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First?
You’re making a first comment but you’re afraid someone else got there before you and so put the question mark so you don’t look like an idiot? Too late?
I know it’s going to be a good B&W when the headline makes me literally laugh out loud before I even click on the article.
I was right, it was excellent.
Of course, I’m a huge mark for Grandpa Simpson at La Maison Derrière, so the whole thing could have been that gif and I’d have been satisfied.
that gif really is fantastic
It’s probably the most utilitarian GIF not involving descending sunglasses on the Internet.
I missed a good hour of this show last night due to Turkey hangover, and it looks like I missed nothing. I see the value in bringing in celebrities for synergy or whatever they call it, and Larry King has that ironic celebrity thing going on but seriously just leave this obvious non fans off of TV.
Brandon, you make my Tuesday every week. Your stuff rocks.
Thanks, Iron Mike!
“…nobody should touch the wrestlers and if you get in a wrestler’s face, he should have the in-arena rights to beat the Christ out of you.”
Really? Are you a Judge? Is this the Law of the Land?
He shouldn’t have been messed with, he shouldn’t have reacted the way he did. If it was anyone else they would be in jail for battery. The security guards should’ve been there, but they weren’t and that’s the WWE’s fault. I don’t really care what happens to Punk but he was wrong to take a blind swing.
He probably wouldn’t be in jail. He can reasonably make the case that he was in fear for his life, and he hit the guy once. He didn’t curb stomp him.
I posted this in the Open thread, but if you so much as push someone it’s technically assault. And the person you assaulted has the right to defend themselves. Punk was getting pushed and smacked / hit (whatever word you want to use to describe it) on the back of the head. He turned around and said something to the people there – probably something like “knock it the fuck off” or whatever – and then he got hit in the head again. Boom. Time to throw an elbow.
The response of “really, are you a judge, is this the law of the land” is so awesome I don’t even want to defend my point of view.
Brandon is the Judge, presiding over the Law of the Land of the Lost
See every fan getting in to the ring ever.
For what it’s worth (nothing), the video someone took with their phone seemed to show CM Punk flipping out and punching a guy after the guy accidentally touched him while he stood behind him. So, yeah, I can’t rationalize what Punk did and while I dislike Punk I still dislike the average wrestling fan far more.
Let’s just agree nobody came out looking likable here.
I would like to know what DDP and Edge have to say on the topic.
Phil Brooks will probably get hit with a misdemeanor assault and a fine and probation.
CM Punk will lose the belt if this gets long-time press coverage.
Punk should have told that guy “don’t worry, it gets better”
I’d gladly throw my lifesavings into a remake of Class Act featuring R-Truth and (um) R-Truth.
Not House Party 2: The Pajama Jammy Jam?!
So the guy who was actually harassing Punk came out on twitter claiming to have made the guy Punk ended up punching a “millionaire” and that they will never find him, even though he gave out his name… Additionally, they can look at the footage, see what seat number the guy was in and go from there… I mean does this guy really think he wont get caught? Come on bro…
The tape Cena was wearing is Kinesiology tape. Its become a new fad among athletes and posers after the 2008 Olympics and there is absolutely no scientific proof that it works. That being said, it is a lot cooler than wearing a brace on your arm.
I also enjoyed the ending of Raw. Was pissed when Punk was going to run away AGAIN, but I called the “Flairesque” lowblow after the cower in the corner. Classic heel schtick and I loved it.
Daniel Bryan kicked a fan as hard as he could and just because he is invisible it is apparently ok, what a double standard.
Can I give a comment in the wrap up a +1? Becasue I just did.
Yeah, def a +1 for the top comments of the review.
oh my gawd that was awesome
Is CM Punk trying to look as much like a twink as possible?
“twink”?
You know we’re civilized here, right? This isn’t like other wrestling sites where you have to throw around slurs to be accepted.
Will you at least tell us which were your favorite tag team names??
I’m going to turn it into a formal post, I think.
