Johnny Sorrow

Man, I can rewatch "Glory" over and over. "Give 'em Hell, 54th!" always makes me cheer.

You should listen to the Nerdist podcast he does. He's a total sci fi , pop culture , comic book, Trek, dude who also has stand up cred and all the best comics come on the show.

"Let me tell you why something I didn't watch sucks" is the worst. Yechh.

Jake held belts in Mid South , World class, and Florida. All of which were major promotions at the time.

Except the match and feud does stem from something specific and purposeful: Sheamus accidentally hit Christian in a tag match leading up to EC. Christian believed it to be intentional and felt slighted and has since decided to try and take escalating steps toward revenge culminating in a vicious and unprovoked back stage attack. It's a storyline based out of in ring action backed up by simple, black and white character work. The story is do basic that even Cole and Lawler were able to articulate it on Monday. It doesn't need a prop or anything, it has worked on its own literally thousands of times for decades now. Again, this sort of storytelling is what people would claim they want more of if you polled the same audience that wouldn't give the match the time of day a few nights ago. Most of that happened on Smackdown, so you can understand why people are forgetting about it. Joking aside, that drives me nuts when people ACTUALLY say "Oh well, it happened on a show I didn't watch so I'm still right about bitching about not knowing the story."If Days of Our Lives aired twice a week and you only watched one , you'd be considered insane if you bitched about not knowing about stuff that was on the show you didn't watch.

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT.Fuck off, Grease rules. It's the word. The word that you heard .

Joe Frazier didn't ref the other matches. The point was Frazier didn't know how to properly ref regarding cuts in a wrestling match. It was a shitty idea and a shitty finish, but that's what they were going for.

Except the match and feud does stem from something specific and purposeful: Sheamus accidentally hit Christian in a tag match leading up to EC. Christian believed it to be intentional and felt slighted and has since decided to try and take escalating steps toward revenge culminating in a vicious and unprovoked back stage attack. It's a storyline based out of in ring action backed up by simple, black and white character work. The story is do basic that even Cole and Lawler were able to articulate it on Monday. It doesn't need a prop or anything, it has worked on its own literally thousands of times for decades now. Again, this sort of storytelling is what people would claim they want more of if you polled the same audience that wouldn't give the match the time of day a few nights ago.Exactly, and add in Christian mentioned that another reason he's mad at Sheamus because they both came back from injury at the same time and Sheamus overshadowed him. It's classic heel reasoning.

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.)