Cobra Commander
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I won't speculate because I just don't like doing that, the whole last 6 months with Bray has been mysterious and who knows, part of the phrasing of the HHH tweet could mean one thing.. but who really knows and who knows if we'll know soon
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When Roddy Piper lost his promo fastball, did he lose it as hard as when Chevy Chase stopped being funny?
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watching World Championship Wrestling (8/20/1988), some notes
It's a crowded booth with Tony, Jim Ross, and David Crockett all next to each other. There's apparently a strange alliance between Kevin Sullivan and Gary Hart despite the fact that i'm pretty sure those two constantly work together on-screen.
The Allycopter actually looked more impressive when Sid did it. Jim Ross namedrops the Sheik to pitch a Cobo card in response to Al Perez doing a chinlock that is called a camel clutch. Al Perez wins a match in 1988 with the Spinning Toe Hold. Apparently Al Perez, a man who is only exciting because he has long hair and stubble, is feuding with Dusty.
Okay, I guess Al Perez is also exciting because Gary Hart gets to do promos for him. The NWA in 1988 had some great "managers on the verge of being arrested" types. Gary Hart for racketeering, JJ Dillon for financial crimes, and you don't wanna know why Jim Cornette can't get into Canada.
Kim Wood gets a shoutout during the Fantastics match. Jim Ross doing work telling people that the non-MX/Horsemen tag matches aren't total wastes of time. Tommy Rogers making fun of the masked guy after an airplane spin/samoan drop
Lex Luger has amazing hair at this time. Great Farrah hair.
Russian Assassin has music. He's facing the least known of the Allman Brothers, Robbie Allman. Russian Assassin keeps forearming this guy in the back before he wins with the Russian Cobra Clutch. Paul Jones talks postmatch. I think Paul Jones' crime involves trying to steal Blackjack Mulligan's look.
Ricky Morton apparently has an alliance with Nikita Koloff, which feels like it didn't go anywhere. Ricky has a mean streak right now. Dave Spearman is certainly something when it comes to jobber selling. Mean Ricky Morton really is a mood. Ricky Morton cuts a promo on Ric Flair postmatch because this is JCP and everybody cuts promos on the big dogs. Ricky Morton really had an amazing case of little man's syndrome at time time.
Kendall WIndham and Italian Stallion in a tag match. Kendall must be around 6'5" and 130 pounds at this time. Holy fuck he is as skinny as advertised.
The Road Warriors with the Spam Slam of the Week. How much Spam could you fit in a pair of Zubaz.
Mike Rotunda is really smart because he went to Syracuse. Also Kevin Sullivan is mad at the people who don't wanna hear a Mike Rotundo promo.
Jim Ross is amazed that the Florida Heavyweight Title is being defended. I'm amazed that the Florida Heavyweight Title still exists in the summer of 1988, hasn't the Florida territory been dead for 9 months? Somehow this Rick Steiner/Tony Suber match goes through a commercial break. Rick Steiner wins with a nice belly to belly.
The Four Horsemen join David Crockett. Tully's glasses style sticks out compared to Flair and Arn. Meaning that it looks like Tully is wearing his actual glasses instead of shades. Barry Windham is not wearing glasses. Ric does all the talking. If I had to guess, Tully was more hungover this week than Arn. Ric Flair don't get hungover.
Brad Armstrong wins a squash. That Russian Legsweep rules so hard.
The Sheepherders join David Crockett. Well, they were on something back then.
I already saw this Midnight Express squash a few days ago through Twitter. Bobby Eaton doing some amazing work with suckering Bear Collie with a handshake and twisting the Black Shadow's mask. There are so many black dudes as jobbers this week (Black Shadow, Jerry Price, Tony Suber, Dave Spearman). JJ Dillon/Four Horsemen vs Jim Cornette was not a fair verbal war in 1988. It's akin to getting yourself into a diss war with prime Eminem. The Horsemen apparently lobbed a bunch of the meatiest fastballs possible into Cornette's strike zone and he is just smashing them over and over. And they're the de facto babyfaces here next to the Horsemen.
