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I kind of remember some guys back in the day hitting the turnbuckle chest first, but close into the turnbuckle after a reversal. Heel goes to whip face from one corner to the other, face reverses it back to the original turnbuckle and the heel hits it chest first.

It's crazy that a spin-off from JAG(which was hysterical even though it wasn't supposed to be) ended up being the modern day Gunsmoke and also spun off more shows than All in the Family.

Early WWF heel Beefcake wasn't horrible, if he was in the ring with a decent babyface all the basic stuff he did equaled a passable match. Beefcake now being considered a George Gulas type is way off, the Beefer was on par with most juiced up guys of his era. Yeah the hedge clippers like Duggan's 2x4 was something that needed to be seen by kids sitting in the cheap seats, that way the kids could then beg their parents to buy them the foam version of the clippers or 2x4.

I became "aware" of pro wrestling in 1980 when I was 5/6 years old, I grew up in Pittsburgh so the Bruno-Zbyszko feud was a big deal that seemed on par with the big sports news of the day. I didn't start watching weekly until the spring of 1982 when the Strongbow's chase for the tag belts started and heel Jimmy Snuka showed up, I dug all three and was deemed old enough to goto the Civic Arena in June to see Snuka vs. SD Jones and the Strongbow's vs. Fuji and Saito for the tag belts. Backlund was a goof to me and my hate for white bread babyfaces started at that card, poor Blackjack Mulligan had to not only battle Bob Backlund but special guest ref Gorilla Moonson, it was a borderline handicapped match. Over the next year I became a fan of the heels mainly Don Muraco who was an amazing back then and Bob Orton due to the superplex.

This was the night Dr. D slapped John Stossel.

If I remember right Jacques wasn’t just concerned about retaliation from Dynamite but also from Dynamite’s crew of guys like Bad News Brown, Don Muraco, Dino Bravo and Davey Boy, so getting a little extra insurance was somewhat justified. The episode left out the biggest reason Dynamite didn’t retaliate and that was due to Vince threatening to fire anyone who was involved in another locker room fight, that’s why the Rougeau’s were eliminated early and the Bulldogs eliminated late at the Survivor Series, since the Bulldogs had given their notice and therefore had no concerns about getting fired. Also Dynamite was “Bitch AF” for waiting to sucker punch to Jacques when Raymond the fighter of the family was sidelined with a knee injury and on crutches.

It cools down but most of the time the temperature is going from 112ish to 98ish, so it’s still really hot. A few years ago when I was there in July it was 101 at night with a breeze coming in from California, it was like being in a dryer.

Jacques in other interviews goes into way more detail, the biggest being Dynamite was F’ing with him after the original incident, Dynamite even had a flight attendant announce to an entire plane that Jacques had a “boxing” match the night before.

They have one of those belts at the Inoki-Saka Bar, it's really impressive in person.

Pitt fan here, has there been any reports of Sherrill being part of cover-up's like Paterno and Bo? Sure he castrated a bull in front of his players to somehow motivate them, did the same shady recruiting tactics everyone else did(he really didn't do anything that bad at Pitt) and fired Jimmy Johnson during halftime of a bowl game, but those things can't be compared to what Paterno and Bo did. I live in the Detroit area and the local press had their head pretty buried in the sand concerning the Bo cover-up story, so much of it was hidden behind paywalls.

Yep, people in the Penn State Athletic Dept. and State College were supposedly making jokes about Sandusky back in the 70's.

Slaughter had cooled off a lot once he moved on from Sheiky Baby and started working with Volkoff in the fall of 1984, by the time he left in December he was #4 behind Hogan, Superfly & JYD. It's pretty wild that the run that made him a household name only lasted around 10 months. The McMahon's have always wanted a massive cut of any side deals, in Bruno's book he talks about Linda calling him up demanding a cut of what Bruno got for the Bally's Atlantic City commercials, Bruno wasn't working for the WWF at the time and the McMahon's had no part in him getting the commercial.

The USFL 2.0 is basically a rebranded Spring League.

They matched up Baba and other Japanese stars with someone like Brown since they're coming over to go over, Brown isn't going to lose any heat by jobbing to Baba.

The tag belts look like something from the late 90’s and don’t mix with the World singles belts. The TNT belt looks good but looked better with the red strap.

The Islanders new arena that's right next to Belmont Park is getting ready to open, if they're announcing the SummerSlam location during the Belmont there's a chance it's going to be at the new arena.

You believe Jake? Even the new cuddly "clean and sober" Jake everyone loves is as carny as carny can be.

You left out Lord Alfred Hayes cutting a promo in FRENCH!!!! He sounds like such a sinister prick and I know very very little French.

The new trilogy not having any plan should all be on Bob Iger, looking back it seems like everything Disney does with Star Wars is to boost the next quarterly earnings report.

I'm someone who watches a lot of new and old movies, pre-pandemic it was usually 2 or 3 nights a week and during the pandemic it's 4 or 5. I don't think I've watched an episode of a network TV show in years, the few cable shows I'm interested in I usually DVR and watch at odd hours and I'll usually binge streaming shows. When it comes to older movies on streaming services it's mostly flicks I haven't seen in ages, movies for some reason I never saw, comfort flicks or films that maybe were on the festival circuit but never got picked up by a big distributor(watched a lot of these during the pandemic).

RiffTrax just started something similar, for $5.99 you can stream movies and shorts to your tv via AirPlay or GoogleCast, and eventually an app. The riffs to mainstream flicks aren't included.

Yep, it was a carry over from the “Big Green Belt” that Backlund first wore. Also, the WCW belt is slick but it had too many similarities to the Winged Eagle.

Fighting a drunk is a lot different from fighting someone who’s sober and has some fighting skills.

If Army of the Dead was from a traditional studio, they would have cut it down to 100ish minutes and maybe it would have been halfway decent.