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Robert

@ghostofquinones

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Western Canada's foremost W*ING enthusiast.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Joined September 2011
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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6 months
Ironically AEW's version of the humiliation ritual is getting booked in a long program with Jericho.
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3 years
Sammy Guevara has been an interim champion and an interim fiancé in the same calendar year.
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2 years
So is Chris Rock in the Blackpool Combat Club now?
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2 years
Portrait of an only child (Toronto, Ontario, 1987.)
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9 months
Good thing Von Erichs are notoriously immune to curses.
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4 years
Randy Savage misses a golden opportunity to push Russo off a cliff in 1994.
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1 year
Sign him, Tony. If there were ever a promotion that could use somebody running a tape recorder backstage at all times, it's AEW.
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3 years
This tweet may carry more gravitas if the "before" photo were not taken from a skit in which a midget named Cheatum, wearing an eyepatch and a shark fin, blew up a boat during a failed assassination bid.
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3 years
What happened to wrestling?
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3 years
Look, I'm no snitch, but I've got to say someone from Philadelphia selling a human skull with "some teeth missing" for $100 in the back pages of a wrestling magazine raises alarm bells.
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3 years
NXT drops another viewer in its core demo (65-125.)
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New York Post
3 years
Francisca Susano, 'oldest woman in the world,' dead at 124
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4 months
WCW wanted this man to job to Rick Steiner in five minutes and become Spartacus, forced him to dress in drag, put him in a mental asylum and literally buried him in the desert, but this Italian chain restaurant in Florida has disrespected him more than anyone.
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5 years
Fellow baseball fans, let us now ponder the fact that there will be a human being that shares the DNA of both José Offerman and Blackjack Mulligan.
@WrestlingSheet
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5 years
Bray Wyatt and JoJo Announce They're Having a Baby:
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4 years
If Matt Hardy is going to mentor Private Party he needs to go all-in and start dressing like an awkward middle-aged version of them.
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6 months
Normal human beings will remember this as the episode where Mercedes Mone debuted. I will remember this as the episode where the Tazmaniac called the Savoldis out for owing him money during a commercial break.
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2 years
Vince also loved wrestling like it was his wife, which is to say he was constantly going behind its back to do something else that would wind up costing him a lot of money.
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2 years
Kurt Angle: Triple H Has The Best Mind For The Business, He Loves Wrestling Like It's His Wife
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4 years
Abdullah the Woofer.
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4 years
That month WWF Magazine hired Tony Atlas as art director.
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4 months
My sympathies to the family, but my first thought was that this sounds like something Terry Funk would say when exiting a territory.
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4 years
A true pioneer in the field of human sexuality and vocal advocate for the self-love movement. Also pictured is Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
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1 year
Now that we've established Cash Wheeler is the Dennis Condrey of FTR, were he to abruptly disappear to Colorado, who are you replacing him with? I'd be calling Mark Briscoe. Like Stan Lane, he's already an accomplished tag team wrestler and redneck martial artist to boot.
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2 years
Impressive turnaround time, Theodore, but "the greatest theft in history" strikes me as a tad hyperbolic for a jar of protein powder.
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4 years
A prodigious cocaine user, compulsive liar, and baby oil enthusiast. Also pictured: Herb Abrams. @RobViper
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2 years
My sources tell me Tony bought the rights to the entire Rolling Stones catalogue and Ruby Soho will soon be rebranded Ruby Tuesday.
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4 years
I probably flunked algebra that year, but I damn sure aced Sports Review Wrestling's "identify the gig marks" quiz.
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1 year
To wit, "Exile on Main St." would be at best a four-star album to modern ears. Greta Van Fleet have evolved the genre to the point Mick and Keith and the boys could no longer hang.
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3 years
The little fucker finally came out. Frankie Joe Westerberg O'Connor, a.k.a. Frankie The Thumper. If you tell me he has his dad's eyes I'll know you're full of shit.
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5 months
Prototype of what Vince wanted Vader to look like upon his return from the Mayo Clinic in 1998.
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8 months
When you address the issue of workplace safety for your female talent while looking like a guy that boasts about getting busy in a Burger King bathroom.
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5 years
Sinclair's first attempt at offering fans a sensory inclusivity room clearly needs some tweaks.
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xIAMHOLLYWOODx
5 years
Suddenly BULLY RAY comes out from a back room. Full on gear since he was in the opening segment of the show and he looks PISSED. Much bigger than me so I’m kinda taking a step back on this here. Security backs off and it’s just us two
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1 year
Exclusive footage of CM Punk riding the Tube to Wembley to beat Jungle Boy's scrawny ass.
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4 years
There are two types of people in the world: those that open a PWI 500 issue and immediately flip to #1 , and those that immediately flip to #500 .
