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I got married

Being a Mets, Jets and Knicks fan has driven me to pre-determined sports.

I would order this ppv."You're implying the odds aren't really stacked against John Cena?""No, I'm simply saying that Cena...ugh...finds a way."

Your dress is beautiful.

Heel Dusty from 73, first hiding behind Murdoch and then being awesome in the corner.

I say it gets renamed American Dream.

A friend of mine posted this drink earlier today: It's a Hulk Hogan (Lemonade, vodka, and a rocket pop)

Harlem Heat were the undisputed kings of that.

Welcome to the dark side Greg - I just spent way too much money on these

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'm just glad the pendulum had come all the way back around on Dusty BEFORE he passed. We start watching this nonsense, we grow up, we get more cynical and specific in our tastes, we dismiss our childhood until we eventually realize we were right all along.

I thought he was looking for some in ring charisma.

They gave the briefcase to the one guy who, while doing well with his heel turn, won't do anything interesting with MITB. What a drag. Reigns' winning gave them the most options for selling some great angles. So what if it was obvious. It was also the smart choice. If they wouldn't go that route, for the love of Heaven--give it to someone other than Sheamus. They could have had El Torito run off with the briefcase, and it would have been a smarter way to go. The women's match was solid until that stupid finish. If that's what they think of the Divas Division, just disband it already. Everyone has moved over to watch the women of NXT, anyway. Kevin Owens has a laugh similar to Pee Wee Herman. Coming from a guy of his size, that's creepy as fuck. I was expecting more from Ambrose-Rollins, though I'm not sure why. Brutal match. But it felt lacking in some way. It just didn't hit the right notes.

If only Abbot and Costello were around to take advantage of this.

There was a period right when internet fandom for pro-wrestling was blowing up that had this idea that Dusty was an egomaniac booker and terrible worker. Dusty defended the "Dusty Finish", basically citing Eddie Graham as his influence and how he didn't invent the "Dusty Finish". Heck even DEAN had been a little critical of Dusty for lifting his promo style from other regional guys (namely Rufus R. Jones). But dammit to me, Dusty always delivered. In the ring, on the promo mic and on the commentary mic. He knew he was there to entertain you and put his heart and soul in to everything he did. I think it was sometime after 2000 when people started remembering why they loved Dusty. It was DEAN who pointed out to me that what Dusty did on the mic was straight up Heaven & Hell Baptist Preacher stuff and that is what drew you into his ability as storyteller on the mic and a storyteller in the ring. His character was simple, he was fighting for you and me. Didn't matter if you didn't cheer him, he was still fighting the bad guys to remind you that standing up as a "Common Man" against those that would keep common people down was important. I'm recently married and we are, of course, hoping for children. If I can teach my children to always keep their heads because being common is nothing to be ashamed of, then that in turn kind of makes them extraordinary. If I can teach them that and it sinks in, then I'll gladly flash a "Million Dollar Smile" to Big Dust in thanks. He'll get a picture on my mantle along with the picture of my father and the headmaster of my boarding school. It will either sink in or one of them will get expelled from school and try and sneak back in to class doing a Midnight Rider gimmick. In the latter case, I just couldn't be angry at the kid. James

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. I think it speaks to a bigger problem in WWE, in that everything is meant for the camera, and the crowd is just window dressing. The wrestlers barely acknowledge them, and I've made the point many times that none of these could work a crowd if you put a gun to their head. There is no hand slapping, there is no heel jawing with the fans. It's all an emotionless, homogenized performance. It's funny. I was watching Souled Out 98 earlier as I did other things, and I was pondering why despite clearly achieving far more success in WWE, Chris Jericho was never eeeeeeeever as good as he was in WCW. What you're talking about is exactly why. He was awesome at working the crowd and running his mouth and doing random goofy shit. Which Vince/Kevin Dunn/whoever you want to blame completely drained out of him. So I think it's a long standing problem.

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. I think it speaks to a bigger problem in WWE, in that everything is meant for the camera, and the crowd is just window dressing. The wrestlers barely acknowledge them, and I've made the point many times that none of these could work a crowd if you put a gun to their head. There is no hand slapping, there is no heel jawing with the fans. It's all an emotionless, homogenized performance.

One of the main things I'll miss from WCW is that nobody ever talks to the camera.

If only they had some sort of program in place that they could sign her to, where they could teach her to hone her skills. A developmental system, if you will.

Kelly is playing with house money. If he flames out in Philly, he'll have his choice of college jobs the day after getting fired.

