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American advertising has gotten so homogenous that there's a commercial that always airs during football where I'm not sure if it's for: Dick pills Big fucking trucks Shitty American lager Until the actual product shows up. Essentially, they're all "manly men doing manly things, manly, definitely non homo things that you need our product to do."

I think he was also exposed in WWE because his size was such a non-factor there. He was big for ECW and Japan, then not so much for WCW, and definitely not so much for WWE. And facially he looked like a dude you'd get a home loan from.

OH MAN Wrestling Superstars' dream matches were the shit. I remember they did a tag team tournament where the gimmick was the current teams were all mixed up and picked out of a hat, so you ended up with something like Eaton & Morton vs Lane and Gibson in a semifinal. They also had an issue where the dream match was Hogan vs Tyson. I loved all that as a kid.

Common sense and fanboy-ism are two different things. AJ Styles losing to Roderick Strong is on the net in a matter of minutes. Shortly afterwards it'll reach the japanese online fanbase and from then on it could easily reach something more accessible like say Tokyo Sports. But it seems you'd rather troll than think and provide arguments. Buddy, I'm not trolling. I just don't see it. Not everyone who disagrees with you is trolling. Come on, man. If that's the concern, that fans in japan are giant marks who will lose their shit over a their champ jobbing, then I guess that's cool. I give them more credit than that, though. I think a lot of the issue here is smart mark American fans who take Japan too seriously.

All boner pill commercials must die. Every single one features a guy who is a total grey haired schlub or, at the very least, looks like granpa got into the Just for Men stockpile and isn't fooling anyone, who absolutely looks his age, while his "wife" looks like she just strolled off a MILF porn set. Man: kinda chubby, wrinkly, dull, looks around 55-60 Woman: Sela Ward at her milfiest, looking maybe 40ish

It may have been from one of the competing magazines like Wrestling Eye or the Main Event, but I remember a story about how Honky Tonk Man made a deal with the evil spirits of the Mississippi Delta in order to become so dominant in the WWF. I guess the best explanation for such a chump holding the IC title so long was that supernatural forces had to be involved.

He lost by DQ...like the only DQ in PWG history and once again, who cares? Apparently, marks for Japan care a lot. Everything in wrestling is phony, it's all just business and nothing matters in 2014...except the main title from the magical land of hentai and ritual ball washing.

He’s somebody who thinks more of himself than really exists....Nobody cares about Vince Russo at Spike TV...Nobody cares or knows who he is. God Damn. That should go on his tombstone. As someone new to this iteration of DVDVR, can one of you please explain what "stuffing instead of potatoes" is a filter for?

He's got some rough mileage on him

I really like Silas' character and promos. I even like that he looks like Bill Cowher (I'm a Steeler fan). I have always thought that. It freaks me out how much he looks like Cowher. Maybe they can find a Mike Tomlin lookalike to manage him (his gimmick is that he tries to trip his opponents as they run the ropes).

I received an email from a local jewelry/Ravens memorabilia store who is accepting returns on all Rice-related merch and is also donating an amount equal to any return to a local battered women's shelter.

Nah. Mike Vick ran a criminal organization that tortured and killed a shitload of dogs and he was let back in the league and, sadly, hitting a woman is more socially acceptable than running an illegal dogfighting ring. Look at how many people looked the other way between when the Rice allegations came out and yesterday. Shit, he even got a standing ovation in the preseason even though everybody knew what he did. People WANT a reason to look the other way. Like many others have already said, all he'll have to do is lay low and then make some nice apology theater and enough people will accept it for him to play again.

It would be worth it to see 200 individual replies that start with "BRO" and end with rambling mental gymnastics explaining how none of it was his fault.

The Midnight Spousal Abuser doesn't have a good ring to it tho.

