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Mega GIRL posted:At the end of the day, this is the same guy who was charging people MORE money for buying a full-year subscription to his website compared to those buying it month-to-month. Of course he's not going to see why wrestling fans wouldn't want to hear him talk to his grandmother for 20-30 minutes. I don't remember this ever being the case.
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Web Jew.0 posted:- Motor Beer I would have accepted Gun Beer as a name. Anyway, both Dave and Bryan are massive sperglords so no poo poo they get worked up too much about wrestling and can't have conversations like normal people. Comes with the territory of being a pro graps journalist, I guess.
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CombineThresher posted:Anyway, both Dave and Bryan are massive sperglords so no poo poo they get worked up too much about wrestling and can't have conversations like normal people. Comes with the territory of being a pro graps journalist, I guess. Oh, Dave's fine talking about anything. Sometimes he might get caught up on something, but it's not an idiotic thing that Bryan starts his rage gimmick up on. Bryan knows less than half of the PSP.
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James Storm likes Beer. Robert Roode likes money. James Storm and Robert Roode become Beer Money. Robert Roode taught James Storm that to buy as much beer as he desires, he needs money. James Storm taught Robert Roode that if you have a beer once in a while, it's easier to relax and focus on being a great wrestler. Ergo, when James Storm is not with Robert Roode, he still loves money. It buys him beer.
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Mega GIRL posted:At the end of the day, this is the same guy who was charging people MORE money for buying a full-year subscription to his website compared to those buying it month-to-month. Of course he's not going to see why wrestling fans wouldn't want to hear him talk to his grandmother for 20-30 minutes. He's charging around $15 less for a full year subscription than a subscription for a year on a month-by-month basis. 
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Capsaicin posted:He's charging around $15 less for a full year subscription than a subscription for a year on a month-by-month basis. I never got that. Turns me off long term subscription...
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LordPants posted:I never got that. Turns me off long term subscription... It's $11 a month or $120 a year. You save $12 by paying for a year.
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MassRayPer posted:I don't remember this ever being the case. It was when the cost of a month subscription was $9.99 and the price of the full year subscription was still like $120.99. I wanted to get a full year subscription at the time but saw that I wouldn't be saving any money-- but actually losing a dollar. There was even a thread about it on the f4w board with some posters refusing to buy the year subscription out of principal. If you look on the board I'm sure the thread is still there with Bryan's response.
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Capsaicin posted:It's $11 a month or $120 a year. You save $12 by paying for a year. A dollar a month isn't a substantial saving. By comparison Autosport is 8.60 a month, 74 dollars a year, which is about 30 dollars savings? algebra testes fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Sep 4, 2011 |
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Just finished listening to the latest Art Of Wrestling. Wow, Alex Shane is kind of a nutcase.
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Lamuella posted:Just finished listening to the latest Art Of Wrestling. In what way? Is he still working his conspiracy gimmick?
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:In what way? Is he still working his conspiracy gimmick? yeah, went on a bit of a rant about it, saying he'd learned more about booking FWA from conspiracy videos than from other promotions. Also made some weird comments about astrology, thhe moon and human bodies being "90% water" that were up there with Violent J wondering how magnets worked.
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Lamuella posted:yeah, went on a bit of a rant about it, saying he'd learned more about booking FWA from conspiracy videos than from other promotions. Also made some weird comments about astrology, thhe moon and human bodies being "90% water" that were up there with Violent J wondering how magnets worked. Yeah, but scientists do be lyin', and gettin' me pissed.
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Lamuella posted:yeah, went on a bit of a rant about it, saying he'd learned more about booking FWA from conspiracy videos than from other promotions. Also made some weird comments about astrology, thhe moon and human bodies being "90% water" that were up there with Violent J wondering how magnets worked. I think 90% water is actually accurate. Going to give that a shot when I can, Shane being one of the handful of wrestlers I've actually seen work live.
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BizarroAzrael posted:I think 90% water is actually accurate. Going to give that a shot when I can, Shane being one of the handful of wrestlers I've actually seen work live. It's actually more like 60-70%, but even if it were 90%, it wouldn't mean that the human body was massively affected by tidal forces from the moon, as Shane was saying.
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Lamuella posted:It's actually more like 60-70%, but even if it were 90%, it wouldn't mean that the human body was massively affected by tidal forces from the moon, as Shane was saying. Ha Ha Ha!! What the hell? That's straight out of the Middle Ages.
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Borh posted:Ha Ha Ha!! What the hell? That's straight out of the Middle Ages. I think of it as homeopathic knowledge. If you take an infinitesimal piece of information and dilute it enough in utter loving nonsense, it becomes a powerful agent for ignorance.
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Bryan So I think they're going for a three way with the Bellas and Del Rio. Dave: Or maybe a four way with Ricardo. Bryan: And maybe Ricardo can be sitting at a desk watching.* (over Dave's head) Dave: Or calling the moves. Bryan: That too... is possible. The gag being that Ricardo was outed as being an extra in a porn film on The Board.
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I liked Alvarez talking about how pale Sheamus was on the show last night, and called him "transluscent" and "see-through". Dave's response?quote:No, you couldn't see his internal organs.
