Howdy Blog O' Doomers!
Hope you all had fine weekends. This is being posted early so I have barely had time to check TV. I wanted to go into a thought about how the Bret-Austin match at Wrestlemania 13 saved Wrestlemania...and not in the sense that Wrestlemania was on its death bed but when I look at Wrestlemania XI, XII and 13 they were just so...ordinary. They didn't do much to really make them feel special.
Well from the Austin glass-breaking entrance (which was originally used for Diesel in Wrestlemania XI) to the classic match...it seemed like that match gave Wrestlemania its mojo back and while they were a few years from going to stadium shows at least the card itself, the production, the set, the pagentry felt like Wrestlemania again. When I watched Wrestlemania 13, I was watching a wrestling PPV, when I watched Wrestlemania XIV, I was watching a PPV event. Big difference.
Speaking of PPVs, one is coming in less that a week...hopefully watching NXT will have motivated those guys but I doubt it.
Also trying to get through the Jericho-Michaels podcast and about a 1/4 of the way through. Jericho is ending his winter swing of house shows and it made me think what if a bunch of guys that hated creative decided to go the same route so like Jericho, Batista, RVD, a few others would just do house shows and all of a sudden some markets would be clamoring for the house shows over the live TV.
Anyway TV tonight
RAW
Top 25 BKB: Kansas vs. West Virginia for the dudes and Duke vs. ND for the gals
8 NHL Games including my Lightning on the road against the Kings
New Gotham, New Better Caul Saul
Enjoy!
Hope you all had fine weekends. This is being posted early so I have barely had time to check TV. I wanted to go into a thought about how the Bret-Austin match at Wrestlemania 13 saved Wrestlemania...and not in the sense that Wrestlemania was on its death bed but when I look at Wrestlemania XI, XII and 13 they were just so...ordinary. They didn't do much to really make them feel special.
Well from the Austin glass-breaking entrance (which was originally used for Diesel in Wrestlemania XI) to the classic match...it seemed like that match gave Wrestlemania its mojo back and while they were a few years from going to stadium shows at least the card itself, the production, the set, the pagentry felt like Wrestlemania again. When I watched Wrestlemania 13, I was watching a wrestling PPV, when I watched Wrestlemania XIV, I was watching a PPV event. Big difference.
Speaking of PPVs, one is coming in less that a week...hopefully watching NXT will have motivated those guys but I doubt it.
Also trying to get through the Jericho-Michaels podcast and about a 1/4 of the way through. Jericho is ending his winter swing of house shows and it made me think what if a bunch of guys that hated creative decided to go the same route so like Jericho, Batista, RVD, a few others would just do house shows and all of a sudden some markets would be clamoring for the house shows over the live TV.
Anyway TV tonight
RAW
Top 25 BKB: Kansas vs. West Virginia for the dudes and Duke vs. ND for the gals
8 NHL Games including my Lightning on the road against the Kings
New Gotham, New Better Caul Saul
Enjoy!
Well it's Monday Night
ReplyDeleteAnd it's an open mic
Let's get Raw tonight!
Lol, MLB Network looking at the Baseball AMERICA prospect list from 1995; A-Rod was listed at #1 back then, Chipper 3, Jeter 4.
ReplyDelete#2? Ruben Rivera. Unranked? Mo Rivera.
The Network dubbed DDP's theme with a song that only sounds vaguely like Smells Like Teen Spirit rather than a blatant ripoff
ReplyDeleteThe dubbing is so weird. Some events Ric gets the real deal 2001 theme, other times he gets the shitty knockoff. Weird.
ReplyDeleteI may be a quick out for Raw tonight. I am not particularly enamored with the product right now, and video games sound like a better way to spend my evening.
ReplyDeleteI think its dependent on what copy WWE uses for the Network. Some shows are based from 24/7 or Anthology that are more edited, while others come from master tapes (the latter seems to be the case for all of the Attitude Era stuff).
ReplyDeleteUntil the Jets game starts I'll be watching oct/90 SNME
ReplyDeleteRaven lost Come As You Are, too.
ReplyDeleteOh, hey. The end of Takeover is on the Network. Nice.
ReplyDeleteWell, clearly, he chose to go as someone else.
ReplyDeleteJust finished that show! Don't do it!!
