Seems too ridiculous to be true

Was kane doing that "lecture" in a basement? Nothing but old people and crying babies

Vince Loves (Blocking the) Cock?

I don't know they just bought a house together. It's a minor tort to use business means to get a couple to break up. Wonder if Vince knows that?

It was done at a VFW lodge in Tennessee. VFW is a social group/club for veterans, so it really was nothing but old people and crying babies.

Been in my head all day:

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KICKOUT AT TWO: LADIES EDITION

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Also because fuck it:

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Ugh. Seriously, Samoa Joe's music is whack as hell. The sinister intro gets you hype for the match, the the jobberiffic CAW tune after it makes you go "uh, nevermind". Might sound unimportant in the scheme of things, but it is a seriously lackluster part of the presentation. I mean, think about how unfitting it would be if Finn Balor's paint and smoke entrances started the same, but then instead of that guitar riff hitting, they played Erick Rowan's shitty singles run music box theme?

This reminds me: Dalton Castle. Man, isn't he EXACTLY what Vinnie Mac was looking for in the 90's? The man is ALL the campy gay of Gorgeous George, Johnny B. Badd, and Goldust, with the wild-eyed psycho charisma of Brian Pillman and Jack Black all in a goddamn blender. Add in a song that sounds suspiciously* like Queen's "I Want It All" (which also fits the gimmick. In more than one way.) and this shit is a licence for ROH to not only print money, but introduce their own damn currency... which I would suspect would be similar to Canada's, but with a peacock instead of a loon.


*read as "is EXACTLY that song, but is basically a full distort guitar instrumental, making it just different enough to avoid litigation".

Pretty sure Joe will get new music after these tapings, funky midi dance music doesn't suit him

First epsidoe of ROH I've watched in a while, and you know what stuck with me? This gimmick.

Not somebody almost murdering Maria. Not someone being driven through chairs. Not Mr. Clean's fat uncle sidewalk slamming the kid from Everybody Hates Chris through a table. Not Christopher Daniels and Kazarian. Hell of a gimmick. I'm fully expecting them to steal this and make Adam Rose into it within a month.

Just because....well....just because

No way. He only throws knuckleballs.

I certainly hope so. It's worse than Cena's production theme when he first started his "rapper" gimmick. And that's a low bar.

https://youtu.be/XoJH2gNOURk

The Big O has been eliminated already.

Would not surpise me one bit, as NXT has that one tag team that looks suspiciously like they're supposed to be a cleaned up, PG version of The Briscoses.

I actually came across a match of him in TNA, but "his boys" were replaced with girls. Seems like a step WWE would take, which kills the presentation. While more "acceptable", the problems were a) they went from being part of the hedonistic gimmick to simply arm charm props, as he obviously couldn't use them for furniture (like steps for him to get the ring, or to sit on like when he cut his promo on Jay Lethal) and b) why this change was neccessary, but Orlando Jordan could... do the weird shit he was doing for his entrance, such as the caution tape and lotion slathering for no reason.

Dalton reminds me of the one villan from the one story in Heavy Metal. If you've ever seen the movie, you know the guy. Just as cartoony, but in a fun way.

Been watching the attitude era RAWs and PPVs, and watching the episode where Motley Crüe performs on RAW. I do not remember this at all. Would this have been a huge fucking deal in 98? Also the only time I remember a mini-concert not getting booed and/or ruining the momentum of a show.

How was Ken Shamrock not WWF Champion? He was over as fuck, had great matches, and was feuding with main eventers early and often.

Not really. I mean, they were known, but at that point I think they were more famous for Tommy Lee's sex tape than they were for being Motley Crüe. I think that whole segment was just an excuse to introduce Test, right?

Test wasn't shown/mentioned. NAO & X-Pac were on stage with them. Seemed like they were just plugging their best of album that was coming out. DX had made some jokes about the sex tape in a promo a week or two before.

Hm. Must have been thinking of something else. Some band was performing and a fan tried to rush them or something and their giant bodyguard took the "fan" down and the announcers got all excited about the giant blond dude.

It was Motley Crüe, but it apparently happened on Heat, not Raw according to Wikipedia.

"Martin debuted in the World Wrestling Federation on the October 25, 1998, episode of Sunday Night Heat as an unnamed bodyguard for the band Mötley Crüe, who were performing on the show. In a scripted event, Martin threw an overzealous fan off the stage during the band's rehearsal."

Kurt Angle. They found a better superstar for the real athlete motif. Shamrock took 20 minutes to catch on that Triple H wanted to fight in a Triple Threat match with him and Owen Hart also. Wasn't a good promo.

I guess they did a second set when they taped heat. They still tried to make HeAT a legit show then.

In terms of being over the person most deserving of a World Title who didn't get one in the Attitude Era is Crash Holy. :D

I wish they had Sunday Night HeAT on the WWE Network.

I'd like to watch a few of those early ones with Shane o Mac as the announcer.

What about Kid Rock's that seemed to get over with the crowd. Plus Joe C helped Too Cool become tag team champions

Anti Diva material right there :yes:

Is it worse than the theme they gave Jesse after he was repackaged as "Slam Master 'J'", Cryme Tyme's "white friend"?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9NQCoISQItE

That's an even lower bar.

I wish they would put thunder and tbs Saturday night on the network, wcw did more then 2 years of nitro

I used to love WCW Saturday Night. Weekend afternoon wrestling in general was awesome.

Dirtsheets sponsored by the Bionic Elbow Memorial:
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Viewership for this week's ROH and TNA shows. Both were slightly up compared to last week but still favors ROH more than TNA at the moment.

Update on the recent rumors regarding a possible WWE-WWN deal being made.

Likely due to recent rumors regarding what is happening at MitB this Sunday.

Hulk Hogan is also among the group for those final 11 Network podcasts.


Some other sheet news includes:

• Recent article from Grantland focused on Kevin Owens and his rise to stardom since his WWE debut. http://grantland.com/the-triangle/ww...vince-mcmahon/
• For those in the UK and were interested in the RevPro show, Ricochet got pulled out of this Sunday's show due to passport issues. Also has Vias issues with Japan so won't be returning to NJPW either until that gets settled.
• Big O was among the first to get eliminated from the Top 40 finalists for the upcoming Tough Enough season. https://twitter.com/WWEToughEnough/s...72225584877568

Damn.... terrible news for Tyson Kidd.... Was just really getting some steam...

Yea sucks for Cesaro as well.

I think putting Lana and Cesaro together is a good idea.

Cesaro/Ryback IC title.

Cesaro/Ryback would be a good feud. Lana and Cesaro doesn't seem like a bad idea either, Rusev vs Cesaro would be better than him and Ziggler in my opinion.