Are PWG and its indy fans who will forget about a DQ finish as soon as someone does a top rope frankensteiner on the floor in the next match important enough to warrant the IWGP Heavyweight Champion doing a clean job? Is it far past cliche to post "u mad?" You're going out of your way to shit on an indy company and its fans because I dared question whether your favorite puro fake fighting organization is as important as you think it is. You are literally taking this personally and lashing out. That would be funny if it weren't so sad. Does Chris Coey still post here? Weeboo puro smark elitism was cute way back in the days of the old green board when it was hard to get hold of some NJPW tapes, so some puro knowledge made you "better" than other fans, but today it's just pathetic. I knew there'd be at least one guy who'd just lash out like a baby instead of debating the point. Congrats on being that guy.

Is NJPW really important enough for its champion to not job in the U.S.? Calling them the number two company in the world is really damning with faint praise and is not really a big achievement. Wrestling has diminished so much that it's really WWE and then everybody else. When NJPW guys come to the U.S., they work with ROH, a company whose only TV outlet is on owner-operated stations in secondary and even smaller markets and who has almost zero PPV presence. I say all this not as a knock on NJPW, but just to qualify my opinion that it would not have mattered for AJ to do a job at an American Legion in Reseda in front of 400 people (ps no diss I love PWG more than any other wrestling right now).

Well sure, but that's why I said WWE only. I don't count TNA and neither should you. I did forget Punk and Bryan, though.

I'm not sure how true that assertion is. Out of the last 10 years, only two ROH world champs have been signed by WWE -- Rollins and Steen. WWE doesn't care about Elgin, didn't want Briscoe or Richards, and I'm not sure about Cole. There is not a single ROH fan who sees Elgin job in PWG and thinks, "wow, I hope Trevor Lee comes to ROH and gets the title shot he deserves!" Inside the company, the title is booked well and protected probably better than any title in WWE. But indy fans know the score and, like someone else said above, are not deciding their ticket purchase over whether their world champ did a job in another indy. I'll say it again: if ROH wants to act like they're major league instead of an indy, then they should pay their world champ to sit at home on non-ROH nights. It's the indies. One company's champion is another company's midcarder.

I understand that. I was making a joke about how out of touch and old-fashioned that is. I think the idea of "protecting a belt" on the indies, especially in 2014, is ludicrous. Aside from the fact that fans, especially indy fans, know it's a work, there's the nature of employment and making money on the indies. Does ROH expect their world champion, who has to work elsewhere to make enough money to get by because they're just an indy, to do no jobs? If ROH doesn't want their world champion doing jobs, they should just pay him to only work ROH. If you want to be a "national" promotion instead of a tiny indy, conduct yourself like one.

Elgin "didn't do enough to protect the belt," including a doing a job in PWG? Wow. Is Cornette working for ROH again? Styles "protected" the NJPW belt at BOLA with DQ (DQ's never happen in PWG) and fans shit all over it. It's not 1986 and neither of these guys is Bruiser Brody or Stan Hansen.

Instead of trying to be an alternative, they've settled on being a WWE knockoff. They're run by a dumb money mark who just wants to be on TV above all else, so much so that a sale of the company fell through because of it. Said money mark ran the company like a charity until her mama stepped in and put a stop to it. They employed Vince Russo long after the entire industry realized how horrible and untalented he is, to the point where they fucked themselves by lying to a broadcast partner about it. That's just off the top of my head. I'd list some more but LOLTNA is offline right now.

Had to piss in my cornflakes didn't ya?

I legitimately can't wait for Vince to finally give up so HHH can take over completely. Yeah, the guy has his own issues but nothing is as bad as Vince's straight-up lunacy. I don't think HHH has anywhere near the self-loathing Vince has about being involved with "wrestling," for one thing.

Big Johnny vs Punk was the most obvious "Let's play to the Internet" deal. I loved Big Johnny. My favorite moment of that whole program was when Punk called him "Super Dave" lol, and the live crowd popped huge. Everyone watching was already thinking the same think. The guy had such a striking resemblance to Bob Einstein both vocally and physically. It was uncanny LOL I think Punk referred to him as "Funkhauser" as well.

Speaking of Allagash, I tried their stout (Allagash black) this past weekend and it was glorious.