Johnny Sorrow

I said no such thing, sir.

That reads like two kids trying to set up their Dads on a forced anal rape date.

The fans don't love the Shield and Wyatts because of "Indy cred" at all. Considering that 99 percent of the crowd don't even know anything about Rollins, Ambrose, and Harper being big in the Indys and Wyatt, Rowan, and Reigns are pretty much pure WWE bred guys, (Rowan had a brief Indy career but never in Indy anyone was aware of), it's because they're new, engaging, have great gimmicks, and work hard.

That'd actually be pretty fun. None of Bryan's attacks on HHH's manhood faze him, but saying that WWE has sucked since he took over pushes him over the edge. "Your wife is a streetwalker" "Your mother is a streetwalker" "I watched your matches on the WWE Network and they sucked" *Triple H angrily accepts challenge* Yeah the inherant problem with a Triple H feud is that no one actually gets to cut the kind of demeaning promos on him that he cuts on others. The constant and on going "You're hiding behind your wife" promos from Bryan, Show, and Punk have been/are "demeaning".

Reaction in Chicago, or generally ?

The Night Oz would air once a year was like a national holiday.

I had some pause then start repeat repeat stuff today on PS3, but man, getting no problems and an amazing video quality on my Android phone. Too bad it's fucking 2 inches by three inches.

I think no matter what, a lot of fans will be booing Punk in the title match if it happens no matter how many "pipe bombs" he does. If they choose to do a three way than it should be Bryan.

Vlad's the nicest guy you'd want to meet.

That's my stomach every time I give in to a Big Mac .

I love that when Saget does stand up gigs they have to advertise that it's not a family friendly show, cause apparently people would go and bring their kids thinking they'd get a nice G rated deal and he'd be fucking filthy.

One stoned night at PWO a heated discussion about Mid South/ UWF failing led to a mention of Happy Days and then Welcome Back Kotter which led to me doing this. "Ok, first of all, when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, it didn't affect the ratings at all. Ok, so to put this in Wrestling terms. The best comparison to the JYD stuff is actually when Richie and Ralph left the show. Now, the silly storylines were getting people talking in a negative way, but as a fan of Happy Days, I remember thinking that the show couldn't exist without them, but I stuck with the show because I loved it so much, the same way a lot of wrestling fans stick with a promotion for awhile before it dies out. And when Richie left, they brought in Roger as a replacement, like Watts did with George Wells and others for JYD. They had some success with putting the focus on Joanie and Chachi. Then, they try and expand into some new territories/ timeslots with Joanie Loves Chachi, sending three beloved mid carders (Al, as well as the title characters) away from home. Things started really going downhill as you now had a show with just Fonzie, The Cunninghams, and Potsie with new characters they tried to push like Flip and KC that no one wanted to see. Old veteran Pat Morita was brought back up to the promotion, but at this point the quality of sthe promotion was pretty bad. Still, people watched out of loyalty to the promotion. The Tuesday timeslot was also a big factor, as Happy Days owned that time for a hell of a long time, so people were comfortable flipping on ABC and seeing the show, even though the work and show were bad. They attempted some hot shot booking with the two parter where Richie and Ralph come back, and while that produced some good word of mouth, but the writing was on the wall. Joanie and Chachi were brought back but by this time it was over. Happy Days was moved to Thursdays right as the Juggernaut known as NBC Must See Thursdays was getting underway. So you see, people do tend to stick around after a show/ promotion loses it's biggest attraction. That being actually Richie, not Fonz. Or to be fair, it was Richie and the Fonz as a team. Once the show actually starred the Fonz, they had a lot of trouble finding ways to use him. He's a teacher, he's Dean of Men at a boys school, etc, etc... But the quality of workers and booking caused the show to eventually lose fans over the course of time, and the death knell was desperate attempts at replacing the stars who made the territory so hot that at one point they expanded into two more timeslot territories successfully with Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy. We won't discuss Blansky's Beauties, as it was a disaster. I'm not a big numbers guy, but I think they tell the story of Garry Marshall Promotions Ratings Season 1 (1974): #16 [27] (21.5 rating) Season 2 (1974-1975): Not in Top 30 "Good Times", booked on CBS by Booker Fred Silverman was booked there as a direct challenge to Happy Days. Season 3 (1975-1976): #11 [28] (23.9 rating) Change of promotional style, Silverman then jumps to ABC and has to save the show he was trying to bury the year before. Season 4 (1976-1977): #1 [29] (31.5 rating) Change of style mixed with Fonz as the now #2 Babyface Season 5 (1977-1978): #2 [30] (31.4 rating) Season 6 (1978-1979): #3 [31] (28.6 rating) Season 7 (1979-1980): #17 [32] (21.7 rating) Silly storylines do start to affect things Season 8 (1980-1981): #15 [33] (20.8 rating)Richie and Ralph leave Season 9 (1981-“1982): #18 [34] (20.6 rating) Season 10 (1982-1983): #28 [35] (17.4 rating) Season 11 (1983-“1984): #63 Now, the show did manage to hang onto viewers after Richie left, but you can see that the combination of bad pushes, leaving characters, and bad storylines all which are "booking" that caused the fall of the promotion." "Well, the fall of Kotter was directly related to the red hot Sweathog stable having to change as Vinnie Barbarino broke out as a solo star. They brought in Beauregarde "Beau" De LaBarre as a replacement, but no one accepted the Lance Von Erich type replacement, as he wasn't considered a real Sweathog. Also, attempts at tweaking them into more of a blowjob team by dropping Horshack's awkward look and Epstein's toughness wasn't accepted. Add in that the lead face/ manager of the stable missing dates due to contract problems, and the show fizzled as fast as it hit big. It drew big, and is fondly remembered, but like many promotions...it was killed by it's own success. "

