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Seems its not just the WWE that is currently taking heat for the Saudi deal since now Kane is having to deal with the political fallout from being associated with the upcoming event.
Currently has no plans to back out of the event but did sent his "thoughts and prayers" to the journalist's family. https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/...ce/1612304002/ |
Kane seems like a smart guy. He should put his foot down and not go if he wants a career in politics. He looks pretty weak on this. He should probably get ahead of WWE before they cancel and make him look like such a passenger.
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Lol, Baron Corbin tried to slam Khabib in Twitter by saying that Buddy Murphy has 50lbs on him. Buddy is probably like "Um, dude...shut uuuup."
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Noid, do you know how big Big Dave Batista's dick is?
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Yes, but I'm not telling you.
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I bet it was magnificent.
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You saying that instantly makes it not.
By the way, you seem to be doing a thing where you try to weird me out with homophobia? I'm not homophobic, dude -- I just don't like you because you're a creeper about everything with your "adorables" and shit. It's coming out of the bushes creepy, and it's got nothing to do with dick or sexuality. |
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Some of Eric Bischoff's Steve Austin podcast interview popped up on my YouTube feed and I thought "Hell, I'll give it a listen." Jesus Christ, Eric Bischoff is so full of shit.
I really like him as a performer, but his recent podcasting and the like has made me really dislike him. I don't know what I expected, haha. It's just the blatant lying, I guess. What's the point at this stage? |
He's by far the worst of the three Conrad Thompson podcast partners.
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I've never listened to any podcasts with Bischoff but any interview or round table with him involving any shady, controversial, or questionable decision he's alleged to have made, it seems he never can remember the details of what actually occurred.
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I'm getting really behind on my Raw & SmackDown 2002 watching but I watched an episode of each today and I would say that I plan to "catch up" but I've said that before and look where I am now.
Anyways, this post is going to be "giftacular" so all the gifs are in Spoiler tags. Raw: I was surprised that Raw kicked off with Benoit. I really wasn't expecting him at all. https://i.postimg.cc/Hnt7f83Z/zx1.png Listening to his promo, there were times where I got "Daniel Bryan vibes" from Benoit with the way Benoit was delivering his promo and being all "fired up". It reminded me of Bryan's "fired up" promos. An intergender Tag Team match for the European and Women's Championships. Trish Stratus/Spike Dudley vs Molly Holly/William Regal https://i.postimg.cc/RVXHdfWq/zx2.png It's been a while since we've had one of those "two titles on the line" matches and it was a nice match and seeing the European Championship so much makes me miss it a little bit. I would be all for it returning (even a redesigned version) but I get the feeling that if it did, it would have some stupid "rule" attached to it that it could only be fought between wrestlers from European countries or countries that are members of the European Union or even that it can only be defended within the continent of Europe. We're at this point now where Vince & Co. really like gimmicks to be attached to pretty much everything. Even if it's something as small as purple ropes for Cruiserweight matches. Saying all that however just made me remember as I was typing that the NXT UK Championship exists and that's pretty much like some kind of bastard child of the European Championship. At least to me it is anyway. I could (and probably am) wrong with that assumption. Before the match however, there was a backstage segment with Molly and Regal where Molly said that Spike tried to get to second base with her when they were dating. This allowed Lawler to talk about bases and he came out with a quote that went right over my twelve year old head before the match: Lawler: I'd like to slide into home with Trish, I know that! Woo-Hoo!" Every time I mention how great Booker T and Goldust were and this time isn't going to be any different. Booker T in this segment was great. Something as silly as him talking about and imitating the nWo's theme and yelling "BASS!" just gave me a good chuckle. