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NintendoLogic

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  1. It produced nothing but terrible matches and killed off everyone she feuded with, but it was great otherwise. In fact, looking back, she was basically a proto-Fiend minus the supernatural garbage. This current storyline is unspeakably awful, but that's no reason to romanticize Alexa's 2017 reign of terror.
  2. WWE bringing Lesnar back to put over Bobby Lashley would be like WCW bringing Ultimate Warrrior in to put over Renegade. Anyway, you're in for a treat if you're an Alexa Bliss fan. Not only will there be an update on her fireball attack on Orton, she's wrestling Asuka tonight.
  3. That video was cringe as hell. HHH may not be as scatologically obsessed as Vince, but his sense of humor might be even worse.
  4. It's like back when Oasis was a thing and MTV felt the need to provide subtitles for Gallagher brothers interviews.
  5. Made my first #1 pick for 2021.
  6. According to the latest Observer, the guys who were forming AEW approached White with interest in late 2018, but he told them that he had just signed a seven-year deal with New Japan. He's also being advertised for the March Budokan show, which they wouldn't do if they thought there was a chance he wouldn't be there. So it looks like we can all breathe easy.
  7. Thank you for another epic recap, brother TTK. I'm kind of torn here. On the one hand, giving the referees additional responsibilities (stooging for the office) without any corresponding increase in pay and/or benefits is a bullshit carny move. On the other hand, showing up to work on time is a basic requirement in any job. If you get fined for not doing the bare minimum, don't blame the guy who stooged on you. Hilarious. I'm sure we'll see plenty of examples of "Vince loved me but that son of a bitch Johnny Ace" in these interviews.
  8. Hold on to your hats, folks. There's a title match coming up, and you know what that means: time for another CONTRACT SIGNING. https://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/article/roman-reigns-adam-pearce-universal-title-contract-signing-royal-rumble Please try to contain your excitement.
  9. I can totally see Vince not dying a natural death and having to be taken out like Vigo the Carpathian. Something of that scale would really be the only fitting end for him. Seriously, wouldn't it be the biggest letdown ever if he ended up dying of, like, pneumonia?
  10. One important thing to keep in mind is that wrestlers who become bookers tend to book in their own image because that's what they know best. Jerry Jarrett loved skinny blondes who could bleed and sell. Bill Watts loved big strong ex-jocks. When Dusty got the book in the Carolinas, he turned the company into a blood circus. We see that even today with Gedo loading (many would say overloading) New Japan with Southern heel shtick. With that in mind, I like the Waltman suggestion. He seems like he'd be an effective bridge between wrestling's past and its future since the trend is toward smaller and more athletic workers.
  11. ECW never made money, so you can't really call their guys legit main event babyfaces.
  12. Brother @El-P will probably be bummed by this move, but for the rest of us, this is cause for rejoicing. At least, it would be if they weren't replacing him with Striker. Total monkey's paw scenario.
  13. I liked Bigelow best teaming with Vader in New Japan. As far as criteria, I'd say anyone whose wrestling style is listed as "Powerhouse" on Cagematch should be eligible. In that case, though, Jumbo Tsuruta is the greatest big man of all time.
  14. Arn has also praised Kane for his ability to convey emotion through body language, which is hard to do when you wear a mask. Honestly, though, the public statements wrestlers make in praise of their colleagues have to be taken with a grain of salt. Meltzer once posted that a lot of the folks who publicly call HHH an all-time great privately say he would have been an average main eventer in the 80s. Regarding Kane, he said that most wrestlers say he's either mediocre or the total shits.
  15. Even if it was a sucker punch, knocking out a guy who outweighs you by some 200 pounds is a hell of a feat. And Orndorff did it with his weak arm to boot.
