King Pitcos

I'm not a fan of that company. Dodgy headsculpts on Jakks bodies.

4 hours ago, CAREBEAR LUVVA said:

It looks great fun in an All Stars kind of way, but this line in IGN's article worries me a bit:

"2K says it’s focusing on “social pick-up-and-play fun” instead of a more traditional wrestling sim"

Makes me wonder if the gameplay might be similar to that shitty version of Fire Pro on the 360 that nobody ever talks about...

I never played that 360 Fire Pro, but from the announcement blurb and the graphics in the trailer, Battlegrounds is a WWE version of this: 

1 hour ago, BomberPat said:

Tell, Don't Show, wins and losses don't matter and all that jazz. How many times are we suddenly told that two wrestlers - especially the women - are "best friends" with no work done to actually show us that?

Never! The friendship/tag team between Carmella and Dana Brooke has been masterfully built, and I’m thrilled to see how it survives with Money in the Bank on the horizon and both of them having singles goals.

The Natalya thing reminds me of when the commentators would promote a shitehawk like Bob Holly or Shelton Benjamin as the toughest or best athlete on the roster, even though they were always losing.

@GeronimoJacksBeard Bob Holly as well. Crash, Cody and 123 Kid. And Bart Gunn if we count whatever shite belts they had.

I really enjoyed Afterlife series 2. Exactly like the first in terms of the tone being all over the place and the whole thing being ridiculous, but a couple of the scenes had me laughing harder than anything on TV has in years.

In WWE terms, yeah that’s gotta be Kane. Second is Edge with six partners - Christian, Hogan, Mysterio, Benoit, Orton, Jericho. It’s not impossible that he could add to that.

55 minutes ago, Chris B said:

I've started playing Fire Pro Wrestling, and one of the things I've enjoyed about it is that it feels like it does that. You have to build up organically from smaller moves to larger moves, but you also get rewarded for the length of the match, close kick-outs, variety of moves, and back-and-forth. Admittedly, I've not played many wrestling games in years, but I've enjoyed this far more than I thought, and part of it is definitely that you get rewarded for a better match rather than just a convincing one.

Is this your first Fire Pro game? I bought the PS4 version at Christmas, and while it was a welcome change from the WWE games, I soon stopped playing because it had a similar problem for me - it’s the same as the other Fire Pro games I’ve been playing for the last twenty years. 

23 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

But does this mean I can still watch him and / or talk about his questionable antics on a wrestling message board?

Depends on his contract situation. At the moment, yes you can still watch him for sure, but talking about his questionable antics on a wrestling message board is not good etiquette.

58 minutes ago, Joe Blog said:

What's the story with Darby? Is he another wrong'un?

He pays hobos/drug addicts to stick their heads in shit-filled toilets and let him pepper spray them and stuff. On Jericho’s podcast, he was wanting to show Jericho videos of it. He’s said a lot of weird stuff in interviews that make him seem shady, and idolising GG Allin is always a dodgy starting point. He gets compared to Jeff Hardy a lot, and seems quite similar in the sense of not being someone you could trust as the face of your company. 

20 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

Darby's probably the closest but in that listened to a Black Flag song once kind of way.

He’s got to be one of the most fucked-up people in modern wrestling. I get the Marty Jannetty vibes from his anecdotes about times he’s horribly abused people.

24 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Depends on the criteria a bit. Ultimate Warrior, Shawn Michaels and even Diesel all had long title reigns in which they were booked as the top star in the promotion and given the hype.

Shawn definitely, but I wouldn’t be so confident saying Diesel got the top star booking. His first big title defence saw his credibility sacrificed at the altar of Bret’s ego, and at WrestleMania, the title match wasn’t the biggest match on the card. Everything after that seemed like Vince was on board with Diesel, but those first two PPV matches against the two best wrestlers in the company didn’t do a lot for him. When he moved onto Sid and Mabel, it was only gonna be downhill.

5 minutes ago, Yakashi said:

Jericho has been playing Covid truther for a while now. Not sure if it’s an age thing or not. Bucks and Cody are big trump supporters so they could have similar views but aren’t stupid enough to make them public.

Are they definitely Trump supporters? I know Cody liked a Tweet the other day saying Sami Zayn should go back to Canada if he doesn't like how the US is handling things, but I thought that was a joke. I suppose Cody - a rich kid from the South - supporting Trump makes sense anyway. The Bucks are from California though, aren't they?

8 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

They're going to have to work damn hard to get some proper heel reactions. It's already something they often struggle to do but yeah once everyone's back out there in front of crowds they'll just all be over.

The EVPs will be heels for running shows during the pandemic. That ties in with the Inner Circle being babyfaces though. It’ll just be a double turn from how Blood & Guts would’ve been before lockdown.

I hated A-Train even more than Tensai. At least with Tensai, there was some fascination in how terrible it all was and that it seemed like a meta mockery of the “good in Japan” stuff.

A-Train was the same old boring shitty Albert from the attitude era, but we were meant to take him seriously. I’ll never forgive them for choosing to run with him over Matt Hardy V1 in that period.

Cena and Batista both had first title reigns that solidified them as top tier. The same WrestleMania as well! I don’t think there’s been that same type of build since, where they’ve put a new too babyface on course for the WrestleMania win and a solid reign after. The next year, they had Rey Mysterio, but once he had the belt, he was booked to be a loser who couldn’t hang with heavyweights. There was Bryan in 2014, Reigns in 2016 and Rollins last year, but they were all already former champions when they had their Road to WrestleMania run and payoff.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that 21 was also the last WrestleMania before the Money in the Bank cash-in was the standard way to crown a new champion. 

