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Except it's not a child but a 35 year old man in a Green Lantern shirt.

I would bet everything I own that he is suuuuuper into that. So maybe she refused.

Fuck WWE/Reddit guy Fuck his spoilers And fuck anyone posting them without spoiler tags

Hey yo, survey says spoiler tag those leaks next time, please. Is that considered a spoiler? If you are reading page 2 of the WWE Fastlane thread AFTER the show has ended, you kind of deserve whatever "spoiler" you might read.

Vince's troll booking is hilarious it makes reading the post show reactions worth it. I can honestly say I don't give one single shit about anything at Mania other than the crowd reaction for the main event. It kind of feels like the worst possible show given the talent they have. Oh well at least there's still NXT.

Daniel Bryan is a miracle worker. But you already knew that.

So Negro Casas vs Haku from 93 is about as enjoyable as you'd expect.

The "Phil" talking point is absurd. That sort if mentality isn't exclusive to Punk or Colt, it's how a majority of wrestlers react when someone outside the business uses their real names. It doesn't mean he's a jerk. (And for the record, I think it's a silly thing for wrestlers to get hung up on, but I'm not a wrestler so it's not really my business.)

Naylor never recovered after he dropped the mask. It was sad.

HHH selling the bat like he was Freddie Lounds and Sting was Francis Dollarhyde was weird. He had a sledge hammer. Sting didn't even have it ready, he was pointing it at him like a Kingsmen umbrella. Does it shoot something out of the end?

The annoying ringsiders made up for it. Especially the one guy that kept yelling "YOU STARTED IN MEMPHIS" at Sting. He said some other stuff also but I tuned him out. "ITS A GOOD OFFER, STANG!"

I don't know about the toothlessness. Cena's had very few pass out losses in his career, certainly not recently. Rusev's sort of a different beast. He's not just a monster. He sells way too much for that and has this savvy to him. He's not Yokozuna or Kamala or Umaga. He's more like Borga or Koslov but even that's not accurate. They were soldiers, warriors. There's something beady-eyed about him. He's not Oddjob or Jaws. He's one of those post-soviet assassins that they send after Jason Bourne mixed with sort of a character out of an old pulp from the 30s, that sort of clever savage lurking in the shadows. He's unknowable but aware. Monstrous but more human than we'd like to admit.

Can we just keep the Fast Lane thread locked and move on?

Haha... Well shit, Bink. You caught me in a couple of those shots grinning ear to ear behind Stevie and Booker wearing the Blue Punk/Pepsi shirt. At one point, someone in the crowd called for the Slapjack and Stevie teased reaching into his tights while on the apron... unfortunately, no yaks got jack'd.

I'm hoping Reigns/Bryan is a repeat of Lesnar/Cena at SummerSlam with Reigns in the Lesnar role.

Real screamer by Coutinho. Bundesliga Day 22 concluded today. Both top teams won their matches (Bayern and Wolfsburg), both widened the gap to third place. Bayern is now eight ahead of Wolfsburg, who are in turn 10 ahead of Gladbach. After that it´s pretty close in the battle for respective spots in Euro- and Champions League. Both, Bremen and Augsburg, were able to equalize in stoppage time. Augsburg not only took the cake by using the 94th minute against Leverkusen, but also their goal keeper to achieve that. BEWARE, LOW QUALITY! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2htlkc_augsburg-kalecisi-hitz-94-dakikada-topu-aglara-yolladi_sport Werder Bremen´s 1-1 draw at Schalke means an unbeaten run of six games for the Northern Germans, who will host Wolfsburg next week. Down at the bottom Dortmund manages to claw their way back out of the depths of the Bundesliga with a 3-2 win in Stuttgart. Dortmund looked better than their opposition in every regard, but still showed that they have a long way to go, Three Bundesliga wins in a row is what counts, though, and it´s a first all season in the Bundesliga for Dortmund. Stuttgart needs to make something happen, and they need to do it fast since they are the only team as of now which is more than one game away from the safe zone. Hertha BSC Berlin is the other team who is now on a sport for direct relegation after a 1-2 defeat at Wolfsburg. Paderborn won last week in somewhat surprising fashion in Hannover, but are right back down to earth after being crushed 0-6 by Bayern. Thanks to Freiburg only drawing Hoffenheim at home, Paderborn manage to stay away from sixteenth place which would mean a play off against 2. Bundesliga´s third place. Still quite a few games to go and only three points between 17th and 11th place, so this is long from being over. .

