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BOLA night 1 preview is up: I'm really glad someone was smart enough to propose a counter to Scurll's "just kidding" superkick.

One of my guys is leaving my company in a few months and I'm dreading the fuck out of the hiring process. I'm sincerely hoping this crazyness is limited to the retail sector but I have a sneaking suspicion it isn't.

John Wick/Equalizer teamup where punch/kick/stab/shoot/judo the entire country of Russia.

Meltzer all "didn't Vince learn the lesson of Shibata?" Motherfucker please, like Vince knows who that is. Dude thinks "Shibata" is the bread the chef uses when he's feeling extra fancy.

I thought the adaptation was unimaginative. It felt like Denzel simply set up a camera and shot the play, with no effort at all put in to how he could make it fit the medium of film. Boring set design, lots of stand-and-talk, and , way too much "tell, don't show" dialogue. Hey, did you miss the fact that Troy is stepping out on his wife? Don't worry, Bono will bring it up 12 more times. I guess that works for a small three act play where that kind of exposition might be a limit of the form, but it kills a movie for me. Cut 95% of those mentions and show Troy at the bar meeting his girl. It's not sacrilege to flesh out the source material with new content if it avoids clunky exposition. The source material was kinda crap, too. It's probably personal preference, but I couldn't stand how lightly it let Troy off. The Troy character left a trail of human wreckage in his wake because he was a petty, angry little man who couldn't deal with how his life had turned out. Every person he interacted with was the worse for having known him. So to have a happy ending where everyone turns just fine and then they all get together to celebrate his life, well holy shit, that's something so audacious you wouldn't even see it in a Hallmark movie. This movie wouldn't get nearly the praise it does if Denzel and Davis hadn't been attached. Put Morris Chestnut it in and give it a TV director and it might get some play on Lifetime or Centric.

Somebody in WWE design really likes making letters out of triangles

Or just not have her show up at all. What was the purpose of her presence in that segment? Aside from making her look bigger and tougher than the wrestlers (again), what was she there for? As an influence on writing, she's a cancer. And I don't mean that in some smarky or MRA bullshit way. I mean you literally have an on-air performer, who is also in a position of authority, influencing how she's written to the extent that it benefits nobody but herself. She's not a wrestler, can never get comeuppance, and no angle with her doing this kind of shit will ever draw. The only reason she's written like this is to stroke her sad little ego. God damn, at least Hogan in WCW tried to occasionally give the illusion that he was giving back a little.

Vince takes a beating to get a wrestler over: one step forward Stephanie shows zero fear and browbeats the same wrestler into walking away minutes later: 10,000 steps back LOL @ this fucking company

Remember when Stephanie fired an interviewer because she remarked that Stephanie was "big" or something like that? Will she fire the photographer or the social media person who posted this when she realizes she's been photographed looking the same size and build as the woman they're billing as a monster and "not like most girls" (IE "she's plus sized")?

"Managers," in kayfabe terms, made no sense to me as a kid. A manager is someone athletes themselves hire to conduct their business affairs. But here we saw managers firing wrestlers, selling contracts, trading them, etc. Really, wrestling managers are more like the GM of a sports team, or maybe a pimp. But then again, there were times when a wrestler fired a manager. So yeah, really no logic at all. This was a really good angle. In the weeks leading up to it, a blinded Adonis accidentally cut Beefcake's hair during a 6 man match. So it made sense.

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http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2017-baltimore-ravens-1797932196 LOL I thought of that exact quote this weekend watching the game. Unbelievable.

I guess the league has finally gotten its wish. Mostly parity, very few superstars, and the star of the show is the NFL brand (tm). Wave the flag and buy a Ford F something 50. And as a Ravens fan, fuck Flacco. That bland, mediocre shithead had a horrible late season collapse in 2012, was on the bubble, then heated up at the right time, and now we're stuck with him. Dude has zero passion. Same look on his face walking off the field after a win as he has in a loss. I've seen drywall installers with more enthusiasm about their job.

The former would be a great gimmick. Two guys who go to magic shows, kids' parties, etc and expose the business. Doug Henning & David Copperfield vs Gallows and Anderson for Mania. Book it.

Awesome article. The quoted part above is so true. Someone in another thread was talking about the media hopefully taking notice of the whole Corbin/Maroon issue and my response to them was. essentially, this.

I want to say sometime after Mania this year. Meltzer was interviewing someone, maybe Omega or the Bucks, who told the story. A higher-up at Hot Topic was in town for Mania weekend and saw tons of Bucks and Bullet Club shirts. He called his WWE merch rep asking to get some of those shirts. The embarrassed rep had to tell him that those were not WWE performers. Somebody eventually got the Hot Topic guy lined up with the right people.

On a side note, how many of Roman's tweets sound like something Doctor Doom or Skeletor would say?

I think WWE needs more social media guidelines in place than just "no tweeting after midnight." Seriously, doesn't the NBA or some other sports league bring in advisors/social media coaches to teach guys how not to be dumb online?

I think Malibu Mike was Hiroshi Hase. One of the hidden characters, the ring announcer, think, had Liger's moveset. I can't remember "Power Move name to NJPW name" but the game had both Sasuke and Power Warrior, both Mutoh and Muta, Scott Norton, Hashimota, Tenzan, Chono, Otani, Kanemoto, and the guy in long pants who did the butt bump a lot.

Power Move was the shit. You have to remember there was pretty much nothing else good out at the time, and then we got this awesome fucking game. Great memories of El Temblor (Koji Kanemoto), Area 51 (Kensuke Sasuke/Power Warrior), whatever their Muta stand-in's convict gimmick was, etc. Just awesome. Yeah, it was a port of TR1 and it led me down the path of getting my PS1 modded to buy TR2 (and later TR3). @Ryan, well it was a precursor to the Smackdown games (Yukes) but they SD games dramatically simplified it as far as the control scheme went.

Windham was nowhere near sniffing distance of the upper card at the time. To illustrate, remember that he was originally booked in a midcard mixed tag freakshow match for the card. I doubt they could have heated him up fast enough for all that to work out. The show had been promoted as Flair/Luger for so long that nobody would have bought a midcarder being hotshotted to the top like that. I was there and man, was it a shitshow. I have no idea why they didn't rebook the whole show as a tournament or at least put someone credible like Sting in the main vs. Luger. Not that it wouldn't have mattered. From what I can remember, there was no time to promote anything different.

True, but when there were hearings on sports and steroids, it was Bonds, McGuire, etc in front of congress, not the Ultimate Warrior. Because 1) lawmakers want to rub elbows with famous jocks and celebs, not circus freaks and 2) the general public thinks wrestling is a joke and would scream about taxpayer dollars being wasted if Joe Congressman was seen on C-Span grilling some phony rassler about roids. America's Pastime (tm) is sacred...who cares if drugs have killed far more wrestlers than all the "real athletes" in other sports combined? The general public just thinks of wrestlers as roided up morons not athletic enough for a real sport and too dumb to be actors. Why worry about saving them?

If "company part-owned by U.S. president's small business admin head routinely flouts independent contractor and labor laws" hasn't caught fire a press that's insatiable for dirt on this clown show of a presidency , I sincerely doubt "balding skinnyfat goon forced to lose fake fights for arguing with doctor" will. Nobody outside a very specific bubble cares about the plight of pro wrestlers. Always try to understand how the mainstream thinks of pro wrestling, wrestlers, and its fans.