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June Wrasslin' |OT-2| Money In The Bank, None In The Stock

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FallingEdge

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Dragonzord said:
If I'm going to watch somebody eat food...
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Jimmy King

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Money in the Bank rundown

WM 21 - 2005

Winner: Edge

Historical significance: 1st MITB match. Edge's win result in not only becoming a World Champ and main eventer, but also set the standard for opportunistic cash-ins.

MVP: Shelton Benjamin

Best spot: Shelton Benjamin running up a slanted ladder to clothesline Jericho on another ladder.

Botch of the Match: Kane chokeslams Benjamin outside the ring but his foot gets tied up in the ropes.

Dumbest spot of the match: Benoit diving headbutt off the ladder to Kane.
 
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Heel

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strobogo or Sunflower, have you considered reviewing Bar Rescue for LegitShook.com? Jon Taffer may be the greatest sports
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entertainer in the business today, and his GIFs are very much needed.
 
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Heel said:
strobogo or Sunflower, have you considered reviewing Bar Rescue for LegitShook.com? Jon Taffer may be the greatest sports
bar
entertainer in the business today, and his GIFs are very much needed.
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It's always on at the gym, so I see it often - I like it when it's on. Enjoyable watching people with SERIOUS ALCOHOL PROBLEMS get slapped around and forced to serve customers.
 
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somedevil

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serenewarfare said:
Apparently Bobby Fish's ROH deal expired already and O'Reilly's expires in a few weeks. Word is that WWE wants to bring them in for a tryout.
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I'll try to keep this news going because right now stupidity is starting up right now. That funny that he has the title when the contract has run out. I wonder if they would even think of TNA because I know Richards trained one of them.

Right now this is a possible Battleground match list:

Cena vs Cesaro
Bray vs Sheamus
Ambrose vs Rollins
Orton vs Reigns

Pretty good so far
 
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somedevil said:
I'll try to keep this news going because right now stupidity is starting up right now. That funny that he has the title when the contract has run out. I wonder if they would even think of TNA because I know Richards trained one of them.

Right now this is a possible Battleground match list:

Cena vs Cesaro
Bray vs Sheamus
Ambrose vs Rollins
Orton vs Reigns

Pretty good so far
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Communities go off-topic! davebatistadealwithit.gif

I think it's too late to get a taste of whatever short-term money TNA is throwing around.
 
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Deleted member 47027

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Alright I guess I should send up the Omerta signal that we should settle our loins down and get back on wrestling like somedevil suggested. I will start by posting a picture.

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lovely ladies

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somedevil said:
I'll try to keep this news going because right now stupidity is starting up right now. That funny that he has the title when the contract has run out. I wonder if they would even think of TNA because I know Richards trained one of them.

Right now this is a possible Battleground match list:

Cena vs Cesaro
Bray vs Sheamus
Ambrose vs Rollins
Orton vs Reigns

Pretty good so far
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Where is Battleground being held this year?
Aiii said:
Who in the flying fuck are all these people?
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They're supposed to be chefs.
 
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British Monsoon

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Mr. Luchador said:
Seemingly this FMW show is the last ever FMW show. It opens with some lady crying a lot and the crowd are very emotional for her. I have no idea what is happening, I wish there was a Bootaaay optional audio commentary to explain the history.

The show is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51i1NCgaGVw
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I'm not terribly knowledgeable with FMW, but I'd guess the crying lady was Hayabusa's wife. FMW had a shit load of problems, their ace Hayabusa being paralysed, booker Kodo Fuyuki found out he had cancer around this time and had been accused by Onita of embezzling money from FMW, while owner Shoichi Arai had hidden the financial state of the promotion, which was $1m in debt and owing money to multiple yakuza groups. The promotion declared bankruptcy the day after this PPV and Shoichi Arai went into hiding before committing suicide in May 2002.
 
