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ffs just define it. let's call it 4x AA or 1x champ... proceed.... (although please stop conflating 'boring' with 'not good'. it's silly)

Good luck today, LJB

hand up. i've had to. but im frankly oblivious to the finer points of the art of it. i'm sure i wasn't good at it.

because it makes it an exhibition. from this year alone - 106 - Bartlow and Deputy was for nothing. they are two weight classes apart - 113 - Analu Woode didn't make weight - 138 - the last major Mangano wrestled was at 144, last December, and he took 6th. i guess there's a chance he goes 138 this year but i highly doubt it. - 157 - Crosson and Romero was basically for nothing because..... - 165 - Howard and Miller are not the same weight so that was for nothing. Howard is 157 in two weeks. Shepherd (150) and Mastny (190/215) aren't even wrestling in high school. (and yes, i cosigned the Shepherd bout so there's some hypocrisy on my behalf there but there really was no other match to make). There's also some guys who flat out didn't earn the right to go for the #1 spot. To me you should have to have made a case why you deserve it. a lot of people can beat the #1 on any given day but what did you do to earn the shot? i can't argue with your interests....everyone likes what they like. but it indeed has turned into an exhibition as opposed to determining a preseason #1.

exactly

sorry it hurt you

lol. this is not true and Basch will tell you that. it wasn't begrudgingly. i said it often. so now you're just lying. and yes lol. i would 100% have that moscow card even if i knew it couldn't be streamed. it was awesome. im sorry it wasn't streamed. but you have to be a moron to think we should have canceled it. this was as much on USAW as it was on Flo. literally what was the reason behind it? we still don't know what the point was. Not announcing Kennedy, no commentary, Trackwrestling announcement (which was a PR nightmare), WNO kids missing weight, 5 people in the stands... if that wasn't a bad weekend idk what to tell you. they weren't remotely close to similar despite you really wanting them to be. for the umpteenth time, one was do to international law and i'm not RAF's PR department. you're very clearly biased. the alternative is you're dumb and trying too hard.

lol. the RAF was due to international wartime sanctions. it was not possible. flo's was due to not being able to get audio up. these things are not the same.

Yes, and i agreed 'a statement should have been made' ad nauseam. if you listened to the show enough to say 'i criticized flo for not announcing kennedy' you probably listened when i said 'a statement should have been made on moscow'. so how is that me being hypocritical? unless you're under some silly notion that i'm the PR Department at RAF.

good catch. i'll inquire. one other scenario might be that he's only wrestling second semester.

i started WNO from scratch. it's still awesome. they just have a wholly different method to selecting the matches and imo it very much devalues it.

it is, dum dum. some fellow dum dum was saying i 'dodged questions on the the twitter', which i didn't have access to until the last day or two when i got a VPN. of course i'm know for keeping my mouth closed you nerds are insufferable.

what is the 'hypocrisy' genius.

yes, it's lack of self awareness....if you're a total moron. the situations aren't remotely similar. just stfu and say you hate RAF and you hate me. then you wouldn't say so many stupid things and stretch so far in stupidy consipiracy theories.

i didn't say 'it didn't matter'. of course it would have been better (in terms of brand/excitement/financially etc) if it would have been streamed. what i said was that just because we couldn't legally stream doesn't mean the event should have been canceled.

It was seemingly impossible to get people that hate Gable to understand I wasn't trying to defend Gable or anything he's done/said nor to get them to like him. That's despite being abundantly clear that my point was that Gable is not 'a failure'. He could never win a UFC fight again and he still wouldn't be a 'failure'. He was an Olympic Champ and voted the heisman of college wrestling. Because of that he got long-shot opportunities in two of the highest leagues in their industry. If you thought it was likely that he made an NFL roster, and thus consider it a failure, that's a you issue. it's almost like they're saying you shouldn't attempt things when the opportunity arises. it's loser talk in my opinion.

that would be bad. let's hope not.

i have no earthly clue wtf you're talking about. someone is getting thrown under.... first because Khamzat and Colby are wrestling and now...... ...because we're doing an event in Abu Dhabi? 'selling out' how? again, who is getting thrown under the bus? speak plainly. the last response is a bunch of utter jibberish with zero specificity. "RAF is selling out b/c international locations and MMA guys" wtf does that even mean? your panties in a wad b/c were doing events in UAE? you know there's a card in America every month, right?

and getting thrown under the bus in the scenario is whom?

what are you saying? can you speak plainly?

RAFWiki is in no way affiliated with RAF. he's a very passionate fan of the league. and though i don't agree with every single point he makes (or everything he does), he seems like a genuinely good/optimistic guy and one of a few making sense in here as opposed to the most prominent thesis which goes like this... "they shouldn't have gone to Moscow because it's too complicated but also i'm pissed i can't watch because this is so awesome" which, if you can't process it, is completely contradictory

this is a position entirely based on your perspective and preferences. i'll pick it apart on the show.

Flo isn't going to date you.

why wouldn't they encourage people to attend?

lmfao. but GreatWhiteNorth said that the US Military plane was carrying RAF personnel. n