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  1. Last night's RAW just sickened me. 

     

    Those idiot fans chanting "YES! YES! YES!" for a lumbering stiff like The Big Show instead of deafening "WE WANT DANIEL BRYAN! WE WANT DANIEL BRYAN!" and "CM PUNK! CM PUNK!" chants.

     

    If you took every wrestling fan in the Western world and offered them the choice between watching Low Ki vs. Naomichi Marufuji in a 45-minute match, or Kane vs. Big Show in a "battle of the choke slams," 99% would choose Kane vs. Show which just demonstrates how brainless most wrestling fans are.

     

    Mindless zombie sheep dancing to Vince McMahon's tune.

     

    I used to console myself with the belief that things would improve once Vince McMahon died.  But when you have Triple H pushing Big Show, a fat fuck who couldn't do a moonsault if his life depended on it, instead of phasing out the big men entirely and only pushing guys based on their workrate and ability to have 4 star matches on a nightly basis, it convinces me that the WWE deserves to burn to the ground in Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy and all their workers spending the rest of their lives living on welfare in a ghetto trailer park in Pinellas Park, Florida (Tampa's white trash neighborhood).

     

    And I understand that things are only going to get worse, from my point of view, before they get better.  WWE will be awash in cash with the next TV contract, but I take solace in the fact that house show attendance continues to decline as does PPV revenue.

     

    It will probably be another 15 years, and require Vince croaking, but Triple H and Steph will eventually drive the WWE out of business.

     

    And that will be a glorious day for me when that finally happens.

     

     

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    That was probably me, with all three of my little ones losing complete control of themselves at various times during the movie. 

     

     

     

     

    Fuck you (and anyone else for that matter) for bringing a bunch of tikes to a PG-13 movie. If your kids are too young to not understand that they shouldn't be blabbering during an entire film, then they're too young for that film in the first place. Isn't that why they release shit like Free Birds for?

     

     

     

    Antacular is a socko account for Hoarkak?

  3. That was really fun watching the Philadelphia press gang-up on Andrew Bynum this afternoon.  Bynum looked so thrilled to be out there and trying to defend his stealing of $16 million from the Sixers while never playing a game for them last year, all because he was a fucking dumb ass and decided to go bowling while recovering from knee surgery. 

     

    And he definitely comes across as a guy who'll end up on 30 for 30's "Broke 3" documentary in five years, so even then he won't have the last laugh.

  4. - Sad to hear about the death of Roland Alexander of All Pro Wrestling. He could be a controversial character but he was always very nice to me and even booked me for the Battle Royal at the legendary King of Indies event in 2001 which in many ways directly lead to the creation of Ring of Honor, and was the first time a lot of people were exposed to guys like Low-Ki, Bryan Danielson, Spanky and others.

     

     

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    Holy shit, Saffron Burrows is already 41.  How long ago was 40 Days and Nights?

     

    11 years.  I don't think she was in it though.

     

     

     

    You're right, I was thinking of Shannon Sossamyn (sp?).  I only know Saffron Burrows from Deep Blue Sea and that horrid live-action adaptation of Wing Commander that I only saw because the Episode 1 trailer was attached to it.

  6. Read the Thor 2 plot synopsis on Wikipedia and VERY disappointed with the twist ending with

     

    Loki using his shape-shifting powers to disguise himself as Odin and seize the throne.

     

    I was really hoping that Thor 3 would focus on Beta Ray Bill and and Walt Simonson's Surtur Saga or the Midgard Serpent and have Kate Upton or some other melon-breasted blonde as The Enchantress or Lorelei.

     

    If they want to have Loki in it as a supporting character, fine, but

     

    to make him the Big Bad again

     

    not what I was hoping for.

  7. Eric Bischoff was not at Bound for Glory or TV and isn't expected back. The story given is that he will be working from home, which means he's out of the picture as the key creative force. His contract is believed to expire in or around February, so he'll get paid until then. Bischoff being gone would indicate the likelihood of Hogan being back has decreased, because Bischoff was always there to do Hogan's bidding and to make sure he was featured as a key component in storylines. There was talk this is a way to get him out of the picture, but he wasn't let go due to his contract with the company still having time left. What's notable about this is Gaburick was looking just a few weeks ago at bringing Bischoff back as on-air talent.

