Get in the Ring: III

Brand Slam is great. The Gidget and Drunk Papa John CAWs are works of art.

Mitsuharu Misawa does not deserve to be booked in this shambolic manner!

"Oh, awesome, new Gaiden the Ri-AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

This is what happens when you click the feature and don't look at the smaller thumbnail, kids!

You get BLINDSIDED!

Spoilers for Brand Slam!?!

"Goddammit Papa John. Face the hard camera!" -Vince

YAAAAAS PAT GILL

@papercut: *RT*

That's a thumbnail

Man. I thought after all the death/injury talk on these I'd be emotionally immune to hearing about all the horrible things that happen to wrestlers, but the phrase "internal decapitation" really brought it to a new level.

Thanks for that mental image, Pat!

Can someone pleeeease source the footage of the "hydraulic press" wrestling ring stuff Pat was referring to around 23:30

Every time someone says "Scott Norton", for some reason I hear "Scott 'n Orton".

Ah yes the ultimate dream triple threat match: Papa John vs. Zach Sabre Jr. vs. The Noid.

Actually Papa John vs. The Noid is an appropriate wrestling match. Battle of the Fast Food Pizza Mascots.

PIZZA HUT LOVE HELL YEAH

@wheresderrick: I gotchu fam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cenS5gpiHPo

Oh, wrestling. I'm out!

That is amazing, how have I never seen this before? The guy landing on his back flat on the mat must've hurt.

I'm glad I've seen this

Even if you've soured on Raw and/or Smackdown, 205 has been knocking it out of the park on a weekly basis, Buddy Murphy in particular has been utterly fantastic in his matches with Kalisto and Ali. NXT has been pretty good too.

Alex REALLY doesn't likle Papa Johns pizza. like it makes him so mad in this video lol. I don't think it is as horrible as he does but they have a dang good BBQ chicken. Pizza Hut lunch buffet is still the way to go ... it is only 5.99 all you can eat and all it is fresh. I've had more bad experiences with Pizza Hut and Dominos than I have with Papa Johns though. Something I've learned is that "fast food pizza" is usually better than what people INSIST is better. My friend went on and on about Chicago pizza (we lived in Vegas) and I had it about 10 times with him and everytime it was terrible. Chicago Pizza is basically lasagna without the noodles.

Also in BOTH streams today they felt the need to talk about pizza ... both in the zombie game and this stream. Was it just on the docket today to make everyone hungry?

@penderton: Honestly I've been sour on WWE as a whole recently (AJ and Nakamura being reduced to constantly kicking eachother in the balls broke me) but I've never been as deep into my wrestling fandom as I am right now. Between NXT, NJPW, Indies and even Impact making a good comeback recently there's more than enough great stuff out there to keep me always excited. In terms of Main Roster WWE it's pretty much only Seth Rollins that keeps me watching now.

Never mind the fact that I just finished booking my trip for All In and I'm hella fucking stoked about that.

@bk: the name of the feature, the thumbnail, the people involved. All these things signified this was wrestling based. This leads me to the question - why did you click through to here to leave a comment about how you didn't want to watch it? Seems like a waste of your time and ours, and overall all you achieved was adding to the sum of negativity in the world.

I cannot stop laughing at Ronald's entrance.

@bugbarbecue: To make sure it's not "let's talk about wrestling all the time because it's what the users want". That's why. Did it really irk you that much?

Gaiden the ring being the side story that actually has more episodes than the main show.

Whew, they almost had you with this extremely subtle bait and switch.

@efesell: I was just putting on the snark because I don't like wrestling.

That was a good wholesome burn though, well written.

I'm sure it's just because I'm a few years older than Dan, but I find it interesting that he started watching wrestling at basically the exact moment I decided wrestling was stupid and checked out. The Razor Ramon face turn, the Lex Luger face turn, the Underfaker, the nine Doinks, I remember the year between WrestleMania 9 and X (including WM9 itself) as being embarassingly, unwatchably bad. And yet these are the things Dan looks back on fondly as his earliest wrestling memories. To each his own I guess.

Tiger Mask 3 was Koji Kanemoto. He only wrestled in the persona for a couple years early in his career, before he lost a mask vs. mask match to Jushin Liger.

Hey it's Ed Phones! I love that guy

Oh, wrestling. I'm in!

Isn't that the guy from the Whitest Kids U Know?

i love changing the belt grabbing into a god awful lock pick mini-game.

This is my favorite episode yet. A special guest bringing along his own content really set it apart.

Sweet! Wrestling. Count me in.

Mauro Ranallo and Corey Graves are my favorite announcers, hands down

@penderton: I've been very into the character and in-ring progression of Tony Nese. I hope to see a title run of his eventually as I think he's been getting better and better between the ropes. He's also killing it in his feud with Drew Gulak and his feud with success

Zack Sabre Jr is one of my favourites on the scene at the minute. Between his unique offense and his political views, I just really like him. Saw him vs Jordan Devlin recently, that might be my favourite match I've seen live?

I didn't know Aleister Black was dutch. I'm... proud?