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mkay0 posted:He never said that. He’s annoyed that an update on a legitimate cancer issue is used as a ratings ploy.
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Feb 25, 2019 19:43
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exploded mummy posted:imagine if a baseball player stopped playing suddenly and the team dedicated an entire day to him so he could discuss his illness in front of his fans
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Feb 25, 2019 19:49
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Angry Grimace posted:Why would the same standard apply to a company that has people get crushed by garbage compactors and attacked by undead wizards? His indignation makes it seem as though Roman's dying and/or has no agency whatsoever. It's not a big deal - Roman isn't coming back to announce he's dying, and it's none of our business what his specific diagnosis and treatment is. They weren't putting out press releases about how Mark Calloway aka The Undertaker had been buried alive. Putting him on TV not as his character, but as himself, saying they'll give an update on his health after Kane aka Glenn Jacobs poured dirt on him would be more comparable.
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Feb 25, 2019 19:56
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Defiance Industries posted:They weren't putting out press releases about how Mark Calloway aka The Undertaker had been buried alive. Putting him on TV not as his character, but as himself, saying they'll give an update on his health after Kane aka Glenn Jacobs poured dirt on him would be more comparable. I mean, I would buy that if Roman were dying or had died, but there's no way he's coming back to deliver bad or worked bad news.
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Feb 25, 2019 20:08
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Angry Grimace posted:Why would the same standard apply to a company that has people get crushed by garbage compactors and attacked by undead wizards? His indignation makes it seem as though Roman's dying and/or has no agency whatsoever. It's not a big deal - Roman isn't coming back to announce he's dying, and it's none of our business what his specific diagnosis and treatment is. Usually people say something is straight out of WCW for bad booking, but capitalizing on a real cancer diagnosis to draw a big house and pop a rating is straight out of World Class
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Feb 25, 2019 20:12
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Angry Grimace posted:Why would the same standard apply to a company that has people get crushed by garbage compactors and attacked by undead wizards? His indignation makes it seem as though Roman's dying and/or has no agency whatsoever. It's not a big deal - Roman isn't coming back to announce he's dying, and it's none of our business what his specific diagnosis and treatment is. You continue to argue against a point that no one has made. If Roman wanted privacy at the point of diagnosis, he’d obviously have that right. If they wanted to lie and say he was having shoulder surgery or whatever to hide that he was getting cancer treatment because he wanted privacy, I’d support that too. No one is here saying we have a right to his medical information.
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Feb 25, 2019 20:16
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Smoking Crow posted:Usually people say something is straight out of WCW for bad booking, but capitalizing on a real cancer diagnosis to draw a big house and pop a rating is straight out of World Class But it's not a diagnosis. He's probably either in remission or on the way there.
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Feb 25, 2019 20:16
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They're giving Roman his own title to defend at the hospice for the duration.
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Feb 25, 2019 20:21
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Deliberately misinterpreting Dave makes you seem stupid as poo poo tbh
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Feb 25, 2019 21:39
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Angry Grimace posted:I mean, I would buy that if Roman were dying or had died, but there's no way he's coming back to deliver bad or worked bad news. It doesn't really matter, using someone's actual health from a thing that can and does kill people is tacky as gently caress regardless of whether it's good news or not. It's like if Empire was advertising the next episode with "Tune in for an update on the Smolett trial!"
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Feb 25, 2019 23:05
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Feb 26, 2019 00:46
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Fauxhawk Express posted:take the L, you've earned it his entire shtick is refusing to take the L. he travels from thread to thread, far and wide, devil's advocating his way to defeat after defeat. he stinks.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:11
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Talk about podcasts, not posters.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:14
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Chris James 2 posted:https://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.php?id=124417 Starrcast LLC filed for trademark "Dead Man Talking". Either just the title for Taker's discussion appearances that weekend or the name of a planned podcast with him and Conrad Fightful says Taker is indeed looking at starting a podcast. He reached out to Austin’s team this weekend to explore different options
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Feb 26, 2019 02:02
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Every so often I see an ad for the TV show Bull and wonder who the gently caress makes up the audience for a show like that. Now thanks to the latest WOR, I know it's Jerry Jarrett.
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Feb 26, 2019 05:27
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As someone who has only recently started listening to WOR, the Jarrett interview was awesome. Can anyone recommend any similar interviews Dave has done?
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Feb 26, 2019 05:34
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From a fresher perspective, he recently interviewed Tony Khan who is the owner of the new AEW promotion. Any show featuring Jim Cornette is almost always worth a listen to.
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Feb 26, 2019 05:35
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TL posted:As someone who has only recently started listening to WOR, the Jarrett interview was awesome. Can anyone recommend any similar interviews Dave has done? Go back and listen to the Bruno Sammartino interviews and the Paul Heyman interview.
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Feb 26, 2019 05:38
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You've probably all heard it before, but I laughed my rear end off at Jerry's story about calling up Vince to tell him about Eric Bischoff's job offer. "Take it! They won't listen to a word you say and it'll rack up the bills even higher for Ted Turner!"
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Feb 26, 2019 06:34
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I'm interested to know what Dave and Bryan will think of this episode. They tried to address a ton of the stuff they complain about on WOR a lot, but I'm not sure how the execution will be received. It feels like everyone is saying it totally sucked or it totally ruled.  I can see why people would say both, but I think I thought it was pretty drat good and made WrestleMania seem interesting outside of the very top match for the first time.
