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http://embed.acast.com/distractionpieces/jackgallagher-distractionpiecespodcastwithscroobiuspip-119

Apparently Gentleman Jack is a philosophy grad as well as a wrestler and MMA fighter.

Btw, yes, the presenter has a speech impediment, before the WTF's come along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKO3en8HJLM

"OMG, that's Paul Wight, he's enormous. Oh, he's done something by mistake and comically messed up. Oops."

Title about covers it. I came back to WWF around about 1999/2000 so just about missed Ministry-era Taker (when I started watching he was out injured and was brought back with the ace vids with the three little girls intoning "He's coming....") but it looks hokey and awesome and I've seen plenty of PPV matches since that tie-in with that era but, given I'm paying for the Network, I might as well indulge and watch the whole thing.

So, where would I look to see the beginnings of the whole Ministry thing (maybe also the Corporation etc. if they're that entwined.)

I tried to appoint some descendants but they all stepped down.

I've heard a lot around the net, and from other wrestlers including D.Bry, about how fantastic Zack Sabre is. I can see from his ring work that he really pushed the technical, British style way further than anyone else has for a long time, breaking holds with step-overs, complicated, minute-long reversals etc. but he does so so slowly and deliberately that no amount of suspension of disbelief lets me believe his matches. Even roll-throughs seem to happen in two or three stages where he has to restart momentum to do the next, unintuitive rearrangement of limbs to make the thing work.

He strikes me as the British-technical version of indie-luchadors doing flippy shit so complicated that it co

I'm really hungry, really lonely, kinda annoyed at myself for being so pathetic and am considering eating/drinking the whole minibar.

Picked up 2k16 in the Steam sale last month and started a MyCareer. I've now put a full 24 hours of play into that career, have been NXT #1 contender for most of that and have had rivalries with most of the NXT roster twice. BUT the grind to earn attributes is sooo slow and there's seemingly no hint of my #1 contender status actually earning a title shot.

Am I missing something, how/when do I get out of NXT? This seems insanely repetitive and slow.