Thinking About This Brock Thing In Another Way

You’re Brock Lesnar. You’ve won Money In The Bank. You have your choice to cash in one of WWE’s two top champions. One champion is a geek with a red toy belt that you’ve held previously. The other is a World champion who tosses pancakes to the crowd. Do you really think they deserve to be taken seriously?

And then you find out you have a whole year to cash in. Do you cash in on the geeks for an easy payday or do you wait until someone else (presumably one with more name and box office value) wins the belt and you cash in on them for an even bigger payday?

So you wait… because you can. It’s in the contract you won. And then the company “condemns” you for waiting and treating the whole thing like a joke… even though they had no problem with you showing up late in the match where you won your contract that allows you to cash in at any point up to a year.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. This whole thing is a joke to you. You’re Brock Lesnar, the last big draw in WWE… at least as far as the old man is concerned. You play him like a fiddle; getting the best money deal with the fewest dates. Because in your mind, this company needs you more than you need it.

But that’s not important right now… hunting season is right around the corner and you need to tend to your farm. Maybe give Dana a call… see if he has the right deal for you to come out of retirement and fight that Cormier fellow.

That’s all I got. We’ll see how many people actual bother to read this whole spiel and how many people whine about too many words, but it’s something different, I guess.

Former CZW Champ Says To Vince, "Your Creative Process Sucks! CHANGE IT!"

Source: https://omny.fm/shows/talk-is-jericho/the-emancipation-of-jon-moxley

No time for anything worth a damn today due to a dentist appointment among other things, so here’s that one time Dean Jericho and Box Johnley talked about the terrible creative environment over at McWrestling. It doesn’t say anything new that has been touched on by everyone else in regards to the overall creative direction, but to hear those words from a guy who was one of their top stars (for whatever that’s worth these days) is validation to anyone who dared challenge the creative process and call it shit.

A genuinely good and enlightening listen that everyone who cares about quality storytelling in wrestling should take the time to check out.

The Full List Of Contra Games In The Upcoming Collection

Source: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/05/konami_confirms_full_line-up_of_games_included_in_the_contra_anniversary_collection

So the full list of games for next month’s Contra collection have been confirmed and it includes the following:

Contra (Arcade)
Contra (NES) / Contra (Famicom)
Super Contra (Arcade)
Super C (NES)
Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES) / Super Probotector: Alien Rebels (SNES)
Contra: Hard Corps (Sega Genesis) / Probotector (Sega Mega Drive)
Operation C (Game Boy)

For those who need a little more context, Contra and Super Contra were originally arcade titles before they were “repurposed” onto the NES, which added and changed a few things around. The Famicom version of Contra has a few extra bits missing from the NES version, like cutscenes and stuff.

Probotector is the repurposed European versions of Contra, where Bill and Lance were replaced with robots due to some archaic censorship laws. Admittedly, treating these as separate games feels like a bit of a cop-out, but given that there’ll be a free patch to play the overseas releases, I suppose they might as well slap those on there now and get them out of the way.

So it’s a pretty “standard” collection of the old Contra games and, as a result of this collection being a multiplatform release, this will be the first time that Contra (NES) has been re-released onto a Nintendo platform since Contra 4 on the Nintendo DS included the game as a hidden feature. I do think this collection got the short end of the stick with a measly seven games instead of the standard eight… I guess Konami figured nobody wanted to play Contra Force.

AEW Double Or Nothing (May 2019 PPV)

So this is it… the inaugural pay-per-view wrestling extravaganza from All Elite Wrestling, Double Or Nothing. I bought the show, but unfortunately, was unable to catch it live due to other commitments. However, I was able to watch it Sunday morning and… well, it was… a thing that happened.

But what kind of thing happened? Let’s get into it.

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