supremebve Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 45 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Sorry to interrupt but I was bored and found this interesting (and sad) about the SDL roster. No wonder Fox is already complaining about the star power of the show. Per WWE.com this is the roster (not counting announcers and the McMahons not named Shane) Hide contents MEN Aleister Black Ali Andrade Apollo Crews Big Show Buddy Murphy Chad Gable Daniel Bryan Dolph Ziggler Elias Finn Balor Harper Jeff Hardy Jinder Mahal Kane Kevin Owens Kofi Kingston Lars Sullivan Matt Hardy R-Truth Randy Orton Roman Reigns Rowan Rusev Sheamus Shelton Benjamin Shinsuke Nakamura Sin Cara WOMEN Bayley Carmella Charlotte Ember Moon Sonya Deville Mandy Rose Lana Liv Morgan Maryse Mickie James Paige Zelina Vega IIconics Kabuki Warriors TAGS New Day B-Team Colons Heavy Machinery Here is what it looks like when I remove all the long term injured folks, the folks on "hiatus" (ie: company not using them till deals are up) and the retired (official and unofficial). And I am being generous here since some of these folks only appear on the Main Event or 205 Live. Hide contents MEN Aleister Black Ali Andrade Apollo Crews Buddy Murphy Chad Gable Daniel Bryan Dolph Ziggler Elias Finn Balor Kevin Owens Kofi Kingston Matt Hardy R-Truth Randy Orton Roman Reigns Rowan Shelton Benjamin Shinsuke Nakamura WOMEN Bayley Carmella Charlotte Ember Moon Sonya Deville Mandy Rose Liv Morgan Zelina Vega IIconics Kabuki Warriors TAGS New Day B-Team Heavy Machinery I honestly think the second list would be worth watching if they actually trusted them all to get over. Cut back on promo/backstage segments and let the guys go in the ring, and it would be really hard to fail with that roster. Put the Street Profits on Smackdown to round out the division, and I think they'd be on to something. Don't get me wrong, that won't ever happen, but there is no reason that roster couldn't be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 12 minutes ago, Matt D said: Similar trajectory here. Was heavily medicated for AD(not yet H)D in the late 80s - late 90s, as a kid/teenager by very well-meaning parents, stopped at my own volition as I entered college, decided that the idea of recreational drugs (even alcohol) was not for me given the memory of that. Thankfully, I'm lacking the depression and concussions though and you have my sympathy on those counts. Since we're doing this, I started lurking ~99 at the end of high school, basically kept my mouth shut for the next few years and haven't shut up since. For what it’s worth, the depression issue is largely in the past, as much as it can be at least. Late teen years were rough, and ended with me dropping out of high school in order to try to get my head in order. Took the better part of 3 years, but in the end I think it was the right call. Problem with depression is it’s not something that is ever just “gone”. You let your guard down, it’s back with a vengeance. The concussion issue is one of those chicken and the egg things. I had a severe concussion in... 2nd grade I think? Whiplashed my head onto a tile floor at school complained about a bad headache, but my teacher didn’t see I fell. She didn’t find out till I had already been sent to the nurses office, and had been told to take a nap. Had a severe concussion and started getting severe migraines two weeks later. Bad luck all around, that. i also was super lurker here for a while. Just didn’t know what I could possibly add to a conversation. Add in I didn’t get high speed internet till about 2011/2012, and went 9 months without electricity in 2014, it always felt like I’ve been playing catch up, especially since I was pretty sure I was the youngest regular here for a while. Even during the GWE I would stay almost silent, because outside of making a case for some obscure RoH guys I was never going to be the biggest expert on anybody. Also didn’t help the discussion for that list being a nightmare factory though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coletti Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Regarding the SmackDown roster, so many of those men and women could be stars if they fucking bothered to actually make new stars. But what do we know, we're just the consumers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I'm on scrips for BP and my braaaaaaiiiiiiin, but other than that I feel the same way about alcohol and drugs. I have no real choice about the scrips as I'd either be dead from the BP or in a mental hospital from the severity of the anxiety spikes at times. I don't need anything else to make any of that even worse. I don't even touch caffeine anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I remember what my first post was about. It was about how Triple H was a deeply mediocre wrestler who had inexplicably been given a 'great wrestler' gimmick. This would be around April 2000, I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 12 minutes ago, AxB said: I remember what my first post was about. It was about how Triple H was a deeply mediocre wrestler who had inexplicably been given