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    Sept Wrestling Jibber Jabber Thread

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

     

    It's the perfect storm of exercise-induced medical conditions. A lot of contributing factors combined with doing way too much physical exertion, and ignoring every single warning sign your body throws at you.

     

     

    And if you're going to be a mark and work out, then you've got to do it right like this: http://instagram.com/p/deie9moh6f/

     

    Thanks.  It just sounds like one of those "too disturbing to be true" kind of things, but ... yeah.  Ugh.

    Sept Wrestling Jibber Jabber Thread

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

     

    Raven thinks working your legs is pointless and used the Cole twins as an example. One of them had a leg injury and could only work upper body. After a few months of injury recovery his legs were still the same size as his brothers, who had been working legs the entire time.

     

    I've heard a bunch of people in wrestling say hindu squats are mostly detrimental (especially in Gotch Bible quantities), but it's one of those things where you can find at least ten sources firmly supporting every possible position on the issue.

     

     

    Were those the squats that Austin Aries made that one ROH wrestling school student until he - if I remember the news article correctly - "pissed muscle tissue?"  (Which, still, when I think about it ... I don't see how that works.)

    Labor Day Raw (2 September Raw for everyone else)

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

    Posted

    Wait, I get it:  Bryan's being punished because he's a "WRESTLER," not an "ENTERTAINER."

     

    One film where he's an ex-con dad teaching wrestling to a burnt out ex-cop hiding in an abandoned house wearing a sheep mask and hiding a three-foot dick in his coveralls, who kidnapped his Army wife (i.e. wife who's an enlisted officer) should do the trick.

    The most obscure, random stuff you've found on comps

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Sorry, lost track of this tread for some reason.

    It's a "perfect world" scenario, we'd all dig in the comps we own, find that one random thing that's just awesome/ hilarious/ bizarre, be it a lost classic four star match, crazy lucha sketch, JCP Road Warriors murder promo, botchamania type stuff etc. We'd all send that one thing in to a comp DVD maker, it gets compiled, bam, two discs, $15.

    AUGUST WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    I had a moment teaching last night, where I referred to professional wrestling - the R Truth "Fa-gs are evil" incident - in a lecture point about culture norms. Most every student was like, "Wrestling?" akin to how AJ Styles recoils, "The gay community?!??!" And I just emphatically clarified, "Professional wrestling, yes, 'wrestling?'" Dunno if that was "wrestling is stupid" or "you're a professor and you watch wrestling ... pretty cool."

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    MILEY CYRUS THREAD OF DOOM

    in MUSIC

    Posted

    I just hate that, because of exposure to the news coverage of this Miley Cyrus thing, I've now had to teach my 5yo daughter that it's not nice to call people "retarded." I've said this to friends, and they laugh, but there's actually MUCH about that situation that's very unfortunate.

    I just wish, for gods sakes, she'd stop the goddamn tongue wagging thing. The pictures showing the greyness of her tongue from her cigarette smoking is the god-awful worst.

    AUGUST WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Sorry if I'm flooding the thread, but I didn't see this posted elsewhere. Via PWSpyware:

     

     

     

    TNA REACTION TO HULK WANTING BISCHOFF IN CHARGE OF THE COMPANY
    By Mike Johnson on 2013-08-29 11:18:28

    As we noted on PWInsider.com, Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff took part in a Q&A in Toronto over the weekend as part of the Fan Expo event. A fan asked Hogan what could finally be done to make TNA successful.

    Hogan said that Eric Bischoff "needed to be given the keys to the car" and that, "somebody somewhere" needed to "drop all the resources we need like we had in the WWE and the WWF, whether it be cameras or money or vehicles or advertising" in order for TNA to work "in a perfect world."

    In asking around about what TNA's response to the comments were, I was told that a number of people within the company were upset about the statement for several reasons and that there's absolutely heat on the duo for even insinuating that the Carter family wasn't giving TNA proper resources.

    As one source noted, no matter how you feel about her, the comments can't be seen as anything but a direct slap in the face to TNA President Dixie Carter, coming from her top paid talent, no less.

    "Even if you agreed with Hulk, " said one TNA wrestler that spoke under condition of anomynity, "the way it was said and the way it comes across in that video just completely disrespected Dixie, even if that's not what he meant."

    Two, the reality is that to many in the company, Bischoff has been given the keys to the car. From the day he and Hogan came into the company, TNA management has acquiesced to their creative direction and ideas - whether it be talent that was brought in, the removal of the six-sided ring, the failure that came with moving Impact Wrestling to Mondays opposite Raw, leaving the Impact Zone and taking TNA on the road, etc. These were all ideas that came from the Bischoff/Hogan era that TNA agreed to under the auspice of growing the company.

