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  1. the "Cody is certainly gonna make his move to dethrone Roman" talk gets funnier by the month
  2. Tina Turner: Australian Rugby superstar
  3. In which Jim Cornette has to tell Brian that there are Taco Bell’s that aren’t connected to KFCs
  4. Class Action Park was on TNT after Rampage one week so I saw it then
  5. “Sure someone died at Timber Wolf’s wrestling school a few years ago, but they didn’t have to close” (A kid really did die on the Timber Wolf, there was a settlement, even if some of the details are in dispute) I think I went on Fury of the Nile more than Mamba/Timber Wolf.
  6. Late 90s, the huge “end of year field trip for all the middle school kids who aren’t shitheads” was Worlds Of Fun. Let the 13 year olds roam the park unsupervised and experience the Detonator. It was a lot more fun than the elementary school end of year trip to the swimming pool at the middle school. The Timber Wolf sorta seems like a main roster name given to some NXT guy that they don’t want to push.
  7. Worlds of Fun rollercoaster names that would be solid wrestling move names (WOF is a KC area amusement park) The Zambezi Zinger is returning soonish. The Orient Express almost certainly wasn’t the inspiration for the WWF tag team name even if Akio Sato spent a lot of time in KC. The Detonator sounds like some name you’d give to someone doing the Dominator as a finish The Finnish Fling could only be done by a Finnish wrestler. Same for The Flying Dutchman.
  8. not that the deal is much better but he's owed closer to $15M. The remainder of a $7.25M 2023 salary, $9M for 2024, and the $1M buyout for a $10M club option for 2025.
  9. We just never got that Adnan Al-Kaissie vs the Iron Sheik feud in the 80s where the All-American babyfaces would help Adnan, only for them to also occasionally help the Iron Sheik in exchange for sending arms to the Contras
  10. in which Jesse Ventura pronounces Havoc like it's a slavic last name and he has to deal with guest host Jay Leno being Jay Leno
  11. In the spirit of the NHL, the 3rd QB should be seated in full pads somewhere in the stadium like an emergency goalie. Game might slow down as teams look for their 3rd QB like trying to find John Tenta in the crowd during the Ultimate Warrior/Earthquake push-ups angle.
  12. basically the edge of a coffin denied us the chance to see Shawn Michaels and Terry Funk do a dueling sells in the middle of an 8 man tag although the Shawn Michael back injury thing was one of those rare moments where having one of your top guys be unable to wrestle for 4 years (except for one match in San Antonio) didn't really hurt things much.. looking at Cagematch, it took a few months in 2002/03 for them to realize that Shawn could work again without dying. Like he didn't do a house show match until he had been back for 8 months, and the matches he did those house shows were the same Jericho/Flair/HHH vs HBK/Nash/Booker six man tag that happened at a PPV.
  13. yeah, i'm taking a Samoan dude with his lower body tattooed over a wide judoka in a fight If they had a Brawl For All of 1977 WWF guys, I'd think that the Puerto Rican enhancement guys would be more formidable than their booking lot in life, and that they have to gimmick the rules hard to prevent Peter Maivia from ripping some dude's face off. Also the results mention Maivia using the "Samoan Stump Puller"... would that just be a Stump Puller or do they do that move differently in Samoa?
  14. if he had ended up in JCP instead of teaming with Brutus Beefcake, he probably would have at least had a solid run in Paul Jones Army I posted a San Antonio newspaper wrestling card advertisement that made me realize there's one interesting match that never happened because the two principals were never really in the same place at the same time.. Shawn Michaels vs Terry Funk (although Terry almost worked with Shawn, in a match that ended up involving a masked Greg Valentine)
  15. Having watched two 1977 MSG cards this week, those cards needed at least 45 minutes to warm up. Greg Valentine beating El Olympico up at the Garden in 1975 was a fun match to watch.
  16. Greg Valentine's a guy whose stock has gone up once people started drifting away from "Movezzzzz" to appreciating dudes that hit each other hard? at least Greg Valentine from the eras when he seemed to give more of a fuck. There's probably nothing that can save most Valentine matches after a point.
