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Only a decade or so? I have you beat on that one, I grew tired of them before the Attitude Era began. Wrestling hog farmers, hockey players, and plumbers were just way too hokey for me and I was still relatively young back then (Early teens). I was a fan of some of the Attitude Era, but I think a lot of people look back at that time with rose-colored glasses. A good amount of the Attitude Era was just plain bad, maybe not hokey as some of the earlier stuff, but still bad. Plus, back then I always viewed the Attitude Era as a copy of ECW, which annoyed me. No rhyme or reason as to why, it just did. When Vince finally "won" after he snuffed out WCW, I was annoyed. Yes, by that point WCW was painful to watch, but I knew with Vince being the only viable major show in town, it was going to get worse. That's when it pretty much became the HHH show. As someone who never liked or saw anything special in HHH (going back to his days on Indy shows up here in New England), the show was miserable to watch. I only watched it because I would hang out with my friends every Monday night and RAW was must see for them. Wrestling for me in general is weird. Because like you, I keep up with the news but I don't actually watch any of it at all. I was watching MLW on a weekly basis but the talent for them just dropped right around the time of the pandemic. As I said above I have not really liked the WWE since the late-80's. AEW is just so bad. Heck just knowing that the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega use Wayward Son as their theme song, makes me dislike the song. Because it automatically makes the song lame, especially after seeing the three of them pose to it before they head down to the ring. Sorry for the rant there, but I do feel strange following an industry solely on what I read is happening and watching the occasional show. I guess I am having a hard time giving up something I have watched for almost forty years. Sort of like when I gave up watching Dr. Who, when Chris Chibnall destroyed the show (murdered might be the better word)...which is an entirely different topic, but it does hit the same way.

This post had me thinking when I stopped watching TNA/Impact. I honestly cannot pinpoint when I stopped. It had to be around the time they went to POP TV. Which means about seven years or so. Which is sort of odd to me because I used to watch it every week when it was on Spike, even though a lot of the stuff they did was not watchable. I remember catching it once on Twitch but it was so bad I just could not sit through it. The last time when I saw it on Twitch if I remember right, there was some awful parking lot brawl match and then some lame segment with Tommy Dreamer is a judge...just awful. This is coming from someone who used to sit through the awful ten to twenty minute promos that Hulk would cut every week. Therefore, for me to say something is unwatchable, it has to be unwatchable.

I am not sure "travel show" would be the right definition for The Last of Us. A travel show is a travel documentary along the lines of, An Idiot Abroad (Which was great) or the show that Anthony Bourdain used to host. The Last of Us is more in line with something like Route 66 or Kung Fu. Both of which would fall into the Action-Adventure genre. I am not sure how any of this is germane to anything I talked about. What do medical/crime dramas have to do with a post-apocalyptic show? Was it because I brought up Line of Duty? If that is the case, then that is a very poor example. Line of Duty has many recurring secondary characters, even some who show up on multiple seasons such as Terry Boyle and Ryan (Just two off the top of my head). Still, as I said, I fail to see how your post is germane to anything I said. On to a different topic. I finally got to watch all of Dark. I thought the first season was great but the show got progressively worse in the second and third seasons. Overall, I thought it was a good show, had they stopped at the first season it would have been great. There is also this show on HBO Max called Rain Dogs that is hilarious. If you have kids, I would not allow them to watch it because it deals with some very adult themes, but the show is really good.

My problem with the Last of Us is that it has, thus far, given me no characters to care about beyond the two main characters. The show seems a lot like David Carradine's Kung Fu, in that Ellie and Joel show up in a location do some stuff with some other characters and then leave the said location and we never see the other characters again. I have never played the game or its sequel, so I am coming at this from a TV only consumer viewpoint. Also, I have yet to watch the very last episode that aired Sunday. My TV time has been filled with me watching Line of Duty (Which is a great show. Well the last season could have been better but the first five were great). People praise the Bill and Frank episode but nothing really happened in that episode. I know people have been saying, "Well that episode helped Joel understand his mission." Fair enough but they did not have to waste an entire hour. The episode came across as an awards bait episode featuring two characters that will have no impact on the show's future. Next, I read article after article on how Henry and Sam were game changing characters in the video game...and they lasted a whole fifty minutes on the show. I thought they would stick around for at least two episodes and I really liked the characters. I thought you could do a lot with a deaf kid and his protective older brother (sidenote: Sam being deaf led me to think about how could a blind person survive in a world such as this or in the Walking Dead universe, that could be an interesting story to tell.) from a storyline perspective I liked the dynamic that Sam had with Ellie. How he allowed her to be a kid again I really thought they could have done more with that even if it meant having Henry and Sam travel with Ellie and Joel for just one more episode, but nope that didn't happen. Instead they Kung Fued it up and they left to go somewhere else for the next episode. Now I understand that there is only a limited number of episodes for the season and they have to keep on moving toward their goal. Therefore, I understand why they spend hardly any time focusing on secondary characters. I also understand that the show is about the bond between Ellie and Joel. That being said, I feel like they could have at least given us some sort of reason to care about the secondary characters. It is kind of hard to be invested in them when we only see them for one episode and then they are gone.

