clintthecrippler

You say that second part like it diminishes the spirit of the first sentence. And yes, Dynamite Kid having a Curt Hennig-like recovery after a few years not wrestling would have resulted in a lot of gold. Even in just 1996 alone, DK could have had some fun matchups in ECW with folks like Scorpio, Sabu, and Mikey Whipwreck / NJPW Junior wars with Liger, Otani, Ultimo, and Sasuke / or in the WCW cruiserweight bully role that Malenko was in mixing it up with Rey and Eddie on Nitro and PPV and a near endless abundance of athletic undercarders in awesome 7-minute sprints on Worldwide and Pro that would surely be making up half the "WCW C-Show Memories" thread.

DDT is doing a show as part of that WWNLive weekend. I am going to be fucking pissed if NXT recruits and signs Andreza Giant Panda that weekend.

Is it bad that my reaction to that was "jesus, Pablo Marquez is still around?" before I took into account that Manny Fernandez has another 17-18 years on him?

When Flair broke into the business he was a burly boy and his drinking buddies were Dusty Rhodes, Dick Murdoch, and Ken Patera, so I wouldn't be surprised if he got in a few bar fights early on hanging out with that crew.

I feel like using any photos where CM Punk is in it rigs this game from the start.

"Pancakes / Divorce / Pancakes" may legit be my vote for the funniest 22 minutes of televised comedy this past decade. It is the perfect example of "escalation comedy" at best.

The Flair/Race match...well worth a post-feast coma watch. Another non-formula Flair match, with Ric really diving into the role of fired up challenger that tasted gold and wants it back.

So Kenny Omega and Rey Fenix just tore down the house at Northeast Wrestling tonight and treated the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie like it was Tokyo Dome or Arena Mexico. If you have yet to sample the Highspots Network, this is worth signing up to catch when the VOD is up.

I had to rewatch the final five minutes a second time to appreciate it because the first time I was on guard for the moment when it would (in my mind, ingrained from years of Always Sunny viewing like the end of the High School Reunion episode) go horribly, horribly wrong. Amazing article on Vulture about all the work they put into it, and - not really talked about much - also a helluva payoff to the season opener gag of Mac himself verbalizing "why did I do this?" In reference to getting buff.

If this ends up being a three round exhibition like some folks are speculating, I wouldn't be surprised if even under straight boxing rules this ends up being a draw, if simply because Mayweather likely knows that Rizin is paying him to help them make a megastar.

As referenced on today's Between The Sheets episode, here's Kenny Kaos accidentally taking a mini-Nestea Plunge when he slips on the apron doing the Warrior rope shake.

Please no one smarten up Mayweather to what happened to Trevor Berbick when he thought he was coming over to Japan for an "exhibition." All joking aside...seriously, what the fuck.

When was this? I am guessing some sort of appearance in the buildup to promote the 1990 Tokyo Dome Summit? Would love to video if this is out there.

"Dr. Death" is a fairly generic sounding enough nickname that I could buy those developing independent of each other. "Kendo Nagasaki" on the other hand...that's really frigging specific.