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August Wrasslin' |OT| Make a.. make a good...uh...a good wrestling thread

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WOW, most of us here are Gamefaqs users for over 10 years.
 
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Sweeney Tom

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Bluekaveli

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jmdajr said:
Sort of the same! Xpac talking about trying to kill himself and almost bleeding to death from ripping his
asshole
, during a match.
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Glory Fades said:
Dark, talk if suicide, abusing drugs, and a rough childhood, where he was molested etc.......
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ThreePiMatt said:
I thought that interview was pretty good, minus the poor audio quality.
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Okey dokey, basically stuff I've known about other than the molestation, eww. I may give it a listen, I listened to one with Sean and he really goes in deep about himself. I guess he way of telling guys not to fuck up and not to do what he did.
 
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klonere

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Man what a match, what a match. Pity it was in such a poor venue, it really took away from the aura of the whole affair. Still, Miyahara stay winning with his streak of excellent defenses.

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Bluekaveli

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Tonight on The Ross Report I address thoroughly my thoughts on the recent social media firestorm created when @TheNotoriousMMA insulted many pro wrestling fans and some talents in a well placed and timed rant. I did not respond on Twitter @JRsBBQ even though many asked for my take on this matter. The reason was that I saw McGregor's acid tongue remarks as nothing more than an attempt to create a buzz in advance of his next UFC PPV fight of which the Irishman can make a significant amount of cash based on the number of PPV buys that are purchased.

McGregor has realized that his remarks are often times polarizing and they spread like wildfire. He has become a great, self promoter of his fights and his own enhanced public persona which is not meant to be an insult in any way. To the contrary, fans of pro wrestling should admire that McGregor is a talented talker like many of the pro wrestling greats in history and who knows how to stir up controversy which creates cash more often than not.

The great 'heels' in pro wrestling had the ability to touch the raw nerves of the fan base aka consumers in such a way that those fans would pay hard earned cash to see these 'heels' get their asses handed to them in the ring or, in this case, the octagon. Insulted wrestling fans can live out this theory by buying McGregor's next PPV fight against Nate Diaz who beat the talkative Irishman in their last battle.

I certainly plan on buying this PPV and had planned on doing so long before Conor's controversial remarks.

It's somewhat amusing and incredible that some wrestlers who definitely should have known better took McGregor's bait, hook, line and sinker. I'm curious if they now realize that they have been 'worked' in their own genre's game?

I remember when I was a boy that my late father, J.D. Ross, would have the same reaction when Muhammad Ali would cut promos on TV to piss off the fans who would then make the emotional investment to watch or listen to Ali's fights in hopes that someone would shut the mouth of the Louisville Lip. Later in my life, Ali told me straight up after I shared my Dad's story with him that he knew what he was doing and that he was simply doing what he saw on TV from the likes of Freddie Blassie and other pro wrestling heels because Ali realized early on that he could earn more money getting people to invest in his fights to see him lose than to see him win.

Bravo to Conor McGregor for using the correct 'bait' to catch naive and emotional 'fish' in his latest, entertaining rant.
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I miss Jr so much, he needs to do commentary over the comments made by everyone over twitter.
 
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Kaladin

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SomewhatGroovy said:
False.

He has the polar opposite problem of the rest of the roster. He sounds natural on the mic. The problem is the stuff he says is grade A dogshit. There is no substance to anything he has to say. I neither learn anything remotely interesting about him nor does it further any storyline.
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I beg to differ, take last night for instance when he was cutting a promo on Jericho. He referenced rock songs constantly. It started out kind of innocently with Santaria, but it got more and more obvious as it went on. It was a smart not so obvious jab at Jericho being a rock star.

I'll admit, his jokes might not be for everyone, but he does get good material every now and then.

How you doin'?
 
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WrassleGAF MVPs:

Bootaaay
Data West
Myself
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Love us or hate us, we pushed a lot of discussion in our heyday and we had quite a great amount of conversation about things non-WWE.
 
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newdayrocks

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SomewhatGroovy said:
False.

He has the polar opposite problem of the rest of the roster. He sounds natural on the mic. The problem is the stuff he says is grade A dogshit. There is no substance to anything he has to say. I neither learn anything remotely interesting about him nor does it further any storyline.
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Sounds exactly like the same criticism that Bray Wyatt gets.
 
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btw Braun Strowman is on a Stone Cold podcast and it's really fun. Lots of muscle talk if that's your thing (it is mine)
 
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miserable

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were the ratings for Raw posted?

The August 8th 2016 edition of RAW did 2.911 million viewers overall. This is down from last week's 3.314 million viewers.

Below is the hourly breakdown:

8PM: 2,950M viewers
9PM: 2,974M viewers
10PM: 2,809M viewers
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Sephzilla

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Vince McMahon said:
talk to her about it or move on, red flags never just go away
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We've only been on a few dates but she's already starting to pull the "do what you want, its okay" and then she gets mad at me for it shit. She also got irked at me sticking to plans I already made one day because those plans didn't include her. Plus she's sort of accusing me of avoiding her for the last week even though I've been sick and contagious with something since Wednesday (and she cancelled our most recent date because she didn't want to risk getting sick due to her not having much sick leave).

I'm kind of MizReally.gif-ing right now because I'm like "this shit, already?"

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This is fucking gold!
 
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Browny

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As Sunny said, red flags don't go away.

Late nomination:

Browny
FlammableD
Klonere
Menome

The British Invasion

Hasney can be Chelsea :)

Boots is too good and is thus William Regal.
 
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Let it go, gracefully. IF you're capable of that, Logic Monster.
 
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