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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 19, 2010 9:54:32 GMT -5
HAH. I tuned in just to watch this last night.. made that joke to myself and then proceeded to watching more Bourdain.
But yes. AmDrag lookalike
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 18, 2010 15:09:11 GMT -5
Seriously this guy is so much trouble it is not even funny. Not to mention the fact that he sucks as an interviewer but first he gave away a ton of free tickets to his fans(I'm surprised he has any fans) for the Monday Impact and they can't get in, so he blames it on TNA management although I highly bet they knew nothing about it. Now just a day or two ago he said "F Haiti" and said how we shouldn't help them since our own country is in trouble. This guy is a jackass and TNA needs to drop him worse than a bad habit. He is the biggest reason why I think Hogan taking over wasn't such a good idea. Everything else hasn't been really really bad but he has. Normally I'm the first person to scream that we should be isolationists and we're spending way too much money abroad when for the better part of the last 30 years parts of LA are more or less war zones between rival gangs. We give money to help out the poor in other nations, while we have our own poor and our own sick that die because they don't get medicine. Now, this is just to point out what my view are, I have no interest in debating or saying I'm right. BUT in this case, even I would say we should do whatever we can as a Nation to help. 200,000 some people feared dead... a country that's going to fall into chaos within the month... the dead bodies in mass graves are going to produce so many diseases that will be spread by rodents and such.. This country is going to be screwed for a long time. So yeah, Bubba can just go to hell.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 17, 2010 14:27:42 GMT -5
I always thought it was a terrible idea, and it was just better to partner with a smaller indy like UWF or PWA like they've done in the past.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 17, 2010 7:20:28 GMT -5
Growing up on WCW and Sting being my favorite wrestler for most of my childhood, I always loved the guy. Crow or Surfer. He had "it".
He was this big guy who could put on good matches. He made people look good, and the Crow gimmick is one of the greatest gimmicks pro-wrestling has seen in the last 30 years. Who would have thought making one of your top guys silent for nearly a year would produce the company's best buy rate?
Now? I still get excited for Sting matches. It's nowhere near the same, but it's still Sting.
This new angle with him in the rafters makes the 10 year old in me ump up and down happy.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 17, 2010 6:51:00 GMT -5
While Sprach Zarathrusta is a Public Domain song, most of the well known recordings and arrangements are not. So it makes sense to avoid any legal problems by making your own recording and arrangement of the song.
Also, that actually sounds really cool. No complaints.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 16, 2010 12:12:02 GMT -5
Yep. You got me. I watch wrestling.
Take 5 seconds of being made fun of, let it go. People don't care that much unless they're lacking self esteem and need to make fun of someone else to make themselves feel better.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 15, 2010 20:19:09 GMT -5
So after all that investment, it's back to a rating they got a dozen times last year? September 4, 1995 2.5 September 11, 1995 2.4 September 18, 1995 1.9 September 25, 1995 2.7 That's Nitro's numbers for their first 4 shows (1.5 is 60% of 2.5). It's natural for a show to go down before building up. Plus, I'm still convinced that Monday night is just the right night for the demographic. I'm barely home on Thursday, nor are most of my friends. Thursday are a going out night. But to put Nitro's debut number versus Impact's based off debut audience... TNA should do something like this.. 1 - 1.5 2 - 1.44 3 - 1.19 4 - 1.62 However, it's unfair because of the night to judge that so I'd say take away another 10% of the audience away and just go 1.25 , 1.2, .95, and 1.35.. that's what we'll probably see with TNA on Thursdays. Taking this away though... Don't ever judge things on initial few weeks on a weekly TV show. If you do, you might as well be named Jeffery Zucker.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 15, 2010 20:02:12 GMT -5
Flair/Edge TLC.
That was an unbelievable match.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 15, 2010 19:56:40 GMT -5
You can probably add Bobby Lashley to this in a few months.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 15, 2010 16:36:21 GMT -5
The problem is the WWE has evolved from a point in time when they were bringing in wrestlers as Independent Contractors legit to a point where they now really have employees. However, now it seems to more and more people that they are no longer IC's, but employees.
