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“Hey Mick, remember when the ECW crowds wanted to cane Dewey? Well, if you had NordVPN back then, you could sleep peacefully knowing Dewey was protected by the leader in internet privacy. Use CODE “CaneDewey” for a 1-month free trail.”

"I don't like gays. Write that down in your little notebook. I don't like gays." - Brock Lesnar.

While looking the quote up, I came across this (warning: Stormfront). What a wretched selection of cunts; I can't believe they're actually serious.

During the last match, the Japanese commentators said that WWE can't do what they do, and can't touch them in match quality(actually called out WWE)

And they're god damn right.

EDIT: Happens around 33:40

"If I could be honest, Kanazawa-san, can WWE do what we do?"

"Well if we're speaking match quality...can I say it?"

"Should we not?"

"I think it's ok. Let's just say that WWE in-ring product is becoming more New-Japan like"

"Exactly, you could say it's a sales war!"

Movie's name is Kaiju Mono in case you are wondering.

> His body was pretty broken at this point.

That's actually not true. Here's from a recent blog entry:

A huge misconception is that I retired due to injuries. Instead, I retired young, before I wrecked my body. This was always my plan, which is why I went so hard in the ring. I was beat to hell after I completed Tournament of Death 2, but several months later? I was fine. I was in my early 20's, and still fortunately able to bounce back from injuries and abuse.

And if you need to get one of the allowed bags, here's an Amazon link

Buddy Rogers wasn't exactly well-liked by his peers. Blassie didn't mince his words about him in his book.

> “Rogers was a fuckin’ prick, and a lot of the wrestlers hated him. In 1962, Karl Gotch and Bill Miller beat the shit out of him in a dressing room in Columbus, Ohio. I heard that Rogers had to flee in a jock strap, nursing a broken hand. If you ever had any dealings with the son of a bitch, you’d understand why Gotch and Miller were driven to violence. There was nobody worse. > > He could have cared less about your body. Instead of protecting you like a good opponent, he’d go out of his way to hurt you. If you were working out a high spot with him—whispering to each other in the middle of your match about which move to execute next—you could never trust his word. For example, he might tell you, “I’ll whip you into the ropes, then leapfrog you when you come off.” Instead, when you’d be bouncing back towards Rogers, he’d hit you in the head with a potato. > > Lou Thesz once warned me, “Don’t let him get a hammerlock on you because he’ll try to go home with it.” In other words, if you allowed him to get in a position where he could manipulate your body, he’d punish you—and maybe even stretch you until you submitted, regardless of what you’d worked out beforehand. > > Because of my look—the bleached hair and flashy ring jackets—I was often compared to scumbag Rogers.”

Nasties were reckless and unsafe as fuck

> I had one more match before the surgery-a Chicago street fight (an anything-goes, falls-count-anywhere match) that would team me and Maxx in a war with the Nasty Boys. I knew it was my last match, but I just couldn’t get up for it. I wondered, “How am I going to get through this without stinking the place up?” The answer was simple. Survival. Jerry Saggs broke a pool cue over my head, and Brian Knobbs nearly dented my skull. The Nasties were sloppy as hell, and more than a little dangerous, but they knew how to brawl. About a minute into this thing, I realized that I’d better start fighting or I was going to get killed out there. About three minutes in, I realized we were in the midst of something pretty special. Saggs attempted to piledrive me on a table for the finish. The table buckled under our weight and we crashed to the ramp. As I got up, Saggs pushed me and I fell backward off the five-foot ramp and onto the cold, hard concrete below. I didn’t land flat, however, and I knew that my shoulder was injured. But at least I’d earned the right to rest, right? Not quite yet. Saggs hopped down off the ramp, and I winced when I saw Knobbs throw him a scoop shovel. It was plastic, but I knew with this crazy bastard swinging, it would hurt just the same. He raised the shovel high overhead, almost like an axe. I remembered what DeNucci had taught us about protecting our teeth and nose, and I turned my head to the side. Saggs proceeded to hit me about as hard as another human being could, but at least I’d be out of WCW.

Have a Nice Day!

DaVinci Resolve, it's free. Just read/watch some tutorials if you're unfamiliar with that sort of software. It's a lot like Adobe's Premiere.

Posted this earlier and got downvoted (fully expect the same) . Look at the context.

> Let me start of by saying, this isn't sympathy for Reigns or anything. Seriously guys, listen to the whole quote. It's starts at around: 9:26.

