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Big no go for me. As a recovering addict, I don't need to be triggered watching wrestling

Jamie Hayter. Respectfully. There's a reason she's been my laptop's background for years.

Indie and Wendy Choo. Yep. Also, never thought I'd hear a Brotha Lynch Hung reference on WWE tv. Or the word "opps" but Hayes did it. Loved that promo.

Low-Ki, for sure. As a whole package he was so cool to me when I was first branching out of non-WWE/Wcw/ECW stuff. Aries had that TNA run which was pretty great but I don't think he would have been given the chance if Low-Ki hadn't opened up the indie world like he did (admittedly, with lots of help from people like Dragon, Punk, Joe and Hero.) To this day, if you offered me a comp of either man, I'd choose Low-Ki anytime.

This is cool and I wish my financial situation was better so I could contribute. The only thing that would frustrate me is the fact that it's all clipped and some matches apparently don't have finishes. I appreciate that the footage doesn't otherwise exist but I am so over clips. One question: in the sample video during the tag match footage, someone does some weird strut sell after being punched. Was that Albano? It was so wacky that it stood out way more than anything else in the video, to me.

I mean, if I were to go just by Twitter reactions, Edge is still popular. It's just that a huge chunk of the people who like him are also cord-cutters so it's not going to reflect in actual ratings. Fans in their 20s remember him from when they were young. I liked The Brood and E&C but largely stopped watching by 2006 when I got to college. I came back in 2010ish but only for Mania and other big shows. By the time I was a weekly viewer again, he was retired. So I missed his reign and am wishing he would go back to posing for the benefit of those with flash photography. People older than me seem to not care and they are the ones reflected in the ratings. If WWE could figure a better metric to judge things by than what the boomers with traditional television like, we might see more interesting things.

Oooof. I'm so sorry, I didn't realize how old the post I replied to was.

Yes, I don't suggest googling that. Some people claim it has some therapeutic aspects to process past trauma. It might, but it also is a gateway for people who have tendencies towards minors. I don't discuss my time in prison much because it's the past and I have changed my life but I was in a low security prison due to having a short sentence. This place was federal and had a satellite location that housed a program for rehabilitating sex offenders (I want to stress that I AM NOT ONE. I just had the misfortune of being housed where they kept their over population until a spot opened up in the satellite location. Again, I AM NOT AN SO.) Now, some of these men had real backgrounds where they themselves were abused and I felt badly for a few. I even came across a guy who got screwed because he turned 18 when his girlfriend was 17 and her dad called the police because she sent him nude photos. Due to the photos being sent over the internet, the case became federal, and it was an election year when it happened and everyone wanted to add another notch to the "we bust sex offenders and child porn producers" belt so he got hit hard. 18 and was spending 10+ years in federal prison with gang members and all kinds of bad people (I'm not leaving myself out, I was a bad person). Plus for the rest of his life he has to register as an SO. Ruined his life. Anyway, long story short, a lot of these SOs started by indulging in this DDLG fantasy. It's bad and dangerous. And here WWE is, throwing it on national TV. No telling what kinds of people are watching this and having weird thoughts. I thought the presentation of Bailey was bad enough, especially when they brought in that one young girl fan of hers. Plus that little girl's parents started putting her out on indie cards and meet and greets....it really skeeved me out. I know Wrestling Fans, the IWC, whatever you want to call it, get a bad reputation that is, in many cases, undeserved, but there's a reason I don't associate with wrestling fans in real life, for the most part. There's a reason I post here, Wrestling Classics and DVDVR only. I follow only a few fans on Twitter, mainly people that have some form of connection to promotions. In short, thank you guys for being cool and non-creepy. Or at least keeping the creepy off of this site. I'm sure we all have "creep squad" moments (shout out to Faye) but those are way different than "creeping on a little girl who WWE brought into their story lines" or "perving on Alexa because she dresses like a ten year old and is small."

@BAHU, when you get to a point where you feel this project is completed, would you ever consider selling a dvd (or multiple dvds) with these videos on them? I don't do a lot of Youtube watching due to living in a house with two inconsiderate roomies when it comes to hogging bandwidth but I would enjoy having the visual component to these. If you'd rather have this conversation in PMs, I respect that as well. Thank you. The audio portions are highly informative.

