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Electric Lady posted:Oh my god Bix please spill the beans!! 
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So since this is the appropriate thread I guess: WWE FCC complaints article is coming late this week or early next sat MEL.
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Since, again, I guess this is technically the appropriate thread, my WWE FCC complaints article went up today: https://features.wearemel.com/there-are-a-lot-of-people-complaining-to-the-fcc-about-pro-wrestling-129708881d6f#.34fqoiibk
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oh my https://twitter.com/mannixxbella/status/790230538292436992 davidbix fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Oct 24, 2016 |
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Saints Crow posted:Noted advocate of grabbing women's private parts Jerry Lawler
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Mystery Opponent posted:Spill the beans rovèr, what are the circumstances Everyone who was in the arena knows that T.J. wasn't taken away on a backboard/collar and had to walk to the back on his own power. The Bruce Hart interview discussing what happened was basically true from everything I had heard: http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2015/9/4/9264237/bruce-hart-tyson-kidd-wrestling-career-over-wwe-ambulance-refusal
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ChuckDeNomolos posted:i am surprised that, mike "i pissed on someone who wasn't exactly consenting to it for a bet" elgin has some skeletons in his closet
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davidbix posted:Is that trailer still online? I had completely forgotten about it.
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Well technically it seems like people missed it until someone told Peyton herself about it. https://twitter.com/PeytonRoyceWWE/status/1029775450044866566
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Super No Vacancy posted:every bix article is good except the one about the SCI which is not all newsworthy. he should stop tweeting because it reflects poorly on his actual work GEORGE W BUSHI posted:I agree and wonder if he's doing the Meltzer thing where apparently being a total dick on Twitter actually gets more people to read your stuff. Re: Twitter I think I just come off as way more of a dick if I'm being opinionated in short bursts. ("You're much nicer in DMs/in person" is something I've gotten both first and secondhand.) It's not a deliberate strategy a la Dave.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Normally I'd say Rollins should be sending him a christmas gift every year but it started with "The way Cornette tells it" which is almost as reliable as "According to Hulk Hogan" MassRafTer posted:Please hack VB so the thread title can fit this entire tweet. 4 years ago, the second article I wrote for Fighting Spirit Magazine was about the 20th anniversary of ECW's The Night The Line Was Crossed show. Brian Elliott put me in touch with Sabu, and while he was actually tremendously insightful about wrestling itself, there was one incredibly awkward moment. I'm paraphrasing since I don't think I have the recording anymore, but it was something like this: "So Paul E's a queer, and he was in love with me..." I tried to move on ASAP and the rest of the interview was fine, more or less.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:That post was like two weeks ago and honestly I'd forgotten I even made it but I'm glad he's not at least completely full of poo poo
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Is...Is that real? That might be the saddest thing I've seen in well a week I guess the world's pretty lovely.
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Can't believe Bix thinks Japanese women can't cut promos
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:I know what you were saying. I was making a joke about the reception to your badly worded tweet.
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Jerusalem posted:I assume this was the guy who'd loving lose his mind during those Kawada/Misawa matches? Remind me to never look up translations and keep the beautiful fantasy alive. The lead announcer was Akira Fukuzawa. Everyone in the west thought that Orgasm Man and Fukuzawa were one in the same for years, but they were not. Orgasm Man was his sidekick who I forget the name of. And Orgasm Man, it turns out, according to Japanese speakers, was actually kind of a poor man's David Crockett who just yelled poo poo a lot while Fukuzawa did the actual work. I may be getting some of the specifics wrong, but the gist should be right.