>http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sam-roberts-wrestling-podcast/e/36776291?autoplay=true[1]

>I know you guys are in full "Hate Roman circle jerk", but come on. He's telling the truth, WWE is going to do what they want no matter how the IWC or anyone else feels. We already know this. But, he's saying at least he's providing for his family. He wasn't saying "haha I'm getting the one getting rich, so fuck you".

>Pretty sure every wrestler feels this way.

It it him or the publicist involved with the product? Either way, it's bad.

EDIT: Same case on UK amazon. Two great reviews from people that haven't reviewed anything else before or since. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/194276183X

I did find this...

Man if I had more time I'd love to track down the "blow by blow" ASCII.

Edit: Here's an even better rumble summary in that thread...

> And now for the main event: The ROYAL DISAPPOINTMENT (err . . . Rumble) You know, I actually think that somewhere in McMoney's mind, there is a thought process which causes him to take a cool idea and destroy it completely (yes, I realize this is not particularly startling news). The first two participants were Ric "Why am I still here?" Flair and Bob "Boy, don't I look mentally handicapped" Bachlund

> Overall, this is the worst Royal Rumble I have ever witnessed. Yokozuna wins by throwing Randy Savage (who for some reason was going for a pin) over the top rope.
Overall a very disappointing event, considering it is the only PPV event that I am regularly willing to pay for every year.

Yep, other than not being able to check Wikipedia to spell guy's names right... it's feels just like home!

It's available on Amazon!

Pain by The Authors of Pain: The debut poetry collection from WWE tag team and literary powerhouse The Authors of Pain. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074SFN64R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ykaZAbGJNERA0

idk if it's one of the better ones, but this is the one I have, and it works great:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A0RMQ1E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There's also a cheaper ($35) version that looks to be almost the same (I can't remember now why I got the $50 one):

https://smile.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-120-Non-Electric/dp/B00A0RHSJO?ref_=bl_dp_s_web_5456991011

I actually bought it a few years back after I saw it linked in a random Reddit thread. Definitely the best thing Reddit has done for my life.

God damn, can you imagine Undertaker walking to the ring to "Ain't No Grave" while it rained? Holy shit.

edit: Open this and this; proceed to shit pants.

Well, actually he mentioned it in several of his rare interviews.

"The Team Hell No stuff with Daniel Bryan has probably been the most fun I’ve ever had in WWE." http://www.rackradioshow.com/kane.php

Two weeks ago he was on The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast: "One of the most enjoyable eras was with Daniel Bryan and Team Hell No." https://player.fm/series/two-man-power-trip-of-wrestling/tmptow-kane (at 37:35)

You don't know what's bad until your friends make you something from the Natural Harvest cookbook

Edit: There’s a version for bartenders as well

Like, come on:

The current in a family of Mysterios that dates back centuries, each one trained to be a champion of the people and to take on a great evil that has been prophesied to return and plunge the world into darkness. Rey Mysterio is on a quest, aided by the military clandestine group known as "The Ambassadors". The mission is clear: retrieve the one thing Rey will need to take on this returning evil... THE MASK OF THE FIRST MYSTERIO!

https://www.comixology.com/Masked-Republic-Luchaverse-Rey-Mysterio-1/digital-comic/703937

https://vimeo.com/90596437

Here's a Vimeo alternative, YouTube disliked it.

So aye, I was going to post the list before that wonderful AMA but the mod who set it up was like ''no, you're supposed to be a guest!'' so nothing came of it.

For 2011, I'd be up for discussions on this mostly-headed-board about what deserves to be slotted in.

If it's OK with you guys. If not, I'll fuck back from whence I came.

> the plan was to send NJPW's Shinya Hashimoto to work a match against AJPW's Toshiaki Kawada, figuring it would do huge business and could jump-start a big NJPW vs. AJPW angle. But Motoko Baba shot down the plan, figuring (correctly) that the show was going to sell out without NJPW's help.

Big Hash and Kawada ended up having a match in 2004

Both men were not in their primes anymore but it's a great match.

/u/CMVenom actually used to post on here, unless it was some really well done troll job. Wonder if that book ever got released...

Edit: It did. Wonder if anyone here has read it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/245utw/flyer_for_1999_lwf_show_nowhere_to_hide_the/

My favorite comment:

>Paraphrased from his DVD:

>"That's what a brother does? Really? Brothers watch out for one another. Colt Cabana is my brother. Brothers don't steal from each other and screw each other over. That guy isn't my brother."

>Honestly, I'm with him. Family gets the benefit of the doubt, but once they show they don't deserve it, they're just like anyone else. Fuck 'em.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=1830855

>MINNEAPOLIS -- The cute and curvy blonde 20-something had no idea what she was getting herself into. In her barely-there halter-top and her glossy red lipstick, she slithered into the giant's arms, set her chin on his chest, looked up into his eyes and delivered the message she had been sent to ask.

