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So happy to see the long overdue Christian love!

I still like you. Usually I don't pick such low-hanging fruit, but you walked right into it with your brain cells comments, lol - I had to throw that back at you. I meant it in a joking manner. Didn't mean to misquote you. I knew full well you meant more than just the limited context in which I used your quote. You've completely lost me with your "lulz Roma" rant though. No one is dismissing what Roma said re: allegations, but this is a message board, and side conversations are inevitable. I'm glad I've found the one other Roma fan in the world. Fair enough on Sid. I liked him too. I just didn't think he was a great Horseman because - like Lex - it was obvious he was already "bigger" than the group from the minute he joined. Agreed about Roma being a better tag guy. The Young Stallions was before I started watching wrestling, and I've probably only seen 1-2 matches of theirs, but Jim Powers is another one who I've always wondered why never got a real push. Decent look and decent in the ring. He presumably took massive amounts of steroids when he went to WCW, and for what? He was used as a jobber anyway, and that look was more preferred in the WWF.

ck Never said I had contempt for wrestling itself. Certain parts of it and certain people in it, yes, but I don't think I'm alone in that. As for the fans, venture outside of PWO and you'll see what I mean. There are a couple of other good places with intelligent fans: WC, CSS, etc. But 99% of the social interactions on wrestling sites make me weep for humanity. Pick a random "newz" site, for example, and read some of the comments. *Shudder* I disagree plenty here, but for the most part, it's fun and civil.

Why did you comment without reading my post? I specifically said I did not count PWO among the type of wrestling fans I mean. Do better, be better, Ricky.

If you mean my Roma post, well, you can't lose what you never had to begin with. Every time I go against the grain of one of the sleaziest and dumbest fanbases in existence (I don't mean PWO, but there is definitely some groupthink here too), I pat myself on the back Barry Horowitz-style. El-P said it best:

TK is now beefing on Twatter with O'Shea Jackson Jr. (son of Ice Cube) for...reasons?

You heard me! I'd rank Roma as a Horseman ahead of: Ole Anderson: Never meshed well with the group IMO. This bitter old country bumpkin fit about as well as Henry O. Godwinn would have in DX. Lex Luger: Ditto, but this one is at least arguable. Sting: This was just to set up a turn, which everyone saw coming a mile away. Sid Vicious: Never a great fit and I'd rather watch a Roma match. Chris Benoit: As dry as Melba toast, a mass murderer, and never fit as a Horseman. Steve McMichael: He was an entertaining character and I wish him the best health-wise, but Roma was better in-ring. Curt Hennig: Obviously smokes Roma as a wrestler, but he was a lousy Horseman because of an ill-conceived turn that never should've happened. Would've been an all-timer otherwise. Dean Malenko: A better wrestler than Roma, but a bland personality and never fit as a Horseman. Roma was young, looked good, had class, and was a decent wrestler. I'll concede to being the only wrestling fan in the world who was excited about Roma becoming a Horseman, because I thought he was severely underutilized in the WWF. Olde (not a typo) was so long-in-the-tooth by then that I was thrilled when Roma was introduced as the fourth member instead of him. Post-Horsemen, Pretty Wonderful (Roma and Orndorff) was a damn fun heel tag team - just as Power and Glory (Roma and Hercules) was in the WWF.

Agreed, Bubba. I hope Alexander takes a stand, no-shows the rest of his dates, and starts working indies. The cheap penny pinchers at TNA won't be able to do a damn thing about it. It's not like they can afford to sue him, or would bother spending the money to do so.

Is it just me or does this reek of Josh Alexander being held hostage by his new TNA corporate overlords? TNA Wrestling Exercises Its Option to Extend Contract of Josh Alexander https://tnawrestling.com/2024/02/20/tna-wrestling-exercises-its-option-to-extend-contract-of-josh-alexander/ Just to be clear, I'm well-aware WWE and AEW do the same thing (Brian Cage getting his AEW contract extended is especially baffling), but I'm guessing no one in TNA is making WWE or AEW money.

