sydneybrown

I'm with you on that, but then again I'm one of those nerds who used to ransack the Blockbusters whenever they'd sell their used WWF PPVs and Coliseum videos, so I have a lot of this stuff already. Starrcade '83 has two glorious moments already and I'm only three matches in: Gordon Solie introducing the wrestling world to "Tony Sha-ponie" and the shitty treatment of Scott McGhee. Kevin Sullivan & Mark Lewin beat Johnny Weaver & McGhee, Scott goes nuts after and attacks everyone including Gary Hart. Sullivan attacks Scott with a blade (you literally see Kevin run the blade across his forehead) and Scott taps a gusher. Angelo Mosca makes the save and carries him out of the ring as if he were a teenage girl. At that point the bleeding had stopped, and it didn't look so bad. So when they go back to the dressing room for reaction, they clearly had BLADED him AGAIN to get a better effect, so Mosca is ranting about his son while Scott lays there half dead in a pool of blood. Schiavonne then ignores McGhee's lifeless body (who clearly needs medical attention) and asks Mosca who's going to win the Flair-Race match.

Not a feature per se, but turned on the captioning just for the hell of it and found it amusing to see every single reference to the "WWF" captioned as "WWE."

You underestimate just how big of a mark for Robocop I am. If it were up to me he'd be at LEAST the US champion by now. Well, I guess Sweetser has just been officially outed as being Jim Herd.

I would guess these were the tapes they aired originally on 24/7 back when the F was forbidden, and they just didn't bother to take the muting back out again.

Oh give me a fucking break, it would be a "Doogie Howser" chant. Forever. You heckle people with the embarrassing roles, not the great ones.

Most people don't even know Mr. Show existed. Which is fine, because most people don't deserve Mr. Show.

I've come to realize that as far as the on demand goes, if there aren't any match break dots set up in the timeline, it's probably not going to play all the way through. But a lot more stuff has worked today than yesterday. Almost surreal to see them leave the Slim Jim commercials in the RAW episode.

It looked so natural, I couldn't tell.

Last night's Bray/Roman match and last week's Wyatts/Usos match beg to differ. They get a great reaction coming to the ring, but once the bell sounds, the crowds have been so dead during their matches you can almost hear conversations in the front row. The Wyatts/Shield matches get great heat. Everything else? I think it's still a work in progress.

But that's been every WrestleMania for years. This year isn't some strange exception. Usually the main card is leaked around December/January and everyone plays fantasy booker on how they get there, but instead we end up with "Hey, Brock wants to wrestle somebody.....(Taker's music hits)" as an angle.

The only good thing about Rob Bartlett was about eight weeks in when Vince had gotten sick of him, and after Rob made a bad joke about somebody's ring attire, Vince responded with "Nobody cares" or something to that effect, and Rob barely spoke the rest of the show. So I woke up this morning and so far (on my PS3) On Demand is working better (was able to stream Bunkhouse Stampede and Starrcade 83.) But now the live feed isn't working. But I'll gladly take that over yesterday.

Since Elizabeth stayed in a neutral corner at WMV, Savage dumped her after the show. On the Brother Love show two weeks after, he then announced he had a new manager, and he brought out Sherri. That was pretty much all there was to it.

You're right. He beat HHH three times.

I like how everybody assumes John Cena is now out of WrestleMania. He's John Cena. His head could fall off and he'd probably still show up to do a 30 second squash...

I thought the Post show started off awesome with Taker walking back and Lesnar selling his injury with no commentary. But then it just became twenty minutes of four guys saying nothing featuring two exclusive interviews of two other guys saying nothing. You would think they would shoot an angle JUST for this for all the freeloaders to want to come back next week, but I guess not.

That's exactly where I was when I tried it on my lunch break. On a PS3. I can watch World Class and MSG in the vault and that's it. The live feed looks great but the DVR was messed up. When I tried to rewind a spot during the Cesaro/Zayn NXT match, it took me to some random moment instead, then wouldn't let me FFWD back unless I just went back to live.