>"My friend Shawn thinks you're kinda cute," she said.

>Brock Lesnar was a bigger-than-life star of professional wrestling, ... >Not Shawna. Not Shana.

>Shawn.

>The 6-foot-3, 290-pound Goliath, the guy who benches 475 pounds, squats 695 pounds, steamed.

>"Yeah?" the former pro wrestler said, his voice growing louder, his eyes getting bigger. "Well you tell that ..."

>To print what Brock Lesnar said might make even John Rocker blush. But after his curse-laden outburst, he turned to a nearby reporter and explained, "I don't like gays. Write that down in your little notebook. I don't like gays."

>Offended? Too bad. He doesn't care what you think. What your mom thinks. Or what that guy at the end of the bar thinks, his sexual orientation not withstanding. Lesnar is a self-described "blue-collar redneck" who owns a 47-acre ranch and spends his free time jumping up and down on beds -- sometimes breaking them -- with his 2-year-old daughter, Mya. If he could choose only three television channels to watch, it'd be a 24-hour hunting and fishing network, The Weather Channel and The Penthouse Channel. "I'd be a happy man," he said.

ugh, I know

"The WWE Network is now in Canada!

^Contact ^your ^local ^service ^provider! ^^^if ^^^its ^^^EastLink ^^^or ^^^Rogers."

I wish I didn't have to go through loopholes like UnoTelly to use the Network.

>"...WWF had requested America Online to remove the WWF-related folders from the Grandstand wrestling area because there were some postings that the WWF didn't like. It wasn't a question of terms-of-service violation, it wasn't a question of obscenity. Ryder indicated it may have had something to do with the largely negative reaction of the Grandstand posters to the WWF's proposed weekly midnight pay-per-view."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/SQj4oi8k4uk

Sound familiar? Some things never change.

No, I'm asking if anyone has encountered the same problem or knows any way to contact support because I am frustrated that I can't watch the G1.

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Success-Minutes-Builders/dp/1576854949 Here's a book for you.

Best case it's Mono (Severe tonsilitis for us UK folk)

Worst case it's something more icky and embarrassing that's spread around the locker room. Considering how much these guys travel in groups, share meals and occasionally each other, I'm amazed something like this hasn't gone through them all sooner.

Also recommending:

Nakamura vs Okada (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4qnxbl) Nakamura vs Tanahashi (any of them really, but is this the first one I think of, http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58bzmk)

There are sooo many more but start with those.

There's a reason so many people on this sub love him and it's nothing to do with Meltzer. Nakamura and Tanahashi are the reason I started watching NJPW.

I'm going to REALLY be that guy.

alliteration, noun 1. the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group

Yes, the first chapter of Shawn's most recent book, page 19.

Also, the referee for the match discusses it here.

I like cats too! Here is one!

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Brock is pretty great at the 5 minute match. His match with Big Show back in 2002 was good.

Match in question. You know looking at this makes me appreciate their clash a year or so ago. Heyman has nearly as much history with Big Show as he does Brock Lesnar.

Most of the modern stuffs are from my firsthand experience, and the sources for older records are online newspaper archives, newspaper interviews, Kim Il's memoir (in Korean), etc.

Ref. If you understand Japanese, then there is the Japanese translation of Kim Il's memoir for those who might be interested in.

Just in case some of you don't know how good Johnny Saint was, here's a match he had with Mike Quackenbush in 2008 he was 66 at the time and it's maybe the best raw technical wrestling match I've ever seen - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4cm7ir

The One Night Only PPV also featured the infamous interview of Shawn, allegedly, fingering Sunny during an interview. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2eeycy_shawn-michaels-promo-with-sunny-one-night-only-1997_sport

Full Story - I thought it was really ridiculous that there's a tag team called "The Authors of Pain" and they've never actually written a book called Pain, so I got a bunch of my friends together to write it for them. Originally it was just a digital book, but you guys really dug it so I formatted it for paperback and it's now available on Amazon for $4.

https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Authors-collection-literary-powerhouse-ebook/dp/B074SFN64R

You can still download a free pdf of it at http://supercolliderpress.com/

It's a book of bad poetry from the perspective of Akam and Rezar and with a foreword by Paul Ellering. This thing took several months to put together and I could not be more proud of this. Former WWE writer Matt McCarthy, the head writer of Kayfabe News, the creator of Botched Spot and RD Reynolds of Wrestlecrap.com and a bunch of other really funny writers even contributed pieces. Now it's a literal, physical book which is insane to me.