Lord Dugong made me legit lol
I read lord dugong in wade Barrett’s voice for some reason
A Great Gatsby reference. I never thought I’d see the day.
I have to think it’s there to make me smile. :)
I still can’t believe that I understood the reference.
I still can’t believe Brandon doesn’t think the Baz Luhrmann version will be good!
Have you seen the same trailer I have Lester? The entire thing is the party at the beginning that lasts like 20 pages in the book.
That’s what the American Literary Canon needed, Baz Luhrmann visual diarrhea.
Haha, well, the reason I love the book is not so much the plot or the characters, but the prose. All Fitzgerald’s stuff is that way for me. You can flip to any page of Gatsby and find an amazing, dreamy paragraph. I love it. But that’s exactly the kind of book that doesn’t necessarily make a good movie, and exactly the kind of book that you might as well put in the hands of a film-maker who’ll do something unique with it. Luhrmann’s version might not end up being good, but it’ll at least be SOMETHING. Plus I’m actually a fan of all of Luhrmann’s movies. Even Australia!
+1 to Lester. I agree with him on Luhrmann during Gatsby (although I haven’t seen Australia).
Sheamus, Barrett, Show and Henry could be the HOSSIEST Hoss Fight in all of Hosstory
(I’m so sorry for that pun).
Barret’s not ‘hoss’ enough to rank, though. And I legit like Barret. I wish WWE would figure out a way to unlock his beast-mode.
Maybe not with his wellness-induced body, but he does have a basic Hoss offense. That kick on a rope-tangled Sheamus was one of the more creative Hoss things I’ve seen this side of Clauntonio
Keith – *hossfence
or rather, hossfense
Well, as we are talking about acknowledging the presence of Wade Barrett, from Preston, England, I think hossfence is indeed correct.
Also, watching Eve lock on a proper submission against Kaitlyn was totally hot. Um, I mean awesome. No, no, I meant hot.
Can’t it be both?
It can. And it is!
I respect Eve more for letting John Cena call her a STD-infected hoeski while knowing that if she wanted to, she could kick his ass before a live national audience.
I don’t know, redshirt, John can lift heavy stuff, that’s pretty important in a fight, right?
Its hard to lift if you have a broken arm or leg.
<3 Eve.
…Also, I just pictured a scenario where Cena is about to give Eve an Attitude Adjustment, BUT WAIT! HERE COMES ALEX* RUNNING TO THE RING & HE JUST LAID OUT CENA WITH HIS BRASS KNUCKS!
“But how big are her nipples?” – Jern.
“Repeatedly punches Jern w/brass knucks until he stops talking mess about my girl*
>:(
Also, not to be a total dude, but, okay, I’m being a total dude, if they’re going to let Eve use her BJJ skills then her finisher needs to be a triangle choke. I mean, it’s sort of a no-brainer in a woman’s match that it’s totally hot AND a totally legit finisher.
Iron Mike – plus, we can get a cool Jackson/Arona flashback if Beth ever lady-hosses and powerbombs her way out of it!
Also, she did use a reverse triangle (So from the back, not an inverted one, aka Bellator Special (See: Imada, Toby and Hale, Richard) at NoC, but didn’t get the victory that way.
Wow, I just watched that match and..um…yeah…Eve’s transition from body-triangle to neck-triangle was pretty awesome. Also hot.
Also I’d be pretty surprised if wwe didn’t have your standard boilerplate on the back of the ticket about being in the seat at your own risk and whatnot. To me, it’s a non-issue.
This was my thought as well. Pretty sure every wrestling show I’ve ever been to, big time or indy, had some type of disclaimer/waiver on the back of the ticket.
I’m not sure boilerplate language about risk would necessarily apply in this case.
Usually those types of disclaimers are about events that are a natural part of the show, but wouldn’t necessarily release liability with regard to a performer intentionally striking a fan.
