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Have you ever grappled? Seriously, if you haven't done any grappling, he'd probably take you down and tap you in the first round. I don't know how anyone watched that first fight and thought Punk had any business in the cage with a professional fighter. He decided to become fighter at a time of life when most fighters are thinking about their exit strategy, and that is before we take into consideration all of his previous injuries. He's never been a good athlete, which is a huge detriment when you are trying to be a professional athlete. The amount of arrogance it takes for a dude who never even wrestled in high school to believe that he'd be able to be a professional fighter in his mid-to-late 30s is legitimately insane. It is like someone who never played football deciding to becoming a NFL quarterback. It is incredibly stupid for anyone to believe he'd be able to do it. I honestly don't know how he got past the licensing board. There is a huge lack of respect for how good these guys are at fighting. I remember someone telling me that they thought Alberto Del Rio could beat Conor McGregor in a fight. These aren't just dudes off the street, getting drunk and fighting in a bar. These are serious athletes who train up to 8 hours a day to become better fighters. The amount of talent, athleticism and skill that it takes to be an elite MMA fighter is so much higher than anyone gives them credit for. People really believe that random assholes who used to do Tae-Bo can compete with professional fighters. Stop it. This is fake news. I never said that Del Rio would beat McGregor in a fight. I only said it was absurd to think that McGregor would beat his ass. On a completely unrelated note, it just occurred to me that having Curt Hawkins break his losing streak by squashing Mike Jackson would be so hilariously petty that I fully expect WWE to do it. WWE should go for the deep cut and bring in 80s jobber Mike Jackson to get the win.

Not sure why people are still hung up on the "Dave broke the scale" aspect of this. When Cornette came up with the star system 4 was the max. The idea was when something that was head and shoulders above the previous benchmark, the level would be raised. There's never been any fuss about it until New Japan matches started becoming the ones raising the bar and now people are losing their shit and honestly acting silly over it. I have a theory that a lot of it stems from most folks' intro to non US wrestling being 90s All Japan, either as it was happening or years after the fact via tapes or internet. Most folks have an inherent bias toward what they grew up with/were introduced to and have a kneejerk reaction to the idea that something better might have come along. There's been good matches since then of course, but this is the first time we've had a core group having consistent high level matches on a regular basis since then and some people seem weirdly threatened by it.

Why should Punk not be called on his shit publicly? You never really acknowledged how you misrepresented what he said. And a long time friend not wanting to associate with someone because of where they work is not understandable. I don't feel I misrepresented anything he said, dude clearly feels hurt by Punk not wanting to associate with anyone in WWE (or wrestling at all it seems, he said the only person he's talked to involved in All In was Matt Jackson). My point was there's a time and place for everything, and deciding to bring it up all on Twitter when 99% of people reading it don't know the particulars is kind of a bullshit move even if you're in the right. I will give him credit for actually talking to Sean Ross Sapp when he reached out for details in light of how things went down after his and Booker's "angle". Funny thing though, WWE is so notoriously anti press that they don't set up and control this whole ordeal probably got heat on Graves.

Did Punk expect all his friends to leave WWE? I never heard anything about that. I'm just talking about his need to go on Twitter and subtweet like a 13 year old moments after the guy lost a fight. Maybe I'm just an old fart for thinking that not all of one's dirty laundry needs to be aired on social media but it wasn't a good look in my book.

I wouldn't be crying about it on Twitter in the saltiest way possible. Corey came off as so corporate he can't understand why his friend doesn't want anything to do with anyone involved with the company.

So Punk Rawk Corey Graves is having a hard time on Twitter with the fact his hero CM Punk no longer wants to associate with the company he hates with a passion and believes almost killed him with neglect.

I thought the show was fantastic, I loved the Young Bucks coming out looking like kids who knew they messed up but wanted to apologize to dad, and then Kota joining the group hug like the kids finally accepted their new stepdad.

Park said CMLL knew about it, but it's Park saying it so who knows (they did bring him back after the announcement so that does imply they at least had an idea it would happen).

