Renaissance Spam posted:

Double checked he was just brought in, specifically to spearhead the women's division.

Shard posted:

I miss Brodie

Pamela Springstein posted:

im permabanned poster jobberstomper58. i first started reading wh2k when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "wrestling" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "buttz krew" and "bazooka kaboom" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "strong" style of wh2k humor was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" wh2k to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.

STONE COLD 64 posted:

all elite wrestling

Quantum of Phallus posted:

watched the punk return about ten million times already

GOAT poo poo

thank you bbtk

a cyborg mug posted:

Alright, I’ve been completely unable to get the Coal Magnate Punk return out of my head all weekend and have been trying to figure out why I felt so emotional watching him return - as someone who wasn’t there to see any of his WWE run and only came back to watch pro wrestling after he’d already been gone for over a year. I never watched him wrestle (of course I later watched some of his matches, and, perhaps more importantly, promos). I was never invested in him like so many others were. Most of my exposure to him were interviews and podcasts where he was angry or otherwise ornery and seemed a bit or a lot like a dick and apart from obvious charisma and a way with words, I wasn’t sure he was quite as amazing as he was made out to be. When he was more or less confirmed to be coming to AEW, I was initially mostly like ”ok that’s a big get but can he still go?” So why was I so emotionally affected? Aside from having become more in tune with my emotions and expressing them with age, I guess…

Well, I guess it’s why pro wrestling can, to me, sometimes be more overwhelmingly powerful than just about any other medium. Because it’s not just a story someone wrote and someone else acted, even though that is also involved in it. It’s more real than that. It’s also not a real sport where the realities and limitations of the human body would probably mean CM Punk just wouldn’t be able to return in a serious capacity, so the story wouldn’t happen in the first place - at least not like this, and not over such a long time.

The story of CM Punk’s return is one that weaves across decades of narratives both fictional and real, it’s a story that involves not only the feelings and experiences of one man, but also those of millions of people around the world. Feelings and experiences of betrayal, disappointment, frustration… resentment for something you loved. I guess the latter is what always resonated with me when it came to interviews with Punk. I can emphatize with that, I can understand how deeply damaging it must be to have the love for something you have lived for snuffed out. It’s a terrible thing. And the feelings of the fans have in many ways mirrored those of Punk’s. The growing realization of just how toxic, awful and increasingly hostile WWE is and how hosed the landscape of pro wrestling in America has been, those same feelings of betrayal, disappointment, frustration and resentment. In retrospect, it’s pretty funny how I lasted all of a couple of years with WWE after I started watching pro wrestling again. That’s how quickly they drove me away, first to local Finnish wrestling, then New Japan.

But alongside the negative feelings there are the positive ones. With AEW, hope for American wrestling was restored. People coming together to watch something not because they hate it, but because they like it and can trust it to be good. Hope and excitement and the feeling of togetherness. And, with the all but officially confirmed return of Punk, the rapidly growing hype. People putting aside time from their Friday for the show, making up plans to stay up late or wake up early, setting alarms and reminders. You just can’t help but get swept in, join in with this huge emotion swelling inside the hearts of a global audience. You’re one with a buzzing mass of people, your friends (PSPals!), even if they are far away and in different timezones.

Then that moment people have been waiting for seven years finally comes. In those nine deafening ”CM PUNK” chants just before Cult of Personality hit, that nuclear motherfucking pop when it does hit and on the face of CM Punk, all of that emotion is finally allowed to burst out. You can just see how everything washes over him when he walks through the tunnel. Of course he had heard the chants and the endless questions about when he’d be coming back, but I don’t think he never really understood it until now. After all he had done and gone through and after all the pro wrestling audience had gone through, they still loved him, and he loved them and professional wrestling. And it wasn’t until he finally, actually walked through that tunnel that the fans really believed he was back and realized just how much they had missed and needed him. It’s just such a pure, cathartic moment of release and joy for everyone involved.

Imagine making fun of the crying fan. gently caress everyone who does. That dude rocks. I’m that dude. I’m YOSHI-HASHI girl. I’m the yellow hat dude when Randy Savage and Elizabeth reunite. I’m Aubrey at Daniel Bryan’s retirement. Stories are supposed to make us feel, and this is as real as a story in a fictional medium can possibly get. Even if I wasn’t there from the beginning, I was there for the end because I emphatize with both CM Punk and my fellow fans and got swept in the long story they all have been experiencing together. Being emotional rules, and pro wrestling rules.

Ok it’s 2 AM here and I’ve been trying to write this for way too long so bye

a cyborg mug posted:

In those nine deafening ”CM PUNK” chants just before Cult of Personality hit, that nuclear motherfucking pop when it does hit and on the face of CM Punk, all of that emotion is finally allowed to burst out. You can just see how everything washes over him when he walks through the tunnel. Of course he had heard the chants and the endless questions about when he’d be coming back, but I don’t think he never really understood it until now. After all he had done and gone through and after all the pro wrestling audience had gone through, they still loved him, and he loved them and professional wrestling. And it wasn’t until he finally, actually walked through that tunnel that the fans really believed he was back and realized just how much they had missed and needed him. It’s just such a pure, cathartic moment of release and joy for everyone involved.

Cael posted:

I'm several pages late but still wanted to post.

When Ethan Page debuted, I didn't know who he was and absolutely couldn't care less about him with all the other good people around.

Then with Scorpio Sky and the Men of the Year gimmick I was amused and happy with him as a personality.

Then in his matches with Darby I was loving his actual wrestling ability.

And now with that Toy Hunt Vlog (the first one of all his stuff I've watched), I have the biggest smile on my face with him just being this earnest happy dude who brought a bunch of people to a toy store and they're loving life. It's absolutely incredible how wholesome the backstage environment can be when you let people be themselves and not interchangeable independent contractors.

kidcoelacanth posted:

is that page vlog the first time hook has ever spoken on screen? don't tell me no

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

give me a vlog where Taz just opines for 20 minutes about songs he likes and things that piss him off

Malcolm Excellent posted:

Big LOL at Ethan Page telling Hook not to buy the Snoop Dogg toy because he (Ethan) didn't want to get put in the Tazmission

Nick Jr. Face posted:

So this means that those of us who voted "Yes" are getting new avatars

Pinwiz11 posted:

sticklefifer posted:

I figured out Punk's big feud after the Darby match. They've been hinting at it for weeks now.

CM Punk (ice cream) vs Ryan Nemeth (eyes cream)

Barreft posted:

Ryan Nemeth? isn't that Ziggler's name? they related?
If they are, please don't bring Ziggler to AEW.

Le Saboteur posted:

Ryan is one of his brothers. The one who didn't kill somebody.

Barreft posted:

Oh god..

no Ziggler, PLEASE

Pinwiz11 posted:

It's been a few pages: