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Well, ten days past. Mitakeumi out due to Covid, if there ever is a lucky (?) infection, it might be this one. Also, Shodai has to be joking at this point, turning 1-4 looking like a chump into 6-4 looking like an... Ozeki?! Takakeisho is 7-3. Terunofuji and tons of other people (OK, 3) are on 8-2 and in the lead.

Could have been this, especially making "Zeus'" wrestling look passable. Honestly, at this point I would be curious just how awful the movie was before the final cut.

Can't we rephrase "shot" into something else? Like firearmly wounded or something? I sure hope PG isn't in a vegetative state...

The Ozeki are depressing. Takakeisho seems, Mitakeumi is injured. Shodai has completely lost what he had going. It has been coming a while, but he will finally get that demotion to Sekiwake. Ichinojo v Terunofuji tomorrow.

Ban please.

Terunofuji is not the same way as in head&shoulders above everyone else like Hakuho was, but if he stays his usual banged up self (as in no injury aggravation), he will always win at least 12 matches. At the moment, this will mean a great shot at winning. The rest is inconsistant at best, I'd put Wakatakakage as most likely rival, probably jinxing him in the process.

I don't think it will stop the tournament, but I've been wrong in the past. The only real reason I can see is if a tighter security protocol gets imposed on a way shorter notice. I mean, they did hold an empty arena Basho while infection rates were soaring. And there waa Basho 3 months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945...

Two months flew by and Grand Sumo will return to Nagoya, first tournament allowed to be held at full capacity since the Covid outbreak. Speaking of Covid, Taganoura beta, with top wrestler Takayasu are out of the Basho. This is about the biggest story unfolding leading up to the competition. Sandanme will see the return of fallen hero Asanoyama. Before some bad choices outside the dohyo, he was a very strong Ozeki. A six Basho suspension took him way down the banzuke. He is still pretty young and it will be interesting to see if he can get to former heights, he should not have trouble in what is basically the fourth division.

Isn't this more of an argument against those things. Generally not a plunder death match fan, but goddammit I loathe the doors.

Thanks for the answer. I don't think anyone will be a super athlete just by transistioning and I really don't think I qualify to discuss it. I just think / feel it's a topic that is in discussion a lot or had been. I can totally see you taking an issue with it. I just don't see it / hear it in the same vein. As I said, probably on me because I lack knowledge and experience. If he'd start denying / doubting the Holocaust I'd probably take issue the same way (not trying to compare or anything). I don't feel his fanbase is a single hive mind, and I myself don't agree with everything. I don't know if it's different among "Cultists". As for the last question, I haven't found any show I enjoyed more so far. I usually listen to it on my half hour bike ride to work, so takes me a few days to finish a show.

You asked the question a while back irrc, and I contemplated back then, and did so again just now. I'm 100% sure my attempt at an explanation will fail, but maybe I will be able to describe how I can listen to Cornette. I feel that I just hear and/or maybe remember the stuff differently. It may simply be because I have a totally different vita with totally different experiences and am not sensible to this. This isn't meant as shifting blame (aka "you're hearing it wrong"), it is meant more as a self reflective answer. I will take the Nyla Rose thing as an example. What stuck with me was that when Cornette had learnt that Nyla Rose was a transwoman, he said you could play it up as both, a great heel angle with a real-life base (transwomen in women sports is a real life discussion iirc) to it or a great babyface run with a woman fulfilling a difficult destiny after overcoming odds and finding her identity. It sounded really simplified and probably extremely ignorant, but to me way different than you put it. The stuff that affects me personally hits way farther from home and is not shit I have to endure on a daily base like you. It's also probably not as crucial for me. So I think I will never be able to explain why I can listen to a 4 hr program while at worst maybe cringing at stuff that is way worse than it sounds to me. On a side note: I would not want to hang out with Cornette personally or anything. To me, he is too much of a insensitive asshole, albeit towards everyone and everything. But his podcast to me is lots of very valid criticism, good analysis and amazing wrestling history. With some stupid childish, cringe inducing shit.