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Capsaicin posted:I liked Alvarez talking about how pale Sheamus was on the show last night, and called him "transluscent" and "see-through". I finally got around to watching the first episode of Fringe and finished it about 20 minutes before I listened to that podcast. It was one of those strange coincidences that happen in life.
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ZoDiAC_ posted:How and why did Alvarez and Meltzer come together / merge their sites? I'm curious too, although it seems to have really worked out for both parties, letting each focus more on the actual part of covering wrestling they like.
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ZoDiAC_ posted:How and why did Alvarez and Meltzer come together / merge their sites? Dave was absolutely swamped after the Benoit murders and had no time for anything for months. At some point the idea came up, and then in early 2008 they began seriously discussing it. The why seems to be mostly just a way to streamline their business (maybe mostly Dave's) and save some time as much as mutual advantage and how the merger would enhance both of their products. Every time it comes up Dave talks about how busy and stressed he was prior to it and how he couldn't keep that pace up.
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Dave & Bryan had been working together for ages before the merger anyway. They had a radio show together that started in 1999, plus Dave would be on Bryan's podcasts all the time. The Wrestling Observer didn't really have an online presence, so it made sense for Dave to merge his newsletter with Bryan's website & podcasts. The two of them together would be a stronger opponent to the Torch and whatever else is considered their competitors.
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Don't forget Dave with his popular Yahoo! MMA column and wanting to spend more time talking about MMA. The moment he finds the Ric Flair of MMA, he'll be gone from wrestling for good.
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Dave is really, really annoying sometimes. During the discussion about the last time Tyson lost his title he is sperging out so hard about not remembering the exact date and Bryan keeps saying "Point is it's been a long time ago" and Dave launches right back into worrying about what the exact date was on and on. God drat Meltzer - just shut up.
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Lone Rogue posted:Don't forget Dave with his popular Yahoo! MMA column and wanting to spend more time talking about MMA. The moment he finds the Ric Flair of MMA, he'll be gone from wrestling for good. Is it your job to post the most incorrect statements you can? If you would listen to Dave you would know he loves wrestling more than MMA and possibly more than his family. The guy spends way more time talking about wrestling, goes on much longer tangents about wrestling and covers wrestling far more than MMA.
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Yeah Dave loves wrestling, he is just not as happy with what the WWE has done with it. He casually mentioned watching the G-1 Climax a week ago, I don't think he'd be watching that stuff if he didn't care about wrestling anymore. He just doesn't talk about things like that because he is paid to talk about WWE, that's what the vast majority of his audience wants. triplexpac fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Sep 6, 2011 |
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This is a man who had a free weekend and spent it studying the history of the NWA champions and their title contenders from the 1950s to the 1970s. Dave leave prowrestling for mma..hah. Also you should have said it would happen when the Japanese women's division becomes better than any men's division in the world, that would be much more of a 'Dave Meltzer' thing than "The Ric Flair of MMA".
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MassRayPer posted:Is it your job to post the most incorrect statements you can? Uh, *raises hand* That position. Is filled.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Dave is really, really annoying sometimes. During the discussion about the last time Tyson lost his title he is sperging out so hard about not remembering the exact date and Bryan keeps saying "Point is it's been a long time ago" and Dave launches right back into worrying about what the exact date was on and on. I don't think you "get" dave.
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I think part of the problem Dave has is that the things he says are reported elsewhere, and often reported wrong. So he is probably worried that DirtSheetScoopz.com or something will put up a headline that reads "UFC in talks with Mike Tyson*" *as reported by Dave Meltzer
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HulkaMatt posted:I don't think you "get" dave. No I 'get' him just fine. I know he's obsessive and doesn't know what a joke is but it just gets to be too much sometimes. I can handle his complete lack of a sense of humor but the talking to himself for ten minutes at a time just trying to remember some insignificant detail while Bryan keeps repeating himself trying to move the conversation forward is terrible.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:No I 'get' him just fine. I know he's obsessive and doesn't know what a joke is but it just gets to be too much sometimes. I can handle his complete lack of a sense of humor but the talking to himself for ten minutes at a time just trying to remember some insignificant detail while Bryan keeps repeating himself trying to move the conversation forward is terrible. Dave's gimmick is that he takes all jokes and joke questions deadly serious on the radio shows while Bryan plays the whacky guy, it's been that way since the merger. It isn't that he just doesn't get humor as he has shown from some classic iceburns of posters on the F4W board.
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If you listen to a show where both of them are in the same room and not doing the show over telephone, you can tell Dave gets the jokes. He just has such a dry sense of humor it doesn't always come through.
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Labored Wooting posted:It isn't that he just doesn't get humor as he has shown from some classic iceburns of posters on the F4W board. Examples of such iceburns please. (not doubting you just really wanna see them)
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This is the first thing that turns up if you search for "Dave" on the forums.DC Sniper posted:[Observer Newsletter] SHOULD BE CALLED "WRESTLING TOILET PAPER" Dave posted:SEPTEMBER 5 ISSUE
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I don't even think Dave is that down on wrestling right now. He likes something almost every show and has been thumbs up lately on a lot of PPVs people here mostly hated. There have been times just since I've been following that he's absolutely hated the WWE product from top to bottom. He's just harping on the fact that business is bad because, well, business is bad.
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