Cobra Commander

"Brett Favre? Brett Favre was bumming money for gas when I was selling out the world. Brett Favre was freeloading off my good name. The government is only going after me and my family because we're rich and we're famous and they're jealous. I could buy and sell every one of those Mississippi redneck politicians but they're not worth my money. They should feel honored that I own land in their stinking worthless state. I should have moved to Florida like every other wrestler years ago because they know how to treat people in Florida. I will make sure the case will go away faster than college educated people leaving Mississippi. Everybody has a price for the Million Dollar Man. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Which Dramarama song is gonna be the theme song to Collision?

If I had to guess, Rubin is probably more in the group of people that Jim hasn't talked to because neither has the others current contact info Sorta like how listeners had to skiptrace Norman Dooley to get him in contact with Jim, and Dooley lived on the other side of the river from Jim

I think Cornette was booking Smoky TV tapings in D towns anyways. Dungannon, Virginia hasn't has more than 500 people in the town limits ever. So how much competition is there for local entertainment?

You’d think they’d mix up the video titles from week to week. Or just do the 20 hour omnibus video about AEW ratings

the Eddie Graham episode was interesting, not to downplay it any because there's an important message too

could you imagine the shitty podcast hosting that RF could be doing right now if not for the local news and an online group (now let me see if that name is still filtered)

searching YouTube and holy fuck Cornette's channel has at least 30 videos titled "Jim Cornette on AEW Dynamite's Ratings" (some of the videos don't include the word TV)

Cornette did a 40+ minute segment on televangelists before Pat Robertson died and it actually wasn't as unbearable as his usual podcast segments on religion/politics (mostly thanks to Benny Hinn and Ernest Angley) but maybe Jim can verify if Pat Robertson's promo skills weren't as good as the other televangelists Sorry Pat, any good Baptist preacher wouldn't be seated while telling us of the eternal damnation coming to various sinners. Get outta your chair Anyways... Berlusconi merited an AP Breaking News alert on my phone but Pat Robertson didn't (The AP app is one of a few apps i'll let push alerts since it's possible for news to happen while i'm asleep and I might wanna know the news when I wake up)

We've been through the "WWF/WCW doesn't want to push this dude but he really should be pushed" thing so many times with wrestlers better than Cody Rhodes that it's hard to get up for Cody Rhodes compared to Benoit, Eddy or Daniel Bryan Danielson.

watching a June 1990 episode of WWF Wrestling Challenge on YouTube, and i'm guessing there weren't any Jake The Snake feuds about how Jake's opponent liked snakes more than Jake also a Jim Powers vs Rick Martel match, a clash of dudes with exquisite hair. Apparently Rick Martel and Ron Garvin had an issue at this time. This episode was taped in the Northeast if the promos for the Boston Garden and Manchester's JFK Coliseum and Portland Maine are any indicator (i'm guessing the main New Hampshire tape source wasn't selling full episodes of Wrestling Challenge)

laughing at the tweets from people who still think the Sheik was at the 68 Olympics.. kayfabe brutha

How did the UWF compare to 1983 Mid-South for having way too many big meaty men slapping meat?

The Phillies had a bunch of vaccine conspiracy dudes last year, so let's consider the possibility that they're a bit crazy. But it's possible to timestamp these things to figure out if there's any real difference between real time and clock time in Philly. Anyways.. Verne Gagne doesn't see a problem with this arrangement.

I already posted the "zombie gambler named Pokerface" idea in the RIP thread, but I realize the name Pokerface would work for a masked gambler too. You see, he has a great pokerface because it's his mask

what self-respecting New Yorker needs a cah.. you can just get anywhere on the subway/Long Island Rail/etc (unless you wanna leave the city)

if you're gonna wrestle as a zombie gambler called "Pokerface".. make sure to send me a small share if you make it

As for Pat Robertson, I can't remember ever seeing him really preach on a 700 Club episode. Instead he was just behind the desk like he was trying to be some sort of journalist doing op-eds about Satan and Lesbians and Abortion and the such. Maybe that was different when he was a minister before running for President Then again, I'm also too young to have really seen any Bakker/Swaggart before they went down and considering the connections between Bakker and Robertson, I'd guess Jim and Tammy had some similarities to 700 Club episodes. Not venturing into the forbidden zone for this board, but even if Pat Robertson sorta faded off the scene ala Don King in Boxing, he got the ball rolling on things have have had a pretty big impact.

this years schedule has a lot of light Mondays and Thursdays so i'm sure some of these reschedules will be easier than others

Iron Sheik and Pat Cooper means there's possibly a Stern trifecta coming

imagine a Gambler dressed as Zombie Undertaker

this week on Beavis and Butthead

Jim Bakker is still alive but he’s pretty much on the fringes of TV. So we might have reached the moment where Joel Osteen is the most prominent televised preacher and he’s notorious for different reasons than Pat and Jerry Edit: I forgot that Jimmy Swaggart is still alive

Jerry Sr died at his desk in 2007.

I’m currently declaring a SBG/Iron Sheik/Pat Robertson trifecta to avoid a trifecta with a third old wrestler death. I’m sure there was a certain amount of kayfabe to Pat Robertson even if he mostly believed his stuff Granted I don’t think Pat inspired as many pro wrestler promo styles as other televangelists