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"Look at these Iowa assholes. Ordinary fucking people, man. I hate 'em."

WCW syndicated TV for me, hands down. We always would try and make guesses on who would be in the next match (Disco Inferno? Van Hammer?) and pick who would win and what way they would win, just endless conversation about what was going on. It's still and always has been my favorite drunk wrestling.

Lunatic Fringe!

I really loved the Kane/Ziggler Smackdwon series from a couple years back where all the matches built off each other. Also liked the MVP series from the end of 2006. And I remember him always filling out the Elimination Chamber matches really nicely. I think he's been in 4 of them.

Ah ah. Who was the old-school superstar on Raw this week ? DDP did a picture perfect Diamond Cutter on Slater. He looks exactly the same, too (of course he's kinda always looked like he's in his late 50s).

My first thought as well My first thought was that was a shitty, ultra whiny post and all history is fucking revisionist history. The History major in me laughs at this post vehemently. Oh, brother. Who cares? You know what they're going to do with the history, but who cares? You know what happened! I know what happened! Why can't you just enjoy the footage acquisition for what it will bring: cleaned up footage, and unearthed previously unseen footage. You gotta instead rush to be the first little whiny negative nellie and confirm for the 8000th time that you don't like WWE.

My first thought as well My first thought was that was a shitty, ultra whiny post and all history is fucking revisionist history.

I'm pretty sure they did have Rico wearing the same color combination.

Babyface spot to get the ladies hyped for his comeback. No different than Lawler dropping the strap.

I think WWE Films would have to lose way more millions to have lost as much as XFL and WWENY. But I'm with you 100% in that I have no idea why they're still trying. They stopped making money eons ago once the novelty wore off.

Wait is your Smothers set available? I thought you never got enough people to buy it so it never got released.

I'm with this. When I call something a MOTYC, it's a short way of saying "I liked this match, and it happened this year. It is one of my favorite matches that I have seen this year." I can't believe we've gotten this far into a thread because somebody thinks a match is great, while others just the match is merely good-very good. I thought the match was awesome, personally. I don't understand the criticism of Henry as "slow and lumbering" but it's a critique that pops up an awful lot. What should he be doing differently? Running more? How does moving slowly and doing everything deliberately make his matches worse? I've been loving the pace of his matches ever since his heel run started, "slow" has never popped into my brain. It makes him come off more like Michael Myers. So what should be happening? Should he pick up opponents faster? Move from spot to spot quicker? When I hear lumbering I think of Khali, awkwardly stumbling into position, clearly lumbering due to his physical limitations. Henry always comes off as extremely athletic to me, never lumbering. What am I not seeing?

I'm more skeezed out by current guys like Randy Orton, who just ooze date rape. All the guys mentioned so far fall into the creepy carnival worker look, which is skeezy. But there are tons of Ortons out there (just look at the ROH roster) who come off to me as the Ted Bundy-style charming brunette dude who obsessively reads "The Collector".

Sometimes his suit choices really bother me. He's a really small man (or at least appears smaller than he really is), but often opts for really long suit jackets that just make him seem like a little child dressing up in daddy clothes, or doing an homage to Stop Making Sense.

I loved Jericho in 98 and 99, because he got my sister into pro wrestling (she was 11). She loved Jericho and it was so fun getting to watch wrestling with her. I remember how much we cried and rolled on the floor laughing during his Road Wild '98 entrance where he came out in a kimono and pointed out goober bikers in the crowd, then got on the stick and talked about how he was cruising around earlier that day on his Honda, and then got drowned out by roaring Harleys. I like Jericho just fine. He may be overrated, but people are talking about him like he's Edge all of a sudden. I was there live for the 2009 GAB Mysterio match and had a blast. Is he a GOAT? No. But he produces consistently entertaining stuff, and that's really all I ask for.

The Cat got chances. He also had the quietest entrance I've ever heard (at the 2004 Rumble).

Ego maniacal or not, if I owned "Eric Ritz's Drywall Installation" and my sister's shitty kid started up "Ritz Drywallers" and were doing a bad job installing drywall, I would be pissed and tell my nephew to stop being a fuck up and go to DeVry and learn a different fucking trade.

This isn't that peculiar... just trying to name associate with a cool movie, The Big Lebowski. Yeah, but this was at least a year or two after the movie came out. (Which isn't unusual for the WWE, with their well-established history of jumping onto pop culture bandwagons long after their primes.) And absolutely nothing in Val's character, look, or gimmick even vaguely resembled anyone or anything in The Big Lebowski. WWE wasn't really behind the pop culture trend on this one. Big Lebowski wasn't very popular when it came out. It only played in my area for 2 weeks, and there weren't tons of people there with me when I saw it. Once I bought it (on VHS!) and had it with me at college, I remember it becoming a real favorite around the dorms to watch around my junior year, which would have been 2001/2002. First Lebowski Fest wasn't until 2002 or 2003. If WWE had jumped on it in '98, they would have been way ahead of the popular curve. As it was, they were pretty much in line with the popular trend (this may be the only case of that happening with WWE and pop culture).

I still love a lot of stuff from that era. The IWA-MS stuff ages tremendously, a lot of the JAPW too. Some of those 6 man CZW tags are still as awesome and fun as they were then. I was at all those APW shows live but haven't seen that stuff since. The Modest/Daniels vs. Robert Thompson/Boyce LeGrande from Vallejo was so great live. That was 4 of my favorite wrestlers all crammed into one match, going a half hour, my total dream match at the time. I need to watch some of those to see if any of it holds up. The Ric Blade stuff will still look as bad now as it did then.

OK wow, that is insane. I don't think I've ever seen something so insanely plagiarized. My 9th grade Astronomy paper on Black Holes was not plagiarized this badly. I love how he felt the need to change 24 to NCIS, but keep Epic of Gilgamesh. I just picture him looking at it and thinking "Well obviously everybody would expect a reference to Gilgamesh in this John Cena op-ed piece...but this 24 reference is just a bit too on-the-nose."

I will do my part by continuing to write horribly, to then make him look bad by extension.

Throw me as well into the pile of "I will paypal Will immediately if he releases all this USWA stuff". You text me, I will send money within 5 minutes.