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Man, I love Brock's promos. It's such a refreshing break from all the overscripted promos full of verbiage people don't actually say in real life to see a guy say "I'm gonna beat his ass". That's all you need in wrestling ffs.

Ambrose needs to throw the double birds while handcuffed to complete the morph into Attitude Era Austin.

I get that they need subs however they can, but it was still kind of shocking for them to go straight "if you bought this on PPV you're an idiot" there.

Man, that main event was off the charts in terms of emotion. You could really tell most of the crowd was older fans coming back to see Atlantis keep his mask, and god damn were they into it.

Yeah, in that episode Peter was trying to get Cleveland to show anger over his wife cheating on him. He took him to a wrestling show and they had a Randy Savage type doing a stereotypical pro rasslin' promo. It was clearly one of their usual voice actors doing the part, but I guess people saw the character and just assumed he was doing the voice.

So in the daily WO update there was a plug for the latest ROH tryout, and I see they're charging $300 a pop with a limit of 35 participants. Does anyone get hired from these or is it just a quick way for the company to pocket $10k from werkin' the boys?

Lance Storm made a great point how the MNW series really drives home how stupid it was not having the full Raw and Nitro libraries up at launch. They could have easily done a Netflix style recommendations thing where watching MNW would steer you toward the Raw where Foley "really put asses in seats" and won the title, or any other milestone reference point. Instead you have to go to YOU-TUBE (as Bryan would say) and watch it for free because they thought it would be better to dole out the content people want in small doses.

McMahon's Millions ending with the stage collapsing on Vince?

I don't know about the rest of you, but WWE's new belief that there's no reason for a wrestler to sell a beating/injury from the previous week because the fans won't remember is quickly becoming my most hated quirk. You're flat out saying your fans are too stupid to notice the guy who got destroyed last week is now walking around fine.

The latest issue of the WON features Dave recapping the Grantland article on TNA and pretty much ethering Dixie Carter. He more or less takes every quote she made in the whole piece and points out how full of shit she is.

We've already seen that: there was a generation of fans who started watching the WWF in the 80s post-Expansion and accepted Vince's version of History. Some eventually stumbled upon the truth, while plenty of others never did nor never cared. Heck, we have a generation of fans who buy all the nonsense in Shoot Interviews and Shoot Books. What can one do... I just have the image in 20 years of El Hijo del JDW (renting the gimmick of course) attempting to set the record straight in a future full of people who solidly believe WCW was run by meanies who only wanted to rob food from the McMahon family's table.

I agree with you 100% re: three hour Raws. All WWE sees is extra money for another hour, but the long term effects are going to be way more damaging than whatever extra cash they get. A bad Raw a few years ago was just a bad Raw, now it's an intolerable waterboarding to endure without DVR'ing it first and fast forwarding past all the horribly written and/or acted angles.

There's that, and also the real human tendency to accept something as true if you hear it repeated enough. Like how the next generation of wrestling fans will probably grow up accepting the WWE version of history since it's likely all they're going to hear unless they happen to stumble across a forum like this.

It wasn't helping they were clearly killing time until the football game went to halftime to do the Cena/Lesnar angle.

Watching Nitro and I got to the one where Madusa shows up and throws the WWF Women's belt in the trash can. It's been so long I forgot the best part was after she left, Eric just casually pulls the belt out (and helpfully shows it to the camera) to confirm it's the real thing with a look on his face like "huh, how about that".

Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but Jim "clawmaster" Zordani passed away late Friday night/Saturday morning. I believe he posted here as claw64, and besides being the go-to guy for results of seemingly every wrestler ever, he was a fun guy to interact with online.

That archive is amazing on so many levels. It's rare enough that there's that much footage from the 50s existing in one place, let alone somewhere willing to clean it up and make it publicly available like that. I wonder if there's other archives sitting on a shelf somewhere that might come to light because of this.

I've mentioned it could cause issues before, but I really hope Triple H doesn't do his usual hype man role for the Mayweather fight tomorrow considering the national debate on domestic violence going on actually prompted someone to finally confront Floyd on his unsettling history of beating women.

Not to mention there were a few songs they had to dub out due to ongoing lawsuits, then put them back in when it was settled. Plus I can't even imagine how much of a pain in the ass it had to have been to go back and un-blur the scratch logos from all the Attitude Era stuff after that got settled.

WWE is getting a new distributor, and that site seemed to think that meant WB is buying the actual library.

Everyone seems to be reacting like WWE is giving up on the network, but if you actually read the story it seems like WWE is just looking for a new company to maintain their library.

Well the guy still throws tantrums in the ring when fans heckle him, so just because he graduated from bag pooping doesn't mean the guy is a paragon of maturity these days.

I don't recall anyone else having their contracts extended, the usual MO was to just to let people's deals run out and not re sign them. I wonder if there's any kind of recourse for Rey since it's clear they are singling him out with this. Not to mention considering Alberto apparently has enough ammo for him to go to AAA and more or less keep doing his WWE gimmick, you'd think they wouldn't want another example of them picking on a Mexican guy.

Mike Sempervive has an ongoing thread on the WON board where he shares replies from folks he knows in WWE being asked questions on various topics. Someone asked about political leanings and the reply was Vince and Dunn are so far to the right all the elevators in Stanford have two monitors: one for the WWE Network and another for Fox News. Not that it surprises me, but it does make for a good source of jokes about which network tries to shape their viewers' opinions more.

Not only that, they've done a reunion of sorts with Savio, Miguel Perez, and Huracan Castillo in WWC this summer.