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Aye, lad. But there's no real rock-hard reason they couldn't go with an opponent that has more history, and has had better matches, with Jarrett than Nash. Sure, Nash seems to want to actually give back to the business now that he understands his time is out. Yeah, from all reports I've read, Nash is in love with the TNA product and the atmosphere and would love to help put a few guys over, or help some guys out. But really: Nash vs. Jarrett? Not a match the TNA faithful are looking forward to (as you can tell from the reactions on this board), and so far the build has been pretty lame for it (save for Tito's involvement). That said, I'll eat crow if the Nash/Jarrett match turns out to be good, and Raven/Jarrett III is built up to be done in January or so...with Raven going over DEFINITIVELY.

Heaven forbid a company hype their wrestler. Then I guess WCW would have been in the right to sue Vince because The Rock talked about the Jericho/Juvi feud when Jericho debuted? Exactly. As long as you aren't using trademarked materials for profit, or slandering another, you can't sue. There's next to nothing that WWE could sue TNA over, and even the things they possibly could? Other companies could most likely sue WWE because they used it first, or individuals could sue WWE because they were the first to do it, etc. etc.

"That AJ Styles doesn't know how to wrestle." **Watches AJ Styles vs. LowKi from July 17th, 2002. Watches Batista vs. anybody.** Hahaha...rriiiiiight... Also, I'll have to reiterate: If you've seen a full TNA show and aren't impressed? Hey, that's cool. It's definitely a different style, and Impact doesn't showcase the best work of the roster since they have to condense all of their matches into under 10 minutes to fit more than 2 on there. The PPVs usually have very good matches all throughout the card (save for those that we all know are going to be terrible, but it's the same with any promotion) with enough time to develop a flow to the match. Mike: The reason you're not treated with respect in the TNA folder is that you're CONSTANTLY being a prick about a lot of things. Most of your issues you know I agree with you on (Jarrett, the handling of the more over members of the roster that aren't X-Division, certain matches, etc.), but stop trying to just flat-out say "I'm right and you're wrong" all the time. It's all in the attitude and not in the content, man.

Haha, niiiiiice. I was in a 15-man battle royale at Survivor Series with my Cliff Young CAW, and it's the angle where Stacy says she'll manage you if you win. I eliminated 12 people. I was the 3rd person in the match. EVERY ELIMINATION I MADE CAME FROM THE RUNNING RELEASE POWERBOMB. It was sick seeing Cliff pick Shawn Michaels up and drop him on his head on the outside...and then do the same to Ric Flair, Batista, and Kane.

I'm interested to see how the interview with the Abbot brothers goes, since Dime and Vinnie were nuts.

Shadows Fall...?

To be fair, Kash was doing the Muscle Buster here-and-there long before Samoa Joe was, I do believe. Kash has also been wrestling just as long as Chris Benoit, I do believe, so yeah. KID KASH IS YOUR NEW FAVORITE WRESTLER. Damn...feels GREAT to say that again.

When Samoa Joe becomes the NWA World champion and the 'Net is all about "how amazing would an Angle/Joe match be?!" Invader: No, we're not expecting him to praise TNA, or even just one of their workers. But we are expecting him to be a little smarter in his choice of words, considering he ADMITTED he'd only seen clips (and, most likely, these clips will have been the HIGHSPOTS of his matches) and said that the guy can't tell a story. I got a better story from the whole Styles/Lynn feud in '02 (and I'll readily admit that those matches were pretty much just spotfests) than any feud in WWE that didn't involve Benoit, Angle, or Eddie in the past few years. Of course, I readily admit to being a mark for AJ Styles, and have been since July '02 when I first saw his work on a steady basis, so hey. Fishy: Again, your friends saw the actual matches, not just clips of his work. Would you form an opinion on whether or not you thought some girl was hot because she has a cute nose? No, of course not. It's basically the same thing going on here: Batista saw the girl's hands and said she wasn't hot without seeing her whole body. Also, I wouldn't say AJ has the worst punches. Definitely bad, though. The only time his punches look even half decent is when he does the springboard flying punch, and that's only because he has his whole body behind him to make it look somewhat decent. He's one of the guys that should stick to forearms, since he throws those good. But yeah, let's talk about Batista again, since there's a TNA folder next door.

