November 2010
50 posts
Watchpaulypotluck:
Filmed with Canon 550d T2i, 18-55mm kit lens
Trip: Day One
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Trip
if you are at all interested/bored, photo updates from the seattle trip, pretty much day by day as it happens.
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Tried subtly bringing up wrestling twice or three times in the car today, with minimal success. Bummer.
Watchbackrealquick with an update…
This was a pretty cool TV piece (gets more interesting about halfway through). They show a lot of production stuff and interview Sheamus and Natalya (the reporter is a giant).
Break?
I will be helping two friends move to...
A Game for The TWC
botchlog:
I wish there was some kind of league table for lines repeated in the WWE, I wanna see what the Top 20 would look like.
“Broken in half”, “the Spanish announce table”, “7 foot 2, 500 hundred pounds” “Batista with a spinebuster”…
Suggestions?
Almost feel like this could most effectively be broken up by era? Such as:
“slobberknocker!”
“Right hands! Right...
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More Media for the Miz →
All this coverage is making me hope he in some way addresses it next monday… “even if you people don’t like it… my title reign is recognized and celebrated… by every media outlet in the country!” or “ESPN, MSN, TMZ, do you think they care about Randy Orton?!?… heh, no”
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WatchI have Bret Hart to thank for my love of heel wrestlers… in 7th grade, I did not know what a face, heel, or mark was, I just knew that Bret was awesome. I also knew that I was really annoyed by overt patriotism (yes, really) and from the beginning of the “Canada is better than the U.S.” saga, starting with Austin/Bret/Michaels, and growing to include the Patriot (who I hated!!),...
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MSN Covers Miz Title Win →
OK, so it;s actually just some dumb gossip-looking offshoot of MSN, but along with TMZ coving the story, this has to be good for WWE… typically this type of coverage is reserved for when some B-Lister/”Other Kind of Sports” Athlete shows up on Raw and does something interesting/silly.
That is pretty awesome that WWE could grow their own star, so to speak, in their world and at...
“I don’t suppose anybody out there knows about the band “the Dean Malenkos” or...”
– Daniel Bryan
Seriously.
(via ringsidereview)
Of course they’re Canadian!
Note: I was embarassed when I realized ICP’s the Great Malenko was named after his dad.
On The Miz winning the WWE Championship.
onwrestling:
I’ve never liked The Miz. He was always kind of scrawny and scrappy, and offered nothing outside his ridiculous, flashy outfits (which are appreciated in today’s no-flash era of professional wrestling). But somewhere along the line, during the middle of his crusade against John Cena in 2009, the guy won me over.
…And, if anything, he won the strap the “right” way — not by...
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Youth Era?
With all this talk of the “youth movement,” and my disdain for the term PG Era (because maybe down the line historically it will work better as a describer but overall I see it as more of a derogatory term), would it be appropriate to consider this something of a Youth Era?
As many have pointed out, a central epoch could be Miz capturing the title, along with someone like Daniel Bryan...
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WatchGreat promo leading to Undertaker/Bret Hart, SummerSlam ‘97
WatchI recorded a cover of Tamina’s song to Santino cause it’s a total jam!!
Honestly?
If I had paid for last night’s contest (realistically, anyone watching last night was doing so to see what would happen between CeNexus), I would have been very disappointed. Luckily I did not, but I would definitely say WWE went with the option that pleased no one. If you were a Cena fan you probably were not happy, if you were a Nexus fan you were probably not happy, and while there are...
I think the idea of anti-bullying campaigns is to...
Big 4 Tradition
I am in no way “popular” or “prolific” enough on tumblr to justify this entry, but following the tradition established by Summerslam, I will take a break for a couple days in all things Tumblr.
Since I don’t have cable I am completely relient on piratebay/demonoid for my wrestling entertainment. I don’t personally consider this a problem most weeks (I will...
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Watchthanks to whoever edited/packaged my Smackdown file on piratebay, this is what I saw in one of the Edge torture segments…
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WatchEveryone probably remembers the end of this promo through replays, etc, but I for one liked hearing Paul Bearer’s first recitation of the Undertaker/Kane’s history and the first time Kane is specifically mentioned.
edit: the audio cut at the end is part of the original broadcast… just fyi, I guess…
sometimes I accidentally post things onto my other blog… it makes me feel like a wrestler from the 80’s accidentally breaking kayfabe.
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I Was on a Podcast!
footnotesofwrestling:
This week, Paul from Turnbucklezine comes on to talk about Racism and stereotypes in wrestling, and then I go on a long rant about the Tumblr Wrestling Community.
