tallmike

Pro Wrestling Sim. It's a far easier system to get into than TEW, and it's on Steam.

He's not a compelling enough talker or a good enough worker to get as much TV time as he gets. And out of his stable, Solow was just an awful signing that I don't see any upside to whatsoever, Comoroto looks like a million bucks but needs a lot of work still, and who knows if Ogogo will be back after injuring his eye again. It definitely feels like "he helps with training so he gets to play bad guy on TV" and not the best talent in the best spots.

How do you feel about the commentary in AEW? Jim Ross & Excalibur specifically. JR's an actively bad commentator at this point in time. It's clear he doesn't enjoy the product and he's more than willing to air that shit out. Excalibur is fine, sounds like Scott Hudson, but the mask is a total hat on a hat thing at this point in time. How do you feel about the ring style or the look of the show/arena? The in-ring style is what it is. I don't actively love the maximalist shit, but that's like yelling at clouds at this point. The look of the arena, I don't super care about. The production at times has been a little... off. They miss too many shots they shouldn't, and focus on shit they shouldn't too often. The house produced music is straight butt cheeks. I'm glad they're licensing more music for that reason. What are your thoughts about the talent that AEW has been bringing in like Jake Hager, Shawn Spears or more recently, Mark Henry & Paul Wight? Spears and Hager are total wastes of TV time, but then again, so is like Kip Sabian and half of the goobers that barely make it off Dark, but they didn't come from WWE. Do you think that AEW relies too heavily on comedy? Like I don't have an issue with the Dark Order being goofy or that kind of thing, but Jericho, Omega, and the Bucks are all "comedic" characters that desperately need to be told no. What about their abundance of factions/stables? It's just giving some people something to do, and the fact that it feels like every match ends with a brawl in the ring doesn't help the impression. It also doesn't help that a lot of the stables are full of dead weight talent. Your QT Marshalls, Aaron Solows, Cezar Bononi's, Dolph's dipshit brother, the 5 guy... Managers/Valets? I'll agree with a lot of other people, Taz and Tully are doing great work, but a lot of the other managers just, again, feel like they're trying to throw as many people on the screen as possible. How do you feel about the decisions Tony Khan has taken, or how Dave Meltzer seems to give AEW the constant benefit of the doubt where as Jim Cornette will barely acknowledge when something is good? I don't listen to either. Are AEW presenting the women well? How about the tag team division? The women are in a way better place than they were a few months ago, even if at times it still feels like Baker's the only character that gets any real shine. The rest of the women work matches, and they've gotten better and the matches are longer, but character-wise? Nothing. Tag teams desperately need more to do. Is AEW relying too much on gimmick/stipulation matches? They aren't great at making the stakes for them matter, or putting them as the blow offs when they should be. Most importantly, what do you think the greatest positive about current AEW is & what do you think is their biggest hindrance at this point in time? I wanted to get some conversation going outside of the AEW megathread to maybe just discuss what we like & what we're concerned about going forward. Greatest positive: Even though AEW isn't truly what I want from a wrestling company, I'm glad it exists, both as a place for talented people to find work and as competition to what's been the status quo. Greatest negative: Too much of the company feels like it's an entirely different universe than everything else. Cody's stuff and the Inner Circle stuff definitely don't "go with" the rest of AEW.

I genuinely don't know why you wave your ignorance around like a badge of honor.

Given that "Chris Hero" is an awful, awful name, maybe the guy just has bad taste when it comes to wrestling names.

That's something WWE does REPEATEDLY with their babyface champions. Which is why every babyface WWE run ends up feeling stale. They don't have a "rogue's gallery" of heels they've been heating up with the idea that these people will challenge the new champion. Instead, they'll just have midcard heels challenge like Ziggler, Lashley (he's been built up now, but when they did Lashley vs. Drew last year he was ice cold), Owens at his most overexposed, and sit back and pat themselves on their back. And then wonder why the babyface champion reigns don't go as well as they'd hope.

My guess would be the PPVs will be there Day 1, probably with a big chunk of Raw, SD, NXT, and the retro shows they're currently working on (WCWSN, Superstars, etc.) There will be other stuff that will take some time to move over.

A lot of arenas have the trough style urinals, and while some people will be mindful of other's personal space... others are just trying to piss and get back to the game and will basically go shoulder to shoulder to get in.

I think both what Cornette said was really gross, and that a lot more people know about what Cornette said today than they did a few days ago because by engaging, they gave him a MAJOR signal boost.

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Speaking of booking sexual harassers, this is not a good look, NWA. He's being sued for sexual harassment related to his FoxNation job. https://deadline.com/2019/12/britt-mchenry-fox-news-tyrus-1202805957/

This REALLY isn't the time or the place for your nonsense. Saw this being shared, really made me choke up a little.