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3 years
Me, over dinner tonight, explaining Hannibal's trajectory from Teddy Hart's Matrats understudy, to guy who got Hep C from Abdullah the Butcher's blade, to mediocre YouTube shoot interview impresario, to TMZ fodder because he drunkenly stabbed a guy in the head with a spike.
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5 years
Let's get Dave Brown calling AEW Dark.
@AEW
All Elite Wrestling
5 years
A Tribute to Legends of Memphis Wrestling happening next week in Southaven, MS! Get your tickets at !
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3 years
My wife asked who "the clown man" with Darby Allin is.
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8 years
To paraphrase a @mountain_goats song (no, not the obvious one), "There will be no more after him."
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8 months
They had two months to come up with a new look and landed on "pair of Gen Z-ers with a Steely Dan podcast."
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4 years
If you're reading this in 1989 save your money, this game sucked.
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4 years
Rick Rude stretches out by the hi-fi and enjoys some southern rock.
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7 months
Bret has a unique history with Vince, to say the least, but his characteristic refusal to mince words is very refreshing in an industry where most top stars (past or present) are still walking on eggshells regarding Vince.
@POSTwrestling
POST Wrestling
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Bret Hart on Vince McMahon: "I have absolutely zero respect for him"
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9 months
The OG Paul Heyman Guys.
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1 year
AEW wrestler: "I can't believe they're making us go to Winnipeg, it's so cold and the travel is difficult!" AWA wrestler: "Winnipeg is the best party city in the territory. Larry Nelson and I snorted six lines of blow off a stripper's ass while watching Tom Zenk in a threesome."
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4 years
A pair of up and comers.
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4 years
Bad Timing Dept.: Dino Bravo appears in the "Where Are They Now?" section of the May 1993 issue of Inside Wrestling (he died in March 1993.) "'I'm set these days, because I now run several businesses,' said Bravo."
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5 years
A lot of people are crapping on poor Luther, a creative guy always well-regarded by his contemporaries finally getting a break, due to AEW's insistence on having Excalibur identify everyone by name the moment they appear. Just say "who is that?" and let things play out for once.
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5 months
When the camera cuts to Tony at the NFL draft.
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3 years
Someday Frankie can tell people the first wrestling match he watched was Chris Jericho vs. Juventud Guerrera and sound old as shit. (Yeah, he slept through most of it, I guess he's experienced enough Labours for one week.)
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4 years
Scott Hall, civil rights activist. "Hall is a throwback to the 1960s, when people were more socially conscious than self-conscious. It's refreshing to see."
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2 years
Apparently I watched TV like I was backstage at Raw.
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10 months
Teenage Dave riding through the Cow Palace parking lot.
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4 years
So I guess I'm going to be a father, god help us all. Gender to be determined, for now I have taken to calling it Cletus the Fetus in a nod to Incredibly Strange Wrestling, much to my wife's consternation.
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3 years
Pitch: a sequel to "The Wrestler" where Randy the Ram attempts to reinvent himself in W*ING.
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Nick Younker
3 years
I think Mickey Rourke is turning into Michael Myers...
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4 years
Well, since I've been shamed into breaking kayfabe, yes, we are married now. What can I say, things escalated quickly. I would share the all-star roast compiled (unbeknownst to myself) by a certain fellow Canadian, but it would surely result in the cancellation of all involved.
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3 years
My wife's latest unsolicited AEW observations: CM Punk is "not as corny as the others" (when pressed she said it was because he's "less oily" and "doesn't make funny faces") and MJF resembles Bert from Sesame Street.
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4 years
Randy Rose, the original Tiger King. Randy was 24 years old in this photo. Yes, really.
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2 years
Jericho trying to reassure Tony that everything will be fine without Punk.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@stoolpresidente The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried
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7 years
Possibly Dave's finest moment.
@ObserverQuotes
Meltzer in the 90s
7 years
Ninja Turtles beat Konan & Rey Misterio & La Fiera & Zorro de Oro. Match wasn't too bad considering how green the turtles are. I've been waiting all week to write that last sentence. [11/90]
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4 years
Tell me it's called Scarbucks.
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3 years
Another of my wife's annual WWE observations during the opening match: "Do they have, like, two different worlds ... one for this and one where it's supposed to be real?"
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3 years
The most entertaining wrestler in AEW just broke his arm performing a completely unnecessary table spot. Can we please move beyond the notion that every fucking show requires a broken table? I assure you wrestling was just as entertaining before tables became de rigueur in 1993.
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4 years
Tyson Dux played Chris Benoit in the Dark Side of the Ring re-enactments, let's hope his method acting ends at banging other wrestlers' wives.
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11 months
Few Dave-isms are more entrenched than his refusal to stop calling them the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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2 years
Miffed that I did not get cast for the role of "angry redneck planning to murder Jimmy Hart" in Tales From The Territories.
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2 years
Randy later disavowed any association with Super Mario Bros. upon learning that the goal of the game was to rescue a beautiful woman that had been locked in a room.
