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If HBK didn't break Taker's streak at WM25 nobody should.
Wrestling Thread 2/25-3/10 | 3/10 TNA LOCKDOWN PPV - Hardy v Bully Ray | Champion No Showing?
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I bring you guys an ultimate solution for all our problems with the WWE...
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Exactly. There's no reason for anybody to end the Streak, especially with the current feuds heading there, and this current roster. I don't mind CM Punk vs Taker at all, but it should just be a fantastic match that Taker wins. HBK, HBK, HHH, and Punk would be a good sendoff (if this would be his last WM)
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If Punk still had the belt and it was streak vs. streak, I would have no problem with Punk going over.
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Another great Grantland read
Survivalist Series: WWE vs. Glenn Beck
Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter may not be ultra-conservative, anti-immigrant tea partiers, but they play them on TV
But there is something different about Swagger and Colter. They aren't merely the latest chapter in wrestling's unfinished treatise on Latino stereotyping. When Swagger and Colter created a YouTube channel to promote their rants, their story line found its groove. The first video was an underproduced one-shot monologue set against a wooden fence with a Gadsden flag bobbing in the breeze. It begins with Zeb turning on the camcorder and walking back in front of the camera to start talking. It was an awkward, rambling revelation titled "IMMIGRATION" and lamented the end of the American dream with all the passion of a drunken discourse in a small-town dive bar. Their description of undocumented immigrants as "greedy, selfish, criminal delinquents" is offensive, sure, but it's supposed to be — Swagger and Colter are heels. Throughout its history, pro wrestling has handled the tricky issue of race by painting racist characters as the bad guys they are, while turning minority wrestlers into heroes. This formula made the Junkyard Dog a huge star in the 1980s South. Wrestling fans know that race-baiting is part of the show. Offensive as it may be, it's part of the tapestry of sexism and homophobia and violence that takes a hundred offensive threads and sews them up into a ramshackle, modern Iliad.
People who aren't wrestling fans, on the other hand, aren't in on the joke. This is clearly the case with the tea party movement, which Swagger and Colter both portray and lampoon. With so many excitable conservative commentators (and so many on-air hours to kill), it seemed inevitable that WWE would succeed in provoking the tea party.
First up was syndicated radio host Alex Jones, who took to the airwaves on February 19 to complain that the Swagger character was an attempt to demonize the tea party by mainstream Republicans Vince and Linda McMahon. In subsequent broadcasts, Jones surmised that WWE cast Swagger as a villain because "now there's nothing worse than a white person" in America, and he implied that the departments of Justice and Defense were funding WWE's anti-American agenda. But how, one might ask, could WWE be anti-American when they put on those "Tribute to the Troops" shows? "It doesn't mean 'thank the troops,'" Jones explained. "They thank the police state, they thank the global empire, they thank the New World Order2 to get us ready for troops on the streets." One imagines WWE writers listening to this, smirking, and scribbling feverishly.
See more here
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8997957/dissecting-wwe-feud-tea-party-glenn-beck
Survivalist Series: WWE vs. Glenn Beck
Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter may not be ultra-conservative, anti-immigrant tea partiers, but they play them on TV
But there is something different about Swagger and Colter. They aren't merely the latest chapter in wrestling's unfinished treatise on Latino stereotyping. When Swagger and Colter created a YouTube channel to promote their rants, their story line found its groove. The first video was an underproduced one-shot monologue set against a wooden fence with a Gadsden flag bobbing in the breeze. It begins with Zeb turning on the camcorder and walking back in front of the camera to start talking. It was an awkward, rambling revelation titled "IMMIGRATION" and lamented the end of the American dream with all the passion of a drunken discourse in a small-town dive bar. Their description of undocumented immigrants as "greedy, selfish, criminal delinquents" is offensive, sure, but it's supposed to be — Swagger and Colter are heels. Throughout its history, pro wrestling has handled the tricky issue of race by painting racist characters as the bad guys they are, while turning minority wrestlers into heroes. This formula made the Junkyard Dog a huge star in the 1980s South. Wrestling fans know that race-baiting is part of the show. Offensive as it may be, it's part of the tapestry of sexism and homophobia and violence that takes a hundred offensive threads and sews them up into a ramshackle, modern Iliad.
People who aren't wrestling fans, on the other hand, aren't in on the joke. This is clearly the case with the tea party movement, which Swagger and Colter both portray and lampoon. With so many excitable conservative commentators (and so many on-air hours to kill), it seemed inevitable that WWE would succeed in provoking the tea party.