Wait? WHAT???? There is so much very wrong about that last result

Judge: Mr Cabana, I order you to give over half of everything you have to Dr Chris Amann. *Colt drives in a pick up truck full of wrestling DVDs, action figures, signed photos and his audio equipment.*

Harlem Heat reunion here near Houston, good show where they won back the Reality of Wrestling's (Booker's promotion) tag team titles from The New (NEW) [NEW] Heavenly Bodies:

Bowling team went 6-0 today, and won the provincial 220 five-pin bowling championships. Off to the national championships in Gatineau/Ottawa in late April. Many victory beers have been consumed.

Don't forget the Saturday night recap show where we answer the question, "Who are the winners and losers of the Divisional Draw?"

We can, but what does Styles have to do with anything?

I can't believe y'all are talking about a pair of brown tights when there are two decades worth of silly perms, worse looking mullets, hairstyles even Matt & Jeff Hardy think look absurd on a man his age, and obvious bald spots to talk about. Also, why wouldn't you talk about his bald spot in the middle of a match. It's like trying not to talk about the pink elephant in the room.

The women's tank top era.

Cause of death: Deviated septum from that sneeze he's been holding in for 50 years.

Bryan telling the ref he had until five was great. Haven't seen him do that in a while

Rusev is the creature in Peter Benchley's The Creature/White Shark. He's a savage beastly monster but he's got a brain, a fully functioning brain, and he knows how to use it; he isn't just full speed ahead like other monster heels, Rusev uses tactics and adapts those tactics as the match progresses. I can't really think of a comparable heel to Rusev that I've ever seen. Was this the first time Lana had ever gotten really involved before? I can't recall her helping swing a Rusev match like this before. The first half of the show was thoroughly mediocre but my God did those last 2 matches rock my fucking world. Loved Rusev/Cena and even though it was obvious Cena wasn't winning yet they still had me hooked. Bryan/Roman was also great and it wasn't a one man show at all, Roman more than held up his end and brought a lot to it. I said that Roman's best matches are those where his opponent actually seems to make him really fight for his life, like Rusev, and Bryan did that tonight. I really can't wait to see Brock and Roman beat the living shit out of each other in my presence at Mania. If I had to vote for best in the company I'd give the nod to Rusev but Bryan is right there too. This picture is awesome

Don't care, and don't post spoilers without spoiler tags. It's a dick move.

Sam Alvey is the best failed WWE gimmick ever.

Re-sign Resign 2 entirely different words

Yea, Sasuke has always been a bit crazy.

