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Damn, DDP’s ribs still haven’t healed.

When I was a kid, I totally thought this. I also thought Neidhart would be the star to come out of the Hart Foundation. Yeah, I don't have much of an eye for talent, but you have to think that Neidhart would've dropped the belt to Jannetty without a screwjob if he was leaving for WCW.

Dwayne Johnson is the guy who is as good and as funny as HHH thinks he is. Not to play armchair psychologist or anything, but I would bet that deep down, HHH thinks to himself that he should be where The Rock is now. That he should be the household name who transcends wrestling.

Hey man, Terry Funk is Hollywood Terry Funk.

It might make you all happy to know that I was talking with a friend of mine who works in the wrestling business and he said that Tim Storm might be the nicest guy he's ever met.

As someone who sat through one of those tapings, I think there's a difference. Most of us were there to see Hogan. The rest of the dudes were awesome too and had fans, but seeing Hogan live was the draw. Now, it's a WWE show that's a draw. Fans aren't just bored, they're actively hostile. Bryan can get them back into a match.

I asked this over at DVDVR, but want to hear opinions here, too. There's always talk of how great Flair was at taking a limited/mediocre/bad worker and carrying them to good matches. Has there ever been anyone better than Daniel Bryan at taking an uninterested/apathetic crowd and making them get into a match?

Maybe the real Hidden Gems are the friends we made along the way?

They’ll just have Groot induct him. He’ll say “I am Groot” over and over and they’ll cut to the audience to see Big Show cracking up.

Gotta work in a couple shots at the "dirt sheets" getting it all wrong, when in reality, they're 100% correct on the injury.

Exactly. But, even if the move isn't done with the purest of intentions, at least someone who needs help gets something at the end of the day.

Stephanie's clueless tweet a couple years ago has damned anything WWE does to being a cynical PR move. While I do agree with that sentiment, sometimes it's still a great thing for the people on the receiving end.

Did WWE not do one of those "In memory of..." openings for him back in May? Seems like he'd get one.

Wel, if you’re a fan of Sammy Guevara’s ass cheeks, you’re in luck!

nWo Sting for the Hall of Fame!

I'm going to sound like an asshole here, but I don't care about any of that. I get where you're coming from, and I'm not trying to be dismissive of your concerns. It's just that one of my favorite things about pro wrestling is that it's a haven for people like Janela. What's he going to be doing if he's not a pro wrestler? I mean, he seems like the kind of dude who couldn't hold down a job at a gas station. Pro wrestling has given him an outlet where he can not only make a living, but become mildly famous. Good for him. If he has to put his body on the line, so be it. That's not my concern. I do NOT want anything bad to happen to him. Not at all. But no one is going to pay to see Joey go hold-for-hold with anyone. There's a history of this kind of person in wrestling and I love them. Necro Butcher, Mad Man Pondo, hell even as far back as Gypsy Joe. I say raise a glass to these wonderful weirdos and let's leave it to them to make decisions about what's best for their bodies!

I don't think Janela sucks, but I think he needs to figure out what he wants to be. To me, he works best as the unhinged crazy dude who's not a good wrestler, but is wild and tough enough that he can stay in any fight. He needs to drop the complicated exchanges and all that, and just be wild. His out-of-nowhere dive onto Moxley that put him through the timekeeper's table was the best thing he did in that match, IMO. Do more of that. Awkwardly fly off things and through things, that kind of stuff.

No. I was responding to peachchaos' post (which I quoted) where they said Bryan's shaving would have been a great cap to his heel run instead of an angle for Wyatt.

I'd bet Bryan could pull off an awesome heel loses hair match/throws temper tantrum/runs away to avoid head shaving/gets caught by faces and forced to have head shaved sequence.

I don't have a date, but I seem to remember a pretty cool match with Terry Funk from Shotgun Saturday Night.

NWA/WCW also did rankings. I especially remember them being mentioned a lot around 88-90 (or thereabouts). Like AEW, they were also sorta random and didn't really play into the storylines too much. Just something for the announcers to mention during matches that might not mean a lot. "______ could really use a win here to move up in the Top 10!", etc.

They say the best wrestling characters are just their real personalities “turned up to 11”.

I just wish they'd go back to the original idea of Survivor Series and have a bunch of random-ass teams of face captain vs the heel captain they're feuding with. That, and a big 'ol bowl of cocaine next to the backstage interview area for pre-match promos.

I do not like Mauro. But when I read Graves' tweet, I still think, "Fuck this guy." That shows you what a gigantic douche Corey is. It's really a shame because both guys should be inspirational stories. Too bad they both insist on bickering on twitter and shouting over their colleagues on commentary.

Is that 30 second match all that's out there of '88 heel Garvin? It didn't hit me until I saw that match, but I vividly remember him rubbing money all over himself after turning on Dusty. It never occurred to me that I hadn't seen any of the heel stuff that followed.