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23 minutes ago, Swift said:
Just catching up on this thread... how the frick have there been 3 different "Duke"s mentioned on the last couple pages, all separate of each other?
Apparently Brock's other son is named "Turk" which is just amazing.
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http://bsky.app/profile/jonlanenhl.bsky.social/post/3loorazfecc2p
I have no idea how to make these things work but..
per johnlanenhl on blusky
"Duke Lesnar, a 14-year-old forward eligible for the 2029 NHL Draft, was selected by Medicine Hat (WHL) after he had 28 points (13 goals, 15 assists) in 30 games for Notre Dame in the CSSHL U15. His father is pro wrestler Brock Lesnar. His mother, Rena, was Sable in WWE in the late 1990s and 2003."
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1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:
I'm generally aligned with you on this. Dusty/Dustin vs. Flair/Jarrett was the perfect way to use all those workers for that match in front of that crowd.
Maybe the Nitro book is the source that covers this, but it's on record that he and Ed Ferrara mainlined that stuff while writing shows for the WWF.
It definitely shows, what with groups like The Oddities and all. Not that I would bestow this task upon my greatest enemy, nor that it may even be feasible, but it would probably be interesting to see how many plotlines/dialogue were lifted directly from 'Jerry Springer'. Given the perceived (or deserved) low-brow nature of both outlets, I can't imagine either side would be terribly concerned with the lifting of content or willing (Able?) to pursue it in court.
You know, I should really read that Nitro book...
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On 1/29/2025 at 11:49 PM, SirSmUgly said:
..Dave wants Buff to take a DNA test, and Buff bops the doctor with his mic to get out of it
Ah Russo finally gets to the zenith of daytime talk tv (which he is clearly obsessed with, how many hours of Jerry Springer must've have watched!), the Maury paternity test!
As an aside, I found someone on YouTube who has uploaded nearly every episode of The Soup from 2007-2009 and it is STAGGERING just how much bottom-of-the-barrel reality tv there was (Cheaters, Stag Party, Tool Academy, Operation Repo (the latter of which I will cop to being a fan of for a bit!)). And I just wonder how much awful reality tv Russo must have cribbed from around this period of he was still booking (or was he still with TNA?!).
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On 1/25/2025 at 12:03 AM, SirSmUgly said:
The lighting person damn near drops a light on Jeff Jarrett as Jarrett walks down a hallway…A WCW tech tracks down the forklift that he’s been looking for and drives it away from in front of Booker’s door…
(Yes I am just now getting caught up in This thread) This made me laugh really hard -the light part- and kind of encapsulates late-era WCW
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Every time I stumble across WWE LFG it's the most bizarre thing WWE has on the air. The Legends (Undertaker, Bubba Ray, Booker T, Mickie James) are always pissed off about some way the prospective wrestlers have screwed up or disrespected their opponents, or disrespected pro wrestling, or disrespecting the legends. But it's hilarious because the Legends and the announce team both talk about them "performing" ("You had three extra minutes, you should have used that to try and impress us and the audience rather than just padding it out"), take them to task for not being professional, but also seem to suggest that the matches are on the up-and-up ("He should have gone for the pinfall there!"). I'll admit I seldom last more than 5 minutes on this show.
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2 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
... I mean this with love, but I think this joke has run its course.
It will never die!
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6 hours ago, JLowe said:
Let’s see, the first time I think he felt like the crowd wasn’t as enthusiastic in chanting/clapping for an encore as he had hoped. So he berated the crowd for a few minutes and then the band came out and played a few songs anyway.
The other time, at Lollapalooza, he and James were kinda chippy with each other all set and (once again) during the encore both just started sorta yelling and screaming into the mics through a wall of feedback and noise for a minute or so. It was pretty awesome.
I always liked when they played 'Disarm' at the MTV Awards when it was really popular, but turned it into a scream-y, feedback-y 2:30 mess then swung his guitar at the microphone and seemed to trip over the chord on the way offstage, rendering it a lot less cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPPciGdvPY
It was a funny middle finger to MTV (Whom likely pressured them to play it) but not as good as Nirvana wanting to play 'Rape Me' on the awards and being told not to and the supposed panic in the production room when they played the opening bars to it, before playing the agreed-upon 'Heartshaped Box'
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They should actually bring Bischoff out (The heat would be NUCLEAR) then have someone popular (Hook, Toni, Swerve, Darby) run him out of the arena. It would be a great moment and I'm sure Bischoff would do it for any amount of money.
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I really wanted to watch tonight, but either (Canadian) USA didn't air it or my DVR didn't record it. Either way, I don't get to see it.
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There used to be a wrestler with a local fed whom, when they toured through here, rolled out of the ring and threw up on the floor. And I posted on their messsageboards about how impressed I was that he was able to work through it and one of the regulars (We only saw them every 4-5 months or so) of the fed was like "Uh, don't be impressed, he does this almost every match." So I guess the guy just liked to party and to wrestle.
