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That's not uncommon. She was often either the only woman in the group she worked for, or she was one of two, and she was insulted for decades for who she was. "I suffered and I made it through, so should you" is a common stance that a victim takes because they aren't able to break out of the cycle. You see it in domestic violence all the time. Missy's wrong for taking the stance she did re: the Janel Grant stuff, but that doesn't excuse what she went through.

When you have HOF quotas to fill, some people may get in, either before they would be expected to or at all. I love non WWF Koko (especially in Memphis and UWF, but I don't know if I'd say he had a HOF career.

The interesting thing is, given all she went through, Missy had a lot of what some would call unsympathetic opinions over things that have happened over the last few years. I don't remember the specific cases but I think the clip they played was before the current Vince stuff.

Ha holy shit, you're right - 2018. Shows how closely I was paying attention by then.

Nao Ishikawa wearing an orange version of Asahi's entrance gown and doing her twisting suplex was really touching.

I dunno what happened but Nagai thought he was in a real fight.

No thanks, Bix doesn't need to be given any money to slutshame anyone, he'll do that for free.

Iizuka was not lucky that way considering how Nagai rearranged his face.

And your Chancellor of Starfleet Academy is... Holly Hunter. Still waiting for a green light for Legacy.

There's the Street Fighter II: The Interactive Movie game based on the Anime movie. It's not a fighting game, but you play as one of the Shadaloo's Cyborgs who is tasked with recording data about fighters around the world. Then at the end you fight Ryu in a fighting game match. The fighting gameplay is ripped from the Super Street Fighter II Turbo game. Sega Saturn version below in link https://youtu.be/Ze6liE_rXYE?si=evjXonwHT-Nbl0P0 You can unlock the battle mode for PS1 with code 3F47C0E310 89F94FC274.

I thought Henry was already in the HOF.

Get you a Pepe shirt on PWTees!

The way Iizuka got injured in that match was totally an accident. Rick looked totally spooked when it happened. And honestly, the rest of that match was standard Steiner brothers fare for a lot of their work in Japan. Fujinami ain't no punk. He went toe to toe with those guys.

Same here. I can't tell you how many times since the fold of ECW I've watched newer teams and thought how amazing Tajiri/Mikey would've been against them. Mikey is one of my all time favorites and Tajiri is up there as well, but they meshed so incredibly well and their offense was incredibly innovative, even by today's standards.

Can't brutalize Gordy and Doc, they'll just sprawl right on top of you. The Steiners beat the hell out of Iizuka so bad that he and Fujinami had my sympathy and not the ostensible babyface Steiners in that WrestleWar match.

Definitely. It was the era, between the Stieners, Doc and Gordy and Vader.

I think it's just Rocking Horse or Campana.

I mean, that describes most Steiners matches until they ran smack into the MVC, which was way more adept at brutalizing guys.

To be fair, having just watched the match and having viewed it several times, the New Japan team did a fair amount of brutalizing. I am guessing a lot of that was just the language barrier. They just absolutely went to work on each other. Now juxtapose that with very Southern rasslin match to open the card between the Freebirds and Terry Taylor and Greg Valentine.

I'm still waiting for God damn HOBBS to come back from that! Obviously he's hurt and all now, but that really, really should've been the thing that propelled him to the next level. Absolutely no offense intended to THE GIANT, but that seems like the exact sort of thing his signing was supposed to accompish - turning a young big guy into a made man. When Hobbs is healthy and ready to return, if I were AEW, I would very seriously consider just ignoring everything that came after that slam. Have him throw to the footage in a promo, pick up where you left off, and have him knock off like, Lance Archer, Killswitch, JD Drake, Bear Boulder, and a few other big guys like that over the next few weeks until the crowd is ready to make (let's say) a newly turned Wardlow, or a returning Miro into the the babyface antidote (or fuck it, keep the train moving and have him come up just slightly short against Swerve/Edge/whoever has either of those titles by then)

That match were he is unprofessionally brutalized by the Steiners?