@CQI13: For some reason I was not able to quote your post. Anyway, Mandy Patinkin is known for and has admitted to being very diffcult to work with. I do not know the circumstances for why he left Criminal Minds, other than what you said above, but just from typing in "Mandy Patinkin difficult to work with" on Yahoo, I got a over dozen headlines talking about him being difficult and that was only the first two pages of the search. That being said, he's a great actor. I thought he was excellent in Dead Like Me, a very underrated show, and anything else I have watched him in.

Staying off topic for a little more. Until I just read what you wrote, I never really thought what a possible MJF run in the WWE would be like. I absolutely think you are correct, I am not sure it would work out well for him and he would probably be better off staying in AEW. Also, yes he is hands down the best character they have. His run in MLW was great, he's just so good on the microphone. As far as fans go, I have always felt a little shame in being a wrestling fan. Mainly because a lot of the negative stereotypes about wrestling fans are true for a portion of the audience. I remember going to a show in New Hampshire back when Daniel Bryan or whatever name anyone chooses to call him was really getting over the Yes chant. Anyway, I am in restaurant across the street from the arena. The place is packed with wrestling fans. The guys at the next table over think it is hilarious to Ric Flair woo the waitress every time she comes over to their table to check if they need anything. This causes a bunch of other people to start yelling out woo randomly and then some jerk starts a Yes chant and the place erupts into a Yes chant. The normies and the waitstaff have no clue what is going on because the Yes chant isn't mainstream, so they just see about a seventy or so morons yelling Yes over and over again. I am just sitting there embarrassed by the fact that I have something in common with people who act like this in public. Hell, my friends took part in it.

The fact that you have to make a point to say the part about respecting your opinion over saying a promotion is not for you, sucks. You should be allowed to say you don't like something without expecting a backlash from the AEW fanboys/girls. For some reason AEW fans seem to take it as a personal insult if you do not like the promotion. Which I don't get. I mean heck, people used to rag on TNA all of the time and even though I was a pretty big fan of it at the time, I never got offend. To quote a classic 80s sitcom song, "Now, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum, what might be right for you, may not be right for some." On topic, I have stopped watching wrestling for the most part. It really has lost its luster with me, which sucks because up until recently I had watched some form of wrestling nearly every week since right after WM II. I really cannot place what killed my interest. I have never been a huge WWF/E fan after say 1988 or so. For various reasons. MLW has not been the same since it came back after the extended break due to Covid. I did not like the turn towards becoming something like Lucha Underground it took. AEW, well I have given it a try multiple times and there is some stuff that is okay (I can say the same with WWE and MLW), overall the product is just not good. Part of it is because I dislike the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega (My first impression of Kenny when I first saw him in ROH was, "Why is this guy with the terrible hair, carrying a broom around with him?") and so naturally I would be less inclined to like anything that they are key factors in running. However, even beyond my dislike of Omega and the Bucks, the product is just not good.

I totally agree with you on that. I would say if you know someone can talk, let them be free to cut the promo as they see fit. As long as the get across what they need to get across. Full on scripted promos are fine for people who are not great on the microphone. Especially seeing how managers have not really been a big thing for the past twenty years or so. Sure it leads to their promos all sounding the same, but they are choosing to have them talk so that is on the company. Last week there was an article on Yahoo talking about how Bianca Belair had signed with some talent agency and there was some hope that she would get acting roles out of it. Well I made a comment saying something along the lines of, "Well I hope her acting skills are better than her promo skills, because I have yet to see her cut a half-way decent promo." One of the replies to me was, paraphrasing here , "Bianca is a great talker. You just hate her cuz she's black, you're racist." Not going to lie, I was sort of dumbfounded by such a response. It is the Yahoo comment section so I probably should not have been that shocked, but still. My response was, "Me thinking Bianca is bad at promos has nothing to do with the color of her skin and more to do with how every time I hear her do a promo it sounds exactly like any other promo she has ever done. Maybe it is because her promos are heavily scripted, but I still feel what I am saying is true. I also thought Lex Luger was bad on the mic and he's a white guy. I don't discriminate when it comes to people who cannot speak." Maybe Bianca would benefit from more freedom on the microphone. Maybe then her promos would not sound like a carbon copy of every other promo she's ever done, maybe she needs to be restricted. I don't know the answer to that.

