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Personally, it makes me feel fine, flowing through the jasmine in my mind.

I know I'm not alone in this. We all felt great about how WrestleMania 30 played out. Vince had to be dragged kicking and screaming to get the title on Bryan but they did it and it was a tremendous show. We had Bryan as champion. The Shield going strong. Cesaro winning the Andre battle royal which was treated as a big deal. We had Rusev starting up quickly after that. It felt like we were on the cusp of something special. A changing of the guard. That's what makes it more frustrating. I know there's people in the company who know what they're doing. You watch NXT and it's completely different but even if you leave out NXT, RAW puts out some really great angles from time to time also but they blow it every single time.

Haha. I sat next to a kid who was maybe 19 at a ROH show a few months back. He had the old NWA title belt. I was like "Woah, that's cool the classic NWA belt." There was a nameplate on the belt, so I say "I don't remember a nameplate on the belt. Whose name is on that Ric Flair, Harley Race?". The kid goes "Nah, I went old school.......Christian Cage". I literally died a little inside.

WTF does anybody expect? We're in Year 4 of the Authority angle, and the top heel has literally put over one person in all that time. The show is incredibly stale. There's been nothing compelling on the show outside of small bits like The New Day for years, and people can just catch their bits on Youtube. They don't build stars. They don't build matches. They don't build towards PPVs. There's no reason to watch Raw anymore than there is to watch Smackdown.

Flash sale at WWE Shop: 40% off all t-shirts. 20% off all belts if you're one of those dudes I want to punch at shows.

Yeahhhh... I really don't need to spend that money. But fiscal responsibility is booty.

This thread has shown me what my own personal hell is

Who fucking cares who you want to see naked? What is the point of even saying this? 50% of your posts are telling others what they should be posting.

It's crazy to think that if WCW went out of business 5 years earlier it would've been "The fans want Austin? Fuck em, they'll get Wildman Marc Mero"

Actual piece of advice given to an employee today: "Stop getting hit by cars."

A New York franchise up 3-0 in the LCS, and on the road against a continual bridesmaid franchise? What could possibly go wrong?

That's why I stopped watching. I figure it's just more healthy to not keep tuning in to something that just gets my hopes up then pisses me off. Legit makes me feel stupid for being invested in the company for so long. I think WM was the last straw because of the whole retcon nature of the Sting/HHH match. Like "Hey man all this shit you watched and remember like a fucking elephant doesn't matter. Suck our dicks" Lucha Underground is my promotion now so I'm really fucking glad it's back

One of us... one of us... one of us...

I've seen this place sour on Daniel Bryan, and there's the suggestion in "Movies & TV" that Guillermo del Toro is not a good director ... We're in bizarro land tonight Maggle! Or ... people just like different things.

Hence those glorious ratings.

Apparently Sensational Sherri and Col. Robert Parker are in the game as managers.

Why should the Redskins start telling the truth about anything now?

...it really doesn't

At least it's a feud he can win.

This is the Disney Juggernaut pushing a Star Wars film. This isn't Tomorrowland or John Carter, this is Star Wars. Biggest money maker in the history of ever.

NO SHES NOT

Look everyone, it's Tyler...trading wins with fucking Stardust on Superstars every week.

RAW is so stale. I wish they would change everything up. Visuals, commentary, everything. Go back to doing a Nitro-style set. Move the Titantron somewhere different in the arena or make it multiple screens all banded together instead of one big complete screen, like the board for the New Press Your Luck from a few years ago. Dump Cole, dump JBL. Stop micromanaging EVERY damn thing the commentators say. Dump the scripted promos. Stop making everyone wrestle to the hard camera. Stop shaking the camera to simulate impact. Maybe use some things like that sky camera/over the corner camera that WCW used on the first Souled Out. Change the color of the ring ropes. Use the video boards around the ring in an interesting way. Modify WWE style to allow for different regional styles to shine through. Allow secondary finishers to finish matches in order to increase the unpredictability of match finishes. Try more finishes besides "clean/DQ/countout," maybe the occasional draw, KO, or ref stoppage. Start shows with competitive matches that don't advance storylines. Start shows in media res occasionally, as Nitro once did. Use rankings to organize possible contenders; don't be a slave to them, but the WWE Top 25 rankings on WWE.com should be shown from week to week. Do more "from the control center" type summations for upcoming shows like NXT has started to do again. Do more random tournaments like KotR or hell, do a G1-style tournament. Again, NXT did the Dusty Rhodes Memorial Tag Team Classic, and it was an awesome switch-up. Actually have things happen on Superstars or Main Event that are referenced on RAW, but that you must get the Network to see in full, and vice versa. Don't make every entrance song either a shitty nu-metal or questionable CFO$ song and actually get some variety because people listen to rap and even country too, damn. Or they could go nuts and do some crazy shit like that WCW: Lockdown idea that I read about so many years ago, which honestly, I am intrigued by even though I know that it's not a good idea. That might actually solve all their problems! (No, it wouldn't.)

Carlito's most memorable moment was standing there like a whipped puppy while Ric Flair lit into him for being unmotivated.

I don't think he's cool enough to like those movies. He probably thinks they're "the ones with Freddy" like someone's grandma would and shit I can't fucking wait for the game though, horrid voice acting aside

Reggie White. Loved his as a player. The anti-homosexuality stuff afterwards made me feel gross for ever cheering for him.

