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I think if Shawn is coming back for one last match, it would be for a bigger name than Daniel Bryan. But I also think he's content with not wrestling again, if that offer never comes.
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To be fair, that's about the going rate for e-books of that length.
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How Much Bullshit is the PWI 500(full list below)
kjh replied to dkookypunk43's topic in Pro Wrestling
There's quite a few major British guys absent from the list (Ospreay, Scurll, etc) which is odd given they're often put against name talent on the local scene. -
This is funny, as I made the following joke to British indy wrestler El Ligero when he tweeted about a major UK indy show called Superclash 3 next month being cancelled: "A cursed show name if there ever was one. At least you didn't work without pay as Chavo Guerrero/Lawler claimed!" He totally didn't get what I was referring to.
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Watts would have booked from late August '95 - late October '95. Although I think they still used a lot of his ideas going into Survivor Series. He wanted Bret as champion, came up with the concept of the Wild Card match, etc.
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I really think the presentation of Shawn as a male stripper heartthrob was the reason he was such a disappointment as a draw as champion. They did try to humanise him in the run-up to WM 12, but he never really lost his pretty boy image till DX.
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Grand jury investigating Jimmy Snuka's role in Nancy Argentino's death
kjh replied to Bix's topic in Pro Wrestling
It was harder for the media to chase the story, given that law enforcement threw up many roadblocks along the way: 1. Laurence Reisman, a local reporter at the time, claimed that "For months we tried to get information on the progress of the death investigation, but were stonewalled — if I recall correctly, by then District Attorney William Platt. Authorities refused to release details of the case, including an autopsy report, claiming the case was under investigation and that it would soon be completed." See: http://www.knoxnews.com/opinion/columnists/laurence-reisman-32yearold-superfly-case-shows-need-for-police-transparency_64232771 2. Irv Muchnick insists that the lead investigator lied to him about Snuka being a credible witness and maintaining a consistent story when he interviewed him in 1992. 3. They purposefully left the case open so journalists even 30 years later couldn't obtain the autopsy and transcript of the police's first interview with Snuka directly from them (and when asked refused to hand it out). The Morning Call had to find them via the wrongful death lawsuit filed against Snuka in 1985 (which they won via a default judgement, but never received a penny of the award from Snuka). 4. Muchnick also claims that the police lied to the Argentino family shortly after the incident about Nancy having a congenital skull defect that led to her death. -
How often did they say the word in front of a TV camera? Zero times, right? They knew damn well that the word was considered unacceptable by general society. They only said it when they knew could get away with it, like a kid who will curse in front of the babysitter but not in front of the parents. The same could be said of all these "non-racists" who rationalised to Dave Meltzer that the slur was "the business term" for African Americans, which is my point. They only used the word around Dave because he let them get away with it, despite it making him feel uncomfortable.
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Observer HOF prediction/ballot question thread
kjh replied to dkookypunk43's topic in Megathread archive
Styles at least is in the argument for being the best worker in the world at one point (this year), which is something Orton can't say. -
It's worth noting that George "The Animal" Steele called up Wrestling Observer Live to claim that he'd never heard the term whilst working in wrestling not too long ago. Now, he could have been lying because he is a wrestler, after all, but he primarily worked in the Northeast, which if he was being honest suggests that at least in the New York office it wasn't part of the vernacular of the business.
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Grand jury investigating Jimmy Snuka's role in Nancy Argentino's death
kjh replied to Bix's topic in Pro Wrestling
The previous incident should have been known to the cops at the time, as it was mentioned in at least some Northeast newspapers in their coverage of Argentino's death: https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/639093184665137152 -
Yeah, there is an obvious difference between Michael Hayes and Bruce Prichard casually using the n-word in everyday conversation and the same term being an official designation for black people in the wrestling business - similar to the way the term jobber might designate a person who loses the majority of his matches. It's still horrible and fucked up either way, but I can see why he'd argue that some people are racist and others aren't - as warped as that may sound. But yeah, Dave obviously needs to explain and clarify, and give more of a history of the term in wrestling, because it's obviously confusing and upsetting to a lot of his fans (and rightfully so). Hayes and Prichard weren't using the n-word in everyday conversation, they were using it in the workplace to describe black or ethnic colleagues, just like they did in the 80s and 90s, something that they were allowed to do unabated for a long time, likely until Mark Henry complained to WWE HR about it. How is this "obviously different"?
