Robert S

There was a wrestler in the 30ies and 40ies (mostly staying in Ohio) who wrestled under names like Lord Patrick Lansdowne Finnegan who used valets doing proto Gorgeous George stuff like disinfecting the ring mat. https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002hnj33/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg (the second link did not embed properly)

So are you trying to say that Tony looks like a crack addict on that picture?

If WCW got a buck every time Dave misses to properly set a comma or a full-stop in the WON, they would still be running today.

Hisa's site (don't remember if that was an angelfire or geocities site) definitely had all double-changes (including the Colon double-change) besides the Veneno one listed in the late 90ies.

Some other prominent wrestlers that come to mind: Low Ki (he probably would not make it even to the first show) Austin Aries (he would be gone within a couple of weeks) Drake Younger Jaxson Ryker Velveteen Dream El Ligero

How many of those years were financially really bad or at least as bad as was reported back then? One of the biggest learnings from Nitro (the book) was that accounting at Turner & Timer Warner was a mess and the real numbers WCW did were much better than how it ended up being in the books.

That Pedigree gave me a good laugh. My assumption was that the arms were the problems. Considering that Cody did not even try to bend the arms I assume they did run through the bigger spots beforehand in the PC and there were issues with a lack of flexability of a certain 51-year-old.

That reminds me of a classmate in school who accidentally grabbed a teacher by her tits. It went something like we was walking around a right corner, for whatever reason had his hands up and was talking (and looking) to a colleague on his left side. Obviously the teacher was also walking around that corner in the other direction. From what I got the guy (who was around 15-16 from what I remember) was really embarrassed while the teacher (who from what I remember was pretty young and good looking - just to paint a picture) took it cool (because it was obvious that it was not on purpose). On the other hand, how is anyone expected to take a move or strike from Gulak if he can't even hit a stationary target like a hand. Or is he also used to thigh slapping that he even wants to do that when shacking somebody's hand?

So you are expecting Somalia Joe and Wayne "the Cock" Johnston to be on the card?

Even the name of name of the group was weird. I mean the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was not a white supremacist group and it did not control a militia or whatever that group was supposed to be or stand for. Did Vince have financial interests in South Africa in the 80ies that suffered by the end of Apartheid? Because this really reeks like Vince's MO: Vince hates paying taxes -> here comes Irwin R. Schyster, he distrusts lawyers -> hello, Clarence Mason, he feels televangelists are a joke -> hey Brucy, I've got an idea, he is a lifelong republican -> let's put some Clinton impersonator on PPV, Lawler, make as many Clinton jokes as you can think of on Raw, how about having Gennifer Flowers at Wrestlemania 14? fake Clinton was such a great idea, let's repeat this with a fake Obama etc. etc. etc.

335 million divided by 1200, so basically the money goes straight to the lawyers.

16:55, probably a new personal best for me, I only had to brute force a single letter, but the answer to 31 across is really stupid.

So this made look up false friends between English and Spanish to make a silly joke, but I ended up almost empty handed (for one, because the ones with wrestling connections are way to obvious, I mean no one would think Julio Dinero translated to "Jules Dinner" or "Sin Caras" meant "sinn faces"). Though it's funny that a significant bunch of them also work as false friends between English and German (obviously there are also ones that work between Spanish and German, but that was to be expected considering that German and English are closer related to each other).

I thought those filters are gone for almost a decade now. Let me try: OMG, meh, DOI

Regarding people not knowing that he had cancer: my memory might be completely off considering that was 20 years ago, but didn't he have either a blog or a website where he was quite open about his bout cancer? Quick googling at least showed that he seemed to post on the Wrestlecrap board. Here is a reddit post (I guess from one of Tenta's sons) containing a screenshot of a Tenta post from August 2005: (I assume that's legit.)