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Feb 26, 2019 06:49
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Jerusalem posted:You've probably all heard it before, but I laughed my rear end off at Jerry's story about calling up Vince to tell him about Eric Bischoff's job offer. When my dad worked at Hearst when I was a kid, one of his co-workers was married to a guy who worked in WWF production forever. When Jerry Jarett stopped working for the WWF, he sent out a profanity-laced internal memo to the whole company. My dad was offered a copy, but didn't take them up on it to take home for me because he didn't think it was necessarily appropriate. Again, it could have been a weird work for if it got to Bischoff, but...yeah.
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Jerry's an old school territory promoter so I have no doubt that what he said happened and what actually happened are probably a Venn diagram as opposed to a perfect circle, but I still find it a pretty funny story 
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Feb 26, 2019 07:59
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Ricky Steamboat chat is absolutely incredible today
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Feb 26, 2019 12:17
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Steamboat still fucks
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jesus WEP posted:Ricky Steamboat chat is absolutely incredible today Came here to say this haha. Wow.
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Feb 26, 2019 13:50
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Jerusalem posted:Every so often I see an ad for the TV show Bull and wonder who the gently caress makes up the audience for a show like that. Its a good show.
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Feb 26, 2019 14:08
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Meltzer spending like 5 minutes of his podcast bitching endlessly about how horribly tasteless the Baron Corbin promo was is something alright. It was a 30 second promo that consisted of Charley Caruso absolutely burying Corbin for being a loving moron. Its even weirder because it looked very much like the angle being set up is Roman beating the poo poo out of Drew/Corbin/Lashley at the same time at Fastlane, and probably Roman beating the poo poo out of Ambrose at WrestleMania (in a short brawl where they shake hands and reunite at the end).
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Angry Grimace posted:Meltzer spending like 5 minutes of his podcast bitching endlessly about how horribly tasteless the Baron Corbin promo was is something alright. It was a 30 second promo that consisted of Charley Caruso absolutely burying Corbin for being a loving moron. Its even weirder because it looked very much like the angle being set up is Roman beating the poo poo out of Drew/Corbin/Lashley at the same time at Fastlane, and probably Roman beating the poo poo out of Ambrose at WrestleMania (in a short brawl where they shake hands and reunite at the end). First of all, it was five minutes, and secondly it was one of the worst pieces of writing ever on a show that is known for bafflingly dumb writing. It would be unforgivable if he didn't mention it. Unrelated: lmao if you're not thinking about Ricky Steamboat during the birth of your first child.
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Feb 26, 2019 19:11
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I have an update on Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez. Ahem: They’re both good
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Angry Grimace posted:Meltzer spending like 5 minutes of his podcast bitching endlessly about how horribly tasteless the Baron Corbin promo was is something alright. It was a 30 second promo that consisted of Charley Caruso absolutely burying Corbin for being a loving moron. Its even weirder because it looked very much like the angle being set up is Roman beating the poo poo out of Drew/Corbin/Lashley at the same time at Fastlane, and probably Roman beating the poo poo out of Ambrose at WrestleMania (in a short brawl where they shake hands and reunite at the end). The segment was tasteless and sucked in what was an otherwise decent RAW and you should be charging Dave for the space he's renting in your head.
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Feb 26, 2019 19:21
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Chris James 2 posted:I have an update on Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez. Ahem: This IS it, chief
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Feb 26, 2019 19:23
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Chris James 2 posted:I have an update on Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez. Ahem:
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Gumball Gumption posted:The segment was tasteless and sucked in what was an otherwise decent RAW and you should be charging Dave for the space he's renting in your head. I pay Meltzer for his podcast. I feel like disagreeing with him from time to time is totally fair. I'm hardly saying Meltzer sucks, I just don't agree with that take. I mean, Corbin didn't get away with saying a bunch of bullshit: he got clowned by the announcer and then Roman himself (and they set up him getting clowned again at Fastlane).
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Feb 26, 2019 19:34
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Angry Grimace posted:
But, unfortunately, the folks who wrote that crap aren't going to get beaten for it, and they should.
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Feb 26, 2019 19:42
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I'd have less of a problem with it, if it were delivered by a hot heel that has the charisma to pull it off and sell a match, but not Baron loving Corbin
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RealFoxy posted:I'd have less of a problem with it, if it were delivered by a hot heel that has the charisma to pull it off and sell a match, but not Baron loving Corbin I think you would absolutely not want a heel you plan to ever do anything with to have that angle.
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Chris James 2 posted:Fightful says Taker is indeed looking at starting a podcast. He reached out to Austin’s team this weekend to explore different options Now I really miss the Ten Minute Podcast because Will Sasso would absolutely have done a great parody of this.
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Angry Grimace posted:I think you would absolutely not want a heel you plan to ever do anything with to have that angle. You realize that the solution to this is not to pay for someone to be give all of the poo poo angles you don't want real people to have, but to not do the bad ideas, right?
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Angry Grimace posted:I think you would absolutely not want a heel you plan to ever do anything with to have that angle. Memphis killed Jimmy Hart for a loving decade and it still drew. Its all in the execution.
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