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Would completely agree. I specified modern wrestlers because I think old wrestlers used to live the gimmick to such an extent that it rarely seemed like "acting" at all. They had all their mannerisms and reactions down. I'm surprised given their obsession with hiring TV writers because they're in the entertainment business, pal, that they've not strayed into having proper directors. People who'd look at the awkwardness of their high-school drama club acting in backstage promos and over-selling in the ring and work to improve it. It does seem to get a pass because it's just wrestling though. I saw a video a year or two ago of times that Sami Zayn caused the Bloodline to corpse in the ring. It was funny stuff and Sami was great in it but it strikes me as odd that the obsessed weirdos who consume everything will give it loads about telling stories and ring work, but accept a wrestler being completely unable to stay in character during a major storyline. It's a strange dichotomy.

How do you feel about the promo work, Dev? As someone who watches and judges a lot of movies, how do you feel when you watch "acting" in wrestling promos. It looks absolutely horrible to me even with the caveat that I don't expect much from modern wrestlers in the acting department anyway.

Is that not the point? You've got Punk out there suggesting they are not in the same league so you respond with a guy who is the antithesis of WWE who'd know? I think it's tragically small-time but you know they're going to rebut it, they've been as bad as TNA for this stuff.

If @JLM doesn't then, no!

Was that a Tommyboi production? He was in to doing PPV nights in clubs for a bit after the mobile phone scam failed to take off.

The NDA stuff is tragic. NDAs in wrestling should only be brought up in reference to Vince having the women he and his mates used, and paid off with company money, sign. Not a bunch of children having a real fight over their playfighting. The only likeable one amongst them was the dog.

Needs a spin-off #EATCLEAN: USA like they do with Pop Factor.

Fuck sake, I thought wrestling was back.

Can't find a pic but I had a version of the hot dog stuffed crust a month or so ago. Sounds epic but I found it really disappointing. Even dipped in sauce, it was still dry as fuck. Salivating seeing the posts on the last few pages. We went to a Mexican in Wisconsin last year that had almost incredible everything but this Taco bowl is one of the best things I've ever eaten. Made even better because my annoying brother was gonna have it but because he couldn't possibly have the same thing as someone else, he switched to some veggie dish and ended up utterly miserable eating a load of damp green stuff while everyone else was creaming their pants over how good the food was. Reminded that when we arrived in Madison, me and my daughter walked a few miles to find this Mexican we got recommended. We googled and checked it was open Mondays. We arrived and the opening hours on the door said it was open Mondays. There were people inside. Still closed though.

Nearly posted about this and then had the sense to re-check the OP to see if I'd missed it and I had. Was watching a video of the Sting transformation in WCW and there was a clip of Piper coming out. I thought he looked pretty decent given it was early 1997, coming off Starrcade 96 with Hogan and a few months before the "Age in the Cage" match. Went looking to check and as above, Piper was 43 and Hogan was 44. The match is rightly shit on and the ages were a massive factor back then. Mad to compare it to the likes of Edge and Christian having matches that people seem to like when they're both 50. It's not just TV age either as those two guys have 20+ years on national TV, albeit with forced retirements for a big chunk of that. they also have an awful lot of miles on the clock. There's clearly a massive shift in lifestyle now. Particularly an absolutely massive difference in the intake of coke, booze and gas.

It's a good shout. Savage's whole middle of 1990 felt like a come down coming off his title run and then his feud with Hogan going pretty much a year from the official break-up on Main Event right up to the SNME match with Buster Douglas reffing. It was probably inevitable given the other top babyface in Warrior was working Hogan at Mania so it was always going to be a step down to face a Dusty, Jake, Duggan or Boss Man type. The actual Mania match involving Sapphire does then take it all down another level, even if I do like the SummerSlam 90 aspect to heat him back up for Warrior. From main eventing and drawing the biggest Mania buyrate in history to a crappy mixed tag involving one of the worst non-workers ever is some fall.

I think mine was that wrestlers refer to "the internet" like it's 1999. Punk even spoke about TikTok and YouTube and still made his points about this broader appeal someone like The Rock brings. The Rock's broad appeal isn't from wrestling, even at the height of it's popularity. It's from mainstream TV and movies. He's pop culture. What's pop culture now? The Internet. Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube, etc. It's such a stupid contradiction given wrestling loves to champion their massive interactions on Twitter, Facebook, Insta, Tout, etc, rightly, and they'll use those massive numbers in contract negotiations, sponsorship deals, etc. Yet a lot of these muppets still have this "internet bad" mentality like that old HHH gif. Just say you mean Dave Meltzer and Ross Sapp and whoever else writes badly about wrestling these days. It's odd.

@jbwkz1313 - 11 hours ago - Props to Ariel, what an interview. No softball questions. @heihvyegs - 9 hours ago - That’s what you get when you have a real journalist, not your friends playing journalist because they made a YouTube channel Who to believe? 😆 FWIW - I enjoyed the interview. Punk's the best worked in the business. You accept that and it's all easier.

Wouldn't want Socko in my mouth knowing where it's been.

This seems insane given that the range of AEW shirts you could get on PWT was absolutely massive at one point. Is that part of the problem though, allowing all these guys to sort their own shit? It's consistently a massive missed opportunity, although from the pics I've seen, they appear to have one shirt for every member of the crowd last night. We went to an NXT show in Sheffield a few years ago and our kid was excited to get some shirts. The merch offering was dreadful. And it was still better than that.