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New Japan never seems to do much with the guys CMLL sends them. They end up being used as tournament filler and second match guys.

Bryan comes off as a guy incapable of not telling the truth when asked, and people keep asking him if he wants to return so I could see that aspect, It does make the WWE come off looking like complete dickbags to keep a guy who clearly wants to wrestle again in a featured role with a guy calling him a coward for not wrestling again, so who knows what the end game is. Surely they don't put him back in the ring even in a Bret Hart post-stroke capacity with all the head injury litigation, and having him come back just to have a proxy fight for him seems like a letdown based on how they are building.

I figured Mankind sucking up to Vince was just the payoff to all those Uncle Eric promos in ECW.

I just watched the "Cane Dewey" promo for the first time in years, and Jesus Christ it's hard to believe that guy is the same Christmas obsessed cornball who's the GM of Raw in 2016.

Didn't see a thread for this week, so here you go. Raw was okay this week, main event match/angle was really great IMO. Has the evil foreign menace ever got such a huge pop for beating up the supposed babyface like Rusev got? I keep going back and forth between feeling bad for Roman and feeling schadenfreude for WWE. He deserves a better fate but the company was so stubborn it's hard to not just say they fucking deserve to have this blow up in their faces. Also Rusev is the greatest.

Here's the difference between Rey and literally everyone else they've tried to make the "next Rey" latino superstar: They let Rey do the moves and style that made him famous, and everyone else from a lucha background has been forced to stop doing what got them over and work a different style. Alberto actually is probably the guy who's had the most success since they've started doing that.

It's not going completely unmentioned, but it really should have more attention how completely ridiculous the Ohio commission comes off here. There wasn't even any pretense of them pretending to care about fighter safety by letting a guy who's previous experience was basically fantasy camping with the Gracies to compete in a professional fight. Sure Mickey Gall wasn't Frank Mir but he at least knew what the fuck he was doing. I'm not mad at Punk, dude wanted to fight and he did and got paid. I'm not even mad at UFC, they wanted some hype for what would have been a dud of a PPV without his name and got some buzz out of it. I know state commissions are historically corrupt, but it seems to set what could be a dangerous precedent to allow weekend warrior types to fight professionally just because they're rich and/or have a name.

I get he wanted to prove a point or something but it's kind of a no win for him. Either he loses and it's "LOLPUNK" everywhere or he wins and it's "well he beat a specially chosen tomato can". Plus any value he might have had popping a buyrate probably went away since he was off injured for so long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu6pvS_jSD0 This is a great show building up to WM 3. Not only do we get the build up promos showing Hulk was supposed to team with Andre before the turn we get the original Demolition with Randy Colley, and a six man with Blackjack Mulligan teaming with the US Express (who I thought were gone by this time).

Watching TripleMania XV on AAA's YouTube channel today, and the whole Team Trump deal with Johnny Mundo coming out to "Born in the USA" with video of Trump speeches on the big screen is such a great old school heat seeking gimmick I half expected Lance Russell to be calling the match.

I don't think ZSJ has been awful as much as there's been a lot of guys I've been more impressed with in the tournament. He just comes off as a guy transported from World of Sport, which doesn't seem to fit in a group like this. Plus, yes, Jack Gallagher is basically the same guy with all the Sports Entertainment aspects WWE would want someone to have.

He's popular but not nearly as over as he was before. You could argue it's either from people seeing him be less than successful in WWE or CMLL not booking him strongly like they were before when he was Cena-like in his unbeatability levels.

I don't see how it's bizarre, none of his matches in the CWC have been setting the world on fire, and not everyone follows Evolve.

I just hope 2K finally gets their shit together when it comes to the community creations. Their servers got crushed the first year they had the rights and now they put a 20 download limit per day on created content. On the Xbox One version of 2K16 you have to try multiple times to get downloads to work properly.

They actually weren't bad for what was basically public access TV from 1993.

If this is going right back to 93/4, I might be tempted to watch. I've never watched that stuff and early ECW kinda fascinates me. The idea of Sal Bellomo still having a job in wrestling, for example. I thought the same thing, I saw the name and thought "that can't be the same guy as the WWF jobber, could it?" and sure as shit it was.

What got my attention is that they were going through a group of reels labeled "Omni Live Events" in the first place. I hope this means they were getting ready for another content dump when they stumbled upon history.

Episode 1 of ECW TV is up, and Sandman in the original surfer boy gimmick will never not be funny.

There's a way it could be done that would be a compelling movie if done right, but I have less than zero faith anyone in Hollywood would do it correctly.

That plus the choice of director has all the hallmarks of being a disaster.

Well he didn't after Montreal happened. Dave was just mentioning that Vince was fully cooperating with the production until shit hit the fan. IIRC he tried to block the movie from getting released as well.

Raw could be 6 hours long and there would still be no excuse for stuff like that awful New Day segment or really ANY of the "comedy" stuff that The Club has been doing since the split. The issue is Raw is written to entertain one guy, and as such he's the only one who finds any of the comedy skits funny.

I kind of get why Ibushi wouldn't want to sign with WWE full time, but it seems odd ZSJ would make a point of mentioning he's relocating to the US just to do Evolve shows. They can't be making him that much of a lowball offer.

Who ended up with the rights to that stuff? It seemed that other than Dallas, all the Texas territories ended up in a mis-mash.

Vince and HHH have final say (well, Vince moreso of course) but they do have separate writing teams. At least that was the plan back when the split was announced .