Well, I wasn't expecting it to take this long... but we are back! APPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | DEEZER | PODCAST ADDICT | POCKET CASTS | PLAYER.FM | RADIOPUBLIC | RSS TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE After a far too long delay, we are back with our tenth episode, and we’re going over Wrestle War '91! We’ve got War Games! We’ve got Lex Luger in a hell of a US Title Defense! Vader vs. Stan Hansen in a BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPIN MEAT EXTRAVAGANZA. The talented women from Japan. An INCREDIBLY racist Danger Zone. And… some matches that probably shouldn’t be on PPV. We’ll also talk about what caused the delay, some attempts at recording that didn’t go so well, go over our latest vinyl purchases, and much, much more! https://podcastle.podiant.co/e/the-podcastle-of-fear-episode-10-wrestle-war-1991-390cd88e1a3714/

This is trash and doesn't belong here.

I'm guessing they're doing this to build to a champion vs. champion match with Aldis?

New episode is up! APPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | DEEZER | PODCAST ADDICT | POCKET CASTS | PLAYER.FM | RADIOPUBLIC | RSS TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE It’s WrestleWar weekend! PPV hype is the rule of the weekend as we’re getting ready for War Games! 0:00 - Introductions and all that jazz. 2:50 - Power Hour. Replays from Pro a few weeks ago, basically. 16:50 - World Championship Wrestling - half the crew is in Phoenix, so we’ve got a lot of squashes, and the Horsemen show Sting’s team why you never leave the back door open when you leave. We also get the debut of Big Josh and it’s a lot of fun. Missy whores herself out for an interview with El Gigante. 1:08:50 - Pro. Larry Z’s fit watch, a bunch of squashes, the Horsemen kill… and the Steiner Brothers do Steiner Brother shit. 1:35:50 - Worldwide. The biggest show of the week, we’ve got the Horsemen against the Lightning Express, El Gigante vs. the State Patrol and the nine millionth match between Terry Taylor and the Z-Man. 1:53:20 - Main Event. Recaps and Missy’s Date. That’s literally it. 1:59:20 - Housekeeping, our social media, and sign offs and all that fun stuff! The next episode will be a PPV special covering WrestleWar ’91! https://podcastle.podiant.co/e/the-podcastle-of-fear-episode-9-weekend-of-2-23-91-38db29a05a9f8e/

APPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | DEEZER | PODCAST ADDICT | POCKET CASTS | PLAYER.FM | RADIOPUBLIC | RSS TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE This week, we have a big PPV just 8 days away, and WCW is putting their full promotional muscle behind the main event of Ric Flair and El Gigant… wait, what? That match isn’t happening? El Gigante’s not even on the card? 0:00:00 - Intros, housekeeping, and some talk about the way we’re doing twitter highlights. 0:04:30 - Power Hour - Replays and Steiner squashes.We also talk about why the upcoming War Games, despite being a GREAT match, isn’t remembered the way others are. 0:35:00 - World Championship Wrestling - Big Josh makes his first appearance in WCW, “The Natural” Dustin Rhodes makes his (re)debut in WCW and our featured match, we get Bobby Eaton vs. The Z-Man! 1:21:00 - WCW Pro - Larry’s fit watch is back on the menu, we’ve got more Sting and Luger as a tag team, the majority of a “IGWP” match between Tatsumi Fujinami and Riki Choshu is shown, and more! 1:42:00 - WCW Worldwide - Bobby Eaton faces Arn Anderson for the World TV TItle in one of the best matches we’ve seen for this podcast, Sting’s in solo action, and much more! 2:08:20 - WCW Main Event - Missy Hyatt wants to date “Jose Canserco”, we’ve got the trilogy (of the quadrilogy) of Z-Man vs. Terry Taylor, and much more! 2:24:30 - Signoffs and personal plugs. https://podcastle.podiant.co/e/the-podcastle-of-fear-episode-8-weekend-of-2-16-91-38bd8ab5ffd64e/

Dijak just wiped his tweets, so he's likely in. And one of the masked people on Raw was Kacy Catanzaro because they don't have anyone else that size.

APPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | DEEZER | PODCAST ADDICT | POCKET CASTS | PLAYER.FM | RADIOPUBLIC | RSS TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE We are just weeks away from WrestleWar ’91 and War Games in this week of WCW action from the second weekend of February, 1991! 00:00 - We go over the new prizes that will be included in the WCW Sexiest Wrestler contest, do some housekeeping, and give a big shout out to WCWWorldwide! 11:00 - Power Hour - Replays and stuff. And replays. 43:00 - World Championship Wrestling - a lot of tag team action, “shocking footage” regarding the World Champion and El Gigante, Dusty Rhodes talks to Gordon Solie and much more! 1:35:00 - Pro. Larry’s fit watch disappoints us but him putting himself over everyone never does. We get the return of Sullivan’s Saloon and in our main event, we’ve got six man tag team action! 1:52:50 - Worldwide. Tony and Gordon are our hosts, the World Champion is in action, and we’ve got a main event of Sting and Lex Luger facing off against Dirty Dutch Mantell and Rip Rogers! 2:14:30 - Main Event. DDP reveals his new tag team, we get part two of Terry Taylor vs. The Z-Man, and 3 weeks later they finally acknoweldge that Taylor has turned heel. 2:34:40 - Twitter plugs and sendoffs. https://podcastle.podiant.co/e/the-podcastle-of-fear-episode-7-weekend-of-2-9-91-38b029d09f120c/

