I think Christian is probably my favorite Orton opponent ever. It’d be a shame if we never got to see them work again.

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I don't remember Lesnar vs Benoit at all

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I completely forgot the feud between Brock Lesnar &amp; Chris Benoit…and Benoit pinning Lesnar clean…legendary moment and I miss watching Chris Benoit get down in the ring….I pray one day he’s rightfully exonerated of the bullshit he was accused of smh</p>&mdash; S҉t. P҉a҉t҉t҉y҉ ☘️�� (@WestsideNose) <a href="https://twitter.com/WestsideNose/status/1482539104864817157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

i remember the brock lock


lol at benoit 'accusations'

Best part of the tweet lol

I wonder if they are maybe testing St. Louis out as a possible WM host in the future via hosting 'The Royal Rumble'

Lesnar tapping out to Benoit at Survivor Series in 03 was kind of a big deal. Tons of "you tapped out" chants on the following shows

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Regarding that last sentiment, denial is a hell of a drug.

Hell of a bump from Mr. McMahon, there.

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I mean, it gets the point across and is more believable than most of the "cool moves" we see.

I think my favorite spot from the Belfast Brawl was when he threw a trash can into the ring, and it hit JBL in the head. To this day, I still don't know if it was a botch or if Finlay just has good aim.

And then JBL chucks it at Hornswoggle and nails him outside the ring lol

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:lol:

Did ya'll know that the female background singer on HBK "Sexy Boy" is actually Jimmy Hart. Had no idea.

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Punk and Bubba really have some anger lol

Mustafa Ali has requested his release

Can’t say I blame him after the fat load of nothing that was RETRIBUTION

I feel like if that was something that I knew, I wouldn’t forget it.

He’ll probably be gone next round of releases. Then he can go and do a fat load of nothing outside the WWE.

Jimmy brought it up on Brisco and Bradshaw's podcast. Really interesting episode. Such a great podcast.

I hope he gets it. Such an underutilized talent and genuinely good guy whose real life backstory seemed like a no-brainer to use but they never did.

Whether he stays in wrestling or does something like start a non-profit, he'll thrive.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">i am requesting my release from wwe <a href="https://t.co/Q1QP8SA5zV">pic.twitter.com/Q1QP8SA5zV</a></p>&mdash; Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/AliWWE/status/1482767832567930885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Lol, that’s a stupid and wanky way to go about it. “Yes, we’ll make an exception for you and release you ahead of time if you just make a big show about it!”

These guys are their own worst enemies. It becomes apparent why they weren’t pushed when you realize how fucking stupid they are.

Have you ever tried mindfulness? 😅

Guy hasn’t been able to catch a break since Kofi got his ‘push’ - he comes up with a new idea lately and it gets dropped straight away , so you can see his annoyance. Supposedly Vince had another idea, which was probably let’s get guys in balaclavas carry you to the ring and pretend you are the reincarnation of Muhammad Hassan. Get Daviari involved too.

Well said.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mustafa Ali has requested his release from wwe, thought I'd offer him an AEW Starter pack. <a href="https://t.co/pack4TQITY">pic.twitter.com/pack4TQITY</a></p>&mdash; Prime Time Conversations 🎙️ (@primetimeconvos) <a href="https://twitter.com/primetimeconvos/status/1482811463932731396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I still can't get over Meltzer being stupid enough to make a holocaust joke. Didn't he give Cornette shit for the fried chicken thing several years ago?

Idk how Ali and all I really know is he was supposed to win money in the bank and Lesnar won and he was randomly turned heel as the leader of retribution and they were already a jobber group by then.

If you’re not happy with what you’re doing for work, and you can leave, then leave. Good for him. Curious what he’s trying to do today he can’t in WWE.

I hope WWE grants his release and not make him sit out the length of his contract.

Meltzer has a history of making tasteless comments. While not as dire as the holocaust joke, I vaguely remember him commenting on female performers getting cosmetic surgeries.

Dave is Jewish. And he wasn't making a Holocaust joke. The obsession that these Bruce Prichard faggot fans have with playing "Gotcha" with Meltzer is absurd

It's true. We've become overtly sensitive as a society and are constantly denouncing any and everyone. It's a tasteless joke but it's not the end of the world.

Not several. Just a couple. And to me, that hypocrisy was the real punchline.