Which, again, is a bad move. When you have the rematch to the single most hyped World title match in your company's history, you fucking run with it for your biggest show of the year. You don't dilly-daddle and fuck around because you want to use somebody that casuals likely remember (especially since the ratings show its kinda obvious that only SOME casuals are watching, and the ones that are most likely are the same ones that watched Velocity so they're prolly just the hardcore fans that knew about TNA beforehand anyway), you go right ahead with your money match. Raven/Jarrett III with the proper build from the first Spike Impact? Money match. Nash/Jarrett II with practically no build from the first Spike Impact? Hahahaha, no.

The only thing stopping me from getting BFG, really, is Nash/Jarrett, because I really DON'T care for that match at all, and I know it's the match that's going to be hyped up the most on Impact afterwards.

Yes...because everybody that watches TNA or is a fan of AJ Styles (who, again, has had better matches in the past 6 months than most WWE workers have had in their whole careers) is automatically a TNA mark, and is taking it to your champ, Batista. Shut up, rookie. Rubin: The people outside of WWE who say it fall into two groups, with one being those that have only seen clips (at the most) of the product, and the other being those that have watched it and aren't interested. Nobody has a real problem with those that have watched it and aren't interested, it's the other group - which Batista readily admitted he was in, mind you - that's annoying. It's similar to people that have never seen a full wrestling match in their life, or never even heard of all of the injuries associated with the business, going "how can you watch wrestling, it's SO fake and they can't act." Only, you know, it's worse, because it's a man who's apparently only had two matches above "eh" in his whole career who's saying other people, who have had MANY matches that have been in the running for MOTY, can't work. It's like HHH saying Rey Mysterio Jr. can't work because he's acrobatic. Sorry, wrestling isn't about fake punching either, but yet they all get away with saying that those that try to entertain the fans the best way they can simply because they're in the business.

I'm going to have to echo my distaste for his AJ hate. Styles has had about twenty times as many great matches as Batista has, and if he really thinks that all the BIG X-Division guys can do is "car wreck" matches? Dude really needs to see non-TNA work from Styles, and catch the Sabin/Joe match that told a story better than anything HHH has done since 2000, 'Taker since the feud with HBK in '97 and early '98, and Batista...well, ever. Overall, good interview, and I'll never say I disrespect him because the guy speaks his mind (more often than not) and does try his best to improve in the ring. Not a fan, but I respect him more than most other people I'm not a fan of.

Comix Zone is a good game and must be played. Side-scroller where the hero is trapped in a comic book, and when the screen is cleared and more villains are going to come after you a hand shows up and draws them in? Ownage.

I think we all know by now why I'm interested in THIS promotion...HINT: her initials are MM.

That's a pretty lame thing about HCTP and SvR: that the tables don't usually break when you slam somebody through them. I've tried so many times to position a table in the ring and superplex somebody through it, but the table just moves.

Hmmmm...I think I'll be on Slayer's side, simply because he's fucking Slayer. Though I'd love to see the phrase "Czech yourself before you wreck yourself" used.

