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If the WWE announcers are just parroting what Vince tells them over the headset, I have to think Titus' reaction to the Funhouse mirrored Vince's own.

If this were up for an Emmy (as it should be), what category could it possibly come under?

The Last Wrestlers: A Far Flung Journey in Search of a Manly Art (by Marcus Trower, Ebury Press 2007) A friend bought me this a couple of years ago and I'd forgotten about it. I do remember really enjoying it, and I'd confidently point you in its direction (https://www.amazon.com/Last-Wrestlers-Flung-Journey-Search/dp/0091910676). It's a memoir of his (real) travels studying traditional, tribal/village wrestling hoping to find that spirituality was either the source or the outcome of the "purest" wrestling (IIRC), not a novel. From Google "For most of us, wrestling is synonymous with muscle-clad men in spandex costumes pulling faces for TV cameras. For Marcus Trower, however, the camp theatre of WWF was a dishonourable perversion of an honourable tradition - a tradition sadly on the wane in modern society. Wrestling acted as an outlet, both physical and mental, for Marcus; a means of expression 'purer' than any of the martial arts he had tried before.Then tragedy struck - chronic health problems prevented him from doing what he loved most. Unwilling to let go, he determined to look into the roots of wrestling, to try and uncover some deeper, perhaps spiritual, dimension. His travels took him to such far-flung reaches as India, Mongolia, Nigeria and Brazil, the incredible scenery matched by equally colourful characters. Sometimes frightened, often frustrated but always intrepid, Marcus discovered the true origins of wrestling appeared to have little to do with spirituality and everything to do with seduction...THE LAST WRESTLERS is both the story of one man's rebellion against the office-bound constraints of the modern world and a lament for a bygone era of masculinity. It is also a superbly written piece of sports and travel writing. Vivid, comic and often moving, it reveals a testosterone-fuelled world you never knew existed.

I can understand that (maybe boom and clip-on mics were out of the question), it's just the aesthetics, and the whole, "we're acting like there's actually an audience here". I found it nonsensical, but then I watched a clip of Elias' fall and...wow. How am I meant to buy that? I hope Martha Hart wasn't watching (highly likely she wasn't, I know) because my first thought was of Owen.

I laughed at Bayley and Sasha using microphones to speak to each other, when they were stood right next to each other. Pity they weren't playing for laughs. Then Lacey comes out with a microphone to talk to them, and I went and did some gardening. It just looked terrible, and as the opening to an already-hard-to-watch empty arena show, it took me out of commission.

The quasi-troll who dwrite w ith horr ible punctuationreferencing ultra-obscure wr asslers fromthe20s or japan ese indies, (I forget his name), was a guilty pleasure for me. Although I've not posted much here - I've mainly got thoughts on wrestling/wrestlers, rather than facts, dates, references or the sheer volume of knowledge of a lot of PWO's posters - I've never felt like an idiot amongst such smart fans (as opposed to "smarts"). But I've felt like an idiot posting in the past on the "lesser" sites, not because someone called me an idiot or worse, but for thinking I'd get intelligent discussion. This place is a sanctuary, from the IWC and more importantly, as others have noted, from the ills of our world in general. I spend hours reading the archives, it's fantastic place is PWO. Thank-you all for this community. Be safe.

Commentary throwing in, "Like a big rig running over Christopher Daniels" adds to the comparison.

I'd love subtitles to her ranting here. But yeah, even without them she's number one.

My bowling shoes are watching this women's chamber match to boost their self-esteem.

Is it just me, or is Sammy only a cigar away from going full Fidel Sierra cosplay mode?

Once, he was told to stay home and put on some weight (after his punctured lung) and figured he'd play a little softball, seeing he had time off. Then, after he had quit WWE, there were three or four months left before he could start with WCW, "And during that time, I played some softball. So, those are the two times I played softball when I wasn't wrestling. Any other time than that, it never happened. Now, I played when I came home on my days off, but it never affected the business. But that's the deal, it got blown out of proportion". Jan, 2018 https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/01/15/sycho-sid-denies-blowing-off-wrestling-softball-whenever-felt-like/

Agreed. Brock kicking Ricochet in the nuts? Gold! Kandori booting Hotta in the vajayjay? No thanks.

It's like getting the trains to run on time - just change the definition of "on time" (1 minute early to 6 minutes late is now "on time", where I live). Unemployment too high? Change the definition - 1 hour worked in the last 6 months makes you "employed". Want a hoss fight in 2020? Change the definition of "hoss" and "fight". On a side-note, can Lee work any other style than "indyriffic"? I've never seen matwork, striking/kicking doesn't seem his strong suit, it's hard for him to be in peril, it's like he just throws slaps and forearms in between big spotz. Am I wrong (and I'm more than happy to be wrong, I do want the best for him)?

I hate Lee vs Dijkovic being called a "hoss fight" all over the web. Lock-up, armbar, headlock, run ropes, criss-cross, float-over, 'rana, leaping spinning heel kick, DUELLING SHOULDER BLOCKS!, arm-lever-lift, CHOP! (I'm capitalising the hoss-fight parts), leapfrog, discus kick, Fosbury Flop, FOREARM!, pathetic apron "suplex", KICKS! FOREARMS!, PUNCHES!, FOREARMS!, backbreaker, German, cyclone kick, corkscrew moonsault, PUNCH EXCHANGE!, DUELLING CLOTHESLINES! CLOTHESLINE!, top-rope Feast Your Eyes. At this point, the crowd has had enough of these two getting/staying over, and decide to get/stay over themselves. "This is Awesome" starts proceedings, immediately followed by "We want tables", in effect complaining about this 'awesome' match. DOUBLE SLAP! from Lee is met with "One More Time", superkick, flip-senton, "Holy Shit" sing-along, superkick, chokeslam reversals, no-sold POWERBOMB!, roll-up, POWERBOMB!, "Fight Forever" (just to remind us that Gordy vs Hansen this ain't), top-rope Spanish Fly ffs, BBC (ahem), finish. Reads like a Rip Rogers tweet more than a "hoss fight". And Dijakovic isn't even a hoss - he's all arms and legs. I'm not saying it was a bad match or they're bad wrestlers, it's the labelling I shake my head at. Thank-you for your time.

It's amazing how many little things you can get done around the house during a Naito vs Kenta match, and I like Naito and I like Kenta's heel work. Top turnbuckle was man-of-the-match for mine.

The "Property Of" bit is particularly jarring. I guess Titan Towers branding irons contravene Occupational Health and Safety regulations. Plus it seems like a tongue-poking nyah-nyah-nyah.

There's good bald and there's not-good bald. Scorpio Sky is good bald; Kazarian is not (neither is Daniels, it makes him look sickly).

Short, sharp and brutal. Great stuff.

It sucked me in to watching a Usos match, so I guess it worked. I don't know how to format spoiler alerts yet, so SPOILER ALERT: Given no-one "ATE" dog food as such, is this another stip the E reneged on, or would that be pedantic given there was a pay-off?

Thank-you very much, kind sir.

Are the first three parts of "Comments That Don't Warrant A Thread" available? A basic search of the site tells me, "No", but I'm hoping someone will tell me, "yes".

I don't know why a tag-team tourney is dedicated to Dusty in the first place - it's not like he was a noted tag-team worker. Though Dusty himself won the Crockett Cup in 1987 in a thrown-together tag-team, so it's not like he'd be against the concept of the Brosers winning.

My understanding was that Meltzer gets the "blame", and I understand that viewpoint, if not the human urge to apportion blame. So my question is, has Meltzer been more influential than Mick (or Vince or Shawn)? Supplementary questions: Can we "blame" Sayama and Dynamite, or even Ricki Starr for today's flippity-do-dah and acrobatics? Do we need to blame them, or poor ol' Mick? I'd have thought the Young Bucks are to "blame" for Young Bucks matches, (just as an example), not some guy trying to make a buck decades ago.

I found it on a torrenting site (Daniel Bryan's book, too). Mainly obits - Gordy, Pillman, Rude, Davey Boy et al - an interesting chapter on S.D Jones, leading to a look at race in wrestling, and, yes, some overview of pro-wrestling in the context of eras. Definitely worth five Kindle bucks, but I've noticed you (and most of this board) are more knowledgable than I, so the things I found interesting may be old hat to you.

I hate when they try and pop the crowd forty times a match, and the whole thing becomes a series of "ooohs", "aaaaahs" and silences. That's how the three-way came across to me.