Yea the NBA is on basically every night from now until the finals.

A better product would be preferable, but I can, in this backwards sort of way, understand why the WWE wants to have a sustainable and simple status quo for easy production. Putting on good content is work and creates further demand for quality content. You might bring in a few hundred thousand people with a better product, but when the quality dips, does your stock price dip with it when the people leave?

They’ve already got that narrative to battle though — people are leaving the stale product. And even without changing the overall philosophy of the promotion, WWE could just be better executed as is.

Arn Anderson recently switched formats on his podcast dur to poor feedback. The show is now Arn telling the story of his career starting at the very beginning. It went from being the worst wrestling podcast to one of the best. They are 4 episodes in and it's fantastic.

i liked ask arn every other week

They've done so many of those. What else is there to ask. Arn is better as a story teller imo.

so what did people hate his wwe 2001 to 2016 stories, i don't get the arn hate.

He's just so dry and boring in that format.

i am glad jeff j's show is with the rest of conrads shows now i hated looking for it.

Jeff's show has reinvigorated me with Conrad's podcasts. I like to listen to Jr and Tony as well but they do seem to have e lost the steam. When Tony started reviews for ECW I tapped out. JR is worth it if they topic is of interest.

You gotta check out Arn's show now. You'd love it.

The live watches JR does are unlistenable. Like you said, it depends on the topic.

I wish Kurt Angle's show were better. He just doesn't provide much insight.

I hope Albert goes into the Hall of Fame as part of the X-Factor

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"Dirty knacker" Justin Credible getting into the hof seems hellish.

Cool I'll give Arm a go.

With Jarrett, already I feel like you can't listen to him and not have a renewed interest in his past. I've been watching him in WCW and a few early TNA episodes. He was such a great heel. So funny at times too. When he interrupted Toby Keith at the first TNA show, legit one of the greatest heel heat moments ever. Fucking hilarious. Also in 2000 Nash gave him Commissioner duties, he was hilarious in that role. The worst thing about the end of WCW is by far Mark Madden. Whatever was bad, he made worse. I can't stand Mark fucking Madden.

Jeff Jarrett was never untalented. It was just too much at the wrong time for the guy.

Asuka tweeted out a photo of Allegiant Stadium in Nevada. Many are speculating that this is the site for SummerSlam. Don’t know how wise it is to be tweeting out that sort of stuff when the WWE is looking to cut talent and you’re a woman approaching your 40’s that probably earns a bit of scratch.

This will see SummerSlam joining WrestleMania and the Royal Rumble as the WWE’s annual stadium shows. Might lend credence to the rumors of Roman Reigns vs. John Cena and Bobby Lashley vs. Brock Lesnar as main events for the show, unless they just plan on people being able to attend shows being the draw.

Welcome to our newest member, Kenny Omega

Thing is, with a guy like Kenny Omega, I could believe it could actually be him....

I'd buy that Kenny would sign up for a forum for sure.

Kenny signing up for a forum and simply using his ring name would be hilarious

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Those Power Plant guys were so fucking rotten. I believe that's Dave Burkhead

Who was training them that they looked so clueless?

So, has anyone actually thought about how insane the Shield was?

Like, We are gonna debut three guys in the same time, in the same group. That Samoan Guy is obviously a star... but, so is the crazy eyed one... but, so is the traditionally good looking guy. We need to protect these guys and build them up.

Seriously, how do you just somehow manage to debut the Main Event of your show for the next 5 years in the same night? It'd be the equivalent of, in the '80s, debuting Randy Savage, Ric Flair, and Hulk Hogan in the same night. That is unprecedented.

the funny thing is 3 man band came up at the same time and slater thought he was going to get roman and seth and not drew and jender

And 3 Man Band is the only thing close to the Shield, and most of the time they played second fiddle to Hornswaggle.

of the 2 groups slater was the only one not to get the big title

Buddy Lee Parker and Jody Hamilton (The Assassin)

All the guys that came from the Power Plant were in crazy shape but the shits in ring.

The Power Plant was eventually sold to Curtis Hughes. Yes, Mr. Hughes has a wrestling school. And he's trained some pretty good folks. Including Heath Slater.

I heard Curtis is an excellent trainer as well

TPWW Curtis

TPWW Curtis Hughes

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When does MLW start on VICE, I wanna watch the first episode

If it were me, I would have taken the opposite approach. I'd be the type of asshole who signs up under an assumed name, and shits on my "real" name.

For example, if I were true to this gimmick, it would be revealed through thorough internet sleuthing that *I* am actually HHH.

At GCW last night, a druid attached Nick Gage. Crowd pops huge assuming it's Jon Moxley. The druid seemingly confirms it by hitting Gage with the Paradigm Shift, crowd goes bananas.

Except the druid unmasked as Matt Cardona, and and the realization of the crowd that they'd been tricked got him big heat. Tremendous.

God I hope the border is open by the fall. GCW are coming to Michigan in October.

Brian Last having an aneurysm because Cornette has never heard of Microsoft office.

And then has a second aneurysm when Cornette suggests his own crypto currency while having no clue how crypto currency actually works.

What an amazing segment.

"Who's Mac and how much are his apples?"

I finished watching this Playlist today. 434 WCW 1998 Saturday Night matches. Where did my parents go wrong.

Just watched this and it is indeed a fine little swerve

Just watched it too. Awesome bit.

‘92-‘96 (pre-NWO) WCW Saturday Night is my go-to wrestling comfort watch.

I'm gonna tackle 1997 next and work my way backwards. I love when two low card/jobbers face each other.

