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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:52:56 GMT -5
Nothing will ever top this: ![](http://i.imgur.com/MiIHqdq.jpg) ![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/pnFgDoilXYI2Sur3o3PN4ERFmzIrLOAMQhm3oU2J4Z69GjxnHqF2zJJixAQVWEYpAk1mmh8ch9LJ5PJG44dnbRsM46xx) Man, Road Dogg was just someone who... could've looked better than he chose to?
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:49:57 GMT -5
...okay the rabbit hole of cursed Road Dogg pics goes deeper than I expected. ![](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/09/RAS-OFF-PLATFORM-ROAD-DOGG-2.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=800&crop=1)
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:45:26 GMT -5
It’s a White Boy Dread War. ![](https://wwfoldschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Road-Dogg-Jesse-James-DX.jpg) ...I only slightly apologize for this cursed picture of Road Dogg.
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:37:16 GMT -5
Hard to believe this is the same guy: ![](https://www.wwe.com/f/styles/gallery_img_l/public/photo/image/2009/11/12514464.jpg) ECW-era INTENSE Vance might be one of the most ridiculous examples of the WWE almost literally stripping everything unique away from someone debuting with the company. Even going back to his Lance Hoyt days in TNA you can see bits of what he'd ultimately perfect in Japan, but man, short of the plain black trunks, the WWE pretty much gave him the Young Boy treatment when he came in.
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:33:57 GMT -5
I'll third the notion of thinking he was going to announce that he'd gotten hurt and had to retire again, though admittedly he did come around to it by saying basically "I'll be retiring... just not yet".
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:23:02 GMT -5
Also, can I just say that the opening promo was nowhere *near* as patronizing and smiling-through-gritted-teeth as pretty much every Stan for WWE promo was.
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:19:53 GMT -5
AEW going forward is "We hate Pink Hair and Rose Puns" ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) I don’t hate Amy Rose, she’s just not as badass a Sonic partner as Princess Sally is. Amy has always stunk of Sega of Japan's clumsy handling of female characters that I'm still not entirely sure has gotten any better, but that's another rant for another time.
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 19:13:49 GMT -5
That first pounce that sent Ospreay flying further convinced me that Hobbs needs to be a wrecking ball guest gaijin yesterday.
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Post by Burst on Apr 3, 2024 17:43:32 GMT -5
Don't believe any pre-attendance figures have been posted for Worcester just yet, but let me preface by saying that the weather forecast for pretty much the entirety of New England is *ass* right now, and I would 100% understand if anybody that was on the fence about going decided they didn't feel up for driving back through a Nor'easter in the middle of the night.
That being said, I look for this factor to be conveniently ignored by the usual wrestling pundits when talking about how terrible horrible AEW attendance is.
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Post by Burst on Apr 2, 2024 19:39:15 GMT -5
In the timeline where the Elite left AEW and Punk stayed behind and tried to reshape it using Inoki-ism and the McMahon cult of personality as influences, I could totally see an AJPW/NOAH split happening, or more likely suddenly a lot of people heading to TNA depending on how *they're* doing in this timeline.
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Post by Burst on Apr 1, 2024 20:33:43 GMT -5
In before they're all folks who have either been off TV for forever or people that have been making noise about wanting out. I can't imagine this having the sheer randomness of some of the WWE release bloodbaths.
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Post by Burst on Apr 1, 2024 19:43:34 GMT -5
What I find amazing (and what I found amazing throughout the original news about the scrum) is that even when CM Punk tells CM Punk's side of the story, he still seems like an giant asshole that caused half of the problems himself. And that's the side that's supposed to make him look good. This is literally like the personality disorder version of the hapless 17th century royal portrait artists who were tasked with making the Spanish Habsburgs look good.
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Post by Burst on Mar 31, 2024 9:25:22 GMT -5
Totally an opportunity to give him a sleeper variant and call it the "Copes and Dreams".
Also, "Copacetic" seems like it would fit the vibes of the various Edge moves from before.
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Post by Burst on Mar 30, 2024 20:01:06 GMT -5
Kyle O'Reilly looks like the kind of guy in a gym locker room that has the locker next to yours and is taking an uncomfortably long amount of time to get dressed but you're not sure you want to press the issue.
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Post by Burst on Mar 29, 2024 13:52:44 GMT -5
Kyle O'Reilly looks like the kind of guy that slowly takes over an entire table at a crowded Starbucks with an increasingly improbable amount of things removed from his ratty old Eastpak backpack while making a show out of sipping on the remaining drops of the cold brew he ordered hours ago.
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Post by Burst on Mar 28, 2024 16:29:46 GMT -5
![](https://ringthedamnbell.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/fabulous-freebirds-ddp.jpg) I don't know what's more impressive, the sheer early 90s of this picture as a whole, or how completely unrecognizable DDP is there in the middle.
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Post by Burst on Mar 28, 2024 5:26:11 GMT -5
Kyle O'Reilly looks like a guy that you keep bumping into in places like Whole Foods or REI that keeps giving you unsolicited advice about running shoes.
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Post by Burst on Mar 21, 2024 18:29:17 GMT -5
Honestly, if it tastes like melted Blue Moon ice cream, I'm all for it. I adore Blue Moon but it's a pain in the ass to find outside of the Midwest.
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Post by Burst on Mar 19, 2024 16:39:26 GMT -5
Always felt Moff was more comfortable as a writer than as the showrunner, and hoping that the time away for him will be as fruitful as it seems like RTD's time away has been.
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Post by Burst on Mar 19, 2024 16:38:14 GMT -5
Powerhouse Hobbs going on a tear as a Monster Gajin heel could make him reach that next level I didn't realize how much I wanted this until now. When was the last time New Japan had a full-blown monster gaijin anyway, would that be going all the way back to Giant Bernard?
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