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I agree totally and ever since Enzyte got KO'd at that PPV he always gets hit and flails his arms as he falls like he got KO'd. Gets on my nerves.

How many times do we have to be inundated with the HHH/Rollins match? Makes me sick of it already.

I hate the Domino's commercials mimicking Ferris Beuller, I never could stand that guy.

Is that who that's supposed to be?  The one where he's tracking his pizza?  I just thought that was some annoying schmuck.

I'm assuming so.

Special guest ring announcer Al Roker???  WTF????

Right?! But as much as I gripe I'm still gonna sit for the whole preshow and main show...

Who's inducting Rick Rude?

I just don't get why they paired Joe and KO, it doesn't neither one any good as far as credibility goes especially for KO who hasn't succeeded on his own in a long time.

They've completely ruined KO.

And after they got him off to such a good start too, beating Cena.  But now he's portrayed as a sniveling coward who can't win without help.  It's sad.

And I'll miss Jericho after WM.  His various schticks still crack me up.  Like "The List"; I still find that amusing.   But good luck with the Fozzy tour Chris.

And with that here comes Glansberg.

Did Heyman just say Goldberg was going to "Jewplex City"?

I was only half paying attention but that's what it sounded like.  That's pretty edgy

It did! That IS pretty edgy!

akeldama wrote:

Who's inducting Rick Rude?

Steamboat

mikeinfla wrote:

akeldama wrote:

Who's inducting Rick Rude?

Steamboat

Thanks. I woulda been awesome if Heenan could do it but since he's been in bad health the last few years I know it's impossible.

I miss "The Brain".  His heel schtick on commentary was often unintentionally hilarious.  Especially when coupled with Gorilla Monsoon's face schtick on commentary which was also unintentionally hilarious.  Put them together and you had comedy gold.



Plus Heenan was featured on one of the goriest magazine covers I ever saw as a kid.  Back then I would go with my grandfather to a flea market and while he looked for tools and stuff I would look for stands featuring magazines.  The mags were usually months old but when they were only around 25 cents apiece I didn't care.  I always looked for really gory wrestling mags (yeah I've been a gorehound since I was a wee lad!).  One of my favorites back then featured Heenan on the cover wearing the proverbial "crimson mask" and had the lurid headline "The Night Bobby Heenan Paid His Dues....IN BLOOD!!!!"  with "in blood" in dripping red letters. 

Ah memories...

I know I've seen that mag cover before somewhere but I can't place where.

I tried googling it.  Holy crap, Heenan bladed a lot!  There are tons of images of mags with a gory Brain on the cover.  No wonder his forehead looks like a roadmap.  Much like Ric Flair or Dusty Rhodes.

Anyone ever think about the whole concept of "blading"?  What kind of person could do that?  I don't think I could do it to myself; I'd have to have someone else blade me.  But then I'd probably end up like the infamous Eric Kulas, the non-wrestler who stupidly let that whack-job Nu-Jack blade him in ECW and Kulas got carved up.

I don't ever remember him back in his gory days. I didn't watch AWA until well after he left for WWF but looking back on his tenure in AWA he knew how to take some serious bumps.

For the curious, here's the Wikipedia entry for the "Kulas Incident".  Warning: it's a pretty gross description.  It's also a reason why, while Paul Heyman is a brilliant booker and onscreen character, he should never own a wrestling company again.  It's really a bizarre incident:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Transit_incident_(professional_wrestling)

tohostudios wrote:

"This year I'm reading from a script Vince gave me.  Badly."

I'm so glad I was late in DVRing Raw so I missed that. I don't feel as strongly about her as you but when she speaks I want to rip my ear drums out.

tohostudios wrote:

I completely agree. UT's schtick has looooooong been played out. It just kills me that they're going to feed him to Reigns though. That guy has all the charisma of a block of wood.

I wish he would have ended it a while back because I hate to see one of my all time favorites end it laying down for the worst booked face in recent memory.

tohostudios wrote:

Did Heyman just say Goldberg was going to "Jewplex City"?

I was only half paying attention but that's what it sounded like. That's pretty edgy

Well, since Heyman is Jewish, he's allowed to get away with it.

tohostudios wrote:

I tried googling it. Holy crap, Heenan bladed a lot! There are tons of images of mags with a gory Brain on the cover. No wonder his forehead looks like a roadmap. Much like Ric Flair or Dusty Rhodes.

Anyone ever think about the whole concept of "blading"? What kind of person could do that? I don't think I could do it to myself; I'd have to have someone else blade me. But then I'd probably end up like the infamous Eric Kulas, the non-wrestler who stupidly let that whack-job Nu-Jack blade him in ECW and Kulas got carved up.

Certainly takes a steel set to do something like that. I heard about the New Jack incident. That guy is a garbage performer and a garbage human being. It's bad enough when a wrestler purposely tries to injure their opponent, but he actually tried to kill someone (Vic Grimes) in the ring.

I miss Mauro Ranallo on play by play on Smackdown.

I'm not sure what's going on with him and WWE.  A few weeks ago he was the play by play announcer on Premier Boxing on CBS and he hasn't been back on Smackdown since.  I was amazed when he showed up on CBS as a boxing announcer because typically Vince likes his announcers to only do WWE events. 

The first Smackdown he missed they said it was due to the snowstorm in the northeast.  Last week they said he was sick.  Now he's not on the broadcast again. 

And interestingly, there's a PBC boxing event on FS1 in 45 minutes.  I'm going to flip over to that to see if Ranallo is calling boxing again.

I like his calling style for WWE.  He's like Jim Ross in that he calls it like it's an actual sport.

Layfield is on a roll!

Ellsworth comes out to introduce Carmella and JBL says "Is this the National Geographic Channel?".  Then later he says "He's like a cross between a manatee and an ugly earthworm."

More "Total Bellas Bulls**t"!

HI-larious.  With Miz and Maryse also playing Daniel Bryan and Brie. 

Funny stuff!  WWE just needs to make a series out of this.  These two are better at this than they are in the ring IMO.

"My three words are Hustle, Loyalty and Respect.  I hustle the fans, I only have loyalty to the people who do what I tell them to and I only respect money."