July 2024 Wrestling Talk

[J.H.]

There is a part of me that wants Cody to drop the title, lose a losher leaves WWE rematch, due to chicanery, only for The Nightmare Rider to debut and declare war on whoever cost Cody the belt. 

James

Edited July 25 by J.H.

[Log]

7 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

I think in the modern era, you can repeat things as long as there's either some sort of refinement, meaning either a different outcome or a different path of getting there, or if it's outright addressed as referential or self-referential (e.g. 'My God, it happened again! We saw this just six short years ago, when...').

I'd argue that it's almost like a comic book, in a way - Superman's been around since 1938; everything you could do with that character has *probably* been done by now in one form or fashion - but they keep making stuff with him because there's always a chance to refine ('What if he and Lois Lane are married and have kids this time, no secret identity') or to self-refer ('Oh, no, not the Kryptonite, everyone knows that it's the only thing...')

I'll end with one of my favorite Kevin Nash quotes:

"I mean, look man, really, there's like seven fuckin' stories you can tell."

I used to work with a news anchor who'd been in the business forever. His favorite comeback when someone would say, "We've already done that story" was, "There hasn't been a new story since the moon landing."

[Log]

Just now, J.H. said:

There is a part of me that wants Cody to drop the title, lose a kosher leaves WWE rematch, due to chicanery, only for The Nightmare Rider to debut and declare war on whoever cost Cody the belt. 

James

So would the loser have to eat pork or would the whole idea of "kosher" leave the WWE?

[Zakk_Sabbath]

2 minutes ago, Log said:

So would the loser have to eat pork or would the whole idea of "kosher" leave the WWE?

The match ends as a no contest due to a run-in from a re-debuting, newly-renamed Jinder Halal

[Log]

Forcing an actual, practicing kosher wrestler to eat pork on live tv sounds like something in the Vince McMahon playbook.

[SirSmUgly]

Maybe a heel could secretly slip shrimp into an openly-kosher wrestler's scrambled eggs as a way to escalate a feud. 

[J.H.]

One typo and we've come up with a new storyline!

Let's all say the Shema in praise!

James

[AxB]

1 hour ago, Log said:

Forcing an actual, practicing kosher wrestler to eat pork on live tv sounds like something in the Vince McMahon playbook.

He would have two Vegans in a Loser Eats Meat match. Only after they took their first bite of the beef, they would immediately acquire Carnivore Strength and immediately destroy the guy who just beat them.

[zendragon]

57 minutes ago, SirSmUgly said:

Maybe a heel could secretly slip shrimp into an openly-kosher wrestler's scrambled eggs as a way to escalate a feud. 

Listen Pal we take gimmick infringement pretty seriously around these parts

[BobbyWhioux]

1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:

Maybe a heel could secretly slip shrimp into an openly-kosher wrestler's scrambled eggs as a way to escalate a feud. 

That’s just recycling Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his chihuahua though

[SirSmUgly]

53 minutes ago, zendragon said:

Listen Pal we take gimmick infringement pretty seriously around these parts

Hey, the original storyline was 29 years ago! It's been done over four times as long ago as Cornette's rule. That should be enough for the internet era.

1 minute ago, BobbyWhioux said:

That’s just recycling Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his chihuahua though

Er, make that 24 years ago. But my point stands! 

[odessasteps]

1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:

Maybe a heel could secretly slip shrimp into an openly-kosher wrestler's scrambled eggs as a way to escalate a feud. 

I could see MJF pitching something like this.

[Nice Guy Eddie]

16 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

I could see MJF pitching something like this.

If MJF starts pitching Seinfeld scripts as angles, he'll become my favorite wrestler. 

[Elsalvajeloco]

41 minutes ago, BobbyWhioux said:

That’s just recycling Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his chihuahua though

I am doing a 1995 rewatch and apparently Dave Sullivan's last WCW program was against Big Bubba and involves Dave's pet rabbit. This is already after they teased during the DDP feud Dave eating rabbit stew while on his date with Kimberly Page.

Pro wrestling is just morbid like that. That and ripping off Fatal Attraction was in vogue.

