Mike wanna be

Gorilla was fine up until around 1990, but then he went downhill really badly. I don't think people hated Gorilla because of who he worked for; if that was the case, then people would have hated Jesse Ventura, and he got heavy praise for his heel commentator role. What I hated about Gorilla was when a babyface was in a submission hold, he'd either talk about how he's never seen someone give up in that hold or how the babyface was never going to submit, which turned it from a potentially match winning hold to a rest hold that people shouldn't get worried about. It killed the drama of the match. At the time I can see how saying "Hulk will never give up!" or "Nobody ever gives up to a head twist!" would kill the match's drama....but 17 years after the fact Hulk still never gives up and nobody has given up to a head twist, so it isn't like he was wrong. Whenever he did something like that, I always figured it was just his way of re-wording "This is a wear-down hold, not really a submission" because in reality they're all submission holds but nobody's going to buy a head twist as a viable finish.

oldschool's a totally different member of the board.

I just picked it up; haven't had the chance to run it yet. I also snagged a WreSpi2 update, so I'm happy.

Speaking of which, what the fuck is Ric Flair doing back on Smackdown? Retirement tour, he was an hour from the arena the night before, wasn't going to wrestle and has about 2 weeks before he has to wrestle another match. I'm glad we got to see him one last time, albeit not wrestling.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/v...ion-Mass-Effect Fair review?

KC James belongs nowhere near a television camera, but I agree 100% that the developmentals are getting punked out by the talent exchange. Then again WWE is constantly having developmental turnover with Deep South and Booker's fed that was but wasn't a developmental territory...they're probably too busy worrying about where to keep the developmentals NOT ready for the roster than the ones they can just cherry-pick whenever they so choose, throw a gimmick at and push down the ramp.

Shit, I spaced on this. Edge noted that the "Major brothers" did what they did to get noticed and get in the company, and at the first chance they went for the brass ring, so to speak, and aligned themselves with Edge.

'Twas a good sell. After the event, my girlfriend and I were outside the arena and the paramedic with the stretcher came rolling past. My girlfriend, who knew nothing of wrestling before tonight, posed to me this quandary: "If there were paramedics on hand, why did they make that big guy who got his head smacked with the chairs and the little guy who got jumped by that other guy at the end walk out? Why didn't they like, put them on a stretcher or something?" Punk sold Chavo's attack really well, he was down for what felt like a solid five minutes before getting up, and even then he went right back down and was semi-helped to the back. I then got to shake hands with Joey Styles as he went by...missed Tazz, but one out of two is a good night in my book. EDIT: Rather than going step by step, here's my review/spoilers for the show.

It was indeed Charles Evans. Over the full four hours we were there, the participants in this match were the only two I couldn't name immediately, which was a horrific omen I wish I'd heeded, because I was starving. Section 31 (my section, thank you StubHub) was a mishmash of people. If at any point during Smackdown or ECW you hear someone who sounds like a twelve year old girl professing her love for a wrestler, that was one of the two young twats sitting directly behind us. Fun fact, when Nunzio plunged into the crowd and ended up losing his hat, he did it right at the end of our row. I was sitting next to the drunk guys who he leaned on and shook his fist with, and Nunzio threw his hat directly at my face. Thankfully the guy right in front of me grabbed it and gave it to his kid, because I was so startled and the other guys were so drunk that if he hadn't snatched it, it definitely would've just smacked me in the face.

Crowd popped huge for Batista's "title win". After the match was restarted, Batista got a hold of Edge and brought him in the ring. He got him up for the Batista Bomb but he was chair-chop blocked (sounds better than it was executed) by a Major. Edge then con-chair-to'd Batista and Dave busted out a D-Von sell. Crowd was mildly pissed about lack of Jericho, but heading out I heard a lot more complaints about no Taker than no Jericho.

Dead serious. That James/Lashley clone match was a goddamn abortion. James fucked up a hammerlock powerslam by breaking away from the hammerlock and FLAILING HIS INJURED ARM AROUND. He did this for a good two seconds before PUTTING IT BACK IN THE HAMMERLOCK like we wouldn't notice. Also, note that the live crowd was given no explanation for Chavo's run-in whatsoever. Whatever he said to Punk in the ring we couldn't hear. It's totally their fault on that one, we were hot as hell coming out of the end of Smackdown and then the long stall for ECW's set up (complete with them draping curtains over the back 2 screens while simultaneously breaking the feed on the four central screens, giving everybody just the screen above the ECW entrance to look at) with that god-awful match to "re-ignite" us...we were absolutely dead for Punk/MVP which came across as completely awful live.

So he had "very good" and "good" matches with the BEST workers this generation has output (and on a sad aside, of Kurt, Eddie & Benoit, who would have bet that Kurt would be the last one alive before any of them died?) Here's where my problem lies. He wrestles like a Texan. He talks and acts like a New Yorker, yet wears a cowboy hat and has bull horns on the front of his limousine. The two just don't go together, and JBL is the amalgam of those two polar opposites. You might as well say that Khali's offense "builds" to the Kona Crush, but that doesn't make his offense of punches, kicks, chops and GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHs acceptable, let alone respectable. I'll grant you the selling and the charisma, but I'm not going to buy that he has had "several great matches" when you yourself classify his matches with half of the Smackdown Six as no better than "very good" with two of the five cited only rating "good" in your book. Every main eventer needs "that match" that solidifies them in the main event, and given EVERY opportunity the company could feasibly give him JBL came up with nothing that anybody can point to and say "This match is why JBL belongs in the main event, he stepped in with somebody and they put on one hell of a match that made both men look strong coming out."