Yes, Max. North Attleboro cops ARE stupid. But at least they're not the complete pricks that Plainville cops are. I've been pulled over once, and it was coming back from Framingham in Holliston on 126. The NECW show that night got out about 45 minutes later than it usually does (a double main-event of a WarGames match an a TLC-Squared match, the latter of which went on forever), and it was around 11 at night when I dropped my ex-girlfriend off at her house. It's about a 45-minute drive from Framingham to Franklin, so I'm going the speed limit through downtown Framingham and the parts of Ashland that 126 is on, the latter of which is 45 HOWEVER, once you hit Holliston the speed limit goes from 45 to 35 to 40, all within half a mile of each other. I look at my clock, it's 11:15, and I have to be at work the next morning at 6am, so I'm like "well, whatever, I'm slowing down a bit but the 40mph sign is just a hundred feet ahead, and I'll be at 45 when I hit it." Haha, yeah. I'm 42 or 43 in the 40 zone, and I pull off onto High St. Car behind me follows me. I stop at the stop sign and go down the street a little bit, and the car still follows me. Lights, I pull over immediately. Cop decides to pull me over for going 50 in a 35 (which I was for about a second before I started slowing down, so I figured the guy just had a slow day). Both hands on the wheel, got out my license and registration when he asked for them. He asks why I'm speeding, and I go "because I'm coming from Framingham heading back to Franklin, and I've got to be awake to go to work in 6 hours." Guy asks what I was doing in Framingham, I tell him I was at the NECW show at the Civic League, and he goes back to his car after asking me if I had a record (which I didn't). Comes back, hands me my license and registration, and just explains to me that I'm getting a verbal warning because my record's clean and he could understand why I was speeding (the urge to get home so I could be up for work, and the lack of cars on the road), but to not do it again. When this happens, some guy in an SUV speeds past us, honking their horn. Cop looks up at him and goes "fucking asshole," then lets me off. I'm about 40-50 feet up the road, going the speed limit of 25, and the lights flash again. I'm just like "what the fuck, I ain't speeding," and pull over...cop goes right by me. Further down the road just outside of downtown Holliston, I see the same cop pulling over the same SUV, and the cop's yelling at him as he's walking towards the car. I let out a small laugh, turn my stereo up, and drive the speed limit home. One and only time I've been pulled over.

I have The Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer" in my head because it was on the radio when I was doing a delivery for work, and then they played a parody of it immediately after called "Psycho Chicken."

Funny thing is that Marky Mark could actually pull it off pretty convincingly, since he gets better and better with each movie he's in.

No. Some of us work for a living.

See? I can do a partial quote to fit my argument, too. EDIT: Also, don't trust modern psychology as much as you are, man. It's been around for all of 100 years, whereas child-rearing methods that HAVE included spanking as a last resort punishment has been around for, oh, thousands. Let's figure it this way: When was there more crime overall, in the 1950's or in the 1980's? Which generation likely spanked their kids more: the parents of those that were adults in the 1950's or the parents of those that were adults in the 1980's?

Yesterday, I had three songs on repeat through my head: The Misfits - "Bullet" Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - "Boogeyman" Alice in Chains - "Dont Follow"

Lemme explain one thing about when my dad put fear into me: He put the fear into me that if I were to cross him so much that he would resort to smacking me offside my head, it would hurt. Basic behavioral lesson, really. Re-enforce the positives with positive reactions, re-enforce the negative with negative reactions. And so, troll, how old are you? Really, this means a lot. A lot more than you'd probably grasp without it being told to you. Because, see, if you're under 20? You're basically looked at by young'uns as a "big kid." Kids will ALWAYS listen to other kids better than they listen to their parents. Fuck, my folks were rarely home after I turned 4, so my sister had a good hand in raising me (that and the TV, but that's another thread). Who did I always listen to more: my mother, my father, or my sister? If you guessed option C, the sister, then you're right, because I looked at her as a "big kid." See where I'm going with this? Kids will always listen to older kids because of the whole "us vs. them" mindset that so many young'uns go by. Tell your little brother, the one you "raised," to eat paste because it's good for his digestion. He'd probably try it. If your folks tried doing it, he'd resist. Generational gaps are everything, man. Kids always try to push the boundaries with parental figures whereas they'll listen to those that are seen as their peers.

Likely is. And if it's revealed to be a work, they got most of the TSM TNA folder regs into it. Kinda funny how it seems only TNA can really work the 'net these days without resorting to completely nonsensical bullshit, eh?