Death From Above

lol for the finish though

It's so nice to see women's wrestling treated just like, you know, wrestling, on a stage like this.

Vince's official account just put out a pic of the new Women's title. Looks good.

I'll take Barry Darsow's Angry Mini Golf WCW Saturday Night Gimmick over anything Leslie ever did.

You are a bad person and you should feel bad.

Speaking of Formula-1, I have legit refused to follow it for years due to a Ferrari team heeling incident years ago. F-1 fans will remember it because it was notorious. It was the Austrian Grand Prix where their second choice driver won the poll, led the entire race wire to wire, was about to secure his first career win, and was ordered on the last lap by team management to pull over so his teammate in the first choice car could pass him and win to help lock up a championship that was already locked up. Crowd fucking hated it, booed through the whole post-match ceremony, it was some disgusting Million Dollar Corporation stuff. I haven't followed F-1 seriously since and I never will again so long as Ferrari field a team. Watched maybe 3 complete races in the many years since that occurred. Ferrari is literal racing cancer.

I cannot stand him. I watch the Mosconi Cup every year on TV and he's such an absolute prick.

Never bet against Hulk Hogan.

I understand this but it also makes me laugh a little because my brain goes back to WCW booking a first blood match where they couldn't say BLOOD on TV so they told people to go to the website to find out the stip. And then they didn't do a first blood match anyway. At least with the WWE I have faith that since they promised us a barbed wire bat, they will actually deliver.

Killer Khan is someone I almost feel bad about not voting for because of his round-the-loop best of the 80's sets stuff. The match with Choshu alone is just amazing. But I just haven't seen much of anything else beyond that to justify having him there. Inoki is also a good pick. Guy that if you just show people his best work he looks fantastic but I've seen way too much of his other stuff. I didn't vote for The Undertaker but he's a pretty easy nominee for this as well.

Literally everything I have read about people that have met Billy Mitchell suggest exactly the opposite, that they actually had to tone him down for the film because no one would believe what a knob he is.

This is basically a Diego Costa highlights thread, yeah? http://youtu.be/-sSBU7G4GB4 There are a lot of heels in wrestling that could learn a lot from this video.

I like how Sorrow couldn't find anything good to say about this card at all because in his heart he knows it's utter and complete trash but to keep up his gimmick he felt the need to troll someone anyway.

WWE Hall of Famer Vader kidnaps them all, takes them to the White Castle of Fear, where the McMahon family is forced to PLAY THE GAAAAAAME.

That is like trying to get someone over in New York by announcing them from Wyoming. I'm going to miss this show for a family commitment, too bad because it looks pretty good.

Before, easily. Non-contest. Japan's best period is more or less 1990-95. And I would give up "Flair in the 80's" and "Mid South in the 80's" the last of all things in American wrestling. I also tend to enjoy a good percentage of things I've seen from the 70's. My problem with the 1996 and beyond isn't so much a lack of quality as it is there being no sign of a few key things, like say an American competitor to WWE which still seems as unlikely as ever for the next decade, as well as Japan being a really diminished (if still sometimes interesting) commodity at this point with no real indication that will change either. Sure, you get the future, but the business on the whole has changed into a far more corporate environment that appears to be less of the wild west it once was, so I have my doubts how radically interesting (in some way the past doesn't already offer) forthcoming new directions will be in the next decade. The most interesting thing to happen to wrestling in recent years has probably been Lucha Underground at least presenting a genuinely different model, but I don't really like it enough to overturn mountains of known quality commodities. But, I've always been someone far more interested in "what's good" than "what's new", so no surprises here.

I've told this story before but it's worth repeating. I'm sure I saw wrestling before this, but my first concrete memory of pro wrestling as a young kid was one Saturday morning flipping on WWF Superstars. And there's this dude, making a ring entrance. He's wearing a purple sparkling cowboy hat, crazy purple sunglasses, has on a purple jacket with the tassles. The wild purple and gold tights and the boots. And he's acting like he's the man. I'm like "what's this, what am I watching". By the time he hit the elbow off the top rope I was like "whoa, this is cool". That's my first concrete memory of pro wrestling when I remember becoming a fan. So, I'm voting PURPLE POWER. DIG IT.

It appears at least on the surface like the turnout for this might be higher than at least I would have initially guessed, which is a testament to the way the project has been organized and run to allow lots of leeway for creative thinking while still maintaining a sense of order, and also giving everyone the space to do their own thing. I'll admit I'm curious to see the results.

Pretty much this. I can give Dylan a pass because as often as I disagree with him, honestly there is probably no one alive who is watching more wrestling. He can post whatever he wants. People that just look to dismiss traditional wisdom in favor of something new because they can without even stopping to consider that maybe traditional wisdom isn't always wrong, I can't even be bothered to finish reading their posts.

And that stuff doesn't even take in the crazy 6-mans that were on the TV sometimes (though granted you clearly can't give credit to any one man for those).

1992 Jumbo is one of my five favourite years by any wrestler, ever. And then it was over not long after.

Can't be better than the vegetarian picnic burger at Fresh in Toronto. This has to be a troll post. No other explanation. Feeble attempt to compare some tofu bullshit with a Texas burger. As a Canadian that eats meat I apologize on behalf of our nation.

Interestingly, the @WWEArchivist twitter account posted a photo of Harley Race bodyslamming Andre a few months ago. For a WWE employee to post something like that is a breach of the few kayfabe lines they have left. When they put out the Hulk Still Rules DVD many years ago now, there's also a Hogan vs. Andre match from Shea Stadium on there so they've long since abandoned some of the lies built around Wrestlemania III being their first meeting or the first bodyslam etc.

I have never seen a shoot interview with an old school wrestler (meaning guys that worked before, say Wrestlemania 1 or the initial Starrcade) that didn't have a story about a riot that magically didn't make tape.

I cannot think of a single professional wrestling match I have ever seen Jushin Liger in where I thought to myself his presence made the match worse than a realistically available alternative.