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I LIKE that coat (well I did until you explained it to me)! I was hoping it would be explained as being notes with the names of his victims on it, sealed in blood. I was not hoping it would be some board game stuff!

I'm pretty over the whole Death Riders deal, but ONE thing it absolutely deserves credit for is improving the character and presentation of Claudio by a million percent. The ominous opera entrance music, the ring jacket, the no-frills tights and ABSOLUTELY the German (?) promos; everything about him has been improved immeasurably. Now I think he needs to win some matches (Him being the constantly-defeated gatekeeper from Mox is the only thing hurting his aura). As much as I'm cool on the Death Riders, I wouldn't be upset is if Mox ever loses the title, for Claudio to take over the leadership of the group, surrounding himself with a few more like-minded (European?) followers.

Haha, that's amazing! Also, somehow the original is dirtier-sounding, like you could get chlamydia from listening to it.

As a kid I could NOT figure out the Roddy Piper song, I liked it but could not figure out how the chorus of "For everybody" made any sense (I DID figure out that "kiss my trash" was a cover for "Kiss my ass" even when I was 11 or so) but the chorus completely baffled me "For everybody? Does he mean that the song is for everybody? Is he saying he's standing up for everybody? So whey does it sound like an insult" and it wasn't until many, many, many years later that someone on here hipped me to the original version.i' Since just about everything on there is a cover song/reinterpretation, I've often wondered the same for 'Grab Them Cakes' because it seems way more, uh, adult (?!) for this album ("Once you get started then it's hard to stop you just go for your partner's you-know-what") than anything else, but I never found one.

As with the Hulk song being a recycled Bonnie Tyler song, the Piper song being a remade song, this is ALSO a remake, of sorts, of an insane NRBQ song about Captain Lou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyjAqBy4keM

So many Cero Miedo taunts in that third one!

I HATE these types of things (WWE does it all the time, too) where we're supposed to act like these guys don't speak/text/talk outside of a wrestling show setting! So MYP invites MJF into the HS and they don't immediately contact him and go "Uh...no!" but rather wait an entire week for the next wrestling show before coming out and going "Actually we don't want him!" So these guys were just COMPLETELY out of contact with each other for a whole week?! I think my favourite thing of the night was when Blake Christian stuck his hand down his tights, then licked his finger and Tazz goes "Uh, that was kinda gross actually. It was really disgusting." and just seemed SO put off by it. So, do I have this straight? Aussie Open go on hiatus because Mark Davis is injured. Davis comes back and goes after Kyle Fletcher, verbally trashing him then teaming up with the Callis Family's enemies. Callis acquires (?!) Davis' contract and Davis is his reluctant heater. Davis is a less-reluctant heater. Davis completely forgives Fletcher and helps him. Is that it? The Joe/Hook/Wrestler group is really fun, really natural and entertaining together AND have a terrible name and terrible entrance music. Also they should be doing SOMETHING?! Going after Mox, going after Hurt Syndicate, going after Learning Tree.

I remember when I was a kid seeing WM V and Martel walking out on Santana and it was SUCH a big deal. And as I was playing catch-up (I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling until I was about 10 so, this being pre-internet, the only way to catch up on what I had missed was to rent the videos the video stores had available and try to piece it all together), I thought Strike Force must have been this long-running, super-succesful team. But I was surprised to find years later that they teamed for less than two years, with Martel taking 6 months off during that less than two year run!

That story Jericho told in his book about how they told him to work her like any other opponent and he caught her with a shot and asked how she was and she said fine, then immediately went to Triple H to complain about it leading to a meeting with Vince culminating in Vince shouting something along the lines of "How could you? She's a WOMAN!" read like some bizarro episode of The Office. It's actually amazing Jericho came out of WWE as well as he did when you read all the stuff that went on that first half a year or so, from DX doing a promo where they pointed at a homeless guy and said he was "probably a better worker than Jericho" on TV even though they weren't in any sort of feud at the time to Vince comparing Jericho's wrestling to that of King Kong Bundy (Bundy's stuff looked like shit and really hurt).

There were at least two clotheslines where Dralistico bumped before Hobbs hit him and he missed one of his own kicks by about two feet. Also that sequence where Harleygram gyrated while Mortos stood there with his hands on his head was reminiscent of WWE Attitude-era shenanigans.

Every time I see (saw?) the latter, I always thought of that one promo I saw for a local radio station promoting a house show, clearly written by someone who had no wrestling knowledge who had him listed as "Seth 'Franklin' Rollins". "So his name is Seth Rollins, but his nickname is "Franklin"?" "I guess, print it."

Recently I've watched the first 8-9 Royal Rumbles and now I'm watching the first Nitro and a question struck me: Who is a better wrestling play-by-play guy: Eric Bschoff or Vince McMahon? Bischoff is dreadful as a play-by-play guy, yelling as loud as he can to try to get over how close a fall is but seemingly unable to call almost any move by name unless it's martial arts-based. But he might be better than Vince whose over-reliance on "1...2...it's over...no it isn't" or "1...2...and he wins it...no he doesn't" is pretty much the worst thing ever. Now when they both become wrestler characters, Vince leaves Bischoff in the dust as evil owner vs evil president. But straight play-by-play, I MIGHT lean Bischoff.

Last week when Yuta nailed her with the knee and the crowd all reacted with a somber "Ohhhhh" and Copeland stared on, slightly upset, and White pointed and laughed like Nelson Muntz, and I thought it was a great touch.

It's too hard to go back and like all the posts, but I have to say I greatly enjoyed the back-and-forth about the multitudes of Damien Steeles and Justin Sanes. I wonder what the most common indy name actually is?! At the opposite end, there was a guy who worked up here in BC named Count Baron Von Hugenstein and I have to say I doubt that unique combination of names is unlikely to be repeated. Maybe Count Von Hugenstein? Maybe Baron Von Hugenstein? But put them both together? Unlikely, I say!

Am I crazy or did the ring announcer also say "To face Tiffany Stratton or Iyo Sky" before the chamber. I spent 5 minutes looking it up because I thought I'd missed a title change.