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Funny how only WWE seems to be plagued by fans who don't act the way they are supposed to act. In a normal week I watch WWE/ROH/Impact/MLW/CMLL and sometimes AAA when they put one of their live events up on Twitch. WWE seems to be the only one who has to deal with fan revolt on a regular basis. The other companies are at least trying to give the fans what they want instead of it being a constant battle of "Oh you like this guy instead of who we want you to like? Then it's time to job him out". It's like the era in TNA where their fans would chant "Fire Russo" at the dumb shit they would do on their shows (that he was of course responsible for). WWE fans can't do that because you can't fire Vince, nor do they know which one of the rougly 76 million writers wrote whatever segment they are mad at, so what else can they do?

It worked for Razor since everything was garish colors in the 90s so his green/yello combo didn't look too bad. Ric Flair was supposed to be the master of style so him wearing clashing colors stood out like hearing someone in an orchestra hit a flat note.

So the owner of Fire Pro Arena, which was the premier Fire Pro site forever, apparently was arrested on child pornography related charges. I remember going there back in the day to get translated roms back when Fire Pro was a Japanese only thing. I hope the site was archived, and fuck that guy for being a piece of shit.

Another interesting point is what do you do to put over blood feuds in a no blood era? Clearly the JCP mentality of juice in every match is never coming back, but we've seen time and again establishing a feud or match as violent and barbaric comes off as lame with no blood. There is the aspect that because it's so rare to see that accidential blood gets a more visceral reaction from fans not used to seeing it. I do think it's an interesting side effect of WWE's Brand Uber Alles campaign that heels can't be heels without it potentially having negative reprocussions to the company. Heels used to be seen as dastardly guys going against what the company would want wrestlers to do, and now they're seen as characters doing what the company scripts them to do. There's also the idea that it used to be the company was always the babyface and authority figures would only be used to punish heels when they did something especially egregious that required a punishment. We've had 20+ years of the company being seen as the bad guy out to screw the heroes. I always thought that had a subconcious effect of making fans get more mad at "real world" missteps since they've already been trained to see the company as the villian.

I love how Nakamura pops up in the weirdest places in wrestling history. Also she's giving him a lot of credit for assuming he wouldn't know the connotations of calling a black person "Kong" just because he's from Japan when that's the country that made Bob Sapp famous pretty much just for being a large black guy.

I feel like it should be mentioned that the "Big Cass got heat for being a Trump supporter" stuff that was floating around turned out to be him getting heat for spouting anti Syria immigrant stuff to Sami Zayn, which is something that should be recognized as a dick move regardless of politics.

The angle was leading toward Ki winning the title at some point, it is kind of a surprise they did it this soon though. Can't help but think MLW is playing with fire since it seems there's only a finite amount of time before Low Ki pulls another one of his unprofessional shithead moves.

I have no doubt we're getting the top guys on this show.

Guess this means Sinclair's lawyers flexed nuts and got WWE to back down. I fully expect ROH's entire roster to get offered NXT contracts in the next 6 months in what will be a completely unrelated move.

What sucks is they tell the guys to come to them with ideas to prove they are working hard on their careers or some other horseshit, when they really want the talent to be unpaid writing interns for the rest of the company.

Yeah, for as much as "creative has nothing for you" has become a meme nearly every former member of the creative team has done interviews saying they had tons of ideas for X, Y, or Z but they all got turfed for one reason or another. There's also numerous tales of guys going to management with an idea for their character and get shot down, only to see that idea get used verbaitm for someone else.

Black Saturday is the new hidden gem. There were rumors that more WCWSN was coming in a future content dump, so maybe that means we'll get the rest of 1985? I guess the question is would you consider that the end of the Georgia TV or the beginning of Crockett TV in Atlanta?

I always felt it was an overcorrection from the 90s era of ECW and deathmatches that bordered on gore porn. Some of that stuff was so over the top it killed the impact of seeing blood in wrestling. It's something best when barely used, as seen when Jericho busted up Naito.

Cesaro and Sheamus have been doing house shows, so it might also be a little of Creative Has Nothing For You as well, which...yeah. Also Daniel Bryan is the only person besides the Rock with the consistent ability to make the normally stupid WWE comedy skits work nearly all the time.

There's also the aspect that Lashley and Roman are feuding over who gets to be Vince's favorite (being "the guy") instead of a shot at the championship.

Dave made mention of how odd it was they went out of their way not to mention Brock last night despite him getting mainstream attention for his UFC antics (and how said antics played perfectly into the "Brock doesn't care about wrestling" story they've been building up). It would be pure undistilled WWE if after all the years of keeping Brock strong to elevate whoever ends up beating him, it all ends up for naught because Vince had a hissy over something.

The weird thing about that is most WWE injuries of late have been shoulder injuries from the silly weightlifting regimen they want everyone to do. I think Daniel Bryan was the last serious in ring WWE injury and it wouldn't be fair to blame that on the company. The only other ones I can think of are "shit happens" type moments like Big Cass's knee blowing out.

Man, the Cheeseburger/Bully Ray stuff on this week's ROH TV was so goddamn good. Say what you will about Bully, but he is so good at being an old school make-them-hate-your-guts heel. It helps that Cheeseburger is the easiest guy in the business to get sympathy for, but holy shit the crowd was losing its god damn mind when Cabana came out to save him.

Their show on July 19th looks solid: 40 Man Battle Riot Match for a future World Title Shot Basically this is LU's Aztec Warfare match (Royal Rumble with pinfalls/submissions counting as eliminations). Everyone on the roster seems to be entered plus they are bringing in legends and suprprises, they already have PCO listed as entered. MLW World Title Match Shane Strickland vs Sami Callihan MLW World Tag Title Match Pentagon Jr/Rey Fenix vs Drago/Aerostar MLW World Middleweight Title Match MJF vs Joey Ryan to crown first champion John Hennigan vs Low Ki Hart Foundation (Teddy Hart and Davey Boy Smith Jr managed by Brian Pillman II) vs Rich Swann/ACH

I don't think Brock cares about passing drug tests as long as the check clears.

It's already out on PC, here's the requirements from the Steam page: (hope this pastes correctly without the formatting screwing up) MINIMUM: OS: Windows 7 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 Memory: 4 GB RAM GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with minimum 512MB of VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 4 GB available space

Cody and Nick Aldis are official, the storyline is that Nick won't put up the NWA title unless Cody is ROH champ by then.

Yeah the people in charge in Impact now are doing a really good job (that feels so weird to type), it's a shame the brand is so damaged from years of shit.

Maybe, but this seems to be a new era where anyone not signed to WWE can appear anywhere. When even CMLL is open to letting anyone not on AAA TV appear, we're in a whole new world. Even after the Bullet Club runs its course, there will always be guys ROH can bring in if needed. If anything, I'd like to see ROH use their non New Japan partners better. It's sad seeing no one from CMLL get much reaction other than Ultimo Dragon and Dragon Lee. They have some of the best young lucha guys around and it would be nice to see them get more US exposure.

It certainly has a "so bad it's good" appeal if you're in to that sort of thing.