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WWE TV 11/09 - 11/15 Luis Arce is Bolivia's president-elected!
Remember when Bayley joined the other Raw women in a 5-on-1 beatdown of one of the women on Smackdown? That was probably the first hint that NXT Bayley wasn't going to make it on the main roster.
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Current New Japan
I hate to say it, but if the plan all along was for Ibushi to walk out of WK as champion, they should have kept the belts on EVIL. That way, Ibushi could have beaten him on night 1 and White on night 2. Have him become God by vanquishing the company's most vile and hated heels rather than their most popular wrestler.
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WWE TV 11/09 - 11/15 Luis Arce is Bolivia's president-elected!
This is false. Nobody actually enjoys current WWE. I mean, look at the weekly threads. We spend far more time talking about what the wrestlers do on social media than what they do on Raw or Smackdown.
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WWE TV 11/09 - 11/15 Luis Arce is Bolivia's president-elected!
Note how the interviewer went out of her way to avoid putting Alexa on the spot by changing the topic mid-question from the status of WWE wrestlers as independent contractors to whether she had ever felt pressured to work while injured. Regardless, anyone who uses the term "cancel culture" unironically is almost certainly a massive doofus.
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WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
Matt Morgan is the mayor of Longwood, where I had the misfortune of living for three years as a kid. It should be noted that Biden actually carried Seminole County (where Longwood is located), the first Democrat to do so since 1948. He's also the first Democrat to carry Duval County (where Jacksonville is located) since 1976. So wrestling can't be held responsible for Florida being a Republican hellscape. Also, the Trump campaign booking the wrong Four Seasons for a press conference is the political equivalent of Johnny Ace signing the wrong one-legged wrestler. He truly belongs in the WWE Hall of Fame.
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AEW Full Gear 2020
I watched Cody/Darby and Bucks/FTR and liked them both, the former much more so. I'm in agreement with Phil Schneider that the latter had some great moments but was too bloated to be a truly great match. Cash Wheeler turning into an insane bump machine is an interesting development, though. The main event is something that I will never watch. I don't care for I Quit matches as a rule, and crap like rubbing alcohol and barbed wire causes me to instantly nope out. Like intergender wrestling, deathmatch torture porn has no place in a major league promotion.
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WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
Meanwhile... Jericho and Aries have me thinking Nash was right about the vanilla midgets.
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WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
- AEW Full Gear 2020
The only problem is that an I Quit match is the kind of match that a main event babyface has to win 100% of the time (other than a Russo-style screwjob finish, which AEW is rightfully distancing itself from). Plus, Kingston is good enough on the mic that he can get his heat back pretty easily after losing.- AEW Full Gear 2020
Hopefully Jericho won't be too depressed to perform.- AEW Full Gear 2020
Eddie Kingston is like Orange Cassidy in that he doesn't fit into the cookie-cutter mold of what a wrestling star should be, but they're complete opposites in almost every other way. And they've both become breakout stars for AEW. It's amazing what can happen when you give people the chance to get themselves over and book to their strengths instead of cutting them off at the knees for no reason. I'm also intrigued by Bucks/FTR. Matt's leg is legitimately injured so it's likely to be more of a storytelling match, which is fine by me.- Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4
Dave has said on many occasions that Santo is the most enduring star in wrestling history. A few examples: https://twitter.com/search?q=santo (from%3Adavemeltzerwon)&src=typed_query- WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
You can't just quit WWE. If you walk out, they'll freeze your contract until you come back. You have a good chance of prevailing in court, but then you run the risk of being bled dry by a lengthy legal battle. For most people, the quickest way out is to do your time until your contract expires or they release you.- WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
I won't believe he's really done until he turns down a Saudi payday.- WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
Of course, seemingly every retired wrestler talks about how great a union would be, particularly ones with backgrounds in other sports. At the end of his life, Wahoo McDaniel was living off his NFL pension. As for Ventura, the story goes that he promised Vince that he would no longer try to organize the boys after he got his SAG card. He figured it wasn't worth sticking his neck out if the wrestlers were too stupid to fight for their rights.- AEW Dynamite - November 4, 2020
It was Callis and Omega's uncle the Golden Sheik. Something to consider: Cody is prohibited from challenging for the AEW title. However, Cody Rhodes might not be.- WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
Also: "Im nOt A PoLitiCAL persON"- WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
WTF I love Tucker now- RIP Tracy Smothers
It's kind of hilarious that at one point, the WWF had no fewer than three gimmicks dedicated to making fun of Dusty Rhodes. There was Akeem the African Dream, Ted DiBiase's manservant Virgil, and Dusty himself in the polka dots.- RIP Tracy Smothers
SMW was already dead and buried by the time Smothers went to the WWF. SMW's last show was on 11/25/95 and Freddie Joe Floyd debuted at the 6/25/96 TV tapings. There was nothing more to it than bringing in guys who could work to serve as enhancement talent. The Observer mentioned at the time that there was a chance they would get regular work if their gimmicks got over, but there was never a plan to give them any kind of push. Chris Jericho was one of the guys they offered to bring in, but he turned it down because he thought working as a TV jobber would hurt his career. Smothers was never taken seriously as a top guy after his WWF run, so Jericho obviously made the right call. And yeah, the name Freddie Joe Floyd was a rib on the Briscos. Jack's real name was Freddie Joe Brisco and Jerry's was Floyd Gerald Brisco.- WWE TV 11/02 - 11/08 Descanse em paz, Louro Jose
If the English language was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for this board.- NXT Halloween Havoc: Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal, Put on the Coal Miner's Glove
The act of jumping on another player's back to make a catch (mark) is known as a spectacular mark (speckie for short). In fact, the AFL has its own MOTY: Mark of the Year. Note that I didn't know any of this until a week ago. As for the counterfeit Modra, he looks like his head was photoshopped onto someone else's body in his Twitter profile pic.- MOTYs by year
New #1 for 2020.- WWE TV 10/26 - 11/1 Afa and Sika endorsed the Usos getting beat up
Well, the original plan for the 2010 Rey/Punk feud was to redo Raven/Sandman with Dominik and Aalyah in the Tyler Fullington role, but WWE nixed it as not being kid-friendly. Rey must really like the idea of his children turning on him.- WWE TV 10/26 - 11/1 Afa and Sika endorsed the Usos getting beat up
As it turns out, that's exactly it. According to the latest Observer, "The story was that they wanted to not have people google 'Matt Riddle' and come up with the details of the lawsuit against him and WWE." Trying to sweep news of a lawsuit under the rug by changing the name of the accused is quite the galaxy brain move. - AEW Full Gear 2020