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May. 24th, 2012 @ 11:12 pm Half-arsed MMA Thriday


-- UFC 146 takes place this Saturday night on pay-per-view, headlined by Junior Dos Santos' heavyweight title defense against Frank Mir (Murr in Lesnarese). No roundtable for this because everybody was gonna pick JDS and Velasquez in the main fights anyway, so it wasn't worth the effort. This was, of course, supposed to be Overeem instead of Mir in the title fight, but, well, a decade of steroid abuse shit happens.

-- I should mention that the UFC 146 undercard on FX is stacked, with appearances by Diego Brandao, Edson Barboza, Mayhem Miller and a killer Dan Hardy-Duane "Bang Ludwig showdown.

-- Daniel Cormier extended his unbeaten streak by defeating Josh Barnett last Saturday to win the long-delayed Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix. Cormier looked phenomenal in the bout, mixing up lightning-fast (for a heavyweight) punching combinations, strong takedowns, slams and ground-and-pound. Barnett was definitely game, and here's hoping both guys get UFC contracts. Sadly, it looks like Cormier has one more Strikeforce fight on his contract, but Barnett is fair game.

-- Hey, it's Bob Lashley and he said stuff.

-- Jon Jones was arrested for a DUI last week, hurting his previously flawless public reputation.

AWESOME FIGHT OF THE WEEK



POLL TIME

Last week, the blog said Michael McDonald deserved to fight Urijah Faber for the interim UFC Bantamweight Championship, but an injury to McDonald led to Renan Barao being chosen instead.

Poll #1842496
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Who should be next in line for a UFC Heavyweight Title shot?

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Daniel Cormier
0 (0.0%)
Alistair Overeem
0 (0.0%)
Winner of Velasquez/Silva
0 (0.0%)
Winner of Rothwell/Browne
0 (0.0%)


Welp, I just received a year's worth of Green Lantern books to read, trying to catch up to the New 52. Off to read Brightest Day, War of the Green Lanterns, Aftermath and Vol. 1 of the New 52 GL!
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May. 23rd, 2012 @ 11:30 am Wednesday Walk Around the Web
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  • Yar, here there be soilers: on SmackDown, there's one match that An-Day will have to catch, plus Damien Sandow comes back to enlighten us some more. Do you feel enlightened? Meanwhile, tomorrow on Impact, Bobby Roode celebrates his tenure as the longest reigning TNA champion.
  • This Week in Kayfabe News: storm season news, logging news, health news, film news. (Sorry for scooping the Fiesta.)
  • If you missed the Hitman's article on local wrestling, don't.

  • Also via HMC: Jack Kirby was once contacted to design the costumes for a college production of Julius Caesar.
  • Stop parking like a douche.
  • What's it like in the quietest place on Earth?
  • This Week in Food History: the humble taco.
  • A visual history of keys.
  • "Derweze, also known as the door to hell, is a 70 meter wide hole in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The hole was formed in 1971 when a team of soviet geologists had their drilling rig collapse when they hit a cavern filled with natural gas. In an attempt to avoid poisonous discharge, they decided to burn it off, thinking that the gas would be depleted in only a few days. Derweze is still burning today."
  • Sometimes it's pretty easy to sue someone over a tiny technical matter and have the case heard by people who don't really know what you're talking about (it's one issue that's been brought up about the layperson jury system); this is not one of those instances.
  • This Week in New Units of Measurement: the Kardashian.
  • Aurora borealis photos are generally worth your time.
  • He died as he lived?
  • There's engaging with criticism and there's engaging with criticism.
  • This Week in Poop: It's not disgusting if it's archaeology, right?
  • Possibly this has been posted before, but OH WELL: The B:TAS Writer's Bible.
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May. 21st, 2012 @ 06:53 pm The cWo Wrestler of the Week, Season Four, Week Se7en
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What a week it was, capped off by WWE's DUI PPV. After a grueling, lengthy MOTYC, amply populated by spots that captivated the audience in-person and across the world...People Power overcame the odds to rule the day! This is sure to be everybody's conclusion.

Recent Winners: Kevin Steen, Daniel Bryan, Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Brock Lesnar, Brock Lesnar

This Week's Nine Voters: a_gladguy, glenniebun, caribbean_cool, dudelazers, hitmanclark, noiretblanc, rinehart316, rip_em87, stevewille

( I, too, have till five )
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May. 18th, 2012 @ 07:23 pm Friggin' Triple F
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Welcome to the Fiesta!

I suppose I should apologize for last week, but nah. Jope's Fiesta is still awful, but only slightly more awful than my heel turn last week. To be honest, I had a much better speech worked out... and then I forgot it. Oh well.

I'm not here to impress the Internet, I'm simply here to provide YOU with news from the film industry, and give you a place to discuss movies, TV, and even music if you so desire. And that's what I will do!

