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  1. how does this put over Roman Reigns?
    7 points
  2. Whoever is doing color on the Bears game keeps saying shit like "They're undressing the defense," "Or last night they were undressed by so and so team" and it's driving me crazy. "Joe Burrow had to win over his team on Zoom! You know what kind of ALPHA MALE you gotta be to win over team on Zoom?!" This is why I watch games on mute.
    6 points
  3. It's a good think Tony Khan can book a wrestling promotion (so far). Because his sports teams are the drizzling shits.
    5 points
  4. But you can lean into Joe not being as good as Curt. I've posted it 20 times on here but he could have still been a delusional low-midcard heel who claimed he was "Perfect" but failed all the time. He misses the look away 3 pointer. He gutter balls the 7-10 split. His 60 yard bomb only goes 25 yards. All the while he talks about being "Perfect". Give him the Perfect Plex as a silver bullet. He hits it, he wins. The problem is, he's just not good enough to hook it up in most matches. He could shock the IC champ one night on RAW. Or score a pin to pick up the tag belts.He's a threat if he finds his spot. Over time he either rolls with the delusional loser deal or, and here is the part WWE fails at, he actually fucking GROWS AND DEVELOPS over the years and manages to turn it around. He can hit a free throw. He manages a nice 2 pin spare. He executes a hand off to a running back. Now he's a lovable loser. The crowd can get behind him. He's on the march to win the IC title at SummerSlam, just like his dad. It's not that fucking hard with these guys.
    5 points
  5. Now I'm imagining Dreamer getting his going like someone starting the propeller on an old-timey plane. So, thanks for that.
    5 points
  6. Also, the Minnesota Homewrecking Crew is just a bonkers good team name.
    5 points
  7. I like my tag matches like I like my soccer. With rules I don’t really understand but others do and try to casually explain them to me and I don’t want to seem less cultured so I pretend I’m really into it. GO JUVENTUS
    4 points
  8. I think it’s more of a hip mobility thing than a dick thing, but then again I’m not that kind of doctor.
    4 points
  9. I was just wondering the same thing. Yeah, their roster is huge and people are hungry for TV time but this run is likely going to be it for having Minoru Suzuki on your show. I hope so. Minoru vs. Danielson, please and thank you.
    3 points
  10. Taking Mark Henry off commentary and just putting him on one backstage segment is a decision I can get behind moving forward. Jericho compared Bunny to Baby Firefly again just as she was sent to the buckle. Excalibur really missed an opportunity to mention something about Baby being put in a corner.
    3 points
  11. Last week, a student, whom I’d never met in person, approached me to say that she’d taken my asynchronous pulp fiction course over the summer, and it reminded her why she loved reading, and had read nine books since. Made my day.
    3 points
  12. Tommy Dreamer has issued an apology:
    3 points
  13. What Dreamer said was stupid and reprehensible, but I've seen and heard enough stories about him being a nice person that I won't condemn him to hell for it. Let him miss this next set of Impact tapings, go to some sensitivity training and issue a public apology and that should be good enough. But the internet being the internet, I'm sure there's already a video of someone burning hin in effigy.
    3 points
  14. Very surprised people are surprised about the episode. I knew very little about the Flight from Hell except that it was wrestlers behaving badly, and yet, the stories were very much what I expected. Anyone surprised that Ric Flair doesn't know where to draw the line when he's drunk or thinks no means you really do want to touch my penis either knows nothing about Ric outside the ring or only sees him as they want to see him. I'd be more surprised if that wasn't an semi-regular occurrence for Ric given that he's partied like a rock star for decades, claims to have slept with over 100,000 women, and generally fronts himself as the self-absorbed, hedonistic, super-virile man's man he plays on tv. These days, when I watch Ric's character cut promos about how every man wants to be him and every woman wants to be with him, I just assume he's talking about the party last night. Ric's an infantile narcissist who lives for the spotlight and the afterparty. I feel like we've known that since.... the early 2000's? The advent of the internet? Metlzer's first newsletter? It's interesting that people have been more or less willing to overlook the many, many story or Ric's drunken escapades and his being a terrible absentee father and his being a worse husband and the sketchy financial dealings and the fairly evident drinking problem and everything else that goes hand-in-hand with being a human dumpster fire, but drunkenly exposing himself to stewardess is a bridge too far. You're kidding yourself if you think Heidi is the first person Ric has traumatized. Hell, that line probably starts with Charlotte or one of his ex-wives. That's not to excuse the flight from Hell. I kinda wish the stewardess had pressed charges or at least made enough noise to get Ric fired. But, yeah, we should probably be more surprised if Ric sits on a plane drinking for seven hours and doesn't try to sexually assault (or at least coerce) a stewardess. Same for Scott Hall. I'm not at all surprised that the noted substance abuser and alcoholic drank (and maybe drugged) himself into a near catonic state and got inappropriate with a stewardess. Very short hop from all the stories we heard before to that. More like a tiny step, really. I am sort of surprised someone bothered to drag his unconscious ass off the plane and re-enact Weekend at Bernie's with him. I'll give Dreamer a tiny benefit of the doubt here. He probably doesn't deserve it, but I hate to jump to conclusions about people I know practically nothing about. If Dreamer's been involved in these sorts of incidents before, I'm unaware of it. I mostly assume the producers of DSotR use whatever footage makes the wrestlers look the worst. Or, at least, whatever will get people talking. It's basically tabloid tv so assuming its an unbiased accounting is probably naive. I'd want to talk to Dreamer or at least see the footage they didn't use before getting too outraged and jumping to conclusions. That said, I'm skeptical Dreamer was misrepresented here or that his comments were taken out of context. At the very least, dude has been standing in the vicinity of a lot of sketchy goings-on in a couple different locker rooms now, so....
