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    MAY 2016 WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    19 hours ago, MonteCarl said:

    It's crazy to me to think of an 11 year old kid starting to watch wrestling today. To that kid who is 11 and watching today's product, the Attitude Era is farther away to him as the Bruno Sammartino Era was to me when I first started watching in the mid-80s. Those Bruno and other early 70's matches seemed ancient to me when they'd pop up on the occasional Coliseum Videos.

    That's what really gets me.  I started watching in 1985 and even the wrestling 10 years ago at that time felt ancient.  Hell, watching Coliseum's "Best of the WWF" tapes (fuck yeah I said TAPES), when they'd show a match that was even 5 years old, felt completely alien. 

    Considering that, it's sad to see them fall back on draws from 20 years ago nowadays.  Imagine if they brought in guys from 1965 to pop an audience for Mania 1.  Or just consider, no way in hell Vince would be bringing back Bruno to be a draw at, say, Mania 4.  Yeah, they'd put him and old stars in undercard spots like Bruno and Morales in the Mania 2 battle royal but I remember, in the buildup to it, that their presence wasn't noted as a huge draw.  

    I'm hoping they really do commit to this "New Era" but I get the feeling they'll be calling the stars of the late 90s as soon as Mania rolls around again.

     

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    MAY 2016 WRESTLING PHOTO THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    9 minutes ago, Ace said:

    Most tattoo artists use saran wrap on tattoos nowadays. Particularly larger ones. It's also a lot easier to clean afterwards than with a bandage.

     

     

    Ah, thanks.  All my previous experience has been with the standard "gauze and wait a few hours" approach and you never saw Saran Wrap outside tattoo conventions and the like where showing off was more important than healing.

    RAW is Samoan SWAT Team v. BULLET CLUB

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

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    25 minutes ago, NickMD said:

    Yeah, Cass has been doing that since being called up.  He's been using older references like Laurel and Hardy which caught me off-guard but he's so entertaining it somehow works.  Granted, that was for the Vaudevillains.  Maybe doing more modern references be best going forward.

    Nah, the old references are probably because Vince wouldn't understand any pop culture references post-1952.

    RAW is Samoan SWAT Team v. BULLET CLUB

    in WWE PROGRAMMING

    Posted

    57 minutes ago, Eivion said:

    It was a battle royal. The only real loss he has actually had was against Ziggler at Payback via a roll up.

     

    "Roll up" is the official finish of the 50/50 Club.  The loser doesn't really look like he got beaten and the winner doesn't look too strong.

    How many rollup finishes were there on the last PPV?  I recall hearing there were two but maybe there were more?  "Over/Under on rollup finishes" should definitely be a betting line. 

    A PWG THREAD

    in FEDS JUST TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK

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    Looks like an awesome show.  MATANZA!

    I'm still working through Bowie (Drew galloway is a fucking chore to watch).  Chuck Taylor's idea, which he mentioned on commentary, for a southern anti-Semitic babayface gimmick was all the LOLs.  To paraphrase:
     

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    "I want to do a southern babyface gimmick where he's a huge babyface but also he's like really anti-Semetic.  Like he'll do a babyface Ricky Morton promo, 'Ah just want all you people to know that I love y'all and I fight for all y'all. 

    'cept the Jews!  Thank ya very much!'"

     

     

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    [TV] APRIL 2016 DISCUSSION THREAD

    in MOVIES & TV

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    3 hours ago, AxB said:

    Because everyone else who liked it watched it in March, on the BBC?

    Anyone watched Colony? Sawyer from Lost and the fit doctor from Prison Break* in a Los Angeles that's been cut in half by an Alien spaceship, and the aliens now rule the world... and everyone travels by bicycle and trades using the barter system for some reason. I watched the pilot and it looks like it might turn into something good, but it might just be derivative rubbish too.

    * I'm pretending she was never on the Walking Dead. It's best for everyone.

    I watched the whole first season.  It's okay enough, I guess.  It's maddening how they don't get into much backstory, like how the takeover happened.  The final episode of the season was shitty and didn't wrap much up, either.  You know, on second though, go ahead and avoid the rest unless you're REALLY into it.

    APRIL 2016 WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    it seems like he’s quick to push the great wrestling to the side and push the bodies, guys who have [good] physiques, all the time. They wonder why CM Punk quit and they wonder why Daniel Bryan got hurt. It’s because they squeeze so much out of those guys.” Hart said, “I’m just calling it the way it is. Triple H is a former bodybuilder. He’s all about bodies. He thought that Hulk Hogan was the greatest wrestler in the world. They think Ultimate Warrior was the greatest wrestler in the world because that’s what they’re attracted to, but he’s not really a wrestling fan like I grew up.

    Wow, seriously?  Sentence 2 (they ran Punk & Bryan ragged) directly contradicts sentence 1 (they don't push non-bodybuilders).  I legitimately can't understand how the second sentence ties to any of the rest of Bret's "points."

    Triple H, by all accounts, is a huge wrestling fan from childhood.  If Wikipedia is to be believed, he started watching when he was 5 and only started working out because he wanted to look like a wrestler.  There's no way a guy who was pushing WWE to obtain the "Wrestling at the Chase" footage thought Hogan and Warrior were the best ever.  Shit, he couldn't stand Warrior.  Yeah, HHH only likes muscle guys.  Fuuuuuck.  Owens and Joe were already mentioned here.  Look at the rest of NXT.  Look at the Cruiserweight Tournament, whose crown jewel is an tiny tiny English kid.  HHH is nowhere near the size queen that Vince and Dunn are.

     

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    I don’t know how the promoter’s kid gets that kind of qualification to main event

    I can't even.

    Guys, remember when we thought of Bret as "the normal one" in that crazyass family?

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    Joan "Chyna" Laurer (1970-2016)

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Reed said:

    Meltzer calling out WWE's bullshit sexist double standards warms my heart.

    That famous story about Sable pointing out, correctly,  to WWE when in came time for contract negotiations, that she was doing TV ratings similar to Austin (Austin in the attitude era! Just think about that for a second) and asking for some more money and WWE basically laughing at her for being a spoiled brat diva still sticks with me to this day.   

    This is so true.  If a female talent, any time in the history of WWE, acted like Michaels did in his prime, she'd be buried in a desert somewhere.

    It's still happening -- the latest example is the stories of Lana being "difficult" and getting punished.  They had a skit where Rock, one of the biggest stars in history, was scripted to essentially call her a whore on national TV, likely as payback for some bullshit.  This company's treatment of women is ridiculous.

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