The Nature Boy Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I'd never watched the clip of Tony Schiavone in TNA and good God is it the worst example of Vince Russo-booked vanity shoot-y nonsense ever. I especially love that the audience is so bored of watching two WCW announcers argue that they start chanting boring. WWE really needs to bring Schiavone in for an appearance. Not even Tony Schiavone deserves to have THAT as his final appearance in a wrestling ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I'd never watched the clip of Tony Schiavone in TNA and good God is it the worst example of Vince Russo-booked vanity shoot-y nonsense ever. I especially love that the audience is so bored of watching two WCW announcers argue that they start chanting boring. WWE really needs to bring Schiavone in for an appearance. Not even Tony Schiavone deserves to have THAT as his final appearance in a wrestling ring. As a die-hard, fanatical Yankees fan, Vince Russo in a Yankees jersey makes me throw up in my mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I have a random name to throw out there. Whatever happened to Alexa Thatcher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 She was working as a manager/valet in Pro Wrestling Syndicate last I knew. But that was like five years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I'd never watched the clip of Tony Schiavone in TNA and good God is it the worst example of Vince Russo-booked vanity shoot-y nonsense ever. I especially love that the audience is so bored of watching two WCW announcers argue that they start chanting boring. WWE really needs to bring Schiavone in for an appearance. Not even Tony Schiavone deserves to have THAT as his final appearance in a wrestling ring. As a die-hard, fanatical Yankees fan, Vince Russo in a Yankees jersey makes me throw up in my mouth. As a die-hard, fanatical Red Sox fan, Vince Russo in a Yankees jersey seems oddly appropriate. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I'd never watched the clip of Tony Schiavone in TNA and good God is it the worst example of Vince Russo-booked vanity shoot-y nonsense ever. I especially love that the audience is so bored of watching two WCW announcers argue that they start chanting boring. WWE really needs to bring Schiavone in for an appearance. Not even Tony Schiavone deserves to have THAT as his final appearance in a wrestling ring.As a die-hard, fanatical Yankees fan, Vince Russo in a Yankees jersey makes me throw up in my mouth. As a die-hard, fanatical Red Sox fan, Vince Russo in a Yankees jersey seems oddly appropriate. He's from Long Island, so I'm thinking he's a Mets guy, which definitely seems appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I thought he was a SF Giants fan because they were his father's team when they used to be in NY-- hence the jersey at BATB 2000. Apparently his logic was he usually wears Yankees stuff on TV, so this was how you knew it was a shoot, bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I think I saw some baseball fan map that said that there is literally no zip code in the country where the Mets are the most popular team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I could believe that but would also want to see the stats cause I would think a place look Long Island might be split a few different ways with no one team having 50% of the fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Pretty much all the friends I made on Long Island are die hard Mets fans. Pretty much all the friends I made on Long Island are still sore about the Yankees trading Bucky Dent. That is a very specific demographic James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/24/upshot/facebook-baseball-map.html#8,40.087,-70.069 Nassau County is 55% and Suffolk County is 61%. The Mets have 30% and 24% respectively. That map is more interesting because of the Sox/Yankees divide. Parts of Western MA and VT are Yankee strongholds whereas the Champlain Valley area of New York is Red Sox Country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 You would think th Mets could at least win Queens, where their ballpark is located. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 It's more embarrassing that the 53% of fans in the zip code where CitiField is located prefer the Yankees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I watched the 81 episode of Memphis wrestling that had Ric Flair appear in the studio and it is a masterful performance from Flair.He comes in as this perfect gentleman, polite, kind yet slightly condescending and he slowly becomes a jerk. Lawler comes out and gets Flair to agree to a ten minute match. Flair is suspicious yet arrogant enough to not view Lawler as a threat. "You ain't trying to pull some southern jive on me are you Lawler?"They have the match and it goes the time limit as Flair has the figure four locked on. Flair is flipping out now, demanding five more minutes. Lawler nearly pins him with the Fist drop and Flair bails. He has dropped the gentleman routine and is going off on all these hicks and rednecks vowing never to return. Giving Jimmy Hart 10,000 dollars to cripple Lawler. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Friend has talked me into making a four-hour drive to Indy tomorrow for CHIKARA. Run in fear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishHammer Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I watched the 81 episode of Memphis wrestling that had Ric Flair appear in the studio and it is a masterful performance from Flair. He comes in as this perfect gentleman, polite, kind yet slightly condescending and he slowly becomes a jerk. Lawler comes out and gets Flair to agree to a ten minute match. Flair is suspicious yet arrogant enough to not view Lawler as a threat. "You ain't trying to pull some southern jive on me are you Lawler?" They have the match and it goes the time limit as Flair has the figure four locked on. Flair is flipping out now, demanding five more minutes. Lawler nearly pins him with the Fist drop and Flair bails. He has dropped the gentleman routine and is going off on all these hicks and rednecks vowing never to return. Giving Jimmy Hart 10,000 dollars to cripple Lawler. One of my favorite episodes ever. Flair's amazing with his backhanded compliments and acting like he dosen't know who Lawler is. "Who's the little guy with dar hair? What they call him?...Oh, Bill Dundee". When Memphis is great it's pretty fucking great. The first part (there are three more) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincey Greene Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 It's more embarrassing that the 53% of fans in the zip code where CitiField is located prefer the Yankees. I don't have demographic info, but I've been in NYC 8 years now, and even more ridiculous than Queens going Yankees is that pretty much all Mets fans are also Jets fans, whereas Yankee fans are inevitably Giants fans. What kind of life is it to root for the Mets, Jets, and ostensibly the Knicks? Id hate sports if that was my deal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DouglasC Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I don't have demographic info, but I've been in NYC 8 years now, and even more ridiculous than Queens going Yankees is that pretty much all Mets fans are also Jets fans, whereas Yankee fans are inevitably Giants fans. What kind of life is it to root for the Mets, Jets, and ostensibly the Knicks? Id hate sports if that was my deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Being a Mets, Jets and Knicks fan has driven me to pre-determined sports. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Still baseball in here? Sigh ... guess I'll go to the TNA thread to get updated on what's going on in ROH. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I wanna talk about entrances. Something I've been thinking about alot lately is how horrible entrances are now. Most of that is due to how WWE has to have everyone do their routine in their entrance every night with zero variation. I kinda miss how an entrance could convey the type of match your about to see, or the kind of emotion you should be feeling before the match. An example I love to use is Onita's entrance for his '99 match with Chono. Everything from the music, to Onita's shit eating grin, to the crowd reaction just made for an amazing entrance, and made me excited a match I wouldn't have cared about otherwise. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTTW Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I watched the 81 episode of Memphis wrestling that had Ric Flair appear in the studio and it is a masterful performance from Flair. Were you expecting anything less? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I wanna talk about entrances. Something I've been thinking about alot lately is how horrible entrances are now. Most of that is due to how WWE has to have everyone do their routine in their entrance every night with zero variation. I kinda miss how an entrance could convey the type of match your about to see, or the kind of emotion you should be feeling before the match. An example I love to use is Onita's entrance for his '99 match with Chono. Everything from the music, to Onita's shit eating grin, to the crowd reaction just made for an amazing entrance, and made me excited a match I wouldn't have cared about otherwise. I agree 100% with you on this. Especially the comments about WWE. It's one of those things where every aspect of the average WWE TV show is completely sterilized and non-spontaneous. The stupid jib camera shot on the WWE logo before Seth Rollins comes out is one that particularly gets me. I mean, every single time? Really? The HD set sucks. And it sucks even more that it's being used for PPVs too. I mean, honestly, one of the reasons I think I love NXT and Lucha Underground so much is that the presentation is just so much different from the main WWE shows. One thing I miss about WCW is the long aisle, so guys could talk shit right to the camera, slap hands with fans at the rail (or get in their faces, rip their signs, whatever). It just does not happen in WWE and it's something that really takes away from both the live and TV experiences. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 One of the main things I'll miss from WCW is that nobody ever talks to the camera. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just drew Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 One of the main things I'll miss from WCW is that nobody ever talks to the camera. Harlem Heat were the undisputed kings of that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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