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GloryHole Stalker said:
Hockey is another one worth keeping an eye on. I don't follow the sport, but those checks players regularly take have to be very head jarring.
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There's a pretty serious concern with hockey players, and there's been some steps to make the sport a bit safer. About 10 years ago there were a bunch of goons (low skill players ostensibly on rosters to fight) who were all dropping dead due to a mixture of substance abuse/mental issues and a lot of them had signs of CTE in their brains, similar to how a lot of wrestlers were all dropping dead for a while due to steroids.

Hockey has generally been trending away from goon culture in general, but concussions are still an ongoing issue and I imagine we'll be seeing a second wave once skilled players start aging. Paul Kariya, who had all of eight grade erased from his brain due to a hit on Scott Stevens, and Eric Lindros (star player who had a long history of concussions and had his career shortened as a result) are two players I'm real curious how they'll turn out.

BlueArmedDevil said:
I'm sure the last thing TKO wants is a NFL concussion style lawsuit from both past wrestlers and ufc fighters.
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I imagine that it'll be coming. A lot of the early UFC fighters are in tough and its not pretty what has happened to them. Dana White has tried to clean up the sport and make it 'safer' and more legitimate...but he's also tried to push shit like Slapfight which is basically Brain Damage: the sport, so fuck him.
 
trent said:
Tanahashi is wrestling EVIL at WK19 in a match that no one could possibly give a shit about.

EVIL has to be one of the prime examples of a tag team guy that failed horribly as a singles wrestler and I'm surprised that NJPW keeps trying to push him. He is the definition of mediocre.
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I said it before. Tanahashi is waaaaaaaaay too much of a good dude to let these shitty matches happening to him. He's a fucking legend, he deserves BETTER than this.
 
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Well Intentioned said:
Hockey has generally been trending away from goon culture in general, but concussions are still an ongoing issue and I imagine we'll be seeing a second wave once skilled players start aging. Paul Kariya, who had all of eight grade erased from his brain due to a hit on Scott Stevens, and Eric Lindros (star player who had a long history of concussions and had his career shortened as a result) are two players I'm real curious how they'll turn out.
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Jeez, Stevens got another one, lol. I remember the Lindros hit as it was during his time with the Flyers that I regularly followed the sport (his exit from the team, the way it happened, left a bad taste in my mouth, and stopped watching thereafter). I was watching that game live (Devils vs Flyers, and I remember feeling a bit queasy seeing Lindros being peeled off the ice. he had a pained slack-jawed expression on his face and looked green. watching the replay now on you tube, it doesn't look nearly that bad, but that's how it struck me then.

Pretty much any sport or activity where people are getting their heads o bodies rattled violently on a regular basis has a good chance of its participants ending up with some sort of brain damage.
 
Caddo Cobgang said:
Hulk Hogan is a known liar, but I find most of his bullshittery funny, I would pay for a autobiographical documentary about Hulk Hogan if he was in complete creative control of it, it would be like a wrestling themed Acid-Trip
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I want it so anecdotes start with archival footage and photos from the time, and as Hogan dials up the Hogan-ocity of his story it becomes increasingly cartoon-y, like Strong Bad having not so much "photographic memory" as "doodle memory"
 
Caddo Cobgang said:
Hulk Hogan is a known liar, but I find most of his bullshittery funny, I would pay for a autobiographical documentary about Hulk Hogan if he was in complete creative control of it, it would be like a wrestling themed Acid-Trip
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He could do it while high on yeyo and locked in a hotel room, like allegedly he had done with Vinny Mac for No Holds Barred.
 
ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni said:
He refused to cut ties with CM Punk on social media and make groveling appeals about JUST HOW MUCH FUN HE WAS HAVING, like FTR and the other CM Punk guys in AEW did after Brawl Out. Tony stopped letting him do the comedy stuff that got him over and just has him turn into the guy in the background that points at people. He got injured and while he was injured spent a lot of time on social media hyping up AEW, doing his comedy stuff, and basically trying to keep himself relevant and the promotion over. When he is finally healed up Tony ran vignettes hyping his return for last Halloween for weeks in the lead up. He's at the venue, has a bunch of material written up and ready to work whatever angle Tony has for him.
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Return is canceled with no explanation to the audience at the venue or on social media despite having been billed. Gets depressed as fuck and all his social media and fan meetup stuff he was doing on his personal time drops off to a trickle. Looks like he is going to be put in liquid nitrogen until his contract is run out. Much to the shock of no one there are all of a sudden a bunch of rumors circulating on the internet that Danhausen is selling bootleg AEW merch he had printed up super cheap. All of a sudden there are astroturfed posts about how his wife is cucking him everywhere. Danhausen is getting workedhausen to the point he is posting on /pw/ trying to convince people that he isn't robbing Tony and that his wife isn't cheating on him. Tony is really fucking petty about burying guys if he isn't going to keep them on contract and doesn't plan on signing them again.
Tony just did something similar with the Lucha Bros recently when as soon as it was decided that their contracts wouldn't be extended they got thrown in the cooler and social media campaigns popped up all over the internet about how they were hard to work with, politicked, wouldn't put people over, and were locker room poison.
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You know, say what you want about Vince, at least he had the decency to make it known if he had beef with you. If you worked at a 7/11 and Tony was the store manager, he'd be the kind of cunt that acts like he's your friend, but will cut your hours for minor slights while pretending that it wasn't his decision to do so.
 
