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Would it be too much of an on-the-nose joke if at the end it was revealed the AI he was using was just this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-1_(wrestler)

Has anyone been following this Karrion Cross can't take a back bump trend on the ol' Twiter? Kinda fascinating.

In Jericho's book he says that Gedo was booked to come in and defeat him in a one-off match and Jericho went to someone (Terry Taylor? Bischoff? I forget whom) and wondered why he was being booked to lose to a guy who wasn't going to be staying in WCW and said booker agreed with him. So they changed the result to Jericho winning. He says that when he went up for the frankensteiner, Gedo (Whom Jericho was supposedly friendly with and had teamed with in WAR (?!)) inexplicably gave him a two-handed shove to the chest as he was performing the move which caused him to land on his head. Jericho (whose mother was paralyzed in an accident with her boyfriend) had an elevated fear of paralysis and leapt to his feet after the fall and continued the match but I think he made reference to feeling like he'd suffered an injury in the spot and probably shouldn't have. He doesn't mention talking to Gedo afterwards or any more clarification on what happened so, as an armchair, uh, wrestling guy, I have a feeling Gedo was told he was going over, then found out Jericho had talked them into changing the outcome and was maybe a wee bit annoyed with Jericho and gave him the shove, just as a dick-ish heel move not realizing it would lead to Jericho almost killing himself. I have no information to back that up, just making a guess.

What was the deal here?! Why does the crowd hate him so much? Did AEW know this? Seems weird to position him with a team of faces when the crowd detests him!

So someone explain this Jinder Mahal-Masada drama like I'm twelve...and also explain who Masada is?!

My friend watched a edited for TV 'Kill Bill' one time and he claims the dialogue was changed to "My name is Buck and I came to...PARTY", then after Uma escapes his clutches, she looks dismissively at his car that has been edited to read 'Partymobile' and spits "Partymobile!" and my friend said "What DOES this woman have against partying?!" (I never saw this, so I can't vouch for its veracity but it's one of my favourite stories of his aside from the time he said "Movies" into his remote control and a message came up on the screen saying "Will not comply with searches for terms like this "P*SSY" just as his wife walked in and he was going "I honestly did not say that!")

Ewww

Bizarre. Was so smooth when I posted a few hours ago and now back to the reload.

FWIW the site was almost unusable last night (Every single thing I clicked had to be refreshed at least once, even if I was going forward a page in the same thread!). But today it's faster than ever! Smooth sailing!

I ADORE this song. I always loved the line "money to pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep". Somehow I didn't really discover it until mid-2000-2005 when I saw it on a retro music video channel. Great choice!

Probably my biggest AEW complaint: they jam so much stuff in each episode that they never let stuff breathe. A quick replay or something lets a segment breathe a little but instead it gets a little "Bang! A match! A debut! But we have to jump to an interview! Heel turn! No time we gotta talk about a tournament!" Look, I'm not a big Adam Cole detractor/body-shamer...but I gotta admit, tonight when he came running out of nowhere and attacked Kyle Fletcher...I genuinely thought for a second that Marko Stunt had returned. I would like to see a Best of 7 Ops-Frat House (One change needed, the Frat House should have a frat/wrestling name (Phi Beta Head Droppa but...you know...better) instead of the generic Frat House) where the Frat Guys keep trying different combinations to defeat the Ops and keep suffering worse and worse defeats and go 0 and 7. I could watch that every week.

I was just wondering what happened to him the other day when I was watching 'Beyond the Mat' and they showed him being held back after someone had spit on him and it made me remember seeing him in PWI where he was billed as La Migra Maxx Justice and feuding with Hispanic wrestlers.

Also, the Cena heel run might not be making especially enjoyable matches, but the heat was absolutely nuclear last night. I love how they popped for his music, booed his entrance, cheered for R-Truth like he was 1980s Hulk Hogan, popped huge for Cena seeing the error of his way, booed when he cheated again. I don't know if the Cena "I'm going to ruin wrestling" really makes a lot of sense given his ties to The Rock and his being on the board of directors etc. etc. etc. but it has made for some unbelievable crowd reactions. I wonder how long it goes on for because I think you HAVE to let Cena run out the last few weeks (months?) as a face for his and the fans' sake. If Cena doesn't see "the error of his ways" until his last appearance or whatever, I think it would be a failure of a run.

Man Jesse Ventura on commentary was great in how uncomfortable it made Cole/McAfee. I miss the days when colour commentators went on unhinged tangents and things were just less corporate and over-produced. Ventura mocking Priest's exit while Cole and McAfee tried to explain it ("He's making a statement by walking out!" "Well if you're gonna do that at least go over the top!") and refusing to let it go when Cole and McAfee are desperately trying to move on was amazing.

