Zakk_Sabbath Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Technico Support said: The switch from tables to hollow core doors: I've heard doors are cheaper and/or easier to come by at Home Depot nowadays. Which is true? Anyway, it's stupid. At least tables have the thinnest of kayfabe reasons for being there. Also, doors break like shit and you have to perfectly balance them on two chairs and then be careful because a stiff wind can blow that shit over. It seems like a small thing, but this drives me insane. Maybe its cause I'm out of the loop, but I saw this for the first time pretty recently on that GCW Hammerstein PPV. This is *literally* what we did as idiot teenage backyarders (particle board was even cheaper than doors, back then). My mind was honestly a little blown. To me, there's no logical difference between that, and something like the conspicuously double-tall, double-wide timekeepers table on Blood and Guts last week. Why would there ever, for any reason, be a stack of doors under the ring?! Tables make total sense: sell merch, replacements lined up for timekeepers/announcers table if they go early, etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 For me when people say why would be there be doors, garbage cans, kendo sticks ect under the ring. The obvious answer is that the wrestler put them there for latter use 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamhock Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 2 hours ago, (BP) said: I misread that as parrot and thought gee that wouldn’t be convincing at all. 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyld Samurai Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I blame any and all shortage or price increase on folding tables on the Bills Mafia. 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shartnado Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) 35 minutes ago, zendragon said: For me when people say why would be there be doors, garbage cans, kendo sticks ect under the ring. The obvious answer is that the wrestler put them there for latter use Or paid off/threatened some of the event staff to do it for them. On the indy scene it must be relatively easy to sneak stuff under there in guise of setting up the ring, especially if you are among the ones actually doing that. Edited July 5, 2022 by Shartnado some of, not some off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Maybe every wrestler has a designated spot like when you had a cubby in Kindergarten! 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I blame Maffew for the use of doors. All that "I am the table" shit was going to go nowhere good. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Moneghetti Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 20 minutes ago, zendragon said: Maybe every wrestler has a designated spot like when you had a cubby in Kindergarten! I misread the last part of that sentence as “….like when you had a chubby in kindergarten” and, boy howdy, was I confused. I was about to ask what kind of kindergarten zendragon went to ‘cause I am fairly certain my kindergarten didn’t have a boner circle. For a second, I thought this was one of those public school things I missed out on since my parents sent me to a private school for grades k-12. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 fuckin hell, that elicited a legit spit take over here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shartnado Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 1 hour ago, zendragon said: Maybe every wrestler has a designated spot like when you had a cubby in Kindergarten! Problem arises when someone has left something way more useful right next to your spot! It's like "Dammit! Should I... no, I'm still going to take my door, even though Patrick has left a table on his spot! Shit, how come I didn't think of that?!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 When Vince .... has a point? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 4 hours ago, Hamhock said: No, no. He's resting. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shartnado Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 No, no. He's resting. This parrot has ceased to be, it is an ex-parrot! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Nah. He's pining for the fjords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 To placate Vince why didn't they say "we'll do a video package for every match"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidas Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Adrenaline, in my soul, now you learn from Cody Rhodes. Cap on, hood up and headphones on. YOU'RE INDOORS CODY. Still working that heel gimmick as a face I see. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Comedian Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Adrenaline in my soul I rock a wifebeater with a hood on it yo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 14 hours ago, odessasteps said: When Vince .... has a point? That is like, the most accurate thing Vince has ever said. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shartnado Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 3 hours ago, The Comedian said: Adrenaline in my soul I rock a wifebeater with a hood on it yo In his defence though, as far as shirts go, that's pretty much all I wear during summer months, indoors, outdoors, to the shower, whatever! THAT will never make him heel to ME, but I see what he must be going for. I mean, he's not serious, right? Right?!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Regarding hollow core doors, those things will fuck you up. Those turn into shards and rarely cleanly break. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shartnado Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 9 minutes ago, Craig H said: Regarding hollow core doors, those things will fuck you up. Those turn into shards and rarely cleanly break. Yeah, I can only imagine. Probably not very practical and as you said, potentially very dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 (edited) E: Wrong thread. My reading is that promoters got tired of the wrestlers destroying all of their nice folding tables so they stuck a bunch of doors under there to distract. Like giving your dog a toy so he doesn't chew on your shoes. Edited July 6, 2022 by Zimbra 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Isn't this more of an argument against those things. Generally not a plunder death match fan, but goddammit I loathe the doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 I like the doors. Once the initial smash is done, they can pick up the broken halves and wail on each other with them, and chunks fly off as they gradually disintegrate. It’s really cool. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 10 hours ago, Leonidas said: Cap on, hood up and headphones on. YOU'RE INDOORS CODY. Still working that heel gimmick as a face I see. The picture up there makes me ask so many questions.... aside from what is Cody wearing. Why does the skull on the Nightmare Factory logo appear to be eating an apple? What's up with the astroturf? Who are all these 140lb dorks watching and taking notes? And are they watching Mr. Perfect wrestling *squints* Roman Reigns? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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