He actually looks like one of my friends, so I found it really hard to take him seriously. Not dopplegangers, but to the point where I used to think of him every time I saw Ted.

YEP!

Who's watched the latest WWE 24? I knew Taker was pretty banged up but not so bad that he was limping before the match even started. Can see why he's done.

Ahaha. I wondered why they kept bringing an idiot like him on.

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I'm slightly pissed WM is going to be at MetLife again but I'm still going

Sometimes I forget Jinder was Champion.

Yeah I'd really have been done to take the subway to get to Citi Field rather than however I'm going to get to Met Life.

Lucky you.

Which is funny because its 8.6 miles away from where I live... but its New York, and I live in Manhattan so of course I don't have a car. Damn buss life.

Zelena Vega is special. What a talent.

Every time I've gone to NY I stay in NJ and take the train into Penn Station. I'm guessing NXT / Raw / SD will be at Barclays.
I'm probably not going to stay for Raw and SD though

"Oooh yeah, dig it, yeaaaahhhh..."

Who teaches the “Pointing at Signs 101” class at the PC?

They mentioned that she’d been in the Men’s Rumble on commentary. Can’t remember how much they harped on it though.

Rookies from NXT Season One employed:
Daniel Bryan
David Otunga
Heath Slater

Rookies from NXT Season Two employed:
Bray Wyatt
Curtis Axel
Percy Watson
Titus O'Neil

Rookies from NXT Season Three employed:
Naomi

Rookies from NXT Season Four employed:
Byron Saxton
EC3
Fandango
Konnor

All things considered I'm shocked there are still this many around - although if you wanted to you could cross out Percy Watson and EC3 since they were both gone for ages.

Wonder who will stick around longest. Naomi is the youngest having only turned 30 in November, but I have to think eventually she'll leave the business once she and Jimmy Uso decide to start a family.

Bray's the second youngest, turns 31 in a few months. Probably a safe bet to be the last one actively competing in WWE of the group - even if they do absolutely nothing with his character they always like to keep around a token weirdo.

Axel and Titus are two guys I never thought would last this long but I think both have a good chance at landing jobs post in-ring career. Axel as a trainer and Titus as either a manager or ambassador.

Yeah Percy was gone for a few years but he's back in NXT as a commentator. He's not very good.

Damn, the New Japan show in Long Beach sold all 5.5k tickets in 20 minutes.

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I wonder how that trend would go over time. The type of people to go to that sort of thing seem like the sort of people who would snatch up that sort of thing. Also, why aren't they subscribing to New Japan World?

Seems Jason Jordan's current injury woes are way worse than originally expected. Instead of it being a regular back injury that just needed some extra rest, its a serious neck injury affecting the nerves as far down as his hands.

Whò says they aren't

Watched Royal Rumble 2007 for the first time. Good lord that Cena vs Umaga Last Man Standing match was fucking incredible.

Statistics.

I actually don't know if I've seen it. I hated Cena at the time, and I hated the Umaga gimmick. But both are incredible performers so I've been meaning to go back and check it out.

I was watching some Four Horsemen promos and Dean Malenko is in a few of them. Obviously not known for his personality, I couldn't help but think "He's actually not a bad talker by today's standards." Because everyone is given scripts and charisma is stifled. And the look isn't important anymore. And being in the Four Horsemen was still kind of cool and a pretty big push based on talent in a company and time where talent meant shit.

I dunno, I'm just spit-balling here, but I think if Dean Malenko were around today, he'd probably be given the NXT Title and be used in the main event scene today. Not sure if he would actually be WWE Champion, but it wouldn't shock me. Maybe I'm just being cynical about the lack of charisma in wrestling today.

It's absolutely amazing. Probably my favourite Cena match

Thanks for the recommendation. Umaga was actually a really good opponent for a lot of the "WWE prototype" guys. Or just guys they wanted to push. Did good stuff with Jeff Hardy too. One of the better "opponents" they had.

I remember after over 3 years of being onscreen as a total savage, they sent Umaga to SmackDown and had him actually prove himself to be intelligent and he cut promos. Shame they didn't go anywhere with that before his release.

Rumble 2007 is actually a pretty solid top to bottom ppv aside from the ECW title match between Test and Lashley

Did the Bludgeon Brothers disappear or something

They wrestled this week against jobbers with one being the brother of Drew Gulak.

The Amazing Gulaks

Thdy have 95,000 subscribers and not sure how many of them are in the US, but for Wrestle Kingdom 11, they gained 10,000 new sub's and 55% were from the US.

I'd say if you were dedicated enough to use that shitty website, you night be dedicated enough to plan a vacation around the yearly NJPW show. I think AXS does good enough business for some too since Mark Cuban says it's one of the most popular things on his channel.

Still watching old Raw from the beginning. Vince's first Raw back after the steroid trial is pretty hilarious commentary-wise. Savage constantly making references to Vince being found not guilty and Vince awkwardly just kinda ignoring it.

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