Craig H
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14 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
NCAA Final Four big venues that haven't hosted a Wrestlemania: Alamodome, Kingdome (no longer exists), Lucas Oil Stadium, Metrodome (no longer exists), NRG Stadium, Tropicana Field (just for non-baseball season events), US Bank Stadium (not yet)
NCAA Final Four big venues that have hosted a Wrestlemania: Astrodome, AT&T Stadium, Superdome, Ford Field, Georgia Dome, Hoosier Dome, Lucas Oil Stadium, Reliant Stadium, University of Phoenix Stadium
NCAA scheduled the Final Four for Mercades-Benz Stadium in Atlanta for 2020 which might get a Wrestlemania one of these days.
You listed Lucas Oil for both. The RCA/Hoosier Dome hosted WM8. That was torn down years ago. Lucas Oil was built near where the RCA Dome was. Lucas Oil is really fucking nice and holds over 70k. It’s also a retractable roof. It would be nice if WM would be there. Downtown Indy is pretty nice, Bankers Life Fieldhouse is right down the road to host SD, Raw, and the NXT PLE. Then not that it matters to WWE, but there’s a bunch of great smaller venues for indy shows like the Egyptian Room at the Old National Centre. And parking is pretty good and easy. Plus, Indy pulled off hosting a Super Bowl at Lucas Oil and it was a huge success. There was a ton of stuff to do downtown. Indy should try to pivot from hosting another Super Bowl and try to land a WM.
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WTF is wrong with me. I did it. I wasted hours winning every fucking Chocobo race. It was worthless.
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Airing this footage helps nothing. Like @Raziel said, just put it up on YouTube or whatever. This shit is so tribal and everyone is in their camps that it’s not going to matter to AEW or WWE fans. No one is changing flavors for this.
For fucks sake, TK, you’re acting like Niners. You’re not a message board poster. There are zero internet points to be won. You’re a close enough to Chicago guy that hopefully you’ve watched the Bear. And if he hasn’t, the for the love of god someone play this clip for TK:
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12 minutes ago, Gorman said:
I loved Rey and Andrade's chicken-fight dive to the floor. Gotta love seeing a move that you've never seen before.
Did you notice that Michael Cole called Corey Graves the "heir apparent"? That tells me they must like Corey's work on Smackdown and are considering him to be the future top play-by-play announcer. Good for him! That would be the highest level a former wrestler has achieved as a play-by-play announcer since Gorilla Monsoon.
Yep, I caught that.
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Well I didn’t have this on my bingo card.
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I thought it was a good show for the most part. The worst match was Jimmy vs Jey, but I expected that. For whatever reason, WWE has never been able to pull off tag team partners having a good match against each other. We talked a bit about it in Discord, but it’s that stupid WWE style where it’s very homogenized and there’s no juice so you can’t do a blood feud. A good example is when Joe feuded with AJ Styles. After everything Joe did to AJ and his family, you’d expect those two or at least AJ to start that match looking to kill Joe and instead it starts with a respectful lock up. It’s more of an indictment of WWE’s road agents where every match is laid out the same. I took a really long break from WWE because it stunk. While the storylines have gotten better, the matches are still the same. Unless you’re exceptional and stand out as a personality, the match is just going to suffer.
But sometimes that WWE style works, like with Rhea vs Becky and Sami vs Gunther. Those were excellent matches and the production for each was great.
The production differences were also noticeable. It looks so improved from the Kevin Dunn days. The one bad thing was production making more and more errors as the night went on. The main event had a lot of production mistakes. Filming stuff was better, but they cut away from stuff just as it was about to happen so many times. My 13 year old daughter decided to watch most of the show with me and was into the main event. As she watched the main event, she goes, “why do they keep not showing things happening?!” She said that when Roman was about to suplex Cody off the ramp. That was maybe the third or fourth move in a row from Cody and Roman that they cut away from.
The other bad part of the production was the announcing. My god. Pat was horrible. My daughter was like, “who is this guy talking? He’s so annoying and he doesn’t shut up.” I normally like Pat, but he was fucking awful. It made me think, oh, so this is how people felt about Mauro’s announcing.
But everything did what it was supposed to do in the main event. The main event was the most active smoke and mirrors match ever to make it look like the Rock was very active and to ensure no one, especially the three with matches tonight, got hurt. The Rock was still stiff as a board. There is no fucking way he could work a good singles match. Him being so inflexible for the Pedigree was pretty funny. Dude doesn’t need that much muscle.
But hey, all he needs to do tonight is hopefully eat a Stone Cold Stunner.
Oh yeah, the crowd stuff, this is one of those things that varies from house to house. I had to switch my audio presets 4 times to find one that sounded good. Normal stereo was really bad. The sports, movie, and game modes for my tv and speakers didn’t sound much better. In all of those the announcers were so loud and you couldn’t hear the crowd at all. I finally chose this mode called “Direct” on my speaker setup and everything sounded better. The announcers weren’t as loud and the crowd and ring sounded better. The negatives though were that the sound from the crowd just seemed to go up in the air. I believe they were pretty hot, it’s just not wired for sound that well and it’s so wide open in there. I could also hear a lot of the moves being called in the ring, but hey, at least it turned down how loud Pat was. WWE need to hire someone from the NFL when they do these stadium shows. AEW too. Get someone with experience for getting crowd noise to come through on tv.
