Dav'oh

Are you conflating the existence of weight-division titles, with the popularity of said weight-divisions? Promoters like nothing more than adding more titles, to this very day.

Those countries didn't have a wealth of people the size of Watts, Hogan, Ladd, Kowalski, Taylor, Vader, Studd, Mulligan, and the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on. It's the Land of the Giants. Everything's bigger in America, especially Texas. We might be underestimating how pervasive "Supersize me" is. You can only work with what you've got. If those countries had an abundance of super-heavyweight super-workers, we would've seen 'em.

Well, if promoters could have made money off of lighter-weight wrestlers, they would have. I don't mean to be dismissive or flippant. I think it's really that simple. I also don't think it's necessarily "America fuck yeah". Wrestling is a circus, a zoo, a freak show - universal attractions. We don't go to the zoo to see the Etruscan shrew, we go to see the giraffe. The flea-trainer is great and all, but the lion-tamer is where the money is. John Merrick wouldn't have drawn a dime if he had a bung eye and a cleft palate. Lighter-weight wrestlers are "normal". No-one's paying for normal in the exaggerated world of pro-wrestling.

Some of you quite rightly have a problem with Terry Jean Bollea, sexagenarian racist. So do I. And Terry Jean Bollea, scab of a mythical, fantastical, beautiful wrestler's union (rainbows and unicorns sold separately). But I'm here to mourn the passing of Hulk Hogan, larger-than-life cartoon superhero who positively impacted all of our lives, like it or not. I'm not asking anyone to observe a day of steroid abuse and bigotry in his honour. I am hoping his embalmer or funeral director buries him with one shoulder raised; I don't think a clean job to the Grim Reaper would work for him, brother. Something someting artist from the art.

No, they can't, brother Dav'oh. No they can't. He got those reactions in life, though. When it mattered. It's just churlish, repetitive, and pointless now. We already know, though. They feel exactly the same as they did when he was alive. He dead, bro. Too late. Deep. If people can't take five seconds out of their urgent vitriol to acknowledge the good, they're being dishonest with themselves. You all know full fucking well what he did for this thing we love, and not one word of gratitude. Go yeet a giant mousetrap.

People have had forty years to piss on him and used every second of it. They'll have the rest of their lives to keep urinating on him. So, could they take a break for a day or two? We all know everything, there's enough posts here if anyone wants to read the pissing, there's nothing new to piss.

When I was young and innocent, I thought Hogan was pure and innocent. When I got old and guilty, I thought Hogan was old and guilty. I'll remember the former at moments like this. RIP Hulkster.

No-one here has made any sort of argument for him as a great, let alone the greatest.

I reckon Sami (whom I love) has regressed as a worker doing WWE formula matches; certainly, he's no El Generico. Not that I blame him. Claudio in 2015 is exactly the same as Claudio in 2025, to mine eyes. Less bangers (god I hate that term), maybe. I wont be going anywhere near them, but then I'll be avoiding most currently-active wrestlers.

Tony's vocabulary does not include "Because fuck you, that's why". He's a fan first, owner/booker second. Even he would want to see Hangman win. I'm sure he'll send himself home happy.

I liked him better when people weren't hyperbolizing him as the Greatest Wrestler Ever. There I was, just enjoying and appreciating him as a very good, highly entertaining and engaging wrestler, then people started telling me he's better than Terry Funk and Andre the Giant and Toshiaki Kawada and Jushin Liger, which made me look for it and I didn't see it, now everytime I watch him I just think "nice try, but nah."

Yeah, I was thinking recently of Danhausen that there's a difference between being a comedy wrestler, and being a piss-take. The difference between telling a joke, and being the joke itself.

Copied and pasted from Reddit re: Britt Baker https://www.patreon.com/posts/major-britt-133101562/ Sources close to Mark (@WrestleMobs) have confirmed that Britt Baker is actively seeking to part ways with AEW. This would align with what fans have speculated based on her recent social media activity. As things currently stand, AEW isn’t looking to release Baker from her contract. The internal belief is they don't want any upcoming WWE Pittsburgh shows to be announced — as well as Evolution to pass — before letting anything move forward. We’re told that Britt feels there’s nothing left keeping her in AEW, pointing to burned bridges and a sense that the environment has changed around her. Whether this ends with a quiet release or something louder, the door appears closer to shut than ever before.

As a long-time fan of both, I wasn't fussed who won, it was just great to see two world-class workers show how "easy" (for want of a beter term..."simple"?) it is to have an excellent match. No dialogue, no run-ins, no international objects, no blood, no flips whips chains dips, no ref bump - absolutely nothing extraneous to pro-wrestling. Was it a zillion stars? No, but not everything has to be perfect to be great.

Not sure if this is a Holy Grail, but it was only posted twenty minutes ago and seems to be the only full version on YT.

I was pondering something else so I'll piggyback. In true Australian fashion, I'll answer by telling you what it's not. "Why is it so popular?" Not because of the matches, mate. I like to think that two masters of their craft, Messrs. Cena and Punk, could paint me a masterpiece. But their match last night was a McDonald's colouring-in book and they still drew outside the lines. Yes, they're old and broken, but Beethoven was fucking deaf; they should be good enough to work around their limitations like that deaf bastard and give me something nearing a classic. Cody and Randy? Spare me. Pro-wrestling has passed all these people by (and others, too). I, too, have witnessed this "boom" period, and I, too, am puzzled. I use quotation marks for "boom" because one thing that gets me is that this is a company that needed (indulge me here, I can't let go) Johnny Knoxville more than Johnny Knoxville needed them, that needed Logan Paul more than he needed them, that needed Bad Bunny more than he needed them, was it Drake(?) that potatoed Cody, they need Goldberg, they need Cena, something called a Jelly Roll. I'm not sure how booming the wrestling side of things are. But they definitely, subtly, subliminally, rode the MAGA wave. Cody was out there in the exact shade of blue suit and exact shade of red tie as...someone....and a similarly dog-whistling tattoo. The Hispanics are rounded up and put on their own part of the show. Meh, my teeth still hurt. Hope I answered your question!

Is it a draw the blinds, shut all the doors and windows heat, or open the doors and windows to try and get a breeze through heat? Once the heat gets into your place, is it hard to get it out? I have concrete walls, so once the heat gets in it fucking stays.

"Cena smells blood" Must be on Punk's chin from that blood money covered dick.

Which is odd, because they're very sensible views...

I grow more and more convinced that absolutely no-one shares my views on wrestling

So... the fans are doing Sami's Ole chant while doing Bray's fireflies thing, during Punk vs Cena?

No-one: WWE: Goldberg vs Gunther

I'm assuming there's better women than Jade in NXT, but they spent so much money on her they put her Diva-era-esque talents on the big show. Looked like she fucked the finish, too. The Saudi crowd shares our apathy towards her and her promo.

Cheers mate. Fuck the dental lobby for successfully campaigning to exclude fucking teeth from Medicare (as universal healthcare is called here). In theory, the pain of seeing Cena vs Punk should override the toothache, so there's light. Oh wait! It's Jade Cargill. That'll do the trick.

My teefies hurt so I'm still awake at 5am. Everything Sami touches is funny. El Generico was funny. Honorary Uce was funny. People thinking the guy who lost to Johnny Knoxville should beat Roman Reigns was funny. Sami in Saudi Arabia is funny. *Yes, I'm only here to piss on the product. It's five am and my teefies hurt, as stated.