At least with the cosmetic surgery thing, he was trying to make a point about the trend that female talent was clearly and obviously taking for getting fake tits and botox and their faces pulled taut en masse (and with some varying degrees of shitty results) because, somehow, the consensus was they seemed to think, for some reason, weren't pretty enough already. And the allusion of that reason was that higher ups in various companies, especially WWE, seemed to be steering their ladies in such a direction directly or indirectly. Hell, you had what ended up becoming one of - if not THE - top female talent in the biz at one time, and she was self-conscious about her tummy... when she had amazing (and I daresay yummy) abs, by the way. If someone has body issues about one of their best features, I'm pretty sure some of that had to be fostered by the environment. Especially when that environment had a conga line of ladies taking time off to get chesticle implants, but having "heat" with the company for announcing stuff like getting pregnant or announcing engagements/getting married (which means they can't be marketed as "hot single women in your area").

However, HOW he said it was clumsy, and left the impression that he was just bashing the women themselves. Then when he got yelled at by some of the wrestlers, he tried to backtrack and apologize, and was yet another statement that, had ANYONE ELSE tried to say what he said, even if they made the point clearer, he would have be the first to chastise them about how "tasteless" it was, and announce that they should have known better than to say such things publicly, and possibly even write an obituary about their career.

More on Ali's release request:

I mean it doesn't bother me personally that he said it. But in today's world? Sheeeeit that was about as dumb as it gets. We give Trump shit all the time for the stupid shit he said but not even he has gone this low. Don't act like we all don't know that holocaust jokes are considered the very bottom of the barrel and about the worst thing you can say in public. They have been damn near automatic cancellation for a long time now. Dave being Jewish is why I find his comment to be particularly egregious in that sense; if anyone should know better than to make light of it then it's him.

And Gertner. I love you. A lot. I'd dock with you bro. But there is no way in hell that saying "WWE is having the Elimination Chamber in Saudi Arabia because Auschwitz wasn't available" is anything other than a holocaust joke. A bad joke, but still a joke.

And wtf does Bruce Prichard have to do with this anyways? Fuck that guy too. He needs to retire like 15 years ago. His brother was cooler anyways.

You know I do get the criticism of a guy like Ali being too polished and clean. There are several guys like him that I'd put in that category. They are all super talented, far and away some of the best performers in the world. But it does make a lot of their performances look unnaturally choreographed and I can absolutely see why that would turn off some of the old school guys who are still running the show. There are way worse offenders in this category than Ali though.

I would NEVER release a guy for being too good. If I didn't want his stuff looking as clean I would work with him on making his skills look more natural and less rehearsed.

Ali has nothing to worry about though. There will be plenty of interest in him as a talent if they do release him. He is way too good to not be picked up. I just don't know if he's going to find what he's looking for creatively.

Thing is, while it wasn't knee-slapping funny, it was one of those jokes that a room full of comedians would have said amongst themselves - not one many would have tried to make on stage unless it is one of your very blue comedy folk who are known for and made a career saying that kind of shit (like the recently departed Bob Saget). Meltzer is none of those.

And we get the implications about lining up genocide, the unfortunately named PPV match, and the nation of Saudi Arabia, but unless Doug Stanhope was making that comparison in a dive bar show in Nova Scotia, nobody was going to come out of saying that unscathed. Especially not when just uttered publicly on Twitter. Intentionally.

Tbh you might catch me making that joke in a private setting. At least in the past I probably would have. But in public? Oof.

with comedy we rob horrors of their power. its imperative that we tear these things down with humour otherwise we make gods of them.

A lot of the time, WWE's creative process sounds more like just trying to bend people to the will of Vince, or, what so-and-so would THINK would try to bend them to. Even from back in the "Lets set up an angle for Owen where he's cheating on his wife" days that he wasn't down for doing at all and he refused to do, there's this underlying element of humiliation for a lot of the shit presented.

Even though I'm not particularly a fan, a case point I will use is Jinder Mahal. At his start in WWE, he was an arrogant rich kid who was just used to getting his way. His ethnicity was incidental, but that whole vibe had legs to not be the standard done thing. The had to potential for another Mohammad Hassan (who really was an Italian guy) type of heel who was a heel in a different way than just being "United States foreigner = bad!!!"

However, except for his time with 3MB, he ended up becoming another stereotype by-the-numbers foreign heel. "He's brown, so he should be wearing a TURBAN! Yeah! That's good shit!"

The part about the "asked to do something he wouldn't do" is what intrigues me, and seems to be a staple of the company. Tell Vince you're scared of parrots? He'll try to make you the next Koko B. Ware! Almost every lucha that comes in gets asked to ditch their mask; meaning be damned. The color yellow makes you physically ill? You'll get a full mustard colored bodysuit, pal! When stuff like this comes up, it seems like more evidence against WWE's claim that ACH's proposed shirt design was "an accident". I wonder what it was that they wanted Ali to do/say/wear/all of the above that made him say "Fuck that noise, I want out"?