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4 years
I got this one, Alex... Who is Big Machine, a.k.a. Blackjack Mulligan?
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8 months
The running joke in some circles that Tony Khan views his wrestlers as action figures probably won't hit the same now that we know VKM was sizing up new hires with his dildo collection in the back of his mind.
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5 years
Thinking of pitching NJPW FinJuice vs. TNA FinJuice (Shark Boy and Juventud Guerrera) for the WrestleCon Supershow.
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3 years
I'm not sure I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept a Satanist named Buddy.
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4 years
Just two Canadians hanging out on Canada Day.
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9 months
The stage is set for the Devil to be revealed as Lance Von Erich, enraged at the thought of a 5'11" New Yorker being cast to play him in a major motion picture.
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3 years
Some dark prophecy from Inside Wrestling in 1979.
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1 year
Never forget Art Barr thinking it was a good idea to wear a T-shirt alluding to Paul Reubens' indecent exposure arrest during his WWF tryout six months after the story broke. #RIPeeWee
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1 year
It was hilarious until he tried it around Jimmy Valiant.
@YourUncleBeek
Beetlejuice Robinson 
1 year
Billy Robinson would always try to make Karl Gotch laugh by pretending to be a coffee table.
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Dave Meltzer
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Seven new members to be announced Friday for the 2023 Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame.
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1 year
Collision came closer to fulfilling the original promise of AEW—as spiritual successor to the best of WCW—than anything they've produced in a long while. Perhaps more for what we didn't see (stagey backstage attacks, excessive promo interruptions, etc.) than what we did.
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1 year
Excalibur is the second prominent wrestling announcer to confirm the passing of Billy Graham.
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4 months
Putting aside the obvious absurdity of Bret being born into a legendary wrestling family, this dipshit asked a 37-year-old man performing on worldwide television every week if his family knew what he did for a living.
@PharrFromHeaven
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1 year
Dude came out to "Human Fly" by the Cramps, smoking a cigarette and carrying a knife. The business has peaked.
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2 years
Hands up if you remember how exciting it was to finally record a wrestling PPV in SP with the advent of In Your House (and yes, I created these labels on a manual typewriter.)
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3 years
Each of us holding our favourite son.
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8 months
It's remarkable the degree to which Vince's peccadillos, laid bare today in nauseating detail, had long been evident in his "creative" visions: the gratuitous dehumanization of women, the fetishism of male bodies under his employ, even the scatological fixation ("Dooooookieee!")
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2 years
Please don't boo the wrestlers, they are merely human beings struggling to show their art.
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2 years
Might want to hold off on this until after your upcoming world title shot against a Jewish wrestler.
@Fightful
Fightful Wrestling
2 years
Ricky Starks Wants 'Touch The Sky' By Kanye West As His Theme For At Least One Match
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4 years
If you invested $495 on this Sting jacket with "raspberry leather hand tooled embossed scorpion patch" in 1994, you could probably fetch a cool $500 for it today.
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3 years
Did Domino's ever formally apologize for sponsoring this horseshit? Incidentally, I actually did order Domino's that night (had a free Twisty Bread coupon, what can I say?)
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@AdriOfTheDead Either way I'll take a Large Hawaiian.
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3 years
The Four Pillows of AEW.
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2 years
At this rate I expect to log in tomorrow morning and read that Punk knocked Nick Jackson out while wearing flip flops, as Ace Steel bit the tip of Omega's nose off, and a nude Tony Khan, slathered in baby oil, pulled fire alarms and laid waste to the hallway with a baseball bat.
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3 months
Still outlasted the Rockers' first WWF run.
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Wrestling News
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Marty Jannetty got married last month but in a post today on FB, he says the marriage didn’t work out and they are getting divorced.
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3 years
The Real Killers Dept.: Inside Wrestling surveys wrestling personalities for their O.J. Simpson verdict, and who better to ask than Jimmy Snuka? "The people know in their hearts, brother, that when a deed is done that upsets the world, the world cannot do anything about it."
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3 years
An uneasy truce has been established.
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4 years
While everyone is wrapping their heads around the Stan Lane rumour, has anyone considered the fact that both Dennis Condrey and Lauren Boebert relocated to Colorado? For now the only Midnight Express member I am willing to rule out is Norvell Austin.
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4 years
If you have a vagina and can name at least one professional wrestler, Tim would like to hear from you.
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5 months
Nearly twenty years of working at wrestling conventions and I can count on one hand the number of times I've been hooked into spending my own money, but Jason got me today.
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7 months
R.I.P. Ole Anderson. Miraculously none of my direct interactions with him were negative, though I did get to experience his tour de force of shit talking from a safe distance. Not unlike Lou Reed, his irritability was of such renown that anything less would have been a letdown.
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3 years
Thank you, Google, for reminding me that today is my one-year wedding anniversary before my wife woke up.
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