That still of Larry King’s wife makes her look like the old episodes of South Park where they’d have celebrity parodies, and it would just be the actual face cut out and attached to the South Park style bodies.
JSoM needs to be the next fan fiction that becomes globally popular.
or universally popular
*univerthally
thankth!
Hey, a 16 year old girl just got signed to a book deal because of her One Direction fanfiction… WE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN for JSoM
oh, booksavvy, you jokey joke-maker!
I wish I were joking…. [shelf-life.ew.com]
“BookSavvy”, more like “JokeSavvy”. AMIRIGHT!?
You’re not wrong!
Booksavvy, people will be asking for that book. You’re going to have to point that book out to them. You’re going to have to stamp the paper thing that’s on the inside of the front cover if library books still have that. My sympies are with you.
BookSavvy don’t feel guilty but this information has driven me one step closer to suicide.
BLARG
Also – there’s an ad for a R.L. Stine book that isn’t Goosebumps on that site! What the heck?
50 Shades of Swagger
All Swagger jokes aside, who would like to make a wager on whether the reason Swagger is on hiatus is so that he can go through proper speech therapy to lose the lisp? I honestly think Swagger’s whole problem is that it’s impossible to not automatically make fun of him the moment he starts talking and that, without the lisp, there wouldn’t be anything to hold him back from a return to the top ranks of the WWE.
I say he comes back with no lisp and dishes out beat-downs like nobody’s business.
“Pointing out bad stuff on a wrestling show translates to “you don’t like wrestling” to a lot of people. The truth of the matter is that I wouldn’t watch wrestling (and I wouldn’t have continuously, obsessively followed it for 30 years) if I didn’t love it. I love it as much as a person who doesn’t do it for a living can. I want the shows to be good. I want to fall into that thing that happens where a match gets so good you forget about everything else that’s happening. Some people do that for music. I do it for wrestling. A truly great wrestling match can take me somewhere I can’t go on my own, and I’ve never been able to properly thank anyone for helping it do that.”
And this is why, exactly why, I got on you for Trios in the open thread. I mean, you’ve turned what once was the general sports outpost for KSK-style dick jokes into one of the best and most positive communities of wrestling fans in the history of the Internet. You’re influencing enough that WWE is taking your ideas and then papering over the trail. But beyond that, even halfway mentioning Trios has caused a bunch of us to seek out Chikara. I have no doubt that would become dozens from a B&W. I don’t know.
I understand wanting to keep a part of this ride for yourself, and I also understand the punk rock protectiveness angle (that if too many lunkheads start looking at Chikara, it’ll lose its specialness). But I think that’s the perfect thing for you to say a public thank you for. This’ll be the last I bug you about it, I swear.
*nods, polishes brass knuckles*
No, Koebs. We keep this nonviolent.
Sorry, Alex* and I were trained by William Regal, nonviolence simply isn’t an option. Now, feigned nonviolence leading to a low blow, that’s something we can dig.
BTW – I seem to have misplaced my brass knucks…if you find it, it’s mine.
I’ll keep my eyes peeled buddy.
JKoebs and Alex*, Bash Brothers 2.0, They’re Brash and Bash with Brass!
just don’t punch fish, no need to brash-bash some bass
I will punch any creature I want! Ostriches, I’m looking at you, just wait till I find my knucks.
Alex, you’re gonna slip up and punch out Chris “Boshtrich” Bosh!
Make sure you GIF it!
The Boshtrich is so majestic, I wouldn’t punch it. I’d just sit as close as I can to it…so I can draw it.
Alex, Lobster, thank you for bringing the lulz to my maudlin plea to Brandon. You guys are the Rhodes.
My first reaction to Punk’s new shirt was: “TGS STARRING TRACY JORDAN!”
…was I the only one to think that? I was.
I said this last night but real talk, Punk’s DVD is fantastic. Buy it please.
I fell asleep around 10:00. Did I miss anything at the end of Raw?
