C.S.

I was going to defend PWO, but then I remembered the poster who had a meltdown because of a few of us dared to say that Kassius Ohno doesn't look good in basketball shorts. On the flipside, Jim Cornette can say the most vile things and he'll still have his defenders here. If Seth Rollins said the same exact things, those same exact posters would be tripping over themselves to vilify him.

I have no idea who or what you're referencing with the Volk Han quote, but if you don't like my posts, feel free to make use of the ignore feature. To be fair, Luchasaurus's injury kind of forced the issue with Stunt. If that hadn't happened, I suspect he would've been in a Jake Hager role (lol at the irony) where he didn't wrestle at all for the first few months or only sporadically wrestled.

NXT is so ice cold that I'm choosing to watch this match instead of a surely superior women's ladder match.

Sonny Kiss is awesome. Shame he's so underutilized. Very disappointing.

Eddie Kingston and Homicide > Santana and Ortiz

Keith Lee and Bronson Reed are awesome. I miss seeing big guys like this.

The Channel Changer, The Ratings Killer, PAC, sends me running back to NXT for this quarter hour!

They should've had this guy cosplay Yokozuna for the Crown Prince at Blood Money.

Who the fuck is this?

Real heat: an absolutely foreign concept in WWE. What's old feels new again.

Spears is awesome, but even I tuned out to watch NXT because of this Librarians shit.

I still think Spears was a better hire than PAC, but woof at Tully being anywhere near this goofy-ass Librarians gimmick.

This should've been booked as Stunt squashing the fuck out of Dark Order and sending this putrid gimmick on its way to the WrestleCrap graveyard.

ACH just went into complete meltdown mode. Warning: NSFW

CM Punk just showed up on WWE Backstage!

Will watch this tonight, but even Viola Davis wouldn't look good reciting one of WWE's shitty scripts.

@KawadaSmile Another thing to add, Bubba - it's not like Lana is gifted with the quality of writers that Viola Davis is. No one could save shitty WWE scripts.

Not watching. Hit me up with a YouTube link to the skit, Bubba. However, for the record, I said she did a great job of portraying an over-the-top wrestling character with an exaggerated Russian accent. That's not wrong. Nevertheless, she also has real acting chops that put her ahead of 99% of the WWE roster. That's not wrong either. Not having seen the skit yet but knowing that this storyline is basically the modern day version of Big Show vs. Big Boss Man or Torrie Wilson-Dawn Marie-Al Wilson, it's a rather silly expectation for you go into this thinking that Lana is going to put on a Viola Davis-esque Oscar-worthy performance. This is pure WrestleCrap and it's meant to be. Lana is acting accordingly.

Pretty much this.

I suspect NWA has more money than we think. They did manage to get Eli Drake and a couple of others you'd figure there'd be outside interest in. (Or is Drake a backstage headache or something?)

I feel no one is discussing the possibility of Marty Scurll ending up in the NWA. He and Nick Aldis are legitimately best friends, and they had a match for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Title last year.

You know what I mean though. Your argument is as flawed as modern Castlevania games. "The fans cared about Spears on multiple occasions in multiple environments and situations, but it doesn't count because of A, B, and C." You're grasping at straws.

Right, because the "youngster" Carlos Colon certainly got a monster pop when he showed up.

Yep, because the Royal Rumble was definitely held at Full Sail...

Mamma Mia! You'll come around. I disliked Adrian Neville intensely in NXT, plain old boring Neville did nothing for me when he was called-up (though, in all fairness, it's not as if he was used particularly well), and I began warming up to him slightly when he turned heel and became King of the Cruiserweights. But at no point did I ever really desire to see him in a higher spot (well, maybe U.S. Champion). When Enzo beat him, my reaction was "of course he did" because Enzo actually had a fan-following. No one cared about Neville. Then Adrian took off from WWE. Fine, whatever, I didn't care either way. When he showed up in AEW as PAC, I groaned. Bad name, TNA flashbacks of an ex-WWE guy who didn't matter being pushed as a main eventer, and then rumors of him not wanting to job. Since then, he's done very little to improve my opinion. Whereas, Adam Page seemed like a star in the making in that first press conference outside the hotel in Vegas. Since then? I'm not sure what the hell happened. His lame 1995 Justin Hawk Bradshaw/Bobby Duncum Jr. cosplay costume and character, lack of commitment to said character (he wrestles and acts nothing like a cowboy), etc. has derailed him. In Vegas, he looked, acted, and dressed normally. Since then, everything about him screams Village People. I love a good cowboy, don't get me wrong, but he's not a convincing one. Same with Peter "Hugh Hefner" Avalon and Leva "Blue Pants, Blue Hair" Bates being cast as The Librarian despite doing exactly zero to look, sound, and act like librarians.