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Welp, in addition to not being in the house, my better half has just informed me that it would bum/stress her out too badly to watch the show live tonight while our car situation is ongoing. I'm pretty sure I can parlay this into some crazy sex and getting Spider-Man 2 if I play my cards right, but I'm not gonna be around again til Tuesday probably so I don't get spoiled. Have a great rest of your weekend all

I'm just glad to see Abadon back and winning! Last year this time we got no Abadon for the season, so this is the first time on TV since the Halloween Deathmatch of 2021 with Britt which I loved. Tomorrow night's match with Shida is now being billed as a "Fright Night Fight"! Abadon's AEW Debut on Dark was against Shida and I was a big fan of their first title match on Dynamite in early 2021, so I'm highly looking forward to this one.

Sign on ESPN Gameday today: “Michigan stole my other sign”.

To explain: Kimura has loaded his leg supporter with a metal bar, which was discovered after the match.

The old long hair plus Bandana look that the hair metal guys had, it was smart that they started that when they were young. As they aged, the bandana could gradually expand and completely obfuscate the balding process.

I’m sad to leave All Japan again but I’m excited to return to UWF vs New Japan. As a reader: AJPW - experiencing a prequel to what leads to some of my favorite matches. NJPW - so new to me. Last time we were here it was almost all learning. It’s fun because it lead me to scouting out more and appreciating new (to me) wrestlers.

In 1994 or 95 I think, I went to an All-Star show. The main event was an eight man tag (all of the guys in the match had had singles matches earlier in the show, obviously). Robbie Brookside, Doc Dean and two other guys vs four other guys, one of whom was called Japan's Mean Machine. Threw a very hard Lariat, liked to yell Ask Him when he put holds on. He disappeared off UK shows shortly thereafter. Never thought much more of it for a little while, until I started buying Puro tapes, and there he was in New Japan. He wasn't called Mean Machine any more, he was called Satoshi Kojima now. There was a tiny indie show I went to a year and a half ago, where they'd booked WARHORSE to do the talent seminar/ work the show double shot that the big indie names do. It was in a primary school, drew well under a hundred people. One of whom, randomly, was actual WoS legend Kendo Nagasaki (without his mask). I recognised him, nobody else seemed to. I approached him during intermission, quietly told him I was a big fan, loved his matches and had read his book. He shook my hand. I didn't squeeze at all. Neither did he. Fit Finlay, he has a soft handshake too. But his hands are fucking huge. When he makes a fist, it's like the size of a housebrick.

Back in 2016 when we were doing GWE, there was a question around workrate. Ultimately a match needs to both be coherent and resonant AND physically exciting or compelling to be considered good, but which of the two elements are more important? For me the meaning and consequence need to be there as a bare minimum. Alone, they don’t make the match good, but without them, a match doesn’t clear the bare minimum to be good. I think much of what made Matt’s 2008 ECW work good is still present in his matches even though he’s broken down because that came down to connecting to a crowd and knowing what to do and when to do it, but I don’t think he’s that great or anything. It’s more that when left to their own devices, and despite superior athleticism, guys like Fletcher, and especially Takeshita don’t clear that minimum bar.

I'm about halfway through NXT but just wanted to say Shotzi as Pinhead was incredible. Also love those that had costume vibes to their gear even if it was mainly on the women's side.

So, they just feel like three hours?

Jesus Fuck, I almost forgot that movie existed. Way to pick the good shit, Exec! Also thrilled to see it is on the YouTubes so I can dial that joint up while I am on night duty on Saturday / Sunday.

Aw man I loved Sword and the Sorcerer. That might be the best Albert Pyun movie after Nemesis and Cyborg (and after Sword there's a biiiiiiig drop-off).

Fuck. I will only watch this if Sienna Shaw battles Art the Clown while in Santa's elf cosplay.

