Technico Support

My lord that game was a pile of shit. I remember picking that up at a now-defunct department store called Best. I'm so old, Bop N' Wrestle on the C64 was my first wrestling game.

I just love hearing Matt McCarthy bitch about Punk and can't wait for tomorrow's We Watch Wrestling.

Work in a reference to the external occipital protuberance and you're golden.

God damn, that's a young looking 40 year old. Good on him!

Listening to Meltzer this morning, two thoughts: So much of the Punk shit just panders to the Cornette Cultist narrative that Khan is a mark who just financed a company to hang with the boys and have good matches, a dumb money mark working with daddy's money, blah blah blah. Now I'm not saying he's the opposite or a shrewd businessman who is 100% strategic, but the truth is far more likely to be somewhere in the middle. But the Cornette types just salivate over this shit so Punk is feeding raw meat to the base. I've never seen a more self-hating lot than wrestling fans and people from the old days of the business. God forbid someone who actually likes wrestling run a wrestling company. We're so much better when wrestling is run by con men with nothing but contempt for fans, or rapists, or a soulless corporation that enables both, right? Alvarez going back to describe the opening of the original scrum, how Punk went after Hausman first, then after Alvarez, both off of bad information, was wild. I'll never forget a reddit thread I read at the time where a poster described his girlfirend, who was in therapy, watching the scrum. She told him she couldn't watch it because they were, in her opinion, watching a man with psychological problems having an episode right there in front of the world. Thinking back on Punk going in on Hausman like YOU'RE COLT'S FRIEND, AREN'T YOU??? And Hausman like, "uh, no, we met once I think." And then Punk pivoting to Alvarez and yelling at him about a story he never wrote or something he never said. The whole thing just showed a guy going after imagined or perceived enemies based on bad information and it was kinda sad. Anyway, I hope to not write any more about Punk today. Thanks.

I seriously got Anthony Henry and Kevin Blackwood mixed up constantly. Young white guys, similar builds, lots of tattoos, penchant for weird hair color... Vincent and Dutch are all up on their cult shit and Drake is just a good ol' boy who likes bowling and is weirded out by these freaks but is still their friend would be pretty fun.

It’s all eSIM nowadays tho

Trench not answering his phone right now

I know “it’s wrestling and wrestling is different from real life job environments,” such a lousy argument that excuses all manner of bullshit, but seriously…in what world should anyone be forced to work with a coworker who talked shit and physically assaulted them because “think of the money!” The “they should have done business!” argument needs to stay in 1982.

Every single time. There's a link a few posts above to him discussing how calm, rational, and professional he was in dealing with the Hangman issue, as if the scrum never happened. In all seriousness, as someone who has dealt with some psychological issues in life, once you've started figuring out your own shit, it becomes glaringly obvious when someone else is dealing with some undiagnosed shit. In my humble opinion as a dude just trying to get through life, just based on how Punk presents himself, this dude is a massive narcissist who has never devoted a nanosecond to wondering if he might possibly be the problem, has never once thought about how his own shortcomings might contribute to these issues. Everything he does is right because he is the hero of his own story and can never be wrong. Every single interview about these situations, he's the most professional, rational, and correct person involved. It's fucking wild, dude. Have some fucking humility.

Mr. Workers' Rights talking about how wrestlers should still be paid based on houses (which, even in the best of times, was likely a scam based on a little something I like to call Carny Math) is certainly a choice. First crab out of the pot, pulling the ladder up, getting more conservative as you get older, etc. But hey, he wears reproductive rights T shirts sometimes, right?

I also enjoy him confronting Perry on "dumb internet shit" like Punk didn't build a whole career on dumb internet shit.

BAH GAWD SOMEBODY STOP THE DAMN POST THIS MAN HAS A FAMILY Well there are a lot of hot younger female workers for him to rub elbows and take pics with (in all seriousness a middle aged famous wrestler, with a rumored history of womanizing, ostensibly hanging out with nothing but the 20something women in the training center is creepy as fuck, gives me "grown ass man hanging out by the high school" vibes)

Thanks for clarifying! It's also pretty funny that Punk is complaining about how AEW apparently felt betrayed that Punk showed up backstage in WWE. Wasn't the original wedge between him and Cabana that Punk got angry about Cabana showing up at a WWE event?

One can be a boss and a nice guy. If the only way you can be a good employee is to work under a domineering asshole, you have issues. Good old Phil “I don’t believe in therapy” Brooks, everybody.

I can't find a good screenshot of Kane with his Gasoline brand gasoline.

That's awesome. My first-ever wrestling show was a WWF house show in January of 86 in that building. I didn't catch a Crockett show until December of 86, the Bunkhouse Stampede.

LOL I was almost 14 years old, I can't remember. Apparently the only thing that exists is one pic: Apologies for not getting some shots on a Polaroid or maybe Kodak Disc.

That's awesome. I'll sometimes look at old arena reports and be reminded of people I saw wrestle live. Usually it'll be some weird outlier like Bobo Brazil (he worked a legends battle royal on a WWF show). I think the coolest "bucket list" wrestler was that I was there for Bruno Sammartino's final match.

Oh man, I feel you. I've been through the home buying process twice in my life and it's a pain. The idea of this guy giving up a sale because you want what amounts to a 1-2% reduction is insane. Cutting off his nose to spite his face, penny wise and pound foolish, whatever your preferred idiom is. Yeah, I assume he's banking on it being a seller's market and hoping the next inspector isn't as good as yours obviously was. What an ass. Good luck to you guys!

Somehow it's so fitting that it's an iconic AEW moment and JR brings it down. Excalibur: "Eddie Kingston with a can of gasoline!!!!" JR: "We assume it's a can of gasoline!" It somehow wouldn't be AEW without JR shitting on something. Or maybe he was just in denial from Kane-induced PTSD.

Goofus murders The Infantry for 10+ minutes before giving them a slip-on-a-banana-peel win. Gallant beats The Infantry but makes them look like they belong while doing it.

Type 1 diabetes vs type 2 diabetes

I can get with the gist of it. It sucks that women work hard to be respected and seen on the same level as the men, but then seemingly the only thing that gets attention is this male gaze oriented bullshit. At the same time, it’s a WWE performer giving an interview, so it’s likely a work.

It’s almost like Tony don’t care anymore.