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Veterans of the business (like Michael Hayes and Bruce Prichard) were still using the n-word pretty frequently around WWE writers well into the '00s. The problem with how Dave covered this issue on the podcast is that he neglected to say how obviously fucked up it was. Instead, we got the verbal equivalent of a shrug of the shoulders.
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Grand jury investigating Jimmy Snuka's role in Nancy Argentino's death
kjh replied to Bix's topic in Pro Wrestling
The damning thing is that there's really not all that much new information that led to today's indictment (although that's not the way the DA spun it). The forensic information was there (although not public record). Snuka's rapidly changing story was known. If they didn't discover during their first investigation that Snuka had been arrested for attacking Nancy in a hotel room a few months earlier, then that would be shockingly bad police work. -
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who felt Dave came across badly here. Even if you take Dave's word that at least some of these people didn't hold racist beliefs, then they were cowards who started slinging racial slurs around like everyone else did to fit in with the racist culture within the business. Neither reflects well on the people involved.
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Grand jury investigating Jimmy Snuka's role in Nancy Argentino's death
kjh replied to Bix's topic in Pro Wrestling
Two years ago, presiding DA James Martin said this about the Argentino case: It was clear from his comments then that Martin wasn't interested in investigating his colleagues for possible incompetence/misconduct, despite evidence that might have actually happened (Irv Muchnick has resolutely argued for many years that Lehigh County Det. Gerry Procanyn lied to him about Snuka's account of what happened remaining consistent). Procanyn even continued helping with the case, despite those concerns being voiced! -
Between injuries and calling up five of their best wrestlers to the main roster this year, if I had to pick between an NXT house show and an ROH house show today, I'd pick ROH. That gut feeling might change as NXT gets their new talent up and running, but today the NXT cupboard is quite bare in terms of wrestlers I'd buy a ticket to see (Balor, Bayley and Joe).
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I'm in the same boat, though I watched the Spanish feed so I didn't have that problem. The Villanos strikes were embarrassing (but at least there was light contact, which is more than can be said for Togi Makabe at his worst) and III had no business being in a ring at this point, but I thought it was generally well laid out (better than the opener, which fell apart mid match) and had some decent high spots.
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Hogan knew what was on the tapes, as there's audio CDs of him watching the sex tapes with his lawyer and Keith Davidson (the man alleged to have been shopping the tape around, extorting Hogan) as part of an FBI sting operation.
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That's true, but he's clearly going to lose a lot of money from this revelation (unless Hogan's lawyers can prove that Gawker were behind the leak and he gets a bigger payout as a consequence). Hard to see how the risk outweighed the potential benefits, as this coming out at some point in the trial seemed pretty likely.
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It was in private, banging his mates wife and rat arsed, his etiquette was probably not as the make a wish level that night. It's the fact that he didn't choose to settle with Gawker under these circumstances. To put it bluntly, he got greedy. Even if he does win the case, I'm sceptical he would win the damages he is seeking. But maybe his lawyers convinced him otherwise.
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In WWE's last financial report, they reported that this year's WrestleMania lost $300,000, but they didn't include revenue from new WWE Network subscribers in that figure. Even throwing in Network money, the show still wouldn't have been as profitable as it was in most years from 1998-2013 when they regularly had around a million buys on traditional PPV. He talked about it in the May 11th Observer.
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WWE has dealt themselves a shit hand where the only good looking card they have is bringing Undertaker out of the mothballs to face Lesnar in the inevitable rematch from WM 30. Rusev could have been a strong opponent for Lesnar, but that ship sailed at WM. Owens could have been too, but dark forces within WWE made sure to sabotage that. You could have gone back to Reigns, but he's now colder than he was before Mania.
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I think you're almost certainly right, but this seems like a match that they'd be wary to book because Cena would get booed out of the arena. My hunch is that WrestleMania 32 will be Undertaker's retirement match and they'll book it exactly like Shawn's.
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Is it possible for the title to be the most important in modern wrestling?
kjh replied to Grimmas's topic in Pro Wrestling
I think the Money In The Bank gimmick has done a lot to devalue the World championships, because: (a) It's led to a lot of champions that backdoored their way into holding the title, rather than winning it straight up in a match; ( Once someone gets the briefcase, you're virtually locked into giving them the title, even if the timing is wrong, they're not ready for it, because otherwise you bury the person who couldn't win the belt with the odds stacked in his favour (see Damian Sandow).