[The Natural]

https://twitter.com/DMcIntyreWWE/status/1816564941299778011

Drew McIntyre's the best.

[Ramo2653]

13 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

Meanwhile, Evander Holyfield’s son Elijah is getting a WWE tryout.

He was listed at 5’10/215 when he was playing football so how much can we inflate that height/weight for the sake of wrestling

Hmmm. Probably something similar to Bron Breakker's stats.

[Peck]

8 hours ago, Log said:

I'm in some store this past weekend with both of my kids. They have some Funko Pops.

Daughter (13): "Look, they have Randy Savage."

Son (7): "The Macho Man?"

Daughter: "No, dumbass. The other Randy Savage. Yes, it's the Macho Man!"

After telling her to watch her mouth, I did get a good laugh out of it.

The rest of the time in the store, we were coming up with other Randy Savages. "You mean Senator Randy Savage?" "Oh, you mean Randy Savage, the famous neurosurgeon?" "Randy Savage? That guy from work?"

"Oh, you mean Randy Savage the rapper??"

Wait a minute..

[FourPostMassacre]

16 hours ago, BobbyWhioux said:

That’s just recycling Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his chihuahua though

Does this all go back to the Fuji story about him feeding his neighbor his own dog in a meal? 

[JLowe]

15 hours ago, Peck said:

"Oh, you mean Randy Savage the rapper??"

Wait a minute..

The meme that grew so big that there was a bootleg reissue of the record, and then an official Record Store Day reissue.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

7 minutes ago, JLowe said:

The meme that grew so big that there was a bootleg reissue of the record, and then an official Record Store Day reissue.

And one of the boutique figure companies is doing a variant of him wearing the outfit from the cover art. 

[John E. Dynamite]

Let's be fair - the album is kind of better than it has any right to be. Not as competent as the John Cena album. Not as capivatingly absurd as the Terry Funk album. But certainly in the conversation.

[JLowe]

2 hours ago, John E. Dynamite said:

Let's be fair - the album is kind of better than it has any right to be. Not as competent as the John Cena album. Not as capivatingly absurd as the Terry Funk album. But certainly in the conversation.

I haven’t heard the album, I remember the song from back in the day and that’s all I need to know.

[Ramo2653]

3 hours ago, John E. Dynamite said:

Let's be fair - the album is kind of better than it has any right to be. Not as competent as the John Cena album. Not as capivatingly absurd as the Terry Funk album. But certainly in the conversation.

Way back in the early 2000s when I was in college, I got to run the Friday night hip hop show on the campus radio station. My qualifications were that I was black on a majority white campus (there were 30 black students on a campus of 6,000) in the southwest corner of Wisconsin and I liked music. Me and the producer spent one Friday just playing the Macho Man album that we ended up editing ourselves because it was still over the air radio.

[SovietShooter]

1 hour ago, Ramo2653 said:

Way back in the early 2000s when I was in college, I got to run the Friday night hip hop show on the campus radio station.

Goddamn, that was like my dream when I was in college. We had a low low low power radio station for the students to run (The actual campus radio station was WOSU, which was the local NPR station, and was 100% off limit to students), and I signed up right after arriving on campus in '96.  I got a two hour Sunday morning shift at 7am, and I had to play weird industrial shit, and only that weird industrial shit. The only hip-hop CD we had was an uncensored Public Enemy album we couldn't play over the air.  We had a nice set of Tecnico's turntables, but no fn vinyl. No one listened to the station, it sucked, and I quit.

[RazorbladeKiss87]

I had not one but TWO radio shows during college. One on the regular station and one on the Internet station. Our regular station was a "No mainstream" station and I signed up for a freeform block from 2 am to 6 am a few nights a week. I got the station's copy of MRR and copied so many promo CDs. Acess to the archives was great too, especially stumbling on a cache of Jandek albums. 

The Internet show was my friends and I doing obnoxious talk radio mixed with classic rock and was only memorable for my friend mentioning the pregnancy scare my girlfriend at the time and I had. Just happened to be the one day my mom tuned in.