International Object

Cewsh from Cewshreviews.com and K Sawyer Paul debate the usefullness and best practices of announcing and commentary in professional wrestling.

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Brandon Stroud and I talk for nearly two hours about expecations, wrestling humor, camp, The Rock’s wrestling style, and The Best & Worst of Raw. Click above to listen directly.

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Nathaniel and I talk about Randy Savage’s legacy, the tribute art show in Toronto on November 12, the current landscape of titles, and Royal Rumble championship matches.

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My guest this week, Alexis Wilson, reports from a fan fest full of legendary wrestlers. We also talk about belt designs, HHH vs Undertaker, and Eric Bischoff.

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Our guest this week: David Shoemaker of Deadspin and Grantland. We discuss our favourite writers, his upcoming book, CM Punk, creativity in the ring, wrestling journalism, and shaky fantasy worlds.

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Show notes:

• Grantland
• Dead wrestler of the week
• Avoiding the question of sports vs entertainment
• Chuck Klosterman
• Dave Eggers
• Instapaper
• Grantlands footnotes
• David foster Wallace footnote style
• The broom of the system
• McCain’s Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McMcahon and a Whole bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
• Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
• David is writing a book on wrestling
• CM Punk and Timing at Grantland
• Giving every wrestler the freedom of speech
• Rick and Scott Steiner on the mic
• Giving wrestlers credit for being creative
• Glossophobia
• CM Punk is the transgressive character
• Dolph Ziggler’s awful name
• The writers and audience working together
• Pay-per-click journalism
• Children’s book style blogging
• The Wrestler in Real Life
• The new Muppet Show theme song by OK Go
• A little bit of crisis
• Threatened fantasy worlds
• Smackdown at peace
• When the brand split makes sense
• The three types of wrestling fans
• John Cena as the conflicted company man
• Why a heel Cena is impossible
• How MMA and sports have made wrestling better
• Nash’s role
• Fair to Flair ep 8 - He’s got great hair
• Cena, punk, hhh, and nash are the new Hogan, savage, dibiase and andre
• Mcmahon’s idea for archiving footage
• The WWE channel
• Fake Vince—The Long Stare
• Vince’s abandonment monologue
• A wrestling commons
• WWE Legends Panel Show

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Jason Mann, Razor, K Sawyer Paul, and Thomas Holzerman talk about Punk’s rise, how Nash splits the audience, complicated characters, how hard it is to follow wrestling, Nitro parties, Michael Cole’s awful commentating, and Matt Hardy’s Legacy.

This week, Mikey Llorin and I talk about Summerslam, MMA, and whether winning is more important than having a good match. Click the link above to listen.

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Show topics:

• International Object’s origins
• Summerslam’s interesting finale
• Summerslam’s solid match list
• The Torch’s iPhone App
• Fair to Flair’s iPhone App
• The current movement
• CM Punk’s contract
• HHH as a referee
• Black Ref
• UFC & Strikeforce, and momentum
• What’s more important? Winning, or having a good match?
• Devaluing wrestling for a movement
• Grantland
• Wrestlemania XXVIII
• Randy Orton is the guy that wins
• Fair to Flair’s schedule
• Do you want it good, or all the time?
• The next issue of Fair to Flair Quarterly
• Dragon Dictate

This series has been a knockout. 

Inside Pulse’s Aaron Glazer and myself talk Bragging Rights, Brand Split, Fantasy Booking, and if Dolph Ziggler is the worst name in the history of wrestling.

Show notes:

• Neither of us watch smackdown

• We run down bragging rights 2010

• Paying for middle chapters

• The writers room being far away from the marketing room

• Serial storytelling

• Why wwe should stop doing ppvs

• An angle is two lines meeting

• A proposed off season

• Glazers off season theory

• Ziggler and Bryan.

• I think dolph ziggler is a terrible name.

• TNA is a dumb name

• Unconsciously tuning into tna

• Thursday night TV viewing

• Wrestling fans love HBO

• What would HBO do with a wrestling show

• Watching wrestling just to bitch

• Habitual viewing

• A better raw - what I tried to do and what failed

• The last innovation was in early 97 when the raw set evolved.

• WWE being poor at coming up with their own ideas, but good at evolving others

• Having longer times between matches

• Orton as the new dominating hero

• The WWE title changed 45 times this year

• The thin roster

• We talk about hhh’s return. Possibilities about what he’ll do.

• Brock lesnar vs undertaker

• Edge is golden.

• Glazer says they need a face of smackdown and it has to be edge, because it won’t be Orton or cena.

• We talk about Kevin Nash on colour commentary

• Forget about all PPVs until the rumble

• Fun fantasy booking

• Nash and Austin as managers