Cobra Commander

Speaking of George Wells, you gotta be pretty trusting to do a rana on a WWF job guy in 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OIsuCyXoEg

It would have made for a logical story about why the hell there was a 4 month long Cody/Brock Lesnar feud but they didn’t play it like that. This concept could have worked even if it was less subtle and involved Hogan throwing NWO members in front of a top babyface to avoid facing that face.

Not sure if we’ve had any good champ ducking a top challenger storylines lately but it would be interesting to have a babyface who keeps getting sidetracked from chasing the title and it turns out that the heel champ is the one behind trying to keep as many top faces busy as possible

Fans would take it the wrong way if Shanky had to show ID before wrestling matches, wouldn’t they?

how many 2011/12 FCW guys are still in the WWE aside from Seth and Roman and an injured Big E? Looking at an Eight Man Tag main event from the FCW Arena on October 6th, 2011: Husky Harris, Leakee, Richie Steamboat and Seth Rollins vs Cesaro, Sandow, Dean Ambrose, and Leo Kruger. So it's possible that having a certain percentage of your old buddies being somewhere else might put you on a bit of an island? Also, looking at ROH Man Up (September 15th, 2007) with a match between Irish Airborne and Jack Evans vs Jimmy Jacobs, Necro Butcher and Tyler Black. Back in a simpler time with matches like Morishima vs Danielson and The Briscoes vs Generico/Steen.

not sure how long Buzz Sawyer and Rick Steiner remained together, but that seems like a pairing that rubbed off on Rick in a few ways

here's a KC card for ya a) no not that Christian b) it being January 1970, Lou Thesz is sort of the heel (the finish had Thesz throw himself over the top rope and get the DQ victory because the ref thought Ladd threw him over). This would be 4 days before Ernie Ladd spent a Sunday on the Chiefs sidelines at Super Bowl IV. Of course the next day in St. Louis, Lou Thesz and Ernie Ladd teamed up in a six man tag because fans were none the wiser. There's multiple Lou Thesz/Ernie Ladd world title matches from 1963/64 in Texas.

Time for the part of the releases where talent starts airing some laundry (mostly good stuff) (this being Reddit, it's always possible that some of this was not said)

was he in a group or did his nickname not really make sense at the time? I know it's a band reference and all

Dory Sr, Dory Jr and Terry are all proud natives of Hammond, Indiana just outside of Chicago

it's hard to figure out who survived the whole purge of the old people during Covid plus it's Terry Taylor so he could have always ended up not sucking up to the right boss at the right time

is Terry Taylor back in the fold

I can understand why they might not want to ask like Fenix doesn't understand any English but I'd think that Fenix's manager would be an emergency option to get a point across in Spanish that might not be getting across in English? and also having it be communication without it looking too weird on-screen?

although for the sake of safety, calling a stoppage instead of a second headdrop would have been better even if it opens the door to yet another tournament since a stoppage isn't a pinfall or submission and Moxley is unable to defend the title or whatever

a tournament of casino battle royals where the winners of the first round of battle royals go into another battle royal Aside from the whole concussion and disregard for personal safety thing, having Fenix beat Moxley for a title in the middle of a show has some upside. For one having that title change could create some reasonable doubt about if a title will be retained for all the other televised title matches which aren't in a main event. Just don't book it like the TNT title or 1999 WWF? Also gotta differentiate the Fenix change from the Claudio/Kingston match where title vs title kinda implies that one of the titles is changing hands or the free TV tournament finals or whatever. Coincidentally, quite a few of the most prominent free TV title changes involved Moxley winning or losing. Omega winning the world title, the changes last Summer, so on.

has AEW called a double digit number of DQs in their entire history? also, even before the finish, wouldn't Moxley be in the sort of condition where if he was retaining the title over Fenix, wouldn't they have to just vacate the title because this probably isn't a quick concussion?

Having Ali in a No Mercy match with his contract coming up is certainly a decision. But who knows, maybe more of that card is about to go up in smoke today

Pat McAfee sources are saying there was a raid. The amount of “we’re not saying anything more than this” in the statements is certainly something

In the scheme of things, Moxley’s working style might conceal if he’s concussed during a match So Knox is like a shittier Herb Dean?

Elias is sorta in the same realm of Mr. Kennedy where the entrance is way more over than any of his actual matches, isn’t it?

And somehow all of his children are local Indy workers

AIW could maybe get Ziggler for a show for a slight discount because he’s local. Ziggler vs Matt Cardona somewhere on the indies to really get buzz for Ziggler as more than just a recent WWE firing

Which means he’s a far better fit for matches on AEW TV that come out of nowhere

Shelton and Ziggler would be promoted as young guys if they go to CMLL though

In the spirit of the DVDVR universe, a tag team/faction called Veteran Presence that coincidentally tends to work with wayward younger wrestlers