  16. WWE surely realized that whoever ended the streak would be the target of a massive fan backlash (which is why our old friend Dylan Waco always suggested having Cena end it by cheating and turn heel in the process). That's why the heel transitional champion exists-to put over the new top guy without alienating fans of the old top guy. Roman was still overwhelmingly popular among the fans in 2014 (they legitimately voted him Superstar of the Year), so they clearly never anticipated that they might turn on him the way they did after he won the 2015 Rumble. Also, the streak had to end while Taker still had something left in the tank for it to mean anything. If Roman had ended it at WM33, it would have come across as a sad mercy killing rather than a genuine accomplishment. Brock losing to Cena in his first match back is precisely why he needed the streak. WWE had largely squandered his comeback with the Cena loss and the interminable HHH feud. He needed something huge to restore him to what he should have been all along.
  17. The Death of WCW Debate might be fun to pick apart. My understanding is that Bischoff bullshitted his way through the whole thing and caught Reynolds completely flat-footed.
  18. He's the world champion who just shot a major angle with Goldberg. They can't just put him on ice and pretend he doesn't exist like they could with most of the roster. Actually, the Observer reported a while back that merch sales are virtually identical to what they were pre-COVID due to sales on WWE Shop skyrocketing. Whether the talent is receiving a similar amount of merch revenue as before is another story.
  19. Speaking of NFL figures worthy of hatred, Belichick has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Finally, an impeachable offense everyone can agree on.
  20. People who really like to hunt and fish, in other words. By the way, Bischoff wasn't just on the verge of bankruptcy. He and his wife actually filed for bankruptcy in 2017. https://www.docketbird.com/court-cases/ERIC-A-BISCHOFF-and-LOREE-E-BISCHOFF/azb-2:2017-bk-05021 Note that they filed under Chapter 11, which is what corporations like GM use when they need to restructure their debts to remain in business. It's also used by celebrities like MC Hammer who blow all their money. So the Bischoffs must have been up to their eyeballs in debt.
  21. Lesnar was the perfect choice to end The Streak. In fact, it's probably the only well-booked ending to a winning streak in wrestling history. As is often the case in wrestling, it was the follow-up (WWE getting cold feet on Roman's coronation along with Taker continuing to wrestle to diminishing returns) that ruined it.
  22. Don't even entertain for a second the idea that New Japan could match WWE in a bidding war. They take in $50 million in a good year, and that's only a fraction of what WWE grosses in a quarter. All they can really promise is more creative fulfillment and lack of culture shock/language barrier for the natives.
  23. Thank you for this incredibly detailed write-up. I went back and checked the Observers covering the period Bischoff was in charge of Smackdown, and I didn't see anything about him doing nothing but hanging out in catering. The issue covering his firing contains the following choice excerpts: While Wall Street was pleased with the hiring of two men who had run companies during the late 90s wrestling boom to run the separate brands, there were obvious red flags. Bischoff had worked for TNA in the interim and there were no fond memories from anyone in that company regarding his tenure. Privately, a number of people who had interacted with him during those days that are now working for WWE were completely stunned by the move and predicted failure. ... Bischoff was unfamiliar with the talent and many of the business changes when he arrived. In very short order, it had become more how the company would make the inevitable move and handle it publicly after pushing so strong to investors about the value of the hiring. When Ryan Ward burned out as the head writer of Smackdown, and Ed Koskey from Raw was moved over, a lot of people expected Bischoff to be the next casualty. ... “Eric had absolutely no vision, and once we were headed into FOX, everything was falling through the cracks,” said one WWE official. “He messed up multiple times with FOX. Eric also had no stamina for the rigors of the job.” Of course, "stamina for the rigors of the job" in this case simply means "wanting to have some semblance of a life outside of work," so I have plenty of sympy for Eric in that regard. But I'd love to hear the Bischoff spin on whether he dropped the ball with FOX. He's well-established at this point as a serial fabulist and con man, but even by that standard, "I can't provide any details because of my NDA but fuck Meltzer" is some weak shit.
  24. Hey, one of the folks who died storming the Capitol was a guy who had a heart attack after tasering himself in the balls. Talk about life imitating art.
  25. Not only did Bischoff promise a surprise that would change the face of the industry, he made a point of noting that there was nothing Vince McMahon could do about it. Of course, there's no way he would have stopped them from doing something so idiotic even if he had the power to.

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