You're right! Holy shit you're right. I spent the majority of that movie thinking it was the same shit over and over again, but you hit the nail on the head. Everyone treats Chris Kyle like he's Superman and it's just absurd. Then they spend a whole 4 fucking minutes on Chris with PTSD before he's all better for just hanging out with some wounded vets. And then, the movie is over. I liked Bradley Cooper a lot in it, but fuck that movie.

McMahon has really changed in his older age because in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, he'd be ready to dump his headliners as soon as he thought they might be even a little bit old or stale. He dumped Backlund ASAP to get to Hogan; tried to dump Hogan for Warrior, didn't work; dumped Savage so inexplicably that Savage was relegated to color commentary on WM IX, a show so desperate for star power that I cannot imagine how Savage doesn't work it high on the card or at least as a better opponent for Razor to go over than face Bob Backlund in 1993, but that's another rant; dumped Bret as soon as he could for Michaels; essentially tried to dump Austin for Brock. Now in 2015, he's clinging desperately to Cena, not relegating guys like Orton to color commentary on Main Event, calling back old-timers whom he tried to dump to headline WrestleManias, and generally not trying to really push anyone too hard (Reigns, maybe, but that push was botched so badly that I've seen many people swear that it was on purpose). Vince is in "save the company" mode trying to get that corporate cred so that when he dies, Stephanie and HHH won't go out of business soon after, and it has changed his whole perspective on the creative process to a staggering degree, not to mention his willingness to take risks and try to find a new guy to run with when he gets a whiff of his current top guy getting stale.

David Manning on flair pod this week.

I don't even know what kind of fan I'm classed as - don't watch shows, don't have network, keep up with news here and there. I'm only really here to talk about the history and nostalgia aspects

I'm really enjoying Blindspot even though I wish they had cast someone else besides Jaime Alexander. Her acting isn't doing much for me. Her acting range seems to consist of a blank, slightly nervous stare. She's got that down, though.

That god Mark Henry is around to prevent me from banning all of you. In response to the WWE tweeting out the Pop-Up Power Bomb gif

And a hardy FUCK YOU to TARU for blindsiding this guy and causing him to have a stroke. Worthless piece of shit.

I don't even mind her as a worker, frankly, but if you never ever listen to your audience when they want something besides what you want them to want, you're WCW. We all saw that movie... Nikki's gotten a lot better in the ring (remember when Brie was the good one?) but I don't need to ever hear her cut a promo ever again.

I was following a guy on twitter and he said him and his wife had privately decided not to go to one of the Star Wars screenings right away in case of a Dark Knight Rises-type incident. On one hand, I wanted to tell him he was being paranoid. On the other, I 100% saw his point. I'm sorry, this isn't a political thing anymore. It's a "how much longer can people in America keep living like this and keep thinking it's OK?" type of thing. Sad, sad situation.

I don't even mind her as a worker, frankly, but if you never ever listen to your audience when they want something besides what you want them to want, you're WCW. We all saw that movie... Don't say WCW and movie in the same sentence, Vince might hear you and think you want a movie star as World Champion.

At one point TNA was doing 2 million viewers. I believe that was their peak. Right now RAW has been doing a little over 3 million (though I'm sure there are millions of others who are reading the recaps or will watch Mania or something like that). I think they are pretty close to reaching the bottom of the hardcore base that will always watch WWE.

Except this time it will end with Butters (Colt McCoy) standing tall (well as tall as a 4'11" QB can be)

Watched It Follows and thought it was scary as shit! It's about a girl who ends up being chased/followed by a demon/spirit/ghost whatever. That scene where totally made me leap. Only topped later by the scene where I really loved it. I'm admittedly early in my 2015 watching, but I wouldn't be shocked if I had this Top 10, maybe Top 5 come the EOY list. Also watched Red Army which is a documentary about the Russian Ice Hockey team of the 70s/80s. It was interesting but didn't really delve as much into their training methods as I would have liked, and only veiled references to what a monster of a coach Tikhonov was. Also, I would have loved them to call Slava Fetisov on his shit a little more. There were a couple times he said things that seemed untrue/double-standard and it was just let go. Cobain: Montage of Heck which is the documentary about Kurt Cobain. If you're wanting insight into the music, you're not going to get much of it right here, as this is more of a focus on Cobain, the person. There's some interesting stuff and I thought the animated footage set to recordings of Cobain speaking were really well-done and super effective, but I thought it was weird how quickly they glossed over hugely important moments in his life (Signing with Sub Pop, replacing the first drummer with Dave Grohl, signing with Geffen, recording 'Nevermind') are all either not addressed at all (In the case of Grohl and recording 'Nevermind') or just barely mentioned in passing (the two label signings). Still, it's quite good and the last stretch is super-depressing with footage of Kurt nodding off while holding his daughter, being junkie-thin, and covered in sores. Hausu which might be the most insane movie I've ever seen. It's definitely worth watching, just for the scads of insanity throughout. I think my favourite process of watching the film might have been going to IMDB afterwards where someone posited the theory that

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That shouldn't make me as happy as it does but here we are It's the perfect time for the retun of RNN updates. ORTON: VERY THANKFUL

Muscular definition?

I said that somewhat in jest. I do think - if they're not gonna give it to Ambrose or Owens who could both use the rub - it makes sense to have a big return to take it off Cena and I don't see "Medal" or "Cult of Personality" playing at HIAC, so... Is it possible that Cena opens the challenge up, for Samoa Joe to come in and take the title, and this be an optimal outcome?

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Has anybody done a "Wrestling's History of Great Fanny Pack Moments" retrospective?