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  1. On 5/1/2025 at 7:42 PM, Casey said:

    apparently Marvel contacted Jeremy Renner about Hawkeye S2, but lowballed him on salary (half of what he originally made for S1 according to him), so he won't be coming back for that. I doubt they do a S2 if that's the case, unless it's a show focused primarily on Kate Bishop or it morphs into the Champions show.

    Related but unrelated, anybody watch Mayor of Kingstown (starring Renner)?  Really good.

  2. It’s “budget cuts” in the sense of it’s almost time for the earnings report, so it’s time to cut deeper to really make the numbers look good for the shareholders.  Please note I vomited a tiny bit while writing that.

    Crazy how scummy old pro rasslin has nothing on corporate America when it comes to awfulness.  Running “like a real business, controlled by a ‘real businessman’” works as well for wrestlers and fans as it has for America.

  3. Tribalism in the WWE side, maybe?  They just want to chant “Tony fumbled” while Pillman Jr. works Ethan Page like those two are ever going to set the world on fire.  Same crowd that loves the Luchs Bros now after years of calling them flippy bullshit wrestlers.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said:

    Watch any John Cena matches lately?  Move, move, move....  finisher, kickout.  finisher.  Kickout.  Wait for interference. 

    Maybe the problem isn’t modern wrestlers not showing struggle enough.  Maybe the problem is WWE style.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, AxB said:

    Very few wrestlers these day incorporate the struggle and storytelling into their matches, eh? How interesting.

    Name 5 currently active wrestlers who don't do that. Give examples of how they don't do that, and where they should. 

    This could be very enlightening.

    tEH yOuNg BuCkS says 79.2% of this board 🤣

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  6. 15 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

    He had Dave speechless on WOR after the Hangman match. 

    Dave and Bryan arguing over how much offense Hangman actually got killed more brain cells than day drinking.

    I actually enjoyed the fact that Hangman got more of the match and won.  It shows AEW is willing to play with their normal formula (guy who gets more offense loses) to throw fans off and make things interesting.  Also, it got Hangman over stronger for the final.

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  7. 13 hours ago, Gordi the BJW fan said:

     

    Do you think she somehow texts in that same weirdly unnatural WWE Superstar cadence?

    NINERS! Fan. Innnnnn... CONNECTICUT!!!! Thank.     YOU!    For joining.  The.    MERCEDES!!!!!  MONE!!!         Definitely not AI.   Text! Friend!    Grrrrrooouuup.

    Probably not, right. That would be exhausting. 

    Great impression but not nearly enough “uh”s after every other word.  Like “Ninersuhhhh.”  
     

    @Niners Fan in CT my friend, please chill a bit.  The joke was you’re the biggest Mercedes fan here, that’s all.  No idea where implied misogyny came from.

    PS I think Mercedes is killing it in AEW after a rough start.  She’s awesome.

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  8. 13 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:

    I feel like I want to do Dean. DBD and Collision and drive there each time. I wonder at what point I start losing my mind in the process. 

    Last time I drove back to MD from Philly for work (my company’s HQ is there) there was a massive storm and an accident on 95, adding THREE HOURS to the trip.  Only taking the train from now on.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Fighting a man with a perm said:

    I feel we're building towards Hangman defeating Mox, with Swerve coming to Page's aid to combat Death Riders to end the beef between himself and Hanger.

    This would be worlds better than putting it on Ospreay.  There's no story there.  Hangman is an original and is the heart of AEW. 

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  10. 57 minutes ago, clintthecrippler said:

    Great Muta, NWA in 1989, was my ground-zero for cheering for a heel. I was 11 years old. The mist, the face paint, and the moonsault. How could I NOT think "this dude is fucking awesome, I dont care that he's a 'bad guy'?"

     

    44 minutes ago, supremebve said:

    Yeah, I was completely incapable for rooting against anyone with face paint.  If you add a cool top rope move to the face paint, I was all the way in on Muta.  The only problem is I grew up without cable, so I rarely saw WCW let alone Muta.  

    I was like 14 or 15 at the time and yeah, Muta was the shit.  Why WCW elected to go with a stupid ass round robin tournament for Starrcade when a title match between Flair vs undefeated Muta was right there I have no clue. 