a 'great wrestler' gimmick. This would be around April 2000, I think. and you weren't wrong If you believe him, HHH has said in interviews "The Game" gimmick was supposed to be for Owen Hart. His using it was supposed to be a tribute to Owen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I have maybe 2 or 3 drinks a week (usually beer, wine, or bloody marys) unless it's college football season and then I have significantly more drinks at ND tailgates (hopefully I'll actually bump into Sheamus this year since he tailgates a short walk from where we're at, I just don't have the guts to go up and say hi). In my 20s I was more open to drinking during the week and partying more, but now drinking during the week feels weird. I also don't want to sleep through my alarm or anything like that. Plus, I'm on Xanax and Buspar for anxiety so I don't want to mix alcohol and those. I've also never done any drugs or smoked any weed because smoking is ultra disgusting to me, but I'm more open now to marijuana than I was years ago. I'd be open to trying an edible or a vape pen, but it would have to be a low dose because I'm afraid of feeling paranoid. I also feel weird consuming beer at home while watching wrestling. I think it's just because it makes me more likely to fall asleep while watching it and I get bored enough as it is when watching WWE PPVs. If I'm at a Raw or PPV I'll get a beer there because it's a different environment and I'm less likely to fall asleep, but I think I still have dozed off during PPVs. I'm also positive I nodded off for a brief moment during the Payback PPV in Chicago with the Shield vs Evolution. I can't remember what match it was, but I think I recall the crowd going crazy because the Blackhawks scored a goal (Payback was during game 7 of the WCF with the Blackhawks against the Kings). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 (edited) Thank God the old DVDVR chat logs have vanished (at least I hope so). So many high school/college post-drinking chat sessions of me saying the stupidest stuff as I slowly learned what my tolerance levels were. I legitimately talk to zero people on a regular basis that I have known longer than some of the people I've posted with on this board. Edited July 30, 2019 by CSC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, CSC said: Thank God the old DVDVR chat logs have vanished (at least I hope so). So many high school/college post-drinking chat sessions of me saying the stupidest stuff as I slowly learned what my tolerance levels were. I legitimately talk to zero people on a regular basis that I have known longer than some of the people I've posted with on this board. Hmmm..... Let me just say that you better hope you never get on my bad side 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 (edited) Note to self: Next paycheck send $20 to RIPPA for Andre the Giant match reviews of his choosing. Edited July 30, 2019 by CSC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 @CSC Maybe Jessica Biel will show up to your house to play basketball and lecture you about vaccines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theendcomplete Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 13 hours ago, sabremike said: What about tOa? Used to really enjoy the old WrestlingClassics board, and of course the Strictly ECW board. I used to post as Frogg in the Fantasy Wrestling area of tOa. I used to enjoy writing out shows. Wish they still had something like that on the internet. Now I’m just a lurker here and a very rare poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 You're up to 11! Congrats. *looks at post count* I think I need to stop posting for a few months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, Ryan said: You're up to 11! Congrats. *looks at post count* I think I need to stop posting for a few months. Nah, you're good. Speaking of Andre... So there is a Willem Ruska, Tatsumi Fujinami, & Riki Choshu vs. Andre the Giant, Chavo Guerrero, & Tito Santana 2/3 falls match that's popped up from a 1980 NJPW TV set that Pete F from PWO got via Japanese ebay, and it's awesome for multiple reasons, one being Andre basically portraying Fezzik fighting multiple guys at once, but those guys being Fujinami and Choshu, but also that it's the best, most sustained look we've ever gotten at heel Tito. This hasn't been out there in the community though. The discs were slightly (just slightly) corrupted and this match in particular is easy to watch but it's hard to transfer, so only a handful of us have been able to see it. It's really cool though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 10 hours ago, OSJ said: Ah RSPW, I knew it well, both the wide-open cesspool and the moderated group. I've always felt a little badly about my role in destroying the moderated forum. However, when you have tools like Scott Keith and Gern Blanston as moderators, that's just begging for someone to chuck a firebomb in the place. I never bothed with the modded RSPW. But loved the other one. It is still going. But is 8 posters spamming crap constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidas Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Do