Last week I asked you if you actually read "A Bloody Good Time" and 100% of you answered NO! Of course, my poll was a little biased.

( Stay tuned for a Justin and Scott Podcast Plug thread in 6 hours! )
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May. 17th, 2012 @ 06:48 pm MMA Thriday
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-- UFC on FUEL took place this past Tuesday night, headlined by "The Korean Zombie" choking Dustin Poirier unconscious. Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone also got back on the right track with a dominant decision win over Jeremy Stephens.

-- Fabio Maldonado did not care for the judges' decision in his bout against Igor Pokrajac.

-- UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz tore his ACL and is out of his UFC 148 title defense against Urijah Faber. His replacement will be announced this Friday night on The Ultimate Fighter Live on FX.

-- XPH is weeping today, because Mark Hunt is injured and out of his scheduled UFC 146 bout against Stefan Struve. In his place is Strikeforce veteran Lavar Johnson, straight off a big win over Pat Barry.

-- Josh Koscheck wants to fight BJ Penn, but BJ ain't biting.

-- Strikeforce: Barnett vs. Cormier takes place this Saturday night on Showtime, headlined by ... Josh Barnett vs. Daniel Cormier in the finals of the much-maligned Heavyweight Grand Prix. Also on the card, Gilbert Melendez puts his lightweight crown on the line against Josh Thomson. For those who care, I'm picking Cormier and Melendez.

-- Jon Fitch just doesn't understand why people don't like his fighting style.

Poll #1840957
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Who should fight Urijah Faber for the interim UFC Bantamweight Championship?

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Renan Barao
1 (16.7%)
Michael McDonald
5 (83.3%)
Ivan Menjivar
0 (0.0%)

Who should be next in line for Jose Aldo after Eric Koch gets his featherweight title shot?

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Hatsu Hioki
1 (14.3%)
"The Korean Zombie" Chan Sung Jung
6 (85.7%)
Dennis Siver
0 (0.0%)
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May. 16th, 2012 @ 08:37 pm Wednesday Walk Around the Web
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May. 15th, 2012 @ 09:19 pm cWo At The Movies: Jason X (2002)
This long delayed roundtable contains two guys (well I guess technically three, I'm adding my thoughts where I choose), in Glenniebun and A_badguy (He was still bad then). Maybe I should have picked Freddy vs Jason instead. Everyone loves a good monster mash.

It's Jason X, and this roundtable is dedicated to the late Jim Issac, who directed it. This is one of my favorite entries in the series!





( He just wanted his machete back! )
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May. 15th, 2012 @ 02:39 am Chrono Chronicles: WCW Saturday - 11/2/91
Giving up on Raw again. All I needed to hear was HHH say that he'd had worse done to him. Instead, let's travel back to a simpler time...


( 6:05 Eastern on the Superstation! )
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May. 14th, 2012 @ 07:48 pm The cWo Wrestler of the Week, Season Four, Week Syxx
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-- Steve Wille, on how maybe Gabe Sapolsky shouldn't talk



ROH had a PPV not a whole lot of people saw because they don't know how to run a website. TNA had a PPV not a lot of people saw because they're TNA. WWE had Paul Heyman show up so he could say BROCK. LESNAR., and also some nice setup for the four-way SmackDown title match. What did you the voters like...?

Recent Winners: Daniel Bryan, Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Brock Lesnar, Brock Lesnar

This Week's Eight Voters: r8drsuperstar, rip_em87, a_gladguy, dudelazers, noiretblanc, stevewille, glenniebun, hitmanclark

( Quitting in absentia = bringing back credibility )
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May. 12th, 2012 @ 09:16 am Scott & Justin Saturdays
What it is, Doomies! Happy Weekend...here is some PTB Podcast goodness to help kick it off. Use this thread to discuss what suits your fancy!

In this new episode of the PTB Podcast Vintage Vault, Scott & Justin continue to run through 1996 by travelling to Omaha for In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies. The PICs chat about Razor Ramon, Diesel, Ahmed Johnson, Sunny, Vader and much more because it's time for some No Holds Barred Action!

Grab the keys to the vault, join Scott & Justin and fire up the newest PTB Podcast!

http://placetobe.podbean.com/
https://www.facebook.com/placetobepodcast
Twitter: Place2BePodcast

Also, the PTB Podcast is now available on the Stitcher Radio app! Visit www.stitcher.com for more information!
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May. 11th, 2012 @ 05:33 pm The Anti Jope Fiesta
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What the hell is wrong with you people?

Let’s go back to March 2012. The 37th Annual WELPie Awards. I won a WELPie for my use of Thomas the Tank Engine avatars. While I was honored to win the award, it also hit me that perhaps I spend too much time on the Internet. So I decided to step away and post less, focusing on improving my social life. This includes seeing movies such as The Avengers.