Edit: Regarding all of the comments about the legality of this, I have a few friends that are parody book publishers that I talked this over with. I'm certainly in a legal grey area, but I doubt this thing is going to set the world on fire sales wise and it's available as a free download at the previously posted Supercollider Press page so I'm definitely not trying to get rich off of it. I mainly created the paperback because a bunch of people in the old thread asked for copies. If I'm asked to take it down, I will but until then I'm not super worried about it. Regardless, the heads up is appreciated.

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/founder

>Synonyms: architect, author, beginner, benefactor, builder, constructor, creator, designer, establisher, forebearer, framer, generator, initiator, institutor, inventor, maker, organizer, originator, patron, planner, prime mover

>creator

if you check old news groups/rspw forums, you'll see a lot of people shit on austin/rock. i especially remember one post around 96 that said austin wouldn't amount to shit. i think people hated taker too.

edit: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/wwf/t-netz.wrestling.wwf/KD3MDy2xTW0/LTfaiyjnAtgJ

guy misses 1980s WWF.

Anybody know what book Jacobs is reading?

​

Edit: My guess is that it's the Good Girl's Guide to Bad Girl Sex--you're welcome.

https://kotaku.com/5951750/whos-white-and-whos-japanese-in-anime-once-again-the-internet-compares

"Back in 2010, blogger Julian Abagond asserted, "The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white." Largely, I agree with this. When Japanese see anime characters, they think they are Japanese—even if they have purple hair or blond hair—or they don't even think about it that deeply. It's often only when the characters have exaggerated Western figures or speak goofy Japanese that viewers are clued in that they are looking at a non-Japanese character."

I still think that when it was originally made, they sampled Kraftwerk's "Sex Object" for the "Yes" and "No"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix07wGATlHk

With a little more research, I recall that the instrumental during the chorus is lifted from "Musique Non Stop"

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/393181/Rene-De-Wael-Didier-Leglise-Rap-Sheet-(Booker-T-Theme)-Kraftwerk-Musique-Non-Stop/

If I remember correctly, I believe Ring of Honor lent out a bunch of production crew to help with the show.

Allegedly (again, this is from memory of past speculation) RoH had no idea that Cody and the Bucks were going to branch off and create AEW. This led to some tension between the 2 companies. Understandable from RoH's point of view, considering they were losing the American Bullet Club contingent and helping create a rival to their own product. This could all end up being disproven, but would make for a fantastic read.

If I could make some reading suggestions:

• Have a Nice Day by Mankind (Mick Foley)
• The Squared Circle by David Shoemaker
• The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling. Great story of the history of pro wrestling. Quick, fun and informative read.

Amazon Japan! I got one of the discounted secondhand copies since I was already getting a couple other old NJPW DVDs from Japan anyway. The NJPW shop should have it as well.

I've used these Etymonics at concerts: https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-Earplugs-High-Definition-Protection-Standard/dp/B00R1WKV7W

They don't completely block out all sound but they bring things down by a lot of decibels. I don't have any sensory problems, but I use them at very loud concerts to still hear while protecting my hearing from damage. Maybe they would be helpful to you.

Somehow had a reasonable discussion about booking on the comments of an ROH facebook post; older dude jumps in to add "IF YOU DON'T LIKE ROH GO WATCH WWE...FAGS!"

"Look buddy, we all love to watch oiled up fellas grapple in their skivvies, but some of us want a storyline for why these oiled up fellas are grappling in their skivvies." Link him to this book (https://www.amazon.com/Wrestling-Gay-Guys-Overcoming-Problems/dp/095067821X)

Aaaaand blocked.

It's my ringtone :D

Here's the iPhone format for the ringtone.

Let me know if this site is giving issues. I don't know of another site that would allow for easy download but if anyone does, I can post it to that to make it easier for people. Enjoy!

edit: as suggested, here is a dropbox link

It's wrestling. Go around the world and you'll see other countries doing the same shtick (usually with the USA being the heel). Why? Because wrestling is a primarily visual medium that relies heavily on base emotions. People around the world (not just America) love their country and they love to cheer for it. Heels hating and bashing on their country gets them emotionally invested in seeing the heel's downfall. Criticizing the chants or viewing them as "cringe" means you're getting mad at people for liking their country and buying into a wrestling angle.

Watched AOP perform live on the NXT House show circuit in Tampa before they made it on Television. Both dudes were green wearing cheesy face masks and constantly got heat and shit on by the local fans. The switch once they made it on to TV was night and day, they picked up big time and despite the one serious botch were relatively safe big men who made everything look real and had an aura about their team.