Go to page 5 and stare at The Rhodes Scholars gif for an hour and you’ll have gotten the best of the last hour of RAW.
While I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never get in the top 10 comments I take solace in knowing I gave a +1 to at least 3 of the top 10.
I’m like the John Stockton of the Top 10, just hear for the assists.
here not hear… I’m a moron.
now that makes me want to see comparisions between commenters and 80s/90s basketball players. Is there an Anthony Mason in the group? Who fights and has if not unique hair-carvings, at least changing avatar pictures?
I call Will Perdue!!
I’m gonna go ahead and make myself Xavier McDaniel. Generally underappreciated and incredibly frustrating to deal with.
The X-Man is rad, though!
Brandon, it amazes me how much I agree with you and how much I look forward to agreeing with you. This column is one of your best yet. I can’t think of anything worth discussing in this comment thread that you didn’t already succinctly cover in TB&W. Well done.
I hope Lord Dugong has a tank full of gentle cuttlefish.
He’ll teach us to avoid trying to seek comfort in the HOT STEM OF A CRACKPIPE!
If were talking tag names, the best one I ever heard was on TWF years back. A team of RVD and Booker T was called “Rob Wendy’s”
+1
My favorite that TWF ever came up with was Kane/RVD as “Roasted Potatoes.” I miss that website.
Oh wow, that takes me back. I… I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not.
No matter how interesting, and I use that word…wrongly, the Punk/Cena feud gets, I’ll always have that twinge of reminder that it would make infinitely more sense if it was Punk/Rock.
so is I AM THE WHEEL a meme yet?
Always love the column but man I don’t agree with Brandon’s dismissive wanking motion at Punk randomly hitting the wrong dude in the crowd.
I’m not approving or disapproving of it, I just want to watch the wrestling show, not worry about the shit that goes on around it.
The guy who got hit never touched Punk. Dismissive wanking motion not applicable.
There was a cat gif in the open thread that summed the situation up perfectly.
Lester, do you think you could repost it here? :P
I’m afraid I don’t have magical picture posting abilities like a certain crustacean we all know and love.
*cough cough*
just shine the Lobster Light, and I’ll try and remember to pay attention and look in the sky to see it, and eventually amble over and post the picture or video you want and or need posted!
leave roddy strong alone!
Hey, didn’t Jericho hit some woman like two or three years ago. What came of that?
Nothing, because the girl jumped him from behind when he was getting his truck. He didn’t turn around and slug her, he swung as he was turning, as he had no idea who the hell hit him.
Plus it didn’t happen live on national and international television!
In front of his boss…
I forgot to add, who cares.
“Best: After 5 Years In The Company, Eve Figures Out That She Should Probably Use That Jiu-Jitsu She Knows.”
I was shocked that they finally let her do some Jiu Jitsu. The match itself was decent for such a short match. If they actually give the divas more time, we could really be onto something. Now all they have to do is emphasize Eve was trained by the legendary Gracie family, and we’ll maybe see a huge boost in interest for divas wrestling.
Also, I hated that last Punk/McMahon segment. Punk should have murder/death/killed McMahon until Ryback came to chase Punk off.
I kinda hated Mcmahon/Punk too, but a night’s sleep made me realize its purpose in setting the Hell in a Cell match. The only real problems with the segment is that Mcmahon got in too much offense before he secured the Kendo Stick (that should have been his saving grace) and the idea of supporting Mr. Mcmahon in any way (he is and always has been the evilest SOB who ever lived).
And like I said, man, if I was 10 years old, these guys would be my absolute favorite wrestlers. I wouldn’t care about botches or Rey Mysterio’s fatshirt, I’d just care that they were diving around onto people and looked awesome. I wish we could all find a way to watch wrestling like that again.
That’s easy. Have kids. My son is apeshit for Sinsterio. Also Big Show, but I don’t hold that against him. There is such pure joy on his face when he watches them. And my heart swelled three sizes the day he turned to me and said he wanted to be a wrestler when he grew up. But only after he becomes a bat expert (he’s super into Batman).
