Blehschmidt

I bet Vince and Kevin Dunn are laughing hysterically at that "amazing" finish somewhere in the back right now.

Both Black/Gargano and Ciampa/Dream have been a ton of fun. Still not sure why they short changed the girls though.

Well, they rushed the shit out of that. Disappointing.

It always amazed me that he got anywhere. He worked for what was essentially a glorified backyard promotion in Pennsylvania and thought he was a big deal cause he was a wrestler. I did commentary for a slightly better shitty indy promotion in the area, and Ellsworth and the guys from his promotion used to wait until our shows got started and try to sneak in the side door of our venue with posters promoting their shows and run screaming through the audience to try and attract our crowd to their shows. The guy is a fucking idiot and a wierdo, so these accusations wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Buddy Murphy vs Mustafa Ali - 7/3/18

Was Slaughter's opponent "The Terminator" ever someone else? He looks familiar?

I went to a show last night with Thunder Rosa (Kobra Moon) and got to talk with her a little bit about L.U. The talent apparently has zero idea whether or not there will be a Season 5, but she said if there is, she will definitely be there. She also said that the closing vignette was a total shock and she learned about it when it aired. On a more personal note, I feel like she must be a victim of the L.U. editing room, because while I like her, I have never been blown away by anything she has done on the show, but last night in person, she was fantastic. Working the crowd, all of her stuff was crisp and looked good. I came away with a much different opinion of her in ring work.

If there is no season 5 after THAT ending, it will be a god damn shame.

Very sad to hear. and then we have the WWE statement on his passing which begins.... Wow.

Not since Bill and Ted had a most excellent adventure!

EC3 is taking fake tanning to levels that have Hulk Hogan saying "What the Fuck, Brother"

That is exactly it! Thank You!

I could be totally remembering this wrong, but I seem to remember reading something some years back about an NWA/WCW era enhancement talent that had held a regional championship for some ungodly amount of time. I know that is vague, but does anyone have a clue what I am thinking of?

Holy Shit, the camera cuts in the opening match of the NXT UK show are enough to give you vertigo. I counted 6 during one somewhat lengthy move.

If this show does get cancelled, just wait until he headlines the first ever all female PPV, since we can't have all this build up for nothing!

She just happens to be Samoan

Not into creating, no problem. Not into downloading.....I'd probably stay away. You can pretty much download any wrestler ever. From George Hackenschmidt to Lazer Tron to Adrian Street to Adam Cole, they are out there. But the game itself just comes with about 30 made up wrestlers, and the New Japan guys that were just released.

They won't even let him take his fucking shirt off, they certainly aren't gonna put him on the main roster. Sorry, long time Hero fan, hate his NXT run.

I'll be picking that up this afternoon! Though be warned it apparently only works if you are online. Not that you have to play online against other people, but your computer must be connected or the stuff that came in the DLC will not work.

I will go ahead and second this one. I am about half way into the book and enjoying it quite a bit. Very fun and interesting read. Wasn't sure I would like it since I can't stand Double J, but his grandmother and father are quite alright!!

I never would have thought to associate the words Hidden Gem and Super Calo, but the rest of those are pretty sweet!

At least his English is a little better this time.

Sorry the Impact show sucked, but I have to figure the CMLL show will be amazing even if it's just for the atmosphere. Looking forward to your report! If you have time, maybe you can solve a mystery for me! Every time a lucha guy comes to an indy show in the States, they never have t-shirts bigger than XL. I've often wondered if that's because they don't have them, or they don't bring them!

To answer your base question. I don't know that "nothing matters anymore" is the best phrasing for what it is that so many of us feel. Certainly there are things they could do creatively that would turn off large portions of their audience, get themselves kicked off of television, etc. Of course they won't do those things, they will continue chugging along, pumping out the same vanilla PG content that they have been week after week, month after month, year after year. For me at least, the feeling that I sum up as "nothing matters anymore" is what used to be versus what is. It has become quite obvious that the current product they are comfortable putting out has passed me by, and I just need to accept that fact. Getting mad about it, or bitching about it isn't going to change anything, because it's currently making them millions, so they have no reason to change a damn thing. I think back to when I started watching, sometime around 1986 and what things meant then. The titles meant something. The matches meant something. The stories and the build meant something. Feuds had pay offs. Guys had motivations. Now the belts don't mean shit. They run the pay per view main events six times before the pay per view. Feuds last a month, stories have no cohesiveness, and while guys used to feud because they wanted to be champion or they wanted to make more money, now they fight because of Twitter or because they threw coffee at each other. But where "nothing matters anymore" really comes into play, at least for me, is that feeling I used to get. That feeling that wrestling was worth my investment. When Ricky Steamboat finally won the Intercontinental Title, 8 year old me didn't give a fuck how many stars the match would get, or how well it would hold up 30 years later. I was just stoked as hell that The Dragon got revenge for his crushed larynx! I think back to when Flair won the 92 Royal Rumble, and how 13 year old me was amazed that the NWA guy just went an hour from number 3 to become the WWF Champion. Nobody had ever done that! I think back to watching ECW as a teenager and thinking I was cool as fuck because I was watching some shit no one around here knew about. That's all gone now. For all of their talk of Wrestlemania "Moments" and trending worldwide on Twitter, they have turned my 32 year hobby into a chore. Whether it is lack of competition, Vince hates wrestling, or whatever the reason. They have homogenized the main programming into a rinse and repeat show where each week they try to make it seem exciting, and they give away everything, all the while, nothing actually happens. Thank god for comps and the occasional good indy show.