Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349760)

See to me that's the best sort of show to look back on, the thrown together ones.
I like seeing people come and go week to week.

I just don't know how many Hardbody Harrison matches I can handle.

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349795)

You know that thing where you drift off in class at school or in a group and then you drift back in and foolishly say something that has just been said by someone else and totally give yourself away?

That's Art Donovan watching wrestling.

I keep cracking up everything he asks how much someone weighs. Gorilla and Randy are pretty short with him now. It's freaking gold.

Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5349796)

Is this guy one of the wrestlers?

Originally Posted by PWI

Crenshaw also noted that whether the notion that professional wrestling is sport or entertainment for audiences has become the crux of one of Anthem’s claims for dismissal. One of the claims made against Anthem Wrestling by Jarrett and GFE is that the GFW Amped! Material being used violated The Tennessee Personal Rights Protection Act. Anthem has argued against this because sports broadcasts are exempt under Tennesee law.

Stating this “may be the most interesting genuine issue of material fact”, Crenshaw reviewed a number of previous legal cases that led to some sports stating professional wrestling falls under sport while others have decided it falls under entertainment.

As to where professional wrestling falls for this case, Crenshaw ruled:

“For its part, the Court has no hesitation in concluding that Greco-Roman wrestling – as reintroduced in Athens, Greece at the first modern Olympics in 1896, and as practiced by high school and college athletes in gymnasiums and auditoriums across the country – is a “sport.” Professional wrestling is different, of that there can be little doubt. Some of its mystery over the years has been due to professional wrestling’s penchant for “kayfabe”: In the world of wrestling, the portrayal of staged events as real – the suspension of disbelief that is central to the proceedings – is known as kayfabe. For decades, maintaining kayfabe was de rigueur: “babyfaces” (or “faces”) [good guys] and heels [villians] didn’t ride together or associate in public, and reporters got slapped for suggesting that wrestling was fake. The line between kayfabe and reality began to blur during pro wrestling’s popularity boom during the late ’90s, and these days – thanks to the omnipresence of social media, the sunshine of the internet, and the WWE’s forays into reality TV – kayfabe is effectively dead. While “kayfabe” may now be dead, the staged performances and elaborate personas are not. In fact Plaintiffs proclaim that “professional wrestling involves a script, a predetermined outcome, and ‘out-of-arena’ content that involves storytelling and drama” that is “akin to live action theatre where the audiences does not know the outcome of the event, but the actors and actresses do.” Whether that is the case, or whether professional wrestlers are “athletes engaging in highly dangerous feats of athletic display” as Anthem Wrestling contends for the jury to decide.”

So, the jury will decide, at least for the scope of the lawsuit, whether professional wrestling is sport or entertainment.

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349806)

Seems to wish Diesel was a football player.
He likes the big ones.

Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5349822)

I love that Conrad and JR don't even mention Austin beating the shit out of Debra

Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5349825)

Multiple times

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349810)

Gorilla Monsoon bad at calling moves.

Just says anything.

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349760)

See to me that's the best sort of show to look back on, the thrown together ones.
I like seeing people come and go week to week.

I just don't know how many Hardbody Harrison matches I can handle.

Originally Posted by XL (Post 5349844)

I was looking forward to watching Takeover this morning. Who’s idea was is to move it to Sunday!?

Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito (Post 5350008)

The Nexus was formed one decade ago today.

One of the best segments ever.

Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5349828)

The way I've heard her tell the story is it was ongoing, and he pretty much treated her like she was his prisoner. Similar to Savage and Liz, except more fucked up and violent.

In fact, the more you think about it, Austin - at that time - had similar energy to the Macho Man. Very intense, chaotic, and tightly wound. It all kind of adds up.

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5350131)

Lana seems to be heading in that potential direction based on her recent hatred and interactions with MVP for taking her Bobby away.

