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RIP Owen. Man, how fucking good was he? It's amazing to think about the athleticism it takes to do this smoothly.

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And this is probably the video that was being referenced. After watching this, I'm gonna put the onus on "creative". You have a guy who can do this shit. Figure out a way to maximize his strengths. Who cares if he doesn't come off well in musical chair skits or cut nursery rhyme promos with catchphrases. Figure it out. Give him a mouthpiece or put him against people who can carry a feud on the mic. Or I guess you could just hire some C-list level actress as his "Momma" and give him shirts that make him look like a dime store Rock. Whatever floats your boat.

I'd say that's an apt comparison. Shelton's one of those guys that I think would've done really well in the 80s. He can have a decent to good match with damn near anyone so he'd have made an awesome traveling midcard babyface who could occasionally come in and work a top program with a guy like Lawler. Put him against a top heel who could carry things on the mic, maybe some tag-team partners or something and a promoter could milk that feud for good money for a couple of months worth of house shows/tv. I don't think he could carry things on his own but he's a guy you could fit into a bunch of spots due to sheer ability and look. When I was a kid, I always looked at Brad Armstrong as a middle of the road guy who'd beat prelim bums (tm Eddie Ellner), trade wins with midcard guys and give the top guys a fight but come up just this short. However, he was credible enough that I wouldn't have batted an eye if they'd have had him pull an upset on a guy like Luger or Flair. That's what prime Shelton was to me.

@Kevin WilsonI want to say I don't want you to think I'm being antagonistic towards you either. I'm a little concerned that I may be coming off that way. I'm a Miami fan and alum (as you can see by my avatar) so I've heard all kinds of bullshit and coded language about how "oh Miami pays players all the time" and "those thugs down there", etc when the good ol' boy network in traditional powers are doing all kinds of dirt under the table. The hypocrisy really grinds my gears because I have some first hand knowledge of some of these so-called "clean" schools (UVa for instance as I live in Charlottesville) offering kids cash, looking the other way on rapes, drugs, academics or whatever so I just sort of look at all of this stuff as the chickens coming home to roost on the good ol' boys. All of the money stuff is just above board now and everyone can participate not just Jim Bob at the car dealership giving a player a car for 4 years or a 6 figure job for a LA or South Florida based player's mom magically coming open in some podunk town in Alabama or Oklahoma. Long story short, I hate the hypocrisy of the NCAA and the people bitching about kids finally cashing in so I do hope it's the Wild West. I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn't coming at you or anything like that.

I was going to say that Missy Hyatt is a low key awesome Twitter follow but fuck that low key stuff. She's pretty awesome on Twitter.

I wish I could remember the guy's name (I wanna say Jeff Katz) but he did some WCW internet audio shows with Rude. He said they were doing one show that was boring as hell so Rude decided to mess with the crowd. Rude was like, "watch this. I'm gonna piss off that entire section without saying a word." Their broadcast position was kind of on an elevated crows nest thing so Rude stood up and just made eye contact with this one woman who was there with her b/f. He just held eye contact with her and smirked at her and her b/f. He did this for like 5 minutes and the boyfriend is cussing at him and then people around noticed what was going on and started looking. He just kept on smirking and looking and the whole section started yelling at him. Then he just sat down and continued doing play by play while that whole section was screaming at him.

Yeah, keeping fan interest is a good reason but is it a "valid" one is what I'm getting at. Fans are always going to watch. Teams are just going to have to figure it out and they will. Every major change that has come down the pike, teams have figured it out. There's just going to be a new normal and people are going to continue to watch. And just because kids can move more freely doesn't mean they will. And even with the transfer portal, you can only transfer one time and play immediately. If you leave again, you do have to attend your new school for a year without playing so it's not as Wild West as people think. There are exceptions to the one-time rule (if your scholarship is taken away for non-disciplinary/academic reasons or if your previous school dropped the sport).

