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Bring in Bad Dude Tito and team Ortiz with him. Team Tito Ortiz!

I'd watch if Bill does the Manning Cast like he did his press conferences.

Babyface Jack trying to get Luchasaurus out from under Christian's control could be good stuff.

Arch just wants to play football, man.

That's good. There aren't enough white guys with beards who podcast.

Jesus, man: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4GZRrQOOJB/?igsh=aG5ybXZ4Zmpqdmlo (Psst @The Natural. You’re going wanna watch this.)

Stupid, sexy Mr. Wrestling II.

Glad that wasn't any worse than it was.

We'll see how things go tonight, but I'd say this last Sting run has been waaaay better than I would've imagined. So, where do we put this in the pantheon of old man runs with a promotion? I have to think Funk's ECW run is the standard. Is this #2?

I think my biggest issue with Dune 2 is that it retroactively makes all previous action blockbusters look like shit.

Exactly. This isn’t the “fuck the fans for being invested in this story” promotion. End the show with a Sting send off and worry about the title stuff on Wednesday.

When I was in college, a friend and I were at the mall in Champaign. We went into whatever Sam Goody to Sam Goody-like record store the had there at the time. The clerk ran up to us as soon as we walked in, and said, “Do you guys watch wrestling?!!?” We said yeah. He said do you know who The Giant is? I remembered that WCW had a house show in town that night. Clerk went on to tell us how The Giant had just been in there. Said when he shook hands with him, his hand engulfed his whole forearm. I asked the clerk, what did he buy? “The City of Angels soundtrack.” Paul must’ve loved him some Goo Goo Dolls.

I legit LOL’d at the Monchichi reference.

Who exactly was dying to see Nash at Sting's last match?

Miro's getting close to embodying the Raylan Given's "If you run into assholes all day..." quote.

It's funny that Haku looks like such a kindly grandpa now when he could, no doubt, still rip your face off.

I think this may get at why I'm not as big on story stories in pro wrestling as I am on in-ring stories. The vast majority of pro wrestling stories aren't all that great, really. They work within the medium and can and are very satisfying there, but don't really hold up to really well-done stories in other mediums like tv show or books or movies or whatever. Also, most wrestlers don't have the chops to really pull off good acting. Like, the Bloodline stuff may have been a great pro wrestling story, but people saying the one Uso deserved an Emmy nom is ridiculous. Ron Killings is very funny within the context of pro wrestling, but his stuff wouldn't work on, say, a sitcom (although he may be funnier that a lot of what's on sitcoms nowadays). I think that may be why I lean into the in-ring stuff harder than the angles/promos/etc. It's the one thing I can get from wrestling that I can't get in other mediums I enjoy.

Yeah, I wanted more “Misawa & co. vs. Jumbo & Co. chaos” and less “let’s all do this same spot at the same time” trios action from that match.

Jericho was a good-looking guy back then. There may be some Hijo del Corozon de Leons wrestling somewhere in Mexico right now.

Oh shit! They should have the MEAT SCRAMBLE MADNESS match IN a WAFFLE HOUSE! It'd be the greatest thing since the Japanese Bath House match.

Meat...scramble...dammit! Why'd I already make oatmeal for breakfast?!?!

It also looked like Sting's harness didn't have a self-release. I thought I saw Darby unhook it for him.

Thought the boy was asleep at the end of the show, but he shot up when Sting came down from the ceiling. He'd never seen that before.

Not all that long ago, my wife was like, "Why is Harrison constantly saying, 'THIS IS RAMPAGE BABY!'"?

Until he doesn't, and then you've got a story beat.