This is my first by request review. Oyaji mentioned this as a match I should check out after my last post so I figured I'd give it a shot. My goal with this project is to see as much great wrestling as possible, so if anyone has a suggestion of a match that isn't on Meltzer's list I'll give it a watch. My only criteria is that it has to be 4 stars or better and available on YouTube, WWE Network, NJPW World, or anywhere else wrestling can be watched online. Oh, and I'm doing these in order by year so please don't recommend anything from 2005, when I'm just about to start 1992, but anything before 1992 is fair game. Summer Fight Series July 13, 1989 the two countries Kokugikan IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship bout Beast God Liger(Google Translate) vs. Naoki Sano This starts with one of those choreographed stalemate spots that you see in every indy match, but this one is done at double speed and looked really good. I've seen their 1990 match about 15 times, but I've never seen this one. These two have some insane chemistry and they're willing to do anything to have a good match. Liger is great as usual, but fucking Sano was also incredible. He takes a vertical suplex to the floor from the apron, and he doesn't bitch out on it either. He takes a full back bump like he is in the ring. Liger then follows up with a fucking swanton to the floor. Sano has an arsenal of suplexes that rivals Taz, and unlike Taz Sano's doesn't look like he's going to cripple Liger. The finish of this match is a draw, and unlike most draws it kind of works. Instead of coming off like kissing your sister, it feels like these two guys are equals and the only way for this feud to end is their mutual destruction. I have to admit though that as it was happening I thought they were mistiming and botching moves. Upon the ending you realize that isn't the case at all. They were both going for high risk offense that ended up hurting both guys until eventually neither man could answer the 10 count. It was basically both guys throwing grenades at each other's feet until they both blew up. It was a pretty cool finish of a really good match. I'm going to go ****1/4 for this one because it was a tad too short to pull fully pull off the finish credibly. If they would have had 5 more minutes for each guy to hit a couple more big moves I would have fully bought the finish, but it was still damn good. 11/16/91 - Misawa/Kawada vs. Hansen/Spivey (AJPW) **** Stan Hansen is in full ass kicker mode in this one, he's mean, surly, and fucking great. The first five minutes of this is Hansen jumping Misawa during his entrance, piledriving Kawada on the floor, and hitting Kawada with a chair. He mauls Misawa and Kawada like a pair of hikers that ran across a hungry bear. There is a point in the match where Spivey puts Kawada in a boston crab, and Hansen casually walks in and starts stomping on Kawada's head. The ref forces him back to the outside only for him to come back with a chair and slam it across Kawada's back. Misawa is fed up and comes in and Hansen just chucks the chair at him. If Misawa and Kawada are the X-men Hansen is the Juggernaut. There is just nothing they can do to stop him once he gets going. Eventually they realize that they have to try to take advantage of Spivey when they can get Hansen on the outside. Misawa and Kawada eventually get the win with a double DDT and a Misawa splash from the top rope. This is a super fun match, but I think **** may be a tad high. Keiji Muto vs. Masa Chono (NJPW G-1 Climax 08/11/91) Apparently Dave Meltzer has never rated this match, or he somehow rated it under ****, but don't worry, I'm here to pick up the slack. This match was ranked the #9 New Japan match of the 1990s(#1 heavyweight match) by some internet losers on some message board called Death Valley Driver. All jokes aside, this is really good. This is absolutely the best Chono match I've ever seen, and it's most likely the best Muto match as well. Chono is probably someone I severely underrate, but this is the only singles match of his that ever really grabbed me. I got into Japanese wrestling in the late 90s by watching NJPW jrs. and AJPW heavyweights. Chono at the time looked like the coolest motherfucker on the planet, but his matches just weren't up to par with everything else I was watching. Hopefully I get to see a few more Chono matches on this list so I can give him an honest evaluation. This match is incredible, it is one of those "take a peek into our future" matches. These were the guys that NJPW was banking on to carry them through the 1990s and they put on a match that made the fans believe that their fandom was in good hands. This is an epic match that builds to a crescendo over 30 minutes. This is all action, but the pacing is perfect. They hit a lot of big spots, but they let everything breath and make an impact on the audience. This is a match that would probably get over in NJPW today, as it is kind of paced like the Tanahashi/Okada matches. The strength of those matches is how they build to the finish. They tease their finishers throughout, counter each other's biggest moves, and the match ends when they're exhausted and they've pulled out all of the stops until one of the guys finds an opening to hit their biggest move. This seems like the father to the current NJPW main event style, and I have no idea how this didn't make Meltzer's 4* match list. I'd give this ****3/4, and I could probably be swayed to give it the full *****. I think the best way I can describe it is that it feels special. The atmosphere of the match makes it seem like these are the two best wrestlers in the world fighting to see who is the best. It is in the running for match of the year. 2/23/91 - Taue/Ogawa vs. Kawada/Kikuchi (AJPW) **** This is joined in progress, and to the surprise of no one Kikuchi is already getting his ass kicked. Kawada doesn't waste any time saving him and kicking ass though, as he body slams Taue into the first row and then press slams Kikuchi over the top rope onto him. After a Taue lariat Ogawa hits a snap suplex on Kawada on the floor and then Taue grabs Kikuchi and chucks him onto Kawada. That might be the best sequence I've ever seen. It was amazing, Kikuchi has been a revelation to me. He is the unsung hero in these matches, and at this point in their careers he may be better than Kenta Kobashi. They kind of fill the same role in these matches, but Kikuchi is just better at it. He takes an ass kicking like no one's business and is willing to do anything to put his opponent's offense over. This is probably a tad bit underrated at ****, I'd bump it to ****1/4, but then again I only watched the last 8 minutes or so. Hulk Hogan vs. Genichiro Tenryu (SWS 12/12/91) This is a match I've heard about a few times over the years, but this is the first time I'm watching it. The reputation of Hogan turning into a super worker in Japan is something I've been hearing about for years, but I've only watched a few of his Japanese matches. Just as I type that he starts the match with a jujigatame, and starts chain wrestling. I wouldn't call him the smoothest chain wrestler, but I can't think of anyone his size that could do any better. I'm about 7 minutes into this match, and it has been 98% chain wrestling and the only strike has been a chop from Tenryu. Hogan is essentially a completely different person as soon as he crosses over the international date line. Never mind here we go with the right hands and eye rakes. So far this match is worked at a very deliberate pace, Hogan has opened up with the strikes but they are still being used to ground Tenryu in order to lock in a rear chin lock or a boston crab. Hogan is firmly in control until he tries to get fancy and go for a flying knee(seriously, Hogan's offense is 85% different so far) and hurts his knee. Much like Hogan Tenryu is always a heel even when he is a face and he takes a chair to Hogan's knee. Tenryu takes over and hits a couple enziguris and a