Dolphman 3000

RVD was in great shape for his NOAH match a year ago, so seeing him with a paunch and walking like Iron Sheik was kind of depressing

I'm all aboard with The Kingdom helping Cole to turn on MJF, but only if MJF gets The Dynasty as his entourage going forward Not sure if they can get Hammerstone out of his 1000-year contract with MLW

Isn't this your state

Tony Khan Responds To Triple H’s ‘Secondary Promotion’ Comment On Triple H calling AEW a secondary promotion: “We certainly won’t be the secondary promotion at All In. We’re No. 1 in the UK, on TV and with a record gate. I have a lot of respect for Cody. I know these weren’t his words, to be fair, but we’re not secondary in a lot of markets — for the first time in a long time, WWE has been secondary in a lot of markets. … I’m proud of where we’re at and we’re not taking a back seat to anybody.”

I see another spreadsheet-haver has logged in Glad to see I can still live rent free somewhere in times of high inflation

I think I soured on the Bucks when they tried to drag Drunk Jeff Hardy through a 20-minute match instead of just wrapping it up. 30 young teams on the roster, and you're still trying to put over your childhood idols that you feuded with on the indies 10 years ago when they were already old

RVD was lingering around the indies in 2001 before the dust settled and he realized WWE was the only place left to make money, so I could see him choosing WCW instead if that was still an option

They rarely cut promos on TV - so unless you watch BTE, a casual viewer would just assume they're flippy mutes

TK: "so you'll work with Punk now, right?" Bucks: "no" TK: "sorry to bother you, enjoy your money"

Kind of surprised they didn't bring up WWE having right-of-first-refusal to buy WCW that resulted from WWE suing WCW for copyright infringement in 1996 The episode made it seem like WCW willingly pissed away 50 million so they wouldn't have to sell to Eric

Sabu as Jack's manager has a lot of potential Taz having to teach Hook how to beat a Sabu-trained Jack would be fun

Ok here's a really weird one - a TV pilot for something called Urban Empire Wrestling was filmed at historic Philadelphia boxing venue The Blue Horizon (the only wrestling show ever held there to my knowledge) in 2003 using largely CHIKARA guys. They ran a one-night tournament with some pretty good matches in front of zero fans, including Mike Quackenbush vs. Julio Dinero: And here's the 8-man tag dark match from the taping which was all CHIKARA trainees including Icarus, Kingston, etc.:

I found the interview - skip to 12:40 if you want to hear Phil tell the story https://youtu.be/_WMDiRSpFcQ

"100 years of Warner Bros." being celebrated with blatant price gouging sounds about right

I wish I hadn't seen the Phil Hartman interview on Stern years ago where Phil said Reubens was supposed to give him 50% of the profits of everything involving the Pee-wee Herman character but never did, and Phil was too nice to take him to court, so their friendship just ended Definitely clouded my opinion of the guy - Los Angeles in the 80s was just everyone ratfucking each other left and right

There was an article about 5 years ago about some guy who had an extensive VHS collection of boxing VHS tapes, and I believe he was the source for most of the DVD "career comps" you used to be able to find on eBay back in the day. If I'm remembering right he died suddenly and his kids were trying to find someone to take all the footage. Wonder whatever happened to it. There's a giant debate online now about "lost footage", and I'm of the opinion that if a network has the masters somewhere then it's not exactly "lost". People online these days just assume because they can't find something easily it's "lost" which isn't the case most of the time - but having stuff inaccessible to the public really sucks. edit - here it is NYC widow searching for new home for late husband's collection of boxing tapes, DVDs

She got outed for doing DMCA takedowns a while back Jon Barber was a similar tryhard anti-piracy stooge back in the day edit - read the insanity yourself https://jonbarber.weebly.com/anti-piracy.html

The top WWE stars are currently TNA mainstay Eli Drake (age 40) and 3PW superstar Rob Eckos (age 39) Don't be so sure

I wasn't aware that Dallas Hart was currently running an incarnation of Stampede until I looked it up recently Hadn't thought about his existence since his WWE Magazine column years ago - never knew he got into the business

It's MJF - you're getting a Piper-Bret tribute complete with Max teasing hitting Cole with the ringbell before deciding against it Calling it now - the finish is Cole picking up the bell and clocking MJF to win the title

Congrats to Matt Sydal on getting his first New Japan booking since his drug arrest years ago

"A bunch of injured people wave to the crowd"