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5 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
waiting for the reunion of Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus where they just retcon the last 2 years or so Jungle Boy
"Where's my ice cream van?! What are you talking about?"
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51 minutes ago, ExcellenceofAirPollution said:
I thought Wednesday's show was good, but one criticism was they had Swerve saying he was going to find Moxley by the end of the night then we never saw him again or (I think) heard the announcers bring it up again the entire night. I'd completely forgotten about it and when they cut to the back after Cope-Claudio I was like, "oh yeah, Swerve wanted to get his hands on Mox" and I almost missed it because I'd thought about just skipping Cope and Claudio all together. The interaction with Hanger and Swerve was huge but I'm guessing a lot of people missed it
It made me think of attitude era WWF where you would have had a half dozen vignettes of SCSA throughout the show looking for whoever and the announcers talking about it over every match. It was overkill, but you wouldn't forget to stick around to the end. How's the Swerve thing a hook if you never remind anyone he's looking for Mox? There should have been a couple segments and a few mentions on commentary
EDIT*. also the announcers kept talking about Death Riders attacking Jay White.....but it was never shown? They were talking about it during the first match like I was supposed to have seen it
EDIT2* since I'm still here and thinking of Jay White......why did they never address the BBG when the Gunns came back and had their title match (and disappeared again)? Was there a backstage segment with them and White that I missed or was it just blown off?
I THINK they showed Swerve once more looking angry before the final thing and mentioned.
EDIT*: Jay White was beaten up offscreen as cover for his real injury. So it never happened but it did. But no they never showed it.
EDIT*8: I don't think so. The Gunns got hurt, came back as faces with no mention of the rest of the group, then disappeared again.
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7 hours ago, Technico Support said:
There’s a “Blunt Road” by me. They had to put the sign on an extra high post because it kept getting stolen.
Reminds me of there being an 'Old Town Road' in Sicamous, BC and fans of the song kept stealing the sign, so in a move with unusual foresight for a small town, they just started selling 'Old Town Road' signs and apparently made a lot of money.
Which also reminds me of when the 'Weed Man' yard maitenance company first opened back when I was working in a fast food place and the guy came in to eat and had this exchange:
Clerk: So you're the Weed Man, huh?
Weed Man: Yeah, haha, I guess so.
Clerk: The WEED Mannnnnnnn!
WM: Uh yup.
Clerk: [nodding] The WEED MAN!!
WM: Uh huh. Oh. Ohhhh....that's why people keep stealing our signs.-
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2 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Claudio has this weird jacket with what looks like wax seals holding strips of paper to the jacket. I have no idea what the fuck that shit is.
LOOOOOL I just Googled it and they're "purity seals" from Warhammer 40k. I still have no idea what the fuck that shit is.
I thought it was a nice way for him to not forget his grocery and/or to-do lists.
I LIKE that coat (well I did until you explained it to me)! I was hoping it would be explained as being notes with the names of his victims on it, sealed in blood. I was not hoping it would be some board game stuff!
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I'm pretty over the whole Death Riders deal, but ONE thing it absolutely deserves credit for is improving the character and presentation of Claudio by a million percent. The ominous opera entrance music, the ring jacket, the no-frills tights and ABSOLUTELY the German (?) promos; everything about him has been improved immeasurably. Now I think he needs to win some matches (Him being the constantly-defeated gatekeeper from Mox is the only thing hurting his aura). As much as I'm cool on the Death Riders, I wouldn't be upset is if Mox ever loses the title, for Claudio to take over the leadership of the group, surrounding himself with a few more like-minded (European?) followers.
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17 hours ago, DreamBroken said:It's a cover of the original by Captain Chameleon from 1981, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCJOvhFHHQ
same as Slick's "Jive Soul Bro" being a cover of their original "Jive Ol' Fo".
Haha, that's amazing!
Also, somehow the original is dirtier-sounding, like you could get chlamydia from listening to it.
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40 minutes ago, twiztor said:haha, i literally just typed up my review for NRBQ's album over this last weekend. it'll still be a month before it gets posted, but thank you for pointing this out because i DEFINITELY didn't make the connection. I am learning that The Wrestling Album is WAY deeper than i gave it credit for. It certainly doesn't make it a better listen, but i fully appreciate the context!!
As a kid I could NOT figure out the Roddy Piper song, I liked it but could not figure out how the chorus of "For everybody" made any sense (I DID figure out that "kiss my trash" was a cover for "Kiss my ass" even when I was 11 or so) but the chorus completely baffled me "For everybody? Does he mean that the song is for everybody? Is he saying he's standing up for everybody? So whey does it sound like an insult" and it wasn't until many, many, many years later that someone on here hipped me to the original version.i'
Since just about everything on there is a cover song/reinterpretation, I've often wondered the same for 'Grab Them Cakes' because it seems way more, uh, adult (?!) for this album ("Once you get started then it's hard to stop you just go for your partner's you-know-what") than anything else, but I never found one.
