Firebreaker Chip

I always laugh when WWE proudly trot out Vince's nonsensical "I'm in the entertainment business" zinger to Turner phoning him what presumably gets left out of this account is Turner going silent for a couple of seconds, momentarily considering several different lines of response and then just heaving a heavy sigh and hanging up

heel Michael Cole also perished as collateral damage; allahu akbar

Never had a problem with the way Heenan called the turn at BATB 96; any time a babyface's partner comes out with a chair while the ref is out you know he's going to get turned on and waffled and the announcers are going to feign exaggerated surprise as if they're thick as shit and never watch the sport they're supposed to be experts in a career Hogan-hater like Heenan showing a moderate amount of in-character foresight made an unusual amount of sense in that context; also the actual turn it was foreshadowing happened like 15 seconds later anyway The dynamic with Schiavone was kinda off though, seemed like they were never really on the same page about the story they wanted to present, always pedantically niggling each other over the wrestlers' fictional motivations/strategy etc; don't recall it ever getting anywhere near as annoying as 2011 Heel Michael Cole-led booths though tbh

truly amazing Kermit voice on the WCW lawyer guy from the 6th Nov episode

Manabu Nakanishi

It like fades out immediately after the comically huge haymaker like the last scene of a sitcom episode or something right didn't even bother to stage or film the 1vs2 brawl, just "uh oh you're in trouble now ddp" aaaagh roll credits

AHAHAHA DISCO INFERNO STEALING A RANDOM KID'S BASEBALL CAP AND STICKING IT TO HAWK'S SHOULDER SPIKE WHILE HE WASN'T LOOKING

"This is the biggest thing to hit tv since the old lady asked where's the beef." I'll say this. Mongo had a lot of awful lines but he definitely put over stuffing instead of potatoes and the guys in the ring. You can tell he had respect for those guys as athletes. Yeah there are definitely worse than him, on all of the early Nitros I've seen he comes across like he's at least paying attention to what's happening and pointing it out in a way that makes it seem exciting, like even his remedial-level " OH FLAIR HURT HOGAN'S LEG HE'S GONNA ATTACK THE LEG NOW" is frequently more functional as actual wrestling commentary than what you get in current WWE

Byron Saxton with a shit-eating grin confidently pronouncing that "HISTORY WILL BE MADE ONCE AGAIN ON SEPTEMBER 11"...

Vince is like the best awful human being in the world right

they did that thing where the pre-match video package goes black and white and the music suddenly becomes ominous for Tyler Breeze's hand-modeling injury

the rest of the announce team acting outraged at Regal calling CJ Parker a "get" was so perfect

I enjoyed the hell out of that tilt-a-whirl omoplata

Feel like Jericho and Rocky have demonstrably the best teeth in wrestling, although honorable mention to Sting's for just being so goddamn prominent

ooh my gahd are you kideeng me?

unh?