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Billy Stinkwater said:
They stopped injecting gear and popping pills they bought from the meathead at the local gym and started going to actual doctors.
My death pool is Matt dementia and i think Jeff Cirrhosis of the Liver.
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Well I do hope the best for them, but the issue is if the damage has been done already or not. Eddie quit the pills and he still died young from congestive heart failure. I still can't picture them making it to 70 (60 in Jeff's case).
 
THE STRESS said:
Well I do hope the best for them, but the issue is if the damage has been done already or not. Eddie quit the pills and he still died young from congestive heart failure. I still can't picture them making it to 70 (60 in Jeff's case).
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Have you forgotten what industry this is? The good die young and pricks last forever. Invader #1 killed Brody and he’s 78 right now. If Jeff stops drinking he’ll be dead by 60. If he keeps going it’ll be 80. If he hurts someone in a DUI it’ll be 200
 
THE STRESS said:
It's the price to pay with a PPV event in a town that's starved for shows. Idk when the last time they were in Scotland, but crowds these days are too nice. They want to steal the show, but they also don't want to drive the WWE away forever. It's a conundrum because on one hand, hostile crowds are usually the best but these days, any murmur of words that aren't TV-friendly are muted. I still think back to ECW One Night Stand 2006 where the crowd was constantly bad-mouthing the talent and it was glorious. If that were to happen today, half the show would've been silent. I know that was a PPV, but still. All one could hope for is that Netflix is more lenient and maybe crowds will become better when they're not being muted.
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Ah, reading this made me reminisce. I saved up money mowing yards and gardening to be able to fly out to New York to attend One Night Stand 2005. Best live event I’ve ever been to in my entire life. From open to close, the crowd was insanely electric to the point where you couldn’t gather a single thought. The taping, albeit great (especially the non-Network), doesn’t accurately convey how rabid the crowd was. Everyone was taking shit from the audience. I don’t even know how the talent managed to call spots with how loud the environment was.

I do hope Netflix allows for the product to be a bit more… Raw. You can clearly tell when the talent is getting booed when production et al want the opposite reaction. I honestly believe John Cena elevated to the heights that he did was because there was always that emphasis on how he was both over and had extreme amounts of heat with fans. It was embraced.
 
Fucking love the clowns, man.

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I was half-watching and thought Godfather was back when I saw the gear
 
as much as ICP might have gone hard on CURRENT YEAR they still tried to pay dudes to the point they had to sneak money TO Terry Funk
I don't think I've ever heard a single cross word about anybody who worked JCW, even if they had to wake back up at three in the morning like Bob Backlund

2xposting because the ref's back is turned

I know that the current lWo has basically nothing to do with the OG lWo, but the idea that lucha guy who I watched from lucha shows like Dragon Lee is now in the USA and part of the (latest revival of the) lWo is kinda weird
hell, the idea that a low-card stable from WCW still has some manner of existence in 2024 is weird, even with the occasional shoutout to back in the day like Bray back in NXT talking about how he burnt down his daddy's boat
 
I've always loved Bo Dallas and I've been excited for Uncle Howdy because of him, but I am pretty worried what they'll actually do with him. It's so hard to do spooky characters in modern WWE when the rest of the show is so "reality" based. Bray was one of the very rare exceptions at times.
 
Ambient Occlusion said:
I've always loved Bo Dallas and I've been excited for Uncle Howdy because of him, but I am pretty worried what they'll actually do with him. It's so hard to do spooky characters in modern WWE when the rest of the show is so "reality" based. Bray was one of the very rare exceptions at times.
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Whatever else happens the way they've built it up has been top notch in execution
 
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