The contract signing was a good segment to build more hype for Knight. Him entering as Roman raised the title was great. Santos/Carlito vs. Street Profits was pretty solid. Was kind of so-so on the finish, but it got the job done and helped give more build to Rey/Logan. Shotzi/Chelsea was decent and more even than expected. Felt kind of weird since I have gotten used to Chelsea getting squashed, but she looked alright here. Cena's segment with Heyman & Solo was good. The KO one punch segment was dumb and fun, especially when he leaves to cheerfully tell Noble he did it. Dragon/Cedric was a good match and nice showcase for both men. Bianca's promo was fine. Her coming matches with Bayley and Io not really having any extra stakes did make the promo feel just a pinch hollow. Hopefully Bianca ups her aggressiveness in the coming matches. Knight/Jimmy was good. Continuing to dig Jimmy on his own since he ups his dickishness with the crowd. The post match with Roman's failed attack was another nice boon for Knight. No blow away great matches, but there four done were pretty enjoyable. Jimmy/Knight and Dragon/Cedric were eaisly the best and worth catching. Surprisingly dug Jimmy/Knight the most. The segments were mostly good. Solid show overall.

No ghost runner in extras? Is this even baseball anymore?

Yes, it's gonna be an Xmas movie

It just finished. I walked in on Santana/Ortiz unfortunately. MIKE had on his Latin Kings colors. Nasty looking finish. The women's match was, well, a multi-person match with all that entails, but ABADON WON!!! So I'm happy. Let's hope they don't put them back in mothballs after they lose tomorrow and Halloween happens on Tuesday. There was a spot for them to chop the ref "on accident" when they were all standing in a circle and I was disappointed they didn't do it. Willow is so cheery that the mist only gave her black eyeliner under one eye, heh heh. Why Toni didn't just come out after the opponents and before the bell instead of interrupting the match? Takeshita/Fletcher got a full point as NOAH House Show Main Event. They did a rail ride so I'll count it. The best part was where Fletcher thought they were gonna do a forearm exchange, Lard Lad said "fuck that" and just hauled off and blasted the shit out of Young Kyle. Forearms/elbows were returned to later but they were nice and loud. Each guy threw and ate some murder moves, Takeshita worked default face and won. Fun stuff and once again the winner pleeeeased me... *rubs hands together with sinister glee* As far as the Don Callis stuff, I doubt he gets all these guys that he wants, and he shouldn't. A buddy of mine in Indy had a show last night (he's the vocalist in death metal band Obscene) and he went onstage as Callis with blatantly phony rubber scar on his noggin. If he gives me permission, I'll show you pictures.

Top experiences for me have definitely been taking my kids to shows. Seeing them get so into it was such a special experience. But personally, for great wrestling, two shows stick out. One was Badd Blood, the first Hell in a Cell. We had sixth-row seats right behind the announce table. So, when Michaels had his fall, we had a great view. The other show, I was running camera for. It was the Impact with the Josh Alexander/Mike Bailey epic. It was so cool being on a hard cam for that. Literally had one of the best seats in the house for it. For pure fun, I'd go with Survivor Series 98. Yeah, not a great show, but me and some friends got mighty tanked for it and had a blast. We still talk about that trip. I got to see Hogan at the height of Hulkamania for my first show. I got to see Andre live. I saw Liger at Starcade 96. I saw The Shield debut. I met Flair after an NWA house show. I've been lucky to see some cool stuff.

God, I'm sorry. Nobody should have to go through that. Are you okay? Do you need someone to talk to?

Just be glad Vince doesn't get to choose the music. It would be nothing but AC/DC.

How many days until Danielson shows up in a Phantom of the Opera mask

Matt Hardy would have had a better, less stupid match with Fletcher.

This man gets it!

There's a bunch of stuff I've got set up on there. The '40s Jeckyll and Hyde (they're playing the Barrymore, this one and the Tracy one. Which is what, all of them?), Superfly, Wise Blood (Brad Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton!!!), The Conqueror Worm/Witchfinder General (recording it though I've seen it 1000 times), Curse of the Crimson Altar, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Black Cat, The Killing Fields; Paris, Texas and The Big Boss and all of the classic Hammer and Universal horror they always play are also gonna be on. It's really a feast this next week.