First up was syndicated radio host Alex Jones, who took to the airwaves on February 19 to complain that the Swagger character was an attempt to demonize the tea party by mainstream Republicans Vince and Linda McMahon. In subsequent broadcasts, Jones surmised that WWE cast Swagger as a villain because "now there's nothing worse than a white person" in America, and he implied that the departments of Justice and Defense were funding WWE's anti-American agenda. But how, one might ask, could WWE be anti-American when they put on those "Tribute to the Troops" shows? "It doesn't mean 'thank the troops,'" Jones explained. "They thank the police state, they thank the global empire, they thank the New World Order2 to get us ready for troops on the streets." One imagines WWE writers listening to this, smirking, and scribbling feverishly.
See more here
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8997957/dissecting-wwe-feud-tea-party-glenn-beck
rusty shackelford
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God knows Lobo/Rusty wont draw a dime
You're seriously out of your mind if you think The Shack won't draw.
Now we all know that Lobo is a boring, ineffective, dimwitted, peon of a champion, but that doesn't mean
you should insult him. So sit your lucha-libre culo down Sweet-C.
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RVD/Kenny King: RVD atempted a 450* splash. Shocked me. And he lost.
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To Kenny King, who sucks.
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Didn't Even know this was coming out...
WWE normally screws with Bluray and drops the ball.. But it's the Hitman... Gotta get it
Come out the 5th
WWE normally screws with Bluray and drops the ball.. But it's the Hitman... Gotta get it
Come out the 5th
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Bend_The_Knee
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Ivelisse looking so right on impact right now
Hell yea
Lei'D Tapa :x
Look like a man.
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ehhhhh, him, Magnus, Brooke and Aries are the main reasons I halfway tune into Impact.
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That's garbage, they were just there a couple of years ago and isn't the Citrus Bowl a piece of **** anyways? Bring WM out to AT&T Park man or the new Santa Clara stadium.
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What's the deal with AJ Styles?
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Jericho on what impresses him about some of the newer WWE wrestlers:
“It’s good to know that the new prospects that are coming in have some experience and been around a little bit. And obviously The Shield, I was really impressed by them right off the bat. They were just three guys that were given a shot and really took the ball and ran with it. Cesaro, I’ve been a fan of his even before he came here. They’ve worked around the world and it benefited them when they debuted.”
“It’s good to know that the new prospects that are coming in have some experience and been around a little bit. And obviously The Shield, I was really impressed by them right off the bat. They were just three guys that were given a shot and really took the ball and ran with it. Cesaro, I’ve been a fan of his even before he came here. They’ve worked around the world and it benefited them when they debuted.”
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jhawk826
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Rey Mysterio has been pulled from all programming and advertising up until Wrestlemania. Word is that there are some family matters back home he's attending to, but with his history its probably drugs again. WWE isn't going to release him because of the market he's cornered.
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This is DAMN good. DAMN good. Right now the 2nd highest rated BIOGRAPHICAL Documentary on All of Netflix. If you need some motivation.
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Wrestlemania just needs to be in a true wrestling city like Chicago or Philly.
Quality of crowd > Quantity of crown
Quality of crowd > Quantity of crown
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Quality of the crowd is not nearly a big enough ego boost to VKM like the quantity of the crowd..
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I came across some of my old wrestling things tonight from when I wad little. I thought this was cool. Program from one of the Brian pillman memorial shows I attended.
And peep, funny you mentioned One Night Only earlier
. I remember my dad bought this for me at a live event.
And peep, funny you mentioned One Night Only earlier
. I remember my dad bought this for me at a live event.
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meek meals
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is TNA any good these days?
i remember their future was sooooo optimistic on that January 4, 2010 show where they moved to mondays at 8 and nWo, Hardy, Kennedy, Elijah Burke, Ric Flair, Hogan all debuted (i know some of the people i mentioned came into the company before or after 1/4/10 but im too lazy to verify) . . . kurt angle vs. aj styles . . . aj turned heel with ric flair coming out as his manager . . . and their show was better than Raw that night because beyond the shock value of Bret Hart coming back, the WWE was pretty much at the worst of the PG Era at the time
i remember their future was sooooo optimistic on that January 4, 2010 show where they moved to mondays at 8 and nWo, Hardy, Kennedy, Elijah Burke, Ric Flair, Hogan all debuted (i know some of the people i mentioned came into the company before or after 1/4/10 but im too lazy to verify) . . . kurt angle vs. aj styles . . . aj turned heel with ric flair coming out as his manager . . . and their show was better than Raw that night because beyond the shock value of Bret Hart coming back, the WWE was pretty much at the worst of the PG Era at the time
