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Speaking of, guys I watch stream fighting games on Twitch are posting photos of meeting Joe at E3 and playing the new Dragon Ball fighting game. Worlds are colliding.

Possibly, but I think he would have been fine in the role of the veteran who can work with the PC trainees on the Florida circuit to help them improve.

The Billy Corgan era was actually not too bad for the most part, but just when it looked like they were hitting their stride he got pushed out and now we're back to Double J's Fun Time Emporium that I mentioned before finally made me punt on them for good. Got to wonder how James Storm is thinking about his choice to not stick with NXT and go back now.

So many people struggle to understand the modern media landscape. And I think it's because they take their lead from Meltzer and I've never seen Dave this far behind the curve, he's basically arguing that TV is the same as 1998 and everything else is excuses. Raw is doing half the viewership it did in 2010. Every other aspect of their business is basically flat with 2010. Hmm. That's weird. Considering I heard it mentioned on a video game podcast recently that traditional TV is quickly becoming to the 30 and under set what radio was to people in their 40s (ie: something the old folks enjoyed) made me realize how out to lunch Dave is on the media landscape. He is right when he says ratings are a percentage of people able to get the channel so that cord cutters automatically aren't counted, but he really doesn't get at all that there's an entire generation who only watch content via streaming devices. TV really only has a future in areas where bandwidth hasn't grown enough to accommodate streaming, and once it does those markets jump as well. That doesn't even mention the looming bursting of the TV sports bubble, and how the trickle down will definitely affect UFC and probably WWE as well.

I'm hyped for Joe/Brock since Brock seems to enjoy working with a guy not afraid to trade bombs with him. Motivated Brock vs Revitalized Joe could be a sleeper great match.

Yeah I sometimes wonder if the people going out of their way to praise WWE for no longer having "whip your titties out" matches anymore realize that they are totally unable to book any of the current women properly.

You would think the ridiculous amounts of money he made with megastars like Hogan and Austin would make him think otherwise, but Vince seems like the kind of guy still pissed that Stacy Kiebler never came back from Dancing With The Stars.

This is true, but Vince seems more happy knowing none of his creations will ever be popular enough to be able to make money without him. He'd rather make a little bit of money for a long time than make huge amount of money for a shorter time and risk having his stars leave for bigger fame.

Nothing makes me feel more "get off my lawn"-ish than seeing people absolutely lose their shit that someone rated a match they liked 1/4th less of a star than they did. It's like there's no allowance for differing personal tastes, and if someone doesn't share the same opinion you do then that person is either a shill for another company and/or mentally deficient in some way. There's little room for debate or nuance, but I guess that's just par for the course in the social media world we live in now. In all the fuss about Dave giving the Dome match six stars, one point that gets lost is now people see anything less than five stars as a sign of low quality instead of the near-classic a four plus rating was intended to be. I don't know if this is just a wrestling equivalent to a culture that is based on rating apps where anything less than the maximum is seen as garbage or what, but it's been fascinating to see people @'ing Dave asking what was wrong with a match he "only" gave ****1/4 to.

I thought the Tanahashi/Naito match was the best on the card in terms of being the overall package of good wrestling/telling a great story. I just hope Tanahashi takes the time to get his arm fixed properly, he deserves better than to become Japanese Paul Orndorff just because of the silly "never take time even if your arm is hanging off" mindset.

The "you never wrestled, you can't criticize" mentality which to be fair seems to be a thing among all strains of athlete.

Hope they move Lars to being a single soon before they end up making him look like a goof who keeps losing matches because he teams up with hapless geeks.

You're possibly thinking of their title win over Regal & Garvin that was, for years, thought to be a phantom change. It was listed as being something like 57 minutes long or something. But a few years ago proof of the card and change were turned up (don't ask me what the proof was - KHawk would remember). There's a thread about it on the old KM board. I don't remember all the details but evidence was presented that it was an actual match in Alberquerque, NM. ​ Funny, my brain probably mashed several swaps together, since Garvin and Regal beating the RWs was a shocking moment, and the count out change was so puzzling to me how the AWA was all "well of course that's always been a thing we do it just never happened before".

To be honest, I'm kind of impressed Corny keeps up with current wrestling enough to even notice. I'd think the holder of the IWGP title would be the furthest thing from his mind.

The idea of Randy Orton being someone's handler is hilarious but I suppose he's got experience with that particular job.

I've been surprised how much Bruno has done with WWE since returning to the fold. I figured he'd do the HOF and a DVD or two and disappear.

Wasn't it Scott Hall and Curt Hennig who won the AWA tag titles via countout? Apparently all these years later it was a phantom change to cover for someone leaving the promotion but I remember even the Apter Mags at the time going "uhhh, okay" at that one.

It's nice to see them put some variety in to the Ladder Match collection, there were some different matches put in and not another rehash of the same old lists they used to always use for these things. Some of the old standbys were still there of course, but it was good to see some new stuff.

Seth might not be the worst choice, I wouldn't want to see someone fresh to the main event mix like Joe or Finn to get a one and done program with Brock (since the plan seems to be to go right back to Braun when he returns). Those guys, especially Joe, deserve better than that.

Not to be Well Actually Guy, but wasn't Vince doing proto Mr. McMahon in the USWA years before Eric?

Even at his most ridiculous, it was still better than anyone else who's done it since. ETA: Him coming out and taking bumps and pratfalls for Roman at an advanced age did more to get him over in one night than years of him facing off against the unbeatable Authority.

Also we're set to get a mega dump of new collections on Monday, not the least of which being one dedicated to Bruno.

Mr. McMahon is probably the best heel character in wrestling history. Vince was willing to do whatever it took to get the babyface over, which is most of the reason why it doesn't work when anyone else tries to copy it. They get the asshole boss part down pat, but forget the part where you stooge all over the place to make the babyface strong. No one else does that part, due to the usual fragile wrestler ego syndrome, where Vince didn't have to worry about that since he owned the company and didn't care if he looked like a goofball.

For some reason Volador doesn't seem to translate well to NJPW. His CMLL work is (usually) far better, and it's not like he's being matched with guys in this tournament who can't work his style.

Cornette doesn't have a rep for destroying every company he touches like Vinny Ru does either. It's not just the bullshit with him, it's the bullshit plus the inability to admit (20 goddamn years later) that maybe some of his ideas were less than great, and the gross racism and misogyny that pervades everything he's involved in.