There was a short stint where they would do a weekly jobber vs jobber match. I can’t remember the name of the segment but these were JOBBER jobbers. A notch below the Joey Maggses of the company.

Wasn't that during Bill Watts tenure

I’m pretty sure.

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Hey, Blitzkreig had to build up credibility somewhere before his weekly WorldWide loss to a "star".

I got to see Blitzkreig's television debut live. Also saw Will Sasso cost Bret Hart the US Title on that show.

Oh shit I remember that show lol

Lmao I remember you sent a comment in SCG Radio about The Godfather's random heel turn in 2002 and just opening the comment with "I was watching a 2002 episode of Metal" prompted a "WHY?"

Lmao!!! I love this shit.

Lol I remember that story anyone got a link to the episode?

Metal was the shit back in the day. Felt so fresh seeing guys you wouldn’t normally see.

Say that after you've seen the 100th Mideon match lol.

so the nwa is going to have womans only ppv in aug. do they have enough women for that? guess they will have to work with impact an use most of the aew women.

Regular Mideon or naked Mideon?

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Ehhh that is nitpicking, it was a pull apart brawl. In theory that should make it much harder to land punches.

nah thats bad right there Xrod. He was pulling those punches WAY too early.

I honestly can't think of any wrestler under the age of 40 who throws good punches off the top of my head.

Very few people have good punches now, but Holy shit that was terrible.

Posts like this make me wanna watch current stuff as a scavenger hunt to see if I can find good punches.

They’d probably come from a brute. Are their any good brutes nowadays? I’ve heard good things about Walter but I know nothing of his punch game.

Walter is a chopper. Doesn't punch much from what I've seen.

Why is this not used? This is legit! How is that not a heel move?

So is Roman Reigns the only person to team with Seth Rollins and still be wrestling there? Moxley, Jason Jordan, Braun, Buddy Murphy, AOP...the list goes on and on. It's like working with Rollins is like making some kind of proverbial deal with the devil. You're gonna end up with the tag titles, you have a really good chance of winning a solo title after, but you're gonna be on the chopping block in a couple years. Add to that all the other people Rollins has injured, like Brock, Cena and Sting....and I really think Seth is cursed. He's like the cover of Madden.

I'm now for some reason imagining Ric Flair countering a victory roll by crawling away and the mental image is fucking hilarious.

Imagine him crawling out like that just to stand up and Flair Flop. Now I wanna see that.

Thunder Rosa has an all Women's Promotion called Mission Pro. A few of those girls have shown up in AEW Dark. So I imagine they have access to enough Women for a good show.

yeah thunder has a sister but i still think they will need impact to help them. i can see thunder and her sister going for the knockout tag belts.

Did naked mideon ever wreslte? Geniunly curious

He fought Regal at a PPV for the Euro title

Now I remember Regal going for his Regal Stretch and being disgusted as to how to apply it.

"Post ministry of Darkness fighting Gangrel every other week" Mideon

lmao I love this feed so much


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lmao jesus you almost expect to see his head fall off after that

Here's one for Noid. Danny Bashem's goth gimmick against Nigel McGuinness. One and only appearance under this gimmick.

B shows rule lol

lol I remember watching that. I loved when guys would just try weird shit on the secondary shows.

Dancing Cowboy David Hart Smith

Oooooo this is my wheelhouse. B Show gimmicks that never went anywhere. I'll stick to the WWE because there was a TON in WCW. Unless you want me to rattle off some of those.

Luchador Charlie Haas

Johnny Swinger doing a "Swinger" gimmick

Planet Stasiak

Planet Stasiak fucking ruled.

Recon and Sniper forming a tag team called " Armageddon" after the Truth Commission split in 1998.

Gertner, your top 5 jobber punishments/humiliations after a squash match please

5) Bunkhouse Buck hogtie
4) Bradshaw/Funk branding
3) Mountie shock stick
2) Sid stretcher
1) Undertaker bodybag

1. DiBiase stuffing money in the mouth
2. Taker Bodybag
3. Beefcake cutting hair
4. Mountie Shock stick
5. Jake putting the snake on the jobber

Oh yeah the snake

Hideous oversight

Honorable menchies to when the Genius would write things on a jobber’s chest after a Beverly Brothers match

Remember when Jake came back for the "Old School" RAW and put the snake on Dean Ambrose, and Ambrose was just smiling and probably marking out?

Pretty sure crawling away would lead to him turning around and begging off.

Speaking of Flair flops, my favorite was when he would take ten head slams into the turnbuckle from the babyface, but then give himself like five more unassisted, then stagger to the dead center of the ring and flop. It's one of those things that would be phony as fuck with ANYONE else, but Flair got away with it and made it awesome because he's fucking Flair.

Two mentions of Mountie's shock stick, but zero mentions of The Nasty Boys' "Pit Stop"?

I mean, it's not a favorite, but it was pretty memorable.

Honestly forgot about Genius writing stuff on people... LANNY POFFO nWo CONFIRMED!

jobbers getting spray painted/written on was always fun

Ambrose sucks so much.

And put Becky on the shelf with a baby at the peak of her powers.

I never fucking knew about this. Amazing. I think I actually subconsciously like Bull Buchanan. I never realized I was a fan, but I used to lightly enjoy his running leg to the guy draped on the top rope and his leaping clothesline off the top.

I absolutely adore the back body drop into a powerbomb. That was my made up tag team finisher as a kid that I never saw anyone do.

I always forget about this Quebecers run. They feel so out of place.

It’s way later than I ever remember them existing. They feel like a parody. Definitely out of place. Like Rick Martel in WCW ‘98 or Christian in AEW now.