  17. Watching MSG 10/24/1977 First match: Johnny Rodz (The Unpredictable) vs Larry Zbyszko (The Polish Prince?). Rodz did some stalling early (Larry had to learn it from somewhere) and also he mimicking trying to box Zbyszko (I'd take Rodz in a boxing match). Neat Rodz move of turning his back on Zbyszko expecting that he wouldn't be attacked from behind by virtuous babyface Larry Zbyszko. Larry wins after 9 minutes by countering a move into a small package. Pretty Boy Larry Sharpe vs Johnny Rivera: Sadly we skip right past Tony Garea vs Baron Mikel Scicluna. Larry Sharpe has a neat jumpsuit like he's performing Elvis songs in a small market. "Not a lot of action in this one so far" says Vince, pondering why he's here at this moment. Jack Evans is apparently Larry Sharpe's tag team partner. For whatever tag team action exists outside of the WWWF Tag Team Champions (Fuji and Tanaka) and their current opponents (the next face tag champs would be crowned in March 1978, Dino Bravo and Dominic DeNucci). Fuji and Tanaka won the tag team titles a day after the last MSG show I watched. Larry Sharpe wins in 10 minutes with a suplex. Butcher Vachon vs Lenny Hurst: Captain Lou is in Butcher Vachon's corner. He has the look of a man permanently banned from a local bowling alley tonight. Even by old wrestling standards, Hurst's stomps/offense doesn't seem that good. I typed that before he almost fucked up a sunset flip into the ring. Vachon wins with a hangman submission hold in 6 minutes. I'm not sure which Vachon was better but Mad Dog probably has more personality than Butcher. Women's Tag Match: Kitty Adams/Leilani Kai vs Winona Little Heart/Vivian St John. The MSG debut of Leliani Kai. Vince referring to Kitty Adams as "chunky". The 70s!. Vince referring to Vivian St. John as "Vachon" multiple times before correcting himself. St. John is 6 feet tall. Heels win after a doubleteam in almost 11 minutes. I didn't pay much attention to it. Dusty Rhodes vs Superstar Graham, Texas Death Match: the fans wake up as Dusty appears and he shares a brief comment with Vince. Nice restraint to wait a few minutes before Dusty started bleeding. Graham starts bleeding a minute or two later. This is a no holds barred match but the ref won't let Dusty make a pin with his feet on the ropes. It's not a hold, pal. Graham wins after a collision in 10 minutes and Dusty knocks him to the floor. Nice blood for something that barely went 10 minutes. Next up is Peter Maivia/Chief Jay Strongbow vs Fuji and Tanaka, 2 out of 3 falls. Eh, if anything interesting happens for the rest of the card, i'll edit this post. "Jay Strongbow, the honorary Indian Chief" (because he's Italian) is teaming with the High Chief here. (edit: later on Vince noted that Strongbow was 40% Indian and the rest was "a combination" yeah i'd say) man, Maivia's traditional Samoan tattoos really are something. The Maivia/Tanaka matchup would a battle between the Bond movie that Maivia was in and the action movies that Toru Tanaka did. I'd never ever bet against a Samoan in a fight, so I think Maivia could have handled Tanaka "in a shoot" (bro bro) but it would have been close. Got two Japanese guys from Hawaii, an Italian, and a Samoan in this one. Maivia and Strongbow win the first fall (la primera caida). The second fall ends quickly after Maivia bled too much and some fans chant "Bullshit" and somebody who looks like a Warriors gang member gets into the ring and the cops have to get off their asses for a moment. Strongbow eventually comes back for the 3rd fall. Maivia comes out to clean house and apparently the match is now over "due to outside interference by Peter Maivia", who was in the match a few minutes ago. What a bunch of bullshit to not have to do any kind of fall in this one. Of course all this built up to.... Fuji and Tanaka vs Garea and Zbyszko and Graham/Maivia next month at the Garden. Were the October ahd November cards booked by the same person? And now we get Stan Stasiak vs Ivan Putski in an Iron Curtain heritage feature match. Croatia/Serbia vs Poland. Ivan Putski's hair makes him sorta look like a 5'5" Dr. Death Steve Williams at this time. Except that there was a wider market for Polish Power than Sooner Football. Stasiak walks off quickly. What's the kayfabe payoff for working a curfew draw vs losing by countout because Stasiak could have just held out a few more minutes until the union workers couldn't work any more.
  18. various Coaching News from the last few weeks Coppin State hired Morgan State assistant (and former Coppin State star) Larry Stewart as their head coach Incarnate Word hired Central Michigan assistant Shane Helman
  19. "Would you tell Simona Halep that she's still suspended for doping" - ITIA President Eric Bischoff https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/may/19/simona-halep-charged-with-second-anti-doping-offence
  20. I got my XR in the middle of 2019 and it's lasted longer than the iPhones I had before. Gotta credit Apple for not doing forced obsolesce so quickly on this model. Also, 2020 limiting the opportunities to batter the battery helped it last longer than the previous versions that would be struggling after 2 or 3 years.
  21. reading 1977 results on TheHistoryOfWWE and saw this this match is on a few releases, but gotta love that that the choice for special guest referee is "guy who helped fuck up Ali/Liston 2"... Walcott was also the Chair of the New Jersey State Athletic Commission, if you're wondering how he got a trip to Puerto Rico to work with someone who did business with the New Jersey Commission.
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