El-P

Ok, scrap "revisionist history". But to me Bryan tagging with Kane back then was another case of bad, unfunny, poorly written skits and a great worker being wasted tagging with one of the worst character of the last 20 years, so what do I know... Bryan was gonna get over no matter what, he was already getting over before and got way bigger after he got rid of the big red load.

Yeah, take him out of the WWE mindset, and I think Bruce is actually quite a decent guy. BTW, the last 30 minutes of the episode, which deals with the second Sable stint in 2003/04 is a good reminder of how fucking godawful the product was back then, with not even the excuse of being hot.

Well, they were going for sex-appeal and Debra looked stunning. To me she was also a good valet, she cut fun little promos playing the airhead southern beauty queen (she always said it was improvised too, which seems right considering WCW), she had way more personality than Sable. I guess the fact she was paired up with Jarrett immediately also showed they brought her up to help him get over because they had a WCW past together (despite the fact WWF pretends not doing that kind of booking, but they of course do). It kinda turned up allright for her. Well, not really when you think of the Austin abuse but... Didn't she get a Master in criminology or something not too long ago ? Good for her. Well the Sable episode overall was still one of the best recently as it was indeed fascinating on many accounts. I do like the fact Bruce talks about the "shitting in bag" stuff as hazing and disgusting and not "boys will be boys" bullshit. It's crazy to remember she was arguably their second biggest draw at a point when they were doing crazy business. You go back and forth as far as sympathizing with her, as her arguments of not wanting to be a wrestler and not wanting to bump are totally understandable (this is where the old "who doesn't have a passion for da biz is a bad people who shouldn't be in it" bullshit mentality rears its ugly head from backstage), but the whole debacle with the lawsuit is much more difficult to swallow. Overall, she doesn't come off like a bad person. The fact she is married to a guy like Lesnar makes a whole lot of sense too.

Like I needed any more reason to dislike this fucker.

I'm not complaining. I'm making fun of it. I mean, when Daniel Bryan got back, do you think anyone was frothing at the mouth at the idea of Big Cass and Kane ? It's beyond idiotic on every level. Aww come on, for fuck's sake. I know revisionist history is a trend when it comes to Daniel Bryan in WWE (it was a carefully planned storyline, his road to Mania, you know, yes, yes it was), but Bryan didn't need Kane to get over the way he did. What is seemingly forgotten though, is that Kane was also the very first feud Bryan was thrown into after winning the belt and it was godawful. And back then, some were defending it the exact same way : "it's a nice little nostalgia run and it makes sense because of their past history". Well, apparently, the WWE writers and Vince are still right there when it comes to what to do with Bryan despite his story being the most incredible in years. Way to not do anything relevant or special with him. Anyway, like you said, I'm not gonna watch it. But I can still observe from afar and shake my head... (and really, the name Kane is like a trigger warning to me )

Cass Kane What will be the next exciting new shitty feud for Daniel Bryan ? I'm so not missing anything from the looks of it.

Understood. I also enjoy Mero more than most, he also gets a bad rep as a worker to me. I'm one hour into the Sable episode and yeah, the constant, repetitive Meltz bashing is not tedious at all... Especially now that Conrad doesn't even argue one bit. Well, I guess that was for the show anyway, but at least it didn't sound like a total Bruce-getting-his-way-working-a-gimmick. That being said, I must agree what Meltz wrote about Sable was often cringeworthy, especially on the age thing and Sable looking like a "washed up old stripper" when she was around 30-32 when she hit her TV peak. Hell, Debra was 40 when she was stripping around the next year or so and she looked simply great. But anyway, that and the constant mention of fake boobs is not aging well. (I never understood the american obsession with big fake boobs either, but then again, whatever floats her boat... well, I didn't mean that in *that* way) And then again, the fact Conrad justifiably said that Sable's paint boobs during the bikini contest was one of her most famous spot ever really tells everything that needs to be told about Sable's contribution to pro-wrestling. So there...

And now Iron Sheik wants to humble and fuck jabroni Justin Credible in da ass. Or something. I guess.

Maybe because he heard neon patterns were underage girls magnet or something but it was too dangerous to do that shit in WWF territory...

