Everything posted by Dav'oh
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The Iron Claw
Kevin interviewed about the film by TMZ the other day: Asked if he’ll see the movie, he noted, “Oh yeah, I’ll watch it and it’ll be fun. We’ll all get together, maybe watch it out in the yeard. We do that sometimes, we have a lot of children here. And sometimes we put a big screen up in the yard and we watch movies outside at night. And we’ll probably do that with this one. It’ll be a lot of fun.” Smoke enough Maui-Wowie and even quintuple-tragedies are fun.
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
Punk, knowing he's injured and about to become yesterday's news / tomorrow's fish 'n chips wrapper, somehow contrives to still -nearly two months later - be even more talked about than when he was wrestling. He's easily #1 most-mentioned here at PWO. Punk returns from seven-month injury layoff? Meh. Like, happy to see him, but we've been here before. Punk returns from the gripebomb? People would "lose their shit' as the kids say. Ratings, publicity, intrigue, MONEY. Money. Money. Money.
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WON HOF 2022
I'd argue that without Cornette, the Express doesn't even leave the station. He was bigger than Eaton, Condrey, Rose, Lane, Norvell Austin, Holly, Gunn - either as individuals or as combinations. Cornette occupies a special realm in wrestling which the others never reached.
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WWE TV 10/24-10/30 Times are weird in my town
Alright, who ordered Miz vs R-Truth in 2022? C'mon, put your hand up.
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WWE TV 10/24-10/30 Times are weird in my town
Finn deserves better than babysitting Dom. Or as I like to call new-look Dom, the American Dom Ass.
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
Pictured: AEW falling apart at the seams. (Out of frame: the sky falling). Lots of budding obituary writers in this thread. I be more of a "swings and roundabouts" fella, meself.
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AEW TV - 10/12 - 10/14
That's the way it should be when watching them on TV. I don't want to know the Iron Sheik is a real person playing a role any more than I want to think Homer Simpson is a drawing. They're Supermen, they're SuperStars, they're SuperPlumbers/Monks/Ice Hockey players - they're not Johnny Kafoops from next door. They can keep the kayfabe-breaking personal outpourings for the anti-social medias and off of my totally legally streams. If ever I give four-fifths of a shit about Ronnie Arnell or Windham Rotunda's turmoils and tribulations, I can follow them on the Twitters.
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WWE TV 10/10 - 10/16 Bray Wyatt is if Rob Zombie was a box office hit
@sek69True, I just wish he'd save that stuff for Instagram Facebook Twitter-type media.
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WWE TV 10/10 - 10/16 Bray Wyatt is if Rob Zombie was a box office hit
Grateful, tearful, sentimental Bray? Better be a Henry-esque swerve...
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Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4
Weren't the Dudley Brothers originally based on the Hanson brothers, with the ultraviolence and taped-up spectacles? Edit: let's not forget Charlotte basically being a distaff Ric.
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Your Criteria/Process/Method at the Start of the 2026 Cycle
It's pulp fiction, it's a penny dreadful. To be read and tossed aside. There's always another match, always. I wouldn't say it's not to be enjoyed. Nor that there aren't people who enjoy treating every match as a Shakespearean tragedy, to be analysed and criticised and contextualised and various other "-ised" words. The Wrestling Intelligentsia, if you will. It's all valid. But if you're not enjoying it, what's the point?
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WWE Extreme Rules: Donnybrooks, Fight Pits, and White Rabbits
Rebooting the Fiend? No thanks. Once was plenty.
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WWE Extreme Rules: Donnybrooks, Fight Pits, and White Rabbits
Wrestling is "light without shadows", literally and figuratively, so having a solid shadow in the middle of the Fightpit is really odd.
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
I read "he cried backstage about getting hit" to mean he complained, had a sook, threw a wobbly. He didn't cry from getting hit, rather about it. It's easy to imagine Andrade saying to a friend, "the litle bitch was crying to TK cos I lit his bitch-ass up in there! The little bitch!" I also doubt any of it's true, so it's a bit moot.
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
Did the DX blackface "sketch" with Hunter front and centre ever come back to bite him? I saw it the other night and couldn't fathom how such a person would be allowed to run a billion-dollar company.
- Naoki Otsuka and the Early Years of NJPW
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
He's a kid from Australia who got to work with Sting and Muta. That's wild. Buddy Rogers. Buddy Roberts. Buddy Austin. Buddy Colt. Who's doubting their toughness because they're called "Buddy"? What's a fucking "tough name" anyway? Kenny? Nick? Ethan? Darby? Seth? Malakai? Zebediah? Connor? Usman? Justin? Khabib? Of course! That paragon of nominal toughness - Roman! Polanski or Abramovich?
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
He's not dead, y'all Seeing a lot of eulogies for the bloke. This is not how the CM Punk/Phil Brooks story ends. Dude wants a legacy like Bret.
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
Punk didn't cause any problems. No matter how caustic or inflammatory his rhetoric, and that's all it was, he didn't "cause" Kenny and the Jacksons to do what they allegedly did. He gave an interview expressing his truth with the tacit endorsement of the company's owner. It's the titular EVPs who caused whatever this nonsense is, with their response. On the plus side: Kenny gets more time to heal whatever he hurried back from, Punk gets to heal, Nick Jackson's coccyx (which must be compacted into his sacrum, if not his L3, by now from all those Meltzer Drivers) breathes a sigh of relief, and Tony Khan has mega-money matches on the table, should all parties be amenable to bucketloads of cash. Come to think of it, what problems? Last show was huge.
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AEW Grand Slam 09/21-09/23
I think AEW crowds will always be ambivalent about MJF; yes, they'll boo on cue but they'll also laugh and applaud him. Have MJF be the tweener champ getting more and more babyface reactions, and Punk as the nuclear shitcunt who tries to take it away from him. Then Punk/Omega.
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WWE TV 09/19 - 09/25 It seems Survivor Series did not Survive
Sex offender JD McDonough with the babyface flips and dives?
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WWE TV 09/19 - 09/25 It seems Survivor Series did not Survive
Another thoroughly inorganic Tyler Bate match. Dude can't hide the choreography and rehearsals to save his life.
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
The location of Kenny's "bite mark" makes it look like he was trying to crossface Ace. Unless you're suggesting Ace ran into the dressing room with his fangs bared trying to bite anything in his vicinity.
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
Or if it happened at all. Footage came out of the Chimaev/Holland/Diaz brouhaha. Why? Because this generation films everything. As to the, "in what other industry would Punk get away with it?" - what other industry runs angles?
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Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?
Everyone's acting like there'll be no Punk vs Omega... Is the working theory, "everyone involved is allergic to money"?