They retain all of that after this week, they're already up to 2.2 mil a month guaranteed. Half their average PPV buying audience in less than 8 hours... I totally misread that. I thought you meant 2.2 million subscribers. In that math for all of this "how much to be profitable" talk, is the money they lost from former Classics subscribers due to it being cancelled being factored in? I mean, while I just gave them $9.99 a month today, I had been giving them $7.99 a month for the last six years. They aren't exactly getting any new money from me.

DDP on Shark Tank was certainly interesting: "I created a program that gets you fit without heavy effort. Here's what it does, here's a miraculous example of a guy who uses it. Oh, and by the way, we made $3 million this year. I profited $800,000. AFTER I paid myself." "I'm out." "I'm out." "Dude, I totally love pro wrestling and what you are doing is awesome, but it's not cool for me to pretend that I even know who you are. I'm out." "I'm out." "Let me insult you with a stupid offer so everyone will be reminded what an asshole I am." "Ha Ha." "I'm out."

Hulk Hogan makes his return, befriends Daniel Bryan. The two have their beneficial pose/Yes chant. A month into it, the fans get tired of Hulk, keep chanting for Daniel, boo Hulk. Hulk gets jealous, turns on Daniel, suddenly the returning Brutus the Barber Beefcake runs in and cuts Daniel's hair and beard. Daniel disappears for a while (which in WWE time = one Smackdown) then makes a comeback challenging Hogan and Beefcake to a tag team match. The two laugh it off and accept. Bryan makes the challenge for SummerSlam and announces his partner as the recently paroled Zeus (Tiny Lister.) It's Hogan/Beefcake vs. Bryan/Zeus for the 25th anniversary of the previous tag SummerSlam match!!! (Which it isn't, it's the 26th, but it looks like 25 so that's close enough.) Hogan is never cleared so he never tags in. And then just to piss everybody off (and "build interest") either Beefcake pins Bryan or Zeus pins Beefcake. Greggulator then raves about how its the greatest WWE angle he's ever seen.

WOOO!!! Lakers win a game at home!!! I will freely admit I embarrassed myself shouting out in a bar when LA went on their shooting barrage in the 4th. It's the worst Lakers team ever but at least that team still swept Boston.

There was a group of us who played No Mercy constantly, and one of our friends just beat the shit out of all of us on a constant basis. So we would do singles and tags against each other and random AIs, and it got to the point that the AIs weren't a challenge anymore, but our friend was kinda pissing us all off in how much we was killing us, so an offer was made: Do a tag-team loser-leaves-town match with all four of us, whoever gets pinned is off of No Mercy for a set time, but the angle was that I would turn on my experienced partner and we'd all attack him, pin him, and then get equal footing in his off time to catch up to him when his time was up. The idea was that I would attack my opponents so that he wouldn't expect anything, and then set it all up for the big heel turn. Unfortunately, I fucked it all up by hitting a random non-finisher on my opponent and went for a fake pin, but then pinned him for real. And then all hell broke loose. Suddenly I had just booked the greatest heel turn ever, because now everybody hated me. My opponents thought I had done it on purpose and told me to fuck off, and my teammate was pissed because I thought I was out to screw him and he told me to fuck off. And no matter what I said, nobody believed me. That's how awesome No Mercy was.

Herb didn't check his PSOne inbox. That's how they deliver summons these days. Yeah, we get it. Jesus. It's funny once. We've heard the same fucking joke a dozen times now.

"Invent" is a strong word. I know HHH was one of those pushing to do the WarGames concept and Vince wouldn't go for it, so I wouldn't doubt that he just changed enough of it (War Games minus teams plus pods) to get it okayed. Bischoff is the one who took credit for it on-air in storyline.

Dave...is that you?

Since we're supposed to be asking old school questions... I know the Scott Keith rumor of Austin winning is BS, but was an audible called on Austin being eliminated early? He looked like he came up limping at a point in the match, spent a lot of time on the mat, and Hart eliminated him pretty easily. And it seemed odd that the man who caused the whole match to happen in the first place would lose first.