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i would think it takes a lot for Vince to completely sour on someone who checks off as many boxes that Cass does.

I just binged on the new Mid South, and I know it's not breaking news to say Bill Watts was great at booking episodic TV but even when the wrestling wasn't always the greatest you still felt compelled to watch the next episode.

I just read it as Cass's punishment for the "little Daniel" thing.

So Dustin Rhodes keeps popping up in pics from the Euro tour and it looks like he's been helping Ronda. Is he an official agent at this point or is he still a player-coach? I always thought he'd be a natural (no pun intended) for a role where he could mentor folks.

They dropped the first 15 of what is supposed to be a 70+ episode Mid South batch today, which was a nice surprise. Looks like 1983 is getting filled out first.

A lot of companies seem to be tucking in wording in their employment terms barring people from complaining about their jobs online. I mean, I get it, but it's funny when you consider most of the US are "right to work" states where you can get fired for pretty much anything your boss feels like that doesn't violate existing law.

I think it's more that people had talked themselves into believing they'd get all the dream matches if/when Bryan came back, and instead WWE is booking him exactly how you'd expect them to.

Been married 12 years, my son's six and in his last month of kindergarten. I work tech support for a cable company everyone loves to hate, but it's a decent paying job with pretty great benefits. You just need to have patience with the 80 year old grammas.

When Bix tweeted it out a while back, he found an old newspaper article from when it happened that stated he was one of several people convicted in an incident where they all had sex with with a girl under 16.

Of all the horrible things wrestlers have done, for some reason finding out Mr. Wrestling II is a registered sex offender for taking part gang raping a 15 or 16 year old has me shook the most.

*waives hand* Big gamer my whole life. First system was an Atari XE computer/game system, followed shortly by the NES. I was huge on the Nintendo side in the Nintendo/Sega console wars, I even still own my original OG Game Boy system in all its brick-like glory. I kind of fell out of console gaming in the 90s, and got big into PC games. I ended up missing out on the PS1/Saturn/Dreamcast era when it was new and only had an Nintendo 64 for the wrestling games. Most of my time in that era was spent on Doom/Doom II/Quake type games on PC, along with EA sports games that were pretty easily moddable. Got back in to consoles for the GameCube, then full blast with the 360/PS3 era. I've made up for lost time by going back and collecting all the systems and games I missed in the 90s, and with the purchase of my Switch last month I have pretty much every video game system from the Atari 2600 up to current era. Gaming also led to importing, since a lot of games back in the 80s and 90s would never get released outside of Japan or wer stupidly rare/expensive in the US. Collecting wrestling games on N64 led me to discover Virtual Pro Wrestling 1 and 2, which in turn opened the door to Japanese wrestling since they had an AJPW license and had tons of other "it's easy to see who this guy is supposed to be, just tweaked enough to not get sued" wrestlers from other promotions. I had tons of classic Misawa-Kawada matches on VPW2 before I knew they had tons of classic matches in real life. I still am big into wrestling games, I recently completed my Fire Pro collection, but I'm also big into fighting games. The pool hall my buddies and I used to hang out at in high school had a Street Fighter II arcade machine along with a Mortal Kombat I unit. Street Fighter was alright, but it's hard to underestimate how mind blowing the first MK game was at the time. The full motion video intros were astounding, and not at all low quality like you'd see on CD based consoles of the time.

My only takeaway from the Cass-Bryan match was lol'ing at Bryan trying to literally guide Cass into attempting to block the Yes Lock and then when that wasn't working, just club him in the head to make it look like he was really fighting to get the hold on.

Daniel Bryan is like the wrestling version of Final Destination, and every match you're waiting for fate to get their revenge. I don't even know if he's doing it on purpose, but when he does his top rope dropkick where he lands on his back he stays still for a moment before doing his kip up. Every time he's done it since his return I think for a second he got his bell rung from doing the move.

Not a match per se, but I enjoyed the whole series of events that led to Brutus breaking away from Johnny V. Plus the Barber gimmick is one of those things everyone remembers from that era so that has to count for something. He probably should have retired after the injury, but I'm sure he had major bills to pay (plus being a Friend of Hogan was a pretty sweet gig to have).

My pet peeve (and this dates back all the way to when Vince was annoucing) is that everyone seemingly has to have a "*Gimmick* One" based nickname. Like how Bobby Roode is the "Glorious One" and Goldust was always the "Bizarre One".

Byron seems to be getting better at being the third wheel, so to speak. He doesn't usually add much of value but he doesn't step all over the others to get his shit in either.

The stereotypical blonde isn't usually my thing, but Missy Hyatt was amazingly attractive before she went crazy with the plastic surgery.

Yeah, modern day Drew is certainly a good choice.

The agenting on the show seemed to be done to ensure the most frustrating outcome for the fans possible. The bell to bell on the show was fine, other than Nia nearly killing someone again, but nearly every match seemed to be produced in the most ass-backwards way possible. The lone exception would be Miz-Seth, which is probably why everyone loved it way more than expected.

Would it be fair to give him credit for Piper? It seems like Georgia was where he really put it all together, which is odd since you'd think Ole and Piper would have driven each other crazy within seconds of meeting.

On that note, Negro Casas has certainly had some great matches the last 3 years, so pegging him at 2015 seems to be selling him short.

Tommy Rich was a Jim Barnett guy (not in the sleaze thread way), if I'm remembering the timeline correctly.

Well if you remember the famous ECW promo, Dusty had nothing for Steve Austin either. If anything, wrestling has a history of nearly every top guy getting released/passed over/ignored at some point. Not sure if the "Cena was about to be endeavored before Steph heard him rapping" is exactly as true as we hear it, but he was Generic WWE Guy #69787987 before he got the Doctor of Thuganomics gimmick. Foley only got a shot due to JR lobbying for him. Looking back, it seems like the only guy who was clearly a star who was pushed as such from the jump (not counting territories where the owner's kids got pushed) that I can recall would be Goldberg. Of all the things WCW fucked up, they knew the guy was money from the start.

He always seemed to be an alright guy, if not a little obsessed. However he is a textbook example of not patterning your life after a wrestler like he seemed to do with Benoit, and then...well.....let's just say he didn't handle it well.