    3 points
  15. There's a LOT to dissect about Johns that ain't fucking great to say the least. But honoring his dead sister via his art isn't one of those. Even if it's made him money. If I died young I'd love if my sister created a character that is universally loved honoring me that also made her money.
    3 points
  16. Dudes that refer to penises as “hammers” must be a nightmare in the sack.
    3 points
  17. I'm not exactly sure why, but I found it screamingly hilarious that Ruby delivers her big "banging one of the boys in the back" line, they go to crowd reaction shots, and one of them is a guy in a Penta mask doing the Cero Miedo taunt.
    3 points
  18. I'm wondering if the AEW is going to keep using Suzuki past Grand Slam, since he's now got indie bookings stretching into the end of October (including BLOODSPORT!) EDIT: I shall now refer to AEW as "the AEW"
    2 points
  19. It's crazy that no major promotion snatched her up.
    2 points
  20. The nice thing about the Dailymotion versions I've seen so far is they're all FITE rips.
    2 points
  21. Manny Machado telling someone to play the game the right way - I've heard it all now.
    2 points
  22. it's only a matter of time before they start referring to pancake blocks as Cucking the defense
    2 points
  23. after last year I just assume it's this trash turf almost every stadium seemingly has now.
    2 points
  24. Just another for the “getting away from Adam Gase” file
    2 points
  25. King's X was way better before Doug Pinnick let himself go.
    2 points
  26. I just returned from a Battleground Championship Wrestling show at the 2300 (nee ECW) Arena. I post since it was mostly an ECW tribute show. Raven, Little Guido, RVD. Bill Alphonso, Bully Ray and Sandman were all there. A fairly solid & entertaining card but no amazing matches. No blood or plunder. Also appearing was Buddy Murphy (easily the worker of the night by far), Bobby Fish (disappointing), Enzo Amore facing Ricky Morton (most amusing match of the night), Matt Hardy, Gun Club v. Bear Country, Van Dam's stripper ladyfriend, Paul Ellering (accepting an award for the Road Warriors), Mark Henry (hosting). They are coming back in December with Rhino and Kevin Sullivan and some other folks I can't remember. Sabu was a no-show. It was a very very very very Philly show that would not have come off so well in any other venue. - RAF
    2 points
  27. Loved the Ruby/Britt promo. They were bringing the fire. Ruby always shined in the few chances she got to really talk in the past, so this was great to see. Money segment. Definitely increased the interest in the match. I feel like this could be an excellent longer term feud. I love Ruby's whole entrance. Great finish in the tag titles match. Miro/Fuego II was a solid, logical way to transition in to Miro/Guevara which should be a blast. Looking forward to next week's super stacked lineups.
    2 points
  28. I've been loving the show , but this one and the Strange ep just didn't hit for me . This one especially felt a little weak.
    2 points
  29. 2 points
  30. So when Dreamer said that Flair could helicopter his dick just by moving his hips, and that reason he could do that was because he had a big one... is it just me who thought "But surely everyone can do that"?
    2 points
  31. As someone that is not a fan of Penn State, the referees continually fucking over Penn State throughout the game has me laughing even though I know it sucks when the refs mess up games.
    2 points
  32. I’ll never understand the Roma backlash. I’m sure it was all politics, and personal issues, but the man could sure work.
    2 points
  33. It was about three years into their existence, but I still maintain Madison Eagles never got a fair shake in the United States, and still hasn't.
    2 points
  34. In defense of Tommy... No, really! Hear me out! His stupid statements were always cut to right after after Heidi Doyle's heavier segments. It made it seem like Tommy was responding directly to everything Heidi was saying, as if he were in the same room or at least had been viewing her footage. This is a very old editing trick, and you will see it in almost any documentary you watch. You'll see it all the time when they're trying to edit a story into a reality or competition show. It was a touch manipulative, and made Dreamer's already repugnant statements seem that much repugnant-er. This does not excuse or condone a thing Tommy said. This does not make Heidi Doyle's story any less true or troubling. I just think the show's editing was very MTV's The Real World when it didn't need to be. Ignorant as Tommy was, I'm willing to believe he'd never heard Heidi Doyle tell her side of the story. If I were Tommy's PR, I would tell him to say something along the lines of "Prior to the airing of this episode, I was unaware and misinformed in regards to Heidi Doyle's recollection of that day's events" followed by a few hundred apologies and public contrition via another kendo stick shot to the nuts.
