BobbyWhioux

I'm enjoying the buildup to Heyman vs Microphone.

Seriously debating the merits of starting a 49ers-specific Offseason Stupidity/Dumpster Fire thread.

It's easy to forget the truth when there's a lie you want to believe. And for 3 years they told it so well. Until everyone signed up for The WWE Network Season Tickets at Levi Stadium and The York Foundation got their money. The Stadium being the host venue for Wrestlemania so early in its existence is both telling and fitting.

Only if the 2014 Royal Rumble counts.

Nah. The Marlins actually win the championship before blowing up.

Because now they've already got their new stadium. Epic, master level carny work.

Keep an eye out for the little kid

Right nickname, but I'm meaning toward Bray being able to cut a more Jake-ish promo

Bray Wyatt to ruin their reception by putting a snake in one of the wedding gifts.

Seriously, does Jimmy Hart EVER age?? In his attic there's one of his old 80's airbrush painted jackets like he had for everyone he managed. Only this one has his face on it and it keeps aging and putrefying through the years.

"I'm An Ass Man" because somehow The Rock didn't have enough ammo with which to destroy Billy Gunn's singles push.

Yeah but it couldn't be that. The report is "DeMott resigns", not "DeMott literally frightened to death"

I want to believe the force behind Bill DeMott's forced resignation somehow involved him having to choose between resigning or being the person who called Harley Race.

That's pretty close to the core idea of my shitty (ho ho ho) fantasy booking. Pro Wrestling: where the reality outflanks the satire

Oh and to keep it germaine to the current topic I will of course envision Bill DeMott being the man given this gimmick. The name might arguably be an improvement over Hugh Morris/"Major" Hugh G. Rection if true, that Rusev incident is pretty telling, smacks of bitter has-been/never was trying to get over in his own mind on someone who's already better/more over/a bigger priority to a promoter than he ever was or could be, and waiting until the guy's injured/can't fight back to pick on him. It'd be a solid angle/heel behavior if it were part of the show, but of course it isn't. Double illustration of the company's woes that it's happening backstage instead of on-camera. Probably. Though I could just be thinking instead of the angle where Shane Douglas needed viagra and was feuding with a much younger man (Kidman? Karageis?) who didn't. Or Darren Drozdov's "puke on command" gimmick.

With all the "tradition" of feces related backstage ribs, I'm a little surprised Vince Russo never gave a guy the gimmick of "Brown Thunder" John Latrine, who started feuds with people by surruptitiously taking shits in their personal effects only to have them discover it at inopportune moments during backstage interviews, meetings with the boss, during matches, etc. causing them to lose the match in question or fail in whatever task or machination they were attempting, spinning them off into a new feud with Brown Thunder. It's gross, it's stupid, it turns backstage issues into on-camera angles, it's a character who could turn heel (or face) at any time with no buildup depending on who the latest victim is, it's the perfect Russo idea.

Re: the fan participation and/or consumer revolt: I've been paying more attention to internet chatter about wrestling in the wake of the Roman Reigns backlash than I have in years (both here on the board and podcasts/columns, etc.) even though I haven't started actually watching again. Maybe this has already been talked to death and I just wasn't following/participating with you guys but I'm just now getting around to what Lance Storm's assessment has been in his website column and on podcasts (especially the first 6 minutes of this), and his theory seems to make a lot of sense to me.

Good for Tony.

February tried to dive through the window to escape after only 28 days! What an act of cowardice.

Also Heenan had just finished describing how the baby deliberately tried to plant the candy on Arn to frame him in an act of pure cowardice. Or his monitor had just gone out. One of the two.

This entire subject is ridiculous. The fact that a thus far imaginary tape, that is almost certainly an extortion plot, being marketed as 5 times worse than Ray Rice is making all of us kind of stupid. We've all essentially made up different stories in our minds about what Dez could have done, when we don't even know he did anything. Ranking crimes based on who and/or what the victim is not really a constuctive conversation. It is a conversation that will always end badly. Or, really, the fact that it's being "marketed" at all, by anyone.

I remember him cutting more than one promo about his 21 inch neck. It's a relative thing, I suppose. Like football and basketball, they're all giants compared to the general population. Like, I actually had Billy Gunn come into a coffee shop I was working at the time, and Billy Gunn was never really thought of or marketed as a particular big guy among wrestlers but the dude was fucking huge.

At the risk of being pedantic, I'm not sure it's all that surprising that the people who treated it like a profession made/generated more money who treated it as a labor of love. Was it CM Punk who had the line about "the biggest marks are the ones in the ring"?

At the risk of sounding like a cop-out, I'm sure it's a little of both.

The natural extention of this weird compulsion to rate and rank everything sports-related, because it's the easiest and most effective clickbait article to write. I'm seriously surprised this hasn't been an espn.com article "top 10 NFL worst citizens/worst off-field controversies OF ALL TIME. Have thoughts on our list? Reply in the comments section [and argue in endless circles over a question that can never be answered]." Hell, they probably have and I just don't know about it because I never go to espn.com. Also the "who has it worse" pissing contest has been en vogue on the internet for years. Mash them together and this seems inevitable.