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Asuka is Tazz. Rousey is Mark Coleman. So, who should be Missy ?

I haven't watch stuff regularly enough (except for taped-in-2016 LU and WWE PPVs), so I'll throw Braun Strowman in there. The big fucking monster killing people and looking like a freak, so cool that the audience would cheer him despite the booking, was the most compelling and fresh thing in WWE this year.

Most "most underrated" actually become "overrated" with time and pendulum & "underrated" accumulation effect. If I hear yet another time that Brad Armstrong or Hulk Hogan are underrated, I might throw up. On the other hand, I'd say that, for instance, Hulk Hogan was a better worker than Ric Flair at some point in their career (WCW 1999 is what I'm thinking about). Or that Brad Armstrong, as solid as he was, never put it together like Tito Santana did in the same kind of very basic 80's babyface work, which is why Tito had quite a bit of terrific matches and Armstrong a whole lot of solid yet unengaging stuff. That's basically the reason why, after being around for almost 20 years (yeah, I'm old as fuck), I really can't get into those discussions anymore because the question goc asks is the one that matters the most infact. But we won't have to actually watch the matches, yes ?

That's cool. Hopefully they book it well and give it enough time.

Ultima Lucha Tres. (yeah, it was taped in 2016, I KNOW, but it's still a 2017 TV show) : cool booking, a bunch of crazy matches.

Damn, all of this really underlines how much this company is dead to me right now. Even watching AJ, whom I love and think he's one of the best ever, just won't do it because I have zero interest in having him carry dull loads of nothing. The idea that Shane O Mac is still the focal point of the main event scene is grotesque. I guess I could watch the multi-tag match which sounds fun and Charlotte because she's Charlotte (and I don't mind Natalya at all), but there's not much cherry to pick anymore right now… I'm more excited about rewatching World War III with Schiavone's podcast comments at this point.

And GLOW, of course.

S3 was released in 2017. So there.

Lucha Underground.

That's how you direct a comment to someone on Twitter. You put that before their username and they will see it. Oh. Damn. Thanks. Agreed on social media mostly being a plague.

As I've been listening to Prichard's podcast quite a bit lately, I'm sooo hearing his Vince impersonation when I read that. Which makes it even more funny of course.

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And ICOPRO. And The World. Now that would be a WWE Universe.

1986 : some smart-ass provoques a bunch of wrestlers in strip-joint somewhere by calling their shit "fake"; Rick Rude proceeds to beat the shit out of the guy and they have to fly off before the police shows up. 2017 : some guy writes that a flippy-floppy spot Gif is stupid on Twitter; Young Buck n°2 says he doesn't know shit because he got the biggest pop of the match and then proceeds to block the guy on Twitter. Ya know, as far as americana goes, pro-wrestling really wouldn't warrant a movie these days… nor even a story told…

Probable because the Steiner's stint in WWF was short and pretty uneventful. When there's nothing to comment on, it's hard to make it interesting. I enjoyed the second part too, and there was some hilarious Vince stuff on the episode still. I thought Jake's episode was good though, nothing earth-shattering but Jake has been covered to death already. The Goldust episode has so much potential...

Great match, complete shit finish. And yes, historically, it's like it foreshadowed Luger's entire career, up to the Yoko shit finish. Dusty's booking of the Bash was pretty rotten. Crazy year for Flair though, after making Sting a star at Clash 1, he makes Luger a star there. Although the difference of work between the two is striking, as Luger was way ahead of Sting at this point, and looked like the sure thing for years to come. Call me crazy, I probably have Luger as a top 3 Flair opponent, as more great matches are to come. Odd visual with the yellow & white tights/kneepads combo on both guys, only inverted.

Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson contemplates running for president in 2024... Yeah, this has to be April 1st.

Damn, Windham was awesome in 88. He made Dusty's tired old ass look better than seemingly anyone has, ever. The match is excellent until the damn claw hold, in which Dusty seems far too happy to stay in forever. His hope spots look goofier than shit too. Then a ref bump and a complete shit finish. Dusty's booking was awful at this point, no wonder what happened in the newt few months. But Windham was godlike in 87/88 and this is another testament to that fact.

My very first thought too.

No problem, it's interesting they have actual press release that reads like *this*. Says a lot about the promotion and why people on their TV speak like they do. The whole "Facebook-only" concept is idiotic. Social network bullshit. It could have been a cool concept as a one-off holiday show for instance.

The WWE corporate managerial talk is making me want to vomit already. Who wants to read that kind of shit ? The pseudo-interactive stuff is beyond played out. The idea of a mixed tournament was kinda intriguing, the way it's presented is completely yawn inducing. That company... can't wait for that Kane main-event at Rumble...

At the end of the day, I think that summarizes it perfectly.

I was thinking about more similar cases, like Austin physically abusing Debra for instance. I wonder what his reporting looked like at the time. I agree that the whole "in Japan they don't care about the other stuff, at all" comes off rather dismissing of "the other stuff", which involves implied rape, to focus on the fact Elgin talked badly about Jeff Cobb, the usual wrestling bubble crap. Odd sense of what really matters in this whole story.

Agreed, at least with the first part of the sentence (about downplaying stuff on purpose for guys he likes, I can't think of something specific). But on this particular instance, there's really not much to get outraged about. For now at least.

Yep. Strikes me as Meltz being his awkward self as opposed to anything outrageous and repulsive as it was portrayed by a single line out of context (which doesn't surprise me one bit considering the name of the Twitter account in question).