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The ending was extremely predictable, could tell early on that Chelsea was going to be cut. It's a fucking reality show anyway. The story of quiet Sara now speaking all the damn time seems unorganic to me as time goes on. Tanner starting out strong then all of a sudden having no personality seems odd too. And it seems more and more that they're cutting the good competitors because they want to work with them down the line. Patrick is obvious, Mada could be of use and Chelsea would be a good hand. I could see Josh and Tanner having a decent chance, but see it more and more as them going to way of Daniel Puder. And I'd say those that vote for ZZ anymore or Sara are either fucking with WWE or are not quite all there. At least Sara has the easy on the eyes factor going on to a degree. It's gotten to the point I'm no longer emotionally invested in this and just want yet another reality show to end. Yet I still watch because WWE. On a lighter note, if you have Twitter the DVDR account has been on fire with the live tweets. Thanks, guys!

Traveler Pumpkin Shandy is so damn delicious. First time having it was on tap and it was an eye-opener. I saw in the county I used to live in there's a year-round Halloween store. It's good if you want to avoid the line and get your shit early. But seeing that is like seeing anything Christmas related. Way too damn early and not going to think about it until I'm ready. I've been telling people how it's all commercial and they push the holiday products earlier and earlier every year. Shit, if possible I still start Xmas shopping on Black Friday. I just feel it's hard to enjoy summer when fall shit is out, and Thanksgiving is forgotten in favor of Xmas stuff.

Well, my wife went and upgraded her computer to 10. I haven't gone too far into checking it out, but the layout is pretty nice. Edge is nice if you wanted to draw over it (or just get an extension for Chrome/Firefox if/when available) it's hard to tell how "snappy" it is because her PC is ungodly slow, even at 8GB RAM. Could be a lot of files, or something else. Still need to get that custom PC I've been sitting on setup. But it sure looks a helluva lot nicer than 8. Am fully expecting there's going to be bugs and odd features that will hopefully get fixed up in updates.

I'm trying to remember if I was doing anything that night, but I could have gone to that. Had no idea he'd pass away days later, but was considering it at the time. Definitely kicking myself now. And that Kevin Eck is a local dude, worked in WWE as a writer as well as for Baltimore Sun. Kind of weird the last one was so close to where I live. It's fucked up to want to go to these shows now in case of events like this, but I guess you never know.

Holy fuck, that video! That was some crazy shit going on. I'm super excited for this. And still getting a bit sad because for all we know this is it. If so, then I'm familiar enough with the AAA guys on here to at least follow them there.

Need to wait until later to see the videos, but that article sounds really promising. Not sure if I'll like the reversal overhaul until I try it. Glad to see they added the features back in. But I hope they actually pay attention to the creation suite server. The last month for the most part it's been down.

I don't know. But if that last Conor fight was any indication there will be a ton of folks from Ireland/UK going there. Same applies to Brazilians going for one of their top guys. But I would imagine WWE would still have the advantage because they get people from many countries for WM.

And what's really going to sting is apparently they were looking into whether to re-open the case with him killing the lady. Not sure if they decided that yet, but if they go through with that's going to be a shitty way for him to go out.

It's bad enough when it's just Piper. But I'm still reeling from Dusty's death so this is only adding to it. Toss in Hogan's epic fall from grace and this has been a huge blow to my childhood. I can't say there was any particular match or angle that sticks out with me. All I remember is just how much of a badass he was who didn't give a flying fuck about what anybody though of him. It's pretty remarkable how he seemingly got away with so much, and you know it would never be possible in today's wrestling. But he definitely held on to his ideals to the end and that's to be commended. It might have been almost to a fault. Thinking back to Legends House he couldn't grasp being in that show at first and randomly was walking around at night. But throughout history he was so damn amazing. And I'm glad you guys put the old videos up as I fully intend to watch them. I've only seen him in WWF/WCW and aside from the match with Valentine haven't seen much outside of it. But damn, just think of who he influenced. CM Punk for starters was definitely a new Hot Rod. Ambrose has those tendencies for sure. And of course there's Rousey with the nickname. Speaking of which, if you can find it now's a good time to check out Piper's podcast with her. It was so endearing and sweet to hear. Which made it sad knowing that now because for sure Ronda was upset about the news.

For some reason it couldn't add the like on this (not out of them) But Titus just seems like the nicest guy around. I'm really glad him and Darren are getting a push. Good things can happen to good people.

Yeah, I'm glad too. With his frame of mind at the time it sounded like a dire situation. I don't know how long we talked with WWE before getting signed, but he did keep at it for a time before that. So maybe things got slightly better? But it's weird to think that for all we know by now we'd be talking his retirement.