Click here to listen to the full episode.
Click here to subscribe via RSS.
And now, subscribe to the show through iTunes. I would not mind it one bit if anyone were to leave a review.
Feel free to listen!
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Vince McMahon has signed a new contract with WWE.... →
droptoehold:
This is news.
haaahahaha, in case you were wondering, Vince is locked into a one year no-compete clause. dammit!
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WatchMore Mick/Mankind Moments
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WatchMichael Cole’s first interview segment on Raw. Lookit his hand gestures!
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dothehammerlock:
This is awesome; a wrestling...
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Non Wrestling Related Link →
Hey, I have a recording project. I think I’ve mentioned it here before. Feel free to check it out.
Kanye West: A Better Heel Than LeBron James...
I had never firsthand seen the footage of Kanye saying “George Bush does not care about black people.” I had heard about how Mike Myers looked really thrown off. I had never heard about Chris Tucker. I imagine they immediately got the first camera they could on the guy, and (obviously) was completely unprepared to be on camera! Why is he in front of a fridge!? I have never laughed...
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Kanye West: A Better Heel Than LeBron James
A little while ago, allusions to the formation of the NWO were drawn when Lebron James joined the Miami heat. James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh were assigned roles to respective founding White and Black members, etc.
In terms of mainstream stars, I don’t think I have seen a better heel than Kanye West. He is naturally charismatic, commands a large audience, and most everyone (for...
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WatchJerry drops the F-bomb on Goldust, proving maybe it’s good in some ways the attitude era has past.
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Watchgoldust’s kid. hilarious.
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Watchthe facial expressions Cornette delivers are pretty priceless.
Blog Regarding Championship Belts' History, and... →
These belts were worn by giants in the industry. They signified that you were the best in the business, and that you deserved to wear 15 pounds of real gold around your waist. But more importantly, these belts were bigger than the men who carried them. When another man came along who was worthy of bearing the weight of that belt, he did so with the understanding that he did not make the...
WatchOne thing I’ve been noticing when going back to a lot of these old ‘97 editions of Raw is that they give a lot away in regards to the past of the wrestlers involved (including JRs fantastic interviews with Goldust and the well known, amazing Mankind/Mick Foley interview), particularly for established wrestlers (i.e. Ahmed had already been pretty prominent for about two years at this...
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Watchmoar mick/mankind moments
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iatemykittycat:
turnbucklezine:
Faarooq, tellin it like it is (three black champs, I think, in WWE history, since the Rock?)
When was the last time a black man was WWF Champion? When was the last time there was a black wrestler worthy of even holding the belt? Ahmed Johnson: No mic skills whatsoever Faarooq: Better as a tag wrestler, though he was over at the time D-Lo Brown: Never over...
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WatchFaarooq, tellin it like it is (three black champs, I think, in WWE history, since the Rock?)
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Less Than One Quarter of WWE Audience is Under 18 →
In the opinoin portion of the article linked above, Jason Powell comments that one could conclude from the study conducted that WWE is perhaps statistically better off reverting to a less “PG” / more Attitude Era style of programming.
As little as I initially liked the switch, I feel like the WWE is beginning to hit their stride in their current creative outlook. After the initial...
stylesclash:
turnbucklezine:
I would download a torrent (or large movie file) of Mick Foley’s promos as Mankind (pre-dress shirt/necktie) in a heartbeat.
I would pay for a DVD of Mick Foley’s promos as Mankind (pre-dress shirt/necktie) in a heartbeat.
Yeah, but after buying “The Many Faces of Foley” and “Mick Foley’s Greatest Hits and Misses,”...
Standing up to WWE →
a lengthy but excellent piece of writing that dissects the political aspirations of Linda McMahon and their effect on the WWE
Linda McMahon’s campaign for the United States Senate is just another outside project by a person who is embarrassed to be a wrestling promoter. The fact that she now represents a party that, in essence, was trying to contribute to her company’s demise just ten years...
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WatchI would download a torrent (or large movie file) of Mick Foley’s promos as Mankind (pre-dress shirt/necktie) in a heartbeat.
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WatchThis is the absolute first memory I have of pro wrestling, despite it not being the first episode of Raw I watched, I’m pretty sure… when I was re-watching, I could vividly remember everything, as Austin yells, “I told ya, we’re goin’ straight ta hell!”
Technically I suppose Bret shoving Vince and blasting out a myriad of vulgarity was a chronologically...
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WatchI guess Vader received a $164 fine as a result of this. Hilarious.
