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The uploads have sure got quiet recently beyond the usual weekly TV episodes.

Yep, that pretty much sums up my feelings on the situation perfectly. Mine too, I just felt like Randy was the wrong person to make the case for his side since he's the kind of guy who makes you want to disagree with him on principle no matter if he's right or not. It is a bit...odd...I guess would be the right term, how people on both sides have a near religious fervor at times about their particular side. It's not like you would watch a WWE show, a New Japan show, and then say a CMLL show and be surprised they all have a different approach to how they lay out a match. I think Dave sums it up best that if the live crowd goes wild for it then it works.

It just struck me that Randy Orton of all people becoming a spokesperson for the Old Ways when he was groomed for success from day one and never had to try to make a name for himself on the indy scene. Seems like an asshole thing to do criticizing guys for doing whatever they can to get themselves over (even if it is too much) when he's never had to do it himself.

Loner aside, why would the devious villain who breaks people's fingers for fun want to team up with guys like the Young Bucks? Like why would his character even want to be in the same room with them?

Looks like there's going to be an IWGP United States title created for the Long Beach shows.

It's amazing when you consider rumors were bubbling since the mid 90s that he was going to have to retire due to hip problems.

Even if he did come up with it, "they" (being creative) still have to greenlight it being on TV.

I will say it's funny to see WWE women always tagging the "glam squad" in social media posts when a lot of the time they get made to look like little girls who got into their mom's makeup.

I think there's a bit of good cop, but I think it's clear he has a different opinion on a lot of things than Vince too. I seem to recall back when he was still the heir apparent there was rumors of how he wanted to do wacky things like get rid of the ring, so his current standing as the sane McMahon who's the hero to the masses will always make me giggle.

She is a good dancer, which is what made it even more hilarious that the video that came out from the NXT show was so bad. She was trying to dance a style she apparently isn't as familiar with and it was Tim and Eric Show levels of awkward to watch.

So the Velveteen Dream stuff is for Patrick Clark's Prince gimmick, right?

When she was super protective of her gimmick it was fun, especially when her and Rusev would post pictures of themselves scowling at American monuments while traveling. Now it's like 70% reposting obsessive fawning fans, 20% pimping Total Divas, and 10% responding to the "haters" who point out that she looked like a cat trying to walk across a frozen pond doing the dance gimmick.

That new Lana gimmick seems like a terrible idea to begin with. No idea what the fuck they are thinking. It did lead to a hilarious time on Twitter after the video came out of her doing the gimmick in NXT, and everyone was clowning it. She spends like 95% of her time on Twitter vanity searching obsessive fans telling her how great she is so it lead to some great in and out of character meltdowns.

So i wonder what they're waiting for with Lana's debut. At least with the New Day there's an injury to wait on (of course there's no reason the other two couldn't have shown up already), but Lana's getting close to Emmalina territory already.

Matt keeps doing the Broken mannerisms more and more blatantly on TV, they have to have made some sort of settlement or else surely WWE would have told him to knock it off by now. I'm guessing Team Euro wins the titles when Matt does something crazy and misses, leading to him "breaking" and they more or less redo the TNA angle in WWE.

Literally the only reason I ever go there is because I have the ongoing list of WWE Network additions bookmarked. I think I clicked on a discussion once and noped the fuck out in record time.

Right, and at the time most people thought they went on to live relatively normal lives in retirement once they weren't getting their brains bounced around anymore. Then we found out that wasn't the case in most of those. That's the truly scary part, that guys like Bryan seem to honestly thing their brains have healed completely and the odds are heavily against that being the case.

I think knowledge of concussions (which goes back practically to the dawn of time) gets confused with newer revelations about long term effects and things like CTE. Sure, even cavemen probably knew that getting hit in the head is bad, and that repeated head trauma can lead to bad things, but it shouldn't be glossed over the lengths sports leagues like the NFL in particular went to fudge the data. Up until recently, things like post concussion syndrome was seen as something that primarily only happened to boxers and some unlucky football players like Troy Aikman and Steve Young. It was really only in 2002 when Mike Webster died and Dr. Omalu started making direct connections did everyone start to realize the long term damage of head trauma past the concussions themselves. So it wasn't "no one knew about concussions", but more "no one really knew how fucked up people with multiple concussions would get later in life until someone not in the pocket of the NFL did research".

Interesting tidbit from the 4/17/2000 WON just posted to the site:

Yeah, but the dogs are poor workers. Too stiff, always want to get their shit in, tends to hardway their opponent.

He was clearly being positioned as a guy at least being groomed to be the next one for Roman to beat, and in the age of 50/50 booking beating up actual jobbers without having to put over anyone else qualifies as a rocket strap push.

So do a lot of the people who vote in Observer polls. There were people who had those two matches pegged as the best of the night long before the matches actually happened and would have still voted that way if the two matches were god awful and Roman vs Braun (who finished 1 & 2 for most overrated in the year end awards) had been a 5* classic. Roman I get as his case has been talked about countless times. But I'm shocked about Braun. I know he didn't really reach full awesomeness till this year but even by November he was clearly getting better and showing signs he was very good and worth a push. He wasn't in Japan or the indies though. Therefore overrated and should never be pushed in the mind of a lot of WON fans. Braun certainly has risen to the occasion in a big way, but in the beginning it sure looked like it was going to be another typical big green guy getting the rocket strapped to him because Vince reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if he finished high in the Most Improved voting this year.

In this age, that would probably help Kane's political aspirations as well.

Yeah I wasn't directing that at you, my bad. Your post just reminded me of people who seem distraught at the next generation of wrestling fan not liking what they do and vice versa.

I don't get the concept of being mad over some people not liking the same thing as you. So people thought Owens vs Jericho was MOTN, doesn't make your opinion any more or less valid. I think the hour long draw world title format in the 70s was largely boring as shit and I also know most people here would vehemently disagree with me about it. I'm okay with that. Why get bent out of shape that someone liked whatever the latest WWE offering was? Unless it was the House of Horrors match. Anyone liking that is bad and should feel bad.