Cobra Commander

Huge news for all the YouTube yahoos… three hour Rick Rude mix tape on the Vault https://youtu.be/07r5-hs9mI8?si=nj-yCQBE60gp-jSl

Reggie Willits has a son who went #1 overall in the draft. What a world

This week, it's World Wide Wrestling (7/13/1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHnH2_5eZc The Rock'n'Roll Express make their JCP TV debut facing the Russians for the titles and this is treated as a huge deal. Match goes for about 30 minutes (from the 7th to 37th minute of a 48 minute video). It's sold as a huge deal and big fight and it delivered. Imagine getting this after countless weeks of getting all the enhancement matches on syndicated TV. Once that match ends, it's time for local promos for the Columbus Municipal Auditorium from Black Bart and Arn Anderson. Buzz Sawyer vs Arn Anderson in a Texas Death Match to determine which wrestler has aged worse. Arn Anderson warning the kids and pregnant ladies to not stay for his match with Buzz Sawyer. Craig Sager Johnny Weaver is interviewing the RNRs at their celebration. A literal one match show and it's an awesome one.

"You old enough to drink Tommy?"

Gunther also faced a 53 year old Fit Finlay in 2011. Finlay was just off a WWE run and probably could have kept going but yeah..

I wasn't ruling out the possibility that Jimmy went with the common law wife approach at least once

isn't "nothing too dramatic happens on SNME" sort of the norm for these recent SNME cards? so, there's a pretty decent chance they weren't using Seth's briefcase tonight if Seth was fine

without checking Gunther's CageMatch match listings, why do I get the feeling that tonight wasn't the first time he ever worked against a superold man (meaning, he probably had to face a few crusty dudes working in Germany/Europe back in the day)

kinda wild that AEW is running a PPV that isn't gonna go to 11pm Central time also.. wasn't Big Mamma the legit girlfriend/wife of Jimmy for a time?

the images for the Summerslam Spectacular image used by WWE Vault Yokozuna - ruthless killer, looking to inflict pain Duggan - friendly dude showing up to the BBQ who is about to take a year off from working fulltime

"I'm coming out of my de facto retirement to pay for my legal bills" would certainly be one way to get out of a retirement promise (of course Danielson wouldn't have to pay for those bills directly but..)

looking at match listings showing Ray Traylor doing jobs on World Championship Wrestling for two months after facing Tully and deciding that 1) the idea that Dusty saw Bubba take the Slingshot Suplex and he took him off TV to become Bubba isn't exactly true and.. 2) they did a pretty solid job introducing him as Big Bubba and getting him over within 2 months of him being on TV doing jobs.. that hat and glasses really helped

various 8/14/83 Omni comments:

AI both makes that gimmick easier to do and also sorta-illegal/icky

also Ellering is all over Georgia in 1983 (and into 1984) and in August 83, he's still dressed like a high school teacher who manages wrestlers (which is the look he had a few months later during the awesome Garvin/Jake match) Ellering would be like if Walter White decided to become a pro wrestling manager instead of a meth cook to pay his cancer bills

having someone whose entire gimmick involves trying to paint wrestlers before some chaos always thwarts the painting would be fun for like 2 weeks until it gets stale guessing they can't get Mr. Roll to learn the Victory Roll before Summerslam

Here are the Buzz Sawyer Omni opponents listed on CageMatch before Last Battle: Dick Slater, JYD, Pez Whatley then after Last Battle: Abdullah, Buzz and Tommy vs the Road Warriors in Thanksgiving 83 so they had the epic blowoff between Buzz and Tommy and were teaming them up a month later

I didn't watch all of Arn vs Joe Lightfoot but Arn towered over Joe Lightfoot in the prematch handshake (it could have been a slight illusion) which is surprising since Arn is billed at 6'1" and pretty much never towered over other wrestlers of that time.. Wikipedia lists Arn at 6'1" and Lightfoot at 5'8", which seems more realistic than CageMatch listing Arn at 6'0" and Lightfoot at 5'10"... Joe Lightfoot is not 5'10" when Arn Anderson looks like he's at least 5 inches taller than Joe Lightfoot. at least their heights look closer than if Arn Anderson worked Jerrito Estrada and we got to see how Arn would work against someone a foot shorter than him. so... the biggest 1983 Omni card that hasn't dropped is the Thanksgiving card with Magnum TA and Randy Savage in a tag team tournament, isn't it? Christmas 83 at the Omni has Road Warriors vs Stan Hansen and Bugsy McGraw which feels like a contrast between the 1983 Road Warriors and Bugsy McGraw comedy wrestling (also Christmas 83 has DiBiase vs Tommy Rich loser leaves town)

Buzz Tyler left to star in Star Trek the New Generation after his Bash 85 experience it didn't take long after I realized the Omni card was being aired to see Brett Wayne Sawyer bleeding vs the Iron Sheik, so that was fun too

yeah I'm thinking Asheville probably got the Single version of the song instead of the Album version.. but yeah, probably not a coincidence that Piper and Valentine both got the hell out of JCP pretty soon after this well, aside from the "babyface Greg Valentine" stint in JCP

should his finish be the splash or the senton?

the other Piper/Valentine dog collar matches were in Toronto, Charleston, Savannah, Charlotte, Greensboro, Columbia, Asheville, and Richmond. Of those places, Toronto might actually be more likely to have footage than Greensboro, but it depends on how much stuff the people running the Maple Leaf revival actually own

Piper was the rare guy who went to the WWF in 1984 and had a less insane schedule than his 1981/82/83

Piper and Valentine did 8 rematches of the Dog Collar match in December 1983, which feels insane

I missed the first 27 minutes of the show because I thought it was starting at 7pm Central and not 7pm Eastern Instant review of Piper/Sawyer: boy, they sure did bleed a whole fucking lot