I met the people who shot his reality show, I asked them "is it true he's bald" and they had no idea. Apparently he never took it off

I've always considered myself extremely blessed to have seen so much quality wrestling from all over the world, despite living in the UK. The first show I went to see was WWE, May 2004, at the Birmingham NEC. First match I saw was Edge vs Batista, but the card also had HBK vs Flair on it, which totally stole the show, and the main event was HHH vs Benoit. Later that year, I got to see the first Raw and Smackdown tapings in the UK, which had an amazing crowd for the Regal/Eugene Dusty Finish title switch, and the next night a hardcore match with Hardcore Holly walloping JBL with a cricket bat. Then in 2005, I got to see The Wrestling Channel International Showdown at Coventry, including Misawa wrestling, Joe vs Punk, and Styles vs Daniels in the main event. The sequel to this, Universal Uproar, also at Coventry was in November, and included Cabana vs McGuiness, a rare Foley match as part of an 8 man tag, Low ki vs Homicide, and the main event was Doug Williams and Jun Akiyama vs Go Shiozaki and Kenta Kobashi! In 2006 I saw a couple of the early 1PW shows at Doncaster, No Turning Back, which had Sabu, Abyss, Jeff Jarrett and Masato Tanaka amongst many others on there Also ROH's debut tour of the UK in 2006, the second night, which had Roderick Strong vs Bryan Danielson and an absolute sprint of a match with Sydal and Richards vs the Briscoes, and Danielson wrestled again against SUWA! And in October 2006, an IPW show at Broxbourne with Pac vs El Generico. Then in 2008, we got to see the NOAH UK debut, with Zack Sabre Junior in the dark match, a brilliant KENTA & Taiji Ishimori vs Bryan Danielson & Eddie Edwards and main event of Mitsuharu Misawa & Naomichi Marufuji vs Go Shiozaki & Kenta Kobashi. From 2009-11 I managed to get to several of the Dragon Gate UK shows at Broxbourne, which were all immense! Also managed to see El Generico again at a random indy show in 2011 in Wales, and Ultimo Dragon of all people, at a show in Penzance in 2016! When NXT and NXT started touring, it was brilliant to see at the Plymouth Pavilions, The Revival against American Alpha, Asuka vs Nia Jax, and main event was Finn Balor and Shinsuke Nakamura vs Austin Aries and Samoa Joe. In 2019 at the same venue, got to see Kasius Ohno vs Ilia Dragunov which was just epic. And then finally this year, we got to see Shingo vs Will Ospreay and the Jericho run in at Rev Pro at the Copper Box, and All In at Wembley Stadium the next day. Enough said! Looking back at it all, I'm so lucky to have had so many awesome memories and experiences, particularly experiencing them with my Dad when I was younger and now my own boys these days. Couldn't ask for a better selection, although I'd certainly be up for going to see Wrestlemania if they ever bring that over here! Thanks everyone for posting your own memories, it's been good to see them all and spark my own!

One quick impression from watching a little bit of Florida wrestling (on the TV through the Roku's YouTube app)... having Gordon Solie's set look like a nightly news set was a perfect design for what Gordon brought as a commentator

Ive been to so many wrestling shows, i definitely need to revisit this thread when i have more time, but the one moment that sticks out to me above all is seeing Akiyama v Kingston at Full Gear 2022 Zero Hour. I'm a massive Eddie Kingston fan, in and out of the ring and just to be present when seeing a personal favorite achieve something he wanted his whole career, was just, amazing in so many ways. The match itself was amazing and one of my favorite from the night, but the reaction of fulfillment, exhaustion and elation in Kingston's face after it was over was ust incredible. Seeing someone who you respect conquer a milestone like that is something else. Definitely one of, if not my favorite live wrestling memory.

