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Yeah, looks like he's heading to the Cowboys, assuming he passes the physical. Which I have no doubt he will.

This will be the first time that I listen to Chris Jericho's Podcast, apparently! Seriously? You've been missing out my friend.... I have purposely avoided it because I have no desire to listen to Chris Jericho talk. Just not my cup of tea. Triple H showing up, has piqued my interest because I'm curious about the sort of questions he'll field. I would much rather prefer it were Steve Austin or even Jim Ross instead.

So did everyone else.

Loved ECW. But it's not the 90's anymore, it's not innovative anymore & I'm not a teenager anymore. When I was 17, of course I liked a wrestling promotion that was filled with blood, cussing & women running around in nothing but a thong. I bought in to a lot of the characters. I was a huge Raven mark and him going to WCW was a big deal to me. Taz & The Dudley Boys were also huge for me. Admittedly, I also thought the world of Rob Van Dam at the time as well. I was a lot younger, a lot more hormonal & it felt more "real." Also, it can't be overstated how much the crowd was a big part of the appeal. They all seemed to be having a blast & I wanted to be a part of that. It was like a secret underground promotion that not everyone was supposed to know about. When I was staying up until 1 A.M. to watch an ECW TV show on a throwaway sports channel on a Saturday Night, it felt a helluva lot different than a Saturday morning recap WWF show when I was a kid or the 6:05 Sat WCW show featuring jobbers & scrubs. All the wrestling itself wasn't great but it was more about the over-the-top stories, the characters & there was a lot of good promos in ECW too. I could buy into the show & was emotionally invested in seeing things play out. ECW was really my first exposure to a hardcore wrestling product. I had seen bloody brawls & whatnot but I wasn't exposed to Japan or anything yet in 1998, so seeing New Jack jump from a balcony or The Dudley Boys put Spike Dudley through a flaming table...that was all new to me. And Sabu was just straight-up insane. Table spots were new & fresh to me. So were the kendo stick blows from Sandman. Was it all it was cracked up to be? I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of revisionist history going on. I feel like a lot of newer wrestling fans associate ECW with what WWE tells them it was & others look back on it with rose-colored glasses (probably myself as well). I liked it for what it was at the time. I don't have a huge desire to revisit it but it filled a wrestling void in my life when I was looking to branch out.

I, personally, would be more than happy to see simple, yet effective, moves such as the DDT, Sleeper Hold or Spinebuster become finishes again. I cringe whenever I see a DDT in a Divas match get no-sold.

This will be the first time that I listen to Chris Jericho's Podcast, apparently!

Loss, I think you're right: it would be better as its own thread. Wanna move the replies to a new thread?

"Major Gunns" Tylene Buck is a cam whore. Is it really any worse than that?

For me, it's about NFL football. Sunday & Monday Night Football is always going to take precedence over a WWE PPV or RAW. Plus, it's nice to take a break from WWE sometimes so you don't feel so burned out. Especially nowadays where every three PPVs in a row seem to have the same card of rematches. Come Rumble time, they'll be heating up for Wrestlemania plus the Rumble match itself is just always fun. Survivor Series has been just another PPV for awhile now & I can't even tell you the names of the other PPVs following Summerslam.

I thought I'd already made a thread for it in the past & I tried searching for topics I had created but didn't see it. My memory isn't as good as it used to be, maybe I just made posts in a big thread & didn't make a thread for it then. I can't remember. I'm getting old.

I think I have done this here before with mild success. I'll give three wrestler names, you put them in order from best to worst. The exercise is supposed to make you think about what you value from a wrestler more with the idea being that the names are similar in some fashion so as the make the decisions tougher. Different fans are entertained by different things, even from just an in-ring perspective. What else influences your enjoyment of someone? Their character work? Does their outside-the-ring activities alter your perception of their work any? Group A: Road Warrior Animal, Rick Steiner, Demolition Smash Group B: Terry Gordy, Bam Bam Bigelow, John Tenta Group C: Yoshihiro Tajiri, 2 Cold Scorpio, Sabu Group D: Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Shawn Michaels

If he doesn't call someone a heffer, I'm going to be sad.

Not that I would really go out of my way to watch TNA but I randomly get that Velocity channel. It's one of those channels in the hundreds that I always automatically skip over.

