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Cross Face Chicken Wing

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  1. In this day and age, I consider getting any reaction as a sign of being over. I give any worker credit who can come out during the final segment of Raw, after the audience has sat through 3 hours of mostly crap and commercial breaks, and get the crowd to at least care.
  2. Sometimes if I'm hanging out in the living room and my wife has a few friends over, she'll start talking about me within earshot. I'm like, "Um, hello, I'm right here. Don't mind me or anything. Just carry on and pretend I can't hear you." I imagine that's how Johnny feels right about now.
  3. How does the porn industry make money these days? Are there still a lot of people out there buying porn instead of using the millions of free sites? Obviously, there must be.......
  4. Growing up in a rural area, my family didn't have cable until I was a junior in high school. This meant my wrestling options were limited to the WWF on Saturday mornings and the AWA on Sunday mornings. Around the mid-90s, I started getting VHS tapes of WCW pay-per-views from one of my father's co-workers. However, I still didn't have access to their weekly TV shows, so I don't count myself as "following" WCW at that time. In the later 90s, I finally got cable, which allowed me to follow both the WWF and WCW on a weekly basis. A couple of the regional sports networks would run ECW sporadically late on Saturday nights, so I guess I could claim to have followed WWF, WCW and ECW at the same time. So my question to you is this: What's the highest number of promotions you've followed at one time? By "followed," I don't mean kept up to date with what's going on by reading the dirt sheets, magazines or internet. I mean regularly watching the promotion's TV (either as it aired or taping it for later viewing). If I had one of those giant old school satellites as a kid and was able to pick up WWF, AWA, NWA and other promotions depending on where I pointed the thing, I might have never left the house. I'm curious to know how many promotions some of you regularly were able to follow back in the day.
  5. I was finally able to start getting caught up on some podcasts on Saturday. Thanks for the shoutout at the end of this one. Saturday was another tough day in this nasty battle I have going. It might sound silly, but hearing you guys mention my fight at the end of the pod was a nice little pick-me-up.
  6. Any good channels out there for Smoky Mountain? Edit: Wait a minute, is SMW on WWE Network now? Had no idea, so never mind.
  7. Forgive me if I missed it, but has nobody mentioned Demolition yet? Dressing as The Gimp from Pulp Fiction equals worst ring attire of all time.
  8. Thanks everyone. I really appreciate it.
  9. I began the biggest fight of my life earlier this week when I was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. If ya'll have any spare positive thoughts, prayers or good vibes, could you please send them to my family and I? We need all the positivity we can get right now. I wasn't sure if I should mention my dilemma here, but decided to post something because 1) Like I said, I need as many positive thoughts/prayers/good vibes as possible and 2) I've been coming to PWO forever. There are some really good people here and I'm sure this site and the podcasts will help me take my mind off of things when this upcoming battle gets really tough. If you'd like a blow-by-blow account of my fight, my wife has set up a Caring Bridge page: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/adamspack Thank you.
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  12. It's annoying how Richard Deitsch always plugs Shoemaker's work via Twitter. There's a lot of good content out there to choose from and one of the more prolific media writers out there picks Shoemaker as the one to single out. I don't know why it bothers me so much -- Deitsch writes about meaningless topics like pregame shows and inside-baseball ESPN garbage -- but it does.
  13. The Corporal Kirchner figure looked like a badass. I remember giving him a long title reign in my promotion. Yikes.
  14. Game idea: Your wife finally gets feds up with your wrestling obsession and throws out every single wrestling-related item that you own. After divorcing your wife, what three items would you dig through a stinky, disgusting, disease-infested landfill to retrieve?
  15. Was Andre considered a locker room leader or just a dude everyone was in awe of?
  16. Who needs Grantland when you have our own Childs cranking out pieces like this: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nfl/bs-sp-aaron-maybin-nfl-artist-20151106-story.html Nice work.
