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Anyone else think that was the best RAW in years?

>Good
- good heel IC champ vs GM segment
- battle royal for #1 contendership, which was bretty gud for a battle royal
- great winner
- Enzo doing a good job for the cruiserweight part of the show
- Emma getting a surprise win, hopefully to build a delusional heel jobber character
- Roman-Cena buildup. OK, it's not gonna be anywhere near as good as Punk-Cena because those promos were indeed half-shoots. It's really not believable as a shoot between Roman-Cena because they are both overpushed chosen ones. But ok, put that aside. For the product of WWE today, it's great. I get the feeling that WWE isn't entirely sure where they're going with this (isn't that always the case with big stories), that's a good thing atm because they're not compelling us to choose one over the other. They're leaving it pretty open, not shoving who's right/wrong down our throats, so we can choose who we side with (or to boo both).
- Bliss regaining the title CLEAN (as with all her title wins), horestty getting BTFO
- Nia turning on Bliss, meaning champ Bliss is turning babyface

>There was some standard/boring fare too
- Heyman/Brock promo on Strowman...typical yawnfest nothing-segment
- the two matches between Shield and C&S...typical pair of nothing-matches
- Elias beating up another jobber

But overall most of the show was bretty gud rather than boring. A huge change from normal where it's 95% boring/predictable shit.

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What the fuck happened?

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How many veins did he pop watching the Cena/Roman promo?

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According to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, doublethink is:

>“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink."

>"The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth."

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itt: matches of the decade

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Previous thread:
>>3065403

Find an MMA Gym in the USA:http://www.findmmagym.com/

Styles of fighting:
http://www.ufc.com/discover/fighter/martialArtsStyles

BlackBeltWiki, great source of info, trivia and help:
http://www.blackbeltwiki.com/

Lifting for MMA:
http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/how-to-train-strength-and-conditioning-for-mma

Beware the MCDOJOS:
http://mcdojo-faq.tripod.com

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A MARTIAL ARTS GYM:
•Physically conditioned, fit participants
•Trainer with certified professional record and a training history with at least one athlete who competes successfully
•Sparring, "aliveness" in training
•At least one participant competes at amateur or professional level
•Physical conditioning part of training

WHAT TO BE WARY OF:
•Fat, physically subpar students and instructor
•Graduation fees (e.g. "pay $200 and advance to next belt extra quick!")
•No proven athletes training there
•No sparring, moves shown are choreographed (e.g. "the attacker does this, then I do this, then you do this...")
•Cult-like atmosphere
•No physical conditioning

>YOUTUBE CHANNELS ON FIGHTING
https://www.youtube.com/user/LawrenceKenshin
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVfmHpXONv-LVACBV68tq5Q
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3zMJRgefZm7ELHkIp-xDA
https://www.youtube.com/user/GracieBreakdown
https://www.youtube.com/user/StephanKesting
https://www.youtube.com/user/theKravMagaTraining
https://www.youtube.com/user/CombatSportsTapes

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BASED CODY GONNA BTFO THIS OLD SHOOTER

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>john cuckna: murders and rapes kayfabe to attempt to bury reigns using eat owens eat and meme styles as (((examples)))

>BasedBigDog: calmly btfos the biggest cancer in wwe history

What did they mean by this?

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>strowman v lesnar
>cena v reigns
shouldn't these be mania matches, not on some C-PPV?

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>be Vince
>have cena bury reigns on mic
>reigns become an underdog
>everyone have sympathy for reigns and cheer him against cena

Holy shit Vince worked each and everyone of you!!!!

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Why is he hated again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUyRf6YYxm8

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You're all deluded if you think that signing didn't go as intended. Roman flipped the table but didn't fight obviously symbolizing he got mad inside because he knows it's futile to talk anymore. That's becoming the Silent Badass 101. After WM he was 'forced' to 'shut up' too.

This is what he would've said if he was allowed to:

>Cena, you're not a Polarizing Figure. Like I said and everyone knows, you're a spin doctor, and right now you're tryna spin the globe we stand on. Not just horizontally, when you make us all go to sleep the Monday nights you're around, but vertically too. Because you're not some damn polar bear, you're a tropical animal, and you can be a parrot one day, a cheetah the other, but I'm standing face to face with you and I ain't no jackal, I'm the BIG DOG who's staked his claim on this yard at every PPV of the year!

>*cheers*

>Welcome to the Jungle, "Jack". Kurt Angle's right here and he can tell you that you've been living in the Jungle from the moment you first stepped in this ring, and THAT is why you're still here. Yes, you're always hungry for more and ready to take on all comers. Because you cleanse your colon in the middle of the ring every time you fight somebody! My advice is to go "eat the world" with Bray Wyatt, because you may be big and tough and like to take your shirt off but at the end of the day you're a cult leader and a snake oil salesman just like him. That's how you survived in this jungle. Because running from the freedom of the polar tundra wasn't enough, no; you like throwing those geeky words around? You're after the 'heat', the noise, even if it's Hell for everyone but you.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBbQK20dqmE

APOLOGISE

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He's going to go over and there's nothing you can do about it