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He sounds like such a bitter bitch smark just because his precious DBry lost the title. Actually he sounds like a 4 year old who dropped his ice cream at Disney Land so by their logic the rest of the park sucks. Edit: What do people think of that ROH match they are claiming stole the weekend? As a non ROH fan should I go out of my way to get this DVD when it comes out? I don't dislike ROH, I just don't watch it.
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TLM posted:He sounds like such a bitter bitch smark just because his precious DBry lost the title. Elgin/Richards was the match of the weekend, year, and probably better than any match last year.
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Yeah it's seriously one of the best matches I've seen in years. Absolutely worth tracking down even if you don't follow ROH.
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It was funny hearing Bryan struggle to think of a match that elevated a guy like Elgin vs Richards when ROH did the same thing in 08 with Tyler Black. Hopefully they don't botch the follow up like they did there.
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MassRayPer posted:It was funny hearing Bryan struggle to think of a match that elevated a guy like Elgin vs Richards when ROH did the same thing in 08 with Tyler Black. Hopefully they don't botch the follow up like they did there. He went to a match just like that live two years ago! (Tozawa/Hero)
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Lloyd Boner posted:He went to a match just like that live two years ago! (Tozawa/Hero) I love that match.
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I can't recall ever hearing Dave really angry before, but man, he was pissed about Overeem.
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One of my favorite things about my past couple months of subscribing to F4/WO is the old smark letters written to Dave in 1994. At some point I'll go through and pluck a few gems before I let my subscription expire.
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Bryan (reading a question): "What is the relationship between John Cena and Betty Skaaland?" Dave: "....maybe they're lovers"
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Bikeage posted:Yeah, Vinny came off pretty bad with that, like the Comic Book Guy of smarks (is that implied?). Sitting there with his arms crossed pouting because of the Bryan match. It was a great match but the story was really disjointed even with JR on commentary, I can definitely see how the matches story would seem totally disjointed without commentary. Not that I enjoyed the match any less, but being in the live audience I could see how this would be possible.
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Rodney the Piper posted:One of my favorite things about my past couple months of subscribing to F4/WO is the old smark letters written to Dave in 1994. At some point I'll go through and pluck a few gems before I let my subscription expire. The most recent one where some reader gets pissed at him for making a joke about steroids and Austrians for example...
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Rodney the Piper posted:One of my favorite things about my past couple months of subscribing to F4/WO is the old smark letters written to Dave in 1994. At some point I'll go through and pluck a few gems before I let my subscription expire. I always liked the recurring one where a guy is looking for Traci Lords videos.
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I'm having an issue finding the original letter that inspired my comment (someone asking about angles of the time period with stuff like "if Earthquake really squished Damien, WHY DIDN'T BLOOD LEAK THROUGH THE BAG?!"), but here's a couple that I found notable. 12/12/94 quote:Art Barr was my best friend in Mexico and when I learned of his passing, I had to write down my feelings. I had talked with him only 40 hours earlier. I'm not a poet and never claimed to be. The poem is just my feelings for a guy who I shared a major part of the last two years of my life with. God bless you Art. I love you man. 12/26/94 - an early Jericho nemesis quote:I must question your choice of lead stories and the amount of space you allocate to what I consider almost insignificant news while ignoring major developments. Case in point is the decision to devote nearly four-and-a-half pages to the death of a minor league wrestler like Art Barr while greatly downplaying the story by the WWF to transfer its heavyweight title a few days after a PPV event. This is a sign of questionable news judgement. 10/17/94 quote:I agree with reader Ron Daignault on the ECW fans. They are more interested in seeing someone seriously injured than in seeing a good wrestling match. I believe they'd encourage 911 to choke slam a five-year-old.
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It's too bad we never got to see 911: Little Child Chokeslammer.
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Lone Rogue posted:It's too bad we never got to see 911: Little Child Chokeslammer. Benoit stole his gimmick.
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Moose Bigelow posted:Benoit stole his gimmick. Dude! Benoit didn't slam him.
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Gaz-L posted:Dude! Never been proven.
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Observer posted:Goldberg didn’t love wrestling. But he didn’t hate it either. He didn’t like the politics or didn’t fully understand it. But he did love one aspect of wrestling, and that is it made him a star and allowed him to bring smiles to children’s faces, particularly those with health issues.  Goldberg rules. edit: Richards/Elgin five snowflakes! algebra testes fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Apr 6, 2012 |
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Rodney the Piper posted:I'm having an issue finding the original letter that inspired my comment (someone asking about angles of the time period with stuff like "if Earthquake really squished Damien, WHY DIDN'T BLOOD LEAK THROUGH THE BAG?!"), but here's a couple that I found notable. It's kind of interesting how well-written those letters are.
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LordPants posted:
So Goldberg was basically the Christopher Eccleston of wrestling's "Doctor Who". 