That sucks, man. Hope it all works out

I guess High School can go in here. Rayce Heitman from Williamsburg, Iowa scored 4 times in a game a couple of weeks ago. He had two punt returns for TD's and two pick 6's. Oh, and he did all that in the first quarter. OH. And he did all that before his team's offense even took the field! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5VIEKYi1qc His team ended up winning 67-6.

If that was too classy then I picked up the trash quota with an extra the other night Plan on another one today

Waves and Curls use I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston, and it tends to make them immediately over before they even get in the ring. Once, Jaelyn was injured so Traevon had to wrestle a singles match, so to mix it up, he used this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j40YC5d6RzA

Saw the finish in the MIKE Santana vs Ortiz match. Clearly not a cover because MIKE'S leg is under Ortiz and his shoulder isn't on the mat. Looked who is the referee.... Checks Out...

Sorry to read this, mate. No other means getting there?

Stop hitting him, lmao

Some things should not have to be fixed. They should be right on the first power up. This is one of those things and at least they fixed it quickly rather than wait a month or so for a gigantic update..

Listen, its really gross for me to even speculate on the health of someone I've only ever interacted with here literally decades ago, but I have ADHD (as evidenced by the way I oscillate between half my posts sounding like Keith Lee, and half of them sounding like Shit Ric Flair Would Tweet When He Is Drunk . Woooo ! ) and I definitely know the classic Vyvanse-and-Caffiene when I see it. I don't think anything illicit is happening, and I think the whole blow meme is or will soon reach a point where it's becoming borderline slanderous - again, absolutely none, zero, of anyone's business but his own, but I think a lot of people need to look at themselves and realize there's a non zero chance they are giving a dude a hard time for some shit that ain't his fault, and for being really, really passionate about something we all love

Okay, so the Saudis aren't fucking around. I am looking at pictures and videos of their gala dinner, and they have EVERYONE who is has been famous from boxing and MMA in the last forty plus years there. Even across competitive lines. So either the Saudis are bankrolling on another level or this is some elaborate thing that's going end up like the Red Wedding. Like Oscar De La Hoya is going stab 91 year old Bob Arum in the heart and then pull out his entrails. They also have like random major celebs and folks from other sports. Cristiano Ronaldo is there. Like Amir Khan is bothering Eminem for his autograph. This is insane. WWE has to do something for Crown Jewel next week. They cannot be this outstaged.

Stevie Turner is a streamer.

Tumbbad was the best Havoc pick I ever got (thanx Rippa) and totally unknown to me. And I SWEAR I've seen Baskin but can't remember a lick of it.

That was a plus in Loki season 1 too. You didn't know what the overall show would even look like until it was over.

That guy's always had heat with me because my dyslexic brain first processed his name as "Beef Stew" Lou Macaroni, and I thought "that's great, go for the double food pun", then I realized it was "Marconi", not "Macaroni", and I've held a seething grudge for like 28 years. Damn you, "Beef Stew".

Somehow Thomas Nicholas Madrigal, better known as TNM, did not turn business around.

Not counting attending my first show and a bunch of pay-per-views, I think the coolest things I've seen as a fan were when the World title changed hands. I've witnessed four of them: Steamboat beats Flair at Chi-Town Rumble Yokozuna squishes Hogan at King of the Ring 93 Kane beats Austin at King of the Ring 98 Moxley destroys Punk at Cleveland Dynamite (August 22) I also have to mention the Undertaker-Mankind match at SummerSlam 96. Not only did it result in my dad's outrage against Paul Bearer (Dad wasn't a big fan, but that got him), but two of my friends, "Handsome" Frank Stalletto and "Beef Stew" Lou Marconi, served as Undertaker's druids.

THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM (aka The Blood Demon) (Harald Reinl, 1967) IMDB SELECTED BY @Execproducer A 1967 West German production featuring genre stalwarts as Lex Barker, Karin Dor, and Christopher Lee. Based on Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, the film bears more than a passing resemblance to a Hammer Horror joint. Just a fun popcorn movie, perfect for a double feature with something like an Edgar Wallace Krimi or a nice Italian Gothic. REVIEWED BY @No Point Stance This year I’ve landed on a prime slice of 1960s gothic Euro horror, complete with period setting and sets dripping in atmosphere. It’s a German production with a litany of alternate titles – among them ‘Castle of the Walking Dead’, ‘The Blood Demon’ and ‘The Snake Pit’ – though ‘The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism’ is easily my favourite, despite no one by the name of Sadism (PhD or otherwise) appearing in the film. The version I watched is from a nice-looking German DVD runs 79 minutes; there’s a new blu ray that’s over 83 minutes but I have no idea what material I’m missing here. The film was directed by Harald Reinl, who has something of a fascinating story. Formerly a champion skier and ski instructor before getting into filmmaking and running up a total of 69 directorial credits, he was fatally stabbed by his alcoholic wife at the age of 78. He was nearly 60 at the time of this film’s release. The most notable names in the cast are Bond girl Karin Dor and the iconic Christopher Lee (who thankfully dubs himself for the English language version). Most everyone involved, Lee aside, were regulars in the krimi genre that endured great popularity in Germany for decades. Edgar Allan Poe is namechecked with a partial writing credit, and there is certainly evident inspiration from AIP’s Poe adaptations in this movie; the original German title, ‘Die Schlangengrube und das Pendal’ translates as ‘The Snakepit and the Pendulum’. I’ve probably never read more than one actual Poe story but I suspect the connecting tissue is tenuous at best. Anyway, synopsis time. *** SPOILERS AHEAD *** The setting is the 18th or 19th century. We open in flashback, with wicked Count Regula (Lee) being led to his execution as a bewigged magistrate, Rheinhold von Marienberg, reads out his list of heinous deeds (specifically the murder of twelve virgins). Naturally this gives Regula just enough time to curse von Marienberg and his entire family face before he meets his own gruesome death by having a very ‘Black Sunday’ / ‘Maschera del Demonio’-style gold mask (albeit much goofier-looking, to the point of being frankly ridiculous) nailed to his face followed by a horse-drawn quartering in the town square. Spectating at the execution is Karin Dor, apparently the lone escapee from the Count’s clutches. 35 years later the above events are related in the village of Bergenstadt to a small crowd by an old man, who later follows a newcomer to the town, Roger (Lex Barker) and presents him with an invitation to visit a Count Regula (the same? A descendent?) at his castle in the region, in order to be given some information about Roger’s cloudy past. Shortly thereafter, in the town of Lindenheim, Baroness Lilian (Dar again, playing the daughter of her earlier character) observes the same old man telling his tale to a new audience. This coincides with Roger arriving in the town and asking for directions to the castle, to a predictably hostile response from the locals, who are observing a religious procession intended to drive evil from the area. An elderly saint (as he is described by one passerby) tells Roger of the late count’s horrific crimes but then gives him the perplexing news that the infamous Count Regula left no descendent. The Baroness passes in her carriage and she and Roger make goo-goo eyes at each other. A clergyman named Father Fabian offers to show Roger the way to the castle in exchange for a lift in Roger’s coach. They soon pick up Lillian and her maid, Babette, left stranded after a hijacking. It transpires that Lilian has also received a letter bearing the mysterious Count’s handwriting and seal; this one concerning her late mother’s estate. At this point all Lilian has of her mother’s is a jewelled cross. For his part, all Roger has of his own family is a medallion, which he explains was left with him as a child, presumably at an orphanage. Lilian and the priest speculate that Roger must have been born into an aristocratic family. Onward they go, the coach passing a burnt-out tavern and a wild-eyed vagrant camped in its ruins. Roger’s driver becomes suspicious of the priest, who claims to have dined here just a month earlier. The hobo declines their attempts to communicate but, as soon as they leave, whips off his Scooby Doo disguise to reveal…some guy we haven’t seen before* Roger finds a gold coin in the ruins. The coachman gets nervous and wants to turn back but the priest convinces him – at gunpoint – to continue. It certainly seems that this man of the cloth may not be all that he is letting on. Soon, they run into fog, and the trees lining the road are suddenly littered with human body parts and partial corpses that seem to be fused with the trees themselves. It’s a memorable, if cheap, spectacle. Dialogue says it’s Good Friday. The interminable coach journey continues. Karin Dar constantly gazes at Lex Barker like she’s intent on getting some of his Total Package. It occurs to me that the priest looks a lot like Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Dog