  17. So much this. I don't care if he starts his own page on GeoCities or MySpace, Zach Lowe needs to be writing. Grantland can re-launch tomorrow with nothing but reality TV fantasy league pieces and posts by Shoemaker hourly about the goddman reality era in wrestling, if it means getting Zach Lowe back to work, I'd support it.
  18. I enjoyed Grantland as well and will miss it. But I think by shuttering the site, ESPN is announcing that it's getting out of the pop culture business. No more reality TV fantasy leagues. No more features on indy bands and other hipster type of stuff. No more joining the legions of other sites that beat to death TV show recaps. No more Shoemaker and his wrestling-is-cool-in-an-ironic-way schtick (I hope?). Guys like Lowe, Keri and Barnwell (who I personally think is awful but is probably worth keeping if you're ESPN) who are well-respected and great at what they do should catch on somewhere within the Mothership if ESPN is smart (and that's a big if).
  19. Loan Ric Flair money. Leave Jerry Lawler alone in a room with a high school girls softball team. Head butt African American workers before 1993.
  20. I don't think anyone has suggested that even for a moment. Absolutely not. The nominating process was as close to perfect as anything like that is going to get. I wouldn't change one thing about the process, or the people involved in the process. And there definitely isn't an anti-Flair movement in the DVDVR process. All I'm saying is, I don't think it's fair to raise the "bias toward Flair" talker (whether it was born in the original discussions or now) when breaking down the results. The results are the results. Implying that pro-Flair bias skewed some results sounds like sour grapes from folks whose more non-mainstream favorites didn't fare quite as well as they would have liked.
  21. The point still stands that the actual discussion about those matches would not have all led you to believe they were going to finish in the top 20. There was a whole lot of hating on the Flair/Taylor series and talk about how the Reed/Flair matches went too long. How many voters participated in those discussions? And how many enjoyed the matches, didn't feel like wading into an online discussion about them, and voted them high?
  22. Now people are creating a "Flair matches finished too high in DVDVR voting due to bias toward Flair" talking point? C'mon, ya'll. The results are the results. I'm all for giving Flair the extra scrutiny he's been receiving around here lately. The best of the best always to deal with more arrows than the rest. But let's not get silly about it.
  23. Rising: Eric Embry -- Was introduced to Embry as a face in late 80s Texas and thought he was garbage. Heel Embry in the 90s is a complete 180. Really great. Brock Lesnar -- I cannot stand watching WWE these days, but still tune in if I think I can catch Brock's segment or match. Stan Hansen -- His stock was already high, but it keeps going up. Serious contender to knock off Flair from my top spot. Falling: Shawn Michaels -- Despite the backlash Michaels gets from certain folks due to him being anointed by WWE as the greatest worker of all time, I've always maintained that he was legitimately a top guy. After spending some time re-watching key matches from his WWF/WWE run......meh....he's taken a pretty serious hit. Kerry Von Erich -- I thought Kerry would be someone who would move up my list as I watched footage and continually made adjustments to my rankings. Nope, he's gone the other direction. Tenryu -- Too many matches where he seems disinterested. He hasn't taken a massive nosedive down my list but he's fallen a bit.
  24. Episode No. 5 was a good listen, Parv and Will. I viewed the discussion you guys had like a football team owner negotiating a new contract with his star quarterback. The owner realizes his QB is one of the best and his team is shit without him, but during negotiations, in order to try and save a a couple million bucks, the owner spotlights the QB's flaws and talks about how other QBs are better than him at certain things. I viewed Will as the team owner on the podcast. He thinks Flair is an all-time great, but isn't willing to just cut him a blank check with no questions asked. Parv was the star QB. He thinks (knows?) Flair is the best and can't figure out why Will (and others) harp on Flair's perceived flaws instead of his multiple MVP awards and Super Bowl titles. Nine times out 10, the team owner and star QB reach a deal, and all remains well. Parv might not have convinced Will to rank Flair No. 1 and Will might not have talked Parv out of ranking Flair in his top spot, but in the end, all remains well and rest of us got some insightful discussion out of it.
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