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upon checking Wikipedia before making a Christian/My Two Dads joke, I find that Staci Keanan is now a law school professor under her birth name. She's married to an actor with no Wikipedia page whose IMDB page says he's known for Alistair1918, Grime Town and Night Music. None of which i've heard of. So anyways, would Christian's power be diminished facing an opponent with *two* living dads?

I'm guessing that holding a show in an Atlanta suburb before going to England is helpful scheduling for getting everybody on their flight to London. Does Atlanta's massive airport have a wrestling event space? Anyways, Tony might know a thing or two about getting to the UK on time. Nick Wayne's blue/gold color scheme on those tights feels more like the design of a mid-90s babyface who might have a solid heel run in their future. Specifically that design was more "1997 babyface Jericho" than "1994 HBK".

oh okay (yeah, I haven't watched any of Collision)

things I remember from this episode of Dynamite: first time i've checked in for a few weeks so Fenix got a "going on a tour of Japan while in 1985 MidSouth" level of beatdown to get him out of All-In due to the visa Santana and Ortiz are back together for the children's sake did they move the commentator's table to ring side before this week or is this a special feature with this venue? I think the table was only touched during the Allin/Wayne-Swerve/AR match I think AR Fox's entire heel run happened in-between times I watched Dynamite. Welcome to the Swerveverse. Adam Cole has feelings about why people don't believe he can be friends with MJF Will Ospreay is doing this to make a living Didn't see enough of Toni Storm this week Daddy Ass is back The main event starts around 8:50 Central because the Hardys are old now. Aussie Open wins clean I didn't realize there was a 5 minute overrun until 9:00 MJF and Cole coming out to face off with Aussie Open. Adam Cole gives the Kick of Fear to both Aussies while Mustache Aussie avoids the Double Clothesline. Adam Cole almost kicks MJF but doesn't, and then they staredown before what is apparently the biggest event in wrestling history on Sunday. MJF opts to hug Cole instead of knocking him out.

Terry Funk has to be one of the great wrestler names that was also the wrestler's real name. Harley Race would be in the conversation for that. Not sure how to count the guys who used a last name that was pronounced the same and spelled differently than their real name (Rick Rude/Ric Flair)

I think a spinning toe hold where the heel is talking trash to his opponent as he keeps spinning has some potential, even if it's sort of a "setup for the good guy to counter and make a comeback" spot instead of a "finisher" spot. Would the rule of 3s mean that the counter comes on the 3rd spin or would it be 3 rounds of talking trash and an escape on the 4th trip? Also considering how pretty much everybody adopted the spinning toe hold setup for the figure four, the Funk family had a huge footprint on wrestling. (Unless i'm a total idiot and the Funks didn't popularize the spinning toe hold)

although Amarillo has a lot of results known because of their newspaper coverage

Terry Funk and Jake Roberts being on the same show made me check this and there’s no Terry Funk/Jake Roberts singles or tag matches on CageMatch. Much like Terry Funk and Randy Savage, probably two guys who didn’t spend much time in the same place while in different locker rooms Plenty of Jake Roberts with Dory Funk Jr though

I think Canada and Australia are the two prime contenders for countries with the second strongest country music fanbase (outside of the US, of course)

upon looking around, that piledriver apparently ended Shinja (the closest the piledriver came to being a move of death in the WWF?) as Hakushi was being pulled towards the Barry Horowitz universe and a face turn

Even if he's from the Northeast and not the South, DDP kinda came off as being a bit rednecky, or at least enough of one to get over with actual rednecks? So depending on your position in life, DDP is the ideal guy that you'd want your single mom to start dating or the guy in the neighborhood that is shirtless washing his car constantly DDP might have looked more like a motorcycle guy than all the actual open motorcycle fetishists who worked for WCW (although I'd guess that 1997 DDP would be a muscle car character). So I could imagine some people thinking that DDP is someone who could fit into their street if he lived there. Also he was going up against the main heels and he wasn't as much of an idiot as the typical babyfaces, so?

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

also people turned to the internet to horde the music that they liked that wasn't being played

path 1 for this gimmick: it's a satire on Bruno that goes over the wrong way path 2 for this gimmick: "Our makin a difference guy is now a heel" Path 2 would almost be like if you had a wrestler doing a Blind Side gimmick but had the parents be heels in reaction to recent news

his full name would be amazing if he was a pitcher Nolan Ryan Schanuel

can the title of Sgt. Slaughter be passed to a female if there's any male heirs around?

For the purposes of the upcoming show in England, Cash Wheeler will be replaced by Pound Wheelour

Is WCW Prime the least traded 1990s wrestling show or were there D level shows that nobody compulsively taped because it was one exclusive match and Charlie Minn doing wraparounds of what happened on all the other recent WWF shows?

