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And now, Raw goes OLD SCHOOL! I bet you aren’t tired of hearing that yet. The Best and Worst of Old School Raw is after the jump.
Best: Old School Raw Should Just Be Regular Raw
This is the first edition of “old school Raw” I’ve gotten to write up since moving the Best and Worst of Raw column over to With Leather. Here’s what I wrote about the concept back at AOL FanHouse back in November of 2010:
I had trouble coming up with “worsts” for this show. Originally the worsts were “John Morrison still exists, R-Truth still exists, Eve looks like she has a mental disease when she knuckles up and blows the roof up.” I haven’t had this much fun watching wrestling in a while, and it wasn’t just the legends. It was a return to when wrestling could be fun, when the graphics were easy to read, you wanted to see what would happen in the matches, and the personalities made you smile. The ghost of Lord Alfred Hayes says “promotional considerations paid for by the following” and I mark out. It’s easy. It’s not just nostalgia, I’m marking out because what you’re doing is good.
Two things:
1. I sincerely do not miss that late-2010 Raw vibe where John Morrison was translating French into animal fart jokes to get over on Maryse and R-Truth was trying to have a second hit to … get over on Maryse. It was the worst. In fact, the only thing I miss is Maryse.
2. This Old School Raw was … not that Old School Raw.
So when I type “Old School Raw should just be regular Raw,” I don’t want every episode to feature Sgt. Slaughter wandering out and getting punched by whoever, I just like the aesthetic. The ring looks better. The red, white and blue ropes are visually stimulating. The logo is a thousand times better. I prefer the simplicity of the set over the SCREENS A’FLASHIN’ thing they normally do, the old Raw theme is better than TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE, the graphics (as mentioned) are pleasant and easy to read … I don’t know, it just seems like the right direction to take the show in 2013. It could give the dreaded “PG Era” a specific look instead of just being “whatever we did from 2000-2010 but with Twitter handles.”
I also would not mind if every episode featured somebody punching Sgt. Slaughter.
Best: It’s The Undertaker, You Guys! Or
Worst: Hey Undertaker, The Rock Has Wrestled 2 More Matches Than You This Year
We finally made it to the fireworks factory!
So, the Undertaker has hath returned. If those pictures of him from the live events are any indication he’s not in fighting shape yet, but that’s okay, because we’ve got a month until WrestleMania and he can just live inside his spiky shell suit for a few weeks. Remember when he did an entire Mania build with his head shaved, so he just wore fright wigs and hoodies all the time? Remember when he was randomly the Phantom of the Opera for a while? He’ll be fine.
I’m a little sad that Punk didn’t draw from his history with the Undertaker as reason for the challenge, instead going for the easiest and laziest possible WWE storyline: doing something because of “you people/each and every one of you,” then having to win a tag or fatal fourway match to substantiate it. Of course, the upside is that we could get a cool, monthlong CM Punk/Undertaker feud that gives Punk something to do besides complain in the direction of more household-friendly stars and lets Taker do something besides “feud with DX” for the first time in FIVE YEARS. Man, even Hornswoggle didn’t hang around those old weirdos that long.
Worst: Big Show Didn’t Have A Punch The Last Time He Wrestled Undertaker
I liked Randy Orton’s motivation for wanting to fight Taker again. He almost pulled it off when he was a plush-bodied rookie, so now that he’s the SNAKE MAN WITH RUTHLESS SNAKEGRESSION he’d have a much better chance. I mean, he’s got a powerslam now! I liked the Sheamus talking point of “welp, I beat everybody, might as well give this dude a shot,” too, although I would’ve preferred a well-placed “OIL FOIT ‘IM.”
The other half of the opening segment was less successful, I think. CM Punk is suddenly straight edge again? That’s cool. I mean, I want him to yell at people for drinking 24/7. The Punk in my head is still that guy yelling WHORES at strippers because he’s a colossal dickbag who thinks “taking off your clothes and dancing in the strip club” is horrible, but “taking off your clothes and pretending to fight in a strip club” is great. But where’d it come from? He hasn’t been nominally straight edge since what, the Jericho feud? That was the worst. I’m worried that they’re bringing it up again now so they can shoehorn in some “Taker you’re an ALCOHOLIC” thing to buffer the feud instead of the embalming and sacrificing on symbols and limo kidnapping we’d prefer.