Sad to see them move on but at least they still have a career in free-verse poetry if they so decided:

https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Authors-collection-literary-powerhouse-ebook/dp/B074SFN64R#:~:text=Barnes%2C%20Joseph%20Porter%2C%20Nicky%20Urban,genius%20of%20Akam%20and%20Rezar.

TextNow is a free texting app like WhatsApp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enflick.android.TextNow&hl=en_US It's not a fake-message creator, I don't know why people keep assuming that

She cropped it to remove the number when it was brought up that this might not be his current number and a complete stranger could be getting a bunch of texts or calls

They are slandering someone to feel better about watching a taped fake show while hundreds of women are currently sharing sexual assault stories they've encountered from people who act just like him and just like them

> Is his source intentionally giving bad info to cause attrition backstage , to mess with him and hurt his cred ,

No high-quality professional journalist would have such low standards as to fall prey to a single bad source, because professional journalists do things like independently corroborate stories. If they're not able to corroborate a story, but think their source is reliable, they will note that in their report. Seriously,it's as though Meltzer doesn't even own a style guide.

Yep, comes out yearly. I bought this same issue early in the year. It's awesome and totally worth it.

Here's the listing. Just make an Amazon Japan account. They ship overseas (and the shipping isn't expensive at all).

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07KZHVJ97/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The Art of War had it's role to play in Japanese history as it's introduction into Japan in the 8th century inspired military leaders there even as far into the future as Meiji era and early 20th century conflicts.

Yup, I quickly learned that when I started watching the company vs what I had been told on here.

I haven't watched this match yet, but so far I haven't found a crowd that has eclipsed the one for when Ishii vs Shibata faced off for the first time in the G1 back in 2013.

NJPWWorld | Dailymotion

They published an interview with Malcolm X by Alex Haley, which eventually lead to Haley writing The Autobiography of Malcolm X, one of the most important books of the 20th century. They also published writing from Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Every year my wife and I make an enormous sandwich. It started with the Pig Show. Then the Beef Incarnate. Followed by the phenomenal Bun.

I give to you The Dilapidated Sammich, served with The gravy of reincarnation.

That is a pound of turkey, a pound of ham, two ribeyes, two pounds of cheese, bacon, jalapeno poppers, chicken fingers, fried eggs and onion rings on a two pound loaf of sourdough. Served with a bowl of gravy for dipping.

I love Wrestlemania.

Kagetsu vs Io, Io vs Satomura, Io vs Momo Watanabe.

Io vs Satomura is probably the best of the three, it was ridiculously good. Link to the match.

Booker T's WCW theme also evidently contains a brief Kraftwerk sample, so that one may have come with extra fees involved for use.

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/393181/Rene-De-Wael-Didier-Leglise-Rap-Sheet-(Booker-T-Theme)-Kraftwerk-Musique-Non-Stop/

Gangrel's horrific debut promo with the Brood rings to mind still to this day. It's no wonder they made that guy shut his mouth for the rest of his career.

Extra points if you made it all the way through.

The pre 1980s era of women’s wrestling is super fucked up. One of the best books on wrestling g history I ever read was Jeff Leen’s “Queen of the Ring” which is about Mildred burke. Lots of overlap w Moolah as they were contemporaries. Highly recommended.

The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802118828/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_AS9PAbT2692K3

Some less morbid posts from the same time are fantastic, such as this one: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/FDCWkRf2Dsg

"thats right brahs glodberg is the next hulkster he is big and bad and is one baaaaad muthafucka" - JACK SPOON

Still my favorite book I've ever bought

I fucking loved that skit.

Anyone who wants to take it to another level, look up the old Kevin Sullivan promo where he introduced Purple Haze.

I think they parodied the same thing with OVW when they introduced Leviathan/Batista.

Edit: Forgot I can get limited video access at work now:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14xcd7_kevin-sullivan-summons-the-purple-haze-dusty-rhodes-fireball-attack_sport

Just looked up Unlocator's website to see the cost which is $4.95 per month. Works out to be approx £3.24. The Network works out at about £6.54.

You would rather keep doing this than sign up to the UK version (if it's all the exact same obviously which it does appear to be) for the sake of 21p??

I am almost done reading all of the reviews and what I have noticed is:

• Senior management sucks.

• Half (or more) think Vince needs to go

• Very long hours for not so good pay

• High turnover

• People work in fear

That seems to be the consensus, but the reviews are pretty detailed. Definite eye opener.

-edit-

Reviews from another site

I'm not saying it, it's straight from Heyman's mouth.