ReplyDeleteI've never watched it, should I just skip to SurSer
ReplyDeleteMy ideas to fix the 3 hour issue, have NXT take over one of the hours of Raw maybe.
ReplyDeleteI think that as long as VKM is heavily involved, the further he stays away from NXT, the better.
ReplyDeleteSo thanks to NES Remix 2, there's a Nintendo World Championships Remix, and I managed to break the top 100 at 24.
ReplyDeleteBITCHES!
I may be in the minority, but I actually like his 1992 knockoff better.
ReplyDeleteCarnival happening and I'm at home, fuck.
ReplyDeleteGood evening to all of you.
Felt that way since April and I've cleared a big backlog that way. Plus now I have Better Call Saul as well
ReplyDeleteI'm watching all the Marvel movies with RiffTrax commentary. Excelsior!
ReplyDeleteRAW can suck it.
Isn't that pretty much your version of Mardi Gras?
ReplyDeleteThe Saul show on Netflix? And, is it good?
ReplyDeleteThe good thing about getting to work an hour early is getting off work an hour early. BOO YAH
ReplyDeleteeh. I've never been much of an MST3K kinda guy.
ReplyDeleteYes. officially is 4 days, but bloc party are all over the week.
ReplyDeleteI love it so far. Are a UK'er, is that how they're getting the show?
ReplyDeleteHoss... you're dead to me.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much dislike any Jimmy Hart'd knockoff song. Get the real thing or make a new song
ReplyDeletePink monkey fucking jeebus...I still don't know what they call that vicious inverted cradle to his knee thingy KO did to Zayn, but it was fucking EVIL.
ReplyDeleteI swear I seem to be getting headaches on Mondays for some reason.
ReplyDeleteThanks, McMahon.
ReplyDeletePumphandle neckbreaker.
ReplyDeleteNo headache was made worse by lots of water and an overindulgence in veggies.
ReplyDeleteFailing that, focus your breathing for five minutes. Count slowly to four in, slowly to four out, as long as you can stand it.
- Lifelong migraine sufferer.
Fighting off a bad one myself, which is why I always have Excedrin on me at work
ReplyDeleteI want see him dropping the guy on the floor once rather than his knee.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to infringe on Matt's zombie/ghost gimmick.
ReplyDeleteThat was my first SNME show! Oktoberfest!
ReplyDeleteUnderrated and show stealing performance to the point where he's the best part of the movie by Phil Hartman: The sleazy next door neighbor in Jingle All the Way.
ReplyDeleteUK? Me? Nah.
ReplyDeleteI MAY ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH MONDAY NIGHT RAW TONIGHT BECAUSE IM WORKING FROM HOME!
ReplyDelete/Kermit hand flail
Is uh...is it any good?
Over SINBAD?!
ReplyDeleteNo you might as well watch it. Warrior and LOD vs. Demos is a nice historic match and there's a good angle with Dusty. Not a good show but has some interest.
ReplyDeleteIs this from nXT arrival? How was the show?
ReplyDeleteOh, it's a prequel? Huh. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteYeah whatever that is, it should be a finisher, it looks fucking b-r-u-t-a-l
ReplyDeletePhil Hartman's career is over because his wife killed him.
ReplyDeleteSinbad has no excuse. Hartman wins that movie so hard.
How long til Vince just has guys playing cards, playing ping pong or lifting weights? It is "'sports' entertainment" after all... who says the 'sports' has to be wrestling?
ReplyDeleteJeez, dude. No need to wish death on anyone.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize they were already putting on Netflix here, I thought there was somewhere where that's how they were airing BCS
ReplyDeleteI mean, on the mat.
ReplyDeleteI hate that they overdubbed those. DDP and Raven had two of the best themes in WCW. Why did those have to get overdubbed? I thought those were Jimmy Hart themes and don't they have the rights to those?
ReplyDeleteThen you shall be... the Walking Dead.
ReplyDeleteI know. Same statement.
ReplyDeleteAnother idea to fix the 3 hour issue is to remove one of the hours.
ReplyDeleteI wish they let him do the package piledriver.
ReplyDeleteHossing Dead?
ReplyDeleteWalking Hoss?
Somethin'.
Yeah I find even the bad SNME's have their moments. Oh my fuck though Hogan/Tugboat vs Rythym & Blues lol
ReplyDeleteOr the ring apron to play off his apron powerbomb.
