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  1. All this college talk on a wrestling message board just making me more bummed that there hasn't yet been a Mike Rotunda cameo in NXT to raid Chase U. for the Varsity Club.
  2. Muting and blocking has absolutely been my go-to for several years now. I still see some honestly trash and intellectually dishonest opinions whenever someone that doesn't just mute-and-block and HAS to "dunk-tweet", but all that does is give me one more account to mute and/or block. It's still wild to me how many people fall for the "posting intellectually dishonest opinions in bad faith for the sake of getting dunk-tweets" gimmick on social media. People think they are smart "correcting" the original bad tweet or clever for shouting "look at this idiot" when they don't realize that the original post was made for the sole purpose of engagement and signal-boosting, and that the majority of "posting in bad faith" accounts would choke to death from lack of engagement.
  3. Someone else here has watched TIPTOES! What a compelling piece of absolute insanity and career self-immolation. So many bad choices made with so many different aspects of that movie and I can't imagine that Bright's extended cut would have done that much more to make it less insane. Also over the weekend I watched DEATH MACHINES. Some very delightful 1970s American-produced martial arts trash with multiple insane deaths in just the first 15 minutes alone, with 3 badass silent assassins trained (drugged?) to not feel pain under the guidance of a Japanese lady boss intent on taking over action from the mafia and innocent bystanders, mobbed-up sleazoids and biker gangs all falling in their wake. Some pacing issues as it drags during the middle of the movie (as many of these lower budget 70s genre flicks do) but the adrenaline of the first 15 minutes as well as a fun final fight help make sitting through that sloggy middle worth it.
  4. Hey I was at this show. I have no memory of this, I assume because the minute I heard Black Veil Brides get announced I booked it to the bar for a refill of boozy beverages. A very surreal night. It was the day Jeff Hanneman of Slayer passed away. Metallica was also the headliner and it became apparent as the night went on that a large part of the crowd were "Metallica fans" but not necessarily "METAL fans". Two moments really hit home that dissonance: 1. The show started with an announcement and moment of silence for Jeff Hanneman. A dude in a Metallica t-shirt unironically asked me "Who's Jeff Hanneman?" 2. Watching everyone in Metallica shirts get alienated and pissed off as Dillinger Escape Plan's set started and continued: https://youtu.be/NgGZiQOOhAA?si=TtpAVZKpZjQZiO2a
  5. Are we counting the baby goat that came to the ring with Hillbilly Hills as a manager? Because out of all the managers and valets on that show, I thought the baby goat had the brightest future out of all them. PS yes, the guy doing the hillbilly gimmick on this show brought an actual baby goat to the ring with him. Unfortunately the goat was taken to the back once the match began
  6. ACW Summer Meltdown 2000, an Upper Peninsula Michigan indie wrestling event that I attended in Summer 2000 that had appearances from a Fake Doink and a Fake LA Parka but inexplicably somehow managed to book Real MENG while he was in WCW. And the opening match has Ken Anderson pre-WWE/TNA, and I assume he was my second favorite wrestler on the show next to Meng because he came out to "Push It" by Static X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42A33JBpwY
  7. Yeah Arrow seems pretty liberal when it comes to licensing their new sets to streaming at the same time, they put a few of the Coffin Joe movies up on their Arrow Streaming sub service as well at the same time as the physical set came out, and there's a lot of other stuff that goes up on their own streaming sub the same time as the physical set. Even with the box sets or collections a lot of those will go streaming at same time, though they (rightfully so) will sometimes withhold 1 or 2 movies from the bigger sets initially.
  8. I am bad at math. Are there enough match permutations between 3 Von Erichs and 3 Freebirds to pull off "8 Crazy Nights at Reunion Arena"?
  9. This is reminding me of the time that they had Bradshaw teaching Taka Michinoku how to drive like he was from a third-world country instead of JAPAN.
  10. I really wish we got more involvement from Dee Snider in 1980s WWF. He is a fantastic promo here and you can tell the dude "got" it. Some fun cameos from other MTV stars circa 1985 in this, especially the one at the end! https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/status/1759132154091487381
  11. This is obviously being posted this week to capitalize on a more salacious story, but this was still an interesting watch, KATU-TV in Portland posting a 1985 local talk show appearance on their station by Billy Jack Haynes and Sgt. Slaughter with a run-in by the Road Warriors to promote that night's show at the Portland Memorial Coliseum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvGNKeDYa48 And the match itself - The Road Warriors vs Sgt Slaughter and Billy Jack Haynes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7-w-v9V5Zc
  12. Amityville 1992: Its About Time has the balls to be about an evil clock and use that title for the movie, Megan Ward, and the below death among several other very wacky deaths (though the Youtube title here is misleading, the clock doesn't actually KILL here): https://youtu.be/LvphtzVsYoA?si=sVNeUPdo9k8uwtG2
  13. Yeah, The Rock isn't as much of a pure Hollywood phenom as he was five or ten years ago, but a lot of folks here seem to be overreacting and talking like he's completely washed like Chuck Norris in 1995 or Steven Seagal in 2005.
