Phantom Lord

So i found this best of ric flair video on youtube (says its disc 5), you know the ones made of old vhs copies of stuff as it aired on tv. Anyway its Flair vs. David Von Erich at Star Wars 83 and both Flair and Von Erich entered to the Star Wars theme. I found that all kinds of amusing. I mean have Flair come out to the imperial march. Still the most random (and awesome) Ric Flair theme is him entering to "Easy Lover" by Phil Collins in 87 for a match against Barry Windham on a big Florida show.

Trips/Batista was definitely a bigger deal than Cena/JBL at that point. Yeah don't forget JBL/Cena was for the Smackdown title. RAW always takes the A spot over Smackdown. As for Benoit. there's a lot of interesting what if's for him. Assume Bret never went to WCW and Owen didn't die cause Bret would have stopped the stunt. No Owen tribute match. Would Benoit still be alive today if he was stuck at the upper mid card level and never broke through to being World Champion? I can see him making it the WWF for a few years and eventually leaving in 2005ish. Probably goes back to Japan or dare I say ROH. Benoit vs. Joe would have been fun around the time Joe was wrestling Kenta and Misiwa.

The fact that Cole never ate one from Lawler was a disgrace. I think Lawler did piledrive Cole after a WWE show in Memphis in the dark match. Why the Wrestlemania match wasn't Lawler just piledriving him like five times is a mystery that may never be solved.

Elizabeth Pena was one of my first crush's as well. La Bamba and *batteries not Included were great films of my childhood. Also the first film I saw going back to school in my film classes was Lone Star. Amazing film she did with Chris Cooper. If you've never seen it, you should.

If this service has every HBO comedy special ever shown it will be well worth it.

So I watched the rest of the show earlier. I feel sorry for Nattie being caught up on Total Diva's and having to be the respected vet of the bunch. Cameron had to slap her twice because she whiffed on the first one. You could just see it in Nattie's eyes that she wanted to do like her Grandpa Stu and twist her into a pretzel. The difference between Cena and Ambrose is in that promo Cena did. Cena comes off like hes reading straight off a prompter with all the fake emotion and passion he can muster. Ambrose has such a more natural feel to the way he speaks which is why so many are identifying with him. The match was what it was, but man when Ambrose trying to bite off Cena's thumb when he had him in the STF was so great. Him also trolling Cena by being like "come on you can still stop me...nah" then grabbing the contract was also funny. I love those little things.

Ambrose was so good in the opening tonight. He was channeling Roddy Piper looking like he was cranked out of his mind. Everything Ambrose does comes off so natural like he's a master improv artist. I can't imagine how horrible this exact angle would have been with Roman Reigns and his inability to think on his feet. The six man that we ended up getting was really good. Thank God it wasn't for the tag titles because you know Vince had to be talked down from doing another partners who hate each other as tag champions thing. Ambrose's flying elbow into the pile was so damn funny to watch. I loved in the seconds before he was like "OH DAMN IT...NOW I HAVE TO...ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT" Rusev vs. Big Show was the only match I was really interested in seeing and since I'm in the middle of finishing a 7 to 8 page paper, I skipped most of the show and only watched it. Big Show delivering a whooping for the first half of the match was fun. Rusev can take a convincing beating. When Rusev busted out that dropkick I legit marked. It was just so awesome. I loved Rusev's half of the match where he was just trying to choke him out. The ending was what it was. I guess we're getting Show/Rusev at the PPV. But I loved Rusev being all walking tall and being like I'LL TAKE YOU BOTH ON. God, if he wasn't doing the evil foriegner gimmick and Show and Henry were heels that would have gotten him over as a super face. I got the rest of the show on DVR. I saw a bit of Mizdow and he had me laughing my ass off.