From what I saw of the show, I really liked most of this week's Dynamite except for the awful Young Bucks match. What the fuck was that shit? It was screaming at you every five seconds "THIS IS CLEVER" and wrestling is never clever when it's so fucking on the nose. Some super corn ball shit. The Bucks may as well jerked off in front of the camera for half an hour, the outcome would have been the same.

APPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | DEEZER | PODCAST ADDICT | POCKET CASTS | PLAYER.FM | RADIOPUBLIC | RSS TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE In this episode, we go over the first weekend of February 1991 in WCW and much, much more! 0:00 - We touch on #SpeakingOut, talk about platforms and change, give an update on our WCW Sexiest Wrestler contest given that we’ve been dark the last few weeks, and talk about Arn Anderson, Macho Man, Sensational Sherri, and more. 19:20 - WCW Power Hour - We’ve got a welcome replay of Beautiful Bobby vs. Arn Anderson as our main event, the return of Junk Yard Dog to WCW TV, Sting explains the rules of War Games, and Brian Pillman is in action! 40:30 - World Championship Wrestling - A slow pan of El Gigante’s junk, the worst squash match I’ve ever seen, Arn Anderson freaking rules, Cruel Connection #1 doesn’t want the smoke, and the best match we’ve watched on the Podcast, the Horsemen vs. Lightning Express. 1:32:40 - WCW Pro - Another great Horsemen tag match, Larry Zbyszko’s fit watch, the number to Larry Land is 1-900-You-Lose, and more Michael Wallstreet even though he quit several weeks ago. 1:47:10 - WCW Worldwide - A title change, the blow off to the Steiners vs. the Master Blasters, and a Fabulous Freebirds match that Mike really liked. 2:07:00 - WCW Main Event - More Michael Wallstreet, the debut of Diamond Dallas Page, JR really loves President Bush, and Terry Taylor takes on Z-Man. 2:28:00 - Housekeeping, personal Twitter plugs, and sign off.

APPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | DEEZER | PODCAST ADDICT | POCKET CASTS | PLAYER.FM | RADIOPUBLIC | RSS TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE So, in 1991, WCW ran a WCW’s sexiest wrestler contest. A couple of weeks later, it was announced that “Z-Man” Tom Zenk won said contest, and was even introduced as “WCW’s Sexiest Wrestler” for some time… and we think that’s bullshit. I mean, it’s so obviously “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton. BEAUTIFUL IS IN THE DAMN NAME. So we are going to right a 30 year wrong. The PO Box used is still owned by AT&T/Turner. So let’s make some noise. We have a WCW Lex Luger and Sting Funko Pop 2-Pack to give to anyone willing to stand with us. There are several ways to enter the contest. Get your vote in! On a postcard, write Beautiful Bobby and address it to WCW Sexiest Wrestler, P.O. Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30348. Send us photographic proof and you’re in! If you don’t have a postcard, just on a blank piece of paper, write Beautiful Bobby was robbed. Take a photo of it, send it to us, and you’re in! RT or Share any tweet we’ve made from @podcastlewcw that includes a link to one of our episodes. This can be any episode we’ve released so far. Rate and review the show on Spotify, Google Podcasts, or Apple Podcasts. Take a screenshot and tweet it to us. If you want to do multiple ways to enter, that will mean that you get multiple entrances and chances to win the 2-Pack! I’m counting six possible ways you could be entered to win! The winner will be announced July 1, 2020.

APPLE | GOOGLE | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | DEEZER | PODCAST ADDICT | POCKET CASTS | PLAYER.FM | RADIOPUBLIC | RSS TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE We’re finally here, the Clash of the Champions: Dixie Dynamite! We will see Scott Steiner take on Ric Flair in a match that could be used to help insomnia. We will see Doom vs. Lex Luger and Sting in a match that can best be described as “big sweaty men slappin’ meat”. All of this and more, this week on the Podcastle! https://podcastle.podiant.co/e/podcastle-of-fear-episode-5-clash-of-the-champions-xiv-dixie-dynamite-388c16175d03aa/

You can justify it however you want, but it's still shitty. (and no, that's not a defense of the Vince or his awful shit because this isn't an A or B comparison).