>"I think the greatest thing I ever did was Taz. He was the greatest bit of smoke and mirrors I ever pulled off."

There was a guy who hit the ring during an RVD-Eddie ladder match on Raw in Edmonton 15 years ago (at 14:40). Fast forward a year or two and I was giving a friend of a friend a ride home and we got to talking about wrestling, and he told me he ran into the ring drunk during a ladder match a few years ago. I then clued in and recognized him (he was even wearing the same jersey). He said Eddie hit him really hard, he was brought to the back by security and they called the cops, and the arena banned him (for 10 years? I can't remember). They didn't arrest him but he was to be charged in court and nobody from the WWE showed up so the case was thrown.

I just saw your reply, so please forgive the shitty quick paint copy/paste.

https://i.imgur.com/TBQ6HEf.jpg

That's a quick and obvious example. Samoa Joe + All the members of the Riott Squad use the same main typeface for their names. Which is "Dope Script" - It's the same one that a user here did for a Backlash card design a few days ago.

It's $14 on CreativeMarket - https://creativemarket.com/SamParrett/120855-Dope-Script

Now, I'm not going to judge too much for the odd usage, shit, I use CM all the time for those kinds of handwritten fonts, but I'm just one bloke working freelance, I'm not a billion dollar company. Frankly, it's unacceptable that they don't push more personality and uniqueness into their titan entrances anymore, they could easily afford a top quality typographer on staff to hand make opening lettering for all their performers. It shows that it's apathy not just from the writing team, but creative top to bottom

I'm a frequent reader of Cage Side Seats, r/SquaredCircle, MMA Fighting, and other wrestling / MMA related sites. Every once in a while I come across fan created pay-per-view posters. Some blow me away and make me want to improve as a graphic designer, and some not so much. So I thought I'd give it a shot and see what the IWC would say. Let the feedback begin...

Check out my blog and my Dribbble account for the thought process behind this poster and other related WWE content.

Thanks for looking.

Worth the purchase if you like the old time wrestling stories

https://www.amazon.com/Sisterhood-Squared-Circle-History-Wrestling/dp/1770413073

I agree some newbies like Liv might not know about it, but I was debating people yesterday that I 100% believe most of the women in the locker room knew about it. Just seems like a story that would really catch on, especially considering the wrestlers like Becky and Sasha that consumed wrestling all of their lives

So then they uploaded a crappy ass photo.

Because oh wow look, its not cropped from Triple H

https://www.instagram.com/p/-wocnSvwEz/?taken-by=tripleh

Sombody simply messed up. Nothing negative, no ulterior motive just a simple error.

1. Use the free ProtonVPN on your phone
2. Order the PPV for $20 from the FITE Mobile App.
3. Turn off the VPN as the video is playing and cast the video to your TV -OR-
4. After you've ordered from the app, use ProtonVPN for FiteTV on your web browser. (you may have to log out and log back in for the video to start).
5. Repeat Step 3

Yesterday the PPV became available in the US on FITE, so I can access it whenever I want to now without the VPN.

Austin Aries has been World Champ in two other promotions. Austin Aries has been shitting out quality for well over a decade. Austin Aries already did the CW scene when he was X Division Champ in TNA.

His treatment in the WWE is indicative of how much wrestling in North America has suffered since WCW collapsed. ROH is like ECW and doesn't have the dollars or production values behind it to compete even though the in ring product is incredible, and TNA/Impact lost a lot of credibility when it made the same mistakes WCW made about six years ago, and no matter the quality they put out, your typical wrestling fan will never go past LOLTNA.

We need legitimate competition for the WWE to give talent more choices and more opportunities, and true competition can only benefit us all.

This is a great match. I love Austin Aries.

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That's Chris Charlton, who probably knows the most about NJPW on that team.

He wrote a book, "Eggshells" about the history of matches in the Tokyo Dome (i.e., diving into booking, etc.) which is super thorough.

So who are you trying to be offended on behalf of?

I'm Chinese, and also studied a lot of Feudal Japan in college. Sun Tzu is known to be a well known military tactician whose writings were and are still considered the most influential military text in all of East Asia, which includes both China and Japan.

One of the most powerful daimyos during the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States) period of Japan found military success because he used strategies learned from The Art of War. Takeda Shingen was allegedly able to fend off attacks from arquebus wielding monks (an early firearm) despite not using guns himself. Hell, his battlecry was a collection quotes from the Art of War.

There's really no other collection of military texts as important and seminal as the Art of War, and has always served the same purpose regardless the ethnicity of the author or reader. It's transcended from being a necessarily Chinese text, but instead text for Military leaders.