Addendum: Have kids who are into wrestling. My daughter wants nothing to do with it. That’s cool, though. I tried to watch the anime she is currently super into (Hetalia) and yeah, I get how she feels about wrestling.
If you’re son is into current kinda-awesome all-time-best-heel-turn Big Show then I’d give him a low-five.
This times a thousand. My son is about to turn 3 and watching stuff with him is awesome. He really likes dancing to the Funkasaurus, calls Rey Mysterio Spider-Man and will boo Cena when I tell him to. I can’t wait to take him to his first live event.
I think he’s into Show because the first wrestling he saw was old-school WCW Giant throwing missile dropkicks. Also Hulk. And DD, Spiderman is exactly the reason my boychild is into Sinsterio. He asked me their “secret identities” last night but I refused to tell him. Also he chose to hate Sheamus all on his own. I’m so proud. I can’t wait to take him to a live event either. I was hoping it’d be Raw on Monday but the cash just didn’t shake out so I think I’m going to take him to WM with me and my mom this year for his first.
Reading it back I want to clarify: awesome Super Hero Squad Hulk not shitty Hogan.
F*ck yeah, time to hero up!
So the guy that actually hit Punk is the guy in the grey shirt behind the guy in the black shirt that got hit. The guy in the black shirt clearly has his hands up in the air not anywhere near Punk. Punk’s, and by extension WWE’s poor security reaction to a planned crowd jumping stunt, idiocy should warrant an apology and some free merch to the guy.
“I got punched in the face by the WWE Champion and all I got was this t-shirt”?
Maybe they can make him a special “RISE ABOVE GETTING ERRONEOUSLY SUCKER-PUNCHED BECAUSE THE GUY SITTING BEHIND YOU IS A D-BAG” t-shirt.
I saw the Cesaro move and named it myself. It’s called, “Dat boy just went all Mortal Kombat on eez-ass!”
Brandon, loved the report as always. Will we be getting all 30 of JSoM chapters? If so, i am drooling in anticipation.
I’m writing them until he comes back. At least, that’s the plan.
Now I feel conflicted about Swagger returning.
Nice work as always, Brandon!
Is it too late to file a patent for a “Free CM Punk” T-Shirt?
Brandon, your comment of not knowing who or how to thank sort of resonated with me. The good news is that I do and I’ll second all the calls to thank you for the weekly hilarity and for creating an place for positive people to intelligently talk about wrestling.
Also, there is no move in wrestling for which I mark out more than Swiss Death. Every. Single. Time.
All of this, but especially Swiss Death.
I also am of the mind that if everybody starts shoving, touching, jumping all up in the zone of a wrestler, it should be expected that he punch somebody. I still hope it’s a shoot because as annoying as Punk has been recently, I still don’t want him to get into that much trouble. Though really, bro, try not to punch people, being straight edge means you are better than them or whatever, so Rise Above Punches.
Additionally, I really don’t like Vince, but I did sit through that entire weird fight, so I guess that says something.
Wait, I guess I hope it’s a work? I hope it was a WWE intern and not a random bro, is what I want to say.
Work is what you want!
That Stone acold Japanese Austen comment still makes me laugh out loud.
“…and after this and last week’s Sandow/Sheamus affair, I’m ready to expect my Raw matches to be good again.”
My thoughts exactly. The current roster is loaded with talent and most of these guys seem really motivated over the past few months (past year?). Which is great, because that means there will still be something worth tuning in for even when they’re spraying the dry erase board with diarrhea.
Great B&W once again, Brandon. Tell Trashboat I said hello.
Sheamus is on the writing team?
Just thinking about that, I’m not sure if it would be better or worse if Sheamus was writing his own material.
Hey guys,
I don’t get to be a part of the live thread (on the west coast so you guys are in runover when I’m just starting the show), but love the community here. I try to read the “live thread” as I’m watching so it’s “live to me.”
