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2 hours ago, twiztor said:
i have never heard anybody utter that phrase, but i'm sure now that i've read this post that i will start hearing it everywhere.
I hear it A LOT. Yesterday it was Vitamin Shoppe. I just want to buy a bucket of protein powder and an energy drink. Don't hit me with that touchy feely bullshit.
Maybe it's a regional thing.
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I'm sure it's just me, but I feel like Josh Alexander needs new entrance gear. That long sleeve rash guard makes him look smaller and, combined with the head gear, he looks like a dork.
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Lumberjack cafe matches can only happen in Northwest Territories Tim Horton's.
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11 minutes ago, J.H. said:
That was the formula housecshows in the major cities. 1st match Hogan loses via CO/DQ, rematch the next month and cap it off month end with a stop match (if not a café usually a lumberjack/No DQ match). It wasn't just for Hogan as Champ. The Tito/Bruno v. Savage/Adonis in 86 series built off 4 matches, 2 of which were Titi v. Savage matches. The 2nd match was Tito v. Savage with Bruno as special guest referee where Adonis got involved to set the DQ. Matchv3 was Savage/Tito v. Savage/Adonis where the heels won via DQ setting up the final match in a cage (which was in Way of the Blade)
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3 minutes ago, Mister TV said:The that was the WWWF/WWF formula dating back to when Bruno won the belt in 1963, same thing for Morales, Backlund and then for Hogan the first few years.
Yep! I know...I grew up in Baltimore and WWF would have monthly shows there (or close enough to monthly) that followed that formula. Also, the Hogan match would often happen before intermission so they could announce the next show's main and start selling tickets right then. Also so Hogan could get out of the building and into some Miller Lites, and maybe to the next town or across the international date line to get in his 382 days per year.
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The whole "Hogan wins by DQ, everybody is happy" thing has me thinking about 80s WWF. I just watched a WWE YouTube house show where Muraco beat Hogan by countout. Finkel announced a rematch for the next show, no stips, no cage, nothing, and the fans went insane. That's what a draw Hogan was. He could have a shit match with a career midcarder, have it end in a fuck finish, and fans would rush the box office to see the same match, hopefully with a finish (but probably not, probably a DCO, and then a cage match the show after that) next month. AND it would happen on a garbage card with maybe one other star vs star match. 80's WWF was hotter than people who became fans later can even comprehend.
The Cobra (George Takano) and Tatsumi Fujinami were on the same show, by the way, pulling off moves that nobody had seen before, blowing minds and looking like a couple of fucking time travelers. I'm surprised Takano didn't grab the mic and say, "maybe you're not ready for this yet, but your kids are gonna love it." I can't post a link but just Google WWE at MSG, April 22, 1985.
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52 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
Why would you end your European shows in that era with a heel beating a mega face and sending everyone home angry? Even if Hogan has no stroke they're not booking Yoko pinning Hogan clean in every town in Europe for the only shows they got for the whole year. Just doesn't make any business sense.
Like Hogan is an absolute garbage person. And handled business in a very slime way but surely even so you know Hogan wasn't the booker. He wasn't showing up to towns and forcing Vince to change the finishes. Dude does enough real like shit bag stuff, no need to attribute things he wasn't controlling to him.
Hogan still gets announced as the winner, probably whips up on Yoko & Fuji, runs them off, and then poses. Everyone goes home happy. We weren’t far removed enough from Hogan’s heyday for that to not work.
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1 hour ago, Ziggy said:
Alot of guys like MVP were never afraid of bringing up their criminal past.
MVP : jail time :: CrossFit Bros : Crossfit
ie if you didn’t know MVP did time, just wait, he’ll tell you all about it.
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Why did people working in stores start saying “welcome in” and why do I hate it so much?
(because it’s redundant and the kind of fake cozy only a marketing type would come up with)
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1 hour ago, Raziel said:
It was pretty much like when Stacker 2 came out in 99 with the ephedra and it was getting used as "legal" speed until people started ODing and their hearts started exploding.
The shitty thing about that is that people were dying from ephedra supplements for years, but it took a baseball player showing up out of shape, to Spring training in Florida, after taking lord knows how much gas station crank, dying during a conditioning drill, in order for the government to take notice.
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1 hour ago, ExcellenceofAirPollution said:
The "controversy" on his last match is pretty overblown IMO. I've never used Kratom but you can buy it all over and I generally know it as a shitty drug teenagers abuse. It was basically every indy match with an old guy. He probably shouldn't have been doing it, but he went out there for the payday, and promoters/commissions don't care if a guy can barely move. It's sad, and this was higher profile, but it's literally every weekend on the indies with somebody, they're all playing roulette, and there's no indication yet it directly led to his death.
Seriously. I'm not a fan of GCW but terminally online goofs jumping on the garbage train and using this as ammunition is shitty. Not that Janela is doing himself any favors either, but I'm at least glad he tried to explain Sabu's regular kratom use a little better. But people are acting like evil mudshow wrestler Joey Janela personally drove to Sabu's hotel and shot him full of horse tranquilizer.
I think I saw Sabu on TV before the magazines, weirdly enough. In the early 90s, my college's "dorm cable system" was actually just a homegrown solution built by a local dish provider. We'd get some weird-ass networks, man, and one of them was the Sunshine Network. Stumbling upon ECW at like 11 at night, during a time when WWF and WCW were both creatively in the shitter, was like finding a transmission from another dimension. It was insane in all the best ways and Sabu was a massive part of that. Just to echo what everyone else has said, the man was the last of his kind. RIP.
