Originally Posted by XL (Post 5340611)

Tbf, the Buckle Bomb is dangerous enough when performed correctly (see Rollins vs Sting, Rollins vs Balor) maybe they need to ban the move altogether? But, yeah, they definitely need to tell Nia not to do it.

Originally Posted by Gerard (Post 5340654)

Buckle Bomb is whiplash waiting to happen at least and a spinal injury at worst, though considering Nia's past she can easily fuck up even simpler moves. Remember the shoulder breaker to Charlotte, she just dumped her on her head after the move.

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Originally Posted by XL (Post 5340619)

I hope there was a transaction involved. Otherwise the President is posting about wrestling in the middle of a worldwide crisis.

Originally Posted by Fightful

From Fightful Select: Not that it's any surprise, but the Triple H 25th anniversary segment went way over the planned time for it on tonight's show. Fortunately, that part was pre-taped. It was originally set to go about 10 minutes, but ended up going closer to 19-20 as they filmed it.

Originally Posted by Observer

On the April 13th edition of the show, Lawler was calling an Akira Tozawa-Austin Theory match with Tom Phillips and Byron Saxton when he referred to a Tozawa senton as a "Ramen noodle moonsault". The comment was later edited out of the Hulu edition of the show.

At the 53 minute mark, Lawler asked his co-host if he could address the elephant in the room about the comment and why being racist was "the furthest thing from his mind."

He said he was doing commentary in 2016 with Mauro Ranallo and given Ranallo's history with Japanese wrestling, he heard him call a move something that he figured was made up because he had never heard of it before. He said he later made up some names of what he thought would be funny moves to go back at Ranallo at when he called a move.

"I would say something like, "There’s the Ramen Noodle moonsault" and he would say, "Oh, King! You know there's no such thing!" and we would just go on. I was doing it just to play devil’s advocate with Mauro. If I were still doing commentary with Michael Cole or JR, we had the chemistry to where each one of those guys would have known that I was almost making a fool out of myself by claiming like I was acting like I knew what this unbelievable looking move was.

"Then either Cole or JR would have said ‘"Oh, King! You know better than that!" With Byron and Tom, we don’t have that chemistry yet. We have only been working together for a short time so when I said that, they didn’t even acknowledge it so it kind of went out and they just kept talking and I kept talking. I didn’t think anything about it either.”

Lawler and his co-host then intimated that the intent was that the joke was supposed to be on him for being behind the times.

"That’s where me, Bobby Heenan, Jesse Ventura...all of the heel commentators do that sort of stuff and the joke is on yourself that the people out there say, "Look at that idiot. He doesn’t even know what he’s talking about and he thinks he does.' That's where the joke was."

Lawler did not apologize for the comment and remains on the commentary team for Raw.

Originally Posted by Anybody Thrilla (Post 5340386)

Oh yeah, Aries had a really nice one. Also, King Cureno...err, sorry, El Hijo del Fantasma has a really killer one. I was actually watching Samoa Joe v. Finn Balor on the influential NXT matches yesterday, and he did a really nice one. I don't recall Keith Lee doing it, but it seems like something he'd do.

It's very possible for it to look good, but it's been happening a LOT, and I think it looks bad more often than not.

Originally Posted by XL (Post 5340431)

I wasn’t aware Fantasma was King Cuerno. Maybe I am interested in him after all.

Originally Posted by Anybody Thrilla (Post 5340462)

Yeah, looks a little different with his long hair. He did a stint in Impact after Lucha Underground. I'm looking forward to him.

Originally Posted by Seph (Post 5340762)

PUPPIES!!!!!

Originally Posted by Anybody Thrilla (Post 5340783)

Ha, I guess it's all relative, huh?

I remember him flat out saying "fag", unless I'm imagining that. I don't think I am, though.

Originally Posted by ozzman6669 (Post 5340782)

The promos he did on Goldust are even worst ! At least in wwe he was a heel, in Memphis he was a face with the same promos !!

Originally Posted by XL (Post 5340728)

Only they would because they’d be smart enough and talented enough to align to the standards on modern society and still remain hilarious. Lawler has largely been a one-trick pony on commentary which worked in the 90s but the company and society have moved on since then.

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 5340842)

Did you just find that out now?

Originally Posted by Gerard (Post 5340851)

Hardly, just puts it into perspective seeing that pic.