Cornette gets to talk even more with David Crockett. I saw that on Twitter too. Stan Lane breaks during one of the lines. Jim Cornette vs JJ Dillon in a war of words is just a slaughter and that's not because JJ's bad but Cornette's a machine gun of insults at this time.
Mike Rotunda has had the TV title for 8 months by this time. Wow, must be lots of amazing matches.
Nikita Koloff with hair is like the time that Hawk stopped shaving his hair for a period of time in 1998. Nikita wins with the Sickle as Jim Ross ponders what would happen if Nikita's right arm was injured. Thanks Jim. Nikita's postmatch promo is barely coherent.
Rip Morgan looks so drunk with the Sheepherders. The Bushwhackers were a real pinnacle of "work smarter, not harder". What if the Bushwhackers were actually more deranged than the Sheepherders and we just didn't notice it. "I can't imagine anybody cheering for Luke and Butch" just you wait Jim Ross.
JJ Dillon, Arn, and Tully join Jim Ross. JJ is just so outmanned in a war of words with Jim Cornette. Weird to see Tully in glasses that aren't intended to hide that they're taping this at 10am and he's hungover. Peacock tried to fastforward me to next week's show during this promo. We still got 6 minutes left, Peacock. JJ and Tully have some real "we're not mad, please don't say we're mad" energy. Arn is equipped for the task of working the mic in this feud even if he's wearing the glasses of a suspect on America's Most Wanted. Basically the main point from Arn/Tully/JJ is that the MX is making jokes and the Horsemen aren't making jokes. It's basically Chris Jericho shouting "you think this is a comedy bus" during the Dairy Queen video.
Barry Windham wrestles a jobber who has a pad or bandage on his bicep. Or maybe he's in mourning and he's wearing an armband, Barry wins quick. JJ and Barry Windham get interview time to close the show.
So that was a fun edition of World Championship Wrestling.
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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?
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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".
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1 minute ago, John from Cincinnati said:
They’re taping Collision afterward, that’s their setup.
oh okay (yeah, I haven't watched any of Collision)
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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.
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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)
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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)
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4 hours ago, odessasteps said:
You can believe that young Jake was sent to work in Amarillo in the mid 70s. And that those results would likely not be on cagematch or wrestlingdata.
although Amarillo has a lot of results known because of their newspaper coverage
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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
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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)
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On 8/18/2023 at 12:24 AM, Cobra Commander said:
Since we're in USWA country, Bret Hart piledrives Shinja postmatch
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
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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?
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How can you not be romantic about baseball?
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3 minutes ago, zendragon said:
I think its no coincidence that the rise of Napster coincides with MTV playing less and less music and corporate radio sticking to the same tired format. nature abhors a vacuum and people turned to the internet to find new music
also people turned to the internet to horde the music that they liked that wasn't being played
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7 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Just imagine the vignettes of Shane playing basketball with at risk youths on the streets of Pittsburgh
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
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7 hours ago, RIPPA said:
LAA - in a desperate attempt to try anything to stay in the race - are calling up 1B Nolan Schanuel who they literally just drafted 11th overall.
It should be noted he has only been in AA for like 5 weeks
his full name would be amazing if he was a pitcher
Nolan Ryan Schanuel
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48 minutes ago, AxB said:
Sgt. Slaughter refused to pass the torch to Lacey Evans, because he was (and still is) intent on passing it to his actual daughter.
can the title of Sgt. Slaughter be passed to a female if there's any male heirs around?
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For the purposes of the upcoming show in England, Cash Wheeler will be replaced by Pound Wheelour
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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?
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“The part of Cash Wheeler will now be played by Brock Anderson”
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RIP Bray Wyatt
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Bray's not the first wrestling person born after me to have died (Reid Fleihr, Sara Lee, there's a some indy people listed on the Premature Wrestling Deaths wiki entry, I'm not leaving out Jay Briscoe, I was born after him)..
it always sucks, but it really sucks when it's someone younger than you are. I'm guessing this is a thing some of the other people on here have been experiencing for a few decades by now with how many wrestlers all died especially in the 2000s.
Someone like Terry Funk, you had other wrestlers basically saying this and that like your grandma providing family health updates. But this was pretty much radio silence aside from the one Mike Rotunda thing that people have mentioned already