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z1ECfwf2au0?start=55&end=85" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe> Anyway, it's the beginning of the Booker T/X-Pac vs The Hardy Boyz match and I don't know why X-Pac did this. (along with saying "Whooooa!") SPOILER: show I remember this (I wonder why) and I also remember it causing Lawler to basically have a heart attack. https://i.postimg.cc/rsbLyQhK/zx3.png I also remember this entire segment with Tommy Dreamer and The Undertaker's tobacco spit. Undertaker's reaction was gold and pretty much made the segment. https://i.postimg.cc/6q8DPC9w/zx4.png The main event was a ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship. Eddie Guerrero vs Rob Van Dam. This is the match was the fan interfering. SPOILER: show That entire moment was edited out when it was shown over here, so I obviously never knew it happened and I only found out that it happened when I downloaded a file from LimeWire or Kazaa back then that was titled something like "==[WWF FAN ATTACKS WRESTLER]==". I think Eddie (and also RVD) did a great job of improvising and you could tell that Eddie was really pissed off with what had happened and understandably so. SmackDown: It's crazy to hear Vince say "10 years ago" and then realise that he's talking about 1992. Even though it's not supposed to be funny, I found Tajiri to be really funny during this backstage segment. SPOILER: show I think it's just the unexpected Tajiri appearance along with his facial expressions and his head movements behind the glass that gets me. In this episode of SmackDown, Dawn Marie makes her debut as "Dawn Marie Rinaldi". "Rinaldi" didn't last long. Tell me what is wrong with these gifs: SPOILER: show SPOILER: show Lance Storm interfered during Triple H's match against Test and Triple H actually stopped and watched him make his way to the ring, implying that Storm was a threat to him. Lance Storm then got some good hits on Triple H and actually cost Triple H the match. I know I said it last time about wrestlers today that are in Triple H and Lance Storm's standings in the roster but something like that just wouldn't happen these days. If Jinder Mahal, Mojo Rawley or one of The Colσns (someone like that) interfered in Seth Rollins' match or Dean Ambrose's match, Rollins/Ambrose wouldn't give them the time of day but if they did, the aforementioned would probably be KO'd with one punch at the bottom of the ramp, leaving Rollins/Ambrose to go on to win the match. I like stuff like what I've seen from 2002 so far. It's far more believable and refreshing. Even though it's in the past and we know what happens, it still has that sense of not knowing who is going to show up or who is going to win a match. These days, everything is so "cookie cutter" and predictable. It's boring and repetitive. It's far less believable than what I've seen from 2002 so far. Every week (currently) I see the same faces on Raw and SmackDown (mostly Raw though) and those faces are doing pretty much the same stuff as they did the previous weeks. Matches are had and the outcomes are so blatantly obvious. It's like old movies or comics from the 50's or whatever where the good guy always wins and the same bad guy never gets the upper hand, not even for a moment of jeopardy for the hero. The hero is just 110% invincible and always comes out on top no matter what and he always does it with a smile on his face. Anyway, enough complaining, here's a shot of Finlay and Big Johnny. I actually had no idea that Finlay was fat and bald in 2002 and that Big Johnny still looked like he was from the 80's. https://i.postimg.cc/PJMXQBQ9/zx5.png I'm getting Joey Mercury vibes from 2002 Finlay. Edge and <s>Val Venis</s> The Big Valbowski are backstage and I realised that just like Shawn Stasiak on Raw, Val got a lot of TV time back in 2002. The only difference being that Stasiak got more matches, whereas Val got more backstage time. The main event was a cage match and that's two main events that week in 2002 that were "specialty matches" as Raw had a ladder match. Again, (and I hate to sound like a broken record here) you wouldn't really get that happening today. The match was a good one and Edge got some colour. I did notice however that the quality of the footage kept changing during the match. The hard camera and everything else was your regular picture quality but a camera located at the far right of the ring (when looking via the hard camera) seemed to have a somewhat poor quality of footage. Finally, before the match and for some reason, during Edge's entrance when it was all dark and stuff, we got to "see" The Hart Family (and when I say "see", I mean "squint"), which included a 16 year old Harry Smith and a 21 year old Tyson Kidd.... https://i.postimg.cc/9FJXRHMq/zx6.png ....and a 20 (and one day) year old Natalya. https://i.postimg.cc/0NJ9B6Cp/zx7.png |
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Rollins vs. McIntyre, and Ambrose vs. Ziggler on Raw again this week...
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Having flashbacks to when like 50 Raws in a row opened with a match involving Sheamus and Cesaro
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Still hate the Ricochet name because all it makes me think of is Mucha Lucha and that teacher/principal saying "Rrrrrricochet!"
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I seem to have went a bit crazy with my use of gifs so I'm going to try and cut down on them next time.
