...TG
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There have been plenty of wide-release horror films that were far worse than the Leatherface vignette. And the Davis-Dundee angle is pure gold. The Memphis stuff has been a huge revelation for me in the yearbook.
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We're the target audience for this so I'm sure he has his stock answers for our type of audience. But it worked on me - I thought he came off great. He was about as diplomatic as he could be with Punk and didn't dodge the Chyna question. He got a shot in a Bret, a small one at Nash, and didn't bury Goldberg as much as I would have expected. But what really impresses me is how good Austin is. He's obviously not a pro, and doesn't follow up as much as you'd want, but as a former pro wrestler he's just about the best interviewer you could ask for.
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Oh man - some geek in the front row with a "If Reigns Wins We Riot" sign staring poor Roman down as he walks to the back. What a sadly predictable disaster.
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Yeesh. I kinda feel bad for Reigns now. Booking incompetence is not his fault.
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Crowd has just checked out of the match now. Worse than booing?
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I had one friend on text and another on twitter call the Rosebuds catching Kofi spot. It was still pretty cool though.
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Interesting that I don't see a lot of love for Steamboat-Savage from WM3 in this thread. I don't love it (not a Steamboat fan) but it's usually up there in company-approved lists.
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Brother Love was just a deeply unpleasant character. I get what Prichard is trying to parody, but that red makeup and voice and the music playing - the whole thing makes my skin crawl. Did Prichard have a lot of power in WWF at this time? There had to have been some other character to fill this spot.
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The problem with the Ebert comparison is that Ebert was 100% a critic, not in any sense a journalist/reporter. Dave sees himself as primarily a reporter, and that's where the (potential) conflicts are relevant. The real issue here is that the "smart" wrestling community (or whatever you want to call it) relies on Dave far too much. We need more independent reporters covering the wrestling scene - outside of Dave and Keller, who can we rely on for accurate, in-depth coverage of the wrestling industry?
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Is there much out there from the Mid-Atlantic glory days?
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A couple of people have mentioned this, but except for Eddy and Rey, and I guess Dean Malenko, WCW had an insane amount of talent in their cruiserweight division and pissed it away. (Along with the rest of the promotion.) With the obsession with unmasking the luchadores (how many Rey mask should they have sold?) and continually booking crusiers with heavyweights to get squashed, there's just so much wasted potential there. As far as others, what about Tom Zenk? Great look, good personality, NJPW dojo-trained and then...nothing of note past 1994. Was he injured? Tom
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There's a twitter user I follow named @SenorLARIATO who posts recaps/GIFs of most New Japan and some indie shows. He also will do a few older shows on occasion.
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Better matwork from Show/Rusev than Cesaro/Dolph?
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I wouldn't know for sure, but if you include the standard black nWo shirt, that's no doubt true. Either that or the original Austin 3:16 have to be the two best-selling pieces of wrestling merchandise ever.
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It's pretty alarming that even the SmackDown shows have stopped dead in their tracks. At this point there is now zero archival content being added with any regularity. This is budget-cut related, right? Adding new content doesn't cost zero, though I'm sure it's far cheaper than new original content, even the clip shows.
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Not sure if this is the right thread, but there was a pretty interesting blind item in last week's (9/22/2014) Observer. In the middle of the WWE notes section, he broke down the Bret Hart episode of the Monday Night Wars series. Talking about Shawn Michaels' in summer/fall 1997... "You want to know how much heat Michaels had. [sic] In that period, there were two wrestlers I had to talk out of fighting with Michaels (neither of which were Hart, because he and I weren't on speaking terms at that time), because I told them it wasn't worth losing your job over, and both were guys who would have been fired in an instant for it. This was well before Hart was leaving." The blind item comes right after a discussion of Michaels refusing to job to Davey Boy Smith in a European title match, which was at One Night Only on 9/20/1997. So that and the last sentence I quoted above place it in Summer 1997. Who are the two wrestlers? My guess: Brian Pillman - Pillman was very close with Dave, and storyline close with Bret (although who knows in real life). Brian died on 10/5/1997, so the time frame is plausible. OTOH, would Brian have listened to reason? That's all I have can think of as relatively certain. Here are the criteria as I see it: Lower-level enough to be "fired in an instant" - rules out Austin, Undertaker, Davey Boy, Vader, HHH (?), LOD (?), Owen Hart (?), Foley (?), Shamrock (?) Volatile enough to be willing to fight Michaels over something he's not directly involved in - rules out Foley, Owen, Goldust (don't know his personality, but it doesn't seem like it) On Bret's "side" in the Bret v Shawn feud - rules out HHH Close enough with Dave to speak with him regularly, and listen to his advice - Need some help here. Anyone have any guesses? Tom
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Anyone know why the ref in the Usos/Rhodes brothers match was wearing latex gloves? Ref in the second match isn't wearing them, so it's not some kind of new company policy.