I'd rather see an Evolution four-way elimination match, and have it come down to Flair and either Batista or Orton with the retirement on the line. Seems more fitting to have protege Batista or legend killer Orton take him out on the biggest stage for the richest prize rather than in the meaningless "You're going out at Wrestlemania, so here's your token match" bout he'd be in otherwise. Edge/Taker has been obvious for years, but it shouldn't be done until Taker's finished with his career. I don't particularly care for either streak, I just don't want to see Taker lose the streak and then appear on the following year's Wrestlemania and have the awkward "Do they mention the 15-match win streak at Wrestlemania and say it's the most wins/consecutive wins at the event, or do they announce the 15 and 1 record at Wrestlemania and turn it into 'Oh yeah, he's already lost at this PPV' and ruin the streak's mystique?" moment.

I wondered that too; with ten seconds left do you call a hail mary and hope they don't blitz, do you punt and hope it doesn't go to Hester, do you set up for the punt and just run around like a chicken with its head cut off and then throw the ball deep to kill the clock? Speaking of Hester, for god's sake everyone needs to kick to him. As long as he keeps making great returns it's exciting as hell, and you certainly aren't going to figure out a good way to make a tackle on the guy when you consistenly kickoff to the 20 and punt the ball out of bounds inside your own 30. Sooner or later the Bears are going to go Music City Miracle or Cal/Stanford and just start pitching the ball all over the place to get it to Hester.

Toxxic: The FAQ cites announcers and production values as being "examples" of what causes drops. The good news is that you've apparently narrowed down the list of options beyond this, but the bad news is I can't find any other examples anywhere. Sophie say anything out of the ordinary? On WMMA (the MMA Ryland game): I like it, but I don't like it. I mean, I love the booking setup and I wish I could jam that into EWR because the rest of it is the same complex TEW system that I can't stand. I didn't really need profile information, I liked being able to see someone's stats right off the bat, being able to offer them a contract, have them sign and be able to work that night like EWR. TEW and now WMMA are just slow, methodical "negotiations" with the same result. I've had fighters in the demo request and then demand negotiations within seven days (I wasn't really paying attention and didn't notice the first request email; guess they didn't like that). On about day three after the demand I asked each of them to go into negotiations. They all waited in excess of a week to get back to me, and this is after their demand email told me that they would quit if I didn't negotiate with them within seven days. Jerks. "If I don't get to negotiate within a week I am quitting!" "Okay, let's negotiate that contract." "Not now, I'm busy. How about a week and a half from now?" "....." Also, they always want 5% more in a signing bonus than the game auto-offers, so you constantly have to fix that. It rounds up (no big deal) but they will not accept ONE DOLLAR LESS in a signing bonus. If I'm paying you $25,000 per fight and giving you an Associate contract while letting you out of the Rolling one, I do not think you should be whining that you want $5250 as a signing bonus instead of the $5249 I offered. If I could have WMMA's booking style with EWR it would be the perfect wrestling simulator. As it is now, for my tastes anyway, it's like I'm not even playing the game. I just go into the screens and it tells me what's a good fight to schedule (very handy) and I schedule it. Booking fights/matches (EWR's weakness with the constant cycle of 9 decisions * 4 matches + 3-5 decisions * 4 angles/interviews) is pathetically easy in this game, but everything else is just inconvenience after inconvenience, from having to wait in excess of a week for EVERY contract negotiation (previously a 10-second search, click "Offer contract", click the "Offer" button and then hit OK when they accept process) to having to fish through menu after menu to find the information I'm looking for while the things that you won't even bother with (like 95% of the Finance screen) sit on the home page and are CPU-controlled.

They really do need to address it. And the real purpose for this post: I'm going to the show too; where you sitting?

I can't remember where I heard it, but they tell him not to focus on the moves, but to put over the match as a whole. Is that just regular company policy, or is that the Jim Ross protection measure because he messes up moves more often than he messes up telling the story?

They don't want to acknowledge that they used to run in the same building as ECW would grow to run in. Also they're probably afraid of getting a similar response to the one they got in Philly during Van Dam's title loss where the crowd totally shits on the event. Also bigger stadiums = more ticket sales = more money.

She needs to talk to the rest of her family. I wonder what he was supposedly doing that was so much worse than everyone else? and lol at steph saying someone on creative shouldn't be a tv character. The level of stupidity and hypocrisy shown by the mcmahons on a weekly basis is astounding. The guy did what any legit fan of the business would do if found in the same situation: mark the fuck out. It's not his fault that the McMahon children have had the business literally hand them everything, from the money they currently get when Vince dies to their wife/husband and children, and have therefore spent so much time around the business that they don't understand the concept of being excited about being around wrestlers.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/563110/37630 No guarantees on its accuracy, but I haven't come across any inaccuracies in my own personal usage if that's any consolation.

I guess she got the job full-time, and it was Teddy filling in last week?

They're also a Green Bay game away from playing the second, third, fourth AND fifth best teams in the league this year.

It was Trish looking really really thin that made Jillian & Lita look fatter, as far as I could tell. Shame, too, she was so well proportioned...

By the logic of "The Patriots get worse as their opponents become more laughable" (as evidenced by sub-par performances against Philadelphia and Baltimore), if the Dolphins keep their mouths shut and don't invoke the "They challenged us, we must humiliate them" go-around, Miami should win by 30.

And the reason Kansas goes over Missouri is revealed.