From what I know, it seems like he's a superfan. He even manages to find botches from decades ago that are only brought up in recent interviews. He does have incentive to do this, though. According to his Patreon page, he gets somewhere around $1.1k a video.

I got a sloth in Ric Flair's robe, I was going for something not so literal but still part of my love for pro wrestling.

Also here's a good Instagram account that posts wrestling tattoos (some good, some...not amazing but still ok).

It's only free for new subscribers. You can't just "watch the free months". Well, you could...but you'd have to keep signing up with different credit cards & email accounts. Netflix does the same exact thing.

If you listen to the entire interview I think this is one of the moments he gets most enthused. You've done good The_Real_Irish. _Real good.

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Physical version of the Deluxe Edition is up for pre-order on Amazon UK after a while of being unavailable, has all of the collectors edition DLC and the £2 off for prime members.

I'll try to make this as TL:DR as possible.

Combat sports have always been around, especially of the grappling variety. Over time as people migrated from place to place the regional combat styles would get mixed and new styles would develop. In the 1600-1800's Europe and America there was a strong push for organized sport which gave us most of the modern sports that we have today. By the mid 1800's you had big prestigious Wrestling competitions of various styles all over the place. That's probably where the spark to work matches came from.

The post-American Civil War era and during European immigration boom of the mid 1800's is where you start seeing the first signs of worked matches. The internet of the era was Newspapers. Guys would cut promos on each other via newspapers, they had multi-match feuds, challenging each other with money on the line, etc. Legit combat sports, such as Catch Wrestling, were also taking shape at the exact same time. Which basically means you have to take it on a case by case basis what was worked and what was shoots. Individuals probably took part in both.

Working was illegal from the 1800's-the early 1900's. It was seen as a fraud. Crowds would riot over it. You could be thrown in jail for faking matches. That stopped being a thing around the time of the Gold Dust Trio in 1920's. They really are the ones that started doing purposely worked exciting Pro Wrestling matches. They called it "Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling".

The ratio of worked to shoot matches in the 1800's-1900's is highly debatable. Some people take every result at face value and think that most things were shoots in the early days. Personally, I believe that worked matches were far more widespread than people give credit for. A book like Fall Guys, which was written in 1937 falls somewhere closer to the things were mostly worked side of the spectrum.

I would also like to recommend getting IPVanish or a VPN. Global Wars and CMLL will allow content to be aired in other countries outside the US.

Note using a Japanese VPN to watch CMLL on NJPW World does suck. Super slow because its pinging US to Japan back to US.

But I have watched the NJPW/RevPro shows, the UK Global Wars (Ishii vs Keith Lee awesome & Ospreay vs Marty).

The sunset in San Francisco on March 29th happens at 7:30PM local time (http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco?month=3) with civil twilight (or pure darkness) not happening until 7:56PM local time. Wrestlemania 31 goes from 4-8PM local time.

This means almost the entire show will take place under daylight.

Go to any Google Group and type in anything "sucks." Type in "Stone Cold" sucks or "WWF RAW sucks" and you will get a ton of results. Here's a thread about why WWF RAW sucks from 1998. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/wwf$20raw$20sucks/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/bV0tU_Z39e8/ePZB4Hxvt9kJ

its 100% not legal, if you want to get it online legally comixology is your best bet

Wikileaks has leaked news the film has been heavily censored by the NFL

Source: Leaked email from Sony hack: https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/35482

Full report: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/sports/football/makers-of-sonys-concussion-film-tried-to-avoid-angering-nfl-emails-show.html?_r=1

The film is shitty propaganda piece that covers up the real issues

Im amazed this is all the way down here...Shockmaster was so incredibly bad that his action figure is actually upside down in the box with his helmet packaged off to the side.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/WWE-Wrestling-Elite-Collection-Shockmaster-Action-Figure/164254745?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=1145&adid=22222222227048477421&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=146898182345&wl4=pla-311341414967&w...

Bret Hart vs. Tiger Mask II (Misawa)

EDIT: The full match is available on WWE's Bret "The Hitman" Hart: The Dungeon Collection DVD.

~~Seems like the outrage to this worked. I clicked on the link you gave and nothing is loading (just a plain white screen with a header "Join team Jarrett" on the tab) so they might have abandoned ship on this idea. Either that or it's just not loading for me.~~

EDIT: Ah, my mistake. I had Ghostery running which hides trackers and blocks a lot of bullshit from showing on your average web page. The linked page is 100% bullshit so all I got was a blank white screen.

