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This place is crawling with Dustin Rhodes marks. Hell yeah we want to see that.

There is no better way to say this than how The Wife (aka Janice) has already has... so here... I couldn't be happier! James

Because it was the most hyped and promoted house show since the first Road Block? Because using the name of the ppv makes it feel like it should be a ppv? Because seeing it live is more fun than YouTube after the fact? A better question is why are you so upset that people wanted to see it? Hell, isn't promoting a show people want to see the whole point of wrestling booking?

One, it was one time with one guy who is on the active full time roster. Two, attitude era nostalgia gets played to all the fucking time. We don't get thrown a bone very often.

He did come out to his Natural theme and titantron.

I'm not sure that the fault lies in the explanations here - @Casey doesn't care about the card, so that must mean no one else possibly could. Guess which other shows have matches that could occur on any random SmackDown throughout the year? That's right - every single PPV.

If we're not allowed to be happy that, even with his career ending injury, Anderson can still nail the best spinebuster ever and roll out of the ring like a fucking boss...

I guess I'll spoiler it even though it's a house show, but a nice run-in at Starrcade.

78 days until pitchers and catchers report.

I don't think any of us feel they left money on the table. I think those of us who find the name Starrcade special would've liked to have watched Starrcade. They hyped this show more than most house shows, gave it a legendary name, booked a few things that are unique... And then didn't let us see it.

Good lord, Iwould rather pound red-hot nails into my skull than read Ganc's noxious political opinions.

I miss DEAN's daughter drawing comics. Don't make me feel old and say she is an adult now please. She'll always be seven or eight in my mind.

All this is doing is reminding me that I had wanted to do a History of the DVDVR podcast for our 20th but I am also the only person who remembers shit

It was all about Herb's Wrestling Tidbits.

Sting and Kane don't want WWE 2K18 either ; ).

@cwoy2j debuted his new gimmick. He lost overness with the crowd.

If you can't get out of a gimmick match with a proper finish because of the situation, don't book the fucking gimmick match to begin with. That was my major issue with War Games, and it's the same as my major issue with a lot of WWE's gimmick matches since they moved to the eponymous PPV names - they try to make a storyline fit the gimmick match, rather than the gimmick match becoming necessary as a result of the storyline. They think "we want to do a Hell in a Cell match" and shoehorn someone into it, rather than building a feud that would require a Cell. That was the entire point of the match to begin with.

It's Grey Cup day and the game is being played in a snowstorm. Fuck the NFL, you all need to be watching this!!!

The Jets went full Jets. Never go full Jets.

Finish of the match.

I mean, people are sitting at home on a Saturday night and they want to watch some wrestling that is a little different/nostalgic? And I do know that #Starrcade was trending big time on Twitter all night and extensively covered by ESPN and anybody can get back to me the next time that happens for a freaking house show. So clearly there was something to it outside this message board.

And since I am posting Yagi gifs

Yeah but your argument is nonsense. Three different people have explained it to you with varying degrees of niceness. But stone wall everyone pretending you can't understand. To an outsider it sounds like you are bitter you came along when everything imploded.

I don't know if Meng showing up would wear out it's welcome BECAUSE IT NEVER FUCKING HAPPENS. You seriously can't see a difference between the guys and time period they bring up every single year and guys who and an era that they've basically reduced down to "Ric Flair" gets one night? They constantly cater to attitude era fans, to the point where it's not even really nostalgia, it's how they sell their biggest show every single year (and, honestly, I'm not even someone who bitches about it. I love Triple H and Undertaker) but pre-Hogan WCW (which, btw, doesn't even really include Meng, he showed up around the same time the Hulkster did and is very much part of the Monday Night Wars era) is a bastard stepchild WWE rarely likes to acknowledge outside of the occasional Hall of Fame induction.

I presume it’s as simple as “not wanting something from WCW to be too successful.”

Always love these behind the scene vids.

Yeah you do because that's why they have the doctors in the first place. If the commissions only needed some asshole on the internet, they would just get you and keep their money.

Despite our bloody internet feuding, Shannon has contacted me a few times over the years. Had the operation, doesn't watch much wrestling anymore, and is happy as can be as a woman after being a miserable bastard as a man. Truly, she's become a very nice person, quite the opposite of old life. I wish her all the best.

If I was Dirk Benedict I would be happy all the time too. Likewise, if I was Burt Ward I imagine I would spend a lot of time staring straight ahead not saying a word.

I think almost all fans go through a Scott Keith phase, it's like dry-humping, nothing much comes of it and you've wasted a good deal of time that could have been much better spent doing something else.

I'll always remember him as "rich boy teen No. 3" in ONE CRAZY SUMMER. In part because if you look back at him playing a "teen" in 1985, he looks exactly the same as he does now. This does not mean he looks young now. It means when he has looked 40 since he was in high school.

Asuka making jokes about Emma getting released - quick, prepare the angry Twitter posts, main roster workers!

Time literally bends in Metlife.

Those are just Dustin's normal every day pants. Nakamura copies him.

@Casey, first of all let's dispense with this "the guys you grew up watching" stuff, Steamboat is my senior by four years, Ricky Morton is a year older than I and Arn Anderson is a year younger, and I recall very well watching Dustin's first TV match; so it's pretty hard to write these guys off as the ones I grew up watching. We old NWA and WCW fans aren't the demographic that VKM is chasing, although lots of us have disposable income and he may be missing something by not throwing us a bone more often. There's a huge difference in having these performers appear ONCE and bringing the Rock back whenever he's between movies and bored or dragging out Shawn Michaels every year to push Wrestlemania.

Are you trying to raise the number by calling someone Shirley?

And your medical degree is from...

Being a Bills fan is no longer your worst life decision.

If the Board gave refunds, we'd all get six Marches back.

We don't deserve Alexa Bliss

I loved this show from top to bottom. It was tremendous. But holy shit, Mauro is awful.

Forget where I read it, but someone said Cobb looks like Toru Yano if he was designed by Jack Kirby and now I can't unsee that shit. Gotta love Kitamura selling the Awful Waffle like pure black death. That was great.

My lot in life seems to be to come into this thread and tell you of ridiculous dream matches that the UK scene throws up every other day. Why ruin that? Pro-Wrestling EVE announced AJA KONG vs VIPER for May 5th next year... (Oh, and Emi Sakura vs Meiko Satomura was a little bit good)