Matt D

the title says "where freedom goes to die", not "where Jae goes to die". Wait, I changed my avatar for nothing?

How are Keith David's punches? Mammoth... no, even bigger than that. They're goliath.

There are worse things that Neville could do than feud with Stardust for ten months.

She IS the gift that keeps on giving, but I don't notice her as much here for some reason:

I really wonder about Hunter's reactions to the horrific ratings from Monday. *picture unrelated.

I'm not Dennis Miller levels of paranoid or anything. I just think it's a strange social experiment playing out in front of us. That's all.

I am posting this carefully because it could veer off into Reed-Territory, BUT I find this Sony Hacker situation incredibly surreal. I think we've had days of "Wow, these hackers are great. Look at all of these AMAZING E-Mails we're reading!" There was an op ed on CNN's front page thanking them, and I think the entire internet went up in arms against Sony a couple of days ago when they threatened to sue news organizations who posted the leaked e-mails. Then suddenly they made fairly direct, physical terrorist threats and now everything has suddenly become far more uncomfortable. It feels like something out of The Black Mirror.

My first thought was that they added something to early ROH cards that broke up a certain amount of the handshakery. My second thought is that I would have really liked to see them work Rey Bucanero/Ultimo Guerrero in 2002-2003.

I honestly hope he's an Orc. He could have been the Ascension's Spike Dudley and helped their act a lot.

There's way too much MMA talk in the Steve Austin Show.

To hell with all of you: I hope they blow off Ambrose/Wyatt with a Prince of Darkness blindfold match at the Rumble.

He could totally be TruckerTaker.

The biggest problem with the TV thing was that it took him two yanks. If it happened on one, like he didn't realize the cord was there, it would have been better.

Which is a main reason why the Gameboy Advance (and therefore moreso the original DS that was backwards compatible) was so ridiculous.

They've also turned a couple of times in front of WWE fans eyes. The problem with Bo Dallas coming up was that they couldn't repeat his NXT journey from overpushed babyface to conniving, delusional heel. They started him, day one, as a heel without any of the necessary underpinning. Even Emma had a few tapings of being frustrated at the fans and complaining before they came to love her. The crowd turned Enzo face really quickly and now he's probably going to go heel fairly soon and then what? How do you bring him up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYitJbGW79o

I think once you see the "extremely smooth but pretending to wrestle" magic eye, it's hard to unsee it, even if it's probably not as true over the last few years as it was in the decade previous. I get that saying "he's pretending to wrestle" is one of the most pretentious things someone can say, but it means something very specific (elaborately set up spots, your stuff-my stuff, indy pin exchanges, stuff that looks more graceful than hurty, overly complex but quite cool spots, self-aware epics that try to be five stars instead of trying to be realistic and hatefilled or competitive or what not) and it's probably the easiest way to get that idea across. If anyone does take umbrage, I can go into detail, but I think JT, for one, knows what I'm talking about, and I imagine a lot of others do too. I like Daniels as a personality and as someone who obviously loves wrestling, and maybe he has broken from the label over the last couple of years but the ship sort of sailed for me. I think there's a place for him and I'm glad when people who are young discover him and get into him. He's a great wrestler for 20 year olds to enjoy.

I can honestly see the WWE rationalizing how deeply the crowd got behind Reigns last year as being pro-Reigns and not just Anti-Batista, so they might think they have nothing to worry about. The hilarious thing is that if Batista and Reigns were to end it this year, I think the crowd would be heavily pro-Batista.

http://indeedwrestling.blogspot.com/2014/10/did-smackdown-usher-in-era-of-even.html Chris churned this a few months ago for me along similar lines. I think you could appeal to him and try to see if he can find some correlation between going public and other quantitative metrics, and that might be interesting.

Daniels is the definition of a wrestler I not only liked a lot but also identified myself with when I was 20 and really, really didn't want to watch when I was 30.

I think the fact that he's not doing well with the longer scripted promos doesn't help. If they let him keep coming through the crowd, though, that'd be a plus. That's exactly the sort of thing he needs. Unfortunately, I don't think it's everything he needs.

I am not even considering watching the new Ghostbusters if Melissa McCarthy is in it. Just laying that out there now.