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Having Jinder do the Ric Flair “Tony, we’re partners” sort of thing aka Flair’s WWF return in Charlotte would be a fun reference. But I don’t think they can wait 3 months for Jinder’s non-compete to run out (even with recent FTC announcements, I doubt they’re gonna make that move before the decision gets held up) MJF would be an interesting “protector” here since he might need something to do while waiting for Adam Cole to heal.

The main problem with Jinder Mahal is that he would have to show something that he wasn’t allowed to show (or didn’t show) in the WWE to be interesting

Sonjay Dutt was able to speak Punjabi with Shad Khan. So I suspect that some people might know what Jinder is Punjabi and Shad is from Pakistan’s Punjab region. The rest don’t know that Jinder isn’t Pakistani

Mustafa Ali would fit if they want to do a “he’s a distant cousin of the Khan family” gimmick but he presumably has some sort of contract with TNA unless they’re dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUgLzTg2BpA Man, this duo of Roddy Piper and Gino Hernandez was putting Pablo Escobar's kids through school

free idea for AEW: have a giant get well card for Tony signed by all the various AEW wrestlers, only for the Elite to show up and smash up the card (can't be a conventional card unless you want them to just rip a giant card into pieces)

he should show up in a larger neck brace tomorrow night and an even larger one on Saturday

Could they just cast Brian Cage as Tony’s personal bodyguard during his recovery without needing to explain why Cage is suddenly out of the Mogul Embassy? or make Miro the guy whose job involves protecting Tony so that you have an official reason why Miro doesn’t wrestle and an in-joke about all the rumors that Miro doesn’t like any of AEW’s ideas for him.

Not sure if Tony should get over on Jack Perry in any way more physical than having Tony rise from his wheelchair, distracting Jack Perry and causing him to lose the match

On one hand, the bump Tony took from the punch was probably not good On the other hand, wrestlers should be portrayed as being able to knock out non-wrestlers with body blows

have a tab open on the BigTimeWrestling stream and always fun to switch over to 1987 World Championship Wrestling showing Winston Garland (during the 1987 NCAA Tournament) with Craig Sager behind him watching Brad Armstrong working a masked job guy also lots of 'probably can't do that now' fun of Jim Cornette suggesting Precious eat dog biscuits EDIT: Cornette followed it up later by saying Precious isn't there because she saw a "No Soliciting" sign on the front door of the Turner Studios... don't think you can say that one anymore

"Our General Manager is a laptop that isn't allowed to run Windows 11 and is using a Linux variant"

use AI as the general manager and blame it when the booking is unpopular

having a PPV on Sunday and the next show on Wednesday is what it is for momentum also from the screenshots i've seen, Shad's mustache is tremendous as always

reporting in from a laptop thats not 10 years old (the now retired device was the secondary device for years and I was using a desktop or mobile on here instead) switched from Acer to a Dell. Not gonna complain much about how the Acer keyboard was wonky for years or the charger port being in the back-middle of the laptop which became annoying eventually (EDIT: the annoyance accelerated once the port seemingly became loose, just imagine trying to fiddle with a charger that's behind your laptop screen while it's on) anyways, they let this device have Win11, so i'm sure i'll find a reason to dislike that soon (EDIT: although it's probably gonna whip the llamas ass for speed of downloading updates for awhile)

“For some reason we showed Haku the Booker T/Hogan promo and he laughed for minutes”

Sherri lasted a year and a half in WCW after Madusa dropped her on her head on Nitro I don’t think they showed Sherri during the “Hulk Hogan we comin for you” interview even if they could have made that B Roll and not played the infamous line

I thought Bloodsport was work-shoot, not shoot-shoot

didn't see the first 13 minutes of the Sherri episode.. what I did see was an interesting divide between the episode's narrative and the timeline was sorta loose, but probably not incorrect. Eric Bischoff was sorta just there to say that he had no idea why Sherri was available and then he fired her later on for drugs her son looked in rough shape. I guess cancer/oral cancer can cause all that and if they hadn't mentioned cancer, I would have just concluded he spent a bunch of time using crystal meth or something similar it feels like this episode just bumped the timeline forward for the question of "when did wrestlers start using somas" since that always seemed like a mid-90s thing and Cornette is telling stories referencing that with Sherri in 1993 In a way, she kinda arrived 10 years too soon. Well, at least 10 years, if not more. notes from the first 13 minutes: Jake Roberts is a mix of sounding like he's sincere and telling the truth but a lot of his stories about other people are essentially about himself I guess Sherri being billed from New Orleans makes more sense now. Her ex-husband from Louisiana has a very very Louisiana accent. There's not one southern accent, obviously, and you can tell the difference between places if you know it. The last name Gonzales from Louisiana does sorta suggest "Isleno" (descendent of people from the Canary Islands off of Spain who ended up in Louisiana when it was ruled by Spain). If you saw the last name and didn't know which kind of Hispanic it could have been. That ex-husband really came off like a guy who tried to bribe Edwin Edwards to get a favor. Meanwhile to the people who didn't see the Grizz episode, the "Sherri was a little old for Grizzly Smith" thing might have flown over some of their heads. By this point in DSOTR, there's almost a universe of episodes where one references one from a few years ago.