Rob Van Dam - Loved him in ECW, especially in 1999. I was a lot younger, wasn't exposed to as much wrestling & never really noticed that he was all garbage spots & stalling/taunting. Fast-forward to today & he's the exact same as 1999 only half speed & with crappy forearms/punches instead of chair spots. Chris Jericho - Loved him in WCW as a Cruiserweight. Have hated his entire WWE run. Jericho never shows up on my TV & I think "awesome, Jericho is here." His matches bore me. Mark Henry - When he first showed up in WWE, he was super green, boring, nothing special. His Nation of Domination run wasn't any good & he was outshined by pretty much everyone else, including D-Lo Brown. He got hurt several times & did nothing for a few years. His Hall of Pain stuff & heel run was really good though & I started to enjoy seeing him. Not just in matches but whenever he was on screen. Great soundbytes, felt like an old school throwback wrestler. His fake retirement with John Cena was money. He's winding down now but he entertained me for a good while when I had initially written him off completely. Pleasant surprise.

I'm going to take a break from modern WWE until Royal Rumble. NFL is getting ready to start & I can't even think of a football game between two bad teams on Monday that I would rather watch RAW over. Plus, after SummerSlam, this is the big "lull" during the WWE Calendar year. I still have so much other wrestling to watch, like old stuff (Nitros coming to WWE Network next week) in addition to NXT & NJPW, there's no reason I should keep sitting through shows that I'm completely apathetic toward. Everything feels too samey for me right now.

Agree with southofheavy: IWGP is my favorite & the WWE belt is ridiculous. Like the champ is carrying around a billboard. Just hokey as fuck.

I would like to see John Cena on RAW, come out & cut the same ol' "never say die" promo he always does, about how you have to kill him, he won't quit, he bleeds this business, etc. Only instead of finishing the promo, Brock just comes out & kills him. On RAW. Stretcher job & everything. No thumbs up, not commentators telling us the doctors said he'll recover. Make Cena not even make the next PPV. THAT would add intrigue. The Authority is going crazy 'cause they can't control Brock and don't have a PPV main event. Heyman is getting restless because he thinks Brock went too far (especially after the promo last week where Heyman said he would have loved to have Cena as a Paul Heyman guy). Just Brock Lesnar is an unstoppable, destructive gorilla that went too far & no one can stop him. He took out 'Taker & The Streak. He took out the ace of the company. Build that shit up! And I'm talking about an uncomfortable beating too. Beat him with a chair. Put him through a couple tables. Hit him with an F-5 into a post. Show Heyman saying "that's enough" but Brock not stopping. Show someone like Triple H coming out to stop him and have Brock throw him off. Just an unstoppable Man-Ape hellbent on destruction. The last thing this story needs is an immediate rematch three weeks later where they go 50/50.

He looked like he had exceptionally high blood pressure, not that he was sunburned.

Guilty Pleasures: Table spots, tag team finishers, comedy spots Guilty Displeasure: Honestly, I sort of lose interest in a wrestler not when they get a push or catch on as being popular, but when they start getting talked about & bragged about by people online. It happened with C.M. Punk. It happened with Daniel Bryan. It's even happened, for me, with Goldust & Mark Henry. When a wrestler starts getting internet fandom as a super-worker, I start to "revolt" against them. It drives me bonkers, I'm not sure why. It's not that I want to be contrarian just for the sake of being different, I just feel like other people are overrating wrestlers to a hyperbolic degree so they can seem smarter or something. It really grates my nerves on DVDVR. I think that's a big reason why PWO is my favorite forum as no one wrestler is above being scrutinized or looked at under the microscope. Then, for the most part, as soon as said wrestler DOES get an on-air push, guys start tumbling off the bandwagon, which makes me think they were just being fickle the whole time. Maybe I'm just nuts.

If you read Lana's Instagram, it's very apparent that marks are still alive & well.

If Nic Cage can win an Academy Award & Three-6 Mafia can win a Grammy, I'm sure pro-wrestling can find a way to win an Emmy. Although it is extremely far-fetched. Think of it this way: how many people ever thought that a pro-wrestling promotion would be publicly traded on the stock market?

Summerslam was great. RAW, I just shut it off. I can't take it. It's a 3-hour infomercial that's 50% replays & the other 50% rematches or jobber filler. Just trash TV.

It was a bad match that was boring & exposed Reigns, where no one in the building thought Orton was winning & it was in the death slot with a crowd that didn't give a flying fuck. Meltzer is wrong.

At this point, I'm convinced that Dave Meltzer is either trolling people or has went senile.

Would it really hurt WWE if Brock just beat the slop outta Cena, hit him w/ the F-5 & pinned him clean in the middle? If anything, I think that gives them more options. Brock is still a beast, on a winning streak. Super Cena looks beatable/sympathetic, can question himself. Heyman could feel like he's losing control of Brock. I just think that's the best direction for everyone. If Cena wins, tomorrow is just the same old show as always.