Phantom Lord

Well after sleeping on it for a night I can honestly say this is still one of the more infuriating things the WWE has done in a while. Like I said last night, it wouldn't have been such a big deal if it came down to Batista and Bryan. That might have been some actual suspense for everyone. But just the fact they didn't have Bryan in the match at all was just dumb. I remember reading a news bit a couple weeks ago that after the Michigan State video on ESPN came out, it shamed the WWE into changing plans on Bryan with The Wyatts. But people freaking out about Triple H, while he probably has a lot of say...he is not the one with the final say. As long as Vince is living and breathing, it's his vision and he's the one dicking everyone around with Bryan.

Man, when Rey's music hit I could feel the air being sucked out of the building and I live six hours away from Pittsburgh. I think people could have lived with Big Dave eliminating Daniel Bryan in some cheap bullshit way. But this was just the WWE showing they don't give two shits about what the fans want. If it came down to Bryan and Batista, it would have been at least a tad bit more suspenseful even though we all knew Batista was winning. As for the rest of the show, Bryan/Bray might be a legit MOTY candidate and Brock Lesnar beat The Big Show like he owed him money. Brock was just probably imagining it was Cain Velasquez with each chair shot.

MSG is a weird arena in that the locker room entrance for The Rangers and Knicks is right in front of the cameras. But it works perfectly because the way MSG was designed, the huge stage set ups the WWE have really don't fit in the building. I remember the first live RAW they did from MSG in 97 and the Titan Tron and stage and ramp took up half the floor.

Daniel Bryan looks like one of the Mennonite's that do goon work on Amish Mafia.

That would be hilarious. Basically Sin Cara would become the WWE's version of a franchised Krusty The Klown. Have multiple Sin Cara's work on both RAW and Smackdown shows at the same time.

The difference between Bobby and Gary is, Bobby would just keep finding guys to come at you. Gary would poison your home town's water supply just for fun. I always loved that aspect to Gary Hart. In the '80s whenever a manager had foreign wrestlers under his belt, it would usually be someone doing an "anti-USA" gimmick or playing that up for his wrestlers. But with Gary Hart, his character came off more as one of those sleazy dudes that came across these mercenaries while protecting his "business interests" in all of these far away nations like Singapore and Sudan. I always imagined that he hired Kabuki after murdering a rival international arms smuggler or something. I know there's an old World Class of Jim Cornette saying Scandor Akbar took care of Mother Cornette's oil investments. Gary Hart was the guy who smuggled in the pipeline parts because of the embargo against the home country.

The difference between Bobby and Gary is, Bobby would just keep finding guys to come at you. Gary would poison your home town's water supply just for fun.

All this dual disc talk of dvd's when they first came out sounds like when the format was first introduced, it was just a laserdisc scaled down in size. Some of the last generation laserdisc players also played DVD's so I guess that's maybe why they were dual disc. First DVD I ever got was Jurrasic Park 3. Still have the dvd player (it was some generic one), but the laser inside must be fubar cause any disc you put in it skips like its scratched. Lasted well over ten years though before I finally got an Xbox and used that for DVD's before the blu ray.

These investor angles are always so stupid. Unless the investor managed to buy at least 50% of the company (which even in kayfab I can't imagine The Carter's selling that much), it's a moot point and makes no sense. At worst, Dixie would still control 51% of the company so she could always overrule the investor.

They have up Clash of the Champions VI. I am very upset with who ever edited this video because they cut out a fun little Dick Murdoch/Ace Orton match and the Varsity Club/Road Warriors where Teddy Long does the fast count to cost LOD the tag titles. I have the original broadcast (well from JYD/Butch Reed's match) on a tape somewhere. I watched it so much when I was a kid that I still remember some of the commercials that were run during it. The one thing I love about this show is Michael Hayes snarky commentary. I guess he was part of Hiro Matsuda's faction at the time because he called him boss at least once. How the heck did Hiro Matsuda in 1989 end up with a Paul Jones esq army? Hayes was great though. He had some great one liners that made me realize the WWE desperately needs a sleazy asshole heel like him. "Hey girls, just to let you know my plane lands in Orlando at 1:00 tomorrow morning" And one of my favorite lines that was cut out because of them dubbing new entrance music over The First Family's intro, Jim Ross calls Missy Hyatt the first lady and Hayes in disgust says "she ain't no lady". It still cracks me up after all these years.

Hey, he ran down to the ring waving a towel for Bobo Brazil. He paid his dues.

I think Booker T just hangs around. He's kinda like Tony Garea now. As for the GM's. Maddox can make rulings/matches. But Kane can in turn supersede those rulings and matches. I assume the same applies to Vickie.

STINGS GOING TO WRESTLEMANIA!!!

I remember there was one backstage bit with AJ, James Storm, Christian, and the rest of them and Storm said something Boomhauer esq in redneck gibberish and everyone turned to AJ to translate and he perfectly deadpanned "he said lets go kick their ass and then go drink some beer".

Put it inside a Steel Davey Richards match. Teddy goes to do a moonsalt for the hell of it and Davey goes all pseudo MMA on him.

You're just asking for trouble at that point. Seriously I hope if it's a bad concussion, a couple weeks of rest will help. Its certainly a given that Bryan wasn't winning the Rumble. But it would have been fun see him set the new distance record.

I told him to bring back The Steinerline. Wrestling needs more Steinerlines.

That's why they made the new WWE Championship belt. So when the champion is on a show, that giant WWE Logo is front and center.

Zeb getting knocked back to Vietnam is the greatest thing ever.

Bobby Heenan legit marked out for it on commentary. Did Hogan/Dustin have any other matches or was that it? The way it ended, it seemed like it would set up a random bullrope match between the two. I'm sure that was a one and done, because Dustin was feuding with Terry Funk if I recall. I think Hogan was tied up with Flair and Luger. See now a company that knew what they were doing would have rolled this into a mini feud with Hogan teaming with Terry Funk against Flair, Luger, and Rhodes. Hell put them in a cage and have it on PPV. I'm not sure the world could contain the insanity of a Hulk Hogan and Terry Funk tag team even if just for one night, but it would have been worth it.

Bobby Heenan legit marked out for it on commentary. Did Hogan/Dustin have any other matches or was that it? The way it ended, it seemed like it would set up a random bullrope match between the two.

And then Bullet Bob. Man, the WWE Network better air the hell out of Smokey Mountain if these matches exist.

I am dumbfounded that Dustin vs. Hogan happened on a random Thunder of all places. That is such a WCW thing to do. Anyway here's some more WCW randomness. Macho Man vs. Chris Adams WCW Worldwide 1998 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB12Stvmvzg Macho Man vs. Ultimo Dragon WCW Worldwide 1998 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKUypHVjo90 Macho Man vs. Beautiful Bobby WCW Worldwide 1997 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heeGlmHK_EE

Them pulling off a Mulkey's type deal would be so hilarious and awesome. All they said about Gunner and Storm was someone bashed whiskey bottles of their head. I can understand Gunner, but Storm is going heel. Why would he care about AJ. It's very amusing to think that The Bromance, EC3, and Spud were behind all these Pearl Harbor jobs as Gorilla Monsoon would say.

The video will go out and there will be a graphic saying "we're sorry, there's a cloud overhead disrupting our signal".