I've followed Loss around various message boards for what seems like forever now just because he's the type of guy who would attempt something like this and knock it out of the park. I'd be down for helping in any manner that I could (maybe a wrestling video game section?).

So I've been enjoying Tessa Blanchard the last few weeks, and I've always wondered if her rumored attitude issues were legit or just "a woman has self confidence so that must mean she has a bad attitude" type BS.

In further good news, they dropped the stupid "Grand Championship" so now they're back to just the World and X title along with the tag belts.

There was pretty heavy debate on this, but there was enough uncertainity at the time Raw started that it is excusable the show started. About an hour or so into it it was pretty clear what happened and it was looking real bad for them. It was clear based on the "tributes" some people were offering that there was at least some folks considering the possibility and not wanting to be on TV praising a murderer.

Yeah, on top of all the other bizarro world things happening in 2018 in and out of wrestling, Impact is actually pretty good now.

Because people expect each upload to be some previously unseen gem from the 70s or 80s, and anything else is a massive insult.

I get the Bucks not being everyone's cup of tea, but lol at this. There's nowhere in the world in the year of our lord 2018 that Cornette wouldn't gain more working with them than they would. I mean, maybe if the Bucks did an angle at the next Mid Atlantic Reunion show they'd be the one getting a rub, but that's about it.

He opened the ECW show the next night by saying his mention of Benoit's name would be the last time it would be said on WWE TV and that the following show would be them doing what WWE does best, putting smiles on faces. Pretty sure that was how it went, I'm not exactly leaping to go back to that time and rewatch those shows.

I could think of two reasons WWE would want to edit discussion of ECW on Syfy: 1. It was the show where Vince laid down the edict that no one would mention Chris Benoit ever again. 2. It was the show where CM Punk started getting momentum to become a star and WWE is salty they just lost the lawsuit they were (allegedly) funding.

The first Wargames was released on home video right? I seem to remember commercials for it back in the day. Then again Turner Home Video was notorious for butchering shows to fit it on video tape so maybe what's on the network is the better version.

This is the same Big Kev who went around wearing pro Trump shirts to try to trigger the libs, so he's always a worker to the core.

If he's not losing at Triplemania, he's certainly losing it to Rush if that match takes place in CMLL. He was always holding out for the mask match with Wagner, and now that it's no longer an option he might as well cash out to the highest bidder now.

It's all connected. The original deal with Wagner was he'd lose the mask and in turn they'd do a title program with him and his son to make Hijo a star. Konnan coming back scuttled those plans so Wagner bounced, and Dorian brought back Jarrett in response to that. I'm just hoping Konnan's booking will be more than "take the most violent aspects of ECW and imagine if it survived and moved to Mexico" style that seemed to take over the last time he booked.

No surprise since Amman's whole case seemed to be "people said mean things to me on Twitter", which is hardly deserving of the nearly $4 million in damages he was asking. Punk clearly embellished a few things but his team made it clear he did have the fabled lump, WWE doctors never seemed to catch it, and he never singled out Dr. Amman by name (the only time the name Amman was mentioned in the podcast was a reference to the unrelated lawyer with the same name). People put two and two together, but it wasn't from anything directly said.

They seem to be no longer sticking with the 50 collection cap, as they added a few previously removed collections back most important being the Wargames Collection.

Sunday's show was very reminiscent of peak WCW, the first couple matches were all good to excellent and the main event was a trainwreck.

AAA announced the four participants in the main event mask match for Triplemania: Psycho Clown, Hijo del Fantasma, Pentagon Jr., and....... LA Park! Not the AAA La Parka, the actual OG LA Park who is also feuding with Rush in CMLL which everyone assumes is leading to a mask/hair match at the 85th Anniversary show. According to Park it's still on for CMLL, and if he loses the Triplemania match it will be hair vs hair. Also Rey Fenix (and probably Penta) are going to be making apperances at Arena Mexico for CMLL while also appearing for AAA. Literally everything that was always considered impossible in lucha pretty much since the day AAA was born all seems to be happening at the same time.