I could see Bret getting an emotional sendoff. He would've spent 18 years in WWE by that point. The question is whether or not Bret would've wanted to retire for good at 45. Another question that has to be answered is what happens to Owen in this timeline. I assume Bret has enough clout to keep Owen from becoming The Blue Blazer so he likely survives. Bret vs. Owen at WrestleMania X8 could've been a dual sendoff since Owen wanted to retire when his contract expired anyway (in 2002). Even if it's just Owen's sendoff, it'd be a "WrestleMania moment." If Bret doesn't retire, he probably feuds with Angle after Mania and has awesome matches on SmackDown through the end of the year. Bret and Shawn reconciling would be a major theme after Shawn's return. Without Montreal, the ice is a little less chilled and Bret is less bitter so it'd probably happen. I could see Bret moving to RAW and teaming with Shawn against Evolution after the 03 Rumble. We possibly get Bret/HHH at Mania and Bret eventually putting over Randy Orton. Bret being in the ring to celebrate with Eddie and Benoit (especially Benoit) at Mania XX would be an emotional moment. I actually think Bret's final main event run would be a post-Mania feud with Benoit for the World Title. Bret kind of transitions into a bitter old man heel and spends the mid 2000s doing great matches with the likes of Finlay and Regal. He ends up leading the protests against ECW in 05-06. As the decade comes to a close, he starts to transition out of the ring and maybe even becomes an on-air GM to keep himself on TV. He eventually ends up managing The Hart Dynasty and Natalya and his in-ring duties become less and less. I honestly can't see Bret ever having a final send-off. The guy would want to lace up his boots to go out and work with guys like Daniel Bryan, CM Punk and maybe even KENTA and Fergal. Bret's ego would want to prove that he is the best there is, the best was and the best there ever will be. Maybe he even makes a late in life comeback in 2013-2014 to feud with Daniel Bryan to try to stop the rise of the "Yes Movement" before eventually turning on The Authority to side with Bryan. The key thing here is that we're even still 2 years out from Bret's 20 year deal expiring. That's it. It's settled that when time travel is invented we must do what ever it takes to keep Bret from going to WCW.

Had he, I bet he would of gotten the television title run that Devon got.

This woman is the best. God if only she wrestled. Her feuding with AJ over the Diva's title while "proving the superiority of Russian woman over tiny American girl" would be amazing. EDIT: Wow Cougar Jay. That guy could have been Joey Ryan's dad.

I almost want to see Bret vs. Tazz in 2000. That could have been a fun match if Bret went really old school and did some Stu Hart dungeon torture submissions.

Oh come on. Dusty as Sheriff Buford T. Justice would be amazing. DAY AINT NO WAY. NO WAY DAT YOU CAME FROM MAH LOINS. Soon as I get home I'm gonna elbow yo mama right in the head.

I remember old PWI results from 93 where for a month straight at WWF shows Bret beat Luger who he had in the sharpshooter by DQ because Razor Ramon ran in and broke it up. Same exact thing except Triple H breaks up the hold. Man just thinking about it seeing Mike Tyson in a sharpshooter would probably be a sports center moment for the ages.

I'm kinda sad if this is the end of Adam Rose. I like the character. Yeah it's a few years for a Russel Brand inspired wrestler, but damn it the Exotic Express had potential. He would have worked way better as Shawn Michaels circa 1992. Ah well after this I want to see Kane vs. The Bunny. If The Bunny stepped up to Kane and drilled him with a straight right it would have been the greatest thing ever.Kane then proceeding to murder The Bunny to the delight of JBL would have been the second greatest thing ever. Speaking of hilarious things, I love it when Stephanie does her soccer mom busting loose on the weekend dances. I only watched up to AJ's match cause I was coasting on about two and half hours of sleep and I really hope the AJ/Paige feud can keep going to say TLC. I could see them doing a women's TLC match for th diva's title.

Dusty was on a drunken twitter rampage yesterday afternoon. I have no idea idea what he was going on about but damn the network should have a Dusty Rhodes midday show. Just have him go on about anything he wants for two solid hours a day.

Is it just me or does Buddy Jack kind of look like Pat Patterson in that pic. I thought it was too for a minute which would have made for some interesting six man tags if they lasted longer in New York. Terry Gordy looks like hes so proud of his belt buckle. "Mah name's on it" and if you didn't it sure is he would knock you on your ass for sassing him. Just thinking about it, how insane would the Rock N' Wrestling stuff have been if it were Piper and The Freebirds against Hogan. Damn it someone needs to go back in time and stop Terry Gordy from getting drunk (for a few hours that night) and mouthing off to Andre The Giant.

