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The best-case scenario is that someone in WWE creative feeds him the promo that Mox refused to cut on Roman, and he gets murdered by a bunch of Samoans. It would be an all-time Wrestlemania moment.

WWF Home Video releases between PPV's from about 89 through 94 weren't really meant to showcase feud-enders or even really enhance ongoing storylines that much, and just primarily served to keep the rental market calendar moving throughout the year between the 4 or 5 PPV release videos. Home video releases like "Supertape", "Rampage" and the such were basically glorified comp-tapes of matches that had been in the can for months and upon release didn't really factor into the main weekly television or even got heavily promoted on TV beyond generic "in video stores now" promo. The selling points were primarily (save for a few exceptions like Smack Em Whack Em with the Bret Hart World Title win) (1) competitive matches that you wouldn't see on TV during the era where WWF weekly TV was still pretty squash-heavy, (2) "attraction matches" like a feud that got blown off on PPV or house shows months ago being revisited one more time in a special stipulation like a steel cage, (3) tag team matches where main eventers that didn't interact often with each other would team up (Randy Savage and Bret Hart vs Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels being one example), and (4) battle royals during the era where that was still the only time you could see specific talents interact with each other.

"I'll lose in a four way but I'm not taking the pin and you have to pay me double."

Wait was THAT why there was a multiple hour stretch yesterday where WWE ID twitter account was just tweeting out names of indie promotions? To try to get them to book the ID talent? Holy shit.

Lee Marshall was a perfectly competent play-by-play guy with a great voice, but I will always love the Road Report just because it indulged my soft spot for "weasel" jokes at Bobby Heenan's expense. Also, its fucking hilarious that in kayfabe, Lee Marshall never got to see the exciting action of WCW Monday Nitro live because they had him advancing towns the week before in storyline.

Agreed on Detroiters being fucking awesome, being a Michigan native I do admit there is some bias from my end though. The episode where Kevin Nash plays his dad returning from the insane asylum (complete with a scene referencing the 1987 Fat Boys vehicle Disorderlies) is neck-and-neck for my favorite alongside the episode where former Detroit Piston Rick Mahorn finds his shoes as a budding local thespian. What an insane yet also somehow very warm-hearted show. It's worth taking the plunge on a single-month Netflix sub to binge through all three seasons of his sketch comedy show, I Think You Should Leave. Perhaps the absolute finest mix of awkward cringe and honest-to-god gut-busting laughter. His episode of The Characters also on Netflix is worth checking out as well, the sketch where he basically plays JUMPING JEFF FARMER is very relevant to the overall interests of this board

I love that the FRIENDSHIP trailer is cut to make it look like a serious A24 thriller. If you don't know Tim Robinson it doesn't look like a comedy

Yeah, not having either love or hate for either team either way the only thing I was really rooting for was the Kendrick Lamar Halftime Show and for the Tim Robinson/Sam Richardson Totino's Super Bowl ad to air as early in the game as possible, but sadly the latter did not air until the fourth quarter two-minute warning. That was a helluva performance by the Eagles though, I'll give them that.

The house show promos building up to this are in my Holy Grail footage list. The guy with the beard accompanying Ventura to the ring was Prince's bodyguard at the time who was having a very brief 15 minutes of fame and you just know the promos where Jesse drops that "the bodyguard of MY close personal friend, Prince, is going to accompany ME to the ring" were wonderfully insufferable.

I stumbled across this recently while on a Star Wars kick, 1985 ABC Saturday Morning Fall Preview with Tony Danza and Mary Lou Retton giving fitness tips with R2D2 and C3PO.

Considering that they DID have Slick introduce the video for Jive Soul Bro while eating Kentucky Fried Chicken straight from the bucket, yeah, we actually probably should consider ourselves lucky: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf5zlf God, I forgot about the outro too, where Slick attempts to dine-and-dash

It took me a while but I finally troubleshooted the issue, there's an "Activate" link buried deep within the Hulu site to enable watching contact on the Max app itself, good to go now!

Well damn, I am subscribed to MAX through a Hulu/Disney bundle with "MAX Premium Add-On" through the Hulu app and apparently the AEW Dynamite livestream isn't available, you have to be subscribed to MAX stand-alone proper/direct unless I am missing something?

I'm actually kind of shocked that none of the wrestling podcasters ever got into the whole "(insert disingenious wrestler turned podcaster's name) hears (insert fairly reasonably popular song here) FOR THE FIRST TIME" grift.