Raw: https://i.postimg.cc/xTSLp5sj/zx1.png Raw opens with an announcement of a Lingerie Match between Trish Stratus and Terri for the Women's Championship and it got me wondering when the last Lingerie Match was. I tried to find out but all I managed to find was when the last Bra & Panties match was and it was on the 19th March 2007 episode of Raw between Candice Michelle and Melina, just as the "Ruthless Aggression Era" was nearing its end and the "PG Era" was on its way. https://i.postimg.cc/zvYHMDF2/zx2.png We then get told that Kevin Nash has a "Major Announcement". This is what would have kept fans watching the show and that tactic is something that rarely happens now. We're rarely given a reason to stay and watch now and you think it would have happened more after Raw went to three hours. Here's Steve Austin pissing on Arn Anderson. SPOILER: show Judging by the colour of his piss, Austin was really dehydrated and he might have also wanted to check his prostate with all that stopping and starting he did whilst pissing. A Hardcore match for the title happened between Steven Richards and Bradshaw which Bradshaw won, becoming the new champion. He almost kissed the steps when he was celebrating. SPOILER: show Also, Jacqueline was the referee, so I hope the WWE don't try (or hasn't tried) to make a big deal out of female referees recently. Am I going crazy or is this policeman Kevin Dunn? https://i.postimg.cc/7PXqjY9C/zx3.png A video of the winners of Tough Enough 2 was shown and during her victory speech, Jackie Gayda said "You wish upon a star and you have a dream and no matter what, your dream comes true, you keep on pushing and pushing and pushing and it'll just work!". After the video, Lawler said "Yeah, I wanna tell Jackie to keep on pushing and pushing and pushing, she'll go far in the WWE, Woo-Hoo!" The Undertaker and Tommy Dreamer have a match and Undertaker wins with a Dragon Sleeper. I can't remember the last time I saw someone win a match with a Dragon Sleeper. So the moment has arrived for Nash's "Major Announcement" and it's that Shawn Michaels is the newest member of the nWo. I remember that and I also remember the random beeping that happened during Michaels' entrance. SmackDown: We start off SmackDown with a 20-Man Battle Royal that only consisted of 19 wrestlers and had no winner. During the Battle Royal, Lance Storm and Triple H continued their rivalry which consisted of Storm getting the better of Triple H by throwing him outside the ring (through the ropes) and beating him up. You may not know how much I like the fact that Lance Storm and Triple H had a rivalry and that Lance Storm was portrayed as being a legitimate threat to Triple H. I didn't really watch much of SmackDown back in 2002 for some reason, so a lot of my watching of SmackDown 2002 and onwards is in a way, going to be kinda new to me, which I think is pretty cool in weird way. Rico hasn't been hanging out with Billy & Chuck much since becoming Tag Team Champion and as a result, Billy gets zits on his ass. SPOILER: show During Billy & Chuck's elimination match against Rikishi & Rico for the titles, Rico quickly taps out to a wrist lock so he can be quickly eliminated so it's a handicap match but Rico continues to sell by holding his wrist and Tazz constantly points out that Rico has a "limp wrist". Tazz just wouldn't let it go. He must have mentioned Rico having a limp wrist about twenty times. At one point Tazz said "I guess it's better to have a limp wrist than a limp biscuit". This episode of SmackDown saw the debut of Jamie Noble. I had no idea that there was a backstory here that The Hurricane and Nidia were in a relationship and that The Hurricane left Nidia because she had multiple boyfriends. A match for Velocity was actually made on SmackDown and it was made by Vince himself. He then proceed to check out Jackie Gayda's ass as she walked out the room. SPOILER: show Kurt Angle vs Hardcore Holly and Kurt Angle became Holly's tron. SPOILER: show All the way through SmackDown the ring bell was just an obvious sound effect that was added in post-production but the worst point of it was when Angle took the bell and tried to hit Holly with it. Angle dropped it in the ring and a sound effect was added when it hit the canvas and then another sound effect was added when Holly hit Angle with the bell. It reminded me of when you hit someone with the bell on "WWF No Mercy". We see Maven in the hospital with a broken leg and Torrie comes to visit him with a banana (as you do). She then does this with said banana: SPOILER: show A nurse comes in and tells Maven to keep his leg elevated to which he replies "Oh, don't worry, I'm real elevated right now!". And then cue Tajiri in the hospital and his fantastic facial expressions and mannerisms: SPOILER: show I've always loved Tajiri. Later on he finds Maven's room, opens the door and spits green mist in Torrie's face and pulls Maven off the bed and breaks his leg again by jamming it in the door. I remember Tajiri as a heel back during this time but I didn't know he was this much of a heel. He's great. He's both unintentionally funny and an absolute bastard, all at the same time. Man, Cole (and sometimes Tazz) was so bad back then. Edge had just forfeited his King of the Ring Qualifying match against Chris Jericho and Jericho appears. The camera is solely on Jericho and you can clearly see him grab a mic and then enter the ring and all Cole could say was "Edge's scheduled opponent has just taken a microphone into the ring with him!". I got big "SmackDown!: Just Bring It" vibes right there. I got more of those vibes again when Jericho hit Edge with a chair and Tazz said "Jericho has crossed the line and his victim is Edge!". Also, at the end of the show, Hogan offers his hand to Triple H and Cole said "Hulk Hogan acknowledged Triple H!" and later Kurt Angle's music hits and Cole says "Kurt Angle's out here!". Maybe the commentary in "Just Bring It" wasn't that bad after all. It was just actually really accurate. Anyway, as I've used a hell of a lot of gifs here, I'll end with two images of random signs from Raw and one of just a random image: https://i.postimg.cc/kMVdYF2H/zx4.png https://i.postimg.cc/fbH6BJDZ/zx5.png https://i.postimg.cc/664DfWSJ/zx6.png |
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Seems WWE can't catch any real break with their handling of the upcoming Evolution event.