It would be fun to watch though. TNA could move their operations to Chicago and just run shows there. Make it like the old Chicago wrestling on youtube right now. CM Punk as the Buddy Rogers of the company would be so hilarious to watch. He would need a Bobby Davis though to start some riots.

Ryback is rehabbing from surgery. He wrestled for 7 months with two hernias, Roman Reigns is a pussy. Reigns couldn't even make it a quarter of a way through a BIG GUY promo before they'd have to do a retake. Can we nominate Reign's hernia for some sort of WOTY award. Without it we would not be getting the glory of Dean Ambrose.

This was the highlight of RAW for me. You have no idea how hard I laughed when I read that. I was so sad they didn't follow him on the train. Ambrose's adventure on the train could have been the best hour of RAW ever. Dean paying a trio of Mexican guitar players (you know the ones that roam the trains) to play him some Zeppelin would have been so amazing. Also The Rock is so amazing, he took a train to the Bronx that doesn't even run from Staten Island. Man swimming in that water...I hope he got his shots.

It's gonna be a while before Vince finally see's Breaking Bad. But I'm sure he'll love Saul.

I don't drive because I live in New York City and public transit despite growing more expensive anytime the MTA decides hey we need more money cause we can't seem to find where we put the money we had...its pretty reliable. I can get almost anywhere within reason. So I've never had a reason to learn to drive. Plus parking is getting worse and worse in this city. But when you're running for the Staten Island ferry at 1:55am because if you miss the 2am ferry the next one won't leave till 3, its times like that you think maybe you should learn to drive. So I'm on the fence about possibly wanting to drive because I don't like pacing back and forth at 4am because a bus won't be coming for another half hour.

Well as bad as Muggataker matches were back then, that whole DDP burial was more a Vince having to show the WWF was superior to WCW in every way. He couldn't have a match with Hogan and Nash getting squashed right after he bought WCW so he had to improvise. The fans seemed to like that DDP guy. Wasn't there a thought or fear that Kanyon would have been crazy enough to take a last ride or chokeslam off the top of the steel cage in that tag match against The Brothers?

Sold his soul at least.

Yes...it was quite unexpected. So what was the deal with Shark Boy? Him literally running out of gas had me laughing. Still can't believe hes doing the Austin parody six years after it stopped being funny. I like James Storm as a low rent Bray Wyatt. But man I was thinking why did he resign with TNA. The money can't be that good for him. Sure he gets SERG to sing his theme songs, but they have squandered him for years now. Gail vs. Havok was such a fun brawl. That hammer lock slam to the ground made me cringe. It was that good. The only thing I didn't get was Gail puts her in the figure four post and she breaks on five. Why not keep the damn hold on and take the disqualification if you're trying to hurt her for hurting you. Havok as the Vader of the Knockouts division should be fun. It's a shame they got rid of ODB because out of Gail and maybe Taryn (for the really underdog in peril aspect) I don't think there's anyone who can have a good match with her. Will be fun to see her murder The Beautiful People though. Bobby Roode emulating One More Match Christian was just so sad. It's just amusing how MVP is doing what he's doing like he was the world champion anyway. MVP as world champion in the summer might have been another missed oppurtunity for them. I just will never buy Lashley as intimidating.

Well if you noticed on RAW, Cena only came into the ring after Ambrose got curbstomped on the MITB case. He totally waited for it to happen. Cena has some weird moral values. Well if you noticed on RAW, Cena only came into the ring after Ambrose got curbstomped on the MITB case. He totally waited for it to happen. Cena has some weird moral values. Cena has no moral values. He learned very well from Hogan. Look how he treats his wife. Before she jumped to the Authority he never backed her up at the start of the feud yet on Total Divas he comes across as a 21st Century version of Mr. Cunningham. So in this world, Dean Ambrose is The Fonz. Hey he has the leather jacket for it. Now all he needs is a switchblade comb.