Goldust said a naughty on Facebook and deleted it due to the backlash he got.

“The world needs to open back up and end this mass hysteria,” Rhodes wrote. “We are not a socialist nation. We are not a democracy! We are a republic. If we go on any longer with this bullshit, our economy will be shot and that much harder to kick start. #EndTheShutdown”

He continued, “I mean, no doubt we have an epidemic on our hands, and have sustained losses which is sad, but we have to move on with our lives. Take precautions is fine, but end the shutdown please. I CARE ABOUT HUMAN LIFE, GUYS. Jeeze, take precautions, don’t go out if you have a comprised immune system. Wear your masks and social distance. Still open up”

https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2020/04/dustin-rhodes-deletes-post-on-wanting-end-to-covid-19-669638/

I hope someone’s keeping him away from syringes. 

What an odd way to close the show. Everything up until Vince started talking was about what I expected, and I quite enjoyed the stuff with Shawn, Steph and Flair. But fucking hell, Zombie Vince McMahon trying to roast his son-in-law and then turning the lights off.

Fair play to them if they had fun, I suppose, but it’s absolute madness to produce that as the last scene of your prime time show this week. If Fox are demanding live shows, this sort of shite should make them reconsider.

6 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Vince isn't gonna fuck you.

Tony isn’t gonna wank your dog.

1 hour ago, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

Watches? They did their own version of it that lasted longer than the UK one

Their schoolboy-getting-bummed character was a couple of years older than ours, though.

Both versions were greenlit about twenty years ago, anyway, and it was a different world. In those days, people had a lot of hate for your classic paedo, the sort who kidnaps pre-pubescents. But a bloke going to a club and fucking someone who turns out to be mid to late teens was still more of an Oi-Oi, Jack-the-lad laugh. When I was sixteen or seventeen, it wasn’t unheard of for the girls in my year to have boyfriends in their early twenties. I feel like attitudes have shifted on that sort of thing over the last decade or so - but it might just be that I’m not in that demographic anymore.

Like Loki, I don’t feel any giant outrage about this. If someone’s fit as fuck on their eighteenth birthday, they probably were the day before that as well. If my dirty uncle rammed a 12 year old in a country where it’s legal, I wouldn’t think “fair play, Mick.” I don’t think something being legal makes it upstanding behaviour, and I don’t think something being illegal makes it evil. But at the same time, the law’s the law, public sentiment is public sentiment, and Clarky knows you can’t be getting up to this craic. Especially in his position. If someone has hacked his accounts and done it, that’s horrible. But if he’s done it himself, I wouldn’t be protesting to get him released from jail or to keep his job.

5 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

I've never been able to work out why the main guy in charge of producing the stars of tomorrow is a guy who never had a good match, never did a good promo and never drew any money.

I wonder the same thing with him, but he’s been doing it for years and nobody seems to have a bad word to say.

He must be a really nice bloke, with decent enough fundamentals and the right temperament and approach to coaching. He was employed as a teacher or football coach or something before the WWF, wasn’t he?

3 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

It's definitely worse on Twitter but I wouldn't say it only exists there.

I was about to call you a liar, but then I saw the posts after yours.

His peak was the period before that when people lied about how he was good now because he’d been to Japan.

3 hours ago, Your Fight Site said:

I’m only 31 so by no means a “boomer”, but I don’t understand…

1. Why sending pictures of your dick to people is a thing.
2. Why you would send a picture of your dick to someone if you even had a hint that they were underage.

Both points, more so if you’re someone with any degree of notoriety.

1. Easier than flashing in person, especially at the moment. And you don’t need to buy a mac (the long coat kind, not the computer kind) to do it.

2. Nonces gonna nonce. 

40 minutes ago, The King Of Swing said:

Bet most of you will still watch it though.

No we won’t. Not after we’ve spent weeks ranting about how evil and deadly it is to force your staff to do closed set wrestling shows in these trying times. We’re not total hypocrites and we will not support that kind of activity. Boycott of AEW starts immediately*. You can get fucked if you think we only minded it when it was WWE doing them.

 

*And ends the next time Dark is uploaded or Dynamite is on TV, whichever comes first. Don’t fucking judge me, there’s a tournament on. I’m at least watching til the end of that.

Apollo Crews - I was a big supporter of his before he got called up. Great smile, great build, flashy moves and seems like a lovely bloke. But there's just nothing to him as a character. He's been on the main roster four years, he's been pretty rubbish the whole time and done nothing of note. Now he's had a bit of a refresh by being moved to Raw and getting something of a push, but I don't see anything about him that's going to sustain momentum where Ricochet, Cedric Alexander, Humberto Carrillo etc couldn't.

Viking Raiders - it'd be something of a coin toss between them and Gallows & Anderson for me, or I'd keep Gallows & Anderson for the sake of keeping AJ happy. They've not caught on. Hopefully they will now, but I'd definitely consider them lucky to have survived last week's cuts.

Riddick Moss - like Mojo, but without any of the ability to be annoying as fuck.

AOP - one or both of them are always injured.

Shelton Benjamin, B Team, Lucha House Party 205 Live, Breezango and Akira Tozawa - basically enhancement talent, but I'd put their names in the same hat as a lot of the guys who did get released.

The Iiconics - I love them, but they've been on the shelf for ages. WWE doesn't seem to consider them a vital part of the show.

Robert Roode - he's on the decline. Never lived up to the hype.

Dana Brooke - she's not as bad as she was, but she's been there for what seems like years and years and she's still quite crap and rarely featured. 

I wouldn't include Titus because it seems like he does a lot of community work for them, I think he's earning his keep without actually wrestling.