Originally Posted by drave (Post 5350135)

This was one of the stupidest fucking turning points ever, by the way. Just drop everything that has ever been anything for the characters "Rusev and Lana" and go the thirsty bitch route.






https://media1.tenor.com/images/68d4...temid=11327348

Originally Posted by Savio (Post 5350130)

I haven't watched in awhile so I don't know the full story and what lead up to that point but that just seems like a whole lot of retreading that has been done numerous times before.


Divas who were at one point in time considered crazy:
Luna
Victoria
Mickie James
Nikki Cross
Trish (During her feud with Mickie)
AJ Lee
Alicia Fox
Lita
Ruby Riott
Daffney


I'm probably forgetting some.

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 5350148)

Was Ruby Riott ever crazy? If being "alt", or whatever they call it, is crazy, I guess so.....

Originally Posted by Tom Guycott (Post 5350224)

Lita seems like a similar stretch. Unless you count the fact that she was diving off of shit when most of her contemporaries were just arm charms, then... maybe? Can't even count the ECW stuff, as it was more just "uncouth" than "crazy".

Originally Posted by Jordan X (Post 5350266)

MLW has signed a deal with DAZN.

Originally Posted by Jordan X (Post 5350266)

MLW has signed a deal with DAZN.

Originally Posted by Fightful

When asked by Sportskeeda how she feels about Tessa Blanchard winning the World Championship in IMPACT Wrestling, Charlotte spoke candidly about feeling like, although she may want to take that same leap in her future, she is more interested at the moment and supporting Tessa Blanchard because she feels all women succeed through the achievements of women across the globe.

“It’s something that I want to pursue but, if you look at the big picture, when women are succeeding in different organizations all around the world, we’re all succeeding and we’re all winning from that,” Charlotte would say. “So for her to hold that accolade is just, we should support and be just extremely proud, as a woman, to see her do that because when one’s doing well, we’re all doing well. That is what has pretty much driven the Women’s Evolution is we work better in numbers, so it’s not something that I think about right now but I couldn’t be more proud and happy for what she is doing for women around the world.”

Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect (Post 5350116)

People respond to different things in different ways in different circumstances. Austin largely gets a pass -- for whatever reason. Doesn't make it right. Others don't. We have an idiosyncratic culture.

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5350427)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The greatest matches in <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWE</a> history? <br><br>Pick three, the rest are erased from history ��<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEBacklash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEBacklash</a> <a href="https://t.co/G76QR3NEC6">pic.twitter.com/G76QR3NEC6</a></p>&mdash; WWE on BT Sport (@btsportwwe) <a href="https://twitter.com/btsportwwe/status/1270390276817854471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Macho Man vs. Steamboat, Bret vs. Austin, and Punk vs. Cena as my choices.

Originally Posted by Fightful

Shawn Michaels was in a heated debate at NXT Takeover In Your House ahead of the show. Michaels was discussing the current social climate with another producer, when said producer mentioned that everyone already gets treated the same. This didn't sit well with Michaels, we're told, who broke down systematic prejudice and inequality to the persona in a very heated discussion. Word of the argument only made its way back among multiple wrestlers the following day, and Michaels was said to be a "professional" and worked with the person even after the argument went down.

Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5350434)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fans Start Petition For WWE To STOP Putting Titles On Charlotte Flair<a href="https://t.co/jO8La7slVH">https://t.co/jO8La7slVH</a></p>&mdash; PWStream (@PWStream) <a href="https://twitter.com/PWStream/status/1270796978004398081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Droford (Post 5350710)

Is anyone else annoyed that the IC title match is happening tomorrow night on SD instead of the ppv? It's almost like they know it'd overshadow the greatest wrestling match ever if they put it on the same show. I'm almost hoping a no contest or something so it does make the ppv instead of shoehorned into a 10 minute slot with commercials

Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5350434)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fans Start Petition For WWE To STOP Putting Titles On Charlotte Flair<a href="https://t.co/jO8La7slVH">https://t.co/jO8La7slVH</a></p>&mdash; PWStream (@PWStream) <a href="https://twitter.com/PWStream/status/1270796978004398081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5350460)

Bret vs Austin, Bret vs Owen and Savage vs Steamboat