ReplyDeleteSweet, my sis was able to score us a ride from work, so today was a BART-free day. F yeah
ReplyDeleteThose are my cookies!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a job for the FF function of your remote.
ReplyDeletePUT DAT COOKIE DAHN! NAOOO
ReplyDeleteRoddy Piper is wearing Lederhosen FFS
ReplyDeleteMug O'Corpse.
ReplyDeleteThat was really a bomb? SICK world we livin' in, SICK people!
ReplyDeleteMan. That last roll out of a pin attempt by Zayn was art.
ReplyDeleteYeeeeeah. It's short enough to be inoffensive but it's not very good.
ReplyDeleteThat's not even his deadliest move, the piledriver he did on the indys was awesome.
ReplyDeleteWell. That's just gross.
ReplyDeleteI fucking love the cheezy SNME graphics, so good.
ReplyDeleteThe box with the wrestler logos at either side? LOVED THOSE, lol.
ReplyDeleteProbably just to play it safe since some of those ripoffs were so blatant.
ReplyDeleteThose and the interview backgrounds are amazing
ReplyDeleteSo I just realized that Philip J. Fry was named after Phil Hartman, not to mention he was supposed to originally voice Zap Brannigan.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I hadn't thought of Hartman in years until that SNL special last night.
Especially after you warm it up in the microwave.
ReplyDeleteSo.
ReplyDeleteLarge newcomer trashes the new champ right after he wins the belt, and gets a title shot out of it.
Large dude destroys the champ and gets the belt because the medical staff stops the match.
I'm assuming they can draw this out for at least another 3 months.
Why in THE FUCK are we not getting booking like this on Raw?
White winged eagle belt ftw
ReplyDeleteI"m not a big Soylent Green guy.
ReplyDeleteCheck the Generico/Steen matches online, they can have bloody brawls.
ReplyDeleteDidn't he voice that character on the pilot? I could be wrong.
ReplyDeleteGood grief...How many ex-Duke players/alumni are on television?
ReplyDeleteThis 6 man is kind of goofy, but it's fun.
ReplyDeleteThe closest we got to that was Lesnar destroying Cena.
ReplyDeleteBut then Vince panics and is afraid to make Cena look weak.
Nope, he never got to voice it, but the character was written for him.
ReplyDeleteI can't overstate enough how much I love 90's Vince on commentary
ReplyDeleteLooking at DBry's merch on shopzone. The new shirt is pretty good, but he still has nothing that stacks up to say, SCSA's merch.
ReplyDeleteI knew it was; just thought he did the pilot, for some reason.
ReplyDeleteyup.
ReplyDeleteLesnar kills Cena, Cena kills Wyatt the next night on Raw, because fuck you.
Cena gets visual pinfalls on Lesnar in the rematch, because fuck you again.
ReplyDeleteThey could always just use the Vanilla Ice defense. "Their song goes dun na na na na na na tist where the cymbal hit is at the end and mine goes dun na na na na tist na. Totally different."
ReplyDeleteBa-leeve. That.
ReplyDeleteWorst catchphrase in history?
Playa?
ReplyDeleteLesnar gets 500k per match, he wins!
ReplyDeleteIs that a threat?
ReplyDeleteHas the selfie stick been used as a weapon yet? Cause that shit is genius if they get footage from it.
ReplyDeleteFor a guy that they want to be a main event guy? Not quite.
ReplyDelete"YOU CAN'T SEE ME!"
Well, I could go with that, if they did something with Cena to address the beatdown. I don't need a training montage, but it would have been better than what we got.
ReplyDeleteMan how i would have loved to grow up watching memphis wrestling in the 80s...the crowd, the brawls, the talent showcased, angles...looks awesome
ReplyDeleteWell they are already under contract to provide that hour and the amount USA pays for them for that hour makes that not a very viable option.
ReplyDeletePiper's failed catchphrases don't make the list?
ReplyDeleteReality Check
I.C.O.N.
Wow. Weak punch from Show to Kane, but Show can take a spear and a high knee really well. Kudos for good bumping.
ReplyDelete:: facepalm ::
ReplyDeleteThe Oktoberfest stuff is so bad but so funny
ReplyDeleteInstead of being here for another 2 hours I have to cover for a coworker, so I'm here for another 5.
ReplyDeleteI've covered for co-workers before, but when the time came, they didn't cover for me. Therefore, people can blow it out their ass.