The only way this will probably ever change is if TNA does become a successful #2 federation, and TNA hires wrestlers as employees and gives the benefits of being an employee over WWE guys. It'd be a huge way to lure some mid-card talent away.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 14, 2010 12:58:25 GMT -5
Tommy Dreamer eats the ring cover.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 14, 2010 12:33:59 GMT -5
I absolutly adore this match. I seem to recall a bunch of people on this board this hating on the crowd for being so disrespectful of Cena (With the "If Cena wins we Riot" sign etc.), but that's what made the match so awesome. The WWE can't reproduce an atmosphere like that if they tried. Eh, there's groups of people on here that would hate on anything if people liked it. That was such an awesome night. Not just the Van Dam match, there was good matches that. Sabu/Mysterio is still one of my favorites.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 13, 2010 18:49:05 GMT -5
"Does anybody really care Bret's coming back?"
was a sentiment here a while ago.. I think we can easily say. Yes, people care about the past.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 12, 2010 13:08:12 GMT -5
Taking a Tombstone from Taker is probably the safest move in pro-wrestling. Kane maybe.
But Taker giving anyone a tombstone is less likely to hurt someone than almost any impact moved that involves the neck/head I can think of.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 12, 2010 9:59:42 GMT -5
Because he was different. It's amazing what using your own personality to get over can do.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 10, 2010 23:54:18 GMT -5
I can watch his older work like WCW and ECW no problem. However, WWE stuff gives me the chills.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 10, 2010 22:21:30 GMT -5
I tried looking for it.. but can't find it.
There's the video of Vince announcing the WBF and some guy comes out and he goes "OHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSS! LOOK AT HIM!" in a very homoerotic fashion.
It would fit perfectly in here.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 10, 2010 16:59:48 GMT -5
Perhaps they're paid too much? Maybe WWE should deduct travel and accommodation from their salary and organize it themselves. Wrestlers are paid far less than top draws in the NFL or NBA. The problem is that WWE doesn't have an off-season. It really needs one to give its employees a break and reduce injury rates. Wanna know the reason Jericho is in better shape than Rey? He took several years off to pursue other interests. If wrestlers had some sort of mandatory time off, their careers would be extended, their drawing potential would not suffer, and the industry would get much less negative publicity. I've always thought if they did a seasonal touring schedule where they tour for 3 months, but still kept doing TV would be a good way to do this as it would keep programming on the air, but give guys a break from the road every day and only work TV.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 10, 2010 16:30:08 GMT -5
These are AWESOME I would love to see the process he uses to make them. In the Punch Out thread... he says this it.. "use wwe delux ruthless agression body head swap with what ever i can find that closely resembles desired character swap wrestler arms with rocky arms resculpt shorts/pants, muscles, hair, mustaches, etc. paint entire figure "
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 10, 2010 16:23:28 GMT -5
To compare WWE to any other sport is ridiculous.
Football players on the minimum make 300k a year (rookies) and vets make 700k, guys typically . These guys are people that their entire lives have been high pressure athletes with the center of attention on them for a lot of their career. Their average pro career is from 20 to 33. They have a players union that has successfully gotten things like pre-season pay, life, dental and medical insurance, severance pay, disability benefits and pension coverage. These are things that pro-wrestlers will never get.
WWE's highest paid guy now is probably Cena making somwhere between 1.0 to 2.0 million (pre-merch), nowhere near the top pay of Eli Manning in the NFL at 15 million. That says a lot, but is still of a ton of money. Now, let's take someone like Chavo. He's probably making 150-250k. A respectable living but after taxes and expenses probably pull 75-100k a year in cash. That's a salary that while extremely respectable, is a salary that you cannot retire on at the age of 35.
Compare that to an NFL scrub.. the average career of an NFL player is 3.5 years. They make a minimum of 300k WITH benefits, pension and insurance. They also have access to the NFLPA health insurance plan after they're done with the NFL. There's a good chance unless they were dumb and blew their money, they walk away from the NFL with a decent amount of money $450k after taxes. Most of them have some amount of college education and can afford now to go back and finish college.
So these guys have to wrestle longer with less money to provide a stable financial structure for their families. Most of them do not have any skills outside of wrestling to get into a middle class office job or management position when they retire, so they get into high pressure, commission based jobs which add to existing heart conditions. While continuing to do one offs in indies for a good pay day here and there.
While the WWE is doing a ton of stuff now to help and you have to commend them on that.. they completely looked the other way for nearly 20 years. There was a company culture of steroid, drug and alcohol abuse that was from many accounts McMahon was a big proponent of until he got in trouble. The wrestlers that are coming up now... the Punks, the Ryders, the Morrisons... they probably will live for a much longer time than guys who started in the 80's and 90's just because they are smarter in these areas.
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