The Gaffer
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$5 billion for 10 years. Christ alive.
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Death, taxes and Scorchers splitting the atom on WWE fans being excited for WWE content.
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"I want to talk about your dad" was the ultimate abesimpson.gif moment. I mentally tuned out of the promo a minute or two in which is crazy when you consider how much momentum all of this should have.
WWE feel oddly muddled at this moment in time, so near to the 'Rumble. Seth is a question mark, Rock is back to ruin parties like Mourinho's Chelsea, Punk isn't setting the world alight yet, the Bloodline thing has just dissolved into being just a part of the card, and the other big star making stable seems proper late stage now as well, being embroiled in an (admittedly brilliant) comedy angle and coming off its peak of most of its stars having their coming out party for how great they actually are.
It's just interesting to remark on, of course. Ultimately it's WWE. They'll probably have Austin drive a Zamboni down to the ring the Raw after the 'Rumble to call Punk out, and Shane McMahon will challenge Priest to a three stages of hell match or something.
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2 hours ago, Nick James said:
The Big Bossman joke has been dead longer than Ray Traylor.
Yeah we need to switch it up to someone who's just died, like Alistair Darling.
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That AI Austin getting green lit into the trailer is the best example yet that people within the industry find all this shite way cooler than consumers do.
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The Cope Open sound like they had one tune that made it onto a Kerrang! compilation circa 2001 only to never be heard from again.
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I'd love for them to have Hangman chase Joe for the belt and eventually take it off him only for Swerve to immediately call his number and challenge for it.
Uses Joe to make/remake Hangman, gives Hangman the properly booked high profile title feud the handsome bastard deserved, and eventually leads to Swerve going over as the top guy in a way that seems to sell better to me than Joe Vs Swerve. But as an alternative, Swerve picking up the title and Hangman getting his big win over him for the belt's not a bad shout either. It's not like Hangman's suddenly the old veteran that has to get out of the way.
Basically, Hangman/Swerve again at some point with the belt between them. My Way package.
Throw a three way dance in there somewhere too. Honestly, you could just have these three go around at the top for a good solid year and I'd be happy. I don't think Jay White's at the level yet and I feel completely burned out/overexposed on MJF's "Bad guy with feelings" shtick and - it's not fair on the guy, I know - kind of guilt by association him with AEW's worst ever period.
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1 hour ago, Daddymagic said:
Bullet Club Gold were the hottest heel group in AEW a few months ago. Jay White was challenging for the World title.
the Acclaimed were a hugely over comedy mid card act a few months ago.
Now they have merged for seemingly no reason and called - the "Bang Bang Scissor Gang"
This is 2019 Vince levels of shite
Harsh! The Acclaimed's patter can be heated up at any time, Bullet Club Gold's most entertaining mouthpiece got injured, and I don't think Jay stepping up to MJF really set the imaginations of the AEW audience alight.
Chucking them all into a feel good thing the crowd are seemingly begging for seems like a smart idea to me. Incoming boom period for the shit merch thread!
Another really easy watch this week. The arena configuration rocked too. Lower bowls were quite...low...so they could ring the audience around the building better and get it lit up, and they were loud!
AEW's very...pleasant...at the moment. Remains to be seen how it all plays out but if you were basing it on current output alone, the whole "AEW is so frustrating right now!" subgenre of YouTube videos/news pieces that have cropped up don't really hold much truck. They deserve credit for that. Just have D-Bry call your owner into a disciplinary about his online activities.
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8 hours ago, Jonny Vegas said:
It might sound really stupid but I've always felt like Ronnie the majority of the time beats himself in matches.
I've felt that for large portions of his career he seemed so distracted or un-focused that it hampered him hugely.
If he had the mentality of 80's Steve Davis or 90's Stephen Hendry and could have maintained that throughout his career, I genuinely believe he would potentially have won practically every tournament he ever entered. I honestly believe he has that much talent.
Aye, I think that's a standard enough view from those inside the sport to be honest. He's the greatest ever and we've probably seen him actually exhibit that in a fraction of the amount of tournaments he could have.
Got round to watching the Prime documentary a few days ago - I put it off as I felt like having followed his career and read his autobiography I was a bit washed out of the whole C'mon Ronnie! thing - and yeah it's brilliant, and completely attests to your viewpoint. He's an odd dude. At once completely ordinary and no-bullshit and also a mass of complexes. There was a sizeable stretch in his career where he just played shit if the match wasn't interesting enough to keep him engaged.
In so many other sports "Playing shit on purpose" is the land of the conspiracy, and to be honest in a lot of cases I think "Not trying for your badge" is a harsh barstool criticism as well rather than an actual reflection of reality but this guy's apathy was the real deal. Final? Yeah, sorry. Not fucked today.
I really hope he moves one ahead of Hendry this May and rides off into the sunset with his increasingly lout-enabled following. C'MON ROCKET! FINISH THE STORY!
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8 hours ago, Kfogg1991 said:
tried to pick up the slack
This is totally Rollin's equivalent of Spur's "We put the pressure on".
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"Can we do like a best in the world trophy?"
"We gave that to Shane McMahon, remember?"
"Oh yeah. Invent a new ball then. Who is Alex Higgins going to play?"
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On 1/15/2024 at 10:57 PM, Loki said:
I do miss signatures, they were fun but in the end people took the piss with the size of them.
