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I know they're sort of playing by ear, but this is visionary in its scope. An empire, built by a man who once shit himself and chased his son-in-law with the soiled boxers.

It's not like he had a choice beyond signing a new deal with Vince for considerably less after they'd just agreed on the 20-year contract.

For a moment I thought the top pic was him with a Shockmaster cosplayer.

Relative to what Sting would make anywhere else besides WWE or TNA and given how easy the schedule was I'm sure that was a good deal to him. He might make that or more with various bookings and signings but it would be more hassle. I'm curious what Flair or Hogan made. Both wrestled considerably less than Sting, but Hogan was valuable when Dixie would negotiate with Spike.

So she can have Finn all over her face, neck, and chest?

Revelations was where they probably didn't have a script to send him and wanted him to show up for production with practically no notice. The new one was the NDA thing. https://www.google.com/amp/www.hitfix.com/news/outrage-watch-the-new-hellraiser-is-getting-slammed-by-original-pinhead-doug-bradley/amp?client=safari

Barker was supposedly working on some sort of new take on Hellraiser with Doug Bradley set to return, but I guess the Weinsteins are churning out another sequel just to keep the rights. I remember Bradley saying he passed on it because the director wanted him to sign an NDA just to read the script.

I guess I shouldn't complain because we use someone else's Hulu password, so I haven't been paying for it anyway. Another streaming service on top of paying for Netflix, the Network, and top tier cable though? Time to have the cord cutting fight with the wife again.

Baba Booey Baba Booey Baba Booey

I loved all of the run-ins for Hunter/Sting. It's one of the greatest absurd, stupid spectacles they've ever put on from beginning to end. Like, it fucking starts with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator and ends with Sting giving the respect handshake to someone who just tried to murder him with a sledgehammer.

I love how important wrestling still is to the dude.

WWE's business model and television at large has changed in the last fifteen years. Their biggest concern ratings wise is probably not having legerage when their contracts are up for renewal. WCW was hemorrhaging money, fell under the umbrella of a corporation with no interest in its survival, and lost a television slot when that was its most attractive feature to potential investors. It doesn't really compare with a public company whose majority shareholders are long term family owners who have their own network if they miraculously couldn't get a TV deal one day.

It's not like they haven't done it before though. Angle retained against Roode at BFG after a really excellent build and then dropped it to Storm on the next Impact. From a creative perspective it sort of worked out long term in that instance to be fair.

Room 237 is unnerving because those talking heads walk among us. It's also a testament to what an amazing technical work The Shining is that it evokes so much interpretation and discussion based on its atmosphere and design when Kubrick read it as a straightforward ghost story.

It's hard to even picture solo Rock at that point because nearly everyone was in a faction. But I guess a guy who's supremely talented but is such a big asshole that a roster with like twelve different stables doesn't want anything to do with him would work.

I'd buy a UFC with Punk vs Airport Creeper. If Punk has a good camp he might last longer than 90 seconds.

They would change their minds on the Universe thing right after naming the championship the Universal Title.

It was against Money Inc. I can't get the Dailymotion link to embed but it's on there.

It should end St. Elsewhere-style where it turns out TNA is what flashed through Hulk's mind when he saw Warrior's reflection in the mirror.

Wouldn't that make him We're going to need a chart to keep track of all of these movie references.

By the time he got through the building to Dixie's office he'd think he was there to pitch ideas for his Lockdown match with Sting.

Who's the lowest executive on WWE's totem pole? They would send that person's intern.