My biggest criticism of Conrad's style has always been the lack of follow up or pushing on subjects so this isn't super surprising. JR did speak highly of Herd in his first book (or at least as highly as I've ever really seen anyone in the business speak of him) I have a question about content. In the early days, they advertised putting some of the live shows up and those were always pushed as events where the guys (mainly Bruce at this point) would tell stories they couldn't tell on the shows since they were things he didn't want recorded for posterity. It always seemed like for the only time in Internet history, people respected the request to not discuss the things said at these shows in recaps or even on Twitter. I don't know that I ever saw anyone do one. Did they ever put any of these up? I doubt that Bruce would let anything slip by that is too outrageous, considering his current position, but I still think those would be interesting. I heard tat eventually it just became a place for people to drink in public and hear Bruce do his voices but some of the earlier shows were said to be lots of fun.

Thank you for doing this @The Thread Killer, I am really enjoying reading these. I would like to read the "Plane Ride from Hell" recap. I just read JR's second book the other day and he really breezed over the event. It got a chapter but the book is written like a James Patterson novel so a chapter might mean anywhere from 2-6 pages. I'm guessing they didn't include Conrad's reveal of being Ric's son-in-law because I'd assume you would have recapped Herd's reaction. That must have been an interesting internal (and probably external with his producer) debate about when to drop that info. Did you ever get the sense Conrad was trying to push Herd to spill some vitriol during any of his answers?

I feel like the last time NBA fans got a look, it didn't go so well. Hopefully they learned from that whole debacle.

You know what offends me most about the Alexa stuff? Beyond the fact that it's downright terrible is the fact that she is really leaning into the "cutsey, little girl" stuff. It's an angle that is casting her to appeal to guys into DDLG, a really horrible "kink" that's gaining popularity nowadays.

I'm holding out hope that the Knockouts get involved in the interpromotional stuff. AEW's women division needs an influx of talent, badly. If some of their women got to work the Impact women, I think it could help them out a lot. I also want Abadon getting mixed up with Rosemary at some point. My only issue with Page leaving is that it kind of leaves Alexander hanging. I'm sure he's talented on his own but he's got the stigma of a tag guy right now. I wanted to see The North in AEW's tag division pretty badly. Page is the type of guy I don't mind in a tag but don't want to see as a solo act. He's pretty full of himself ("All Ego" isn't much of an act, it seems) and that carries over into social media. His fan base is loyal though. Comic nerds who want to be noticed by a wrestler so they parrot his opinions back to him. An online friend of mine is obsessed to the point where she has bought him gifts for his birthday when he's in a town near her. He really has found a base of fans in that vein and has cultivated it for what it is worth. I liked the Karate Man stuff in AIW but it didn't work in Impact. I hope he's NXT bound so I can forget about him.

I like the Torch audio for their classic shows so once or twice a year I'll subscribe and grab any of the "new" old shows they've put up. I do like being able to cruise through old Torch Talks too but the newsletter isn't what it used to be.

If you haven't picked it up yet, JR's first book is $4.95 (plus $4 shipping no matter how much you order (in the US)) at Hamilton Books. Hamilton is a great place to order from. They ship to prisoners which is a huge pain in the ass, so throw some support to them. They for sure helped keep me sane during my time in the Feds. (They also have some wrestling DVDs and Blu-ray's for cheap. I grabbed the WWE Madison Square Garden blu for like $5 and something called the 1983 Portland Yearbook Vol. 1 for $4. All 3 for a little over $20 after tax and shipping, plus they arrived in 4 days. Can't beat that.)

Kind of funny to see a pro wrestling site transcribe an interview and leave in "Vince McMann."

Ah. Makes sense then.

I just watched the post-Summer Supercard episode of ROH TV. It's my first time seeing the new format and I actually enjoyed it. The clip format works nicely and could maybe drive up some Honor Club business. Or at least, it could if the show was actually being watched. I'm interested in ratings for the show. I know they can't be drawing "new" fans because how in the world would they find out about the promotion? Anyway, mini-rant aside, the clip format with a longer main event was pretty good. Ian is still a much better version of Mauro, the new co-host is cute and didn't annoy me, and it made me consider subscribing to Honor Club. The major downside was the digitizing of Jay Briscoe's face after he got busted open. I get that it was a nasty blade job but still, it really wasn't cool, and with the show being on late-night, I don't see why blood is an issue.

After Nyla dodges a move he says something about Nyla "ducking his head." Likely not intentional but probably something that should be addressed and stressed to their announcers.