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Agreed. I'm also nostalgic for 95 WCW as teenage fan who watched it back then, and I can laugh at the horrible Hogan stuff and other assorted bullshit, but it's undoubtedly more interesting than modern WWE and had a lot of freedom to it that allowed people to get over. And WCW had great fans who added to the product I wonder what younger modern fans would think seeing that stuff for the first time. I think a lot of it has become meme'd over the years

Twice now in recent days I've heard Bryan Alvarez say WCW was good in 1995. There was a lot of good stuff in 1995, but it was decidedly not good overall. There was a ton of shit, and a lot of the good stuff really got going toward the end of the year I think his brain has been warped by watching so much modern WWE. 1995 WCW probably looks incredible in comparison, even the crap was better!

This is like when we make shit up to try and make sense of WWE's nonsense

So Tucker turned on Otis to be a jobber to a jobber on the other show? awesome

Lumis fits as a random geek in my territory style heel group with Cactus Jack, Terry Funk, Tajiri and The Great Khali I would have put together in an old EWR game

the Grimes overacting was terrible and I FFd a lot of it. The bottom line is if I was booking a wrestling promotion to my tastes I'd have Lumis as a guy in a heel stable who usually tags with someone, but when he gets into a blood feud it pays off with an FMW style chainsaw match with bombs and electric eel pits surrounding the ring

quick thoughts, first show I've watched since last takeover loved Io and Candace. I never watched a lot of Joshi but Io looked so comfortable in a match like that it made me feel she was probably a fan of Onita/FMW, Big Japan and stuff like that. I'd dare say she's better in gimmick matches than straight up one on one. I bet she was a Tajiri fan too. i haven't seen much of Atlas but he seems to be a big fan of Steamboat and has a good babyface presence. This match served it's purpose. I think I'd want to see Atlas in a good babyface tag team, not sure who on the NXT roster would be the right pair. I enjoyed Ripley and Gonzalez a lot. I've seen very little of Gonzalez but I was impressed with her. They had good chemistry and the dynamic between them worked because it isn't easy to get believable heat on Ripley. It was striking to me tho how a year ago it seemed Ripley was on the verge of being a mega superstar, super over live, and now a year later she's basically in the same position but without the crowd. It's been a wasted year for her unfortunately. The piped in crowd noise is super noticable and annoying that's all I got for now, I gotta go watch AEW

I'm in the midst of watching this show, was gonna wait, but after watching the Lumis fuckery I have to say this before I forget I wish Lumis and Fiend and all these characters operated in a separate universe from the rest of WWE, off in their own dimension. That is all. I could possiblty enjoy it like I enjoyed the weird Japanese promotions, but most everything WWE touches turns to shit. And then I'm looking at Lumis and I'm like, there's a definitely a way to use this guy who does a really good blank psycho stare and is very sound as a big man worker IMO, a good athlete, and really turn him into something without all the WWE fuck bullshit anyway, I got more to say when I'm done with the show, but halfway into it spoiler alert it had me wanting to fast forward so I could get to watching AEW

In the most "WWE everybody" story.....they quietly moved Tucker back to SD RIGHT AFTER THEY DRAFTED HIM TO RAW because they realized he and Otis needed to be on the same brand to feud There's several ways to read this, all of them incredibly stupid

I haven't been watching SD but I hope they put the contract on Miz. Nothing against Otis but I didn't like him winning it in the first place. I see him as a goofy mid-card babyface, not a potential world champion, it just hurts whatever value the gimmick still has. Miz is at least a former MITB holder and a former world champion, and has the character to make it work. Otis really wasn't doing anything with it other than using it as a lunchbox

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8867787/Spanish-divers-perform-daredevil-stunt.html RAZOR'S EDGE TANDEM DIVE!

random question: on WOL today Joseph Park came up. Bryan and/or Mike suggested using Abyss in a cameo spot at Halloween Havoc. Would Anthem/Impact own the intellectual property to that gimmick? I know he used it elsewhere and I think used it in Puerto Rico first. Would they even care? Have they ever even gone after WWE for something like that? I know there was some weird back and forth between TNA/Panda and WWE at times but it's hard to remember all the silly shit that happened involving TNA