Sorry for the back-to-back posts. I thought I quoted this in my previous post but I had not. According to Wikipedia, both Tony Parisi and Louis Cerdan were either 33 or 34 (They were born the same year, so it depends on when the interview was shot) at the time of the interview. More than likely if you cannot cut a half-way decent promo by that age, you are probably never going to grow into a good promo guy. Also, as fan favorites in the WWWF at the time, there really did not seem to be much emphasis on having stellar promos (From the stuff I watched). Most of the time fan favorite promos seemed to be rather on the bland side of things and they usually were rather brief. The heel promos were also brief as well, but they are usually leaps and bounds better because you could really add character to your interviews that you simply could not do as a fan favorite. I wonder if that is why Vince Jr. went to the complete opposite end of the spectrum during the 1980's with fan favorites like Hogan, JYD, etc.

Even though Backlund's promos were pretty boring back then, they were at least watchable because you can see the context of them treating it as real. and they tended to be like one minute long. Whereas the promo I was talking about, was just bad and it went on for a long time. Like I said, the promo had to have lasted about three minutes long (I did not actually time it but it seemed to last that long). Which is far longer than any other promo on the show. Tag Team Champions or not, why on earth would you give them that sort of interview time when it is clear they did not have the charisma to do it? Let Captain Lou or The Grand Wizard of Wrestling have that time to hype up their guys. At least then you would know you are getting some quality stuff. Let the Tag Team Champions have the half a minute interview.

I was watching an old WWWF show from the mid-1970's (It had to be from sometime in 1975) the other night. They had the then new WWWF Tag Team Champions come out who were Tony Parisi and Louis Cerdan. These two guys proceeded to cut one of the most boring promos I have ever witnessed and it went on forever. Which surprised me because normally all of the promos I saw from back then were rapid fire. But this promo had to have lasted at least three minutes. Neither guy could speak very well or had much of a personality. Anyway, I had heard of Tony Parisi before but I had never heard of Louis Cerdan before. Turns out Louis was the trainer of Dino Bravo. Another link that both men had was they both had ties to the Montreal underworld. I do not know, I just found it interesting to learn about this guy I had never heard of and his link to Dino Bravo and the Montreal mafia.

Holy Don Destiny, I can't believe you have managed to keep this running for nearly nine years. I am not joking around here when I say that is impressive. Keep up the good work.

Not going to lie, she was the entire reason why I started watching Chuck in the first place. I saw her in a commercial for the show and was like, "My god she's beautiful. I have to watch this show." Which I am glad I did because I thought Chuck was a great show. Sitcoms, in general, are no longer appealing to me Chuck and My Name is Earl were the last two network sitcoms that I really enjoyed. There are other non-network sitcoms that I enjoy but for the most part, I look at it as a dying genre. Edited to add: I loved the current season of the Boys but I felt the final episode was a huge letdown after how great the rest of the season was.

I tend to only play either in Ireland or Spain with the goal to unite the various regions into a united country under me. My computer is too old to play CK3, but I managed to play it on XBox and boy is it not enjoyable on there. Certain games only work as PC games and are not fun to play on a console. Also off topic but, what is up with the pop-up ads on this site? I have not really been active on here in a month or so, so I did not notice these ads. But man are they annoying, they pop up every single time I switch to a new page. I thought if we opted out of seeing ads on here, they would not show up. Guess that is no longer the case.

I have been watching the last hour of SmackDown (I don't have a DVR and I would much rather watch Blacklist) almost every week for the past couple of weeks. The show, from what I have watched, is not bad. But holy hell is Pat McAfee one of the most annoying color commentators I have ever heard. I thought Don West was bad/annoying, that was until I heard Pat. It is just constant yelling and doing stupid stuff like dancing on the announcer's table coming from him. I think I might have to put him up there with Mark "Mama there go dat man" Jackson of the NBA, as possibly the most annoying commentator. Also, why have they rebranded Pete Dunne as Butch? That is such an odd thing to do, taking a heavily featured NXT wrestler and giving him a new name and gimmick on the "main roster". As if we can forget all that he has done in NXT.

I don't know, I found his portrayal to be more inline with the Joker than the Riddler. I never really thought of the Riddler as being a lunatic in the vain of the Joker. I always felt like the Riddler should more like a Bond villain, in that while yes there could be some sort of mental health issues he suffers from. He is more intelligent and cunning. I felt like this version of the Riddler was a whiny mentally ill person. Also, I did like the film but I felt like it was rather simple, for lack of a better word, and the plot for it was not very deep. Especially seeing how it lasted nearly three hours.

This is something I never really paid much attention to. Do referees' refereeing skills improve/decline over time? The reason why I ask is I have a semi-watcher game that I am playing and I am about to approach 2025 and every time I look at different referees refereeing skills there seems to be no improvement or decline. It just seems to remain stagnant. It would only make sense that over time their skills would improve when they are younger and decline when they get older (They are not agile enough to be in the right position or whatever).