“The part of Cash Wheeler will now be played by Brock Anderson”

Just imagine the vignettes of Shane playing basketball with at risk youths on the streets of Pittsburgh

Inspired by watching a 1995 WWF Raw: if you flipped two 1995 gimmicks and had Fatu as the heel professor and Shane Douglas as “Makin a Difference” Shane Douglas, does either gimmick go better than what they actually tried

I was looking around Peacock last night and I thought to myself "maybe I should watch the Cruiserweight Classic" which certainly has some good matches, right, maybe... so thats kind of a C show that's out there Then again the Peacock has stuff like Evolve and wXw tucked in there and I guess some of that is good but there's quite a bit of it.

WWF Monday Night Raw (7/24/1995) Last night, Shawn Michaels won the Intercontinental Title Shawn Michaels vs Jimmy Del Ray: We got Cornette and Prichard in the corner of Jimmy Del Ray. Always nice to see a matchup where 90s Shawn Michaels is the less creepy of the competitors. Jimmy Del Ray bumps around for a few minutes, takes control, misses a splash, and HBK takes over, superkicks Prichard off the apron and superkicks Del Ray to win. The Louisville Gardens looks likely smaller than I was expecting. Postmatch HBK teases getting his ass out. Our hero! Last night, Double J lip-synced? Bret Hart vs Hakushi, tonight! The Smokin Gunns vs John Faulkner and Rick Stockhauser: The jobbers are in matching red and black tights. One of these guys has more facial hair than the other. Gunns win with a doubleteam move (Bart lifts the buy up and Billy jumps off the top to drive him down) The dork who was selling stuff at In Your House 1 was still on WWF TV two months later? Goldust is on his way to the WWF (but we don't know what this guy looks like, it could be Barry Darsow) Fatu is making a difference by walking around shirtless in San Francisco and dancing with youths. Waylon Mercy vs Gary Scott: Handshakes for everybody prematch. Mercy holds up the rope for the jobber so he can drop it on his back. Waylon Mercy is dressed like redneck Razor Ramon with all that white in his gear. Waylon wins with the sleeper. Even without the back injury, feels like having the sleeper as a finish in 1995 should yell "Doomed gimmick" Todd Pettengill with the In Your House Report, informing us that Summerslam is brought to us by Stridex. So we hear about the results from the PPV last night. King Mabel has words for Diesel. King Mabel might actually be the best Nelson Frazier wrestling look. Hakushi vs Bret Hart: I thought the Space Flying Tiger Drop spot was at IYH but it wasn't, so that's a reason why i'm watching this episode of Raw. Hakushi still has Bret Hart's head in a bag. Next week on RAW, Razor Ramon and Savio Vega take on Owen Hart and Yokozuna. Jerry Lawler mispronounces Hideo while doing a topical reference to Hideo Nomo. Hakushi will be fined for using the railing? what? is Bill Watts working for the WWF this early? Shinja is the closest thing to having the masked lover from "Self Control" by Laura Branigan working as a manager in the WWF. Isaac Yankem mention on commentary. Bret Hart is in trouble as we go to a commercial break. Bret remains in trouble out of the break as Hakushi hits the springboard elbow and his running crotch attack. Hakushi does the same counter into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker as he did at IYH. The old man in the front row is unfazed by Hakushi hitting the diving headbutt into Bret's back. Bret is on the floor before and after the break and Hakushi hits the MFing Space Flying Tiger Drop on him coming out of the break. Aw yes! That was a cool thing to unleash on thousands of unsuspecting Kentuckians. Bret Hart springs off of the ropes to the floor with a splash, the closest thing to a Bret Hart dive? Diving elbow, Shinja gets punched, Bulldog, Small Package, Hakushi takes control and misses a diving headbutt. Bret Hart superplex leads into the Sharpshooter and Hakushi gives up. Since we're in USWA country, Bret Hart piledrives Shinja postmatch. This was as good as In Your House, without any awkward earliness that the IYH match had. On the other hand, no commercial breaks at In Your House. Meanwhile Pierre steals the bag with Bret Hart's severed head. Nice to see somebody picking up trash around here. Let's go to Dean Douglas talking in a class room. Shane Douglas made a questionable move by revealing to Vince that he had a non-wrestling profession. He looks so much like a Troy in this gimmick. He drives us the definitions of Knowledge. This classroom looks like a community college classroom as Dean Douglas lectures 31 year olds trying to get a JC degree to get a new job after the factory shut down. Dean Douglas looks like if Mr. Perfect and The Genius had a boring child. Next week: King Mabel and the Bodydonnas and Bam Bam in action. They have boxes of Stridex at the table. Let's close this out with Vince interviewing Shawn in a splitscreen. Jerry Lawler has words. Sid wants to face Shawn for the IC title.

was Sabu really in WCW for long enough to have any Worldwide/Pro matches end up on TV? the only Sabu WCW matches on TheHistoryOfWWE that weren't on Nitro/Havoc are from a "TV Taping" in August 1995 where he worked Chris Kanyon twice, so is it possible that you're confusing Devon Storm and Chris Kanyon?