Yang is really good on the latest Talk is Jericho

this is true. I want to see him get hit with a steel chair or speared out of his chair, preferably both, in either order, repeatedly he definitely has heat with me

you must be a gimmick. Screamin A lives up to his. I can replicate every Stephen A Smith argument: "LOUD NOISES DEFENDING ABSURD ARGUMENT TO GET ATTENTION" I didn't take him seriously 20 yrs ago, and he's even worse now

I cared so little about RAW Underground that I never even bothered to watch a clip online. Shit like that doesn't work. You can't have "real fighting" in "the underground" because then what does that make the in-ring? Roman's "when I'm done with you, your whole family gonna be afraid" is legendary

I posted about my love for the ladder match earlier, and I never weighed in so I'm gonna do that now I loved this match so much that I rec'd it to a few people I know who used to like wrestling but don't watch anymore, but trusted my enthusiasm, and they all were like "WOW" blown away by it. the thunderdome blew them away first of all, also I don't think one of them knew Sami at all, but the handcuff shit blew their f'n minds and they all came away like, "wow that was dope" and I had to be the bearer of bad news like, "yeah, don't expect anything that good again any time soon"

Same here in Massachusetts, where it's also legal for rec sale. I believe medicinal is the same in NY state. There are doctors who specialize in it. You have to pay for the license and renew it anually, but it allows you to grow plants on your own if you are so inclined. Haven't looked into the NY laws in a bit, but I know where I am near the NY border the rec shops get lots of traffic from out of staters C.S. no offense brother, but maybe I don't know......many of your rasslin heroes partook in a joint or a drink here or there.......it ain't gonna turn you into a pumpkin

In full disclosure I haven't been able to watch WWE without alcohol in years. I don't watch much these days, but it's partly why I would pick and choose what to watch, I can't afford to drink that much It would probably be fun for me watching a marathon of WWE programming on heavy drugs. I wouldn't subject that on a poor innocent stranger though

I wish they'd just unify the damn titles. They don't have enough tag teams as it is, and it worked fine for the women's tag belts

They actually renewed it through November. Meltzer thinks they'll be there into next year and will re-negotiate to have limited fans in, if they haven't already. The date being talked about for the 2021 NBA season starting is MLK day in February and it's highly unlikely to begin before then, but everything is up in the air with that. I posted this in last week's thread earlier regarding the draft, so I'm moving it here after realizing my error: The draft actually makes me less interested in WWE, at a time when my interest was already at an all-time low. The ladder match between Sami, Hardy and AJ was one of the few things during the pandemic I went out of my way to check out. It was fantastic and memorable and it made Sami look great. Then he's a total afterthought in the draft, coming off a classic ladder match, WHILE HOLDING THE IC TITLE. They might not care about shit like that, but I do. Oh and meanwhile they're feeding Hardy to F'n Lars Sullivan of all people. Oh and the RAW and SD champs just swap belts, and are having a match on the PPV without either titles on the line? what? Shit like this is why nobody cares about titles or anything else that happens in this horrible, horrible wrestling promotion And to add to that, WWE is adding title reigns for New Day and Street Prophets to their official lineages due to the title swap, making in WWE canon New Day 10x tag champs and Street Prophets GRAND SLAM (NXT, RAW, SD) tag champions, despite not actually winning the belts this fucking company.......

Just saw that Chad Gable is staying on SD after not being drafted on Friday. The best hope for him is Daniel Bryan wanting to work with him, but that didn't end up doing anything for Gulak so who knows

Also I don't want to wade into the NBA discussion, but "LeBron wouldn't be one of the best in any other era" is a laughable argument that deserves to be called out and ridiculed. And I'm old enough to have watched Magic, Bird, Jordan and everyone else over the last 35 years. Jordan and LeBron are neck and neck. I grew up on Jordan and LeBron is a couple years younger than me. I'm a Knicks fan and Jordan killed my team, I saw his greatness on a painfully first hand basis as a teenager. I can take the emotion out of it and rate them objectively

KO to SD as a challenger to Roman works for me. The matches will be good, those two always beat the shit out of each other for our entertainment, as it should be!