@ClayTravis What about professional bodybuilders and the like?
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Scott the Writer Guy
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Scott the Writer Guy
@OpenRoadOpenMic
Writer/Director of the feature film “Save State,” Chicago sports diehard, and all around fun guy.
Chicago, IL เข้าร่วม Nisan 2021
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No man can pay for a tan at any point in the year anywhere. Either get one naturally by being outdoors in sunlight — as I have my entire life — or live a life in perpetual paleness. Those are your only two options.
Bobby Burack@burackbobby_
It’s officially the time of year to debate whether straight guys can use tanning salons. Around late March, guys like @ClayTravis live in regions where they get tan (though I’m not fully convinced his tans are natural), whereas guys like me live where it’s still snowing. Should I have to remain pale on camera until mid-June or do I get a pass to tan until then? Serious answers only. Midwestern discrimination is not a joke.
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@BillyRayLahey62 @espnmma If you want to complete early, and the rest of your high school season is going to be cakewalk, why not? These guys are getting NIL money and if you don't want to be in HS anymore, and you've got the ability to do so, why not?
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@espnmma What’s the point of enrolling early for wrestling? There’s no money to rush to in professional wrestling or is there?
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@WitCephandrius @bonchieredstate He'll get exactly zero hard questions from that clown.
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@bonchieredstate Joe hasn't gone on any show where the host would hold his feet to the fire.
He's completed the grifter podcast tour, maybe Bannon will be next.
Curious how the Shawn Ryan episode will turn out.
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@BasedCLC He gets paid more in AEW right now to be a top guy than he would in WWE to be a mid-card at best comedy heel. He'll ride that until the WWE calls to have him job out to Logan Paul, etc.
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So you’re telling me for the rest of his career, he’s 30 right now, so every week until he’s in his late 40s or early 50s, he wants to show up in theaters in front of 2500 people instead of arenas with 10,000+? You’re telling me he never wants to hold the most prestigious wrestling belt of all time? You’re telling me he doesn’t want to walk into the main event of the biggest annual wrestling show in some of the biggest stadiums in America?
Top Turnbuckle@wrestlingleb
MJF was already approached by WWE, and he ended up staying. Come on now...
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@kendallbaker If the NCAA wasn't making billions, I'd be against NIL. Since they are, well... let the players make as much as they humanly can.
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“NIL killed Cinderella” is really just nostalgia for a system where players couldn’t get paid and had no mobility.
Of course mid-major stars stayed put back then… they had no choice.
Now they do… and suddenly March Madness is “ruined”? It’s far more nuanced than that.
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@RetroGraveProd @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling The crazy thing is wrestling has never made more money at the national level than now...
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@OpenRoadOpenMic @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling It sure did
A HUGE void and clear division of viewers. It took how long until the wrestling scene is now? Why AEW was so hot because the concensus was that NWA WCW style of wrestling returned bringing back those lost viewers
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The myth of Vince McMahon being a "genius" was destroyed in real time, when we saw how badly botched the biggest can't miss big money angle ever between March through November 2001.
The biggest blown opportunity in professional wrestling history. Easily.
Allan@allan_cheapshot
#OnThisDay in 2001: WWF announces via press release they bought WCW. The press release that shook the wrestling world. While the sale price wasn’t initially disclosed, it is revealed in July 2001 that WCW had been bought for $2.5 million.
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@RetroGraveProd @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling Nitro and Raw averaged 6 million viewers each during the Wars. Right now, the total wrestling audience week in week out is less than just Nitro.
That's what the Invasion did; the Nitro only audience moved on... plus The Ultimate Fighter took away a large portion, too.
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@OpenRoadOpenMic @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling Exactly it!
Ultimately let personal ego get the best of him and "business"
You don't need to be an insider to know it either, just watching weekly TV you can see by how things went.
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@RetroGraveProd @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling Vince didn't want anyone from WCW who didn't have firm WWF roots getting over in any aspect... it's why the faces of the Invasion were all WWF people.
They left so much money on the table it's kind of crazy. You had several main event caliber people they jobbed out for fun.
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@OpenRoadOpenMic @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling Right? Over thinking too much when the basic play could have been DDP continuing his "Peoples Champion" persona entering the scene and winning the crowd again.
