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I don't know if it is because wrestling companies can't do basic story telling now. But watching 94/95 WCW and I am really enjoying it. Stories that make sense within their own world, clearly defined characters and decent action. I suppose the Dungeon Of Doom is silly, but compared to Lucha Underground and other indies, it is UWFI. Going out and aggressively signing talent like Malenko, Benoit and Eddy along with the luchadors was a great move. Kevin Sullivan knew what the the company needed and how to satisfy various egos. That WCW went to hell after getting rid of him in creative says a lot. I think he could have righted things in 2000, since he was not trying to fix things over night.

I am so into the Iconics shtick. I love everything they do. They are such fucking assholes, and I love watching them get beat up after running their mouths. I hope they never turn. I want them to be total shitheads forever.

Mad Queen Nikki Cross could be fun. Where is Sanity?

Probably because I'm a person with many, many interests I find the single-minded overachiever to be a fascinating subject, my favorite baseball players include well-known pricks like Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and Steve Carlton. Three more unpleasant people you'd have a hard time finding; you'd also have a hard time finding three people better at what they chose to do. Wrestling, yeah, DK, Misawa, and Jumbo are my Holy Trinity. One died in the ring and one busted himself up so badly that he was in a wheelchair while I was out playing softball. (Yeah, I'm a year older than DK, but I didn't turn my bones into jelly trying entertain a bunch of marks.) Had DK not been so driven, (and I first got to see him live in Portland), wrestling would still be just lumbering oafs doing punch-punch, kick-kick, go for the absurd finish.

I read Pure Dynamite about nine years ago. I've known people worse than Dynamite with none of the pluses. To his credit he owned up to bad things he did, probably too much. Without the anger and pain, we would not know who he is and maybe he would be happy. Or maybe he would still be miserable. But that is life isn't it, we live with the choices we make. Whatever the case, Dynamite paid for every bad thing he did. But good or bad we end up in the grave. As a talent you can't really deny him. Every undersized wrestler owes him a debt. He had a good mind for wrestling. Unlike a lot of talent, he did not only care about carbon copies of himself. He could see the value in every type of wrestler. I'm disappointed the turn this thread took. I don't think we needed a crash course in the bad things he did.

It's easy to look and back and say that Dynamite should've toned it down in the ring. But in most fields of sports and entertainment, being afraid to go too far often means you won't go far enough. I mean, let's be honest. How many people would pay to see a guy who's 5'8 do nothing but stomps and headlocks? It would seem that the only reliable means of getting over without taking significant risks in the ring are to possess freakish size/strength or a physique that's impossible to maintain year-round through natural means. And going either of those routes will most likely lead to your body turning on you eventually. Bottom line, if you want to make it in wrestling, you're going to have to pay the piper one way or another. Hiroshi Tanahashi said it best: people won't buy into wrestlers who want to have a long and healthy life.

Also, Daniel's super-underrated fuck you to the "What" chants: Sith Daniel Bryan rules.

I know that "Ever Fallen In Love?" is THE most basic Buzzcocks pick, but it's such an A-1 perfect song, and such a perfect gateway into a band I probably wouldn't have explored without hearing that gateway drug, that I have to share it:

Dynamite Kid vs Jim Breaks

I think the phrase "All Elite" sounds awkward, with those two L-sounds right next to each other. But I sympathize, coming up with a good name for a wrestling promotion at this point is very difficult.

Vince "Gets It"

Holy shit yeah good times. If y'all want to piss off a whole lot of NPC go to Braithwaite manor and have fun. Robert and I spent most of the night just farting around. It was good times. I think next time we're gonna try to derail the train. Yeah I don't know 1 eminem song. It was actually 2 names. I'm with Robert, I pictured an old married couple sitting side by side with matching shirts, greasy ass unshampooed hair, Cheetos covering their face and hands and giving each other a kiss when they killed somebody and a smack when they got killed. I guess the reason I pictured this is, it's what I long for.

Dynamite is kind of pro wrestling in the form of a person, isn’t he? All the good and bad that that entails in human form.

I'm in danger of not seeing a wrestling show all calendar year for the first time since *crunches numbers* Jesus, 1991? This might save the streak.