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On 1/31/2025 at 6:50 AM, twiztor said:”
‘Captain Lou’s History of Music’ is an acid-trip of a song. Captain Lou is exploring music’s evolution. A fine concept, but in a 4 minute track, it is more of a chaotic audio assault, with key/pitch/timing changes constantly. Extremely disjointed. Kevin Dunn took the lessons of this song and adapted them into camera work. Notably, it was produced by Mona Flambé (aka Cyndi Lauper).
As with the Hulk song being a recycled Bonnie Tyler song, the Piper song being a remade song, this is ALSO a remake, of sorts, of an insane NRBQ song about Captain Lou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyjAqBy4keM-
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12 hours ago, Roman said:
Were those, uh, three different dreams?
So many Cero Miedo taunts in that third one!
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19 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Things I Remember From Tonight's Edition of AEW Dynamite:
MJF is almost in the Hurt Syndicate until Lashley doesn't want himJericho is challenging a guy to an
I HATE these types of things (WWE does it all the time, too) where we're supposed to act like these guys don't speak/text/talk outside of a wrestling show setting! So MYP invites MJF into the HS and they don't immediately contact him and go "Uh...no!" but rather wait an entire week for the next wrestling show before coming out and going "Actually we don't want him!" So these guys were just COMPLETELY out of contact with each other for a whole week?!
I think my favourite thing of the night was when Blake Christian stuck his hand down his tights, then licked his finger and Tazz goes "Uh, that was kinda gross actually. It was really disgusting." and just seemed SO put off by it.
So, do I have this straight? Aussie Open go on hiatus because Mark Davis is injured. Davis comes back and goes after Kyle Fletcher, verbally trashing him then teaming up with the Callis Family's enemies. Callis acquires (?!) Davis' contract and Davis is his reluctant heater. Davis is a less-reluctant heater. Davis completely forgives Fletcher and helps him. Is that it?
The Joe/Hook/Wrestler group is really fun, really natural and entertaining together AND have a terrible name and terrible entrance music. Also they should be doing SOMETHING?! Going after Mox, going after Hurt Syndicate, going after Learning Tree.
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10 hours ago, tbarrie said:
You know, I had completely forgotten Strike Force, despite being way into them as a kid. Yeah, you and Matt are likely right. His relevance wouldn't have completely faded from memory by 1990.
I remember when I was a kid seeing WM V and Martel walking out on Santana and it was SUCH a big deal. And as I was playing catch-up (I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling until I was about 10 so, this being pre-internet, the only way to catch up on what I had missed was to rent the videos the video stores had available and try to piece it all together), I thought Strike Force must have been this long-running, super-succesful team. But I was surprised to find years later that they teamed for less than two years, with Martel taking 6 months off during that less than two year run!
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12 hours ago, Ziggy said:
It was more to do with her complaining about him being too stiff. Him being new to WWF and his main ally Vince Russo who advocated for him to be hired in the first place recently leaving. I can understand why he didn’t like working with Chyna. Although she was one of the most over talents on the roster, he probably saw that as punishment or a test to humble him to see if he would put her over with no problem. It probably was a humble job knowing how WWF was back then. Once they moved on from that, conveniently Jericho got pushed as a sold upper mid card babyface. Those first few months after that epic debut was really rough
That story Jericho told in his book about how they told him to work her like any other opponent and he caught her with a shot and asked how she was and she said fine, then immediately went to Triple H to complain about it leading to a meeting with Vince culminating in Vince shouting something along the lines of "How could you? She's a WOMAN!" read like some bizarro episode of The Office.
It's actually amazing Jericho came out of WWE as well as he did when you read all the stuff that went on that first half a year or so, from DX doing a promo where they pointed at a homeless guy and said he was "probably a better worker than Jericho" on TV even though they weren't in any sort of feud at the time to Vince comparing Jericho's wrestling to that of King Kong Bundy (Bundy's stuff looked like shit and really hurt).
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9 minutes ago, SovietShooter said:
I think what happened was that Hobbs wasn't supposed to roll out of the way when Dralistico came off the top with the elbow drop after the big outside-in-suplex from Cage. Dralistico went for the cover like he hit it, and Hobbs just covered it by selling up from the suplex. I think Dralistico then started trying to sandbag Hobbs, who in turn slowed down and kept things from falling apart.
And yeah, I agree, Dralistico should be eating pins...
There were at least two clotheslines where Dralistico bumped before Hobbs hit him and he missed one of his own kicks by about two feet.
Also that sequence where Harleygram gyrated while Mortos stood there with his hands on his head was reminiscent of WWE Attitude-era shenanigans.
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AEW TV - 5/14 - 5/20/2025 - Willow Rider Is A Little Higher
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So that WASN'T something I thought I might have imagined/hallucinated?!