    2 points
  35. Tony actually talked about that line.
    2 points
  36. Dan Lambert doing his best to give a shoot opinion without torpedoing his own gimmick.
    2 points
  37. On the Cole point — that pop he gets pointing to the ground then rising up on his entrance is legitimately one of the biggest repeatable week-to-week pops in 20 years. He and Baker have it absolutely nailed on how to move crowds.
    2 points
  38. Stop trying to name second generation NXT 2.0 guys. This is the Rampage thread.
    2 points
  39. No it fucking is not the same. He holds hands in the middle of a blood feud and does overly dramatic concussion selling because everything must be about him at all times. He is the end game of bad Shawn Michaels drama class wrestling. Please don't compare that to Omega.
    2 points
  40. Per cagematch, the Suwama-Ashino team in All Japan is called Runaway SUPLEX.
    2 points
  41. I'll go back to Remy vs Aledo at some point because I have a couple more images to source, but I just saw this and it's awesome. It's from Batman vs Teddy Boy and I was not expecting Batman to be so freaking athletic and technically sound: Has anyone ever seen this counter before?
    2 points
  42. Around that time they did the same with just about everyone they repackaged, mention their "real"/former name on the first appearance and then the nickname became their ring name. Curt Hennig/Mr Perfect, Davey Boy Smith/British Bulldog, Kerry Von Erich/Texas Tornado, Ricky Steamboat/The Dragon. They didn't do it with Smash/Repo Man I would imagine because it was two complete gimmick characters, but also they never refenced Hawaiian Crush as the former Demolition Crush despite him using the same name so it might have also been because of the lawsuit over the Demolition name and gimmick. I've never seen Barry Windham's debut as the Widowmaker which is in this this timeframe so I don't know if they acknowledged him as Barry Windham, former 2 time tag champ, son of Blackjack Mulligan etc. He did it at WM6 as well, asking Gorilla if he knew "Perfect's old man, the Ax". It confused me as a new fan of American wrestling and I thought Demolition Ax was Mr Perfect's father for quite a while.
    2 points
  43. I always catch myself thinking about the "Lost Generation" of US pro-wrestlers who existed after the demise of WCW/ECW and before the NXT talent raids. Like, I don't think we realized what was happening during those 18 years of WWE dominance and TNA futility. I don't think we realized it was a period in wrestling history when things were not the way they were supposed to be. Even (especially?) die-hard fans were so pessimistic about the whole thing that we just assumed wrestling wasn't ever going to be cool again, the UFC took all the legitimacy away, Benoit took away all the joy, the demise of WCW took away all the creativity, and somehow our favorite thing deserved to be portrayed to the masses as a largely stupid and childish form of entertainment. That's why I think it's really important to remember and celebrate the generation of wrestlers who peaked in that era and never got to make the millions of dollars & fans that they would have in any other. Off the top of my head, Homicide, Nigel McGuinness, and Chris Hero are the big-name indy superstars that come to mind but after that first tier comes a bunch of bigger what-ifs. Alex Shelley, Super Dragon, Eddie Edwards, maybe not headcases like Low Ki and Davey Richards. Really entertaining guys who would have gotten over as midcard acts, like a hypothetical 2002 ECW run with the Spanish Announce Team, or 2009 WCW running an odd CHIKARA tag in the first hour of Nitro. Who's to say an edgy rival doesn't counter-program the Cena era and doesn't do a Gage-esque short run with a deathmatch guy? I think the rawest deals went to the "sports entertainment" type guys who worked a real solid style but weren't flashy enough to win over spotmark indy fans, i.e. BJ Whitmer, Adam Pearce, Xavier, etc. Or European guys like Jody Fleisch who would have, at the very least, been able to garner a decent following with just a little US TV exposure or bigger US indies that could afford to fly them in. Or, here's a shocker, every woman who was in that first wave of SHIMMER talent - it is bullshit that people like Lacey or LuFisto never even had a chance to be famous. A majority of the PWG founders + early regulars had to eventually say "fuck it" and fall back on their day jobs, and I'm pretty certain time has already dimmed the glory of their deeds. Not to mention global talent like the cursed 3rd Generation of the NJPW dojo, the heavyweights that failed to inherent the throne of NOAH, and the dozens of luchadores who would have done a better job with the Sin Cara gimmick than Mistico. I guess what I'm saying is, this board was built on the discussion of monopoly-era indies and international wrestling so talking about these guys is second nature to a lot of us. But the rest of the wrestling fandom is pretty darn clueless. Don't allow these past decades to become the Dark Ages. Tell the children all your tales of B-Boy, "The Turkish Delight" Murat Bosporus, and Osamu Nishimura, or we will live in a world that will forget them.
    2 points
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