Really enjoyed Dakota vs Shayna. Dakota sold me on the fact that she'd had enough of Shayna's shit and wasn't dealing with it anymore.

Smash Brothers is about as fun of a game as you'll ever play, but it's appeal is kind of inexplicable. It is a 4-player fighting game where you try to knock your opponents off the edge of the stage. It is super simple, so a complete novice feels like they can compete, but the gameplay is so tight and responsive that you can get really good at it. Four friends, a couple of drinks, and Smash Brothers is guaranteed hours of fun.

Hey, I don't know about you guys, but I can't review a post-92 Misawa match without using the word "excess" 6 times.

I'm gonna be disappointed if y'all tell me those were from Eminem lyrics. I was really picturing them as a middle aged couple that things wearing cheesy matching sweaters is endearing. I've heard one Eminem song in my lifetime. Two if Forgot about Dre counts. I have heard melraz do a pretty good Nate Dogg, though. Reba's lookin rough. Looks like she's down to about 90 pounds, despite eating about 10000 calories of meat per day. Getting her head bashed into the side of a post last night probably didn't help. I've worked out a pretty good system of shooting alligators in the head along with whatever else is wandering the swamps. Made more than $200 yesterday just doing that. Alligators are easy one shot kills with the bolt action rifle, and you'll usually get at least a good pelt out of it, and a bunch of meat and teeth. Got $10 from a perfect deer carcass, along with about $3 from the pelt, which didn't hurt. Kinda felt bad about shooting endangered species, but I did it anyway. Bagged a couple condors and a whooping crane. melraz's horses suck worse than mine. At least mine sticks around. His horse runs off, and won't come back, if you even think about shooting a gun. And his scrawny nag won't let you sell the pelts on its back. The nag is still faster than my shitty horse, though. Found out you can steal boats, at least the little ones. Also found out that if you shoot the lantern on a rowboat out while you're sitting in it, you tend to catch on fire. The high pitched screaming was hilarious. Didn't kill me. Being hog tied and thrown off a boat did, though. Quickly. Melraz got a treasure map looting a random dead skinner. Got like a hundred dollars and some gold out of it. Fucker.

Isn’t a wrestling venue yet, but MLW will be taping their upcoming Miami shows this month there. I can’t wait to see what this will look like on TV.

See I was just thinking Mel was misquoting Eminem

School is going well and I still have no idea what I am going to do with it. Mickey Mantle once said if he knew he would live so long, he would have taken care of himself. When I was nineteen I thought I had no future. No matter what I was just trying to run the clock out. I took care of my family and friends, but I did not care if I died. Even my writing was/is a hobby to give me a creative output. Some numb nut on here thought I was doing it to make money. Yeah I am living large on that thirty eight cents I got last month. But now I have a support system and people who think I am worth something. So I am trying to plan a future late in the game. I have created a savings account and have a plan to put a decent amount of money away. I now have good credit, so I might be able to buy a house. I can have something tangible to leave my family one day.

Punishnent Martinez rules. That is one of the best ridiculous wrestling names ever. “Hey! I’m Punishment, it’s nice to meet you.” His theme music sounds like a Suicide b-Side. I also went to a random Puerto Rican hardcore show when I was in college and Punishment looked like all those dudes. All in on a maniacal post-punk fan of Puerto Rican heritage with striking abilities.

If you're watching ROH every week, you're basically a masochist.

I'm horrified imagining a fed that's all Elite. Haven't we suffered enough?

This is me going way too school teacher on everyone but feel like saying it. Sorry in advance. I read Pure Dynamite and everyone else should even though it makes you feel pretty shitty a lot of the time. Good wrestling stories too but that's not what I pulled out of it. It kind of shows how just being miserable as a personality trait just fucking destroys you. We all get kind of shitty sometimes but you gotta get yourself out of it before it defines you. Almost every post here is about how shitty a person Tom was. Don't let that be all everyone says about you. Get help, do what you gotta do, but don't remain miserable and shut out everyone who cares.

Well that’s because they didn’t give him a lot of time to tell in ring stories. Trust me if guys like him, and the Boogie Woogie Man got more time they’d be mentioned in the same breath as the Steamboat’s, the Flair’s, and the Davey Richards of the world.