Anyway, I missed out on last week (was in the hospital helping my wife have a baby), but Brandon, again, spectacular job, loving it as usual.
yay baby!
you should be sneaky and find a stream so you can join in!
Wooo baby times!
I’m 2 months away from meeting my 1st.
Try switching to DirectTV, that’s how I watch it here in Vegas.
Congrats to both of you, Babies are hard but awesome. Dish also shows the east coast feed to west coast subscribers. Now I just need to find a way to get home from work by 5pm.
Wait, Alex* is having a baby?
Eve is impressive to be wrestling and 7 months pregnant!
Hehe, you’re the best, SnoopRob.
…she certainly knows how to hide the baby bump :)
I hate to admit this, but Vince saying he hated Punk’s new shirt made me want it more. I guess my head has decided that Vince doesn’t like good things.
Vince is why we can’t have nice things.
Pronouncing it “Scene cara” is actually correct, not “sin cara”
Via the last half-remembered remnants of lone a semester of Spanish as a freshman in high school: A is ah, E is long A, I is long E. Those crazy non-American English moon man languages eh? :)
I didn’t say it was incorrect, I just said that’s how he says it.
I think Jinder is Bollywood dancing. Which is awesome.
Gotta admit, I read your comment, then looked at the GIF for like two minutes straight, then I had to watch Daler Mehndi’s “Tunak Tunak Tun” like five times.
I’m in complete agreement about the awesome.
LOBSTER KNOWS TUNAK?! I love you even more, if that’s possible. Group Tunak tun dance at the next gathering!
Who hasn’t seen Tunak Tunak Tun? That was my jam like five years ago or like six – ten months after it became well known.
True Fax: I was thinking about Daler Mehndi earlier this week– probably in reference to Gangam Style, as my brain was formed by my early musical completism and desire to follow influences back (I’ve bought Wes Montgomery tapes due to Billy Corgan mentioning him in interviews)
No way, Lobster. Tunak Tunak Tun is a good decade old! At least!
Well god damn, I really am behind the times!
When I was 15 I went to an ECW show in Staten Island, alone(because my parents let a kid from Spanish Harlem go to Staten Island by himself on a Saturday night) , The Dudley Boys said some bad things about Staten Island (read: true things about Staten Island that the “Fans” took offense to). They did the “Go out in to the crowd and fight thing” and some dudes I can only describe as “looking angry they missed their Jersey Shore casting call” sucker punched Bubba Ray. A huge Wrestlers vs. Guidos brawl broke out. At that moment I lost a lot of my respect for a certain segment of my fellow wrestling fan (which is hard to do because I love everybody)
A fun postscript: While trying to escape the melee I ran in to the chest of Bam Bam Bigelow and he accidentally stepped on my foot. A little while later while visiting my cousin in Poughkeepsie we went to another ECW show and I saw Bam Bam, I told him the story, he signed my copy of ECW Hardcore Revolution (and that, T-Boggs is the origin story of my weirdest piece of wrestling memorabilia)
So, long story short, Yay for Bam Bam Bigelow, Boo for Staten Island.
I named them Sinsterio in my Smacking Of column this week at TJR. I knew you didn’t read it. You’re just like my dad. :’(
This is the nerd in the room talking but Antonio Cesaro doesn’t speak five languages because “Swiss” is not a language, it is either a dialect of German, Italian or French depending on what canton you’re in.
That being said, I love him, I love his wrestling and I love his music. God damn he has the best entrance theme.
CM Punk hit that kid because he was a homo.
astute observation there.
Excellent
Maybe instead of calling it “Swiss Death,” he should call it the “No Life Attached.” But maybe that’s just me.
If the WWE called a woman a “stripper” and compared her disparagingly to one of the “Housewives of Wherever,” don’t you think you’d give it a “worst” and then moralize about how it’s degrading to women? It would almost certainly show up on your friend’s “Feminist Pro Wrestling” blog.
what are you doing with your life
I’m gonna go ahead and make hurtful assumptions about the 8th wife of an 80-year old celebrity.