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46 minutes ago, AxB said:
Apparently, WWE is considering running the all-women Evolution 2 PPV in Atlanta GA, on the weekend of July 12th 2025. Same weekend as AEW All In Texas.
Now All In is a Saturday PPV with an early start time, and WWE is supposedly running an SNME as well.
All these pathetic, scarcity mindset, "it's not enough for me to succeed...I need you to fail" motherfuckers. HHH, Nick Khan, whoever else...I hope they're as miserable as they seem. They're on top of the most profitable pro wrestling company that ever has been, most likely ever will be, and they're worried about AEW getting a minuscule slice of the pie. It's like Taco Bell getting up in arms about the old lady selling homemade enchiladas on Facebook Marketplace. Fucking pitiful and sad.
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10 hours ago, odessasteps said:
just saw our local regal is showing Re Animator Monday night. Very tempting since I have the night off.
My local (-ish, 15 minutes, non-highway) Regal closed down in December. It was the last non-fancy theater close enough to me. All I have now are highway drives to two different, pricey "reclining seats and full menu" monstrosities. I just want to watch a movie, not have a "premium experience."
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21 hours ago, twiztor said:
Curt, we love you bud. please take care of yourself.
Yes, this. Thank you for posting. We’re pulling for you, Curt.
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I would have loved it if, when confronted by the Grizzled Young Vets, O’Reilly said “Silver and Reynolds, you’ve grown!”
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To be fair, “this movie is not great” and “this movie is getting Oscar buzz” are not mutually exclusive. I can believe Rock’s representation is in an all-out blitz to campaign for a nomination to rehab his image after Black Adam and all the other mess adjacent to it.
When I posted about spooky gimmicks mostly sucking, I forgot Undertaker! I guess I was thinking more about stables. Also, I guess I meant more “occult” gimmicks. Kane felt more like an unstoppable monster to me, like Lord Humongous, than an occult spooky gimmick.
On the side of “this shit is lame,” apparently Aliester Black is back in an empty room cutting nonsense edgy promos. Nice!
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57 minutes ago, Log said:
"I hate spooky wrestling." - Phil on the latest Way of the Blade episode.
Same, Phil, same. Love learning that pointing out how dumb Bray Wyatt's stuff was alienated Phil from the other Ringer wrestling writers.
Has “spooky wrestling” ever been done well? I’d say Sullivan in Florida back in the day, but that heavily took advantage of satanic panic. Aside from that, spooky wrestling stables just look like edgelord cosplay dorks.
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4 hours ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:
A show of 6 15 minute matches is boring. A show of all tag matches is boring. A show of all death matches or all spotfests or all sports presentation is boring. Wrestling needs short matches long matches luchadores brawlers hosses tag teams fat dudes ripped dudes monsters wimps. Variety is a nessicary component
Right, but AEW already does a good deal of the stuff you swear they’re not doing. They have squashes. They have shorter matches. They have different kinds of wrestlers. I can’t speak for everyone, but I argued with you because you’re making a statement that just isn’t true (AEW is stagnant, it’s all 15 minute 50/50 workrate matches).
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Oh man I’ve been slacking on this thread! Trying to remember what I’ve had recently. I know I had a Beer Farm Irish Red (local MD beer) that was disappointing and bland. Troeg’s Nugget Nectar limited release is out now, but only in 12 packs near me, so that sorted my beer for last weekend and this as well. It’s delicious! I actually had one from a frosted glass first, and switched to a room temperature glass after that. Some beers just do not work in frosted glasses, as I find the cold numbs my taste buds sometimes and kills the flavor. I could definitely taste the difference between that a a regular glass. My British pals might be on to with their room temperature beer.
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11 hours ago, SovietShooter said:
I remember a rumor like 10+ years ago that they were going to do a remake of The Six Million Dollar Man, starting Jim Carrey. The idea was going to be that $6M now doesn't go as far as it did in 1975, and thus hijinx would ensue.
They should do this with the Million Dollar Man gimmick. Re-do all the classic promos, except this time everyone has a way higher price than before, and he just don't have that much cash on him.
A “rich” guy showing up to brag about having millions, only for a good chunk of the locker room to be like “yeah, we’re paid well and we have that, too” would be amazing.
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When Anna Jay yelled WHO WANTS TO GET CHOKED OUT and Harley sheepishly raised her hand, I lol’d
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I would have liked it if MJF misunderstood the mission and then spent like 10 minutes insulting Top Flight until they cried. Then he could say, "see? I hurt people too!"
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Oh lord, Trump is going to take credit for the new Pope being American, isn't he?
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"Should AEW feature more meaningless 5 or less minute matches, which will surely be bad matches, instead of fewer meaningless matches that are long and good?" is a real zen koan. I mean I know I'd rather see actual good wrestling than the 2025 equivalent of 5 minutes of Ciclope vs Mike Enos just to get them on the card. (I know I'll get a few people hopefully unironically saying this match sounds rad) I understand this board skews "old school" but please take off the nostalgia goggles, friends.
I actually feel like @NoFistsJustFlips is sort of making a fake argument here. AEW does have some short matches and squashes already. Nick Wayne just beat RHINO in like 3 minutes ffs.
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They were also known as WWFe as a corporate entity at one point, I want to say in the early 2000s.
May 2025 Wrestling Talk
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Every time you guys say "cup of coffee" I hear it in Macho Man's voice.