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@BasedCLC The goal of everyone who goes to wrestling school is simple: headline WrestleMania. No one just wants to be a wrestler... you want to be the best.
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It should. A professional wrestler making it to WWE is like a baseball player making it to the MLB or a mixed martial artist making it on a numbered UFC card.
Top Turnbuckle@wrestlingleb
"Over WWE" as if simply being under the WWE umbrella should be enough for any wrestler on the planet.
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@RichardERoeper @ThatKevinSmith He was stellar in Half Nelson and The Place Between the Pines... which also has Bradley Cooper in a great part, too.
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"Project Hail Mary" isn't the first time Ryan Gosling has done brilliant work as a teacher. Here's a fantastically muddy clip of the great @ThatKevinSmith and yours truly raving about "Half Nelson" in 2006. (Kevin kindly filled in on multiple occasions when Roger was ailing.)
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@RetroGraveProd @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling Look at how they screwed up DDP. He comes in with a hot angle and what happens? Ruthlessly buried for no reason other than "because WCW."
A quick layout of Taker, and a clean-ish win, gives you a main event player right away.
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@OpenRoadOpenMic @nurri30g @SkytelWrestling Turning the Invasion as another Internal McMahon family squabble was a huge mistake. Even without the star power in WCW, it could have worked with just promotion v promotion
WWE takes the wins first but then the WCW established stars come in, it could have had legs
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@nurri30g @RetroGraveProd @SkytelWrestling It needed somebody to be that devil in Shane's ear... but right after the Invasion they pissed through so many angles to pop a rating it's kind of legendary.
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@OpenRoadOpenMic @RetroGraveProd @SkytelWrestling I think Vince vs Shane thing made sense… but needed bischoff/flair next to him
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@nurri30g @RetroGraveProd @SkytelWrestling Not having it be McMahon vs. McMahon would've helped immensely... hell, having Ric Flair lead them could've done the same thing.
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@OpenRoadOpenMic @RetroGraveProd @SkytelWrestling I think getting bischoff would be the most importantly
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@nurri30g @RetroGraveProd @SkytelWrestling You bring in talent slowly... it just becomes "this is where the best are." Tthen at the next Wrestlemania, we get the full invasion begins with a WCW wrestler winning the world title and the invasion revealed.
Booker T can win via interference, etc.
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@OpenRoadOpenMic @RetroGraveProd @SkytelWrestling But what do you do for that year? I mean there were a few issues that made it more difficult
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@Covers_Ro @OvinVithanage Yan also lost but didn't look washed like Izzy does... I adore Izzy but Yan didn't look like he was fading. He just lost close fights.
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@OvinVithanage Yan was 30 years old at the time and his 3-fight losing streak included two split decisions.
Izzy is 36 years old. He was 49-46'ed by Strickland, beaten up and subbed by du Plessis, and KO'd by Imavov in the second round.
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Reminder, Petr Yan dropped 3 in a row, came back, and recaptured his title. Nothing is impossible.
Former UFC champions on losing streaks:
⭐️Israel Adesanya - 3
🔅Leon Edwards - 3
🔅Jamahal Hill - 3
🔅Jessica Andrade - 3
🔅Rafael Dos Anjos - 3
⭐️Alexa Grasso - 2
🔅Robert Whittaker - 2
🔅Brandon Moreno - 2
🔅Belal Muhammad - 2
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@RetroGraveProd @SkytelWrestling It's also a super simple explanation, too - Vince wanted to cash in as quickly as possible when if he'd waited for a year, and built it up slowly, he would've done more than just one giant buyrate.
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@SkytelWrestling This is the definition of "Fumble"
That gets tossed around so much yet none know what a true one is
This invasion angle could have been the peak angle in all of Wrestling. What "Watchmen" is to comics, that could have it for wrestling/sports entertainment
Ah well
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@wrestling_VI It didn't feel real until Vince showed up on Nitro, honestly.
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If you lived through this, what do you remember most about that day?
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For those unaware, Surf Dracula is the single most accurate description of how our media has become mediocre. Don't forget it. You see it everywhere.
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@WonderbreadMMA Nobody gave a shit when Mighty Mouse was arguably the best P4P fighter in the world... they'll give even less of a shit if it happens now.
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