I genuinely thought Paul Roma died years ago. I guess I somehow confused him with Tom Zenk. I'm glad "Pretty" Paul is still around. A genuinely underrated wrestler and actually one of the more talented Horsemen if you rank them all.

Dave Meltzer may have lost a step or two - I'm not sure - but Dave Scherer re-solidifies his toxic reputation with tweets like this: I don't know about you, but I'd still trust Meltzer over the fawning sycophant masquerading as a "journalist" who worked for promotions and gave them biased coverage, and whose website used to (and maybe still does) infect its readers' devices with spyware. About the only positive is that he possibly wasn't as bad as Bob Ryder and eventually got out of bed with him, but that's faint "praise."

"The Iron Claw" just became available to purchase for $19.99 on digital platforms such as iTunes and VUDU, and probably Amazon and others. The price will inevitably go down eventually, but if you want to see it now, it's there.

Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne have the worst gear ever. #ButchWasBetter

Triple H is a deadly boring promo.

Sting is still a cool badass wrestling name though. What the fuck is Big Bill? Sounds like any generic henchman in an '80s action movie.

The abruptness of D'Amore's firing makes me think there's more to this story. I just hope it's not related to abuse allegations. Unless some troubling #SpeakingOut news comes out about D'Amore (and just to be clear, there has been no indication of that), there's no way to spin this as anything other than a disaster and TNA once again getting in its own way. At best, Cicione won't be as incompetent as Jim Herd. That's a pretty low bar to climb though. The wrestlers seem pretty heartbroken about it. https://www.cagesideseats.com/2024/2/7/24065482/tna-wrestlers-react-scott-damore-firing

D'Amore is out. Some random useless corporate suit is in. https://tnawrestling.com/2024/02/07/anthony-cicione-named-president-of-tna-wrestling/

Speaking of which, Nancy Davis Reagan was in an incredible movie - Talk About a Stranger (1952) - but nothing about her role was notable. She played a stock '50s housewife. Still, if it ever shows up again on TCM, I highly recommend it.

I'm not sure how true that is. Was it great for Rock? No. But pretty much everyone acknowledges that the DCEU has been a disastrous shitshow for years and Warner Bros. is one now with the Discovery merger and David Zaslav at the helm.

Since no one else started this yet...

Just the overwhelming feeling that it's a diseased and corrupt industry to its very core? Vince, the alleged Jericho/Kylie Rae issue and TK's possible involvement in covering it up, #SpeakingOut, Ashley Massaro, and who knows what else... Yeah, it's a cesspool. FFS, even *I* know who Dan Marino is, and I couldn't give two fucks about football. With that said, I was under the impression that Making the Game was a boring workout book/bodybuilding manual, so that definitely isn't where I heard this story.

Obviously this Vince news is more than enough by itself to get anyone feeling very sad and angry, but is there anything else going on with you? I hope everything is okay. Triple H is King Bubble and always has been. Even has the throne and everything. I think it was Batista's book that mentioned a famous sports star being invited backstage, and Trips (and maybe Steph) having no idea who it was.

Agreed, but they're also me (casually), Kawada Smile, and others who don't do any of shit. Am I taking it personally? No, not at all. I'm just saying. Actually, I was responding to Coffey's post going on a tangent that had nothing to do with what you said, even though he mentioned you, which is the only reason I also mentioned you again. I generally agreed with Coffey's post though. Agreed again.

It's a Japanese proverb that has nothing to do with Vince. But if it makes El-P feel better to white knight and act like he's "above" WWE's audience, so be it. If he wants to say he's above all the Vincels who are defending Vince and shaming his victim, absolutely, I agree with him and agree he is above them. But don't paint everyone else who watches with the same brush. I do agree with Coffey, though, that all of this Rock nonsense is a purposeful distraction tactic. However, people can be bothered by more than one thing and bothered to different degrees about each. There are even a couple of (now deleted) Sami Zayn tweets about exactly that.

GO TO HELL! STRAIGHT TO THE FIERY DEPTHS OF HELL!!! Okay, while I agree with everything you wrote, it has nothing whatsoever to do with El-P's criticism of a random NXT video with a Japanese proverb. Seeing the Vince situation in that is a massive stretch and overreaction IMO.