Johnny Sorrow

I thought that was a fun fucking show. I had a living room full of family and pals, a couple pizzas, some burgers grilling, plenty of beer, and a large screen TV with a paid for show that looked great. ~Jericho/ Fandango was a fine opener and the codebreaker to finish looked sick. ~Kofi/ Ambrose was a blast. Ambrose looked great, and jacked in a good way. His arms are looking bigger every month. He's definitely been hitting the gym. I loved the finish and the whole deal with the Shield all holding gold. In a time where the lower belts can come off as meaningless, it's a killer boost to have the hottest act decide they all want gold and get it. ~Shaemus/ Henry was good. I've never been a huge fan of the old "drag a guy around and tag the buckles" matches but this was good. And Henry losing means nothing. He's always gonna be a dominant monster, whether he loses or wins. ~I loved Del Rio vs. Swagger. All the goofy shit worked for me, and the match was fun. I loved JBL saying that a terrible precedent has been started re: instant replay, but if ya really think about it...doesn't it make kayfabe sense that a ref can look at instant footage during a situation like that in this day and age? Especially if it's a match of importance, like this was considering it was for a number one contender's spot. ~Hell No vs the Shield. Can't add much more to the praise this is getting. Fucking awesome match. Everyone involved was working like a motherfucker and it was a total stone blast. I love Hell No, but again...the Shield holding the gold is some great old school thinking. ~Orton/ Big Show: Orton normally bores me to tears but this match fucking ruled. Orton brought it, Show was awesome, the crowd was crazy, and the match was pretty damn great. ~Cena/ Ryback was a blast. I loved the whole "Clash of the Titans" vibe. This was King Kong vs. Godzilla and I enjoyed it a ton. The crowd was chanting "bullshit" at the finish, and I get that. If I was there live I'd probably be pissed that there was no real finish and it happened backstage on a screen. But as a TV watcher, it was fucking great. ~HHH/ Lesnar. I thought it started out a little slow, but that was the point. After the previous two matches I thought this was gonna be a let down. I was wrong. This fucking ruled. Brock's selling, HHH getting totally dominated for a good while before Brock hurt his knee, Heyman's stuff, it all came together to produce a great fucking match that I again, at first was indifferent to, but by the end I was shouting and cheering at the TV. My match of the night is Orton/ Big Show. I love Show, but I wasn't expecting much. And they went out and tore the house down.

"—White ribbons on top of boots: a roleplay scenario in which the male customer begins as the dominant figure and ends as the submissive party." Or as I call it, marriage.

Hey, unless he pinned or submitted all three guys, then he really didn't beat all three. If a guy is bird hunting and shoots one, and is about to shoot another when a third swoops at him and flies into his face, he didn't effectively shoot all three birds. (And the winner for "The thing I never thought I'd type or say ever award" goes to that.) And I guess they must have announced more matches and stips on SD last week, which I missed. Or I fast forwarded thru stuff on last weeks RAW, which is entirely possible and probable.

He won by DQ and still got his ass kicked. It's not like he beat all three guys.

Holy shit, that Cena/ Team Hell No vs The Shield elimination match on RAW was fucking awesome. I was totally marking out when Daniel Bryan got the hot tag and beat up the entire Shield. And the Ryback/ Cena stuff after the match was great. And RAW was a great go home show. What I don't get is waiting to announce the undercard for the PPV until a week before the show. Extreme Rules looks like a stacked fun now, but a week ago, it sure as fuck didn't.

To not keep smoking synthetic weed?

The microphone can be goofy, but in Magnum/ Tully it's an essential part of the match. The one that's the greatest of all time, not just 1985.

The WWE has backed off of all this in it's recent DVD releases, to be fair.

Not at all. I just rarely bitch about it when I don't enjoy a show.

This seems to be a unique perspective from what I saw around the net. So what's new? Lately people have been shitting all over the TV WHILE praising the fact that they keep putting out great TV matches. RAW the last two weeks has been really good. You just fast forward over all the recaps and publicity stuff and you have a fine two hour show again.

Yeah, RAW last night was pretty fucking good overall.

