PhilTLL

I run a specialized hotel and a telephone service which provide gentlemen with the company of a young lady for a short while. This is fascinating, because these are a few of those genres that make me feel like a caveman staring at a spaceship. I'm deeply into funk, soul, R&B, jazz, blues, and your less indie-fied rock varieties, but these days most of the new releases I hear are hip-hop. I also love a lot of older and a few new country singers. I got really into classical a year or two ago.

There's the match against Savage on SNME before SummerSlam 89, and also...

1a. Trek DS9 1b. Trek TNG 2. King of the Hill 3. Jeopardy I have an entire stupid website for tracking my music plays (http://www.last.fm/user/philtll), which will tell you I'm a Deadhead first and a lot of other things too. I try to hit at least 2 MLB stadiums a year. I go to fairly a lot of concerts.

You can most definitely control, alter, and improve your voice. There are literally dozens of classes you can take from multiple disciplines--drama, broadcasting, public speaking--to accomplish this.

Eh, it's a starting point. I'm sure there are thousands of matches someone has overrated at 5, lots that don't really need dissecting. For example, Scott Keith: both(?) Benoit/HHH/HBK matches! Benoit/Raven at Souled Out 98! For Meltzer ones, I would say Flair/Windham Crockett 87, which to me is the clear third of their three big-time matches to that date.

Just to be clear, I was reacting to you saying Rock isn't black. That would surely surprise his black father, and it isn't your judgment to pass anyway. Anyway, are you talking about Bob Sapp, and didn't that happen 3 years after Booker T was the last WCW World Champion? 10+ after Ron Simmons?

Rocky-Johnson-saywhatnow.gif

Lesnar has been in freefall since then.

The New New Kayfabe is blown??? moves. The original New Kayfabe is, of course, booking to piss off the hardcores.

He's not tall enough to reach the tag rope. WWE really did bribe the hell out of the athletic commission. Serious question, are pro-wrestling events still under state commission authorities these days? Kind of, some places. Here is Bix's article on the Louisiana situation. https://deadspin.com/how-louisianas-archaic-commission-rules-will-burden-wre-1824118577

HEY KID, wait, are you an 11 year old boy or a 13 year old girl??

If they had respect for the crowd, they'd scrub this last tag match.

I DID IT AGAIN. Anyway they have got to shorten the weekend so WrestleMania stops eating itself every year. This home stretch is a joyless obligatory slog, like Christmas Eve Mass.

I absolutely need to be on your level. I mean that. It was not un-fun, but in the way that HHH/Sting was. I kind of felt that way about the mixed tag.

I have a room full of normies here who were laughing at the mixed tag and we're outright howling at this.

"Thanks to the fans for making their voices heard!" after this tone-deaf, totally unforced error is a pretty strong contender too. That's wording and messages you would only devise if you've grown up hearing corporate-speak and the word "yes" for your entire life.

My mind keeps circling around jokes having to do with an all-male audience, but I'm just not landing. Any wrestler who worked NXT will be used to it. (There, that's one.)

So, yeah, it's obvious that Book feels very entitled about his "veteran" status, Booker is 150% right on this one. That's a super cheapskate move to pull on your literal main-eventer for the weekend. There are lots of indies who would be embarrassed by that. Hell, I've got friends who do break-even bookings of alt-comedy stars in my Flyover Region city, and do you know what they do? They rent a nice car and drive the star around for the duration, especially if there's media to do. It's common courtesy and good business to treat star talent like stars, hometown or not. (Maybe hometown especially.) You asked for their presence, they didn't come begging to you.

Smack Em Whack Em IS a great place to start. Some common and/or off-my-head match recommendations from the Coliseums they upped include... Rockers/Powers of Pain and Piper/Rude cage match (SuperTape 2) Hart/Flair 11/91 and Flair/Michaels (Invasion 92) Hart/Flair 10/92 and Hart/Michaels 1st WWF ladder match (Smack Em Whack Em) DiBiase/Michaels and Santana/Martel (Hottest Matches) Piper/Savage (WrestleFest 90) Perfect/Garvin (SuperTape 1) Rockers/Rougeaus (World Tour 90) Savage/Warrior cage match (Mega Matches) Santana/Koko (SuperTape 4) Rockers/Orient Express 2 and Perfect/Michaels (World Tour 91) LOD/Hart Foundation (WrestleFest 91) Savage/Michaels (World Tour 92) Hart/Michaels (Rampage 92) Temper your expectations; Coliseums were best enjoyed with pass/fail grading, not letters. Novelty honorable mention: Tugboat/Earthquake and Ultimate+LOD/All 3 Demolition (SuperTape 3) You can find discussions for a lot of these in the MDA. I'll have to think harder about which interstitial bits go with which tapes--Smack Em has Yoko at the Benihana and the Bushwhackers demoing a house, one of the SuperTapes has Hayes/Mooney getting lost on a road trip, Invasion 92 has a really cheap Star Trek routine, etc.

This is fantastic. This is every superlative you can throw at it. If you are an occasional, lapsed, skeptical viewer like me, this will grab, convert, and amaze you. Absolutely on par with the best WWE matches of this decade, and in this style, maybe two decades.

Thunder actually started over a year *before* Smackdown. It was more like WCW needlessly jumped into an extra 2 hours, then a year later when Raw was firmly on top, WWF realized they could win at that too. (And UPN really wanted the ratings.)

Exactly. I can hear the Dream's voice in my head now: "Oh son! Never be ya OWN money mark!"

According to the Twitter account that tracks updates, no.