     

    A lot of people were very happy to see Bischoff go, since it was noted that he was very negative with people and most didn't enjoy working for him. For a long time, because of his track record as the guy who created Nitro and the wrestling boom, he was thought of highly by Spike TV, both for that and also being a veteran of selling television properties meaning so he knows that language and has credentials outside of wrestling. He had been TNA's intermediary between them and Spike. But the bloom of late has been off that rose as well. At the end of the day, Bischoff's early success in WCW came because he was lucky that a lot of very intelligent people were on board with him and they were filled with good ideas. The joke used to be that you would suggest an idea to Bischoff, and two weeks later, in a conversation, he'd pitch the idea back to you, like it was one of his, forgetting you were the one who brought it to him in the first place. But the fact is the ability to separate good ideas suggested from bad ideas is a talent and he grew the company tremendously before it imploded. As best I can tell, with the exception of Hulk Hogan, none of those people had any affiliation with Bischoff this go around and he this time didn't cultivate people like that, which resulted in few ideas like those which turned the business around 17 years ago.

     

    Bischoff had been the key driving force in creative. The creative going forward will be in the hands of writers David Lagana and Matt Conway, as well as the guys maneuvering the direction will be John Gaburick ("Big" from Tough Enough) and Jeff Jarrett, who has had a lot more and more input of late, and I was told you could see Jarrett being relied on more and more at Bound for Glory and the last TV's.

     

    http://www.f4wonline.com/component/content/article/110-wrestling-observer-newsletter/33764-nov-4-2013-wrestling-observer-newsletter-hell-in-a-cell-results-no-db-as-champion-bellator-ppv-canceled-ufc-numbers-new-japan-ippv-tons-more

     

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    I'm not saying he's a perfect choice or anything but given the options, I'd go with him. Just my two cents.

     

     

    Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy is an option.

     

    I'm sure I don't need to remind any of you of the following "highlights" from TNA's long and storied history:

     

    - Midgets jerking off in trash cans

     

    - Providing continued employment to (alleged) White Supremacists Ron & Don Harris (and also Brian Lee if you believe those rumors)

     

    - The guys who would become "Gymini" as wrestling dildos.

     

    - Preventing ROH from doing a hair match between Raven & CM Punk.

     

    - Jimmy Yang as a Flying Elvis

     

    - Giving a three year push to Sonny Siaki

     

    - Vince Russo's S.E.X. stable

     

    - Booker T with an "African" accent

     

    - Jenna Morasca: Pro Wrestler

     

    - Everything involving Karen Angle's on-camera role

     

    - Brooke Hogan as an on-screen character

     

    - Sting vs. a drugged out Jeff Hardy in a 30 second PPV main event

     

    - The "epic" and "enthralling" Main Event Mafia vs. TNA Front Line feud

     

    - Cheerleader Melissa as a Middle Eastern terrorist

     

    - Samoa Joe: Overweight midcarder

     

    - Sonjay Dutt and "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal feuding over So Cal Val

     

    - Jeff Jarrett constantly pushing himself as World Champion even though he openly acknowledged that the fans were sick of him on top and wanted anyone else as the company's "ace"

     

    - The Six Sided ring

     

     

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    There is nothing to save.  Let TNA die and join XPW and Herb Abram's UWF in the annals of shitty companies that need to be laughed at.

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  9. If hope Vince buys it, just so we can finally get an invasion angle where no one bitches about the invaders getting completely squashed.

     

     

    Michael Cole: "My God, Pat Patterson is just DESTROYING AJ Styles here.  With one arm tied behind his back, no less."

     

    JBL: "Styles had better watch out here, if Patterson gets him in a rear mount, it'll be AJ's worst nightmare come true."

     

    Jerry Lawler: "Look! Here comes Titus Young with a kendo stick!"

     

    Michael Cole: "AJ Styles is just getting destroyed by every openly gay employee in the WWE."

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  10. It's why I laugh when someone says the Browns made out like bandits in the Richardson trade.  I could see that POV--if we weren't talking about the BROWNS.  No matter who owns or runs that team, they underachieve or flat out stink and the only good decisions they make are by accident.

     

    Factory of sadness, thy name is Cleveland.

     

    Your ongoing three year vendetta against the city of Cleveland is, bizarre, to say the least.

     

    Was a friend of yours sexually assaulted within the city limits or something?

  11. Good to see UCF come back and win after that move at the start of the game where the Louisville CB hit J.J. Worton helmet-to-helmet and then stood over him and posed like a punk ass bitch.

     

    What the fuck was the Louisville player thinking?

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