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Mr. Luchador

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Bootaaay said:
I'm not terribly knowledgeable with FMW, but I'd guess the crying lady was Hayabusa's wife. FMW had a shit load of problems, their ace Hayabusa being paralysed, booker Kodo Fuyuki found out he had cancer around this time and had been accused by Onita of embezzling money from FMW, while owner Shoichi Arai had hidden the financial state of the promotion, which was $1m in debt and owing money to multiple yakuza groups. The promotion declared bankruptcy the day after this PPV and Shoichi Arai went into hiding before committing suicide in May 2002.
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Damn :\

FMW from what I've seen so far seems to be a Ultraviolent version of CHIKARA.
 
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Dr Duncan Steel

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Matthew Gallant said:
Hey guys how do we get more girls in this thread?
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by reading this Michael Hayes interview for starters! He has a couple of good points, especially the part where today's guys are vastly more superior athletes than in the past.

Can what worked in the territorial era work today? "There's a couple things there. One would be -- just going back to your last question about kids and what they should do -- the kids today, their athleticism far surpasses anything that most of us ever did. We had a few that were in that high echelon that could probably keep up with the kids of today, but the moveset is just not to be believed. With that said, what they don't do in my opinion is they don't learn how to captivate an audience. Some of them are almost scared to try to captivate and audience and they are somewhat scared of the audience. And it can't be that way.

Because, see, I'm a tell ya, you can go all the way back in time and it takes you back to the territorial days, but you can have a great wrestler and if he or she was a mediocre talker, I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. They're just going to make mediocre money. But you can find a mediocre wrestler who is a great talker and he or she will make great money. And that never changed and it still won't today.

And that's why I don't understand why kids don't try to go out and perfect promos and talk that talk, and walk that walk, because everybody wants to be entertained. As fans, your lives are so hard working so you can to feed your kids, feed your wives, or whatever, and you want to escape and you don't want to pay to see Bob the next door neighbour. And when everybody else is able to do these triple moonsaults then it's not that special. But if everybody else can't talk for three minutes and captivate people, and piss them off or make them happy, or get some emotion out of them, well then I don't understand why so many kids don't see that that's the avenue to the pay window. And in the territorial days that's what made it happen."

Does he see himself as an artist? "I do, in a different way. I'm a classic artist. Fortunately for me, I've never followed the rules. I pay attention to them, and I know where you can bend them and where not to break them, and I think that's pretty much what most successful people do. You know when to push and when not to push, and that's the fun of it, and then life evolves and life changes.

And part of that too is, and I don't like to elaborate on this much, but working with Vince [McMahon] and all this young talent, I look back at that and I get a lot of enjoyment off of that. Like our last pay-per-view, Payback, when you see a pay-per-view like that and you see these kids put everything out there and it paying off, you feel good that you're a part of that, a big part of it. Helping orchestrate it and getting it to work and calling a play. But those plays are only as good as the people running them, and at Payback the kids ran great plays and everybody wins. The fans win and the kids win because they feel great about themselves, when you make an achievement like that there's no feeling like, there's no high like that.

And I found another high in my life too, which is really cool, because I've had a lot of highs (laughs). This thing has been around forever, and I hadn't tried it 'til recently and it's called sleep. God darn, why didn't someone tell me about that years ago. And it's free! Wow. Getting a good night's sleep and waking up, I mean, wow this is different."

Participating in WWE's Legends of Wrestling roundtables: "It's fun. I dig doing that. I watch it back sometimes and think, wow, I'm really an asshole. And you're good at it too! That's kind of my job on the show. We had Kevin Nash on the show one time and he was fantastic, the stories he told about WCW, during the (Monday Night) war, and we were just about to wrap up and I go, "Whoah whoah whoah, what about the Arn Anderson parody?" And he looked at me, and he goes, "I thought I was going to get away without having to address that." But somebody's got to be Simon Cowell and God put me in that role."
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That Arn Anderson parody was loved by everyone except Arn's family. Even Arn himself "got it" and was cool with it.
 
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