powerbomb, only to have Hogan comeback hit the leg drop, an axe bomber, and a fucking enziguri of his own(who the fuck is this guy?). They trade offense a couple of times again only for Hogan to hit another enziguri, leg drop, and axe bomber for the win. This was crazy. I feel like Hogan owes his American fans an apology for having the same match over and over again. I really want to know what he could have done with Savage and Flair if he worked this style more in the states. This is about ***1/2 , but worth seeking out if you want to see Hogan wrestle a completely different style. Vader vs. Stan Hansen (New Japan 2/10/90 - Super Fight) Once again the good folks at DVDVR have a different opinion of this match than Dave Meltzer. This ranked #19 on their best New Japan matches of the 1990s and I figure I need to give it a look. For the record I've seen this match multiple times, and I have it on DVD. This is that match, and I'm sure most of you know what I mean by that(probably not the match I should have watched while eating). Vader and Hansen are the roughest, toughest, baddest motherfucking gaijin of all time and their worked strikes are essentially full on haymakers. If you like your wrestling to be full of psychology, or submissions, or wrestling moves, or anything other than ass kicking this probably isn't for you. Hansen and Vader basically assault each other this entire match. Don't believe me, at some point in this match Hansen hits Vader so hard that he almost loses an eye. The psychology of this match is essentially, we're going to punch each other until one of us is unconscious. This is pure, uncut, hoss on hoss violence. I honestly don't know how much of the selling in this match is selling, and how much is the natural reaction of getting punched in the face by someone as large as Hansen or Vader. This is a hard match to rate, because this is a match that would probably suck if two other people did the exact same thing. Vader and Hansen are thankfully not just two other people. This is probably a ****1/2 match for me. This is like watching a YouTube video of a lion fighting a hyena. There really isn't any art to it, but you can't turn away. It is just two huge guys trying to take each other out in the most primal way possible. Keiji Mutoh/Masa Chono vs. Hiroshi Hase/Kensuke Sasaki (New Japan 11/1/90 - IWGP Tag Titles) Another match from the DVDVR top 20 New Japan Matches of the 90s that didn't get rated **** by Dave Meltzer. That guy is slacking. When it comes to mullets there are the Bobby Eatons and Ricky Mortons of the world and there is Kensuke Sasaki. Sasaki makes that mullet work in a way that no one in the history of mullets has made a mullet work. It is a work of art, his barber is the Leonardo Di Vinci of hair cuttery. Sasaki has a mullet that isn't in the least bit funny, it actually kind of looks good. Does anyone have any idea why Mutoh comes to the ring in a Cornell University t-shirt? That seems like the most random shirt a Japanese wrestler could wear to the ring. How many Japanese people have even heard of Cornell? Oh the match? It is the best NJPW heavyweight tag match that I've ever seen. My favorite spot in the match is Sasaki slapping the shit out of Chono and telling the referee to administer a 10 count…off of an open hand slap. Sasaki's pimp hand, much like his mullet game, is way strong. My second favorite spot is Hase and Sasaki hitting a powerplex. This is ****1/2, and is better than those Steiner brothers matches from around the same time. Those matches with the Steiners are a whole lot of fun, but are essentially spotfests. Those matches are great for what they are, showcases so fans from Japan and America can see their favorites wrestle against a team they've never really seen before. This match is a match between two rival teams in a match that means the world to both teams. I'm much more fond of matches that mean something in the grand scheme of things, than fun showcases. Find this if you can, it's well worth it. Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs. Manami Toyota & Esther Moreno (AJW 04/29/91) So, I've been searching the internet for random matches from 1991 to round out this list and this is one that came up multiple times. I've seen Aja Kong before, but the other three are completely new to me. When I looked this match up on YouTube, I expected Bison Kimura to be a monster heel like Aja Kong or Bull Nakano, but she's actually kind of cute. She is going to need more than a Viking helmet and bad make up to make me root against her. Her entrance attire has the exact opposite effect on me than it is supposed to have, because now I think she is awesome and I wish all the success in the world to her. She wears a Viking helmet and a big ass horned cape that makes her look like a combo of a minotaur and Conan the barbarian. This is like a Rockers vs. Demolition match on fast forward. The larger heel team uses power moves to ground the smaller faces, and the faces fight back with speed and flying. Seriously, when the faces are in control this match moves at about 200 mph in every direction at the same time. It is just non-stop action. The first fall goes to the faces after a sequence of about 9,347 high flying moves. In the second fall Kong hits Moreno in the face with a trash can and she blades. This is about a year too early to rank on the Muta Scale of blade jobs, but this is about an 8.5. Bison finished it with a twisting splash. The third fall is the most competitive as both teams have pretty decent control segments. Then there is a dive sequence featuring a couple planchas and an asai fucking moonsault. The heels take this match after about 30 minutes with a top rope sit out powerbomb. I don't watch much joshi, but this was super fun. I'd give this about ****1/4, but then again I probably missed half of what happened. I don't know if joshi is for me, but I have to say I'm intrigued. I've reached the end of 1991, so it is time for some awards. Wrestler of the year: Jumbo Tsuruta, he was the best at everything in 1991, and I don't think anyone was close. Misawa was right with him in 1990, but he didn't seem to have as many fun matches in 1991. Kawada would be #2 for me, because he was just so damn fun throughout the year. #3 is probably Taue, because… Feud of the year: Kawada vs. Taue, these guys were just pissed off and ready to beat each other's asses from beginning to end. The feud between Misawa and Jumbo was great, but Kawada and Taue hated everything about each other. It seemed like they would have killed each other if that is what it took to win, but there just happened to be a referee there to stop them. Match of the Year: For the second year in a row AJPW has a six man tag that blew everything else out of the water. Tsuruta/Taue/Fuchi vs. Misawa/Kawada/Kobashi from April 20th was everything you could possibly want out of a wrestling match. They put on so many six man tags I got tired of talking about them, but there was a reason they kept booking them…because they all worked. This is just the best of them all. Most Overrated/Underrated: Kenta Kobashi is eventually one of the best workers of all time, but here in 1991 he is good not great. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi on the other hand is great at this point. He is always designated to receive the ass whooping, and he is excellent at it. Biggest Surprise: The joshi matches that were on this list were so much fun. Whether it was Bull Nakano doing leg drops from the top of the cage or Esther Moreno doing asai moonsaults, they always did something that surprised the hell out of me. Tag Team of the Year: Steve Williams and Terry Gordy were in the most fun matches. Misawa and Kawada were also outstanding, but the gaijins seemed to have good matches with a wider variety of opponents. Promotion of the Year: All Japan Pro Wrestling had the Wrestler of the Year, Match of the Year, Feud of the Year, and Tag Team of the Year. You don't really get better than that.