Enzugiri!

You say that like he's not trying to get fired and go back to college.

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.

Some old geezers: Nice crowd for a NOAH show in 2015 actually. Misawa can still sell out a building 6 years after his death.

Cena-Owens II was amazing, again. (I'm guessing Cena-Owens III at Battleground for both titles). Ambrose-Rollins was 30+ minutes of them murdering each other. And Ambrose continuing to rise up like Jason Voorhees was incredible. So, yay. I went from saying Thank you Bray to Fuck you Bray in 30 seconds flat. Ugh, at least Sheamus-Brock may be fun in the fall. And I don't know why the room got so damned dusty (ARGH... the puns) during the tribute. Oh, and Nikki-Paige had a mind-numbingly idiotic finish.

Literally this, word for word.

Yeah but it's only available in Region 4.

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.

This England Slovenia game is pretty choice.

Coming to PS4 and Xbox One this Fall!

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Up until 2014´s World Cup, Greece had won more trophies in international football than Germany over a 17 year period, up until today they have won more than France over the last 15 years, more than the Netherlands over the last 27 years, more than Brazil, by that logic, only Brazil, Italy and Spain should be allowed to talk. Well, not even Spain and Italy, because until 2006 and 2008, both had been edged out by Greece for roundabout 34 (Italy) and 44 years (Spain) respectively. And I´d say, that the whole financial market in Europe is pretty f´ed in total. The bigger and financially stable countries get their stability at the expense of the shakier countries. Since we are the EU anyway, there shouldn´t even be "Greece", "Italy", "France", "Germany"-talk, but talk about a European economy as a whole. People from Germany are the worst in that regard, pointing fingers at everyone, claiming to be a financially healthy nation when all we actually do is an attempt at financial imperialism in which near-bancrupcy for other countries is a staple of our own economy. But enough of this from my part, if I talk economy, it shall be footie related... Apparently, the Faroer Islands´ win sparked a major spike in sales of the national squad´s kit. A friend of mine is a huge fan of the island, not that big into football himself, and tried to order when online only to find his size sold out. Beforehand the shop apparently crashed. Although I find the EURO tournament a little too big with 24 out of the odd 50+ teams qualifying for it, it´s going to be somewhat entertaining to see who seems to be making it to France so far.

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.

Y'all know what's up.

Renee Young danced and I felt a little funny down below. The other 1:59:40 sucked.

WHO THE FUCK AGED RAVEN???

I never knew how much I needed videos of Dusty Rhodes shilling cars in the 80s until I saw them. Now, I can't imagine how I ever got through life without them.

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.

Did they go through with adopting Kozina?

Jabaal-Abdul Simmons

Viagra? But what about the T-Plus?

They've apparently been dating for four months and got engaged two months ago. I guess Davey's relationships are poorly paced with nothing but high spots too.

Apparently they explained some of the stuff I was asking about. Or so I'm told. As I was watching it, those scenes were so boring and colorless that these plot points didn't make any impression on me whatsoever. For me, there just wasn't enough art in this movie. Marvel obviously didn't give a damn if the character arcs really made sense or not, and they were forcing a lot of bullshit into the story which didn't belong there in the first place. The first Avengers, after a somewhat shaky beginning, quickly settled into being a damn fine ensemble piece in which everyone (except Hawkeye) had a clearly-defined role and their own personal character journey and everything flowed together in a fairly logical fashion, at least by giant-explosion-epics standards. The new one? Not so much. Characters randomly wander in and out of the overcrowded storyline in a disjointed fashion, decisions are made for the most tenuous of reasons, and outside of hammer-lifting and hulk-busting I just didn't have much fun here. Heck, even poor Stan Lee's usual cameo felt rather forced and like someone had given a studio note "hey, give Stan something serious and badass to say for once (at least before he resumes his usual self-deprecation)". Really, what from the first movie led into this one? "Hawkeye wants to prove himself worthy of being on the team" seemed to be the only bridge to the first film, everything else was so arbitrary and done more for the sake of setting up future storylines than entertaining me now.

Mickie *did* have a thing for heels before breaking into the WWE

I really liked the "New Warriors" stuff on Ultimate Spider-Man -- with Agent Venom, Cho, etc. -- but man was I disappointed with the Spider-Verse episodes. Peter comes out happy after each one, like he did something great, when every single time he let the Villain get exactly what he wants. "Oh well, one step closer to total annihilation; have fun, pig guy!"