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Setting aside how the Aria Blake/Hunter Law pile on started (she phrased it oddly but some folks definitely jumped on WAY too harshly in the pile-up)... I don't really see why so many people are so up in arms over the larger paying dues romanticization as if that's what's keeping indie wrestler wages down and not the larger economics of indie wrestling for the most part? "Wrestlers being paid better would be good" and "based on the scale of indie wrestling you do have to do things to pay your dues for various reasons" are not mutually exclusive points of view. Obviously any promotion that can afford it should pay more when they can—especially since there are some prominent ones that insist on paying wrestlers below their usual rate "for exposure"—but it's not like there's close to as much wiggle room as a ton of people were acting like there was today. Hell, a lot of the examples that wrestlers were giving weren't even about working matches and taking bumps! They were about driving just to show your face, volunteering to help out on a ring crew, etc, plus the experience that can be gained in a more general sense, not just in-ring, like getting to spend a long car ride with a vet who could teach them for hours. I get where people were coming from, don't get me wrong, and obviously there's some stuff that's hard to glean from the story that opened the can of worms without knowing what promotion it involved, but it's not as if there are plenty of scenarios where $40 would be fair. Not in the putting your body on the line sense, of course, but in the "how could the show be realistically budgeted" sense. davidbix fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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Gumball Gumption posted:I think it's because there is a really thin line between "paying your dues" and "Let someone take advantage of you because that person allowed themselves to be taken advantage of when they were in your shoes". The bigger problem of most local indies being unable to survive unless they pay people like poo poo isn't something the wrestling community can really solve on its own, it will always be tough to survive as a niche artist under capitalism. But they can at least stop romanticising a bad system and stop acting like "paying your dues" is anything but a harsh reality of economics. The other problem with romanticising paying your dues is that it ignores that luck is a big part of being successful. Like, Seth worked really hard. I'd never take that away from him. But claiming that people like him get where they are by just hard work and paying their dues ignores the fact that he got lucky that he never got hurt, ill, or just put into a financial situation that he couldn't handle by working a day job and his 20$ bookings. It makes it sound like people without that luck just didn't work hard enough, they didn't pay their dues. Something that contributes is that the same people who are going to be paying you hundreds if you break out as an indie star is the same promoter who might have been paying you $40 months earlier. You're working your way up to a bigger piece of the pie based on your perceived value, not a better spot elsewhere unless you get one of a finite number of good money contract gigs. To make a writing comparison: Someone might make the mistake of writing for FanSided thinking they can parlay it into real money somewhere else, and they'd most likely be wrong. But, advancing in indie wrestling, if you're good enough and make the right hookup, you can raise your stock overnight and make more money from the same people. It's not the same kind of "for exposure" bullshit as a result. I'm not really sure what the solution is. Less wrestlers on cards—and a lot really are too bloated anyway—would hurt a lot of guys but also make the pie tidier for those who remain.
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ICHIBAHN posted:The idiots need to unionize. Simple as that
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Gaz-L posted:On a similar note, I had to shake my head when Trips was on one of the NXT media calls and was talking about telling Ricochet that he shouldn't be making his flips look so easy. Which is like... why did you even hire him? How do you miss the point so massively? (Then again, Vince apparently said they have a million guys who can do what AJ Styles does, which is demonstrably false. They have like 2)
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Gonzo McFee posted:JBL is just a regular guy who's had several wrestlers and former writers talk about his aggressive sexual tendencies against young men and pushed a culture of bullying who now coaches a youth Rugby team on an island where they can't get to him.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Yeah I thought it was widely known that JBL should be in jail for all the young people he's probably mentally and physically hosed up over the years
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Weren't they suckerpunches, too?
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The TNA match was the first in the United Arab Emirates, but there were women on at least one mid-'80s WWF tour of the Middle East, at least on the shows in countries that would allow it. (Per Gama Singh, they wore tracksuits and accompanied wrestlers to the ring in the countries that didn't.) But good luck finding results. There's a guy in Kuwait uploading a ton of old wrestling from Kuwaiti TV to YouTube, but most of it is repurposed American footage with just a few matches from Kuwait so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCgGoQ9oVSFQNF9N9Ut9uEiA
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Gonzo McFee posted:Holy poo poo that's hosed up.
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This app is free. https://twitter.com/BookItGabe/status/1076997981281374208
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Angry Grimace posted:The vast majority of WWE fans are like 55 WWE programming also heavily over indexes on black and Latinx viewers compared to the norm. And I believe that chart had the WNBA furthest to the left, not the NBA, but with the NBA being furthest to the left of the big 4.
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I'm just glad we can agree for once that I didn't actually do anything to bring this upon myself.rovert posted:Very hard not to see this as a self own Also, Elgin being the only wrestler to RT that stuff is hilarious. That idiot has no idea how lucky he actually is...
