Fando
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The Hall YouShoot and Nash Breaking Kayfabe are both really entertaining
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Only thing that really stood out as bad was Bayley having to roll Sasha closer to the ropes on that one spot. The story of Bayley transforming from the beginning to the end, when she uses Sasha's own tactics, kicking her head into win, was perfect.
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the Bayley stuff was completely intentional and Sasha was playing off it at the start of the match, taunting her to step.
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Most interesting parts of these shows is often Flair revealing how deep his insecurities are. Today talking about being embarrassed to work out in a gym full of bodybuilders until Hulk made him feel comfortable. I mean, of course he is but that he's very open about on the show.
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Today's show with Jake Robers is great. Jake: There's no heat when you hit a guy with a damn sledgehammer. Number 1, both of you have killed your damn characters. If he can get up from a sledehammer folks, I can't fight him. Austin: That's a very interesting point.
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Yeah, there is an obvious difference between Michael Hayes and Bruce Prichard casually using the n-word in everyday conversation and the same term being an official designation for black people in the wrestling business - similar to the way the term jobber might designate a person who loses the majority of his matches. It's still horrible and fucked up either way, but I can see why he'd argue that some people are racist and others aren't - as warped as that may sound. But yeah, Dave obviously needs to explain and clarify, and give more of a history of the term in wrestling, because it's obviously confusing and upsetting to a lot of his fans (and rightfully so). Maybe you could help me then, by explaining how using the word as "the official designation for black person" is not racist.
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Dunno if anyone thinks Dave is racist based off that, but it doesn't sound like he really thought that through before he brushed it off as just a "silly" term. On the show he said of course some people who used it were racist, but others weren't. That was odd. He also said it was used "for other ethnic groups" too. Should really be pressed to explain in more detail about this on a future show.
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There's a couple things. Bill brought up a point about people maybe holding that against them. Like them rehearsing is somehow less honorable or something. I dunno. I know that's not what you were saying either. But by now I think Sasha/Becky and maybe Charlotte could have a good TV match one on one with less prep time. There have only been a couple men's matches on the level of a Takeover level performance the whole year on RAW that i've seen so...But based on their chemistry and how many times they've already worked together, I think that at least those 3 could go. Not so sure about the others yet.
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Elimination Chamber I understand the difference. But we're mostly talking about NXT PPV matches and major title matches on NXT that are the length of PPV matches. Since when is it unusual that PPV matches are rehearsed beforehand?
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Don't most of the workers of the last decade? Even Bret proudly talks about his generation, compared to guys like Flair who called it all in-ring, being able to plan more complex matches. Including the "perfect match" with Davey Boy he envisioned move for move.
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Oh my god... https://instagram.com/p/6uoiC1ICH6/
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And right I was. Decent interview, a lot more based on production and operations than wrestling, of course. Not a lot of good stories though, and a lot of "I don't remember the details" indeed. was funny watching him squirm when the issue of independent contractors was brought up. And when we said he preferred to call himself "showrunner" rather than "booker."
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking above. Was it Hacksaw who talked about how when him and Sheik got busted, Vince's reaction was to say, "How could you do this to us!?" And that is pretty shitty. It's not just that Hogan got greedy but he had to also believe he was somehow untouchable to gamble that it couldn't leak. That or he's so out of it he thought it wouldn't actually be a big deal. It also possible that he's just used to sayin shit like that so often in private, it wouldn't have especially stood and he didn't even remember. But there have been rumors before so I wonder if there was ever a time Vince questioned him about it already...
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It was in private, banging his mates wife and rat arsed, his etiquette was probably not as the make a wish level that night. It's the fact that he didn't choose to settle with Gawker under these circumstances.
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Given that Hogan knew what was on the tape for years and apparently never mentioned it to WWE (unless you believe they would have went ahead and put him on Tough Enough etc), how personally Vince takes these scandals, and how this is already blowing back on the company and its history, wether the commentators on it are misinformed or not doesn't matter, I could see them following through on a longer "distancing" period just out of spite for how badly he fucked up.
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You could tell they felt something like that too when they said goodbye and exchanged half a dozen love ya, buddy's.
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Joking about assault and Flair's history of sexual harrassment. funny stories? Probably makes some racist remarks, too. I dunno. Haven't listened to it all yet.
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I have trouble remembering any really great angles after the Mr Monday Night-Lawler-and Cornette deal. And even for that one, I don't remember what the payoff was. Just guys being put together based on match potential (Tanaka-Awesome, RVD-Lynn). They're right to push his legacy on WWE TV as someone that nurtured talent foremost. But when you look at what become of the last surviving ECW roster, I think he was probably more successful there in WWE than ECW. Implying RVD was not portrayed as a star at that time sounds wacky. I'd have to rewatch the TNN stuff. It seemed before that that the TV was great but the PPVs were dissapointing but after the TV deal the shows sucked and the PPVs got a little bit better overall. As far as the human toll of ECW, I think the Shane Mcmahon-Angle-Benoit-Hardys top this era of weekly cage dives, chairshots, announcer's table and ladder spots was much worse and more widespread throughout a larger roster. He shares blame for that but really it only changed the business because Vince allowed it to. It never really got over or was pushed as hard in WCW to the same extent.
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that sucks Misawa died while he was still green.
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Really have not felt anything like that since Montreal. It played out great.
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this really goes against the "rock likes to break records" mantra
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Sting promo without the fx. Sounds about 1,000 times better. Maybe no one with that voice could realistically beat Hunter though.