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They've been Harper and Rowan for a while now. Vince is having one of those phases about first names again.

Wasn't Ambrose cleared already? Could have sworn I saw that mentioned at some point.

My skeleton-obsessed six year old popped in while I was watching the CMLL show and after a few moments declared his favorite wrestler was the "bone man". I feel like this is my biggest accomplishment as a parent so far.

Part of the frustration people have with CMLL is that they can be really really good when the people running things give a shit enough to try. It seems like having Park around was enough of a spark to get them motivated to do fun stuff again.

The collection I mentioned above has two AWA matches with him vs Hanson and vs Brody.

WWE Network added a Vader collection today.

Just wanted to say the new board is looking nice. I'm sure there will be a few bumps while things get ironed out but it looks great so far.

Agreed. Say what you will about his in ring ability, but dude is top tier in the fashion game.

That sounds like the worst possible injury to have. I recall seeing a somewhat recent Magnum TA interview where he said he hurt the rotator cuff on his good arm and chose to not have the surgery since it would make him essentially helpless until it healed. I would imagine having both shoulders done would result in the same thing.

As a video game geek, for the longest time my only knowlege of him came from the Takeshi's Challenge game that came out in Japan on the Famicom (NES).

7-8 PM is syndication time for the local station. I mean, they *could* do that, but it wouldn't be worth pissing off the local stations just to thumb WWE in the eye.

WWE seems to only see ROH as a small wrestling company that they can push around and don't seem to know or care that they are owned by a media conglomerate much larger than they are. One that happens to own a lot of the Fox stations they just signed a billion dollar deal to put their TV on.

Another "worlds colliding" moment for me and an example of how famous he was, I just saw Yoshinori Ono (producer for Capcom who works on the Street Fighter series) offering his condoloences on Twitter.

I mean, if he wanted major WWE shows back at MSG that badly wouldn't he be able to lower the fees so they'd run there again? It seemed like a cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face moment for them to start charging more to run shows at MSG when there was a shiny new building in town just looking to become the new go to place.

There hasn't been enough mention of his time in Mexio, so here's a pic of him with the Brazos.

If they have to have an overbearing heel authority figure emasculating Kurt every week, at least it's someone new they can make into someone. Plus Baron has the perfect douchebag demeanor for the role.

Probably wouldn't have mattered since it seems like he was on the bad side of the clique, since he was the cause of an all time HBK tantrum for the sin of being out of position on an elbow drop.

I think I'm going to turn on my Nintendo 64 when I get home and Vader Bomb fools in Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 in his honor.

Besides, WWE doesn't get to be mad when they run an event that brings in wrestling fans from all over the world and other companies take advantage. TNA was rightly clowned a few years ago when they were seemingly the only company in the world not doing a show WM weekend, it's silly for any company that has the means to not take advantage of what's essentially a captive audience. WWE doesn't get hurt by other shows, if anything they get hurt by burning out their hardcore fans by running 5 straight days of shows all running 3+ hours (except NXT normally).

A lot of folks using qualifiers like "one of the best big men", and I get wanting to stay grounded in the moment, but I honestly can't think of anyone his size that was a better worker (certainly not for as long a period of time).

There's tons of video game related events that pop up around E3 and EVO not officially part of the show.

Today in 2002 was the very first NWA-TNA show, so happy birthday Impact! You're now old enough to get a learner's permit to drive.

Bryan (Alverez) mentioned during the PPV recap the other night that (Daniel) Bryan hasn't re signed yet. It seems like Cass was kind of a dick to everyone and his not listening to the agents was the last straw. I would guess they waited until now to fire him because they wanted to finish the program they started and job him on the way out.

Kind of quaint seeing WWE pulling some old school fuckery on a rival. ROH was kind of flying to close to the sun thinking they could get away with running a show there during WM weekend without reprisal, but if WWE is not going to run anything but house shows at MSG due to cost I don't see how they can defend keeping other companies out if they are willing to pay.

Funny thing is he did try to finish the match but his knee collapsed on him. Not much you can do on one noodle leg.