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  1. 2 hours ago, just drew said:

    I've said this multiple times, I think, but what a weird-ass timeline we live in where heel Matt Cardona is the biggest draw in indy wrestling.

    I mean, is it?  He was the cult WWE Internet Champion 10 years ago.  And the chants for him ruined the Rock's comeback.  He was like THE WWE guy to get over with an indy gimmick. GCW at least realized they should go with it.

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  2. 43 minutes ago, Mister TV said:

    The Live in Front of a Studio Audience last night was a disappointment, Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes with who they cast seemed like a home run, but the episodes they used and not going full satire made it a bore. All in the Family, Goood Times, and The Jeffersons worked in this format due to being groundbreaking and hitting on topics modern day TV would run from, an episode of Facts of Life were Blair and Natalie make a nerd sad and a Diff'rent Strokes were Willis wants some privacy, weren't groundbreaking or even that funny. Snoop Dog made a cameo on the Diff'rent Strokes episode and I totally thought it was one where Willis tried weed, it wasn't! Kathryn Hahn not getting the memo that it wasn't a full satire in her take on Jo was a highlight though.

    They missed the boat by not going with one of the many "Very Special Episodes" that both series had tons of, sure they might want to stay away from the Dudley gets molested by the Big Guy from WKRP episode but there's the Nancy Reagan episode that could have been a home run, or cast Ed Sheeran and do the Sam gets kidnapped episode.

    I read an article with Norman Lear with him saying they purposely picked lighthearted episodes because the "world has enough problems."  They would have never done the Bicycle Man show anyway, it was a two-parter.  It was pretty obvious which Strokes episode it would be with Hart's Super Arnold costume.

    I thought the Facts of Life was okay.  The surprise cameos were the only fun part about it, and even then it took me WAY too long to figure out who the last surprise was. 

    Strokes did a lot more with what they had.  Lithgow carrying Hart across the kitchen like he was an actual child was a highlight.  

  3. Harden scored five points tonight.  FIVE.  On 1-10 shooting.  I'll be honest, watching the Bucks destroy the Nets in the first half, I've watched the NBA long enough to know...Bucks were losing.

  4. 10 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

    Easily the best War Games since the first NXT one, maybe the '90s. I don't understand the crash pad talk, was MJF supposed to shoot murder a guy?

    Maybe if that's your proposed finish, come up with something better?  If Jericho isn't going full Foley, maybe not book a  Foley finish?  It was a deflater of a finish, and it made the Inner Circle look like idiots.  "NO!  Don't throw Chris onto a mattress!!"  AEW books better and feels more legit than WWE.  They don't get passes when they are worse.  Chris himself should have known how bad that was going to look.

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  5. 25 minutes ago, Eoae said:

    My point is Vince doesn't need a reason to fire people.  It's his company.  If he wants to let people go for sneezing or looking like Dolph Ziggler, he can.  He doesn't need to justify his reasoning for letting people go and he's doesn't have any responsibility to keep people around if he doesn't feel like they fit into the future of the company just because the company is profitable.

    I don't disagree with anything you say, but that's a shitty place to work at if your job ends because Vince just has a sudden change of heart.  Random people were fired where I worked at last month because it was "required."  Vince didn't look at any of the people who were let go today and really thought about it.  It was just "Okay." And they were fired.  That's not WWE either, that's life.  

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  6. 54 minutes ago, Go2Sleep said:

    So, I'm mulling whether or not I should even bother with Peacock. It's easy enough to watch NXT and ppvs elsewhere, and the only reason I've been a beginning to end network subscriber is for the archives. What all do they actually have on there?

    I'm on the fence with you.  I'm either dropping $10 for their four month special (with ads) or just saying F it and dropping it altogether.  Which shows you how valuable WWE PPVs have gotten and how valueless streaming services are becoming, when even $2.50 a month (with a ton of non-wrestling stuff for free) doesn't seem like that great of a deal.   

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  7. 11 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

    It's funny you say that - when I was reading the thread last night before bed, I thought about Trish Stratus giving someone advice on Tough Enough back in the day for blowing a kip up - "If you can't do it, don't do it." 

    Says the woman who couldn't sell a serious bump for more than three seconds without adjusting her outfit.

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  8. 20 hours ago, EVA said:

    Watched COLLATERAL for the first time in ages tonight.  Got damn great movie.   Maybe the last great Michael Mann movie.  Wish there was somebody else making movies like this these days.

    Collateral is one of the great movies that turned into the Hollywood happy ending at the end.  The nightclub scene is one of the most intense action sequences ever with a shock payoff.  And I've usually stopped watching the movie five minutes later because that's a more accurate ending there than the last thirty minutes.

  9. 59 minutes ago, RIPPA said:

    What was the follow up after Sheamus put Mark Cuban through a table? Or in a similar vein, after KO power bombed Machine Gun Kelly?