Soldiers, Argento’s The Card Player, etc). This film runs less than an hour and twenty minutes, but I’m convinced they’ve spent at least 20 of those in and around the coach. A little further on and the trees are now adorned with hanged men or possibly mannequins – it’s uncertain as to the film’s intent. It’s all to much for the poor man, as he suddenly succumbs to a fatal heart attack. Roger brings the vehicle to a stop and, as he and the priest check on the driver where he fell from the coach, the vehicle – along with the two ladies within – is stolen by the Scooby Doo guy from the ruined tavern. Reduced to travelling on foot, Roger and the priest trudge through a nicely-lit spooky graveyard adjacent to (finally) the infamous castle. The priest somewhat belatedly points out that the castle is now only ruins, but a gravestone marked ‘Regula’ opens a hidden subterranean passage and down they go, into the castle’s concealed underground section. The castle itself is pleasingly gothic, all bare stone walls, flickering torches, creepy statues and unexpected drawbridges that seal the way back. A spiked portcullis is raised by forces unseen and our duo are admitted to a dungeon-like inner chamber. A succession of gates herd our heroes onward until they are greeted by the Scooby Doo villain (now in butler’s livery, and named as Anatole), who reunites them with Lillian and Babette. Things start to pick up pace, as Fabian is revealed to be a professional thief, a wall frieze bears the likenesses of Dor and Barker in their previous incarnations as Lillian’s mother and the magistrate respectively (and I feel like an idiot for not noticing much earlier that Barker was playing the magistrate) and then Fabian shoots Anatole, only for the butler to gloat that he cannot be harmed as he has already been dead for many years. The bullet hole effect here is crude but neat. Fabian gets incarcerated in a cell for his trouble. In a torture chamber-cum-laboratory Anatole unveils the dismembered corpse of his master within a glass case, then performs a little ritual that apparently only works on Good Friday (it’s unclear why the previous 34 were unsuitable). Regula’s limbs reattach themselves, the glass coffin opens and Christopher Lee returns to the film after almost an hour’s absence as Lillian and Roger look on in horror. Lee doles out some exposition in a curiously restrained and unenthusiastic manner (making me wonder if some aspect of the production had displeased him, as he was known for playing hardball where dialogue was concerned if he felt slighted in some way). He calls our heroes’ attention to the twelve (perfectly preserved) female corpses strewn across various racks and slabs, and informs Lillian that her mother was to have been the thirteenth and without her blood – or that of her daughter - he cannot attain true immortality. He’s also keen to carry out his vow of revenge. Anatole chimes in to explain how he was hanged and yet returned to life and it’s all quite the convoluted info-dump. Roger lunges for the Count but falls through one of those nifty trapdoors into a cell below and the Count prepares Lillian for one of those needlessly complicated lethal quandaries so beloved of movie villains. Back to Roger, now tied down, surrounded by rats (which the foley artist has dubbed with guinea pig squeaks) and being menaced by a blade-edged steel pendulum slowly lowering from the ceiling. Regula relents on killing Lillian for now and instead directs her to Roger’s cell, for reasons. Something about the fear she feels making her blood more nutritious (?), cue Lillian running a gauntlet of vultures, spiders, snakes, scorpions and collapsing walkways in 8-bit platforming game fashion as she dashes to Roger’s aid. This is the 1960s though, so Roger makes his own save while, simultaneously, the thief has managed to extricate himself from his own cell. “Why didn’t that butler bring the Count back to life in the beginning?” grumbles Roger, before busting in on the evildoers and running out the clock on their now-brief window to kill Lillian. Regula and Anatole crumble to dust (as do the twelve dead maidens), leaving Roger, Lillian, Fabian and Babette to make good their escape as a very jolly, very-60s tune plays us out. So, yeah, that was my pretty much TLDR rundown of the events (I took way too many notes and once I started editing them they became incomprehensible), so I’ll try to summarise the review portion quickly. I had a lot of fun with this one, having seen it once before but failing to remember anything except the weird corpse-fused trees bit. Count Regula, at least to western ears, is a pretty silly name for a villain in anything other than lowbrow comedy but the only other real negative for me was the iron mask placed on Lee’s face in the prologue. Bava’s mask was a great iron tusked thing and really looked the part, whereas the mask used here looks a lot like a smiley face emoji. It doesn’t exactly convey a sense of menace or dread. Most everything else was good. Great sets and lush Bavarian exteriors are well lit and shot. Our imperilled foursome are all likeable and well cast, and I was actually pleasantly surprised that Fabian didn’t turn heel on his companions once his true nature became apparent. Overall I’d call this a 7 outta 10 on personal preference, and probably a solid 6 if you’re not that into old-fashioned gothic period horror. Thanks to whoever picked it. EDITOR'S NOTE Can be found on Amazon Prime and Tubi (with ads). A good version is also on Youtube