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4 hours ago, AxB said:
A Fifth Matrix movie is in development. Drew Goddard (The Martian) will be writing/ directing, with Lana Wachowski as an Executive Producer.
FUUUUUUCK
YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS
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4 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Playing Fire Pro World...I thought I hated tag matches where the game controls your partner. Turns out I just hate games where your partner's AI is braindead.
Thankfully Fire Pro has the best AI you can adjust in video games.
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6 hours ago, Raziel said:
Getting nearly burnt on Rebirth's massive amount of sidequests, then just get to Chapter 12, when after a certain event, the game pulls a Billy Mays with "WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!"
It feels like that’s every chapter and chapter 11 is the one where it really starts piling on. Hey, you just did this thing, now there are jobs and quests EVERYWHERE!!!
I'd be fine with chocobo racing at the Gold Saucer if there weren’t a million races to go through and if there AI weren’t the cheapest and most bullshit AI ever. Getting bumped by literally every other racer and knocking your speed from 10 to 0 is the new blue shell.
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Vince selling off a bunch of shares makes a little more sense because only he would be this dumb to do something like that a week prior to this announcement.
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Is there a place where we’re discussing how TKO and Endeavor are being sold again?
This time to a company called Silver Lake(?) who will be the one to take them private.
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Yeah, Dasha is the other release that sucks. She’s awesome. I don’t know why they never used her more.
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49 minutes ago, TheVileOne said:
If they’re releasing people now, they should release Malakai and Miro.
Malakai just got involved in an angle with Copeland...
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I feel like the game is trolling me. So I got to chapter 12, but only the start of it. Before that I did Chadley's protorelic quests and that was by far the most aggravating set of them. To just follow the shambling dudes in black, very, very slowly, to their destination, and you can kind of speed them up by hitting L2 to shove them forward, was something else. To say I was annoyed is an understatement and it was also the very next segment I played after my long rant on here.
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Awwww...Jose being gone sucks. Gravity was dogshit in a lucha outfit so no big loss there.
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And I see we’re off to the races with his “I just choked him a little bit” remark. I think the funniest take I’ve seen is that he only choked a little bit in his UFC career or judging by his UFC performances choking someone a little bit was the best he could do.
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And I see we’re off to the races with his “I just choked him a little bit” remark. I think the funniest take I’ve seen is that he only choked a little bit in his UFC career or judging by his UFC performances choking someone a little bit was the best he could do.
EDIT: Wrong thread!
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1 minute ago, Technico Support said:
Every single time. There's a link to him discussing how calm, rational, and professional he was in dealing with the Hangman issue, as if the scrum never happened. In all seriousness, as someone who has dealt with a some psychological issues in life, once you've started figuring out your own shit, it becomes glaringly obvious when someone else is dealing with some undiagnosed shit. In my humble opinion as a dude just trying to get through life, just based on how Punk presents himself, this dude is a massive narcissist who has never devoted a nanosecond to wondering if he might possibly be the problem, has never once thought about how his own shortcomings might cause problems. Everything he does right because he is the hero of his own story and can never be wrong. Every single interview about these situations, he's the most professional, rational, and correct person in every situation. It's fucking wild, dude. Have some fucking humility.
On the one hand it’s clear that he’s grown up quite a bit. On the other hand growing up means he just got better at projecting himself at doing no harm. It’s funny too because in the interview he talks about if he were younger he would have handled things worse than he would now. My man, you still didn’t handle things well, whether or not TK is a good boss.
I do think it’s good he’s in WWE. In this current WWE it’s a well oiled machine that caters to what he thinks is best for business and everyone stays in line. AEW to its benefit and its detriment is a little too free wheeling.
What surprised me the most about the interview was just how much he talked about what Vince did. As of this moment, they’re still allegations, but it didn’t stop him from talking about Vince shitting on someone’s head and ruining the lives of one or more women. I think it’s the first person on the roster to actually call that out and not just dance around it and my first thought was if he’s going to get in trouble for anything it might be speaking so openly about that. Every other wrestler talks like they have certain talking points they have to stick to where Seth may have gone the furthest in calling Vince out, but Punk went even further than that.
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3 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
I don't want to formulate my own narrative as much as I want to control it.
Careful. That’s how you become friends with weirdos like EC3.