TNA is pretty much the wrestling equivalent of that guy in your signature. He's doing a bunch of crazy shit, not sure what is going on. But you can't help but look at it out of pure amusement.

I wonder why they can't just air the next episode instead of running the current one for the billionth time. Is it a deal with Sinclair? I'm sure it's an obvious answer, but if they had first run of the new episode that might help.

I know it's been a month since the last post here, but Colt has a 5 year special podcast up. It has an unaired clip with Kevin Steen (Owens) and it was quite a listen. It's pretty much Kevin in 2012 wondering if this wrestling thing is worth it and he was in a very dark time in his life. It's kind of sad to hear, yet it's also wonderful to hear and think that now he doesn't have to worry. I don't hear all of Colt's episodes anymore, but this one was worth checking out.

So if he has a girlfriend then that makes Lucha his mistress. Except in this case it's totally cool for her to know.

Still trying to get Windows 10 on my Windows tablet. It's not a Surface tablet but has Windows (brand is called Unbranded) While trying to install it I'm starting to wonder if it's a good idea to bother right now. From what I understand there's a fair amount of bugs and some new features seem a bit weird (like paying $10/year to play fucking solitaire ad-free) Might be better off waiting a couple weeks.

Man, I've tried so hard to block that out of my mind all these years. But yeah, that's Exhibit, A, B, and C.

I so hope somebody uses that when they to try and hit on somebody. If they sneak in air quotes then that would just be gravy.

The episode was so much fun, but knowing the finale is next week I'm honestly getting a little sad. I need more of this in my life and I'm hoping they just announce season 2 and get it rolling. Thank goodness for NXT or I'd be fucked (oh, and Impact too I guess but that's a cure for insomnia anymore) Mack/Cage was wonderfully brutal. The stunner was such a highlight, particularly due to the crowd's reaction. I was bummed with Disciples winning, but it made sense. You want to build up the power of the stone, so I was cool with them no-selling once Catrina raised the stone. It does make sense. But I hope Ivelisse/Angelico/Havok stick together because hot damn do I love them. There has been a fan strap match before in TNA. But because LOLTNA it sucked and the fans didn't do much. In LU it was exactly what it should have been. I loved this with all my heart. Tromataker, I was so happy to see you take part. They featured you quite a bit, man. Hernandez took it like a champ. Imagine if this was taped after the TNA fiasco, he really would have had it worse. Tromataker, I know you guys signed waivers, but were you told anything else beforehand? Did you guys see Hernandez or was it somebody else saying to lay it in? i imagine for particular moments that was laid out beforehand (tossing the guy into a couple fans for example)

Oh, I would so love for that to happen. It's about time they air a house show on the Network, and MSG at that.

I didnt think it was possible but it made me hate Nick Hogan even more. Well, there goes the idea that it was just a one time thing where he made those comments. And it's amazing they would try to speak kayfabe over a jail phone. For fuck's sake, guys, you have to be a special kind of moron to try and pull that off. EDIT: Meltzer bringing the lulz:

I remember when she won Diva Search and at first I couldn't care less. But she really hit her groove with LayCool. As good as Michelle was in it I always thought Layla was the star of the two. It was the little things she did that were just wonderful to watch. Was a little bummed when they split. Never saw her around much past that, but honestly aside from the one move she did she was definitely known for groping her opponents. Jeez, how many times did we see her do that to AJ? For all we know that might be part of why she had to change how the submission was done. But really, she might not be Trish or Lita but she's certainly memorable. Glad she's got other things to do in life. Still find it funny despite her retirement on the wwe.com article they still future endeavored her.

I've long believed that whether it's alcohol, pills, whatever drug of choice, when you're affected that's when your truest self comes out. Opinions you'd never dare share sober could come out once your guard is down. It can be good if a perceived asshole is actually a sweetheart who bares his/her soul. Or it can be bad where you say share a dislike for somebody that you hide in everyday situations. But to say that the pills made Hogan a racist is just not something I can accept. A racist is a racist. Hogan let his guard down to her and showed that side that in normal situations he hides (and hid quite well) There in my mind is no excuse in the world that would make it okay in any way. But there's plenty of people making excuses and defending him and I wonder why. Can he be forgiven? We'll see in time, but to me any attempt is going to be one big PR move after another and I'm not sure I can buy that.

"THAT'S STILL BETTER THAN PAYING $60, MAGGLE!" Gah, I'm so annoyed at JBL even typing what he would say annoyed me. Still, $5 is better than $60 so can't go wrong with that.

I need to re-watch that, because that very moment they both realized they both got friendzoned. It was awkward as fuck and killed any chance of running with this story more. The fan vote is baffling. Either it's rigged or people are really that dumb.