Happ Hazzard

RF Video doing shoot interview with Dan Severn and Ken Shamrock.

Since AEW acknowledge the WON awards Dave may as well get some plaques made up so the wrestlers can show them off on TV and/or social media.

I remember they used different names for the American/Western wrestlers on World Superstars of Wrestling. Bam Bam Bigelow was "Scott Vigelow". Owen Hart was "Jim Owen". Dave Finlay was "Dave Fendy" Humperdink used to forget sometimes though and just use their proper names.

Lane going to the WWF really had nothing to do with the SMW deal, he'd quit SMW and then Jerry Jarrett gained power in the WWF and hired Stan as an announcer, basically on the strength of him doing a Cheesy DJ voice to entertain the boys back in the day and later in his introductions of Jim Cornette in WCW. I think its been said that if he'd known the WWF/SMW deal was going to happen he'd have kept wrestling for a bit longer. WWF got rid of him/he quit in after they wanted him to portray a overenthusiastic mark character that would shill the PPVs while wearing all the wrestler's merchandise and he didn't want to do it and left to commentate on powerboat racing. Michael Hayes had no such qualms and so we got Dok Hendrix.

It was on Cornette's show that I learned of it. Lauren Boebert's mother is called Shawna Bentz There's comments from "Shawna Bentz" on a Youtube video of the Fabulous Ones from 12 years ago.

So apparently Lauren Boebert (the Republican US Representative for Colorado, who owns a restaurant where staff are encouraged to openly carry firearms) may be the illegitimate daughter of Sweet Stan Lane.

How did GI Joe deal with Sarge turning heel in wrestling? Were they still producing the figures/cartoon/comic in 1990?

RIP Marion Ramsey - Officer Hooks of Police Academy fame.

Also co-starred in "Body Slam" with Roddy Piper and Dirk Benedict. RIP.

Wasn't there an Expanse thread on here at some point? I looked and can't find it. Today's new episode was an absolute belter.

I'm assuming he'll appear remotely (and likely pre-recorded) on the main SPOTY show on Sunday night. It's a real breakthrough for MMA in this country.

Khabib just won the prestigious BBC World Sports Personality of the Year award. Previous winners include Muhammad Ali, Pele, Roger Federer, Usain Bolt and Tiger Woods.

RIP Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett)

Barbara Windsor, very well known British actress from the hugely popular "Carry On" films and later Eastenders has died aged 83.

I think Road Dogg is really underrated as far as being an on air-personality. When the "new" DX formed after WM14 The NAO were by far the most over part of the group (HHH was the least over, despite being the leader) and the Road Dogg's entrance spiel was a major part of their appeal.

Great picture of Blackjack Lanza, Al DeRusha, Nick Bockwinkel, Bobby Heenan, Louie Dondero, Pat Patterson, Bob Orton and Alfred Hayes outside Minnesota Metropolitan Stadium.

It's one of those weird semi-kayfabed things where people accepted that Fritz being German was just a gimmick and that he had really grown up in Texas and was called Jack Adkisson. But wrestling was still real and his kids were still Von Erichs. They could have easily justify Lance being called Ricky Vaughan in high school if they could justify Fritz being a former Nazi and his kids being Adkissons in high school. I know some wrestlers kids went by their father worked surname in school. I've seen some kind of picture of Mike Graham, maybe in his HS football team, with him being captioned as Mike Graham rather than Mike Gossett. IIRC Jamie Dundee has mentioned that he went to school under that name instead of Jamie Cruikshanks.

Were Fritz's real kids "Von Erichs" in high school?

Yeah absolutely, but I think Luger's failure to get over as much as expected was what made them delay putting the belt on him. It was absolutely crazy to do the celebration after the match at SummerSlam, the actual booking was reasonable enough, Luger wins but doesn't win the title, and has to somehow get another title shot, culminating with him entering and winning the Royal Rumble. But he should have been pissed off at SummerSlam, not being paraded round the ring on the Steiner's shoulders, with balloons and confetti dropping from the sky.

I think the Narcissist gimmick really damaged Luger in the eyes of the WWF fans. If they'd brought him in as the Total Package, (and he WAS the Total Package in the WBF, including in his interview at WM8) as a heel and a surprise entrant in the '93 Rumble, and then turned him face the same way they did, I think he gets over a lot more than he did. Obviously the booking was all over the place that year, I don't think they had planned for Hogan to win the title at Mania at the time Luger debuted, and I certainly don't think they knew Hogan was leaving for good in a few months when they put the belt on him at 'Mania.

Clash IX took place in Troy, NY. Over 160 miles from New York City. I assume that's not a picture of the city of Troy.

Does WWE own Road Wild? What are the chances of AEW bringing that back? With Jericho playing the gig in Sturgis this year, I think there's a fairly good chance we'd have seen AEW doing a show there were it not for COVID.

I think Heyman would have pissed people off and walked out/been fired before long. He'd probably have still ended up running ECW.

Very sad to hear this. I met Tracy and spoke to him for about 20 minutes or so at the first 1PW show in Doncaster, England about 15 years ago. Very nice guy.