There's some 70's era Mid-South fan somewhere scoffing at your definition of "old school".

Whaaaaaaaaaaat? This is surprising. I don't think I've ever head a negative Mick Foley story. Also... I can see Punk's side. "CM Punk" is a stage name in the same way that "Charlie Sheen" is a stage name for Carlos Estevez. Would you walk up to Charlie Sheen and call him Carlos? Stage names aren't exactly unique to pro wrestling.

Honestly the whole "real name" thing is more about people inviting themselves into a degree of the wrestler's personal life. If I am a wrestler and someone who doesn't know me personally calls me my "real name" it comes across as either someone trying to be smarter than the room which is annoying or trying to jump the line into my personal life. Neither is ok. Not saying this applies necessarily in the Punk situation but I see where they are coming from.

I'll never understand some people's hate-on for Colt....

Mario bokara over Matt macintosh via keylock

uh - no

I was developing photos in my schools lab today when the lab tech came in with boxes that were donated. I rescued a vintage 8MM movie camera from the trash heap. Also got a bunch of lenses and another camera all because I happened to be one of two people in the lab today.

Potentially NSFW image right at the top. Thanks for the warning.

Forty years ago today.

Have the Wyatt's reform and abduct Michelle McTaker. Have her dragged out, strapped to a cruci...err Taker's symbol, wearing Rowan's sheep mask. Take the mask off and she's got that far off Luke Harper look in her eyes. Then, we find out she was fed tons of acid, had Bray's religious rhetoric read to her, and impregnated by Bray. Bray would refer to the fetus as Pooh Bear, a reference to Charles Manson's son, Valentine Michael "Pooh Bear" Brunner. The story really writes itself.