I kinda think you could debut Tony D in his current gimmick, somewhere very Italian-friendly (Chicago, given his billed city) and make a big deal of it (Maybe pay some guys to lose their shit in the crowd over him), give him a big win, have him throw his opponent in the trunk and drive away and if he's over enough there it can transfer to other cities where they react favourably to appear to be in on him the same way he was his first night. Alternately, he would be a great heater (Even though he's not HUGE huge) for a cheating heel (Dom, for instance, if you wanna keep him heel!) and you can kind of build out his character from there.

https://youtu.be/QXlqF7g-tjU?si=cwIUwUIWY2a2SgSu How was I not aware, until today, that Goldust was once on Conan O'Brien, in character as a guest. It goes...it goes about as well as you'd think.

This show blew my mind as a teenager. I was vaguely aware of Japanese wrestling as a friend had taped that Superbrawl with Flair-Fujinami and had seen Great Muta once or twice, but I somehow had no concept that there were more than 1 or two Japanese wrestlers, never mind a whole federation including a guy with a sweet bodysuit and mask. I used to leave my TV on the PPV preview channel and look up and intently watch every time the Starrcade promo would come up (Had all the wrestlers standing in a row while Sonny delivered a motivational speech: "Liger? Fly high. Come down hard on WCW!" I can still remember that some...sigh....30 years later. But the new password I made LAST WEEK for my Apple account, completely gone! Oh, I should add, blew my mind as a teenage before I actually saw the show. All I saw was the preview and I may have listened to it in squigglevision. I finally tracked down a copy maybe 4-5 years later and gleefully purchased it and was STUNNED how matches with guys I had seen in good matches (Liger, Chono, Ohtani) and guys I had heard good things about (Kanemoto, Tenzan) wrestling actually good WCW wrestlers could be so stunningly BORING. This is where she calls Onoo "Hop Sing", right? And the crowd is mild for it, everyone is mild for it, except Dusty Rhodes who flips out: "Hop Sing! She said Hop Sing!" [laughs uproariously]. This match was impossibly boring. Three great wrestlers in a poorly-structured mach should be able to overcome it and present something interesting but it is SO long and SO dull that it's one of the most disappointing things I've ever seen.

I watched a Hakushi-Sabu match the other day and, man, does his entrance lose a lot of his mystique without simple things like lighting and, oh yeah, music. Watching him walk to the ring, the same slow gait that he used in WWF and costume, but under glare-y gymnasium lights with no audio accompaniment was really jarring. IIRC Bret Hart loved wrestling him, he said they had a really good match, then everyone after ate him up so when he got progammed against him again he decided to make him look good. Hidaka was one of those guys, like Tajiri and Crazy actually, who got super over with the ECW crowd but it took them forever to get behind. He had good to great moments in ECW, but the only real thing they did with him was have Joel Gertner call him "Poky-mon" because he was Japanese and taking the US by storm.

Considering the absolute hoops they dove through last night to discuss Mina and Toni's history without once mentioning Mariah May, I'd say it's highly unlikely ("Toni and Mina were involved in a sort-of love triangle" which if you were unfamiliar with their past, you'd wonder how they had a triangle with only two people!).

So that WASN'T something I thought I might have imagined/hallucinated?!

Apparently Brock's other son is named "Turk" which is just amazing.

http://bsky.app/profile/jonlanenhl.bsky.social/post/3loorazfecc2p I have no idea how to make these things work but.. per johnlanenhl on blusky "Duke Lesnar, a 14-year-old forward eligible for the 2029 NHL Draft, was selected by Medicine Hat (WHL) after he had 28 points (13 goals, 15 assists) in 30 games for Notre Dame in the CSSHL U15. His father is pro wrestler Brock Lesnar. His mother, Rena, was Sable in WWE in the late 1990s and 2003."

It definitely shows, what with groups like The Oddities and all. Not that I would bestow this task upon my greatest enemy, nor that it may even be feasible, but it would probably be interesting to see how many plotlines/dialogue were lifted directly from 'Jerry Springer'. Given the perceived (or deserved) low-brow nature of both outlets, I can't imagine either side would be terribly concerned with the lifting of content or willing (Able?) to pursue it in court. You know, I should really read that Nitro book...

Ah Russo finally gets to the zenith of daytime talk tv (which he is clearly obsessed with, how many hours of Jerry Springer must've have watched!), the Maury paternity test! As an aside, I found someone on YouTube who has uploaded nearly every episode of The Soup from 2007-2009 and it is STAGGERING just how much bottom-of-the-barrel reality tv there was (Cheaters, Stag Party, Tool Academy, Operation Repo (the latter of which I will cop to being a fan of for a bit!)). And I just wonder how much awful reality tv Russo must have cribbed from around this period of he was still booking (or was he still with TNA?!).

(Yes I am just now getting caught up in This thread) This made me laugh really hard -the light part- and kind of encapsulates late-era WCW