I am wholly unfamiliar with anything hockey related, so I had to look it up. This dude never played for Hartford, but he played 2 1/2 seasons for them when they were in the WHA as the New England Whalers. His wiki makes reference to it being a PR ploy to try to appease Bruins fans and maybe get them to switch allegiances. So, a meaningless gesture, and likely the kind of thing that shouldn't have been done, much like the idea that NYM should retire 24. EDIT - I read this after it posted, and I feel like I am coming off like a total dick. That is not my intent, please don't take it that way.

Plus they're going to have to fight off the Freedom Football League, with such luminary money marks as Terrell Owens & Ricky Williams. A part of me envisions Vince giving side-eye to the FFL like it's UnderFaker, in a totally non-ironic way.

Smart money is on Charlotte Worst case scenario is Rousey

Yeah, the only things really holding me back are lack of local people to play with and that my backlog has gotten truly apocalyptic. Maybe after I finally finish Zelda and RDR2 I'll pick it up.

WWE did a good job cleaning Gabe's mess.

Tyson Fury at Old Trafford last night. That also went to a draw.

Love Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993). Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker uncut version (2000) is great as well. 1. B: MOTP. 2. BB: ROTJ. 3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 and 2 (2012-2013). 4. Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010). 5. Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (2018).

With how bad Bryan's merch has been, I don't blame him.

For me, this fight for Ortega feels like it's going to go one of two ways. Either it's his crowning moment ala Jon Jones cruising to victory over Shogun to win his first championship or it will be like when GSP stumbled and lost to Matt Hughes where he wasn't quite ready. Either way, Ortega looks like he's going to dominate the division sooner or later. I'm also not sure how much I like that. I not a big fan of the guy, but his skills are undeniably impressive.

I'd be down for that, but that would be saying a lot about her position in the MCU considering the IW poster was the most jammed packed poster ever. More realistically, that Avengers 4 poster is going to look like a page out of Where's Waldo book.

I have been laughing about that tweet for like 48 hours thanks to Gage's wife beater tan lines

By the way there is nothing more Vince then the Houston owner telling people that George Bush would be smiling from heaven at the new XFL team AT THE SAME TIME THE FUNERAL IS GOING ON ?

FTFY

Kelvin Torve, bench player, wore 24 in 1990 for the Mets before Rickey did, so yeah, I don't get what people are bitching about Cano wearing 24 on a team that hasn't retired 24.

My pick is Chicago's International Amphitheatre, a unique venue that was the site of much rasslin' history, and indeed much US sports history. Built for cattle shows, it's solid concrete construction and layout made it a natural for hockey, concerts, basketball, political conventions, wrestling and even soccer. I saw my favoritest card ever there, after it had been sold to a Mexican-American promotion cartel - thee AAA/ECW supershow. It had the best concessions I have ever eaten at at an event and was the only time I ever was in a riot (as a fan). So bueno. memories, RAF

But maybe the old west equivalent

Dio Magica II & III Dio released Magica in 2000, and it was the best studio album featuring Ronnie James Dio since 1992's Black Sabbath Dehumanizer. It was the best Dio album since at least Sacred Heart in 85 if not The Last in Line in 84. It was a concept album, and almost immediately Ronnie started talking about the sequels. Then in 2002, the solid but unspectacular Killing the Dragon. More talk of the sequels, in 2004 the solid but unspectacular Master of the Moon was released. Big tour, Holy Diver live album, but no Magica follow up. In 2007 he re-reunited with Black Sabbath as Heaven & Hell for three new tracks on a greatest hits collection and a tour. Magica sequels after the tour. During the tour, him and Tony decided to do an album together. Now, 2009's The Devil You Know got my first place vote on our best of the 00's ballot, so I'm not complaining. He announced he'd begin serious work on II & III after the tour, but stomach cancer got him. He was writing for the albums right up until just before his death. One track came out from Magica II, on the now out of print Magica deluxe edition. His wife says she has at least three unreleased songs, but I don't think she ever said if they are from II or just random tracks. This one will, obviously, never be finished but it'll always break my heart.