They're doing something on SD.

Or they go ahead with Orton vs Batista at Mania and somehow Bryan gets put in to make it a three way either via Hogan or Vince after he beats HHH.

Mania 1 fucking rules. It's because I was watching live on closed circuit in Philly in a packed Spectrum and I had so much fun and the memories of the build, the night before watching Hogan and T on SNL, my mom marking out for Bruno, and just the whole deal. But I still say it was a great show. Mania 2 sucked a giant dick outside of a couple of matches, but that's another story.

Holy fuck, Taker was awesome.

I'm watching RAW now, and it's hilarious how many people have been going on about "HOGAN STUMBLED OVER ALL HIS LINES BLIBBEDY BLABBITY BOO BLAH BLAH BLAH!" when that didn't happen at all. He said Universe instead of network and recovered without a pause. And some of the Hulkster hate going on makes me sad. Hogan's the man. It's not like he's gonna be wrestling, he couldn't pass the physical. (And that's almost a good thing if the story Piper told on Austin's show about the WWE wanting to do a Piper/ Hogan match at Mania was true.)

Until a month ago, the match was Punk-v-Hunter. It hasn't been a slow burn, it had been bypassed entirely. And I felt that the whole Punk vs HHH thing seemed like it was gonna interrupt the obvious long term story they'd been telling that was Bryan vs HHH. HHH has been screwing over Bryan since Summerslam and suddenly it's gonna be Punk vs HHH? That's what didn't make sense.

He beats HHH and the hero of the Internet beats the internet's greatest villain.

I just watched "Primary Colors" for the first time in years. Man, I forgot just how great it was. Travolta is so good, probably the best role he's ever had, and he's almost outshined by the supporting cast from heaven. Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy fucking Bates, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman, Diane Ladd, Allison Janney, Robert Klein, Tony Shaloub, and Adrian Lester as the young unknown who's the center of the film.

I'm in the "Rude was always awesome" camp myself.. Yeah, he was decent in Florida and Memphis, better in World Class, and half of the greatest team ever in Crockett. You've heard the story of Manny getting frustrated with Rude over the fact Rude was making him do all the work, right? Oh yeah. But when I was 16 I didn't notice, nor give a shit. And therefore my feelings stand. Ravishing and Raging were the best.

Not being a good talker and having a bad interview on a talk show isn't an IQ test.

I'll be putting Boogie into the search right away, but followed by "woogie +man+Paul+Jones"

I'm in the "Rude was always awesome" camp myself.. Yeah, he was decent in Florida and Memphis, better in World Class, and half of the greatest team ever in Crockett.

Wasn't that a "behind the scenes they don't like her look" report? Cause I'm pretty sure they never had announcers call her fat.