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:what exactly did you do to rile up the weird Elgin truther corner of wrestling Twitter? Plus there's a lot of zero sum moral absolutism with that crowd: Say Meltzer and others running Mo's name was a bad thing out of line with current journalistic standards and you're branded a Mo white knight. Question her GoFundMe situation and you're branded a pro-Elgin troll. And so on and so forth. I do have my own regrets about things I could have handled better, but I don't think either side would have ever been happy with me, regardless, because there was no way I could ever get anything about the whole mess past a mainstream editorial and legal team.
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Hellblazer187 posted:lol wtf
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Doesn't WWE own most of the footage? That said, gently caress Al Snow. Don't give him any of your money.
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MrBling posted:Joey can be fun on twitter.
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Mary-Kate broke Twitter. https://twitter.com/marykayfabe/status/1110720558335963137 https://twitter.com/NINaylor/status/1110726086739091456 https://twitter.com/TJWilson/status/1110730281344995329 https://twitter.com/ColtCabana/status/1110729161826545664 https://twitter.com/IanRiccaboni/status/1110725413968457729 https://twitter.com/SaxonHuxleyUK/status/1110750932734750722 https://twitter.com/marykayfabe/status/1110749345568223233 https://twitter.com/IVPvideos/status/1110749950827266048 https://twitter.com/IanRiccaboni/status/1110749943411732480 But Lance had to be Lance: https://twitter.com/LanceStorm/status/1110751700896276481 https://twitter.com/CheeseburgerROH/status/1110753128918462464
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Aesop Poprock posted:Not having any idea who this Mary Kate lady is, is there a decent chance she’s just making it up? To add to some of the above: It wasn't that Magee looked great on his first AJPW tour as much has he was a Stu Hart project who he asked Bret to put in a good word for/get a tryout on the same show Owen was getting one. Magee checked off every box as a prospect: Tall, handsome bodybuilder and strongman who was also a gymnast and a karate black belt. If he came around today, he'd be the ultimate Performance Center project. From Bret's book: quote:I found McGhee with Owen, and told him that if he trusted me, I’d get him over, “Give me your three absolute best moves. If you have a good match, Vince will have big plans for you.” I designed a match that was really simple, inserting his big moves at just the right times. While I worked out my match with McGhee, Owen did his best to design a match with a chubby jobber who clearly didn’t have the skills he needed. I knew that Owen, coming from a Stampede background, would struggle with the concept of eating up a jobber in four minutes. It turned out Magee had no aptitude for wrestling; Bret was just that good. But...it looks like WWE either misplaced or lost their copy (Bret wanted it on a DVD and they couldn't find it; ex-developmental wrestlers and office like Cabana and Naylor repeatedly asked for copies and never got them), and Dave Meltzer, who helped enhance the legend of the match a lot, can't find his copy. The date on the label is almost definitely wrong; their 2nd match, which Bret says is terrible because Magee called it(!) was at a TV taping months earlier in '89 and Magee looks to have finished up a few weeks before the date on the label. My guess is the date on the label is when it was dubbed, maybe with Bret asking after hearing Magee was cut.
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TheCool69 posted:I love it! WrestlingTwitter in a nutshell... Only thing missing is Bix jumping in and making GBS threads on Dave for being biased. 2. I don't believe the time buy story, but 411 had Tony Maglio, the TV Editor for The Wrap on their podcast, which is where he shared that. It wasn't just a random rumor dropped on a copypasta site.
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fart blood posted:She’s cool but she does cup therapy so she’s not that cool
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fart blood posted:It is snake oil, sir. It’s on the level of essential oils. Cupping to removed vaguely-defined "toxins" is clearly nonsense. Cupping for massage-like benefits, among some of the other things that there have been clinical trials on? That's a different matter.
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fart blood posted:You didn't quote the part where I said I liked your work. I'm hurt.
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Cavauro posted:the clinical trials on cupping are still b.s. that support similar useless things like pricking a finger to relieve indigestion or smearing "medicine" on your skin to reduce blood pressure Also "transdermal medication does not exist" is kind of a weird take.
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