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I didn't even know this was still airing - I thought it went off the air a long time ago.

Pretty much this. I see him leaving around the same time and for similar reasons as Austin. He undoubtedly would have gone back to the WWF at that point, but the question is whether or not they'd pick up where they had left off a few years previous in terms of their intentions to push him. If he were motivated enough and the cards were right, I see him still having a similar career trajectory though with much less backstage clout. DX and his role in the attitude era probably would still have come about, but the Kliq probably would not have been as big a force behind the scenes. I'm not sure there would have been an attitude era in this case. Michaels leaving in 93 probably means that Diesel (at least) doesn't become a big enough name for jumping ship to matter. No Diesel/Nash means no Outsiders - so the NWO probably doesn't happen, or at least not as dramatically. Without the NWO, Nitro doesn't really pose a big threat to Raw, and without the competition, the WWE probably doesn't go the Attitude route.

I remember that short-lived Fox wrestling show that had Fred Ottman stuck in a car featured a jobber named Scott Nash who looked like Kevin's scrawny cousin.

It's interesting to see that Kidman seems to have a lot of trouble taking the back bump off a powerbomb properly. Not enough practice, I guess.

I believe you mean "tumbtacks". Misspellings in your main event are pro wrestling.

Unleash the Animal!

I don't know. It's harder to chant than C.M.PUNK! AL-BER-TO The fans already have a chant all cued up for him. BOOO-RING. What does Bo's ring have to do with Alberto? Alberto will never get Bo's class ring now that they go to separate schools. It's like Romeo and Juliet.

I don't know. It's harder to chant than C.M.PUNK! AL-BER-TO The fans already have a chant all cued up for him. BOOO-RING.

That brings up a point - Roberto Rodriguez is a free agent now, too, so maybe TNA could pair them up again.

Elijah Burke is one of the great missed opportunities of the last few years, if you ask me. Sadly, he got lost in the TNA mismanagement shuffle.

That critic as a mark for himself then, because I just saw the movie and Batista was incredibly good in his role. I'm guessing that wasn't a real review...

I assumed it was someone who was a fan of his dad-- a mixup of Bob Dylan and the Dylan/Kristofferson pic Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. Well, it was a terrible name, regardless. Made me do a double-take and think to myself "Did they hire Bischoff's kid?"

The contrast between today's WWE culture and the wrestling of the past is really summed up by the progress of photos on this page - Albano, Sabu, evil Russians... guys in skinny ties.

While I get that the one-legged-ness makes it more eye-grabby, they've already done "vet with an inspiring story trained by 3D", and it didn't work out so well for Mr. Neal.

Not sure what that was supposed to be, but it couldn't have been much good for Vader's knees. Pretty sure it was a gorilla press slam that Vader had no clue how to take.

CM Punk is a Grouch. It all fits.

I dig The Gambler the mostest, always have, but what in Blue Tarnation is a Jimmy Graffiti? - I miss squash matches, RAF That's Gigolo Jimmy Del Ray, baby!

They look like alternate-universe AJ and the Miz.

That keeps the black power theme intact, though.

Wouldn't Lane/Eaton be the first "new" MX? Or do they need to be billed as such?

Sgt. Slaughter was in WWF Battlemania and before that was in Marvel's GI Joe which had an issue with a cameo from J. Jonah Jameson who is of course, the arch-nemesis of Spider-Man. Or you can go, Slaughter in GI Joe which had several crossovers with Marvel's Transformers which had an issue with a Spider-Man team-up. Either way, The Bushwhackers and Crusher Hogan are peers. Circuit Breaker also was in both Secret Wars II and Marvel's Transformers.

Fixed it for you.

That's gotta be a record.

I skimmed at first and thought there was going to be a Dean Ambrose figure in the vending machine.

I wouldn't trust early 98 Scott Hall with a World Almanac. In all seriousness, in an nWo that had Nash/Hogan/Savage (was the Giant still around?) Hall would never have found a place in the world title picture.