Hollinger.

They are all in the playlist I posted on the first page.

So uh... I've never seen much of anything on that list, so I did this: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoltmE1u_WAad4S8UaqRcSwa5gIMGmm6M The only things not easily available on Youtube were weirdly the two Joe/Nigel matches, both of which are in full on Dailymotion.

Botch bothers the fuck out of me, because most of the people I see using it have no idea what the fuck it means. God knows how many times I've seen someone on twitter or tumblr say that X wrestler just "did a botch". What the fuck? Are you familiar with English?

At the moment it's mostly promos about the Cosmic Key. They're building to something... what? Who knows. I dig the gimmick, though.

I started to piece something together this morning involving cenobytes, but decided it's better off going in my booking notebook for when I'm running Very Adult Chikara.

I don't typically wish ill on anyone, especially workers trying to scratch out a living, but I'll cheer for any episode of failure for ol' Wes Richards. Fuck him with a rusty spike.

Russo was giving notes to people at TNA low key for a while, but accidentally copied MKJ on one of them a few weeks back, and that's how it got out publicly that Russo was working with them again. There are people that think you could slap some quotes onto "accidentally".

The trick is that if it's not working, don't just fail backwards to Cena. Look to who IS getting a reaction, and nudge things that direction. The problem is that every time they've panicked about something not working, the next move has been to go back to Cena, and at this point the crowd is conditioned to that. Run with Reigns as the guy. If Reigns isn't working out, you start trying to work other guys into it. Most of the other times they've attempted to elevate a guy, it's been with the secondary title, so the crowd is always going to see them as secondary.

I don't really think that the guy that beats Cena has to be the guy that is the next gigantic star. Did anyone see Cena coming along and becoming what he did? I don't think business plummets without him on top as long as they are actually getting behind trying to push someone on top. It's always been start and stop kneejerk reactions to a bad couple weeks of tv ratings, or a bad PPV buyrate, and they never give the story long enough to build to someone getting over to that level before they cut their legs out and go another direction. For once, they need to just decide on a direction and have faith in their ability to tell that story, instead of bailing at the first sign of trouble.

Yeah, I'm not necessarily advocating for turning Cena, just spitballing how I would do it. But I think clearing Cena out of the way is the obstacle they've had in creating another big star. As long as the kids/casual fans have Cena as their boy, they're not going to get hot enough about another guy to make anyone.

If you do it right now, you've even got the built in savior down the road. Cena goes corporate, becomes Hunter's boy. Over the next several months, you run him through all of the smark favorites... Ziggler, Ambrose, Cesaro, whoever... then come Mania, (hopefully) Bryan returns the conquering hero.

Yeah, you keep the fans off of him by turning him and going even more "Super Cena" than ever before. Just fucking steamroll guys, until the savior finally slays him.

I'm more used to it now that I was for a long time, but yeah, the name hurts him as much as anything does.

Or, if I'd read a couple more posts before responding. This sums it up nicely.

Without having read past this statement, being at wrestling shows every weekend, having gone to a PPV this year and other WWE shows within the last year, the majority of the fans at those shows are not smart to the business. I'm sure many of them know wrestling is fake, but they aren't smart to it. Most of the fans that I've overheard having conversations about shit they read online have been the biggest marks in the building. You're severely overestimating the general populous.

Everyone stop talking about Paige and watch this video. Yeah, I posted this on Facebook a week or so ago... one of the most impressive athletic displays I have ever seen. I've seen that course fucking DESTROY excellent athletes. Matt Cross, who while short, is a hell of an athlete, completely fell apart trying to scale the wall. She blew through it first attempt.

I don't think there's ever going to be any agreement on this topic between those of us who were around in the 90s and those who weren't.

It's not nearly as beneficial as actually hiring guys full time, but they do bring in some "guest trainers" for a week at a time, to help bring in other points of view to the training. Pearce has been down there a couple times now, Saturn was going down about one week out of the month for several months before he went AWOL again. I agree, they need guys to fill the Finlay/Regal/Venis/Holly road vet roles both at NXT and on the main roster. Guys like Roman Reigns should be working a Dustin Rhodes every night on the road, but the way they book now, it's near impossible. I don't even know who is around that they could slot into that kind of role anymore.

Most often it's: Bullshit, Bullshit Shine Heat Comeback Finish Throw some extra bullshits in there, maybe work double shine/heat, whatever, but that's generally how it goes down.

Hollinger is pretty awesome.

It usually takes a bit before the apps sync up with it. I'm guessing that since only 13 are showing up, they're still in the middle of making the content available.

The first 13 SNME's have been added in the vault section. Hopefully the rest are coming soon.

I love it.