He's my favorite wrestler in the world right now. I absolutely love every facet of his character and everything he does in the ring. I remember going to ROH shows and thinking he was the most boring guy ever, then they teased him as a heel when Liger came in for two shots and he immediately was better. Then when they turned him heel for real he was suddenly great. Since he's been in WWE he's become my favorite guy. A perfect mixture of awesome worker and awesome entertainer. He can do ANYTHING silly or ridiculous and still come off as a super bad ass in the ring.

I had no idea Twin Peaks was cool with hipsters. I still watch it all the time, and whenever I see that final scene of the last episode I still get pissed.

To be fair almost every show "fails". Most TV shows are cancelled; few end on their own terms. Twilight Zone and Star Trek, both typically regarded as the finest Sci-Fi shows ever produced, were both cancelled, were they failures? Twin Peaks was cancelled in season 2 and yet is still regarded as one of the greatest shows of all-time. The Honeymooners was cancelled after one season! I'm not sure your argument about TV shows is valid. And to go back to the whole "a large part of success and greatness is making money", shows like Firefly, Trek, Twilight Zone, Honeymooners, etc all eventually did make money. The may not have been instant successes, but they did eventually succeed on some level. Look at Arrested Development, it's a perfect example of eventual success in the field of TV Shows. Now, there's no bigger fan of Twin Peaks than me, but it fucking failed...period. And pissed me off. How that left me hanging, made me so mad I literally threw stuff at my TV.

I don't know about how "great" it is, but I have a soft spot for the Mania 2 battle royal with the football players. And the battle royal from 84 at MSG that Inoki won is a pleasant childhood memory. Ron Shaw, motherfuckas.

I have to back up JDW here. Richter/ Kai was in no way a novelty match. It was super-pushed and was the payoff for the entire MTV Rock n' Wrestling angle that started all of this. Women's wrestling may have been a novelty before Cyndi Lauper, and it may have dropped back down to novelty after Mania and Richter getting fucked out of the belt, but for the time period between...it was pushed as being almost as important as Hogan/ T vs Piper/ Orndorff, considering it was kinda married to it.

I loved that "Unreal Story" special. I didn't care about the inaccuracies or telling of old bullshit stories. It was an entertaining two hours of TV.

"Says who?" Says the entire history of Pro Wrestling that makes it very clear that the entire point of booking wrestling is to make money.

Ha, I remember those tapes. I didn't buy them but I rented them thinking the same thing.

And that's off the top of his head, man.

Yeah. She pretty much was coming down to the ring, destroying chicks and looking bad ass, while getting over. Then the personal stuff happened, they quick turned her, set up a feud with the Bellas for her return and that was it. When she came back for the Rumble the place popped huge for her, so she made an impression. That's not a flop, that's just crazy real life shit stopping someone's career.

~ Slaughter/ Debeers was ok. The actor was The Commandant, can't find his name. And Debeers was never the manager of the Truth Commission. My rankings: 1. Jerry Lawler vs. Curt Hennig (7/16/88) 2. Wahoo McDaniel vs. Manny Fernandez (10/15/88) 3. Wahoo McDaniel vs. Manny Fernandez (7/6/88) 4. Manny Fernandez, Teijho Khan & Soldat Ustinov vs. Robert Gibson & The Top Guns (6/12/88) 5. Sgt. Slaughter vs. Col. DeBeers (Boot Camp Match) (12/13/88) 6. Mando Guerrero vs. Pat Tanaka (6/12/88) 7.Curt Hennig vs. Greg Gagne (6/12/88) 8.Cactus Jack Manson & The Rock n Roll RPM's vs. Chavo, Hector, & Mando Guerrero (12/13/88) Will, ripping off my lines.....Thanks Kris.

Cena yelling "Come on, Danial Bryan!" and not "Come on, Danial" or "Come on, Bryan!" when they've teamed, like tonight, is terrible, unless it's some inside rib deal.

It seemed to me that Sin Cara's biggest problem was being injury prone. As soon as he'd gain some momentum he'd get injured (or "wellnessed") and it'd halt everything. I thought Kharma was going to be awesome. They totally implied that the point was she was going to murderalize all the Barbie Dolls, but then what went down went down and that was basically it.