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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)

Wow. The greatest monster worker ever. His health had been pretty poor the last few years apparently. He was one of a kind, always loved his WCW and Japan work. One of my favorite worker, for sure, I can always pop a Vader match and have a good time. A true legend. Bye Leon.

I probably never ate the right Gouda, indeed. Thanks for the references ! Totally agree. Damn, those greek salads in the Cyclades Islands with fresh feta and tomatoes and nothing but olive oil. The simplest, best stuff ever. I would never get tired of eating this. Plus, grilled feta with bell peppers was driving me insane. Memories... Feta Mima Shimoda would have suited me perfectly, that's just awesome. You're the official CheeseMaster of the board. Kinda like Kevin Sullivan, only with cheese.

Wow. Old school indeed. Poor little McMahons family defending their family business against unfair competitors.

And the sole survivor is : Carmella. (does that makes Big Cass the worst Test ever ?)

Fuck me for mentioning the Highway to Hell thread somewhere else, as TNA 2009 was getting on a pretty decent path (two terrific match at Genesis in Angle vs Jarrett and Sabin vs Shelley), despite Foley's useless stint so far, and there on January 29, Russo delivers a classic unwatchable, nonsensical, awful gimmick show that gets me right down the pits of the worst of the worst of WCW 2000. Worst iMPACT show ever. (and possibly worst TNA show ever to that point, including the weekly PPV era) Was Mantell on vacation or what ?

AJ Styles in 2006 was a great worker already. I'd call him legit great as early as 2005 at worst.

Plus, don't ask for respect when you don't respect your audience to begin with. WWE has showcased time and time again that they don't give a fuck about their audience. But they've reached that point where they don't have to because their audience doesn't really matter anymore, they are a global corporation that is flooding with money thanks to the capitalistic insanity that is going on.