I’m enamored by this legendary Piper’s Pit segment. That he broke that coconut over Snuka’s head is just something else. I think Roddy could have toured standup if he had wanted to.
The WWE writers need to have more faith in the talent to hone their mic skills instead of reading from a script.
Edit: Roddy calling Rocky Johnson “boy” is great and modern online critics could never handle it.
Why is Kamala so bad at media interviews? Can’t believe he could be president.
 
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UnKillShredDur said:
I don't think Corny is a moron anymore, I think he's just fucking evil.
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More likely reasons for Jim's current predicament that don't involve him being evil:
  1. The deep south is traditionally not 'allowed' to be (or even sympathize with) republicans. This is just how it is for a lot of dixiecrat old-timers, regardless of position or policy.
  2. It's no secret Cornette is a total slave to his wife. The man has admitted he's not had a single political inkling until she expressed Daily Show rhetoric, which he repeats for her.
  3. Corny thinks the Vince Russo and the Young Bucks are the single greatest examples of stupidity and human detritus on planet earth. They all like Donald Trump.
  4. If you interpret Jim Corn as a man who views everything through the lens of baby face vs. heel even in real life, he starts to make a lot more sense.
  5. If you remember Cornette is a reddit-style atheist who resents all things Christian (but not religious; just Christian), he starts to make a lot more sense.
  6. Even if you have no desire to interpret this old man's ramblings, reading the video's comments and seeing people beg him to not discuss politics is very funny. He knows they won't leave and he knows this is giving him views, even if he claims "not to need them."
 
Wonder how Corny feels about Kamala being endorsed by Bush Jr and Cheney, who he'd be perfectly fine for hating otherwise...
 
Cornette and Meltzer are both genuinely on the Autism spectrum. Probably Tony Khan too.
 
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
MAGA retards can't help but seethe over Jim Cornette not loving Trump but then make fun of Redditers for being so opinionated
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Even though you'd consider me a maga retard chud incel whatever, I still enjoy your non-political posts in this thread HHH. You aren't going to work me into a shoot, brother.
 
ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni said:
Tony just did something similar with the Lucha Bros recently when as soon as it was decided that their contracts wouldn't be extended they got thrown in the cooler and social media campaigns popped up all over the internet about how they were hard to work with, politicked, wouldn't put people over, and were locker room poison.
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He's doing the same, or maybe even worse, with Ricky Starks. And allegedly, Julia Hart too.
UnKillShredDur said:
Finally listening to this now.
Wow... On some level, I already knew... But It's still jarring to hear how delusional this guy really is.

I am right now listening to a dude who has *at least as much* (honestly, probably even more) legitimate evidence showing that he's a sex pest than Trump ever had. We've all heard the stories about what Cornette made the boys do to his wife if they wanted a push in OVW... And he's even made jokes about sexual assault in the industry...

And now he is *still* describing Biden as a "kindly old grandfather with a stutter."
As if there weren't literally *dozens* of videos of Biden creepily touching and sniffing countless little girls.

The more I hear of this, the angrier I get. I don't think Corny is a moron anymore, I think he's just fucking evil. I don't even think I understand his worldview. The man is clearly a racist, clearly a sexist, and clearly a hateful bigot in general to anybody who does not share in his delusional world view...
But he still calls anybody who disagrees with that world view a racist/sexist/bigot... As if those a any meaning coming from somebody like him. I really don't get it.

And now he's making fun of the (I'm not even gonna deny) total gayness of the YMCA song, and mocking Trump for using that gay song so often in his rallies. Hey Corny, what's wrong with being gay again? Are you telling me that you're a homophobe?
Because by your logic, Trump clearly isn't.
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You only need to listen to the faggot wipe the floor with the likes of Jordynne Grace (who, granted, is a bit thin skinned as far as internet bullshit goes.) and Emi Sakura (it doesn't matter how shit you are in the ring, no one deserves getting called Rosie O'Donnell.)

I only wish Santino walks within 50 feet of him again so he craps his pants in fear.
 
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