in years (since season 3, I think). Do they still show the kids? The kids have to look years older by now, don't they? Just wondering how they handle that in story terms.

On the Raw after the PPV, they're going to reveal that the app is really the laptop gm in a mask.

Ox Baker's Kelly Clarkson tribute album would be a license to print money.

Wrestling bubble, I guess. Does he at least know who Pitbull is? Bryan's such a mark.

I assume Elway isn't familiar with mass transportation and thought he was on an airplane. 'Cause, otherwise, Elway deciding to ride the bus to Dayton, then arrest Hannah was all kinds of dumb. DUDE, YOU'RE ON A BUS. THEY'RE LIKE CARS. YOU CAN GET OFF AT ANY TIME.

0.13 Think that was WCW's lowest PPV buyrate ever.

To be fair, if you took a poll, what portion of the population would? 5 percent? 10 percent, maybe? I don't. To be fair, if you took a poll, what portion of the population would? 5 percent? 10 percent, maybe? I don't. You'd think guys who spend their days watching and writing about people punching each other in the face would have a keener appreciation of musical theater.

Ox Baker, looking less scary than usual. Pro wrestling is giant belts. Eddie Gilbert WWE's latest public service announcement. Nine people die every year from exploded ovaries.

Don't kid yourself. Steiner's body has looked weird for a while now.

Necro's never interested me as a brawler or a worker, though i do recall the Joe/Necro brawls being decent enough (and I really liked the first one). I don't believe for a second that he'd be booked as often or paid as well without the deathmatch rep. Part of the attraction in booking him in, say, ROH is the car crash factor - seeing him in a different environment and finding out how he matches up with non-deathmatch workers. I don't think he gets booked in ROH after the CZW war without that curiosity factor.

As others have said, I kinda liked what they were going for with the finale, but too much of the actual episode didn't work. Dexter walking unnoticed out of the hospital with Deb's body is ridiculous. Hannah being positioned as a loving step-mommy didn't work for me. And no payoff to the Miami Metro stuff? The idea of Dexter detaching emotionally is sound. I can buy Dexter faking his death and running away. If the last scene had implied he was alive and killing again, I would have accepted that as being consistent with the character and tone of the show. In the novels. Dexter basically rejects normal life and welcomes the dark passenger back when he realizes normal, non-murderous like will be too boring and mundane for him. Eh, whoever said this show suffered from a strong guiding vision (which Breaking Bad, Shield, and Mad Men have all had) was right on the money. Show was overseen by a rotating roster of showrunners picked because they could get a season completed under budget, not because they were creative geniuses. Too many cooks and all that. First four seasons suffered from not having a consistent creative vision. Rest of the series suffered from that and bad writing.

The John Ney Rieber reboot? Yeah, that was awful. And I say that as someone who thought Books of Magic was brilliant and JNB would be a Grant Morrison-level name. Did he do much of note post Books of Magic? The few things I remember reading (Captain America) were either outright bad or severely flawed.

Been watching Bob's Burgers this week (Comcast has all of season 3 available via On Demand). It's actually funny. Actually, it's consistently very funny. I had no idea. It's never looked like much to me, so I the only episode I've ever watched is the pilot. Maybe. Are seasons 1 and 2 as good? 'Cause if they are, I need to track down the season sets asap.

From what people who knew him have told me, injuries and the glass ceiling. He had a couple major injuries in a fairly short period of time. Also, he wasn't really happy in WCW and didn't see himself getting into a bigger "pond". My impression was he didn't love the business enough to keep trying the indys/japan/mexico route (which is fine for some, if you don't mind the travel). Became an it guy after he retired, irrc. (I don't know him, but I know some people who knew/worked with him in California before WCW. Years ago, I was around a lot of the Rev Pro crew.)

Oops. Typo. My bad.

I'm not sure that it counts, since they're not wrestlers, but the Hogan/Bischoff run in TNA deserves some consideration for most disappointing run. Very few positives and the company actually seems closer to shutting down than it did before they came in.

-Saul Bellomo must have had TEH BACKSTAGE POWARZ! to get into that match

It seems silly for the WWE to bend over backwards to adjust to his style when it's Sin Cara who should have adapted his style to the WWE. Bringing people who can work a lucha style will only get him so far. I kinda agree, at least in the sense that Sin Cara seems to have done very little to make the transition easier on himself. But..... if your product isn't really suited to the lucha style and you don't have anyone on the roster who knows how to take his offense and make it look good AND bringing in guys who can work the lucha style isn't a priority AND neither you nor he want him to go to developmental and be torn down and retrained from scratch..... .... then, maybe, you don't really need to sign said luchador in the first place? I think Mistico could have done more to help himself integrate into the company style, but it's really head-scratching the way he was handled. I think he could still have gotten over if he hadn't been so prone to injuries and botches, but it's not a huge surprise to me that he failed.

Why?? It's even sexier now! S&M gear may be "sexier now" (I wouldn't know), but Darsow definitely is not. He's 54 and in good physical condition for a man 15 years older. Do you really want to see him in a leather thong at the next local indy show?

The Joe gif reminds me of something I saw years ago at a local indy show. The heel knocked the babyface down (after a ref bump), then climbed the turnbuckle very slowly. The babyface apparently didn't have a good sense of where his opponent was in the ring, as he rolled to the ropes and got back up on his knees way too early - while the other guy was still climbing the turnbuckle. Heel gets to the top rope, pauses for a sec to look at his opponent, who is now way out of position, then shrugs a bit and does his finisher - the SSP - anyways. Heel splats himself on an empty patch of canvas, and the babyface scrambles over to roll him up. The heel didn't even bother to change his trajectory. He leaped at the spot the babyface was in originally. Sequence looked ridiculous as hell. I found out later that was the finish to the match (heel goes for the SSP, babyface rolls out of the way, then rolls the stunned opponent up for the pin) so I guess the guys didn't know how to improvise a finish when they botched the timing. Oh, by the way, this was the opening match of the show. Yep, someone decided the opening match needed a missed SSP spot. It was probably the same genius who booked a ref bump that had nothing to do with anything (the ref recovered to make the pin, and while he was down, there was no outside interference or shenanigans). Ref bump for the sake of ref bump. I wish that was the low point of the show. It wasn't.