you think being introverted/extroverted has a correlation with how much a person posts? I have been here for many, many years, but I'm just not the talkative type. I figure everyone else will say what I would say anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Eivion Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 3 hours ago, RIPPA said: Sorry to interrupt but I was bored and found this interesting (and sad) about the SDL roster. No wonder Fox is already complaining about the star power of the show. Per WWE.com this is the roster (not counting announcers and the McMahons not named Shane) Hide contents MEN Aleister Black Ali Andrade Apollo Crews Big Show Buddy Murphy Chad Gable Daniel Bryan Dolph Ziggler Elias Finn Balor Harper Jeff Hardy Jinder Mahal Kane Kevin Owens Kofi Kingston Lars Sullivan Matt Hardy R-Truth Randy Orton Roman Reigns Rowan Rusev Sheamus Shelton Benjamin Shinsuke Nakamura Sin Cara WOMEN Bayley Carmella Charlotte Ember Moon Sonya Deville Mandy Rose Lana Liv Morgan Maryse Mickie James Paige Zelina Vega IIconics Kabuki Warriors TAGS New Day B-Team Colons Heavy Machinery Here is what it looks like when I remove all the long term injured folks, the folks on "hiatus" (ie: company not using them till deals are up) and the retired (official and unofficial). And I am being generous here since some of these folks only appear on the Main Event or 205 Live. Hide contents MEN Aleister Black Ali Andrade Apollo Crews Buddy Murphy Chad Gable Daniel Bryan Dolph Ziggler Elias Finn Balor Kevin Owens Kofi Kingston Matt Hardy R-Truth Randy Orton Roman Reigns Rowan Shelton Benjamin Shinsuke Nakamura WOMEN Bayley Carmella Charlotte Ember Moon Sonya Deville Mandy Rose Liv Morgan Zelina Vega IIconics Kabuki Warriors TAGS New Day B-Team Heavy Machinery Honestly, only the tag division is really suffering just looking at whose currently available. The issue really is WWE's booking that doesn't treat a lot of those guys as the stars they should be. Actually is an issue with how SDL is treated somewhat as the show still in general. I mean its kind of ridiculous how Roman's biggest and best moments since joining SDL are still on Raw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Mox-Yano and Maverick-Kanellis in the same week. My MOTY list is going to get blown up. #blessed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theendcomplete Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Ryan said: You're up to 11! Congrats. *looks at post count* I think I need to stop posting for a few months. Thanks! At this rate, in 10 years, I should be up to 27 posts or so. Hey look, I’m up to 12 now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said: Mox-Yano and Maverick-Kanellis in the same week. My MOTY list is going to get blown up. #blessed 205 Live in general has had a bunch of really really good matches lately, in particular the Oney Lorcan/Arya Daivari street fight, I really became a bigger fan fan of both dudes after that match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Just now, Zakk_Sabbath said: 205 Live in general has had a bunch of really really good matches lately, in particular the Oney Lorcan/Arya Daivari street fight, I really became a bigger fan fan of both dudes after that match. The table fucking up kind of ruined the momentum of the match and the finish on that one. Still a damn good match though. I've always liked Oney, but it was a revelation to see Daivari had that sort of match in him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 He's much more talented than his brother. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theendcomplete Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said: 205 Live in general has had a bunch of really really good matches lately, in particular the Oney Lorcan/Arya Daivari street fight, I really became a bigger fan fan of both dudes after that match. 100% agree on this! I wasn’t a huge fan of 205 when it first started but it has started to become the highlight of my week, along with NXT. That Gable/Gallagher match was great! The promotion I’ve had the toughest time getting into is NXT-UK. I don’t keep up with it as much. I do like Pete Dunne and Walter however. Any standout matches in UK this year that I should go check out? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 10 minutes ago, theendcomplete said: 100% agree on this! I wasn’t a huge fan of 205 when it first started but it has started to become the highlight of my week, along with NXT. That Gable/Gallagher match was great! The promotion I’ve had the toughest time getting into is NXT-UK. I don’t keep up with it as much. I do like Pete Dunne and Walter however. Any standout matches in UK this year that I should go check out? Great shout on the Gable/Gallagher match. Also I haven't seen it yet but I heard the Gulak/Swerve match was pretty good. I can't get into NXT UK either, my biggest exposure to most of their workers has been either on NXT proper or the MYC, so I'm probably not the best person to answer that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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