  14. From the second half on an all-time classic Super Bowl. I had no side to take in this game (a Michigan kid from birth to my early 20's so was riding the Lions wave this year), but feel bad for the 49ers fans who are going to be hurting from that missed PAT for years if they don't exorcise the demon and win immediately within the next few years. I also feel bad for the 49ers caught in camera shots looking dejected while covered in celebratory confetti. That shit is about to replace Lieutenant Dan in social media memes.
  15. I said this elsewhere, but my emotions upon seeing that screencap of "pre-gimmicked" Chick Donovan was similar to when I found out years ago that Nikita Koloff was just some dude from Minnesota named Scott.
  16. Damn, Billy Jack has seemed like a Dark Side of the Ring episode waiting to happen for years now and seemed very obviously mentally ill/CTE/drug burnout/emotional trauma in most of his modern shoot interviews. So yeah, sadly not super surprising.
  17. Sorry nerds begging for a return to the Attitude Era, this is as close as you're gonna get.
  18. Yeah, I did an NWA Dallas watch a while back and there was a lot that was actually quite fun - some appearances from Tully Blanchard and Buddy Landell being delightful dickheads, Michael Hayes on commentary shortly before heading into the WWF as Dok Hendrix, early flashes of Ahmed Johnson being a freak athlete, Dick Murdoch being washed in-ring but still a fantastic promo - but Skandor Akbar as babyface manager of Kevin Von Erich (!?!) absolutely did not sit right with me at all. Especially since the attack by Greg Valentine and Black Bart on Akbar that served as the babyface turn got a face reaction for Valentine and Bart from the Sportatorium crowd. I think they realized quickly it just came off weird to both the Sportatorium crowd and whoever was watching the TV at the time (if anyone), they bailed and had Akbar turn back heel and cost Kevin Von Erich the North American title. It probably also didn't help that on average there were maybe 50-100 people in the Sportatorium crowd for each show, and it was also very visible that Kevin Von Erich was going through the motions and that his heart just wasn't into the wrestling thing anymore.
  19. You will probably not be shocked to learn that "fan of real pro sports" Jim Ross referenced the 1979 Pirates on commentary a few times during Iceman's entrances in this era. He kept coming to it for a couple of weeks before switching to Janet Jackson's "Control" as his heel entrance music. Thanks for the sub. Be on the lookout for my next upload 3 to 10 years from now when I want to link to something here and realize "hey, why isn't THIS on Youtube!" Other UWF 1987 music note: Sam Houston is entering the ring to Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" which immediately made me care about him 1,000 times more than I ever cared about him anywhere else.
  20. I am now through February 1987 of my Mid-South/UWF watch project which means I have watched the UWF Tag Team Title Tournament after Hacksaw Duggan lost a loser leaves town match to One Man Gang, thus vacating the championship held by Duggan and Terry Taylor. The tournament was broadcasted over two weeks of UWF Power Pro Wrestling. I noticed these episodes weren't on Youtube so I went ahead and uploaded them myself, and honestly the booking of this tournament feels like it should be as famous/infamous/notorious as the "All three championships change hands" episode of TV from November 1986. UWF Power Pro Wrestling - Broadcast Date 2/14/1987 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWdFhnO-9mA UWF Power Pro Wrestling - Broadcast Date 2/21/1987 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZseUQ2m3s (note: source video quality is a bit rougher here) Thoughts/observations on the tournament (spoilered here in case anyone flying blind wanted to watch the tournament first): Other observations of UWF through February 1987: Ted Dibiase - goddamn he is incredibly over in his quest to defeat One Man Gang for the UWF Championship, and seems almost as over as Hacksaw Duggan was during his peak. The UWF live crowds are incredibly loud and ready for him to be the next UWF Heavyweight Champion. Given how over he was at the time, I absolutely don't blame him for bolting immediately after the JCP sale. I think if most wrestlers found themselves in that position, went to Japan for six weeks, and came back not only to find out that the UWF was sold but that Dusty put the championship on Big Bubba Rogers, the majority of those wrestlers would have bolted too. Sting - The rising star is starting to get face pops from the TV crowds and on a trajectory where you pretty much HAVE to turn him at some point. Since joining up with Rick Steiner and Eddie Gilbert, he is finally evolving into the franchise player that we would see one year from this time tearing it up with Ric Flair at the Clash of the Champions, and the TV crowds are reacting accordingly for what's been a fun evolution to watch. The departure of Hacksaw Duggan - Duggan was THE top dog in Mid-South Wrestling after JYD left in 1984. The second half of 1986 was a bit rocky for him, as his own Japan bookings and reported money disputes with Bill Watts saw him sidelined to being more of a "special attraction" type wrestler, but he still felt like someone that could have been heated up instantly if someone decided "let's put the UWF belt on Duggan". Him and Taylor are made the UWF Tag Team Champions, but he apparently gave his notice that same week, as the actual title change isn't shown in full and is limited to a clip of the last two minutes, with the only real notable moment being a very awesome tag team match between Duggan/Taylor against Sting/Steiner. Duggan leaving though really does feel like a