Then here comes this guy Jope who thinks he’s so cool because he fills in for me when I am unable to write the Fiesta (my second missed column of the year, with the first being canceled due to the WELPies, thank you very much). Jope presents the biggest piece of shit of a column I’ve ever seen on the Blog (and that’s saying something), and you people EAT IT UP WITH A SPOON.

Let’s briefly take a look at why Jope's Fiesta was more of a FAILesta:

-- No Box Office News. How are the people supposed to find out how much money Think Like A Man made?
-- No Movie Release list. How are the people supposed to know what they can see in the theaters that weekend?
-- No DVD release list. How are the people supposed to know which new DVDs they can purchase next week?
-- Only a handful of trailers listed in Trailer Time. Granted that’s my least favorite part of the column too, but at least I show EVERY new trailer.
-- Use of link shorteners. At least you can SEE where my links take you. What if Jope was trying to send you to a NSFW Web page while you were at work?

In conclusion, Jope is poopy, and so are YOU for posting in his threads. That’s right, HEEL TURN ON THE BLOG.

Last week Jope was going to ask you some sort of question, but his worthless ass couldn’t even get the poll to work. How does this guy write columns when he can’t even master simple HTML?

( Click for a bloody good time )
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May. 9th, 2012 @ 12:49 pm Wednesday Walk Around the Web
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May. 8th, 2012 @ 02:42 am Chrono Chronicles: Halloween Havoc '91
The beginning of a new journey...


( It's a Dangerous time in WCW... )
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May. 7th, 2012 @ 03:51 pm The cWo Wrestlers of the Week, Season Four, Week Five
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-- Damien Sandow, on WHAT



The fallout from XTREEEEME gave us the first and presumably final episode of Monday Night Raw Starring Brock Lesnar, complete with HHH cameo. Beat the Clock determined your next title contender, Impact partially took place in the Shed of Shame, SmackDown upgraded Ryback to squashing people who've been on TV before, and ROH made some matches for this weekend's PPV. What did YOU like?

Recent Winners: Brock Lesnar, CM Punk, Brock Lesnar, Brock Lesnar

This Week's Eleven Voters: r8drsuperstar, a_gladguy, caribbean_cool, glenniebun, stevewille, overcommitter, scottbutler5, thejawas, hasselhoffownsu, jcdaredevil, rip_em87

( Who succumbs to the deadly kimura this week? )
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May. 4th, 2012 @ 06:36 pm The Return of the Friday Film Fiesta
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What a surprise, JediTAB flakes out and I make my glorious return to the Fiesta to give you what you want. I'm just saying, you wouldn't see me skip a week. At least I found a replacement...TWO of them. Glennie's never missed a Walk. But Jedi wants to see his pwecious little movie instead of provide a service to the blog.

Anyway, he had some poll last week. Normally I wouldn't be bothered but I'm sure you want to know. He wanted to know how you were going to see The Avengers, and 40% of you said opening weekend.

( It's sad, really )
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May. 3rd, 2012 @ 06:20 pm MMA Thriday
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-- UFC 146 continues to go through changes. Big Country is likely in a must-win situation against Dave Herman, while Edson Barboza has what should be an easier out in WEC veteran Jamie Varner.

-- Strikeforce lightweight Josh Thomson is busily preparing for his upcoming title rematch against Gilbert Melendez.

-- Lyoto Machida recently teased a drop to 185 pounds. Would this be a good move for the former 205-pound champion?

-- Nick Diaz makes a nice gesture, but he's still suing the Nevada State Athletic Commission due to the handling of his marijuana-related suspension.

-- BJ Penn, my second favorite fighter of all time, may be coming back after all.

-- Ricardo Almeida will referee his first major MMA bout this weekend at the UFC on FOX 3 show. Many are hoping he paves the way for more fighters to become judges in the future.

-- In a head-scratching announcement, Dana White told reporters Nate Diaz will receive a lightweight title shot with a win over Jim Miller this Saturday, but the reverse is not true.

-- Michael Bisping vs. Tim Boetsch has been moved from UFC 148 to UFC 149 on July 21, headlined by Jon Jones vs. Dan Henderson.

-- The UFC returns to FOX this weekend with a stacked card headlined by Diaz vs. Miller and featuring Josh Koscheck vs. Johnny Hendricks and Rousimar Palhares vs. Alan Belcher.

POLL TIME!

Last week, the Blog said middleweight king Anderson Silva makes the most sense for Jon Jones' next opponent after Dan Henderson.

Poll #1838077
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Does Nate Diaz deserve a lightweight title shot with a win over Jim Miller?