Show’s was the worst, though. He fought Undertaker at WrestleMania before, in a handicap match with Lord Tensai in his corner. He lost that, but HO HO HO WAIT A MINUTE, back then he didn’t have his signature finish: THE PUNCH. Yes, WWE fans, Big Show would do better in 2013 than he did in 2003 because NOW HE’S FIGURED OUT THAT HIS HANDS ARE BIG AND CAN BE USED TO PUNCH PEOPLE. Dude was NINE YEARS into his career in 2003 and hadn’t figured out “punch.” Good luck, Show. In 2023 when you discover “kick,” you’re going to be unstoppable.
Best: If You’re Gonna Have Cesaro Lose All The Time, At Least Make Him Look Good
In case you were wondering, no, I didn’t enjoy watching the United States Champion lose to somebody who is not the United States Champion without the goddamn belt changing hands for the 1500th time in the first two months and change of 2013 Raws.
What I did enjoy, at least, is Antonio Cesaro getting to look like a tough, competent wrestler before going down. When he wrestles Randy Orton (as he’s done so many times), Cesaro looks okay, but he also looks like he’s waiting around for Orton to hit his big moves. He’s just finding complex ways to get onto the apron for the rope DDT or jump headlong into an RKO “out of nowhere” that is out of so specifically SOMEWHERE. That wasn’t the case against Ryback, who took as much as he gave, and got the victory at the end of a hot, physical sequence of moves. The European uppercut counter to the Meat Hook was a knockout blow, and when Cesaro set up for the Neutralizer with his El Generico hands waving around everywhere I thought, “wow, are they gonna let Cesaro win?” Of course, they didn’t, and that’s fine if you’re giving Ryback a showcase thing at Mania and relegating the US title to pre-show nothingness (or just regular nothingness). At least the finishing counters were cool. Cesaro’s too good to not land on his feet somewhere more interesting than Jobber To The Stars. You know, eventually.
Hopefully. +1 for his old school Bruno Sammartino gear, at least.
Best: THAT’S WHAT HE DO
Mark Henry is the greatest. He’s so good, Zack Ryder’s music hit and my brain went “oh man, this is gonna be SO GOOD.” Because how does a Mark Henry/Zack Ryder match end, 100 out of 100 times? With Zack trying to perform 1-3 of his 3 moves before getting World’s Strongestly Slammed. Why? Because THAT’S WHAT MARK HENRY DOES.
By the way …
If a wrestler in my company wore these trunks on national television, I would fire him immediately. There’s a difference between playing with action figures on a YouTube show and putting a f**king Barbershop Window T-shirt slogan on your ass on global television. I guess I should be happy that he didn’t get somebody to stitch “HEY BROSKIS, REMEMBER HOW EVE TORRES IS A SKANK” across his asshole. Mark should’ve written “be better at wrestling” on a Post-It and stuck it to Ryder’s butt after he trounced him.
Best: The Miz Finally Figures Out The Figure-Four
The Miz gets a competitive win over Dolph Ziggler by discovering Ziggler’s biggest weakness: Raw matches.
He also gets a huge Best for FINALLY figuring out how to do a figure-four leglock. I’ll give it to him, the one he did last night was beautiful. There’s a huge, huge difference between this:
And this:
The crowd reaction tells the story. When he tried it that first time, the crowd popped when they figured out where he was going, then kinda had to sit on their hands going “eeeh wooo” while Miz worked it out. Here, the figure four is the big finish, with Ziggler’s bounciness backfiring and finding him stuck in the middle of the ring with a fired-up Miz, dead-set on breaking a motherf**ker’s legs.
This is why babyface Miz can still work … when he’s doing things like applying a figure-four in front of Ric Flair while an arena of people cheer him on, it works. You can believe him. He’s a wrestling fan living this crazy dream moment, getting over on the show off guy because HE’S taking this seriously. It is less effective when he says “lol your gay” into a mic and applies a figure-11, and the only person popping is Maffew from Botchamania, because he’s got the soundtrack to Mighty Bomb Jack on MIDI and finally has somewhere to put it.
Maybe Flair has to be there? I don’t know. Pay Ric Flair to be there every week, somebody.
