The Comedian

While there's no bitter rivalry there like Vince-Ted, I still think Vince would be too wary of a "being beaten at his own game" narrative to sell to a direct competitor in the sports entertainment field...

If you'd had the sound on you'd have heard some truly awesome scenery-chewing from Powers Boothe...

Not with the Saudis in charge it won't...

It could be worse dog. At least you didn't make a Kent Jones joke in 2023...

Tony Khan has never ever dropped a line as good as, "if I wanted any lip out of you I'd rattle my zipper." Seriously though, Brian referenced you? What's next? "So Jim, it seems Dave in the latest WON is showing his usual Kent Jones-esque lack of objectivity towards the WWE"...

While I do agree with Nash that Bischoff deserves some credit for being the only guy to ever beat Vince at his own game (even if it was only for a year-and-a-half or so), the man's fatal flaw has always been his unerring devotion to Hogan. To this day he's a relentless apologist for the orange sack of shit. As you pointed out, Sting doesn't "lose his tan" in a day, or a week. If the situation was that bad, you'd see it months ahead, and then you'd make the call on either running an injury angle to delay so Sting could get his head together, or you'd ditch the angle and pick a different savior. And they did neither of those because, yeah, "Sting didn't have a tan" is a phony overstated bunch of bullshit. Hell, even if Sting pulls a Jeff Hardy, what would you do? Run a last minute injury angle, throw Luger or Giant or hell Bret Hart into the match last second, try to save things... No, what clearly happened is that Hogan decided last minute that a career WCW guy wasn't worthy of a precious Clean Job From the Hulkster, so he had the ref slow count the fast count. That's not a booking decision; they still went ahead with the rest of the plan like the slow count didn't happen. It's Hogan being an egomaniacal asshole and Bischoff still covering for him a quarter century later. Of course, what they should have done was this: Sting beats Hogan clean and clear. Next night on Nitro, Hogan gets jumped out of the NWO in favor of their new leader, Bret Hart. Yeah you can argue that fans wanted to cheer Bret post-Montreal but let's not forget that right up to Montreal he was doing fantastic heel work with the Foundation. Just have him continue that, and build into a Hart vs. Sting mega-program. Hogan can take time off, then come back in yellow and red to save the day at a later point if he wants. But of course Hogan (and because of him, Bischoff) saw Hart as nothing more than a keepaway signing because Hogan was still indignant over the idea of Vince replacing him with Bret during the Steroid Trial New Generation and wanted to make sure Hart knew his midcarder IC and tag champ place. Anyway, eventually Goldberg gets so hot that even Hogan decides to play "do the right thing" and job to him, but you know that in the back of his mind he was getting that job back. The fact that he had to wait pissed him off so much that he got Goldberg 1.0 aka Warrior signed just to get an 8-year-old job back from him. Last random thought; just occurred to me the other day. Plenty of people saw Goldberg as WCW's answer to Stone Cold. If you really think about it though, he's more of a conglomeration of Austin and WWF's other hottest babyface at the time, Ken Shamrock. He's got Austin's look, but he comes out screaming to pyro and does shooty stuff like arm and leg bars and judo throws and high kicks instead of just sticking to power stuff. Sadly, if they never decided to work faux-MMA shit into his gimmick, he probably doesn't end Bret's career with a kick he had no business doing...

They sound satanic enough played forwards...

Do you also agree with me that LA Knight is impressing me way more with his promo/character work than whatever the fuck Bray is doing?

It's weird man. The VVitch was so good. I was stoked for The Lighthouse, and it turned out to be a bad Bergman parody. I was still hopeful for Northman, and man, The 13th Warrior did a better job of telling old Teutonic tales. This was like the anti-Valhalla Rising. I hope Eggers gets his shit back together eventually...

Bad News Brown basically was Austin in 80's WWF. Bald, plain black trunked badass who didn't like the faces or the heels.

Maybe they were gonna have him feud with Nikki ASH in a goofy costume battle... They could even claim Mighty Molly taught him her finish to help him out...

DEAN is right, he's SCRYPTSKRIEG!

Um, let's see... Silverado - part of the bad guy ensemble Mr. Frost - titular villain Death Wish - one of the rapists that gets the ball rolling on the plot, though not really a major role That's all I got off the top...

A mediocre Pesci impersonation and not much else. Hell, even Rob Schneider had the copy guy...

I liked that move enough to create it in Fire Pro... https://firepro-w.com/item/detail/250361

See, you're being condescending and dismissing me as nonsensical. Don't talk down to people who disagree with you on socio-political things. You've been fed too many "dur dur Fox News 'Murica" strawmen. Hell, I've never watched Fox News in my life. I don't even like talking about this shit, I just feel compelled to offer a different viewpoint here from time to time...

Amen. One of my biggest critiques of the 21st century left is that for all of their, "We fight bigotry" bravado, their methodology leaves much to be desired. I think your average rank-and-file liberal means well, but they've been taught to be mocking, dismissive, condescending, and outright hateful to anyone with an opposing opinion. And they've had this moral absolutist view of social issues pressed upon them, so that wearing black face in a Halloween costume draws the same ire as burning crosses. And all any of this does is piss people off and make them defensive, and makes racists backslide further into racism. We're left with everyone getting angrier and angrier on both sides. And angry people are so much easier to control. Whether it's Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow directing that anger is besides the point. Two sides of the same coin. Compromise is a necessity to the human condition, but these days everyone wants to be Rorschach. I'm surprised we haven't torn down all the Henry Clay statues...

Hey speaking of documentaries I started watching Secret Base's The People You're Paying To Be In Shorts and as far as I can tell it's a weird, meandering 2-and-a-half hour documentary about the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats season...It doesn't exactly give you a strong mission statement up front about what it's trying to accomplish or reveal, so I'm left wondering, why exactly am I supposed to sit through a long stream-of-consciousness meditation about a year in the life of a mediocre NBA team?

I like how Asuka devolves into just screaming, "BAKA!" over and over again to make all the weeaboos happy... I still don't know why so many people are speculating on Austin Theory when its always been obvious to me that HHH is burying him for being Vince's boy the same way Vince buried so many of his guys...

I just saw that Antonio Brown has come out in support of Kyrie Irving. Because of course he did... At least he has as-of-yet-undiagnosed-but-almost-certainly-there CTE as an excuse though...

Weird to see Ramon in powder blue. I guess purple was the default, but other than that he tended to rock red, black, and green... Not with a key, sissy...

2016 was peak Miz too. He was regularly having good to great TV matches on Smackdown with guys like Ziggler and Ambrose.

Technico you all good homie? I miss your posts son .

Man I mentioned my love of Dr. Butcher in my review but Curt actually picked it....the craziness of Dr. Butcher is that it has zombies and cannibalism, but never the twain should mix...and then the cannibals eat the zombies! Beautiful! It's the day before my birthday and I'm a little drunk in Philly, but I promise a bonus review of another Jersey Devil film, the execrable 13th Son, which I had the displeasure to see in the theater. Props to Curt McGurt.

LOL @ WCW's head trainer killing the finish of the new act they're trying to get over...