Schiavonne was on busted open for an hour on Thursday..happy he's back in the business

ooo la la

I watched some MLW briefly on Youtube and honestly Schiavonne's commentary was fan-fucking-tastic. You remove the bullshit handcuffs of trying to get WCW in its dying days and the guy is incredible.

Tony was pretty awful in general from 99-01

Didn't watch regularly near the end of WCW but I can't imagine there was much to sink his teeth into while calling Viagra on a Pole matches and whatnot.

I always enjoyed Tony. He gets a bad rap.

He definitely does. People focus in on his work in the dying days of WCW, but he was terrific prior to then.

1/10. Not Battle Scars

"Hulk Hogan you can go to hell, straight to hell" was probably the best closing commentary line in the history of our great sport.

Pussy WWE fans don't riot. They say they will but they are just pussies.

The thing that makes me love Tony so much is when his podcast came out I quickly realized that he has the most irreverent sense of humor of anyone in the wrestling. He is so quick to make fun of himself. He is honest about when he thinks he was phoning it in as well. What Happened When is by far my favorite podcast, and it's a great way to go back and enjoy WCW with a different much more comical perspective. You'll also find out how much of a fan Tony is of the sport, going back to his youth, which makes his entire career much more meaningful to me. He left with a bad run at the end of WCW but now has this amazing podcast and is doing great work for MLW. Maybe it's my revisionist nostalgia but when I go back and watch 90's WWF/WCW, I'd prefer to listen to Tony any day. JR is so damn angry all the time. Still the best don't get me wrong, but the counter to JR was Tony and he was totally different.

That's what makes it so great.

yep 100 per cent. He was god awful in 99-01... but it's barely his fault. How the fuck are you supposed to call that shit?

A little thing I've been chewing over in regards to the commentary of Tony Schiavone versus Jim Ross', is that Ross would call shit out when it didn't make sense. He had this "Well, this is going to be bowling shoe ugly" attitude towards matches that didn't work, or angles that didn't make sense. As a result, whether consciously or not, I think fans learnt to "trust" JR. If something sucked, he would let them know, and when something was awesome, the passion was contagious.

It's not that Schiavone can't call or add to things when he needs to. WCW sucked so much that I think beyond simply not caring or being burnt out or whatever, you only have so much cache you can chew through before people stop trusting a word you say. To earn more of that trust from audiences, he would need to point out that most of WCW didn't make sense, and that we were all stupid for not watching the WWF. It turned him into a dishonest used car salesman trying to offload stock from years ago.

Stephanie McMahon is going to make a "historic announcement" on Raw. Rumors suggest it being an all-woman PPV in September/October. In a perfect world, that would get me excited, because it means that you'd need to have depth and stories in your division. What it will likely mean is Alexa Bliss vs. Ronda Rousey in a rematch, Nia Jax vs. Mickie James, Carmella vs. Charlotte, etc.

Well, it would be beaten if people actually bought what they call PPVs these days.

So I had a crown done on a tooth today. Pretty routine work, but I'm selling it at work like I'm Dick Murdoch so they took me off the phones and now I'm spending my day listening to Jim Cornette's Drive Thru and renaming files at my desk.

Just gotta wince every once in a while, talk without opening my mouth and touch the right side of my face.

Hell yeah dude. I went back to work after getting some work done and kept the cotton in my mouth, and acted like I got thrown off the hell in a cell, even though it was pretty painless.

Management was very impressed lol

Think its already been broken several times because of the Network.

Then again probably depends if you count a Network sub as a PPV buyer even if he/she didn't actually watch the event.

Pre-finished image and details of WWE's long rumored Women's Tag Team championship belts.

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Making fun of Tenay for talking about Mexican Wrestling History, calling shit like " a trash can doesn't hurt" during a hardcore match is Tony not caring. That's his fault. He became a caricature of himself

Wow, I had to edit the spelling of "caricature" three times lol. A little too baked right now.

Spelled it "characture" the first time.

oh for sure. He'd laugh during hardcore matches too. He was bad. But I think I'd have given up at that point personally.

Forgot about that "trash can doesn't hurt" call. I feel like it's come up on his podcast before and he tried to explain it but I'm not positive.

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I'm sorry but that meat hook in the pool was glorious. I've watched it like 6 times hahaha

R.I.P Brickhouse Brown. Memphis Wrestling was fucking awesome if you haven't seen any.

Check out the above video for a "he's got AIDS" chant.

This better not backdoor into an angle where Sasha and Bayley somehow win them

They pretty clearly are.

Those faces on the belts pretty terrible

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For years, I thought this was the most racist angle I had ever seen. Then I saw Virgil get hanged by Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart and The Thug, the latter wearing a KKK Hood. Holy hell was that some heat, though.

So apparently he's still alive

Shit is wild.

According to Alexa Bliss, the reason why her in-ring skills and match quality haven't improved since getting called up is pretty much due to being a champion is her only source for heel heat and her laziness for bumping for others.

Its pretty much why nobody comes out looking good in a feud with her in the end since everything revolves on her needing to be in title matches and getting the last laugh instead of helping make others look good in the ring.

Link: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/fer...larbro-country

Those Women's Tag belts look awful, as most WWE belts do these days. I hate how they have to look plastic.

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:lol:

Lol I saw that. And it turns out Brickhouse Brown isn't dead either