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  11. Can anything be done about this issue?  I can't remember when it started, but every time I paste a link into a post, the post disappears and the screen automatically scrolls to the top of the thread.  

  12. 2 hours ago, HumanChessgame said:

    The opening match was basically the match they'd have on the last night of BOLA featuring all the people who lost in the first round.

    Minus either a remote control slo mo spot or thumb in the butt train.

    I miss PWG but I don't know if it'll ever be back, nor if there's really a place for it anymore.  I mean I have a place for it and would pay for every show, but how many lunatics like me are out there?  PWG revived my love for wrestling in 2010 when, after 25 years, it hit me that I wasn't really digging it anymore.  I found PWG at that time and was blown away, and it only got better from there.  I'll always have time for PWG.

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  13. 6 hours ago, twiztor said:

    Picking up a crumb from last month's thread:

    Who was the first heel you rooted for, and what age group were you?

    Personally, and i just referenced this the other day, when Hogan and Savage feuded leading into Mania 5, i sided with Savage. I would have been 6-7. I think that speaks more to my absolute adoration of Savage moreso than my taste in characters, but it's easily the first instance of me going "against the narrative". I loved the Ultimate Warrior and the Legion of Doom and was back to cheering Hogan against the evil traitor Sgt. Slaughter a couple years later. I also always liked the Repo Man and the Mountie for some reason, likely the comedy. But other than those isolated incidents, i was fully aboard the babyface train until the nWo came about and rocked my world.

    I'll say it was Piper and I was probably 11.  I started watching in the run-up to Mania 1, but somewhere between that and maybe the run up to Mania 2, I got tired of Hogan's shtick and got into the heels.  I blame Eddie Ellner, maybe.  On the Crockett side, it was the Horsemen and Midnight Express.

     

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  14. 3 minutes ago, Craig H said:

     

    I believe it goes through his final Pride fight where he knocked himself silly and then got TKO'd. So it goes through his downfall. I don't think it gets into what his post-Pride career was like.

    Thanks!  I was only asking half seriously because I can't pass up an opportunity to point out what an insane narcissist Dwayne is.

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  15. 2 minutes ago, AxB said:

    We already know how to make Amateur matches less boring. There's two ways, you either determine the winners ahead of time and have the wrestlers co-operatively perform the match, rather than actually compete during it. Or you let them compete for real, but you relax the rules of wrestling to allow strikes and submission holds, and make it so you can't win by pinning your opponent, but just by submission or referee stoppage.

    There's a third way but it involves snakes and maybe water hazards

    I know your joke was "turn it into pro wrestling or MMA" and that was awesome, btw

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  16. 13 hours ago, Contentious C said:

    The Amateur (1981) - This was on Hulu, not TUBI, as it turns out.  It's...eh.  If you've seen post-70s/post-Pakula pot-boilers, you've seen things just like this.  It's not anything special, though the computer involvement is at least a little interesting considering the era.  Not entirely sure why this warranted a remake, except they thought they could do some wackier stunts or something.  Pretty skippable.  Not necessarily an actively bad movie, but just assembled from stuff that's rote and not the least bit original.

     

    I just saw the remake, which I didn't even know was a remake until I imdb'd it later that day.  I wish I know the date that @Andrew POE! reviewed it.  It was okay, but slow-moving -- it took 40 minutes of setup before the revenge plot actually got going.  A lot of it was really far-fetched and relied a little too much on certain things going exactly right for the protagonist.  Stretched the conceit of confidence porn to its breaking point, really.

  17. 1 hour ago, AxB said:

    Hogan and Bischoff's third man is Izzy Martinez and they're doing some sort of Amatuer Wrestling tournament thing.

    So they've fallen so far and burned their names in pro wrestling bad enough that they're running a money mark scheme outside pro wrestling?  If you like movies, think of this as Henry Hill sweating and looking for helicopters, Tyrone C. Love getting his arm cut off, or Dirk Diggler getting into prostitution.  This is the scene that shows how far your antiheroes have fallen.  How long until they're shilling Hulkster Gold on Fox News?

     

    "Selling meat off the back of a truck actually doesn't sound so bad, brother!"

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