Best: Ric Flair Vs. Big E Langston
The worst part of this match (besides Ziggler losing, which is becoming as reliable as the sunrise) was Miz bringing out Ric Flair, saying he “makes my corner look a lot better than yours.” F**king Draugr Ric Flair looks better than AJ Lee and that magnificent African-American gent in the Borat swimsuit? The only two reasons for that I can think of are:
1. Maryse is the only lady Miz looks at, so his standards of beauty are SUPER SKEWED, or
2. Miz is still Accidentally Racist Mike from ‘The Real World: Back To New York’ and has just never had an opportunity to find a Puerto Rican lady or a black guy attractive. This could also be why he’s engaged to a French Canadian with the blondest hair in history.
Anyway, the BEST part of the match was the outside-the-ring showdown between Ric Flair and Big E. Langston that started with a JACKET BULLWHIP ATTACK~, ended with a Miz dropkick and featured about 30 “MOTHERF**KER” faces in-between.
If you weren’t sold on Ric Flair being around every week with the Proper Figure-Four thing, keep him around so he can attack people with his clothing, attack, then cower from them. You can be pretty awesome sometimes, Ric Flair.
Worst: No, You Hang Up. No, YOU Hang Up.
The objective truth is that aside from Rock yelling HARLEM SHAKING HONEY BOO-BOO IT WAS CAWLLDDD!! for no reason, this year’s first Once In A Lifetime II was a hell of a lot better than last year’s “throwing gnomes into the river” fest. They kept it serious for the most part, said what needed to be said, and only took up 15% of the show instead of 40. So that’s good, right?
See, this is the problem with doing Once In A Lifetime a second time. The quality stuff Cena’s saying about how he promised everybody he was gonna beat the Rock and didn’t so he needs his redemption is REALLY GOOD, but it’s also a cop-out. The gravity of last year’s match is that it was only going to happen once, and if Cena didn’t pull it off, he’d NEVER get a chance to do it again. He’d have to live with his failure for the rest of his life. It happened, and Cena’s life went into a terrible tailspin that saw him … uh, beat Brock Lesnar and win Money in the Bank and the Royal Rumble. Now he’s getting another shot, and just like everything else in Cena’s life — firings, championship losses, whatever — he just shows up and gets what he wants. Lose a once in a lifetime match? It’s cool. We’ll just do it again. This is why I stopped collecting comic books. They kill people and ask you to give a shit, then bring them back in a year. They build up 20 years of history, reboot it all, try something else for a year, then reboot it again. Nothing has gravity. Nothing has consequence. We’re just fake people going through the fake motions. Why should you care about us? Stimulus response?
The Rock was fine, but he absolutely cannot handle a conversation with another human being. Here’s a brief transcript, as I understood it:
Cena: “I NEED to win this match. I need it more than anybody!”
Rock: “That’s true, you need this match more than anybody! More than anybody except THE ROCK!”
Cena: “Your time is up, my time is now!”
Rock: “No, YOUR time is up, and MY time is now. Because it’s THE ROCK’s time!”
Cena: “uh … my shoes are untied”
Rock: “JOHN CENA YOUR SHOES ARE UNTIED BUT THE ROCK’S SHOES ARE UNTIED more”
Cena: “slow catchphrase”
Rock: “slower catchphrase”
It was the “you hang up. No, YOU hang up” of wrestling conversations. They were just saying “I’m gonna win because I really want to” at each other until somebody’s music played. Conversational musical chairs. It was serious, and that’s good. It was “intense,” and that’s good. They said it was important, and that’s good. But it wasn’t good. Does that make sense? I’ve got to stop giving Bests for Not Pissing Me Off.
I guess I can only expect so much honesty and reason from two guys who just get everything they want. Imagine if Willy Wonka opened his factory and Veruca Salt won every Golden Ticket. That’d be the WWE main event scene. CM Punk would be Charlie, his Grandpa would be Colt Cabana and they’d have to fart a bunch to keep from being chewed up in Vince McMahon’s ceiling fans.
Best: The Lance Armstrong Line Was Good, But It Could’ve Been Better
I’ll give it to Rocky, responding to Cena’s INSPIRATIONAL SPORTS QUOTE~ from Mike Tyson with an inspirational sports quote from a dude who was lying was choice. At the same time, I wish he’d gone with something along the lines of “sorry, the Rock doesn’t know any quotes from rapists.” He could’ve followed it with “hey everybody, John Cena likes rapists!”
Worst: Jack Swagger Beats Up Three Old Men With A Slab Of Balsa Wood
Isn’t Jack Swagger’s beef with minorities and people who are misconstruing the Constitution? Why does he suddenly have a problem with the army, the plumbers union and the mentally retarded?