    The problem with all that is, as one source noted, there has been no growth in any facet of TNA's domestic business since The Bischoff/Hogan regime began - not in live events, not in ratings, not in licensing - not in any one department or aspect of the promotion.

    Instead, the company went on the road and didn't see the estimated revenue that they believed would come with it, forcing them to restructure from the ground up and putting them into a position where they have to be the "evil company" letting Jesse Soresen go and have to be in a position where money is an issue re-signing their original poster boy, AJ Styles. 

    At the same time, TNA has paid Hogan a good salary and put Bischoff into a position where he became the conduit and liason between Spike and TNA, even before Dixie Carter, who created and cultivated the relationship between the two sides.

    So, the pair continue to reap the rewards of being part of the company while others have lost their jobs, have had their deals restructured for less money and watch as the company continues to, at best, run on a treadmill and at worse, slide backwards.  To put it in layman's terms, TNA is putting out more money to be exactly where they were, or worse, in comparison to before Bischoff/Hogan's regime began.

    So, for Hogan to say that TNA should just hand Bischoff a blank check and full power, well, you can imagine how much all that has endeared the duo inside the TNA offices this week, especially when everyone's work and deals have been scrutinized closely in recent months.

    A number of people noted that they would be waiting to see what the interaction between the duo and Dixie Carter would be at tonight's taping in Cleveland, the first time Hogan has been at a TNA taping in a month.

    "Hulk came across like he pretty much said that the company didn't have anyone strong in charge and Eric was the savior," said the TNA wrestler.  "Well, they've been here years and Eric hasn't saved anyone yet."

    Pretty fucking wild given the time I spent browsing the WCW PPV threads on here and PWO while at work today.

     

    She ain't gonna do shit.  This is the same fucking woman who once famously said that if she heard a "Fire Russo" chant at an event again, she'd fire someone else.  She'll me a thousand times more likely to get finger-cuffed by Hogan and Bischoff, with Bischoff's kid filming, in the back of a 'vette that Hogan's kid is driving, while Serge plays Candy Crush in the passenger's seat, before she'll say a cross word to Hogan and Bischoff.

     

    And, it's 2013.  When does it get to the point where someone points to Hogan and says, "YOU ... can get the fuck out, because no one cares about you anymore."

     

    I'd go out on a limb and say that, if they let AJ Styles go, you might possibly - - and I know it's been said before, but this is the first time I've ever even considered thinking this way, since TNA's birth - - consider that the death knell for the company.  Not the biggest blow, but the signal that it's finally spiraling down the drain.

    AUGUST WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted · Edited by nate

    I never get tired of Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald discussing "trapping" 

     

    Is that what passes as a hipster these days? A white guy who speaks in a nerdy voice about street shit?

     

    Shit I hope not.  If that's what it is, just please don't tell 78% of my low country Intro Psych class that I'm just "frontin'."

     

    Edit:  "Frontin'" is still a thing, right?

    AUGUST WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Oh shit, I forgot about Hyatte. Always loved his Nitro reviews as a kid. I remember being hyped as fuck when he resurfaced on DOI of all places.

    Yeah, I miss reading his departure articles when he would go from website to website. Scoops, 411wrestling, DOI, there was another one I'm forgetting, then his own blogspot I think. Each time riding the coattails of former glories.Edit: Replace "there was another one ..." w/ Inside Pulse.
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    [AUGUST] WRESTLING PHOTO THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    Posted Image

    *clompclompclompclompclompclompclompclomp *BAM*

    ... *gasp* Bella *wheeze* joke? *koff, koff* Am I late? (Jesus, the stairs ...)

    YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!
    By two minutes! YES YES YES ….. and so on. (Woulda been quicker, but as I mentioned, those stairs ...)

    But apparently his new squeeze has four titties to inflate to ridiculous proportions.

    AUGUST WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    I understand the arguments for Christian: Wily, Grizzled Vet. And that very well might be his gimmick right now.

     

    But isn't every Attitude era hold-over treated that way? Jericho, Henry, Kane, 'Taker, and Big Show all get the same sort of mentions on commentary, but they all have other attributes to round them out. Jericho is a ROCKSTAR, Henry is The World's Strongest Man, Kane is The Devil's Favorite Demon, Undertaker is supernatural, and Big Show is a giant who will punch you out.

     

    So, totally, Christian is packaged as a wily, grizzled vet to a certain extent. But so are a lot of guys. There is still nothing there which specifically connects Christian to the crowd.

     

    And it's a shame because he IS so good in the ring and wrestles smart matches. They just can't seem to package that into a real character or gimmick.

     

    Hahaha!  "... as a wiwy, grrrrrizzled vetwan ... *ruff* ..." hahahaha .... aheh, heh, hmmm ...

     

    Edit: Please bear with me ... long day at work ...

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