Technico Support
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This is one UK heavy BOLA. Maybe all the UK dudes get their own bracket.
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Carmella trying so desperately to get "By Felicia" over that she said it twice because nobody popped the first time was "Bischoff making scissors jokes" level sad.
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Somebody on commentary a few shows back had a good line about Mike Bailey. Something like, "he looks like a kid whose mom dropped him off at the wrong building for karate class but he decided to stay and fight all these grown men anyway."
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Johnny Gargano has allegedly signed with WWE.
Huh. I honestly didn't expect that. I mean he's decent but nothing exceptional.
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I didn't realize that Tyson Kidd's neck was so fucked up he was in a neck brace
After seeing this, I kinda want to believe that most people kayfabed Dusty's funeral and wore either their wrestling attire, their ring entrance attire, or at least a suit made to resemble their in-ring attire. Sort of like funerals in golden-age comic books, where everyone attended funerals in either their super hero costume, or put a dark suit on over top their super hero costume.
Exactly. You can't see it in this picture but Tyson has a giant tabby cat airbrushed on the back of his jacket.
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Random thought: This could just be me, but I want to see if Sasha can get something decent out of Dana Brooke. I don't want a TakeOver special match between them, but a ten-minute match on NXT.
I'd love to see Sasha call that match. Over/under on the number of times she quietly whispers through gritted teeth "stop flexing and rubbing your armpit!"
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Road to Starrcade mode bitches. We get all of the big matches from Starrcade 1983 to Starrcade 2000. We start with Flair vs. Race in the cage and end with the epic...fuck that won't work.
Starrcade 83 mode with ultra realistic Gene Kiniski as referee who won't get out of the fucking way and ruins the match.
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Dario is awesome because he's not a traditional "heel" authority figure. He fucks with everybody equally because he's just an evil guy running a business.
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From reading this thread, the short answer seems to be "everything WWE does."
Their shit is beyond stale and that's why I watch Raw on FFWD and actually only watch one segment or two. The show is fucking garbage.
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Public Service Announcement: You can play the GBA versions of Firepro on Retro Uprising right now. Plug a USB controller into your computer and fucking go nuts.
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Also, oh shit dudes Angelio is working PWG in July this is the best day ever
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England's Will Ospreay and Marty Scurll have been announced for BOLA.
Akira Tozawa, the American Wolves, Jack Evans and ANGELICO are all working the July show, so they're all "maybes" for BOLA, I guess.
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The King of the Mountain match returns as the main event of Slammiversary
TNA using King of the Mountain <=> WWE making Nikkie Bella longest reigning Diva Champ?
Well Jarrett never got the date off King of the Mountain tattooed on his neck, so...
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I'm in the same boat as Tromataker. What's the point of booking an Iron Man match with no falls? It seems like we either had two primadonnas who didn't want to job clean or somebody getting a little too cute laying out the match. Either way, it was shit.
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Insert mandatory comment about how the last good game was No Mercy and how WWE games would be better with the "AKI Engine" here
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Mulligan looks like James Brolin in Amityville Horror
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They have to move to Mexico to work off their debt.
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Things I never expected to see in 2015:
John Cena and Kevin Steen working a PPV program.
John Cena deciding, at 38 and by all accounts pretty beat up, now is the perfect time to bust out the Code Red
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I think Chavo vs Mexico is like a Salman Rushdie thing. As soon as he assaulted Blue Demon, a fatwa was issued on his life. It is now the religious duty of any Mexican to kill Chavo, given the chance.
Also, re Catrina
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Oh Lord, everyone involved in that mixed tag at WrestleMania 6 is gone.
The worst thing about watching old wrestling is that you find yourself playing "count the dead people." It's a sad indictment of the business when you're happy to hear that at least they died of natural causes and not the dreaded Wrestler Heart Attack.
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There was a period in Mid-Atlantic/Crockett when Dusty had the book and everybody had to reference Dusty in interviews. It was like "where's Poochy" and rather insane. Jimmy Valiant, for example, would be cutting a promo about his war on Paul Jones' Army and would have to add that Dusty had his back or something, just really awkward. Dusty was the top babyface and every babyface's best friend and no matter who was cutting a promo, you had to be told that Dusty was the man. It was rather neutering from a "getting over" perspective. Every fan was essentially told that it didn't matter who their favorite guy was; he wasn't Dusty so, basically, fuck 'em. I guess that's where some of the anti-Dusty sentiment came from.
But shit, as someone else here said, that's a booker problem, not a Dusty problem. If the booker is going to make himself the top guy, the least he can do is be as awesome as Dusty was.
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I discussed this show with a coworker this morning and he had a great point. Season 1 was a comedy and season 2 tried to make a really clumsy and all-too-sudden transition to dramedy. Thing is, it's hard to do drama that when all of your characters are one-note caricatures. Red, Black Cindy, Crazy Eyes, Tastee, etc are all very broad, overplayed characters and glomming a depressing or overly dramatic backstory onto them is just so awkward and ham-fisted. You just can't give your comic relief characters gravitas and change the tone of the show by flashing back to their awful beginnings. It could have been done but it needed to be carried out slower and with better writing instead of "here's the stereotypical Latina cook, now let's see the dramatic tale of how she got here."
I did enjoy season two but there's such a bizarre disconnect there between the characters as we see them in the present, played for laughs with very little nuance, and the circumstances revealed by their flashbacks.
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I read someplace that Orange is the New Black is written specifically to be binged, which changes how the show is paced. I can see that, as I watched the first episode of the latest season last night and pretty much nothing happened. It was definitely created with the idea that I'd be watching probably the second and third episodes, at least, at the same time.
As a guy who really doesn't have much time to devote to TV and definitely does not binge watch, I don't like it. "We can write a dull episode because the next one will be good so the viewers will give us a pass" is not the best way to go about creating a show. Because if you don't binge, all you have today is a bad episode.
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