Worst: You Guys Know You Can ERASE A Dry Erase Board, Right
It feels like I’ve been reviewing the same show for the last two months. Last week on Raw, The Primetime Players lost to Team Hell No. Daniel Bryan was wearing a blindfold and Kane had one arm tied behind his back. Somehow losing a HUGELY LOPSIDED match earned the Primetime Players a rematch on Smackdown, only this time with KANE in the blindfold and BRYAN with one arm tied behind his match. They managed to win that one — by surprise, with a roll-up, because they aren’t good enough to win one of two different severely handicapped matches straight up with wrestling moves or power or anything — which earned them a THIRD match against Team Hell No, this time with NO handicaps. They lost that clean, in about three minutes. So … rematch on Smackdown?
I joke a lot about the WWE Creative Team having a dry erase board that just says basic shit like ORTON BEATS CESARO that they accidentally leave up for a month, but man, they’ve left up the entire show for a month at this point. Are they writing on that thing in permanent marker? The Players trying to get Ted DiBiase as their manager so they can do the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS gag with greater legitimacy is a good idea, but not if you aren’t going to let them do it. What purpose does this serve for anybody? Daniel Bryan and Kane get their rivalry stalled another week, the Players look like a joke, the tease of awesome, weekly Million Dollar Man content is pulled out from under us, and no challengers to the tag team titles have been created, suggested or furthered. What are we doing?
Best: The Million Dollar Man, Forever And Always
All that said, I can’t ever give Ted DiBiase a Worst for being the Million Dollar Man. Stuffing $100 into Darren Young’s mouth was great, as was Daniel Bryan hanging back to steal it, because I guess he looks like that because he’s poor? I don’t know. I wish DiBiase had stuck around to actually be Titus and Darren’s manager, especially if those Deadspin-friendly WE WANT VIRGIL chants had led to the PTP wearing Virgil costumes and being called THE VIRGILS had happened.
Let’s just go all the way with it. Have DiBiase recruit them as manservants, then have him pal around with Zeb Colter. Because get it.
Worst: Welp, At Least We Got To See Drew McIntyre Wrestle For Almost 20 Seconds
New theory: Jerry Lawler’s heart attack freaked WWE out, so now they’ve got an unspoken “fat guys can’t be out there more than 2 minutes” rule, both to protect the health of said fat guys and to keep somebody ELSE from going down to body failure on Raw.
There was one good thing about this match: Tensai (who I refuse to call “Sweet T” in the same way I’m not ever calling somebody “Slam Master J”) switched out his Fruit Roll-up trunks for a black singlet and now has a full breakaway-pants tracksuit to match Brodus. Okay, two things: Naomi is my jam.
There was so much bad to share, though. The continuation of Punishment Funkadelic’s “we’re the team that wins now” push, 3MB’s joke only being allowed to extend as far as “we are 3MB and we like music, supposedly,” Drew McIntyre’s 10 years of pro wrestling experience being used in a roll that Steve the f**king Turtle Weiner could’ve done, the works. The Honky Tonk Man gets put into a match, gets over on the young stars and never has to take a bump in the process. Thank goodness the f**king HONKY TONK MAN looks good, right? Is losing to Jerry Lawler’s Elvis impersonating cousin and having fat guys dance on your grave better or worse than being shoved on your ass by Flo Rida?
Worst: Not Every Legend Was A Good Guy
I’ve written about this before; about how WWE brings back legends and they default to “fan favorite” whether they were an affable good guy or the worst person in history because the passing nostalgia of “I remember this thing” is more important than history or precedent. It’s confusing.
I mean, imagine that you work in an office. Imagine that when you were young and just starting out, there was a weird guy at your job who always took shortcut, openly betrayed and assaulted his co-workers, told everyone else at work how stupid they were every day he was there and was eventually fired for stealing or doing drugs or reaching an insurmountable level of personal embarrassment, or some combination of the three. Imagine that you didn’t see him for 15 years. Now, imagine that he just shows up again to that same office, wearing the same clothes he was in when he was fired. You’ve experienced about a 75% turnover in the last 15 years, but there are enough people still working there who remember every awful thing this dude did. His only reason for showing up is to do the same stuff you hated him for 15 years ago. Would you clap your hands and welcome this guy back because you “remember” him? Of course not. You’d call the f**king police, right?