Also anyone who hasn't seen Kawada/Fuchi vs Nagata/Iizuka should correct that: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19bikw

Thunder Interlude – show number forty-six – 14 January 1999 "The WCW Gang should reconsider how they're booking this tag title tournament” Let’s go on home to Souled Out ’99…WCW trying to dodge the Royal Rumble in January led to very short gaps between Starrcade and Souled Out… Bam Bam Bigelow rolls Scott Putski in the opener…Bigelow is one of those guys who would have been far better off coming around in 1970…He showed up to ECW and treated it like a territory he was just passing through, and that was his best stateside run in his career…His act gets old quickly because he’s not a good enough worker to match his look…Looking like that, I expect Vader, but I get something far, far less than Vader…This is an extended squash…It didn’t need to be so extended…There are multiple long headlock spots…Finally, a Greetings from Asbury Park…Thank goodness…Suffice it to say that I would have preferred a fabled HOT CRUISERWEIGHT OPENER in that spot… Fresh off his brutal murder of Pepe, Norman Smiley comes to the ring…He faces Prince Iaukea, who barely even tries to do his whole entrance routine…That’s a man who is out here to do an efficient job to a pushed talent and then get back to catering…Iaukea’s mat game is passable, so this match ends up being a novel one with a lot of mat exchanges that, while not the most crisp, are pretty fun to watch…The crowd wants the Wiggle, dammit…Smiley teases it and gets a visible pop… There’s a commercial break…This must be a taped Thunder because we’ve had two straight long (over five minutes in air time) wrestling matches…Smiley sends Iaukea outside and then Big Wiggles…Wow, I’m shocked that Turner execs haven’t run into the ring and shut everything down by now…I guess simulating doggy style is the epitome of what you’d want on your show if you were trying to capture the child demographic…Tenay notes that this is a return match from Starrcade…Oh yeah, it is…Man, was Starrcade a forgettable show in 1998…Outside of the finish to the main event, of course…This is another match that is longer than it probably needs to be, though it’s easier on the eyes than the opener…Iaukea tries to make a comeback, but gets clubbed on a duck down…Smi-LAY hits a stalling underhook suplex and locks on a Norman Conquest for the win… Gene Okerlund is here, which is a bummer, but you know what’s not a bummer?...He brings out Jimmy Hart!...Hart is wearing a Dungeon of Doom/Faces of Fear jacket…Leave the memories alone, Jimmy…Hart actually is wearing his jacket because he’s here to announce that he’s convinced Meng and the Barbarian to rejoin forces as part of his currently-rebuilding First Family…The Faces of Fear are in the tag team tournament…Put the belts on them, you idiots!... We get Prez Flair/Bischoff/employment recap stuff on a video…Honestly, they did well enough with the office meeting, Bischoff getting sent to put up the ring, and the Chekhov’s Gun introduced in that sketch showing up in the main event later that night that I’m actually not dreading more Flair/Bischoff segments with Flair sending Bischoff on increasingly more shitty jobs…I’m sure I’ll be taught my lesson that I should always dread angles centered around Bischoff over the next week or two of television, though… Chris Jericho and Ralphus walk to the ring…Jericho tries to get over his “you don’t have the legs for” it line w/r/t Saturn wearing a dress…It wasn’t all that funny the first time you said it on Nitro, bud…Van Hammer is Jericho’s opponent…He walks down chugging water and looking faded…Hammer mocks Jericho’s big walk taunt thingy after some offense…Hammer hits a huge beal to reverse a monkey flip attempt…This is the first time that Hammer’s gotten much offense on anyone in weeks…Saturn walks out onto the ramp to observe the contest…This is actually a decent contest…I’m probably the high man on Van Hammer on all of DVDVR, though…Hammer hits a stalling superplex (!), but it only gets two…Hammer hits a Cobra Clutch Bomb that also gets two…Hammer tries an enziguri next, but Jericho ducks the kick and holds on for a Walls of Jericho that gets the win…Put Hammer and Juvi in a tag team together and have them wrestle the Faces of Fear in the tag tournament final, you idiots! We get another “Goldberg sits in a dark locker room and talks about the nWo” pre-taped promo. They aren't new ones; they just run a couple of the ones they showed on Nitro. I’m glad that the Faces of Fear are back together and here to compete in a