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The reaction Savage got for his sit-down protest on Nitro and when Sting joined him was nuclear and one of WCW's better executed angles. The fact that they made it a distant memory by not building on it and having Savage rejoin the nWo says it all, really. Love the idea of an anti-nWo but not quite part of WCW faction. They hinted at it strongly but never went anywhere with it. Shame. The nWo had some heat left on them after Starrcade but there certainly should've been an end game with them at some point. I liked Sullivan's idea on a recent shoot (I think a timeline of '96 WCW) where Hogan loses clean to Stinger and goes insane watching the footage in a dark room with multiple TVs over and over again with Hall and Nash mocking him, setting up a crazy Hogan face turn IIRC. Sullivan has such a tremendous mind for angles and characters.

Fall Brawl had a weird/interesting/awesome Pillman/Johnny B Badd match that went forever and is worth watching and Ric Flair vs. Arn Anderson.

Think he might turn into a player for Arsenal.

Guardian is saying the Guidetti deal hasn't gone through. Something about not getting the paperwork filed in time. Shiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Guidetti is a great pickup for you guys. Here's hoping he gets back to his Feyenoord form.

Found Dan! Hard at work, being a q-tip for Sky Sports.

Where the heck is The Natural? Is he okay?

... working?

Can we get Dan back?

That was a lot of fun. They got a ton of shit in for a 4 minute match. I was hoping they had a longer match but Wrestling Data says they only met up one other time, that being in WWF in '96 with Smothers working as Freddie Joe Floyd the enhancement guy. Shyit.

Agreed about diving and retroactively punishing players for it. Won't happen any time soon but it ought to. Btw, the pic beside your Carcass sig isn't loading.

Tottinghams. Good bounce back game! Fun weekend of football.

Zayn's got a nice smile, though. Christian just looked like a CLB.

Dude, I can't tell Riley, Saxton, or Phillips apart. They all have the same voice and none of them are any good. Saxton can be decent when he's not trying to be an over the top heel. I can only tell it's Phillips when he busts out his "whoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoa" five times a match. I preferred the previous Bayley/Sasha match but this week's wasn't bad. Charlotte was good with the crowd but took it a bit too far to the point Bayley had to refocus her. All three women have a bunch of potential. Hopefully they can drop the "divas" label and create a strong women's division on the main roster with AJ, Emma, Paige, and Alicia Fox. Going back to the poor crowd reactions to Neville, I don't even think it's just him. They're missing Bo's presence and major heeling in a bad way. Breeze and Kidd are fine heels but they don't drive the crowd nuts like Bo did.

Ryback had a very good match with Big Show when they were building up Show for the Nth time last fall.

Proof #1535363569568 that WWE overscripts guys. Ryback is the man and I have tears from laughing so hard at that video.

Loving this draw. Groups D, E, and F are really toight and Liverpool gets a the biggest club in the world and two teams they ought to finish above. Couldn't have gone much better than that. Another group of death for City, that is some luck. My heart goes out to them (lol). Edit: Fixtures found here.

"Nobody saw it, playa. Keep doing yo thang!"

Is Brian Lee a cheap answer? You don't have to be a particularly "good" wrestler to pull off early deadman stuff. You have to be smart, though.

It's weird how the WWF kind of neglects the fact that the Attitude Era wasn't a switch they turned on after they were getting beaten by WCW in ratings, but rather a slow progression towards an edgier concept of SPORTS ENTURTAINMENT. Goldust debuted in September 1995, Diesel basically went tweener in '96 before leaving with the whole black glove gimmick ("buy the glove if you want to support Diesel, kids!"), and late '96 through '97 had more and more racy shit. The Attitude Era episode of MNW made it seem like VInce's speech was more or less the light switch. Shit, Roddy Piper was "attitude era" as well. They threw ECW a bone saying they influenced the hardcore/violent in-ring stuff but neglected to say anything about Austin finding himself there, Sandman's influence, or any of the other stuff that would take away from the brilliance of the McMahon.

Yeah but... Not so safe when you don't have PS Move with wristbands and it's just mongoloids smashing $60 PS4 controllers on the ground, but still!

Yeah, that was absolutely wild. Pelanties are the best/worst.

Heyman said on the DVD it was mostly Vince comping him the sponsorship money he was missing out on after Vince signed 2 Cold to a deal. But that is Paul Heyman.

Enzo is really funny in skits and when he's not doing his routine though. I hope he doesn't just become Road Dogg mk II.