BobbyWhioux

if nothing else it illustrates how quickly locker room morale/culture can go from "we're in the Super Bowl" good to "we're missing the playoffs" bad.

30+ years later and the "who has the best entrance theme/what's the best wrestler theme song?" discussion still begins and ends with Warrior. Sorry.

I think a lot of us, deep down, wanted him to commit that diagram to memory and finally get the hang of that killer submission hold that was "guaranteed" to turn his career around.

should have Freebirded their way to the tag belts, imo

Disco was at his best teaming up with Alex Wright to form the Boogie Knights (or The Dancin' Fools as certain philistines in WCW's broadcast booth insisted on slandering them)

Disco did The Chartbuster way crisper than Austin did The Stone Cold Stunner (the latter of which suffered greatly from it's own memeification, the KICKWHAM addendum, and Austin's cumulative injuries)

Due to truth in advertising laws, you're actually not allowed to refer to what the Jets did today as a "pass rush"

thumbing the scales is rarely so literal as it was there.

I was weary of DDP at the time (blame contemporary internet wrestling nerd groupthink) so I absolutely ate up the Positively Kanyon schtick. But even within that, this was solid gold from Jarrett. Like Double J bringing the slightest sliver of Lance Russel to WCW TV.

i want to know if he'll hand out one last Jesse The Body Award

Amazing. Ravishing Rick Rude would be so proud...

I was in attendance for Superbrawl IX [Feb of 99], about a year and a half before where Smelly is in his Nitro rewatch, and with all the changes to WCW's landscape 1 year feels like 10. I don't think anything I saw that night had any bearing on June 2000. Except Hogan wrestling Flair for the belt in the main. That's basically eternal. And I don't even remember who actually won that night. [Just that the ending schmozz was Torrie Wilson's in-the-flesh debut. So probably Hogan? BPP vs DDP stole the show (we got a Frankensteiner!) and Rey Jr. lost his mask (I can't imagine anyone really thought Miss Elizabeth was going to get her head shaved).]

Which begs the question: WWF wasn't hurting for tag teams at this point, does anyone know why they put the Colossal Connection together to beat Demolition but just for a couple months? Was it just to give Andre a gold watch?

The Colossal Connection, because even by the loose standards of pro wrestling promotion, you could not get away with calling a team with end-of-career Andre an "Express" But yeah, at the minimum Andre should be able to no-sell/shrug off a pin breakup attempt. This should probably be a staple of fat guy tag partners. Even if you knock him out with a top rope forearm, you still gotta move him, and now his dead weight should make that even harder.

If a Black Friday game is on Amazon and nobody’s Mark enough to pay to stream it, does it still air?