first-round tag tournament match against Mike Enos and Bobby Duncum Jr….Duncum?...What, was Wayne Bloom not available?...Seriously, I wanted a FoF/Beverlys match…We get some decent Enos/Barb clubberin’…But ultimately, this match isn’t much…After a ton of fists and elbows, Meng fires off a sunset flip that almost gets three…See, that’s using the element of surprise…There’s a nice struggle over a piledriver between Meng and Duncum that Meng finally wins, and that’s a nice spot…Oh joy, it’s the Wolfpac to spoil another tag match…This sucks ass…Please just let us, the viewers, the wrestling fans, have something nice for ourselves, please… Oh great, Hogan’s going to talk now…At least he’s wearing a biker jacket instead of a flannel shirt this time…Hogan cuts a…wait for it…shitty promo…The only thing I like about this segment is that the B-Teamers aren’t allowed black-and-red shirts…They have to keep wearing the black-and-white, which we have established are the cornball, uncool nWo colors… Let’s see if Wrath can complete a squash tonight before Bam Bam Bigelow runs in on him to extract some revenge…C’mon, El Dandy, just hold out long enough for the cavalry to arrive…Wrath is unimpressed by Dandy’s strikes…Wrath hits a Rock Bottom, sets up for the Meltdown, and…and…Bam Bam slides into the ring and lets Wrath hit it before attacking…Geez, nice way to help Dandy out, man…Wrath repels Bigelow’s attack with a lariat as we go into a break… There’s a video recap of Hogan destroying the Wolfpac’s aura on Nitro after we come back from break…That and the nWo dominating Nitro like it’s 1996 all over again…There’s another commercial break after this overlong recap… Disco Inferno is desperately trying to curry favor with the Wolfpac, still…He faces Super Calo…Disco controls with little trouble from Calo…Scott Hall walks to ringside to observe…Has there been one match since the opening that no one has come out to observe or ruin?...Yeah, the second one that Norman Smiley won…Other than those, a lot of run-ins and saunter-outs on this show...Calo makes a comeback, but Disco never is in much danger…Hall surreptitiously tases Calo behind the ref’s back, and Calo stumbles forward and into a Chartbuster for three…Hall gets the mic after the match and teases that he’ll taze Disco, but actually, he just lets Disco know that the Wolfpac doesn’t forget people who do favors for them and that Nash and Hogan want to see him in the back…The potential of Konnan getting dumped from the Wolfpac and then having to see Disco be initiated into the colors is actually pretty good… Hall sticks around to crap on Goldberg a bit…Hall assumes that the still inexperienced Goldberg doesn’t know what a ladder match is…He advises Goldberg to go to Blockbuster (R.I.P. except for in Oregon) and rent a couple of Hall’s past ladder matches to see what that’s going to be like… Barry Windham and Curt Hennig face off against Chris Benoit and Mongo McMichael…Now that McMichael is about to leave the company, let me re-assert one more time that Benoit and McMichael made for a fun tag team…Much better than Benoit and Malenko did, unless Malenko convinces me otherwise on this re-watch…Bischoff said that Mongo’s closest buddy after the shows was Scott Hall, so maybe it was good that they got this guy off the road, actually…Especially considering Curt McGirt’s comment, I think it was, about Hall discussing Mongo’s briefcase full of cocaine… This match is fine, and Windham/Hennig as a tag team is fine, but I am just not into these guys as a heel team…Like here, this is a perfectly acceptable heel control segment, but I do not give a single, solitary fuck…Mongo is actually an okay enough FIP, too, so it’s not that…We go to break, and the heels are still on top when we come back…The hot tag comes soon after the break, though…Benoit manages to get Windham in the Crippler Crossface…Hennig breaks the whole match up with chair shots, so Ric Flair runs down for the save…It doesn't go well...We close on David running down and covering Ric’s body to protect him, and the heels grabbing David and preparing him for a chair shot… That didn’t feel much like a go-home show…I think if I cared more about the Flairs vs. Windham and Hennig, it would have felt more like one…Souled Out ’98 was sort of a miracle show and easily one of the better PPVs in the Nitro era…I have a hard time seeing that possibility for Souled Out ’99, but maybe I’ll get a nice surprise?...This show gets a WOO for being adequate, despite the nWo getting in the way of my ability to just enjoy a straightforward tag tournament…

See, that ISN'T crazy.