RavishingRickRudo

WHO'S THE BOSS? BOSSE. Also, GRANDMONT vs. GUILLET. Plus, DUUUUUUUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

Hows about you start us off by asking some questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_AXPaXuho Shayna Baszlers twister COBRA TWIST

Do they even have phonebooths anymore?

here,here *eats mars bar*

motherfucker.

Between scoring a win with a twister the other night, namedropping Jordan Breen, and saying "I'm the Queen of Spades, I will reign in blood in this division", how can I not root for Shayna Baszler? How can YOU?

http://www.vimeo.com/755748 Fucking AMAZING Anderson Silva HL. It caused me to revisit Silva/Hendo, and I gotta say, Red Riders Lunatic Fringe is tremendous entrance music.

Yes. Yes it is. ~!

Sotiropoulous vs. Roman was a super dope, though one-sided, first round. So transitioney.

Hey, Manny didn't know. He thought the dude was just doing a really bad punch.

Watching Aurelio vs. Roberts, and Tim Mills -the referee- is the Ratso Rizzo of MMA. Whoa, man, Arianny chunking the deuce, wow, changing it up from the wave and the blow kiss. OH SHIT THAT ARMBAR WAS DOPE! Oh god that was... jiu jitsu.

Watching Manny vs. Jeff Cox One, Manny is 26. Either he just looks old, or I'm old. Very, very old. Two, Goldberg saying "Cox enjoys a -two inch- reach advantage" must've been a bit awkward to say. Three, sweeeeeeeet Seoi Nage Four, a Guilllotine that Pequeno would be proud of.

Rogan: OH! OH! IT'S OVER!! *Custom agent punches Eddie in face with free hand* *Eddie quickly let's go and covers his face crying* Rogan: NOOO! NOT HIS FACE! NOT HIS VALUABLE FACE!

But he can use Eddie Bravo and the Tap Out guys as mules. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!

IFL New Jersey Friday, April 4 Izod Center East Rutherford, N.J. IFL Welterweight Championship Jay Hieron def. Mark Miller – TKO (Strikes) 2:10 R1 IFL Featherweight Championship Wagnney Fabiano def. Shad Lierley – KO (Punch) 0:37 R1 IFL Light Heavyweight Championship Vladimir Matyushenko def. Jamal Patterson – TKO (Strikes) 3:35 R2 Mike Ciesnolevicz vs. Carmelo Marrero – No Contest (Cut) Emyr Bussade def. Jesse Lennox – Tapout (Kneebar) 1:25 R2 Brad Blackburn def. Delson Heleno – TKO (Strikes) 1:50 R3 Jim Miller def. Bart Palaszewski – Unanimous Decision (30-27 all) Chris Horodecki def. Nate Lamotte – Unanimous Decision (29-28 all) L.C. Davis def. Rafael Dias – KO (Kick) 3:56 R3 Alex Schoenauer def. Brendan Barrett – Split Decision (29-28, 29-27, 28-29)

Rogan probably has a hair appointment and a tanning session that he can't possibly break. Whatever did Dave Foley and Phil Hartman do to make him hate Canada so much?

http://www.dailymotion.com/iowcatalyst/1 Anyone wanting to see some Faber fights, this guy uploaded 10 of em.

Shiit, I'd move to Cali just to see if I could get a bb from Dutch.

Agreed.

Using Flair merely as a device to turn Dave heel is bad. It's a heel turn for a sake of heel turn. Using Flair, and Dave turning on him, as a representation of the feud between Shawn and Batista being taken to another level -beyond "you retired my mentor"- is another thing altogether. That something, in between the beginning of the feud and the turn, was enough to get Batista to go against the values he held at the start. If Batista vs. Michaels is to have legs, it does have to move beyond the impetus which made it. It has to evolve. Bret Hart and Steve Austin, for example, used something similar. Where Steve pushed Bret so far that he went against the values he preached. The logical thing to do, given Daves motivation and the premise of the feud, is to have Flair show up and either spur him on or try to get him to stop. Because it's not like Shawn killed Flair and Batista is out for blood. Flair is still alive and kicking and has a POV in the matter. Fans would be wondering why Flair doesn't involve himself if Batista was truly his protege. Flair isn't done yet in professonal wrestling. Don't get stuck on the idea that the past week was his last dance. How and when and where he is used is the only question. The Why is simple.

Watching how liberal and loose Nate was rolling with Pellegrino, and how awesome Crane/Huerta was because of Huerta rolling similarly, food may be eaten, but it would also be delicious.

well based off Raw, I would think Batista is the heel. The fans are suppose to feel bad for Shawn for doing what he did. That and the fact when Shawn came out to hug Flair, the camera was focused on Batista. I guess they wanted to point out Batista's anger at Shawn. That was the only angle I could see based off the ending to Raw. One would think Orton could seek out revenge seeing that he was wiping away tears when the roster came out. Regardless of who is *supposed* to be face or heel, it's going to be fascinating watching which side the crowd is on. This is really a unique and never before seen angle in the wwe that I can recall. (I don't have nearly as good as memory as many of you do about past storylines though). But to me it seems new and in wrestling where every angle or story line has been done over and over and over, you just change the details a little, it's great when you have something really unique and different. I hope they do this right because if they do it can be good I think. I also think it is brilliant to piggyback off a finished angle. You rarely get that type of sequential storytelling from the WWE. Not only that, it is somewhat logical storytelling where the end of one feud has an impact on the beginning of another. That there are consequences for winning and losing, that other wrestlers' losses affects others in either positive or negative ways. It's akin to watching a television show where the conclusion of one arc bleeds into another (A very Whedonesque method of season advancement).

Can I just say how brilliant it is to start the show off with fights? The whole point of the show is to build connections with fighters, to lend support out. With the previous seasons, it would often take WEEKS before we could see a fighter fight and if they sucked then it would be all for loss. This way of weeding out the shit from the shittier allows us a better chance to pick and choose who we cheer, which overall raises interest in the season. Also, having the coaches and Simon Dana as commentators is a good turn because it gets across certain aspects of the fight. Forrest saying "I'm cheering for the guy who is losing" is good character revelation.