Yeah as a fan it sucks but other than that, there's no valid reason why a player shouldn't be able to go where they want without losing eligibility. I guess the issue some of these NIL deals are going to run into is what happens when a player transfers? Do they yank the deal away? Miami already had a situation like this sort of arise. Someone in Wong's camp tried to strongarm John Ruiz, the CEO of Life Wallet, into giving Wong a bigger NIL deal than what was originally signed or else Wong would transfer. Ruiz said he wouldn't renegotiate but he would help Wong get other NIL deals if he transferred. Wong came out and said he never intended to transfer and that someone put that statement out without his knowledge and he was staying with Miami. So crisis averted here but I'm sure this won't be the last time something like this arises. https://caneswarning.com/2022/04/30/miami-hurricanes-booster-john-ruiz-will-help-isaiah-wong-get-other-nil-deals/

Apparently the Authors of Pain are putting together a series of shows. First one is next month and here's the card: World Championship match: Adam Scherr (Braun Strowman) vs. Alistair Overeem Women's Championship match: Lina Fanene (Nia Jax) vs. CJ Perry (Lana) Tag Team Championship match: Gzim Selmani & Sunny Dhinsa (The Authors of Pain) vs. Westin Blake & Steve Maclin (Wesley Blake & Steve Cutler) Killer Kross (Karrion Kross) vs. Samuray Del Sol (Kalisto) vs. JONAH (Bronson Reed) Women's Tag Team Championship match: Madison Rayne & Tenille Dashwood vs. Deonna Purrazzo & Chelsea Green Dean Muhtadi (Mojo Rawley) vs. Lince Dorado Pre-show match: Mike Bennett (Mike Kanellis) vs. Biff Busick (Oney Lorcan) Pre-show match: Dirty Dango (Fandango) vs. Levis Valenzuela Jr. (No Way Jose)

Here's the big question, why should there be a limit on player movement? Why shouldn't a player be able to go where he/she wants and not give up eligibility?

Agreed with this. Business wise, they're probably as stable as ever. TV deals, streaming service, Saudi deals, etc. They're probably less dependent on "butts in seats" and people actually buying merch or even watching the weekly tv than ever. All they have to do is pump out content and likely just keep the ratings above 3am informercials and they'd still make money hand over fist.

He actually did pull out the "I'm here for your souls!" line in a promo in 1988 or so. I wish I could remember when he did it but he definitely dropped that line post-Princess Bride. And was that Widowmaker era Barry Windham? He left the WWF in Sept/Oct 89 and didn't show up in WCW until May 90 as he was dealing with the fallout from Blackjack and Kendall's arrest. Interesting to see that he went to Japan in that time period!

That was the Beware of Dog match. Where the woman was yelling at him the whole match and HBK got fed up.

I'm going to rewatch HBK/Bulldog from KOTR 96. Sneaky good match that gets overlooked due to Austin 3:16 and some funny commentary from Owen Hart.

Hardcore Holly talked about this in his book too. He said that some production company wanted Test for a movie because he had the look they wanted. WWE said that Test was "busy" and said they could have Cena instead. Test was basically just another body in some interchangeable battle royals they were running and Test 100% could've had that spot but he didn't hear about until after the fact. I get wanting to have the bigger names out there but that screws those other guys out of opportunities to get more over and paydays.

You'd never catch anyone confusing "less" with "fewer" if this guy had won The Battle of Blackwater Bay

Just wait until "mute point" becomes the standard definition. I've seen it used so much over the past 10-15 years that I wouldn't be surprised to see that being the accepted usage soon. Another thing that I've seen is people saying something like, "I may be bias" instead of "biased". That bugs the hell out of me but it's commonly accepted nowadays.

Thanks for the info @Kevin Wilson! I think I may wait and pick up a used copy at a later date. I've never played a FromSoft game before so I guess I'm wary to spend full price on something I might hate. Oh for the days when you could just pop into a Blockbuster and rent before you buy.

I did my favorite 15 on Twitter as well. Here are mine in no particular order Flair Austin Raven Terry Funk Stan Hansen Foley Harley Race Arn Anderson CM Punk Tully Bret Hart Barry Windham Eddie G Brock Lesnar Scott Hall

I see your Sharkboy and raise you a Curry Man. Imagine Dixie explaining TNA on a white board and then Curry Man strutting in, enclosing Dixie's drawing in a pyramid, handing her the marker and then dancing off.

I feel like you could pick Jeff Jarrett, Dixie Carter or Bob Carter to be Michael in this scene. I don't know who would be Jim as the voice of reason though. Maybe Cornette but no way he'd be this calm.

That's how I feel about it. At this point, dude is 73, he's not gonna change. Just let him do what he does and stop worrying about it as long as he isn't hurting anyone else. And that Law & Order episode is 100% what happened to my grandmother too. She was like 80 and on oxygen and would still smoke cigarettes. I bought her a carton of cigarettes as a bday present one year b/c they're so expensive now and she was on a fixed income. My aunts and uncles were chastising me for it and I was like, "she's eighty fucking four and been smoking since she was 8 years old. You think she's gonna quit now? Just let her be happy."