ReplyDeleteThis was Kevin Owens' finisher in the indy's.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbVewK1UFEY
Sick stuff.
I didn't realize they were building Savage/Warrior this early
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm really starting to hate being the "team player".
ReplyDeleteoh, no. no no no no.
ReplyDeletewinner. those were the worst, and his stupid alcatraz vignettes
ReplyDeleteI like the powerbomb, but he should pop that move once on Zayn.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Hogan was on Cheap Heat, and he flat out said he didn't know Austin and Rock were going to come out during his promo to kick off WM30.
ReplyDeleteJeesus fucking christ. Why in the fuck would you lie about that?
I'm off for the next two days, so while I'm going to try and get some creative stuff done tonight, I may just instead decide to get shit faced.
ReplyDeleteHe seems to enjoy lying and does it at any opportunity no matter how small.
ReplyDeleteI doubt will ever see the package oils river in a wwe ring then again I never thought if see a reverse rana
ReplyDeleteHe's always working, brother.
ReplyDeletehttp://makeameme.org/media/created/Am-i-the-ep9zzp.jpg Switch the wrong your for "he's" and there's your answer
ReplyDeleteIs it racist if I'm enjoying hideo specifically for throwing moves I haven't seen since Fire Pro Z?
ReplyDeleteOr a phoenix splash. Maybe Neville will do the 630 one day.
ReplyDeletehe went out of his fucking way to say he was surprised, and was ready to go if necessary.
ReplyDeleteFucking hell, goblin. Fuck you and your aging, decrepit fake-tanned, broken down leathery hide.
Dibiase should have kept the green tux
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of dubbed music, I always liked the dub theme WWE uses for Sandman:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frxv2pkCwRw
apparently.
ReplyDeleteDude is worse than a fucking politician.
ReplyDeleteHeel move I never understood:
ReplyDeleteHeel manager or heel himself taking off his shoe to use as a weapon.
If we ever see zayn do a turnbuckle brainbuster il lose my mind
ReplyDeleteWho uses a shoe?
ReplyDeleteWell, a boot heel can be pretty vicious.
ReplyDeleteThis always cracked me up...for reasons I'm not entirely sure about.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdL9BBKNwt8
BRAINBUSTAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
ReplyDeleteand, you know. There's a certain symetry to a heel using a heel as a weapon.
ReplyDeleteA high heel I can imagine hurting.
ReplyDeleteA loose dress shoe or even a loose wrestling boot? Not so much.
WILL YOU STOP!
ReplyDeleteProlly not. :-)
ReplyDeleteI was thinking cowboy boot; was the first visual I got.
ReplyDeleteBull Dempsy was great in Tucker and Dave vs. Evil
ReplyDeleteThis may be the indy-est finish I've ever seen.
ReplyDeletehttp://gfycat.com/JubilantJauntyBlueshark
I get it with managers, as they don't know how to fight.
ReplyDeleteHe was even better on Reaper and Sons of Tucson.
ReplyDelete"OH NO! Stop It! Turn around, turn around Dusty, they're BEATING YOUR SON!!"
ReplyDeleteSweet monkey jeebus. Who did THAT guy piss off?
ReplyDeleteThis angles awsome!
ReplyDeleteIt's Evan Bourne taking the move.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I had my money on Justin Gabriel.
ReplyDeleteDid he anally rape the promoter's daughter or something?
ReplyDeleteI really think he's at the point where he lies because it's just became his nature. He knows no other way.
ReplyDeleteI have no trouble believing this.
ReplyDeleteIt's just Young Bucks style matches, they somehow make great psychology spots with 300 flips per minute.
ReplyDeletePsychology? More like brutality.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA And then Vince picks up his tone IMMEDIATELY after "Well unfortunately this Oktoberfest has turned a little sour *chuckles*"
ReplyDeleteI fucking hate the Bushwhackers in the ring but their vignettes are shit-gold!
ReplyDeleteLook for Young bucks vs Time Splitters.
ReplyDeleteThey were pretty fucking funny.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know who first pitched the idea of the Stink Face, and who approved it.
ReplyDeleteThis cheese factory skit on the oct/90 snme. I'm honestly fucking dying laughing
ReplyDeleteVincent K. McMahon
ReplyDeleteVincent K. McMahon
Oh, hey. Dusty gets mic time tonight? I guess I have to hang around for that, at the very least.
