Cobra Commander

watching a Nitro episode (2/24/97, uploaded to YT today) and thinking... "you know, after a time, all the 'Paid for by the nWo' ads were selling their t-shirts"... like this big group trying to take down WCW was funding their operations by selling their merch also i'm amused at Duggan trying to get himself into the NWO storyline only for them to just never do any attacks or matches with him.. aside from the obligatory Duggan vs Ray Traylor matches

nice of them to announce the ceasefire just in time (if you believe such a thing will actually hold)

the Vladmir documentary is up on the Peacock if you didn't know

checking on on some.. World Wide Wrestling (6/22/1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOZa5umVZsA

Riyadh is closer to Iran than Israel really only one US-linked base in that area of Saudi Arabia, Prince Sultan (90 minutes from Riyadh) I'd guess if there's gonna be any problem, it'll be about getting in and out than anything happening while they're there.. but Jeddah would be a better spot for distance from Iran right now

Dom's team is gonna need 1989 John Tenta to be one of the lucky fans

Mark Henry being able to handle the Persian clubs feels like a thing that they should have gotten a segment out of if the 1996 Mark Henry and Sultan stints overlapped longer (just saw that clip of Mark Henry from months ago)

Juneteenth being a Texas thing first comes to mind here, it was a paid holiday in Texas for 40 years before it got to that point anywhere else.. I don't know if there's any good data on this but I'd think Juneteenth has more support among conservative-ish Texas people than conservative-ish people in other states depending on if they see it as being partially a 'Texas' holiday or whatever (added caveat that well... the reason why the holiday exists might not exactly make Texas look great but hey)

I think there was overlap in 1998 between The Rock N Roll Express entering to the Rockers theme in the WWF and Marty Jannetty entering to Austin’s theme in WCW Greg Valentine and Marty Jannetty would have made for a solid tag team of people cashing checks in 1998.

Worldwide (10/18/97 or 10/19/97): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VvhneL0wFM Renegade eventually beats Tim Cheeks, Heenan makes a joke about Mongo's dog being made into Chinese food, ad saying Disco vs Jacquelyn is for the TV title (it wasn't) and ad mentioning Mongo/Jarrett (didn't happen), Tenay drops in for Sumo Fuji vs Konnan for some reason, Alex Wright vs Hugh Morris in a fun match, Glacier and Ernest Miller in action and Kevin Northcutt is tall (Schiavone compares Northcutt to early Ray Traylor), and the main event of Mongo vs Greg Valentine where Tony notes that Ric Flair teamed with Greg Valentine back in the day

"We were unable to get R. Kelly to let us use "Remix to Ignition" for this theme"

of course the next step would be "the person who just lost their music debuts a remixed theme that is essentially their old theme" to get around the stip

That name and description makes it sound like Jimmy Backlund/Del Ray was just waiting for either Rock or Grunge to no-show so he could get in the team. Sorta like the time that Del Ray missed some shows in the 1994 WWF and we got the team of Tom Prichard and the Barbarian, which probably wasn’t as fun as it should have been

Inspired by the “Jordynne Grace is having her music changed” WWE story.. here’s a Russoriffic match stip: the face loses and can’t use his popular theme music anymore. In the spirit of Booker T vs Big T for the ownership of the letter T

around baseball: Orioles scored 8 runs in an inning to go up 8-0, and lost 12-8 to the Rays meanwhile the Nats lost another game to the Rockies in the days after Davey Martinez defended the quality of the team's coaching

Mark Walter being one of the owners of the Dodgers, for those unaware

That rack variation that Luger did was both awkward looking and nasty looking

Hulk’s in the hospital promising dying kids that he’ll slam that big nasty Gunther at SNME in Atlanta

watching some severe weather coverage through YouTube and always a tad amused at the meteorologists who look/dress like senior state lawmakers ( https://www.fox23.com/station/staff/james-aydelott/article_8647de60-85f1-11ed-a238-3f33718edc0c.html ) although his junior partner ( https://www.fox23.com/station/staff/mike-grogan/article_0c218856-85f2-11ed-a238-b37e16156e90.html ) looks like a wrestler doing an ironic retro gimmick although in Oklahoma the meteorologists are better known than lawmakers for some obvious reasons EDIT: nothing against Travis Meyer, I just didn't find the YouTube stream for him until the other guys went off the air

Tate McRae is a very NXT-ish sort of real name

"Tate, you're from Calgary, do you wanna meet Bret Hart?" "I was born in 2003, who's Bret Hart?"

just realized that a Al Snow and Dan Severn team on WWF TV probably would have just been the Al Snow/Steve Blackman tag team (yeah, I know Snow and Severn had worked together for years pre-WWE) although I guess "Dan Severn realizes his longtime friend Al Snow has gone insane" would be a deep storyline for late 90s WWF

I wonder if some of the WWE ID system and reduction in house shows is gonna end up with them farming out live events to "friendly promoters" (if any could be herded) who will absorb enough of the costs of putting on shows with farmed out talent where the losses aren't on the TKO ledgers or aren't as glaringly on the ledgers

Cornette randomly dropping a story about he and his mom hoarding silver and the boom in silver prices in 1979/1980 during his talk about the Crusade for Children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3zcZ9igtko

on checking the Hurricane Center website, I guess the tropical storm that's hitting Mexico this week shouldn't impact Impact in Mexico City on Wednesday, so that's helpful for the card