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Man, everybody is Ganc. I never got him, I mean he used to get a reaction back when I had opinions4u on a lot of things, but his whole "occasionally delete my own account only for another with a low post count but admin status to appear" gimmick was puzzling.

I honestly don't ever recall someone seriously being all about MOVEZ~! in a non-ironic sense. I think this is most of what causes these interweb arguments. There was once a time where I thought everyone on DVDVR was 100% serious in their love of wrestlers most people would find shitty. It's not like they honestly think Henry/Masters/et al are great wrestlers, they like them because they tend to personify how ridiculous wrestling can be. It's more obvious when you read their road reports of shitty indy feds in VA or whatever. A new person joins the board and sees what appears to be a legit discussion of the greatness of some midcard guy, and off to the races it goes. Of course, I could be wrong. I haven't posted at DVDVR for probably 5 years now, but that's how it was the last time I was there and a lot of these so called talking points were being laid out.

Considering he makes drunken YouTubes and twitters about scoring drugs (according to Bix), I wouldn't be shocked.

WWE's mentioning of guys' indy backgrounds is a little perplexing. Surely the only reason they signed guys like Danielson and Kaval was because of the buzz they generated in the indies. Then they seem to go out of their way to discount every part of that background. I know it's the whole "if we didn't create it, it doesn't count" mentality, but from a business standpoint why hire someone and lay out the money you're paying them just to prove the obvious (WWE>Indies).

There's something about needing spreadsheets to understand how people feel about wrestling that really just screams "you're doing it wrong".

They don't do this anymore, but up until the late 80s (maybe even early 90s) if a match ended any way but via pinfall the announcers would not know what the result was until we got the "official word" from the ring announcer.

They seemed to be trying to do a Nature Boy feud in 1986 but Budro messed that up.

WWE did have two Chris at the same time, and apparently it was complex enough to fuck the mind of the "greatest announcer ever" JR to the point he wouldn't know who was Benoit and who was Jericho. Funny how Schiavone never seemed that troubled about that fact. Well JR did have trouble keeping the Dudleys straight too... Also I don't know if this is necessarily a quirk or just lazy writers, but WWE sure does love having heels do the over-the-top-fake-laughing spot. Most recently CM Punk when they played Austin's music and did the whole "tease someone making an appearance" gag.

Not to mention that the weight of the ring steps increases more than Andre's weight in a Hogan retelling of WM3. Bonus points when they mention how heavy the STEEEEEL ring steps are right after they're shown bouncing like nothing.

The thing with boxing is that if it's a fight without Floyd or Manny no one gives a shit.

I was watching the post WarGames NWA TV on demand, and I used to think J.J. Dillon's shoulder injury in that match was a work until I saw the slo-mo replay on this show. No one involved looked comfortable: Animal looked awkward coming off the top rope (Hawk usually did that part), Paul Ellering looked awkward trying to lift J.J. in a way that didn't bash his head off the cage roof, and Dillon himself took the bump awkward. It was amazing he didn't end up breaking his neck landing the way he did. I know they wanted it to be 5 on 5, but he really had no place in that match. At least Ellering still looked like a wrestler and wasn't too out of place (except for those tie dyed tights that looked like he stole Billy Graham's gear), but J.J. looked like someone's dad getting his ass kicked.

Interesting that Alex Kozlov working a taped Smackdown show as jobber Carlos Sanchez made it past everyone's radar until after the show aired. I thought he looked familiar (and how odd it was that they'd give an entrance to a jobber), but I figured if it was someone known it would have been mentioned in the spoiler reports.

That's just an unfortunate consequence of having your ad system pull keywords from the content, so if you put up an obit you're likely to get ads that reflect death/dying somehow. Also this: Jesus Christ, they even distance themselves from people who worked for them a decade ago.

I don't think Punk would actively get someone fired, but he may not have gone to bat for her as much he could have if it was over drinking.

There was just an interview with Luke Gallows where he credited Punk with helping him lose weight by adapting some of the Straight Edge lifestyle (eating healthy, etc), not sure if he was just living the gimmick in new frontier of WWE Shootyworld 2010.

So was that angle with her falling off the wagon to prove Punk didn't vegitize the Undertaker one of those weird WWE punishments where they teach someone a lesson by making it part of their storyline?

I thought he was alright as an announcer, not great but certainly better than anyone they had at the time who wasn't JR. Also after he left I wondered how tough it must have been for someone who probably has to focus more than most announcers to have someone in his ear telling him what to say. He tried to spin it as "Vince yelled at me a lot" but I think it was more "I couldn't keep my scrambled brain together when someone was yapping at me".

....but I'm sure you didn't get lost on the way to the living room to talk to her. Sure, everyone forgets things and draws blanks, but someone who's had a well known history of head trauma shouldn't be lumped in with someone who forgot where they left their keys.

In jest I hope or was he interjecting? Foley and Michael Cole did commentary on the 1980 Shea Stadium show for 24/7 and spent a good part of it making fun of all the things they aren't allowed to say, at one point Vince (who was ring announcing) said something that wouldn't be allowed now and Foley made a comment about "he's going to get yelled at when he goes to the back".

He can be as big a mark for himself as he wants, but it seems a lot of people (smart fans as well as marks) bought into his everyman gimmick hook line and sinker. The shock some people expressed finding out he's a big fat carny was hilarious.

Actually there's been more than one person that worked for both Vince Sr and Jr who have stated specifically that VKM hated being called junior. As far as Juniors who eclipsed Seniors, there's been a lot of Juniors who've been at least as good as their fathers in Lucha. Chavo Guerrero Jr. in WCW arguably eclipsed Chavo Sr, who never really made it above territorial level. Rey Mysterio Jr became a bigger star than Rey Sr. ever did, even if Sr is really his uncle.

Is it just me or does it seem like the whole Alberto Del Rio gimmick is like some kind of obscure rib at Mil Mascaras? Dave's even mentioned a couple of times how much the gimmick matches the real Mil (or at least the impression he left on people). I did like him having his own personal lucha style ring announcer, that was a nice touch.

All because Vince hated being called "Junior" when he's technically not really Vince Jr. I kind of feel him on that one since my dad's name was Pete and literally every one he knew used to call me "re-Pete" (note that my name is not Pete or anything like it which made it 100x as aggravating).

I noticed WWE seems to have a hatred against pronouns. Announcers always have to seem to refer to someone by their whole name, even if it means speaking awkwardly. It's never "he just slammed his head into the mat", it has to be "Edge just slammed John Cena's head into the mat" as if we can't tell from looking who did what. When it's a back and forth match, it gets real awkward as they have to mention each guy's name several times in a row.

Mick Foley convincing most of the wrestling public that he's a aww-shucks everyman when he's really one of the biggest attention whores the business has ever seen (think of the ground that covers) should be #1 on the greatest cons list. What's funny is that he's never really hid it either, considering how everything he's ever done in wrestling was tailored to put as much focus on him as possible.