So, Ninja Mack adapted to being put in a deathmatch environment by taking the opportunity to throw ninja stars at Shlak and also shoot at him with a dart gun that propelled wooden skewers at Shlak, and it was absolutely beautiful seeing a non-deathmatch wrestler adapting to deathmatches by finding someway to adapt their existing gimmick for the DM environment. I am legit trying to wrack my brain to think of other examples where that has happened, can anyone else think of such a move off the top of their head? And I also went to the NJPW Strong Style Evolved show the following night. Pretty fun show from start to finish, and Mercedes vs Hazuki was an incredible match to experience live, but... This was my first time seeing Jack Perry live since Brawl Out UK went down, and in all honesty, him being booked in a match with wrestlers that I care about may stop me from buying a ticket in the future. The heat he gets is very decidedly not GOOD heat, and the sheer amount of CM Punk stans that kept chanting CM Punk's name even when Jack wasn't in the ring absolutely ruined my excitement for seeing Shingo and Takeshita battle in the ring during that match. I am a CM Punk fan but genuinely have no opinion either way on Jack Perry and it fucking sucked seeing two Japanese stars that I was looking forward to seeing interact get ignored and drowned out by folks catcalling a guy that was just standing on the apron at the moment. That was admittedly the only disappointing experience of the show and I screamed myself hoarse by the end of the main event cheering for Hazuki, but the CM Punk chants was SO distracting that if there is a show where the rest of the card draws me in, I'm taking a lap around the arena when Jack wrestles so I don't have to listen to that for 20 minutes.

All this "Dark Side of (insert music genre here)" just makes me bummed that we never got more seasons of Mike Judge's Tales From The Tour Bus, and that the seasons we DID get were stuck on Cinemax where they flew under the radar of most potential viewers. One could argue that show was at times a "Dark Side" type show (Season 1 was Country Music and Season 2 was Funk/Soul Music I think) but cut with perfectly appropriate humor with Mike Judge behind the wheel.

Grand Wizard will always get love from me just for the time that he responded to Vince remarking about "boos from the fans" with pointing out that what was being heard was "BOOZE IN the fans". But yeah, like said earlier, Wizard really shone through in local house show promos, but also some little things like slowly adding military medals to his jacket when he managed Sgt Slaughter.

By Page Three it will have evolved into a Norman Smiley appreciation thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6BWv1gke0

"Heaven's On Fire" is a guilty pleasure of mine and I do think "Lick It Up" is the closest thing they have to a classic "sounding" KISS song during that stretch, but there is also some of the bona fide worst songs in rock history like "Let's Put The X In Sex" (which IS on the Kuarantine setlist!) that is lower than even the final wave of Sunset Strip-worshipping bands. That said, if Jericho can make money singing KISS songs without needing to put on facepaint or a full Demon costume, all credit to him for pulling the tribute band equivalent of a "work smarter, not harder" gimmick.

ME: about to attend the SVN King of the Deathmatch Tournament that is here in Los Angeles tonight. I am strangely intrigued by Bestia 666, Ninja Mack and Journey Fatu being competitors in tonight's tournament along usual deathmatch suspects such as Hoodfoot, Shlak, and Orin Veidt. ALSO ME: somehow still feeling like I am contributing to the greater betterment of society by attending tonight's Deathmatch Tournament than anyone locally that is attending tonight's show from Kuarantine, Chris Jericho's KISS Tribute Band that is a tribute to "NO FACE PAINT" era 80's KISS, and that the wrestlers competing in tonight's deathmatch tournament are somehow making better life choices than anyone attending that concert.

I am not optimistic that weekly TV archives will make a jump to whoever the next U.S. provider is after the current Peacock deal expires. I am trying to binge WCCW and Mid Atlantic between now and next spring because I am truly expecting this to be my last opportunity to do so. I know the torrent sites will always exist but there is something to be said for (a) ease of access with a couple of button clicks on my TV and (b) even if its just one person watching at the time, someone at WWE or their official content provider getting some sort of analytics saying that anyone is watching. Hopefully if WWE Vault on YouTube has enough interaction to remain a priority some of the archival stuff will end up there? As for the future of this thread, maybe we turn this into a WWE Vault thread since for now random stuff does still keep turning up there?

I do feel like "No. 30 enters to an empty ring to win the Rumble" would be more acceptable now since there are 2 Rumble matches every year now, but it would (a) need to be the finish to the first Rumble match they run so they can end the show with a more traditional Rumble finish in the second match and (b) still need to be the absolute right person to do it with - for example I think they could have done that with heel Bayley the last couple of years. She would have been entertainingly insufferable about winning the Rumble and made some great TV in the weeks that followed.

Yeah I am still very unreasonably too much all in on a Dublin Thunder spinoff if they ever pull the trigger but yes, if they do, would be much better to get some actual Irish actors to take care of that accent. Britt's attempt at a Russian accent was indeed very 1980's "American wrestler portraying a Russian heel in a dying territory" in its delivery. I am guessing a lot of soul-searching melodrama in the final season, but they justified it with how they ended this season. I have to admit I was a little disappointed though that...

I spent my Saturday morning burning through the new run of episodes and I only have one thing to say at this moment...

Speaking of random MMA/pro wrestling links, I just completed a WWF 1980 watch project, and the final MSG show of the year has Tatsumi Fujinami vs Don Diamond for the WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship, and my mind was blown when there a dueling mat wrestling sequence that ended with Fujinami and Diamond in a hold that resulted in a stalemate in the center of the ring, and the New York Commission Referee stood them up out of the hold and had them restart from a standing position like with modern UFC rules. I dont think I had ever seen that in a pro wrestling context before.