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Some good news!


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The Predaking

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Some discussion on this from Stephaine's podcast.


All the behind the scenes stuff I have seen on this just really makes me even more happy for them.
 

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So, when I heard Hulk Hogan died, I ordered a figure from Amazon...which took a long ass time to get here (just arrived today). Between the time I ordered and the time it finally arrived, I learned about some of the things he's done including: snitching on some people trying to get WWE unionized (which without getting into my normal stance on unions, the working conditions of WWE I found out kinda make a union needed), and probably singlehandedly being the reason the WCW no longer exists.

Sooooo...whereas Hulk Hogan has always been one of my childhood heroes, I'm not quite sure what to say about Terry Bollea.

But in any case...this came today...and usually when I get a new toy, I like to show off. Not sure what to think this time.

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And along side my other wrestling figure.

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If it makes you feel better, I picked up an NWO Hollywood Hogan figure the day he died, knowing full well the things he did in real life.

You just have to separate Hogan from Bollea, just like you would any actor and a role they played.
 

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So, when I heard Hulk Hogan died, I ordered a figure from Amazon...which took a long ass time to get here (just arrived today). Between the time I ordered and the time it finally arrived, I learned about some of the things he's done including: snitching on some people trying to get WWE unionized (which without getting into my normal stance on unions, the working conditions of WWE I found out kinda make a union needed), and probably singlehandedly being the reason the WCW no longer exists.

Sooooo...whereas Hulk Hogan has always been one of my childhood heroes, I'm not quite sure what to say about Terry Bollea.

But in any case...this came today...and usually when I get a new toy, I like to show off. Not sure what to think this time.

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And along side my other wrestling figure.

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To be fair, Hogan was the top dog back then and didn't want to lose his spot, so of course he was going to rat to Vince about the union. (I should note, that I firmly believe that Unions are great and required, and the WWF could have used one, especially since most if not all the boys from Wrestlemania 1 are dead now.) However, I blame Ventura for not trying to do that the correct way. Just announcing it before all of the boys made it easy for word to get back to VInce, Hogan just told him first.

The WCW lawsuit thing was more of Vince Russo being a dumbass, and the Executives at TNT/TBS trying their hardest to get rid of wrestling and using that as an excuse.
 

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How much of that Whoa is crowd noise and how much is in the actual song?


Regardless, Clash in Paris was a bust as all four way matches are, as they always end up in three guys fighting themselves rather than take down the heel champion. I legitimately thought that we had a chance to do something different here. So here is the ending that we got. Punk is setup in a chair for a stomp in the ring. Knight and Jey are out outside of the ring. Punk dodges the chair stomp, gts Seth. Goes for another GTS but Beckly Lynch low blows Punk from behind. Rollin gives a stomp 1 2 3. RAW happens next day and we get a setup for Smackdown in Chicago for the return of AJ Lee.

What I would suggest is to change that slightly. Knight just misses and crashes into the announce table. From there, Jey and Seth start a fight that goes on to the ramp. Punk sees this and grabs Knight who just made it back in the ring. Seth gets the upper hand in the fight, when Punk yells, "Hey Seth!" Grabs knight and drags him down on top of him in the ring pinning Punk. 1 2 3, Knight wins. Knight gets the win and you can take him on a neat storyline of does he really deserve to have the title, and have him go against Jey then others to defend it. Punk and Rollins still get to feud and you can bring in the wives on Raw still.

Anyways, Looking forward to the return of AJ Lee on Smackdown.
 
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LBD "Nytetrayn"

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Maybe if they were focused more on making a better show and less on inconveniencing everyone else...
 

LBD "Nytetrayn"

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First half was... eh.

After they got into it, though, that was pretty good.
 


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