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Yes
2 (28.6%)
No
3 (42.9%)
More like MM-Meh!
2 (28.6%)
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May. 1st, 2012 @ 01:50 pm Chrono Chronicles: Legends of Wrestling - Hulk Hogan
Here's another repost from a few years ago, this time a recap of the first Legends of Wrestling roundtable on the subject of Hulk Hogan. These Legends roundtables are my favorite feature on Classics On Demand and always very insightful, just to be able to hear these legends talk openly and candidly about the business in a way they never could before.


( Enjoy the dated references from 2006! )
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Apr. 30th, 2012 @ 03:21 pm The cWo Wrestler of the Week, Season Four, Week Quad-Core
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-- Josh Matthews, grumblemuttering, shortly before the pain came to him



What a week it was, cWomies! A three-hour Raw packed with John Laurinaitis, Brock's excessive demands, Cena's soul-searching and a bonus dose of Edge! Meanwhile, TNA had its first ever Open Fight Night and ROH continued showing Showdown in the Sun matches, but we have a special live reports from OUR BOYS. See below!

Recent Winners: CM Punk, Brock Lesnar, Brock Lesnar

This Week's Fourteen Voters: a_glad...a_bad...Andy, rinehart316, glenniebun, caribbean_cool, noiretblanc, rip_em, chrononaut79, stevewille, overcommitter, hitmanclark, dudelazers, hasselhoffownsu, jcdaredevil, r8drsuperstar

( What's more important is what's running down this blog's WOTW votes )
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Apr. 27th, 2012 @ 08:12 pm Friday Film FiMEHsta
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Welcome to the Fiesta! Or in this case, another edition of the FiMEHsta. So meh, in fact, that I have no witty intro, nor can I come up with any Anti-Jope Fiesta remarks!

Last week I asked you if you planned on watching Cartoon Network's new Batman cartoon, and you answered that you would rather watch Batman: The Animated Series.

( Embrace the Meh )
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Apr. 26th, 2012 @ 07:46 pm MMA Thriday



( Oh, Alistair... )


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If he beats Dan Henderson, what do you want Jon Jones to do next?

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Fight Anderson Silva
5 (62.5%)
Fight Alexander Gustaffson
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Move to heavyweight
0 (0.0%)
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Apr. 24th, 2012 @ 02:22 pm Chrono Chronicles: Clash of the Champions XXXV
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- Kicking off the final Clash of the Champions ever broadcast, the opening video does a good job of hyping every match-up and highlighting a hook for each of them. In the main event, Diamond Dallas Page will join forces with Lex Luger to present a united front for WCW against the nWo's Randy "Macho Man" Savage & Scott Hall! Still claiming to be a free agent since arriving in WCW, Curt Hennig has agreed to team with his old associate, Ric Flair, to take on Syxx & Konnan of the nWo! With Debra McMichael in his corner, ex-Horseman Jeff Jarrett will defend the US Heavyweight Title against her husband, Steve McMichael! There will be a wild eight-man tag team match contested under Lucha Libre rules! Raven will face his long-time friend, Stevie Richards, in a Grudge Match! Recently revealing a bitter side to his personality, Eddie Guerrero will challenge Chris Jericho for the World Cruiserweight Title! World TV Champion Ultimate Dragon will put his gold on the line against Alex Wright! I will miss using so many exclamation points at the end of sentences!

( I've saved the last dance for you, cWo... )
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Apr. 23rd, 2012 @ 07:21 pm cWo Wrestler of the Week, Season Four, Week Three
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-- WWE Champion CM Punk on singing at Wrigley Field


WWE's whirlwind tour of England brought us a super-exciting sit-down interview with The Lesnar--no kidding, it really was a super-exciting sit-down interview. It also brought us more time with a Big Ass SmackDown Six-Man Tag--good to know the grandest of traditions has survived the GM shift! Meanwhile, TNA celebrated 420 with a strong RVD match. It has been a week. A week has transpired. Let's get to it:

Recent Winners: There is no Cena, there is only BROCK

This Week's Nine Voters: glenniebun, rinehart, a_gladguy, r8drsuperstar, noiretblanc, stevewille, rip_em, hitmanclark, overcommitter

( AAAAAAALBERT, AAAAAAAAALBERT )
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Woo hoooooooo maaaaannnnn, it's April 20, aka 4/20, so time to smoke some ass duuuuuuuuuude!

Yes, it's STONER HUMOR. I guess. I don't smoke, and it's better than the alternative of Hitler Humor (today is Hitler's Birthday), so yeah.

This is normally where I would insert some sort of comment about how much better MY Fiesta is compared to the crap we got from Jope, but it’s 4/20, so I’m going to take the HIGH road and not say anything mean this week.

So instead, enjoy a terrible Rob Van Dam theme! RVD 4:20!



Last week I asked you if you thought it was time to reinvent the MPAA Ratings System, and 54.5 percent of you answered “no.”

( Could have made a Columbine joke too, ya know )
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