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Rick posted:It's kind of interesting how well-written those letters are. People used to write letters all of the time. Even when it was, "I HATE YOU!" letters they paid attention to grammar and punctuation. Imagine a message board where you could only write until your hand cramps and people don't get your message for days. You'd pay better attention to what you were writing too.
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Grandpa Pap posted:So Goldberg was basically the Christopher Eccleston of wrestling's "Doctor Who". He did like wearing leather jackets.
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Interesting Art Of Wrestling this week, interviewing Roland Alexander, owner of APW (and minor character in Beyond The Mat). Whereas usually Colt's interviews make me empathize with the interviewee, all I could think during this was that Alexander might be the most stereotypical booker of all time. Every story he told was ultimately about him being smarter and a harder worker than anyone else, and about how he worked his rear end off for all these people who tried to screw him. It was interesting to hear someone so completely absorbed by their own version of events, but then that's wrestling for you I guess.
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Gaz-L posted:He did like wearing leather jackets. I think you're thinking of Tank Abbott
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Rick posted:It's kind of interesting how well-written those letters are. That's how you know they're real letters not written by Meltzer.
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I usually like wrestling weekly. I don't listen to it often as I have less time for the podcasts these days, but this week's episode looked interesting given it had a super WCW story. I couldn't get through Les' WM breakdown. Once he said how UT/HHH didn't need a million kicks to tell a great story I was rolling my eyes. Both are great matches, but come on, you are going to laud two guys for mastering the subtle art of pro wrestling for a match where they did a million hard chair shots that roughed one guy up and a bunch of shots to the eye for hardway blood that roughed up the other one? On top of that the WCW story wasn't really even that interesting.
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Gaz-L posted:I still don't get why Triple H didn't just blade. You're the boss's son-in-law, you and your wife are two of the highest ranked executives in the company. They're not gonna fire you. There's plausible deniability in hardway blood, I guess. You can do it, and not look like a hypocrite for blading.
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Plus an argument for HHH & 'Taker not blading would be that they have to set examples for the rest of the guys. Of course, this is usually ignored in every other way. This is from the 9/13/93 Observer. I think some of the arguments are silly, but I also thought some were kind of interesting: quote:In response to Gary Graham's letter in the 6/7 Observer, I do feel he's a bit off base. While I don't follow AAA and I personally don't like Lucha Libre style, I don't feel that coverage of that promotion should stop in the Observer. You can't ignore a hot promotion like AAA. Back in 1989, the UWF was the hottest promotion in the world. There were many who sound the "shooting style" as boring, but that would be no excuse not to cover it in the Observer.
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Apples and oranges. You can't compare guys from different eras who did different things and were excellent in their own way. At least in my opinion, anyway.
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The big difference between Flair getting the fans to Whoo and Liger getting a reaction for a dive is one takes much less effort and risk. That is one of the worst arguments I have read. Flair could also get a giant reaction for the flop, a single chop or the Figure 4.
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http://www.sixdrinksin.com/2012/04/10/six-drinks-in-does-monday-night-raw-for-04-09-12/ Six Drinks In does RAW for the first time ever. I've been told not to yell so much after the Wrestlemania show. Anyway, here's a show.
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I got frustrated with Review-a-Raw tonight because of how much they actually praised this week's Raw, haha.
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Cardboard Box posted:I got frustrated with Review-a-Raw tonight because of how much they actually praised this week's Raw, haha.
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Well I can see Dave & Bryan's point of view. In the grand scheme of things, that was just a mediocre Raw. It also seemed a lot worse than it was because we were all still high off last week's great episode. Last night had the good pull apart brawl, a bunch of nothing matches and some ok storyline progression from Punk & Jericho. It wasn't like it was TNA, where it's actively offensive.
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I love how Dave basically said today that if you're poor, you cannot be a true fan. Not to defend Miz or say that he had a tough life or whatever because I don't think he did, but saying someone is basically a fake fan or knows nothing because they haven't been to a live show is ridiculous.
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sportsgenius86 posted:I love how Dave basically said today that if you're poor, you cannot be a true fan.
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sportsgenius86 posted:I love how Dave basically said today that if you're poor, you cannot be a true fan. That's hosed up.
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Actually I kind of agree with him. I haven't listened to the new Observer yet, but I really didn't have a great appreciation of wrestling until I went to a live show. I was a fan in the attitude era but actually being at a show, you are part of the show in a lot of ways and doing your job and popping at things or booing the heel is something that you really can't "get" until you've been in the audience. I don't know that I would use the word "true" though. It's just kinda inflammatory to suggest that people who can't go to shows are less of a real fan than someone who goes to all the shows. I think I can understand what he's might be saying... gently caress it I'll go listen to his argument and come back to finish my thoughts.
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