Bix Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Joe Babinsack talks UFC 117, is sure to drive many readers to suicide. The families should sue Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Wait, is he arguing that MMA is so superior to wrestling that it no longer comparable to wrestling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 This sort of importance for wins is no longer relevant in the fading industry of pro wrestling, because no one books a year ahead. Hey, didn't this guy get the memo that wins and losses don't matter in MMA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 Aside from having a first name taken from the 1970’s classic Carolina Tag Team, Silva has nothing to do with professional wrestling of today. Completely unpredictable, completely heelish in so many ways, Silva has that strange attitude that he deserves to be a top paid star, even though he has yet to prove his marketability. Quite the contradiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 This sort of importance for wins is no longer relevant in the fading industry of pro wrestling, because no one books a year ahead. Hey, didn't this guy get the memo that wins and losses don't matter in MMA? This talking point is also silly because even WWE and TNA books their major programs several months in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 This sort of importance for wins is no longer relevant in the fading industry of pro wrestling, because no one books a year ahead. Hey, didn't this guy get the memo that wins and losses don't matter in MMA? This talking point is also silly because even WWE and TNA books their major programs several months in advance. TNA maybe but you usually hear that WWE has no idea what's coming up week to week. Even if they know where their major program are going, they end up changing numerous times daily. Not saying that UFC is WWE or vice versa, but the Silva-Sonnen fight felt like a Sting-Vader matchup where Vader beats on him for 19:30 out of 20 minute match only to be caught in a flash pin for the loss. The feeling of watching it was comparable to the best of wrestling where you're on the edge your seat and can't wait to see who will win. That feeling has been missing from current big company wrestling and UFC is usually a fantastic replacement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 TNA maybe but you usually hear that WWE has no idea what's coming up week to week. Even if they know where their major program are going, they end up changing numerous times daily. The WrestleMania programs this year were clearly mapped out four months in advance and they didn't deviate from their plans. SummerSlam's main events seemed to be similarly mapped out in advance, until Triple H's and Undertaker's injuries forced them to switch gears. Still, the Team Cena vs. Nexus and Undertaker vs. Kane programs had two and half months of build. I think this talking point is a bit overplayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 That feeling has been missing from current big company wrestling and UFC is usually a fantastic replacement.It's replaced that feeling for me I used to get from boxing. Wrestling is still just fucking fake, as much as I adore it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 What Sorrow said. Boxing and other sports. I don't watch the volume of MMA a week that I watched of wrestling a week. Weekly New Japan, All Japan, WCW, WWF, ECW with a variety of stuff mixed in when it popped up like All Japan Women, Lucha, PPV's, etc. Other stuff replaced all those hours. Those wrestling things faded in my viewing rotation long before I started watching each UFC PPV again. Irony is that I watched all the UFC PPV's from UFC I through the late 90s before dropping watching them because I got bored by the sport. Didn't pick them up again until the Chuck-Randy and Tito-Sham era when I felt I needed to check it out again. Then didn't start watching all of them until my Mom became a big fan and it was something I could watch with her when I visited my folks. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted August 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 As much as we criticize poor Bryan, I have to give him props for his line on WOL last night when he dubbed Bret and Cena the Jean Shorts Express. I LOL'd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 As much as we criticize poor Bryan, I have to give him props for his line on WOL last night when he dubbed Bret and Cena the Jean Shorts Express. I LOL'd. My wife despises wrestling, but is oddly fascinated by Cena's jorts. She suggested that that tag match should have been a "loser wears jorts" match. Like, if Cena and Hart won, Edge and Jericho would be forced to wear them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerpride Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Dan Wohlers looks at Summerslam is members only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Chico thinking last night on the audio interview that Apter still worked for PWI was hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 He does freelance for them a little but yeah, it's been a decade. Also: LOLRyder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Chico thinking last night on the audio interview that Apter still worked for PWI was hilarious. Especially when he jumped from PWI to take Bryan's buddy's Blake Norton's job at WOW magazine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 Apter said last night that he hasn't worked for PWI in 2-3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 I noticed that there's a long thread documenting all the bloopers and blunders of WOR on F4W board. Here's the best two: Dave: "You know, Kevin Nash was booker once..." Bryan: "Yeah, but...he never booked anything as bad as TNA." Dave: "Oh no, Nash booked much worse...: Bryan: "I find this IMPOSSIBLE to believe." Dave: "Go read your own book." From August 12th WOR: Bryan: Bam Bam Bigelow could be a host Raw. Dave: No he couldn't. Bryan: Oh that's right, I'm sorry. Jesus. Dave: Oh my god, I don't believe that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wahoos Leg Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 I noticed that there's a long thread documenting all the bloopers and blunders of WOR on F4W board. Here's the best two: Dave: "You know, Kevin Nash was booker once..." Bryan: "Yeah, but...he never booked anything as bad as TNA." Dave: "Oh no, Nash booked much worse...: Bryan: "I find this IMPOSSIBLE to believe." Dave: "Go read your own book." That is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 From August 12th WOR: Bryan: Bam Bam Bigelow could be a host Raw. Dave: No he couldn't. Bryan: Oh that's right, I'm sorry. Jesus. Dave: Oh my god, I don't believe that. Well, WWE currently has the Raw GM sending stuff over via E-Mail, maybe they could break out the Raw Ouija Board and let dead wrestlers host Raw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 Unfortunately Bam Bam Bigelow is too busy haunting the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in Amsterdam, New York, to appear on Raw at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 I actually like how quickly Bryan catches himself on Bam Bam. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted August 25, 2010 Report Share Posted August 25, 2010 From August 12th WOR: Bryan: Bam Bam Bigelow could be a host Raw. Dave: No he couldn't. Bryan: Oh that's right, I'm sorry. Jesus. Dave: Oh my god, I don't believe that. Well, WWE currently has the Raw GM sending stuff over via E-Mail, maybe they could break out the Raw Ouija Board and let dead wrestlers host Raw. Oh man, if WWE has Michael Cole dress up in a robe and wizard hat and conduct a seance so that guest GM Chris Benoit can call Miz a "gay bitch," Raw will be getting 4.0s every week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Irv Muchnick with a WO-4.com column? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Irv Muchnick with a WO-4.com column? John I like to think Irv got by Dave's standard filters by mentioning MMA. Joking aside it is probably one of better pieces of writing Irv has done it a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 I'm listening to the John Capouya (author of the Gorgeous George book) interview on F4D from 10-21-2008. It's a decent interview, but a few things jumped out at me: Bryan: "I'm always fascinated when I read about history [...] Gorgeous George came on a new medium in television; coming right after a very depressing period, which was World War II [...] " Yes, what a horrible mark in U.S. history: V-E Day and V-J Day. Bryan looked better when Capouya sort of implied that he didn't know who Ric Flair is. JC: "Ric Flair? ... wasn't he called the Nature Boy?" BA: "Yee-ah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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