Speaking of now-very-old-jokes, there's a number of our esteemed members still carrying joke names from that weird name swopping thing we did that resulted in a not of gay and Dad names, such as Gay Dad, Daaad, and I think @Gay as FOOK from that same incident. Might it be time for an amnesty on some of those?
Thanks for calling attention to this! It's something that's genuinely only started popping into me mind over the last few months logging in. It was a BRILL joke for years but yeah...fuck that. Shame a new account is the only way to go about it but I may pull the trigger on that. Who cares about post count anyway. It's all about upvo -
- wait, what are we basing this on anymore? I'd drop the pretence but it might get damaged.
Edit: Also admittedly when I see @FelatioLips flying the flag for shit name changes it sort of puts me back in my place.
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13 minutes ago, Loki said:
(time for a name change old fella?)
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Yeah I can't remember a worse crowd. I have pretty good tolerance for that kind of thing but I was constantly physically cringing and it sapped the enjoyment from it. It got to Carter big time too, but that's just a pressure you've got to shoulder if you're at that level. He did have his biggest fan/his mam there in the stands somewhere though, whatever crotchety old lady kept shouting "You're the better man Ali!" and - incredibly at one point - "Mash mister misery!"
Considering he mouths off about everything else it's bound to get to Ronnie too so fair play it's clearly not a line he's willing to cross, knowing the fan support is part of the package.
To think some people actually want these tournaments to have more of a darts atmosphere.
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I really wish TNA had a roster that I actually liked, because everything else is in place. Decent production, good commentary, solid booking, knows its place and is shining in it. But I never stick with it week to week, and it took me ages to realise why until I finished watching this show and then just saw the elephant in the room. Moose, Cedric Alexander, Alex Shelly, Sabin, Eric Young (especially Eric Young)...none of them do anything for me. They're all...decent. Fine. But I just couldn't give a fuck about anything they're involved with. They're guys I can quite confidently say I'll never look forward to enjoying watching.
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Welcome to the forum that singlehandedly killed British wrestling.
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Kinda odd that this is a 'quiet' Masters so far (and it is, I think. A lot of players just scrapping below par etc) considering there's been another 147! Don't think I've ever seen one where so many less than ideal positional shots were so smoothly recovered from.
I'd be happy with a Sullivan/Murphy Vs. Allen final. Carter can get in the bin. Always get a bad buzz off him.
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@Merzbow posting about their re-issues in the smelly moshers thread has reminded me of Polarlicht and it being my gateway into darkwave/coldwave in college. It's still the main musical mood when I listen to it again that makes me think "Oh yeah, this is home!"
This kind of stuff also really makes me want to start smoking again. I never do though, thankfully.
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27 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:
The reason this is such a good joke, whether you meant it or not, is because many autistic people wouldn't get it. And I, as someone who might be (questionnaire just got posted), am not sure if it is one.
We've got to get one of those questionnaires on to d-d-d "Chris rhymes with Piss?" dAz.
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24 minutes ago, BigJag said:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24041878.israel-south-africa-icj-case-everything-need-know/
This piece breaks down the case quite well.
What's the best way to watch Al Jazzeras coverage?
Got it on in the background on their YouTube channel:
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Echoing the sentiment.
An AEW original, their biggest rising star, and their plucky young pit dog all stepping up to the champ in Daily's Place was the most optimistic and forward foot this promotion's felt since before Punk came in. Absolutely fantastic. When it's good, it's great (Supremo™) but it never fails to amaze me how easy it can/should be to be great. Just give us logical, pecking order pro wrestling television. No alarms and no surprises.
Swerve stood on the ramp in his giant fur coat doing that weird sultry-aggro look he does with a load of meatheads behind him and Nana doing the dance. What a visual.
Happy days are here again.
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This has become the thread equivalent of a dozen people shouting completely different conversations at one another in a nightclub.
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Trust this dumbass to jump in with the expected false equivalency:
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Yep. I know it can't be stopped but even left wing/anti-Trump retweeting of him being all whacky and shit - unless it's actually a cogent takedown of him with a point to make - is all just feeding into him being a meme president. It's problematic.
WWE to Netflix, Network presumably doomed
in UK Fan Forum
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I can see it just being a graveyard of static content for people who want to throw them 10-15 a month to watch WrestleWar 91 and shit like that.
I'm not sure you could call it a failure, but given how happy the Khan era WWE seems more open to business with the outside world, it looks increasingly like the Network was simply bridging a gap from one era to the next.
It makes no sense to give it your live premium content exclusivity, and from a storytelling/audience standpoint it makes no sense either to put your supplementary programming etc on it.
The Network was a really neat idea when it came along, but it went in parallel to the emergence of this sort of cross platform/YouTube era. People find out about and follow angles now through streams that aren't WWE owned, not because they're willing to throw down money a month for some weirdo service that only shows wrestling.
They spent decades under Vince trying to justify the existence of their own form of entertainment, banging at the gates of the wider entertainment world. The Network was like an island to that ideology. Now they're successfully just a part of it all.
It might be a credible worry now that the Network just falls into further disrepair. It's already a shell of what it was. And though it's poorly indexed, at least WWE, ECW and WCW's history is mostly there. I don't think that's a given forever though. It no longer seems like the vault of historic permanency it was on its inception, which is why I'm in the "Fuck, I shouldn't have told my Tagged Classics" club.
The future will be Miz talking over edited clips of legendary matches.