between the quick ejection and his strikezone (which was worse than his usual), Wendelstedt didn't seem to know why the Yankees were kicking off a series with a Monday day game and he called it like a getaway game granted, Wendelstedt's crew was off over the weekend, so they could have ended up in NYC earlier than the Oakland A's

Things I Remember from Clash of the Champions 6: Lots of NWA Champions and Bigwigs are in town for the occasion, including Terry Funk, and Harley Race (who was just on the Royal Rumble 2 1/2 months before this) Also here's a music video And then the national anthem. Yes it takes a few minutes to get to the ring. Midnight Express vs SST was a really good tag match. MX actually getting lots of offense in but SST taking over. Then a finish with the Rocket Launcher and shenanigans and a phone shot, and the SST wins. Probably a pretty dramatic change for a Cornette to return to the Superdome as the good guy manager Steve "Steven" Casey tries to charge Muta and gets misted immediately. Not technically a DQ though. Then they go for several minutes and Muta beats him with the Moonsault. I believe that this was the match where Hayes mentioned he holds the attendance record at the Superdome but maybe that'll be challenged tonight (it wasn't, there were 5300 people in the Superdome and they filmed it in a way to hide that fact unless you realized how few rows were on the screen on the hard cam) JYD with a Second Line. Pretty sure a Second Line has never turned down an opportunity to get paid. This being 1989 and not 1983, this JYD/Butch Reed match wasn't exactly good although i'm sure it's better than the average 1989 JYD match. JYD beats Butch Reed, which might have been a bit of a sign of "hey, maybe we need to do something else with Butch Reed" (and they did, and it was awesome) Sullivan/Spivey vs Rick Steiner/Eddie went by really quickly. For some reason, we don't get to see Bob Orton/Dick Murdoch, Varsity Club beating the Road Warriors for the tag team titles (!!!!), or Ranger Ross vs Iron Sheik on the Network. I guess having 2 title matches as standby matches looks worse if they were able to get Iron Sheik into a match. And then the title match. First off gotta love how they had Terry Funk around for multiple Flair/Steamboat matches and none of us suspected a thing until it happened. This ruled. The layout was pretty logical where they were working multiple different matches between a first fall that was a free for all and where Flair won with a finish kinda like Chi-Town. Then a second fall where Ricky had to win and he eventually did. And then the third fall, with everything on the line, and a screwy enough finish to justify doing a third match in Nashville. I could see how the finish might be enough to rank Chicago ahead of New Orleans. Although there's probably not a lot of good finishes if you need to justify a match in Nashville. Of course, the two of three falls match being the 2nd match is it's own thing but you gotta whip Wrestlemania 5's ass somehow. Also love the spot in the 3rd fall where Flair does his turnbuckle flip and Ricky just nails him before he gets on the other turnbuckle. Then Flair actually hits a move off the top rope later. This is a match that expected to rule and it did. Plus George Scott's inability to get more tickets sold for this card got him fired and brought upon the real surge into 1989 NWA. We close with Ricky Steamboat looking at the finish. It's the human element. edit: just remembered that they misspelled "Ric" on the prematch graphic. Having "Rick" in newspaper ads is what it is.. but there's a real quality control question when the promotion is making that mistake (yes, I know "WCW everybody")

time to reemphasize wrestling referees by having a referee who gets into arguments allowing for heels to cheat and is oversensitive to criticism

That feels like a Yakov project that was trapped in development hell because he had 3 other projects with the exact same premise Just realized that Million Dollar Armbar would work as a finisher name too, even if it was probably a little sarcastic

Pushing for AEW to get Veer just to release a “RINKU SINGH IS COMING” graphic to announce his arrival How does one have a guy whose story was in a movie called Million Dollar Arm and his finisher isn’t a callback to that phrase? Although I guess with his the vignettes defined him, his finish should have been Val Venus’ Money Shot splash

Tony with the look of a man who insists it's tyranny to ban smoking at Denny's