WWE’s insistance on everybody being beloved when they’re gone is concerning, but I guess when you put an IM MEMORIUM to Test at the beginning of Raw when he dies, you might as well keep going. It works for nebulous guys like Vader and Sid because they were AWESOME, but the Honky Tonk Man? Really? There is no universe where somebody should see the Honky Tonk Man and want to clap for him.
Worst: Thanks A Lot, Justin Roberts
I’ve been waiting for NXT winner Fandango to debut for SO LONG. I’ve been cheering this guy since he had two Os in his name. And now the time comes for him to FINALLY debut on Raw, and I don’t get to see it because Justin Roberts can’t commit to a name read? I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL FIND YOU AND CHOKE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU WITH A TIE IF YOU MESS THIS UP AGAIN
On a serious note, did they SERIOUSLY hype a guy with videos for months, change his name after the first week, devolve his ability to speak and have him refuse to do the (second?) job he has kayfabulously agreed to do because some chump can’t say his name right? I mean, I am still all about Fandango, but God, they turned him into Simon Dean before he even wrestled.
Best: That Was My Second Favorite Kofi Kingston Match Ever
Here’s a Tweet you should see before every Kofi Kingston match:
Best: At Least He Didn’t Wet His Pants This Week
Kudos to Triple H. Sure, his promo could’ve been summed up with “LESNAR, ME AND YOU, WRESTLEMANIA, LET’S GET IT AWNN” and was instead a rambly, self-serving mess about how Triple H is THE BEST and BACK and AN ASS-KICKER and only considered retiring because it was a lie from TRIPLE H TO TRIPLE H (and he got the amount of stitches on Lesnar’s head wrong, somehow), but hey, it was over in under 10 minutes, and he escaped to the back before pissing all over himself.
I hope the next four weeks aren’t Lesnar ducking a fight with a guy he already won and Triple H just being all YOU’RE A COWARD BROCK, YOU’RE A WIMPY COWARD AND I AM THE ASS-KICKER the entire time, even thought Lesnar’s promo from early last year about how he made piss run down peoples’ legs ACTUALLY HAPPENED. That’s totally the way the story’s going down, isn’t it? I typed that and gust of cold wind opened all the windows in my house.
Ah well. At least Paramore’s releasing a new album.
Best: If You’re Gonna Have Wade Barrett Lose All The Time, At Least … Shit, Are We Still Doing This? Hold On…
Worst: WE’RE STILL DOING THIS
Intercontinental Champion (remembering that “Intercontinental Champion” is about as prestigious as “Internet Champion” right now) Wade Barrett took on World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio in a competitive, four-ish minute thing that I enjoyed. Wade got in a lot of offense, got to look really good, and the finish of a rolling armbreaker out of a Bossman slam was fun. I think Del Rio and Barrett could have a really, really spectacular 20 minute match at some point in their careers.
But, of course, OH MY GOD WE ARE STILL MAKING OUR SECONDARY CHAMPIONS LOSE EVERY WEEK, WHAT THE F**K.
Once again, the United States Champion AND the Intercontinental Champion cleanly lost quick matches to guys who are “above” the belts, and once again it makes so little sense to me I feel like I’m living in a mental institution. Why does this keep happening? What’s the value in putting a belt on a guy who wins every time he defends the belt, loses every time he doesn’t, and doesn’t defend at least 10 times more than he does? Why does there have to be such a ridiculous class system in WWE? Why do we have to have a pro wrestling 1%? Why are the poor guys so poor they don’t even register on the scale?
I don’t get it. I CAN’T get it. It continues to be the stupidest thing WWE does, and I guess I’m obligated to type in capital letters about it every week from now until infinity. STOP IT, JERKS.
Worst: “We Need To Sell This Bret Hart DVD. How Should We Do It?” “With Footage Of Sheamus Getting Dressed?” “PERFECT.”
wait, what
The Bret Hart Dungeon Collection DVD commercial managed to make less sense than the Raw surrounding it, and that’s an accomplishment. “Sheamus watches this when he’s tired?” Really? That’s your pitch? They should’ve done the same commercial, but with Tyson Kidd. Have him wake up in the morning, watch TV until like 5 PM, show up to Raw in his street clothes, get dressed, walk into the writers’ room, have them all kinda shrug at him, have him change clothes again, ride home on his bike and watch Bret Hart DVDs until he falls asleep. That’s accurate, right? If not, use Natalya, and throw in a scene where she stops at a Walgreens to buy Beano.