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There’s a lot of good and not good in that interview, the not good being Punk making himself look like a calm and rational angel when it came to all of the Jack Perry stuff. I feel like when he talks about his side of things that’s how he would have preferred to handle it, but there’s a decent chance that’s not the reality. I won’t even put all the blame on Punk though because he nailed it with TK that TK doesn’t want to be a boss or isn’t an effective boss. Some of the other not good stuff was constantly talking about not wanting to get in trouble and Ariel finally goes, who are you going to get in trouble with and Punk is like, ok, that’s true. He’s done this so often where he talks like he doesn’t want to get himself in trouble but he has no problem just completely going off during the scrums. The other stuff with him constantly saying he doesn’t want to get other people in AEW in trouble because they’re friends with Punk is pretty laughable because everyone there knows who is friends with Punk and one of them, Darby, was just in the main event at one of their biggest shows and moments.
The good stuff or fascinating stuff were the mechanics to his return to WWE, how it felt like Nick was putting this into motion as far back as 2020, how this probably wouldn’t have happened without Nick, and what his relationship is like with HHH and others. The revealing stuff about AEW is interesting because yeah, I don’t think he’s wrong, too much of the time AEW is booked to just put on great matches which is fine at a lower level but on national tv it isn’t as effective. However, to that end, AEW is also suffering from WWE finally being a fully functioning machine again with Vince out of the way. But if the quality in WWE TV declines then I’ll be curious to see what happens with AEW.
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2 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
You are an obsessed Punk fanboy and always have been. You can call me a Mercedes stan all you want.. do I look like it bothers me? What's weird about it is that I'm not allowed to be a big fan of a woman's wrestler....why because she's a woman? That's exactly why and it's embarrassing for someone who claims to be progressive. There was nothing in my post that wasn't a fact.
I’m an obsessed Punk fanboy? That must be why I’ve had little positive to say about the guy for the last year, in particular his first promo in WWE. But there you go, forming your own narrative based on the bullshit in your brain.
Two other things and then I have to put your shit on ignore because, my god, you are dense. First, if you think that’s the part that is weird about the Sasha stuff and not the, you know, always coming in for extended arguments literally every time her name is mentioned like you have an alert setup for it then I can’t help you. Second, the majority of your post…ISN’T A FACT! You just said you wouldn’t be watching or listening to the interview and then decided to just make up a bunch of stupid shit because it’s what you firmly believe happened. That’s not a fact. That’s living in your own world.
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1 minute ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
A lot of people have issues where they worked. We don't need to hear about them. To this day, Mercedes and Trinity never said a word about what really transpired with WWE management. People have tried to paint the picture of a lot of different things including veiled racism from a producer but we don't know the actual story and we might not ever hear about it.
Punk on the other hand calls up a guy who has a personal beef with Tony Khan and they sit around and giggle about all the dirty laundry. That's all there is to it.
You didn’t even watch it, supposedly, so how would you fucking know? I swear, you are quite possibly the dumbest motherfucker on here. Most of the time a lot of us just look the other way when it comes to your borderline creepy infatuation with Mercedes and the other dumb shit you say, but other times it’s worth calling out and venting about it. The entire program has interviews with order wrestlers and fighters because, huh, weird, there is a pretty big show coming up.
But like I said and as you just showed us, formulate your own narrative.
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I think since Brawl Out I started thinking that TK is a lot like a manager in baseball. Starts out great, a player’s manager. Player’s managers don’t stay effective for that long decades of roster change and changing dynamics and the ups and downs of a season become more and more taxing. This interview and really the last year cement that. I appreciate all TK has done, I still really like AEW, but I’m not going to pretend AEW doesn’t have major issues once TK ran out of runway, went through all of the booking ideas he had cooked up for years, and then also had to start catering to more and more new hires.
Can he right the ship on his own to make the week to week must watch TV? I really don’t know. I sure hope so because I’ve seen the alternative in TNA with bringing in booking help and it fails more than it succeeds.
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1 minute ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Also... a shoot from Punk with a guy who is nothing but a WWE paid shill... count me out. Couldn't care less about either of them and WrestleMania is 1000x better off without Punk on the card.
It’s a really good interview, but whatever. Formulate your own narrative. Shill or not, there’s no bias on Ariel’s end.
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WRESTLEMANIA XL - 4/6 & 4/7/2024
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Night 2 was awesome. It had all of the spectacle that night 1 somehow missed. That main event was almost everything I wanted. The only thing missing was Austin. I’d love to know the reason why he said no because I can’t imagine that the Rock’s biggest rival wasn’t asked to come and even the odds.
However, people asking about the Taker connection, how short are your memories? Not only did Taker and his Mickey Mouse tattoos feud with the Rock constantly, but Taker and Roman have history. Roman killed Taker at WM and handed Taker his second loss and what many thought would be Taker’s last match. Everyone that got involved in the match or came out after it was over had history with Roman. This shit ain’t hard to figure out.
Anyway, only thing that left a bad taste in my mouth was Bruce, but Punk’s face made me crack up at that. This felt so special and unique. You can’t do this every year. Hell, this should only ever be done once every 5 to 10 years or never until a situation warrants it. And this situation sure as fuck warranted it.
I fucking love wrestling. When it’s good there’s nothing better (except my Cubs winning it all and anything with my kids) and when it’s bad, all you want is for it to be better. Pro wrestling motherfuckers.