Technico Support

Maybe he's not counting Ben Kinsgley. Shit, Pat Morita got a nod. The Tilly sisters' surname is Chan and they both got supporting actress noms. Anyway, there's a whole Wikipedia article to dispute this. I eagerly await the goalposts being moved

And even if that's the case, Callihan wasn't good enough to even adapt to a different style. He wasn't good enough to translate his style to this new one when every other big indy signing managed to do it. Solomon Crowe wasn't even able to get an entire fanbase to like him, even though it was full of people who had spent eighteen months begging for his NXT rotation debut solely because they wanted to like him so badly it hurt- and even with how predisposed to like him they were, he STILL couldn't get the NXT fanbase to care about him. If that STILL means he's even March Madness worthy, let alone worthy of advancing, then I don't know what this is. You're embarrassing yourself, man. You originally said Callihan was just a deathmatch guy who went to NXT and failed, proving you don't know what you're talking about and are basing your dislike on a very limited, unsuccessful run and what appears to be a general bias against "indy darlings." If "every other big indy signing" managed to change their entire style to fit, then what happened to Chris Hero? By all accounts, he didn't like the limits placed on his wrestling and said, "this is not for me." Look, some guys will change it up to fit in to WWE's needs while others either can't or don't want to. Maybe for some guys it's like teaching a right-hander to write lefty. I don't know. I do know that Callihan is a far better wrestler than you give him credit for and I still don't understand your original point, which you've never justified -- that Callihan not catching on in NXT and now having good matches in the indies is somehow an indictment of the indies. My point was that this is a ridiculous argument and it's far more likely that things just didn't work out in NXT for him for a variety or reasons. Christ, we're only in round one. This is going to be an awesome month.

The spot with him and the Bucks from the last ASW where they fight over the dirty thumb was awesome and would be shat upon (pardon the pun) by 63% of the posters here.

If I'm parsing that sentence correctly, you're asking how NXT hurts guys instead of helping? I'd say it hurts them by teaching them there's only one way to do things. One way to wrestle, one way to promo, one way to work out (lots of Olympic lifts bro!), etc. NXT doesn't make you a better professional wrestler. It teaches you the narrow skillset needed for Monday Night Raw. For guys who are already talented, it's like taking a Navy Seal and teaching them how to be the doorman at Wal Mart.

Well that's a problem with the whole tournament and it's always going to be subjective and flawed. If Tyler Breeze got some booking help and was positioned higher, for example, he'd be more visible and would be having better matches with better guys.

I'd call these local fans a lot of things, fairweather aren't one of them. These crazy people always believe that group of losers is going to the Super Bowl. I'm a Browns fan, we have a full understanding that our team is going to rip our hearts out at every turn. Every single year these assholes are talking about Super Bowl aspirations. I meant fairweather fans of a given player, not the team, but I should have said it better. DC fans eagerly fellate every new messiah Snyder sells them, then turn their backs when things start going south. Rinse, repeat.

Sorcesessknight, please point to the place on this doll where indy fans touched you

I've never seen Kimber Lee wrestle ever but Sheamus is dog shit

This is such a dumb statement. It makes no sense since you could apply it to anyone and it requires no proof. What about Chris Hero? He's had great matches this year but got cut from NXT. Does that mean the indies suck? If I think Johnny Mundo has been better in Lucha Underground than he was in WWE, does this mean LU is no good? The amount of mental gymnastics and indy disdain needed for this to make sense is amazing. Hey, let's rewrite this using Okada, who was a flop in TNA: Callihan was a bad fit for NXT from the start and it seems he had trouble adapting his style. He was also injured for much of his run there. And by the time he was ready, many more "indy darlings" (fuck I hate that term) had come in and he got lost in the shuffle, not really given a chance. Fuck it, I'm voting for Callihan just out of spite.

Watching as Cousins is exposed and the fairweather DC and DC suburbs fans turn on him is going to be glorious. Seriously, the team limped into the playoffs one game over 500, on top of a terrible division and only beating losing teams. The problem is that any degree of success to this fanbase is like giving a drop of water to a man in the desert. There is nothing about last season that tells me the Cousins era won't be an abject failure. There's a car in my building's parking lot with an RG3 license plate. That poor bastard.

Busick is a huge Star Wars fan and also once walked in on Chris Jericho taking a dump. Vote Busick.

I get the impression the flash forwards are much further out. But who knows. Breaking Bad references in the last episode: The toy pig Mike and Kaylee are playing with is the one he eventually ties to a door to distract a hitman in the final season. Jimmy and Kim are watching Ice Station Zebra. Ice Station Zebra Associates will be the name of Saul's holding company for his law practice.

And people think Full Sail gets too cutesy. Yeah dude shame on those fans for enjoying themselves

Busick had a great year in PWG. Busick wrestled Thatcher in a great match and Busick vs Hero and Busick, Everett & Lee vs Bucks & Super Dragon, both from BOLA, are amazing.

I just saw this match over the weekend. It's GREAT.

Being a smart fan used to mean shitting on the big guys and liking indy dudes. Now it's the opposite. We are through the looking glass, people.

From some of the arguments here, it sounds like Tyler is getting sympathy votes because of how his push was killed. Please please don't anybody vote based on NXT Gargano alone.

Ah, thanks! Bookmarked.

Just like with Tyler Breeze, I don't think old school gimmicks like this have a place in wrestling anymore. Or are we supposed to be enjoying Kongo Kong ironically?

Apropos of nothing here but the best thing I saw Strong involved in was the PWG fans chanting "shitty little boots" at him, then one boot came off and they chanted "shitty little socks." Then the sock came off and they chanted "shitty little feet."

Funny how they created an entire video package for the Freebirds based around not using shots of them in their confederate flag getups.

Maybe we can just have Negan show up on Talking Dead and kill off Chris Hardwick instead

I just realized the PPV was their anniversary show, which adds to the lulz. "Let's celebrate 14 glorious years by jobbing out the roster to the guys you're really here to see!"

Dave apparently never saw any PWG ever until he started going to shows last year

If I go to Coltcabana.com and click "The Podcast," I'm taken to the Soundcloud page. If I click on the download button on any show, it prompts me to log in to Soundcloud. Thanks, Cleavy! I'll try that.