Took them weeks to finally realize Alexa Bliss is not a draw as a big star since ticket sales for the event were very sluggish after her match with Trish was announced. Then the belt maker for the Women's Tag title said he hasn't heard anything definite for plans for the belts status at the event. Now the rumored NXT UK Women's match for the event might be off because WWE waited way too long to start airing the tapings from the summer. Current champ recently mentioned she hasn't been told of any plans for her at the moment for the event. Don't even think ticket sales spiked after they announced Nikki Bella as Ronda's opponent for the RAW Women's title match. |
Nassau is gonna shit all over this ppv damn it.
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John Oliver has CENA NUFF of WWE and Saudi Arabia
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here are the sections about WWE from the feature story about Saudi Arabia on the new “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” that premiered earlier tonight on HBO. <a href="https://t.co/NNOVgzVftW">pic.twitter.com/NNOVgzVftW</a></p>— David Bixenspan (@davidbix) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1051685815313723392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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Comments not going as they hoped...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Help by donating now! <a href="https://t.co/ai9JCzhpyb">https://t.co/ai9JCzhpyb</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneMichael?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneMichael</a> <a href="https://t.co/DDg4GNx43L">https://t.co/DDg4GNx43L</a></p>— WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1051903945008922624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Shane McMahon was asked about Vince wanting him to do an incest angle with his sister Stephanie. <br><br>Shane replied, “Well, my sister is hot. I don’t know if I would have really minded that.” <br><br>Um, wuttt? <a href="https://t.co/ktw0ooORVH">pic.twitter.com/ktw0ooORVH</a></p>— Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryansatin/status/1052208209874714625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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It would be like if the NFL decided which players make the playoff roster not by being good at their respective positions for the regular season and getting their team wins, but how cute they are! That ugly-ass running back who got all the yardage all season will be benched in that playoff run... then when fans complain, the NFL says "well, see nobody wanted that team to succeed anyhow". If the PPV was building to something like Asuka vs Ember Moon (before they killed Asuka and banished Athena to the depths of whogivesafuck - you know; keeping their NXT pushes intact), there would be the air of "YO, YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!!!" |
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No, but the American/World economy would take a big hit if everybody stopped doing business with Saudi Arabia. So, it's not really a shitty thing. The USA isn't getting out of the oil business. Nobody of any real note is really taking any money out of Saudi Arabia.
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Shane seems like the only one in that family with a good sense of humor.
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Was his aim to look like Agent 47?
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Probably as well but the main dispute involved trademark stuff.
They were going to sue NJPW for a lump sum and then hit them with additional amounts every time Low Ki wore the gear to events. |
I like Low Ki as a talent, but that seems like a really dumb way to lose yourself a job. I mean, wrestling in a suit isn't even that cool. But he's his own man, I guess. He made a choice and I'm sure he's fine with it.
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Yeah, he's made a lot of choices that make him look like a prick.
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Getting Dolph hurt derailed him in WWE.
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I think he was made to look foolish before that. He used his title shot to go after the IC Title like a chump. I think the pairing with LayCool was supposed to handicap him; not get him over.
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I believe Chavo is the only WWECW champion to never with another world title.
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Oh wait 'Big Zeke'
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But really, he just looks a bit silly with what he's wearing.
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Jordan Omogbehin, played basketball at South Florida.
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