I think the Miz concussion came when Cena kind of spear tackled him over the railing. He still threw mean ass clotheslines in big matches. Cena always had a general understanding of what to do to get matches over, his execution was awkward at times. Of course this thread starts and ends with Stan Hansen. Kobashi I'd put 2nd place, especially the Short range version. Bradshaw's Clothesline from hell / New York was quite good aswell. More recently, Walter had a good one. I loved Tenryu, but his lariat was never convincing in any way to me. If we count the Axe Bomber variations, Omori has Hogan beat easily.

I can see where you are coming from, but as a guy who doesn't like almost all of today's stuff, I don't really think it's a gimmick. Simply because I catch myself having similar reactions and I have nobody to entertain.

Well...Tony Atlas has entered the chat...

Everybody knows it was over 93 000, but roughly 15 000 were swallowed by the void created when Hogan slammed 60,000 lbs André. Hogan then danced with John Belushi.

I remember some board member telling how his Grandpa said wrestling was not real, but he actually meant the matches were computer-generated. I got told right away that wrestling was "show" by my parents, in a futile attempt to get me away from that "monkey business"... meanwhile a friend told me that the Undertaker had legitimately killed Kerry von Erich. There was a weird delay (maybe it was a classic?) and he had seen the angle where Taker put Kerry in a bodybag shortly before the German announcers talked about Kerry being dead. The German shows were a little weird, I saw an episode where it was all WWF TV while NWA/WCW Champions and wrestlers were listed in some sort of Interpromotional rankings.

I respectfully disagree. Both versions are equally intimidating, but each in their own way. WALTER has the look of someone who steamrolls opponents and overpowers them, GUNTHER seems like a guy who can wear you out and sadistically pick you apart. He carries himself in a way that makes me worried for his opponents. Also, people need to go back and watch that Survivor Series Match Walter was on a few years back. He was facing Drew McIntyre and both looked the same height, but Drew looked physically more impressive. I'm a huge Walter fan and considering among at least the top 3 wrestlers in the world at the moment on any given day and my personal best in the world on most days. But Walter won't be towering over the star guys in WWE, who are all also around 6'3'' or 6'4''. Being in shape might just prevent him from being the New Year's Baby, a dancing bafoon or both. Plus it looks not enhanced in a worrying way, making me think it is possibly better for his health than his earlier look.

I have not seen too much of the Pre Hogan era stuff. I think there is lots of memorable good stuff during Hogan's first reign, which is a four-year-period within that seven year era. Thinking it through, this is probably the best ratio. It's probably my favourite era where almost every featured guy felt like a star. 1997 is my favourite WWF year ever, 1994 has a good main event run for Bret between Wrestlemania and Survivor Series. 1993, 1995 and 1996 are mostly terrible overall years, despite the occasional good or even great stuff. 2000 and 2001 until Wrestlemania had many good PPVs, but I really never liked the overall direction of the WWF. Yet those were mostly exciting times with probably WWF's biggest draws on top with Rock and Austin. 2002 to 2007 was mostly dull to me and a downer after the excitement, although it often had. My memory says that the wrestling was more solid during that time than during most of the Attitude era, but again...I could never really get behind the direction the company was headed in.

Thanks, I was about to rant how Dave should use some filter or background Video-Chat-Apps have, but then I was afraid he'd use something custom made.

Was this actual footage or is it an - admittedly funny - Photoshop? I can't believe this is real, even for Dave this is an incredible miss.

I get your point, but with the amount of people they had on their roster they may end up paying 1.05 $ dollars worth of royalties per dollar they make without the blurrjobs.

This some GoT-level shit, and Nick Kahn seems to be amazing at it. Guess Steph had enough time with the family. Is Vince on Smackdown going to be him reminding the people how he heroically fought terrorism when he had a Smackdown show after 9/11?

WWE is petty af, but this might be an actual legal issue, who knows.

One could say that probably, but the stuff I meant shouldn't be a political issue in the 21st century, I'd say.

Wouldn't be the only (or most important) thing they are wrong about right now.