Death From Above

Really curious to get a look at the Billy Robinson piece. I imagine it could potentially cover a ton of ground considering what a world traveler he was.

By fucked up I hope you mean awesome.

The whole selling thing in wrestling is bizarre. Like, I've yet to watch a baseball game, see a guy get hit in the arm with a line drive, then keep playing with it hanging limply at his side for six innings. Or that time Joe Thornton played a playoff series for the Bruins with a busted rib but he just forgot to sell I guess. The whole notion of pro wrestling is that it's a fake competitive event, and while there are guys that have used the ole' wounded duck trick well in wrestling, most of the time I just find myself asking "if that other guy is trying to kick your ass why are you making it as obvious as possible where he should be hitting you".

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/3/3/5466448/mma-wwe-professional-catch-as-catch-can-wrestler-billy-robinson-74-passes-away A sad day indeed. One of the special talents.

He really is my favourite stand up comic.

Rogers, the major telecom giant in Canada, definitely has staff that make use of the "let me transfer you to someone else, oops I accidentally hung up on you" trick. I figure it's a standard practice that's taught with these big companies if they run into customers they simply think are complaining too loud.

Hahaha Triple H locking Brian into the pod would be great.

Not really. I want vastly different things from an All Japan match than if I were to watch RAW. There are workers I'd love in one setting who I think would be totally useless in the other. Maybe it would be better to say I go into each company's shows with expectations based around that compay's own style.

Not to get too off-topic but this is actually a huge problem on several MMO video games that I've attempted to get into. Specifically you can really see it on the games that have both pay and non-pay options for those games. The fourms are almost always ridiculously bad because you've got paying customers on them, and they simply can't/won't ban anybody who is paying them money out of the fear it will cost them business. It's almost inevitable that the absolute worst people on those forums are not only paying customers, but some of the high end ones. You're more likely to have a logical, sane discussion by taking one or two steps sideways from the "official" boards.

This would bring Great Kabuki into play as well.

Korakuen and Budokan both seemed like magic to me when I was younger and watching Japanese wrestling full time. I'm not really sure I could name a least favourite. I mean, a lot of matches would die terribly in the sheer size of the Tokyo Dome, but plenty of matches were enhanced by the place too.

Farmer Burns.

When Alberto Del Rio throws Stoker Ichikawa kicks but they aren't supposed to be comedy.

Someone who wants to get laid on a regular basis If you can't get laid "because I like wrestling" you probably have secondary issues there bro.

I used to. Don't bother to anymore. I will crack a wrestilng-themed joke if it's what comes to mind, which is about as far as it goes for me these days since I no longer watch regularly. It's a waste of energy about what people "might think" when in reality 75% don't care, 24% are also wrestling fans, and 1% are assholes that would actually judge someone for being a wrestilng fan. So fuck the 1%. This sums it up for me as well but I'm like that with all things. Like I might mention I'm interested in NASA but it's not like I go into detail that I follow about 25 different NASA sub-accounts on twitter and read up on exprimental plasma engines and shit. Nobody needs to know that stuff to get the idea, and if they're not already into it most of it will be impossible to explain why it's interesting anyway.

To 95% of the current audience out there it is. Not saying I agree with it (I don't), merely that I haven't lost perspective that this exists. That doesn't in any way mean guys like Kris or Phil or yourself who go to bat for Lawler are wrong, or wasting time doing so. Merely that I don't think the broad perception will ever change. That's too bad really. We live in an age when almost any wrestling you care to name is accessible in some way.

WWE did an absolutely terrible job of portraying Lawler to the non-Memphis masses when they brought him in which has killed him so such a massive chunk of the wrestling audience. It was literally about a decade after he arrived in the WWF that I discovered he wasn't essentially a glorified comedy wrestler who became a commentator. And if it wasn't for real hardcore wrestilng hot zones like this that never would have even been possible.

Austin had a goddamn skull for a logo and Brian has shitty beard hats. I really don't even know what WWE is thinking sometimes.

WWE working the internet that one year about Cena being injured and unable to go, only for him to be a surprise Royal Rumble entrant and winner, was pretty damn great. They had mainstream media, all the boards, everyone fooled.

Pretty smooth update on the whole. I don't even think I had to log in again on the "new" one.

In fairness, this is pretty much true since this sort of nonsense is exactly the sort of thing that fit in with Chikara to begin with.

Back when Shawn Michaels wrestled Owen Hart on RAW and they did that concussion angle to get Michaels off TV for rest or whatever it was, where he collapsed and they hauled him off. I bought it as a kid.

Amazing to remember how great Vince was back then. Mr. McMahon is totally played out a decade plus later, but lordy was he terrific then. Honestly, there was a point that Vince was my favourite heel in wrestling. By a pretty wide margin. Of course it got overdone, but when Vince is on his a-game, he really is an amazing character.

People will dig into this whole thing way too deep. "I don't have a top spot now like I did." "I''m unhappy at work, being here makes me miserable." Both pretty valid reasons for leaving a job. Obviously there will be sub-points that added to the decision but if he's handled his money well and can afford to walk away and be a happier person, good for him.

"Everyone pops but he doesn't move the financial needle" is pretty much what they wrote on WCW's tombstone before it carried on as a member of the walking dead for a while there.