I gave up on my long term GAMMA save a few months ago. My reason for doing so was tied into the reality show (I don't recall the name of the show off the top of my head and I don't have the game open right now). One of the guys in the finals of the reality show was a world class wrestler. He won his semi-finals match and then decided to train for the Olympics, which are two years away. Therefore, I cannot do anything with the show or the fight until he comes back. I could cancel the season but I really didn't want to do that. The whole situation just sucked the interest out of the save for me.

Reading this section of your post gave me flashbacks to the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas RC Plane mission. As many hours as I put into that game back when it came out, I stopped playing the game to win it, because I could never beat that mission. Another GTA mission from hell, for me anyway, was the Sexy Time mission in The Ballard of Gay Tony. You need to beat that mission to win the game and well...I never beat it. I must have tried it at least sixty times before just giving up. I can fully understand your frustration over stuff like that.

Pvt. Jim Nelson VS. Skip Young I can honestly say I have never heard of either of these guys, so I have no clue who to pick. Dick Slater VS Rufus R. Jones Steamboat & Youngblood VS. The Sawyers Greg Valentine VS. Bob Orton JR

This is for a watcher game where once a week (A game week, not a real life week) I will take over a company and play a show or two. Here is a list of the current COTT Champions. All of the championships listed that are not in the default data were added by me. September 2024 COTT Junior Heavyweight Champion: El Hijo Del Aguila (Representing OLLIE) He defeated Robbie Griffin. COTT North American Champion: Phobia (Representing OLLIE) He defeated Nate DeMarcus. COTT Six-Man Champions: Onslaught, Chet Chavez, California Love Machine (Representing CZCW) They defeated Major Junta, Heavy Metal Anarchy, and Devious Doctor Fang. COTT World Tag Team Champions: Nate DeMarcus and Ade Nelson (Representing MAW for Ade and MAW and NYCW for Nate) They defeated El Jaguar and Disturbed. COTT World Heavyweight Championship: D.C. Rayne (Representing NYCW) defeated Freedom Eagle for the vacated championship. The champion prior to that was The Architect who vacated the title after he joined the TCW roster. COTT Women's North American Champion: Elsa Calvo (Representing both OLLIE and CILL) She defeated Lily Snyder. COTT Women's Tag Team Champions: Velvet Suarez and Estrella Blanca (Representing CILL for Estrella and OLLIE and CILL for Velvet) They defeated Alina America and Skye Hermosa. COTT Women's Champion: Alina America is a two-time champion. (Representing both CZCW and QWA) She defeated Allie Perks. The current members of COTT are: ACPW, Canadian Women's Wrestling Federation, CZCW, CILL, IPW, MAW, NYCW, OLLIE, Quebec Pro Wrestling, and QWA. FCW went out of business in November of 2021.

Champion Supremacy - Two titles, One fall Sayeed Ali vs Nelson Callum The Steel Circle vs Jebediah, Xavi Ferrera and Devil May Care Enter the Madman Dead Bolt vs Madman Boone There is very little upside to having Dead Bolt win, that dude is such a waste of space. Reckless Antix vs Samoan Destruction Inc. Ash Campbell vs Dustin Deuce Cerberus vs Cowboy Buck Winchester Cerberus is another who does not have any upside. While Buck can become a huge star, I have witnessed it happen in my watcher game he currently holds the top belt in both NYCW and PSW and the SWF just poached him from both companies. Legion of Blood vs Iron Might Vendetta vs Devil Dog I am not a fan of Vendetta either. Red Flag (debut) vs Little Bill Lebowski

Iceman King Parsons VS. Angelo Mosca One Man Gang VS. Porkchop Cash I have no idea who Porkchop Cash is, so I have to go with the name. Gene Anderson VS. Jimmy Valiant I honestly did not know Gene was still wrestling in the 80's. Jerry Brisco VS. Terry Funk I just like Terry better even if I was terrified of him as a little kid. MAIN EVENT Roddy Piper VS. ??? Ric Flair Chooses Piper's Opponent: I like Old School Fan's pick due to Ric and Greg's history as tag team partners. But I am going to go with his "cousin" Ole Anderson even though he is not on the roster.

I really liked the first show. I like how you focused more on the promos/angles. Not that you did not get over what was happening in the ring, you managed to do that with your match write-ups but your match write-ups did not feel bogged down.

Right now the three that have really caught my eye is Old School Fan's above-mentioned diary and a new one that I started reading last night which is Bockwinkel's The Legacy of Mid-Atlantic. The first show was posted recently and man was it good. Also, with it being new you can get on the ground floor of the diary. Finally, there is BigJ's, ECW 1995 - The Revolution Will Be Televised diary. If you like ECW you will like this diary, it is so well written. I should start getting back into posting in diaries again, I just tend to read them. But honestly you cannot go wrong with any of the above mentioned three.