NintendoLogic

Lagana is the one who edits the shows. I don't know if he's the sole editor, but he's the one in charge.

Something tells me that we shouldn't expect much in the way of contrition.

These weekly WWE threads should consist entirely of British people taking the piss out of the company.

I'm sure Cornette was thinking mainly in the sense of Ethiopia being a famine-stricken region (which is a dated reference in itself given that We Are the World was recorded over 30 years ago). But anyone with an ounce of common sense should know that fried chicken is such a heavily racialized trope that it's better to just avoid referencing it. At the very least, someone should have caught it in post-production.

Dave has a clear double standard when it comes to the HOF. When people would point to Sting's world titles and main events, he'd dismiss them because it's not supposed to be the Hall of Pushes. But with Orton, it's a feather in his cap.

Cena/Orton became insufferable after WWE beat it into the ground, but their very first match (at Summerslam 2007) is a genuine classic.

You should know by now how I feel about triple threat matches, bubba. Remember how Wrestlemania 2000 was nothing but multi-man matches and it sucked and everyone hated it? There was a tendency for WWE PPVs that didn't look so hot on paper to overdeliver, but Hell in a Cell ended that streak with a vengeance.

The Survivor Series card outside of Brock/Rey is looking positively dire. I know I should be excited for the Universal title match, and if anyone can get a decent match out of Bray, it's Bryan. But it seems more likely than not that there'll be some Fiend bullshit to turn the match into a joke. Something like one of the Firefly Fun House puppets knocking Bryan out with a mallet.

In his lawsuit, Johnson claimed there was dashcam footage of Charlotte making racist remarks to police officers. WWE settled with him out of court. That's very unlike them, which leads me to believe he had some serious dirt on Charlotte and they cut him a check to buy his silence.

It stands to reason that WWE largely mails it in during the fall precisely because of the competition from the NFL. I don't think it's a coincidence that the bulk of the Wrestlemania build takes place in the sports dead zone between the Super Bowl and March Madness.

You guys are seriously underselling Chiefs/Chargers. The outcome will play a massive role in determining who wins the AFC West, so it has major playoff implications. As for King Corbin, a big part of the problem is the inherent silliness of the King of the Ring gimmick. Wearing regalia to the ring while making no significant changes to your overall gimmick would make anyone look like a dork.

UFC isn't no-holds-barred combat, though. It's a sport with rules. Harley Race would've gotten destroyed in UFC, but he could more than hold his own in a bar fight.

My main issue with deathmatch/garbage wrestling isn't the danger involved, although that is a concern. What it comes down to is that I find the use of things like barbed wire and mousetraps as weapons, even in gimmicked form, inherently barbaric. They're not items that would normally be at ringside, and the pain they inflict isn't the kind of incapacitating pain that would put someone down for a three-count. Wrestlers using them on each other is far removed from a simulated combat sport or even a simulated street fight. It's closer to a simulated human cockfight.

https://www.tampabay.com/arts-entertainment/2019/11/13/separated-pit-bulls-hit-the-doggie-lottery-as-marvel-star-adopts-both/ More evidence of what a great guy Batista is.

So I checked out Cody/Jericho, and it mostly delivered. Off the top of my head, the closest comparison I can think of is Flair/Luger with the way it combined classic wrestling with bells and whistles. It was far from perfect, but it was a near 30-minute match that kept my attention the whole time and never made me roll my eyes, which is a near miracle in this day and age. Definitely the second-best match in AEW history. Cody is looking like the clear wrestler of the year, which would have been inconceivable to me at the beginning of the year.

Looks like somebody lent Brock their Arcade Fire albums.

CJ Perry is supposed to be a trained actress, right? If I were her, I'd ask for my money back. Has Rusev had the upper hand, even for a moment, at any point in this feud? As best I can tell, it's been a nonstop cavalcade of being humiliated and laid out week after week.

The thing is, wrestling is supposed to be entertainment. I have no idea how someone with a healthy moral compass can find guys trying to mutilate each other with barbed wire and broken glass entertaining. When I made that argument on the F4W board, someone said that I couldn't find it objectionable because there was violence in the Iliad. No wonder society as a whole holds wrestling and its fans in such low regard.

Holst's Mars doesn't really get going until about a minute in, so it's not really suited for pro wrestling entrances. Mozart's Dies Irae is much better in that regard. I mean, it worked for Wolfgang Krauser.

Has there been any kind of storyline explanation for why the Kabuki Warriors turned heel or are we just supposed to boo them because they speak a foreign language?

Plenty of people develop a different perspective as they get older. I'm not saying it's likely, but it's not unthinkable.

I wouldn't dismiss the notion of Orton wanting to leave out of hand. You have to think he's set for life, so it's possible he wants to cement his legacy by proving he can get over outside of WWE.

I can only imagine how he was taking the Shane McMahon push. Maybe that's what drove him over the edge.

I don't see the Moxley playbook working for anyone else after they gave him the classiest sendoff imaginable and he still thoroughly torched the company.

I haven't gotten much sleep the past few days, so I ended up crashing in the middle of the show. Cody/Jericho sounds well worth checking out, although I maintain that being the only one who didn't see MJF's betrayal coming makes Cody look like a bit of a goof. Extreme gullibility is not a desirable quality in a babyface. I absolutely will not be checking out Mox/Omega. Deathmatch torture porn is the only style of wrestling whose existence I actively oppose. The people who enjoy that sort of thing are not the kind of people that any respectable company should want to cater to.