We paid off our mortgage this week, a little bit more than 6 years ahead of the original schedule. One less thing to worry about.

This is wild. I heard another podcast about this same movie earlier this week.

I like this topic. I have two stories to share. One is not necessarily "best," but it is memorable and I find it funny. "Best" would probably be the first WWF show I ever attended, around age 4 or 5. I've been a lifelong wrestling fan, and my dad took me to most of the WWF shows that came to our area from the time I started watching wrestling up until I turned 14 or 15. My dad went out of his way to make that first show special, so the older I get the more I appreciate it. It was just a house show, but we got second row seats. Given the time period, it would've been near the start of the Undertaker gimmick...seeing him come out live as a young kid was terrifying, especially being so close to the entranceway. My dad also took a bunch of photos at the show, as best he could. To this day I still have photos of Randy Savage running around ringside (he was chasing off Jake Roberts), and a cool one of his hat lying in the middle of the ring. On to "memorable," without further ado: How Teflon Turtle Got Busted Open Hardway at Over the Edge '98 Honestly, I don't remember much of anything about this event itself other than I was very excited to get tickets to a PPV for my birthday. My dad again. Of course the main event was great, rest of the card forgettable in retrospect. The real fun happened as the show ended. As people stood up and were filing out of their seats in our row, a couple of older women badgered past my gangly-preteen self and put a shoulder in to me to get out of there first. One of them hit me hard enough to knock me backwards - my seat, already raised, caught me from falling over entirely. But: it turned out that there was a jagged metal piece on the underside of my seat's hardware, which unbeknownst to me at the time had pierced one of my calves as I lost my balance. I didn't notice it at first due to the impact of being knocked backwards registering more. But, as my dad and I were leaving the arena, I started wondering why my calf felt wet. I looked down and sure enough, my calf was dripping blood and it was flowing down on to my sock. We wound up grabbing a bunch of napkins from a concession stand to soak some of it up/so I could keep pressure on it while we drove the couple of hours home. I wound up not needing stitches, but had nice little scar from it for quite a few years. (He's hardcore! He's hardcore! )

Yeah so Lexis King's debut. The entrance is pretty cool although for someone who isn't trying be like his dad he acts like a Loose Cannon. But he gets in the ring and is rather average. He is going to get his biggest opportunity but it is going to be a serious work in progress