Vince is buffer than Punk.
also, I am buffer than Punk
I am not buffer than Punk.
Which is sad.
You know the thing about these Punk promos, while I personally like them they don’t really bring in the casual viewers, the ones who only watch because wrestling’s “cool.” I was talking to my bud Eastin and he told me that he started watching Raw on that Punk/Vince segment and thought it was stupid, and I can see why. How the Hell was he supposed to know what Punk was talking about? We all know what Punk’s talking about when he talks about how he’s the best wrestler and how Vince has slapped him in the face and such but the casual viewers don’t.
They guy that got hit is a friend of mine.
They’re saying Wade Barrett comes from Preston now! (he does). I’m from Preston! Woooo! I’m a bit mystified as to what changed though, did America hear about our disturbing trend for underage cage fighting?
Someone tweeted him just after he returned from injury about getting WWE to announce him from Preston and he replied “working on it” and then, lo and behold, a week or two later he’s announced from Preston.
So my insomnia means I created a picture for the JSOM tumblr but I haven’t the slightest idea how to post it or send it in. Help. Lester? Anybody?
pic(dot)twitter(dot)com/kdcjKlW1
Here is the link to it.
Bwahahaha, very nice.
let’s see if this works…
Yay, and great contribution!
Swagger on Mars was great this week.
Thanks!
Who else here figures that when The Band plays, Jinder Mahal is actually playing Air Sitar?
I don’t think you play the sitar by holding your arms out to your sides and bouncing up and down.
i’m a day late but is “hey trashboat” a thinly veiled regular show reference?
Nothing thin about it, dude.
i love your taste in everything, except meat.
Man, i go for one night to watch goddamn Cabin in the Woods with friends and i miss Swiss Death on my tv. On the other hand, i also miss Cena and Vince showing up to ruinate the good parts of RAW, so i guess it’s an even trade-off.
As a dude who has thrown punches at the face of someone for shoving me while on my way to the back at a wrestling show, I’m firmly in the Don’t Hit Wrestlers camp. Now, my situation was different than Punk’s, the guy i wailed on shoved me, and i was in a much smaller venue. Also i hit the right guy. But still, you have to expect that if you get overly shove-y with a wrestler, you’re gonna get clocked.
And beyond that, you kinda HAVE to get clocked. If a random fan gets all aggro with a wrestler, and the wrestler backs down and slinks away, what does that do to the idea that you’re watching these tough as nails impressive athletes, who can get clotheslined and bodyslammed repeatedly and still get up?
This. This was a good read right here.
Also, I don’t mean to Ten-terrupt all the fun here, but I seriously heard Elton John’s “Rocket Man” in my head the moment I saw the Jack Swagger drawing/painting/work of art. Love it.
larry king was probably just there to make vince look young and spry.
i know it can’t happen because he’s out of the business, but… how great would it be if Punk actually did “lobotomize” Vince (not really, but you know, for tv. kind of like when Linda was in that wheelchair) and the business started falling apart. HHH and steph are away due to his injuries and linda is running for congress or whatever. so who would be left to run the company, fight punk and restore his father’s good name?
shane o mac, that’s who. just in time for a pay per view that features a cell he could jump off of.
you know i’m right.
Did Roderick Strong break your momma’s back or what?
dude rules.
I have a long, torrid history with Roderick Strong that cannot even begin to be explained here. The quick version: he does not rule.
rrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooderrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
but, chops, brah.
I rate this B&W a 10.. no a 9.. ermm no an 11!
Fun fact: When I first met Brandon Stroud (before I knew he was Brandon Stroud), he laid a finger on wrestler Andy Dalton at a local indy show. Things were a little awkward after that.
Not the first time a Texas indy wrestler had assaulted a fan.