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Didn't Anthem pay back Corgan's TNA investment?

WWE signed Mahabali Shera. They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.

Tim Evans, here's something that popped up in my Youtube feed recently. Match date is 3/26/17.

It was reported at the time that the girls wrote a letter to the judge admitting they made everything up. Is this not true? Does the letter not exist?

But all styles aren't created equal. The fact that joshi and shoot style are basically dead, and lucha has no currency outside of Mexico, indicates that they are inferior styles, at least on a certain level.

My match assignment from southofheavy was Masahiro Chono and Sabu vs. Tatsumi Fujinami and Junji Hirata in a SUPERHARD SYNDROME match from the 1/4/95 Dome show. We get off to a hot start with a Pearl Harbor job from SabCho, and Sabu hits a nice crossbody off a chair on the entrance ramp. Things settle down after Sabu accidentally dropkicks Chono. I enjoyed Chono and Hirata being dicks to each other (I especially liked Hirata putting Chono in the STF). But Sabu was mostly useless and looked lost whenever he didn't have a chair at his disposal, although I did get a kick out of Fujinami showing absolutely no respect for his offense. There was a spot near the end when Sabu legdropped Hirata through a table (or tried to at least-damn those unbreakable Japanese tables) only for Hirata to get up like nothing had happened. I don't know if he was supposed to roll out of the way and mistimed it or just felt like no-selling, but it was pretty funny. SabCho picks up with win with a chairshot followed by a Yakuza Kick. Pretty middling overall. Still, good on Sabu for getting a Tokyo Dome payday.

Stephanie wasn't a corporate executive and brand ambassador when she was on the creative team.

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WWE PR's Twitter account just shared a Breitbart article.

Let's not turn this into a "the dread Meltzer has brainwashed the masses into liking the wrong kind of wrestling" thread, thanks.

Baba had to have known when he brought the R&Rs in that there was no way Hansen was going to sell for them. He should've just brought in Morton and had him team with Jumbo or Tenryu.

The list of highest-rated matches at Cagematch is pretty similar. https://www.cagematch.net/?id=111&view=list&sortby=colRating&sorttype=DESC The main difference is that the latter list has a lot more Kobashi and Danielson. And the only 80s matches represented are the Flair/Steamboat trilogy.

For what it's worth, his exact quote was that Sabu was "night-in and night-out the best performer in the country today." He's also stated that he defines working as "reading the crowd and the ability to figure out how to work a dead crowd." It's entirely possible that Sabu was better at consistently getting responses from crowds than anyone else in the country in 1994.

I think Dave is being worked by his sources here. They've told him that Stephanie's most overbearing moments are her being ordered to be 1998 Vince McMahon rather than what she sees her character as, which doesn't pass the laugh test. Obviously Vince has the final say, but I'd be shocked if Stephanie wasn't in his ear about how she should be portrayed.

The only bag I care for in wrestling is the one Damien is stored in.

Because anyone knows who the fuck Stephy is already outside of the US wrestling bubble ? That was Dave's point. Stephanie is a big deal in wrestling but means nothing outside of it. The goal is to make her a star outside the wrestling world.

So, um...according to the latest Observer, WWE's goal in bringing in Rousey is to make Stephanie a bigger mainstream star. Yeah. Yeah.

For southofheavy: you had identified UWFi as a blind spot you wanted to fill, so here's a match that's...interesting, to say the least. Yoji Anjo/Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Masahiro Chono/Hiroyoshi Tenzan, 11/25/95

OK, I watched this. The opening minutes were interesting because of how one-sided they were. Jinsei was shrugging off Hayato's kicks, bulldozing him on the collar and elbow tie-up, and eating him up on the mat. Jinsei cutting off Hayato's comeback by destroying his leg was also quite compelling. Unfortunately, they lost me when Hayato blew off both the leg work and a chokeslam from the top rope. By the end, they were just hitting each other with bombs and I had checked out completely. This did nothing to disabuse me of my disdain for lucharesu.

It's one thing if opponents are bumping into the ropes off of standard offense. But it's usually Rey who headscissors or drop toeholds his opponent into the ropes.

The Wrestlecrap board was a hotbed of anti-Rey sentiment when I was posting there in 2010.

A WWE-produced minis division would be such an absurd trainwreck that I actually really want to see it.

I've been under the weather for most of the week, and I'm going out of town this weekend. I should have my match review up on Tuesday.

I'm not really sure what kind of character work in the ring Moon's character would lend itself toward. It was far worse when Wade Barrett was pushed as this bare-knuckle champion but would always lose strike exchanges to guys like Orton.

My pick for Jetlag was Cena/RVD from ONS 2006.