2x EDIT: Holy shit, after seeing Jarrett's spiel I think we've found an early winner for the WON most disgusting promotional tactic for 2016.

Cornette tells a bunch of stories about him - not so favorably, since apparently he drove the Detroit territory (Big Time Wrestling) into the ground by never booking himself to lose, even over the likes of Andre the Giant, etc.

This Detroit Wrestling photo album seems like it would be up your alley https://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Night-Detroit-Wrestling-1965-80/dp/1430305568

Comb the Cornette podcasts, and likely look for Sabu shoots since he trained him.

Brickhouse Brown was one of the first wrestlers I ever saw when my mother found an old Mid Atlantic tape for sale in a 99 cent store. He always looked like a star to me, and I've got no idea why wasn't bigger than he was.

Rest in peace.

> Cesaro - Toblerone - A bunch of chocolate/confectionary puns. He becomes the wrestling Willy Wonka. Hornswoggle returns as an Oompa Loompa.

Coincidentally:

https://www.instagram.com/p/98Um_5tofY/

>He is a victim of WWE's homogenization of their workers

This is the perfect wording for the thoughts I've been having of late.

It just seems like you can't really connect with anyone in the low/mid card.

Was looking at a roster from 1999. Sure, not everyone, but a lot of the low/mid carders you can remember what their point/gimmick was.

My favorite Takayama moment didn't even come in a pro wrestling match. You know that spot Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens do where they simultaneously punch each other into Oblivion? Don Fry and Yoshihiro Takayama did that shit in a real fight.

Best wishes to the man. He's had a truly legendary career and it should remembered as such

Snow vs. Benoit, ECW Double Tables 1995 is an amazing match. If anyone only knows Al Snow from his hardcore days with Head, give this a watch and you'll see him in a completely different light. I love this.

I like people like you. You just plain "get it". Pro wrestling isn't trying to come off as legitimate athletic competition. It's entertainment.

That said, check out Lucha Underground. It takes the "we're more like movies than sports" aspects of pro wrestling and cranks them up to 11. Here's episode 1.

Here it is

I got the kindle version which is really nice/cheap. It's been really enjoyable so far.

I don't know exactly what model of rig they are using. This one is similar. But there are a bunch out there if you search iPhone rig.

The mic looks like a Rode video micro.

The light could have been anything. If you Amazon search for LED on camera light, you'll see a lot of similar setups.

I didn't want this post to see like spam, you can download World Wrestling Manager on the Apple app store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-wrestling-manager/id1395461920) or on the Google Play app store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thefarm.worldwrestlingmanager)

Hope you like it

Those are common shares. To keep it simple, it's basically free money without giving up any voting power on the board. As Chairman, he was probably awarded stock options over the years in lieu of monetary compensation. Until 2014, the stock price hovered around $10 a share for several years of flat business. Outside of a spike around the WWEN launch, its been trading in the $17-18 range lately.

Even factoring in inflation, that's still a good 50% return.

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/wwe

So I don't know your situation exactly or anything, but I started my weight loss adventure about 13 months ago at 384 lbs. I was 198 lbs on Sunday morning. The 100% most important thing I did was join MyFitnessPal and start logging literally all of the food I ate. After I dropped down to about 313 lbs and trusted my knees a bit more, I started Couch to 5k and ran my first 5k only 5 weeks later, although run was a more generous term because I barely did under 43 minutes. I didn't really get back into professional wrestling at all until Royal Rumble time, and started listening to podcasts a week or two after WrestleMania -- that's when I heard about DDP Yoga and saw the video on his website, etc. Well, I may have "obtained" a copy of the DVDs on my computer and started trying them out. I was probably around 240 lbs at this point, so still pretty overweight, but definitely more manageable. I won't lie -- DDP Yoga tended to kick my ass a little bit for the first week or two. I never felt like I couldn't complete a session while doing it, but I was pouring with sweat and my heart rate was way up and it was awesome. I loved it so much that I used money from a weight loss competition to buy it. I had to learn when to do it (I did it once or twice before going on a 3 mile run and it sucked to run) but I really stuck to it for 6 weeks. I kinda fell of the wagon because of external reasons, but the last week I've been fitting a session or two in when I can. I went from my fingers barely grazing the carpet when trying to touch the ground to being able to put both palms of my hand flat on the ground. Plus a bunch of other cool flexibility and general well feeling. If you need any other support or questions or whatever, let me know.

You guys have to go through the Wayback machine for lwfwrestling.com. It's amazing. They write about certain events, results for matches, there's message boards, it's seriously fucking amazing.

Wayback Machine for LWF Wrestling