Worst: “Best in the world!” “Irish! The Celtic Warrior.”
A summary of this week’s Touts:
1. UNDERTAKER BACK, UNDERTAKER BACK, REARGHHHHH
2. A guy who likes Randy Orton, names his signature move, then does his signature pose
3. ‘sup, Myspace CM Punk fan (who uses Punk’s catchphrase)
4. Two guys who have an argument about Sheamus and CM Punk using NOTHING but signature hand signals and catchphrases. Seriously. This is how wrestling fans talk to each other in 2013, apparently, and I need to consider switching up my format from “paragraphs” to “expository wrestling memes.”
Seriously, the exchange of “BEST IN THE WORLD!” “IRISH [looks at camera] The Celtic Warrior” has to be the worst moment in wrestling history. Tout is now broken, and we’re deaf mutes until further notice.
Worst: Put The New Age Outlaws Into The Tag Division If You’re Gonna Put Them Over People In The Tag Division
Thank goodness I’m a deaf mute, so I don’t have to hear the New Age Outlaws or explain to you how little I want to see them on television.
I also don’t have to figure out which was worse, Jerry Lawler saying “uh oh, hey, it’s OLD SCHOOL HEH HEH” in response to the Outlaws’ music, or Michael Cole’s empty-hearted “ho hooooo!” when they walked out. I think the best part is Road Dogg saying “Nueva York-ay” and Lawler responding with a terse what, as if to say wait a minute, is the Road Dogg Mexican? Like he’d been cheering for him for a while but this changes everything.
Best: CM Punk Vs. Mae Young’s Birthday Party
Mae Young is having a birthday party on the ramp. OH GOD. Several cakes are involved. Nothing good can come of this. And then, as if sent by God himself, CM Punk entered, no-sold the party and walked to the ring for his main-event match. The cameras, production team and announcers all did what he said with his body language. Thank you so much for that, Punk. I didn’t need to see Mae Young and Gene Okerlund make out again, or whatever Happy Madison shit they had planned.
One other thing I liked about the party, though: Mark Henry wearing the biggest sweater ever, standing happily in the front row to support his ex. Or … wife? Did we ever figure that out?
Best: Open The Raw Main Event Gate
WWE main events where everybody muddles around until the end where they get REALLY EXCITED and start hitting finishers on each other until the last guy hits his and wins is pretty cliche, but it’s exciting enough, and a lot better than a main-event tag team thing. I don’t think the outcome was ever in question. After two years of Shawn Michaels and two years of Triple H, do you really think they’d to Taker/Big Show?
So yeah, I’m excited for this, and I hope it turns out well. I’m glad I’m not booking it, though. If I’d booked the end of this Raw, Taker would’ve walked out all slowly in his Super Shredder outfit with CM Punk making Big Bad Wolf faces at him, only for Taker to suddenly SPRINT to the ring and start tearing Punk to shreds with his MONSTROUS OUTFIT OF DEADLY SPIKES. I know that would be counterproductive and probably result in a homicide, but God, just once I wanted Hawk and Animal to solve a problem by putting on their spiked shoulderpads and just football tackling their opponents to death. Taker can’t wear a suit of spikes and not stab somebody eventually, right?
Best: Top 10 Comments Of The Night
Lobster Mobster
No, Lance was full of HGH, and so are you, Rock.
GenuineFiber
There should be a big reveal that the Rock died during last year’s WM and John has been in Fight Club ever since
burgermike
This show really is old school! I feel inadequate and stupid for liking wrestling and I am going to hide that I do from all the cool kids at my school.
Amanda Huggenkiss
Busting his ass? that explains the stain last week
Anton Vayne
What about my ASS? Should my ASS call somebody?
KMPunk
Dolph Ziggler, Billy Gunn, and Ric Flair could play the ghost of wrestlers present, future, and dementia
LBCS
“Well that’s just mean”
[Mark Henry rips up his poem]
SuedeGuy
Randy Orton will take on Chris Hansen at Wrestlemania. Can Chris Hansen catch a predator?
Man Of 1004 Holds
People watched the finale of LOST and were so mad about the unanswered questions and continuity errors, but not me. I watch professional wrestling.
GregVersion2
Flair should have came out with Repo Man to take his figure four back
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