After weeks of lay off, I tried the Nitro episode where Hall made his debut. They spend 15 minutes talking about Patreons and shit. Then 2 minutes into the show, Conrad mentions he owns that pink Flair robe. Ok, I'm out. It was really fun for a while, but I don't find enough material worth listening to at this point.

Mero himself alluded in shoot interviews that he got a big head back then.

I don't give a flying fuck about football and the world cup, but I just saw Neymar take a bump and sell like he was Curt Hennig. This guy seems to be hilarious. Since there was barely any contact, I'd qualify it as totally overbumping and overselling too.

Actually, in one episode of your favorite podcast, Bruce said The Rock would buy those super expensive shirts and only wear them once on TV, then gave them to Lawler because he thought it would fit his persona. So, if that is true (Bruce, ya know), these were Rock's actual shirts... I'm not gonna go back and verify.

Holy shit you don't say. Lawler's color schemes were eye gouging more often than not. He had absolutely zero sense of style. I actually liked when Flair would mix it up, he always did it right. Damn, when I was 14 years old, I was all about the outfits and loved when they had new colors/drawings every time they hit another PPV (like Razor, Bret or Michaels).

You're getting way too deep into that Bruce character now.

Wow. It's interesting to see the different ways people came across Kitano. To me, he was first and foremost the awesome director of Hana-bi, Kids Return, A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine and forward. I remember when I went to Japan years ago, flipping through the TV channels and finally stumbling on Kitano hosting a show. I marked out. I actually took pictures of Kitano on TV ! (and those were real photos too, not digital) I actually went and search for his office and I remember when I got out of the subway at Akasaka, some girl was distributing flyers with commercials and Keiji Mutoh was on it. Fun memories.

Yeah. I watched the entire G1 in 2016, months after the fact, and I burned myself the fuck out (despite a number of legit awesome matches).

As far as a "talent", no. She sucked, she brought nothing to the table apart from her looks. (then again, there goes Stacy Keibler whom everyone seems to love) As far as a human being, probably yes, because all we have heard over the years came from awful human beings themselves like Tammy Sytch and through the filter of pro-wrestling people who couldn't stand the fact she was a TV draw for understandable reasons. Bruce actually talked about her being put in an impossible spot before, so that's part of why I'm interested in hearing this episode, to hear more about the misconceptions we (wrestling fans) have had over the years. The fact she probably was a loner (she married Brock Lesnar for fuck's sake) kinda endears her to me actually.

I actually enjoyed the Bad Blood episode quite a bit, despite having absolutely no relationship with that era at all. I wasn't watching, I don't think I saw any PPV from that time except WM (years after the fact). It sure beat the Holly episode which was as dull as Holly's career (although ok as opposed to boring as fuck like Edge's episode was). Conrad is noticeably burned out though and he doesn't even try at this point. Bruce should just cut out the inane Meltz bashing, it's transparent, boring and ridiculous at this point, especially when he out of the blue agrees with him whenever Meltz praised the hell out of some Michaels match.

He's doing the same thing Bruce & Conrad does, he recycles his stuff. I'm actively waiting for tomorrow's show. Sable has potential to be a fascinating dive in the Attitude Era peak, not to mention Russo's inanity.

No one in the world, ever, is, was or will be similar to Takeshi Kitano.

He also worked NJPW (the Inoki suplex from hell), FMW (fucking up Ken Shamrock in a cage) and AJPW (first ever Dome) shows while on his WWF contract, which seems insane today.

Pretty cool and surrealistic to hear Meltz explain who Takeshi Kitano is (or was at the time of the Vader debut anyway). What was not cool was to hear him talk using past tense. Made me kinda sad for real, as I realized again how much I have been a huge Vader fan and how much he mattered to me as a wrestling fan in the 90's and going forward exploring WCW and Japan footage...

Except WWE/F, the land of teaching great workers how to work. It's a pretty interesting case in that matter. He also worked Europe and was awesome there from what I know.

Tons of stuff happening at Cannes around the Festival that are not part of the official Festival. (well, the Festival is not about selling tickets either, it's invites only, you gotta *know* how to get them basically)