final blow to the UWF as we know it, even if Dibiase is picking up the slack on the babyface side. The debut of Steve Cox - oh man, the UWF TV debut of Steve Cox is one of the biggest Poochies that has ever Poochie-d. For his debut on UWF TV, he is heavily featured in THREE segments throughout the show. (1) being introduced as the protege of Dr. Death Steve Williams, who advises him to sit at ringside for the whole show and study everything that is happening in the matches, including Dr. Death's match where after he bodyslams his opponent, he pantomimes the motion of showing Cox what he did with his arms on the bodyslam like an instructor (2) Cox staying at ringside for Ted Dibiase's challenge of One Man Gang for the UWF Championship, and jumping into the ring to help Dibiase after interference from Skandor Akbar and counts a visual pinfall for Dibiase. (3) getting challenged to step into the ring by Bill Irwin and Eli The Eliminator, and fending them both off with a little help from Dr. Death and Dibiase. And oh boy, Steve Cox is really rough around the edges with his movement and selling. Watts seemingly thought he could create another Oklahoma-based star like he did years prior with Dr. Death but Steve Cox needed some more cooking before coming out of the oven in such a spectacularly-pushed way. This episode is on Youtube as well and can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXtG70Z2bw More "proto-Russo" booking - the amount of "we're outta time" matches does seem to be tempered a bit, but that has been replaced almost every week by this run of the UWF finding new ways to just not deliver matches that are advertised at the beginning of the show. One episode includes hype at the beginning of the show for a Duggan/Taylor tag team title defense that gets mucked up by a pre-match attack by Devastation Inc. and the UWF doctors declare Duggan and Taylor unable to wrestle (admittedly, at least this is a call back to the Gordy/OMG angle where they say that Duggan and Taylor don't have to forfeit the match and title because it was UWF doctors that examined them), and a Dark Journey/Missy Hyatt match doesn't happen due to Missy feigning an injury (though Dark Journey attacks her anyway so the crowd still gets some sort of physical confrontation). But every week now it's either "advertised match doesn't happen" OR "we're outta time" and that happening so often I can see that playing a part in people NOT wanting to come out to see UWF live at all, which ties into... A lot of empty red chairs in the crowd at TV - By February 1987, the fans that do show up are lively and loud, but the art of "put ALL the fans on two sides of the building and only shoot those sides" hadn't quite been mastered yet. It is starting to get very visible on both the main UWF TV taped in Tulsa and the Power Pro tapings from Fort Worth that anywhere to 25-50 percent of the floor seats are empty, and while the bleachers are mostly darkened, there's a few shots here and there where you can tell there's not that many folks up there either. I do honestly wonder how much money they sunk into making Power Pro a separate "pro-shot" TV show in Fort Worth. I'm sure the mindset was "more TV equals more stations equals more fans", and I am guessing the strategy of going into the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex was "World Class is losing them, we can win them back" when all these TV tapings really seemed to confirm was that Dallas as a WRESTLING city was officially dead. From the footage of this era that is available, the only market that seems to be doing decent crowd attendance for the UWF is Houston, and we all know how that goes once the JCP sale goes through. Overall, at this stage the weekly TV is still fun to watch despite the more negative aspects noted above, but it's very much the in-ring effort of veterans like Dibiase, Dr. Death, Terry Gordy, and One Man Gang, and the week-to-week growth of Sting and Rick Steiner that are doing that heavy lifting as opposed to strong booking. I had initially planned on stopping my watch with the first JCP-booked episode of UWF TV where Bubba wins the title, but I poked into the weeks that follow and there's three important events that happen on UWF TV in May and June that feel like additional "epilogues" to some stories that start to get told during the final weeks of Watts-era UWF:
  21. Oh man, the Kurt Angle starring vehicle END GAME. I dont know what is more uncomfortable: 1. The simulated rough sex scene that starts the movie where Kurt Angle seems to be channeling what he was suggesting he wanted to do to Sharmell. 2. The scene where Kurt Angle dresses up as a clown for the purpose of kidnapping a special needs child and punches that woman's mother in the face while dressed as the clown. 3. The scene where Kurt Angle assaults a woman while wearing a TNA Bound For Glory t-shirt. What a compellingly terrible piece of movie sleaze. And happy to see the Superjail shout out from CurtMcGirt above. What a beautifully violent spectacle of a show. A fun one to wake up to in the middle of an episode after falling asleep during the Family Guy and King of the Hill reruns that would start the Adult Swim block at that time.
  22. All of you joke about what you'll offer to contribute to the NWA procuring the services of Okada not factoring in that it is very likely that Billy is legit not paying THAT much more to whoever he hires as his new bassist.
  23. One of the few times where the answer to an "either/or" question actually is YES.
  24. Sandman episode, fuck yeah, there better be a re-enactment of what Sandman thought he was seeing while wrestling Sabu while high on hallucinogenics at November to Remember 97 in what of the greatest train wreck matches ever.
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