ReplyDelete"OH BOYY WE'RE CUTTING THE BLOODY CHEESE" "
ReplyDeleteThat legit, or just the standard answer?
ReplyDeleteStandard wise-ass answer
ReplyDelete"NOBODY CUTS THE BLOODY CHEESE AS GOOD AS COUSIN LUKE DOES!!"
ReplyDeleteCould be true. I'm just sitting here wondering how exactly that idea comes to one's mind, how it's pitched, and how someone else goes, "Yeah, that could get over."
ReplyDeleteDamn it....started to actually get a little pumped for Raw. Apparently, the idea of Dusty on the mic is all it takes.
ReplyDeleteEveryone here in North Carolina is complaining about the cold and a little snow and ice. I'll happily take this over that 95° shit we get in July. Fuck all that noise.
ReplyDeleteOff to piano lessons then looking forward to a night of quiet and probably a disappointing Raw to make fun of, yay Mondays
ReplyDeleteLesson #1:
ReplyDeleteYou can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish.
HAHAHAHA Mean Gene- "Well gentlemen we appear to be still having a few technical difficulties at the cheese factory"
ReplyDelete95, ahahahaha. Try to survive 130 degrees summer in Rio de Janeiro.
ReplyDeleteIt was Vince's "brilliant" idea, and Patterson, et al. were all like, "That's a GREAT idea, Mr. McMahon."
ReplyDeletehttps://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/v/t1.0-9/1454968_225979254193102_59422517_n.jpg?oh=30dce586547f7f6923097f73304a0c5b&oe=5593BC91&__gda__=1435318640_4b4a9ae2ff151fa45a02c6734d614327
ReplyDelete#HossHallmarkMoment
Overkill is underrated.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's awesome.
ReplyDeleteSo...understatements are overrated?
ReplyDeleteYeah, fuck no. I don't do well in hot weather. I didn't have air in my car last summer, and I was pretty fucking miserable.
ReplyDelete... nah, not yet.
ReplyDeleteI'll take a 95 degree day over a 15 degree day one
ReplyDeleteWakka wakka wakka.
ReplyDeleteLOL are they building towards Kane v Slow at Mania?
ReplyDeleteIt's an actual album title.
ReplyDeleteAnd Reigns/Lesnar, this Mania is gonna be a nice social experiment.
ReplyDeleteKeeps them off of other guys.
ReplyDeleteJR is bah gawd thrilled.
ReplyDeleteThe job told me to stay home so I'm gonna watch Raw for the first time since July, I think
ReplyDeleteREP Speedwagon or not, you gotta admit, it sounds like something Fizzy would say.
ReplyDeleteHere is your new avatar
ReplyDeletehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/b/b2/Goodcharlotte_logo2_transparent.png
Why not? It's not like there's some preferable thing to do with them.
ReplyDeleteWait a minute, does this mean Show turned face?
ReplyDeleteConcur.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but he could turn heel tonight.
ReplyDeleteOf course. At this point he could turn multiple times during the show
ReplyDeleteHe did in the parking lot.
ReplyDeleteThen turned again at the food table.
"The Genius. An honorary member of the sausage stuffing hall of fame" Seriously, this show is Vinces magnum opus.
ReplyDelete"You gonna be a sausage stuffer pal? Huh?"
ReplyDeleteI know that's how most people feel, but I hate stepping out on my porch and immediately pouring sweat. Plus, if it's cold out, I can always put on my reliable Duke sweatshirt and a coat. I can't just take all my clothes off just because it's hot outside (at least, that's what the judge told me).
ReplyDelete"I've never seen HHH this scared before."
ReplyDeleteUm. Otunga. See HHH's selling of the rebirth of Cactus Jack, please.
How about not booking them at all?
ReplyDeleteSeems to be whatever you grew up in. My wife was raised in WI, and prefers cold. I grew up in a desert, and really hate being cold. Of course, at this point, I don't think I could live in a desert again.
ReplyDeleteYou kidding? Have you seen HOW BIG these guys really are?
ReplyDeleteVince- "Lord Alfred Hayes needs to stuff some of that sausage in his EARS!"
ReplyDeleteI think I might love this show.
You do seem to be just a laugh or two short of a humor orgasm.
ReplyDeleteCena address to start Raw, yesssssssss
ReplyDelete