    God my memory sucks

    Pretty sure the follow-up to the MGK angle was telling him to fuck off since he no-sold the table-break and ran off.

    I do love how WWE pretty much fell into getting one of the hottest acts right now when you guys shit on Vince for being decades out of touch.  Then he gets someone big that a lot of you have never heard of.  And now you don't know what to do.

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  10. 21 hours ago, Zimbra said:

    Haku didn't join the WWF til 86.  Pretty sure this would have been the tail end of Heenan's time in the AWA.

    Interesting match! I'm always curious to see Heenan wrestle.

    Heenan joined WWF in 1984, Haku came in a year later and ironically had his first feud with Heenan's Big John Studd after he (as King Tonga) slammed Studd.  He turned heel and joined Bobby in 1987.

  11. 10 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:

    Pistons/Mavs postponed, but not because of Covid. Too much snow in Dallas

    That and the electricity may or may not be on the entire game...

    OKC rightfully threw a shitfit when they were told to limit their electricity use and the Thunder got all systems go for a shit game...that THEY LOST.  

    I'm told to use as little electricity as possible.  But lighting up Chesapeake Arena for your team to get their ass kicked...that's PRIORITY.

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  12. 9 hours ago, clintthecrippler said:

    This may legit be #2 "Grossly Overbooked But Goddamn Did Everything Come Off Perfectly That Night" sets of booking next to the Raven/Richards vs Pit Bulls ECW Dog Collar Match.

    The "#1 Grossly Overbooked Moment" (and it's a cheat since  I was there) was Jim Ross coming out on RAW in OKC announcing he was traded to Smackdown and saying goodbye.  That leads to Edge coming out as the new RAW champ, announcing he will never defend the title on RAW and then gets the Edge-Heads to escort JR out.  Then Batista comes out and murders Edge.  Then CM Punk cashes in the briefcase on dead Edge and wins the title.  

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  13. 3 hours ago, Ramo2653 said:

    I know I'm not the only person to have this thought, but a "WWE Network" title where it could be defended on any show that airs on the network could work for guys like that. I guess the 24/7 title is kind of like that, but ya know it's not taken seriously.

    Considering the WWE Network won't exist in the US next month, in your world, it would be the "Peacock" belt.  And picturing R-Truth with a plume of feathers...that seems pretty likely.

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  14. In retrospect, Scott Brooks deserves to go into the Hall of Fame for somehow getting Durant, Westbrook, and Harden all into the Finals at the same time.  Any random two of those now I'm like "no chance."  He somehow got three of the biggest pains-in-the-ass on the same page.

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  15. 1 hour ago, Happ Hazzard said:

    How did GI Joe deal with Sarge turning heel in wrestling? Were they still producing the figures/cartoon/comic in 1990?

    Pretty sure since Slaughter came back to WWE with the GI Joe deal over since that's why he left in the first place.  GI Joe took the WWF route...that person never existed...

  16. 27 minutes ago, The Natural said:

    3am ;). I'm naively hoping it means Daniel Bryan wins the Men's Royal Rumble match.

    You'd think it'd almost have to at this point.  It doesn't make any sense otherwise.  Goldberg gets pivoted to Drew for no reason whatsoever, Bryan loses tonight so that Pearce gets the Rumble match because Roman has to wrestle SOMEBODY...  It feels like Roman/Bryan is being saved.  But yeah, watch it get blown off on the Feb show...

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  17. 1 hour ago, Zimbra said:

    At least Houston got rid of their aging, underachieving point guard on a franchise-crippling contract.

    ....Oh,  right.

    Says a lot when you'd trade someone who was one of the biggest talents in the game (stats only) for someone who hasn't been close to healthy for nearly four years.

    Also says a lot that OKC traded one franchise-crippling contract for another last season...

    If he ever gets a ring, he'll have to Dwight Howard himself.

  18. Russell Westbrook cares about one person...Russell Westbrook.   His pad statting during his later OKC years tells you all you need to know.  He wanted those triple double numbers more than any championship.  

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  19. 19 hours ago, Shartnado said:

    I just watched the Demolition - Colossal Connection title change on Prime Time, which got me thinking: Was this title change only necessitated by Tully and Arn leaving? Was the original plan for Demolition to regain from Brainbusters at WMVI? Does anyone know if this was the case or not?

    I want to say yes.  The Demo/Busters title change was really weird in that WWF took FOREVER to air it.  It happened on October 2, and they sat on it until November 4 (Tully had already been fired by the time it aired.)  There was an out where Demolition pinned the wrong man that the Apter mags made note of, but it was edited out of the actual match.  I think if they got Tully & Arn to stay, the decision would have been reversed or not aired at all.  Once Tully was axed, Andre & Haku did one TV taping as a team and then won the titles immediately after.

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