NintendoLogic

Oh, man. The TSM archives are an absolute gold mine. Like this thread, which is chock full of VINTAGE WP/RE nuttiness. He starts with the insane claim that the Rocky series has more hardcore fans than the Star Wars series, and it spirals out of control from there. ETA: I almost forgot to mention that he refers to Rocky's bouts as five-star matches. http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=74188 Also: I FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!

The Onion AV Club has a "Cowboy Bebop at His Computer"-quality writeup of the most recent Raw. http://www.avclub.com/articles/wwe-monday-...-edition,60462/ Hey, who's that in the comments section?

Really? Best 100? Rey is easily in the highest of highest echelon of pro wrestlers to ever wrestle. Rey can flip and fly but that is hardly the only thing he does well. In fact, I want to edit the sub title to this thread because it offends my internal wrestling fan meter. Fucking flippy flop guy. I agree that calling Rey a flippy guy is selling him criminally short. The subtitle was a tongue-in-cheek reference to jdw's post in the Punk thread.

Per the orders of goodhelmet, the Rey discussion going on in the Punk thread must now be directed here.

Allow me to present what I consider to be the definitive WP/RE quote:

Pretty interesting to hear that from Stan Hansen of all people.

To be honest, I can't really remember the last Rey match that was great in the same sense that Rey/Eddy or Punk/Cena was great. To be sure, he's AC/DC-esque in that he's been consistently good for a long time and doesn't have too many outright clunkers to his name. But I kind of feel like some people are taking his Stiff Upper Lip and Black Ice and trying to pass them off as Back in Black.

I view this as less of a commentary on Rey than the overall quality of the worldwide product.

Hell, The Rock is more of a cartoon character than Del Rio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurn

Didn't the WWE go on a witch hunt against the potheads on its payroll a few years ago and smoke them all out (pun intended)?

That reminds me of the story in Ring of Hell about WWE commentators being on the gas.

So where was RE from, anyway? He apparently grew up watching Stampede Wrestling, but his writing was a lot more British-influenced than you'd expect from a Canadian. I thought I remembered him saying he was from New Zealand, but that was probably ohtani's jacket.

I enjoyed the PPV too, and I could see thinking that there's been more good than bad with this angle up to this point. But the long-term direction is troubling, with the focus being moved even more strongly away from Punk and toward HHH. He's not? I guess I imagined the crowd chanting for him loudly in the opener tonight. They were in LA. It'd be like if Sheamus got a huge reaction in Boston. There's no chance in hell Sheamus is getting a reaction in Boston the way Del Rio got one in LA. Maybe not, but it's a difference of degree, not of kind. Of course a Mexican superstar is going to get a big reaction in a city with a big Mexican population. There's no way he would've gotten anything close to that reaction in, say, Minneapolis.

So we've gone from "greatest promo ever" to "booked better than the Nexus?"

I enjoyed the PPV too, and I could see thinking that there's been more good than bad with this angle up to this point. But the long-term direction is troubling, with the focus being moved even more strongly away from Punk and toward HHH. He's not? I guess I imagined the crowd chanting for him loudly in the opener tonight. They were in LA. It'd be like if Sheamus got a huge reaction in Boston.

Yeah, but whose side is he on?

I like Daniel Bryan's explanation for this during his feud with The Miz. He aid that security didn't recognize him and wouldn't even let him in the building if he wasn't wearing his gear. That doesn't explain guys like Randy Orton, though. It also raises an interesting chicken-or-egg question for John Cena. Is he weird for wearing his wrestling gear all the time or for wrestling in street clothes? I think of it like being issued a weapon in the military. You'll be in serious shit if something happens to it, so you have to have it within an arm's length of you at all times.

That, and it raises a pretty big question. If someone walking out with the belt is just a momentary speed bump, why did Vince even bother screwing Bret? I know wrestling is no place for those with long memories, but Montreal isn't something you can just stick in the memory hole.

Come on, they can't be building up Mark Henry for nothing.

http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=50199 Most of RE's posts are edited, but you can get the gist of what he said through other people quoting him.

I can't even begin to describe how bummed I was when I checked that thread and only saw RE's edited post and the shell-shocked reactions of those who got a chance to read the original. I felt like Bart Simpson watching all the other kids talk about the Itchy & Scratchy movie. It's also what leads me to believe that he's more of a troll than he's generally given credit for. He at least has enough self-awareness to cover his tracks when he really goes off the deep end. In any event, here's some more of the wit and wisdom of the man himself: We really owe him a debt of gratitude. Just imagine all the poon he left on the table to grace us with his insights.

I only started posting here recently, but I've been a lurker here and at DVDVR for a while now, so I'm pretty familiar with him and his oeuvre. However, I've only seen references to the weight bench ejaculation story. Can anyone post a link? I've come to view him as the Ric Flair of forum trolls. He works a formula based around a few signature spots (casual misogyny, love of jacked-up vanilla midgets, hatred of Jerry Lawler, obsession with fighting spirit and masculinity, citations of imaginary surveys), but it was an effective formula that always got a reaction. And every now and then, he'd throw in a few new wrinkles that would catch seasoned observers off-guard (like in the Ayn Rand thread). Goodnight, sweet prince. May no more of your idols commit rape and/or murder.

There are no words. http://deadspin.com/5829111/finally-hulk-h...he-london-riots

He's had merch since at least January. A big part of the reason people were wondering why he wasn't getting pushed more was because his stuff was selling at a rate far out of proportion to his spot on the card.