sydneybrown

I've been a D'Lo fan for decades. He always came off to me as someone being themselves. I was at the RAW where CM Punk cashed in Money in the Bank on Edge. The last time I went to a WWE show I had a "Push D'Lo" sign like the nerd that I am, and I joked about that. Then the dark match started. And his music played. And I lost my shit. The crowd gave him a great reaction too.

Not to be that guy, just Google "Danny Thomas glass table." Someone took that exact story and replaced him with Jimmy Valiant. Over a decade later, he's probably still wondering why people keep bringing it up...

I have it on tape somewhere, I didn't see it on YouTube, there is absolutely an LOD-Demolition match at MSG where Hawk gets taken out early and spends the entire match laying on the floor and only gets up for the finish. And this was a YEAR AND A HALF before SummerSlam 92.

Not sure if Foley realizes it, but he wrestled the Road Warriors on their last WCW PPV before going to WWF in 1990. Warriors/Norman the Lunatic beat Bam Bam Bigelow/Kevin Sullivan/Cactus Jack. Which sounds like one of those weird-ass WAR 6-mans...

Really good episode. I'm a little disappointed we never found out once and for all if Rocco was Ellering's idea. It says a lot that I had no interest in reliving the Owen story again...until that promo for it.

Wikipedia says the Heatseekers have had the "Smokey Mountain" belts since 2014 so I guess they won. BTW, I don't know why Cornette acted like it was impossible for the Heavenly Bodies to wrestle. Yes, Del Ray has passed but Tom Prichard and Stan Lane were the original team and both were (and are) very much alive.

I assume it's a Vince angle he'll give up on within weeks. That being said, him not being all that happy about becoming a dad could have made him an all-time heel. Which we'll never know.

I come here for a break from the world and then I get reminded that The Great Khali killed a man in the ring and now Del Rio has been arrested for sexual assault.... Sadly, not surprised by either. And I don't blame Khali, btw.

Yokozuna murdering a future Dark Side of the Ring candidate...

The best Grammy moment ever. Little Richard awards himself a Grammy and explains why and the crowd gives him a standing ovation for it.

Jan 89-Aug 89 WCCW is super underrated and very entertaining. The key to all of this too is that Embry is absolutely in the wrong through most of this (refusing to leave after losing a loser-leaves-town match.) Definitely going to check the Youtube videos, hopefully they include the recap segments voiced over by a normal sounding Mick Foley (who was Cactus Jack Manson during all of this.)

I feel pretty confident he slept with Pepa. It would be pretty awkward to write in your book "I had a promo shoot with Salt n Pepa. I slept with Pepa...not Salt."

Reminds me of one of my all-time Owen quotes. Bulldog had just beaten Owen for the inaugural European title while they were tag champs, and Owen was trying to egg him on..."BULLDOG! You may have two titles...but you don't have TWO SLAMMYS!!!"

Wow. I never knew that's what she was saying until now. And again, THAT was purposefully put ON a COMMERCIAL video.

It was on an MSG house show, so it wasn't like a ton of people saw it (though it did air on Prime Time Wrestling.) Considering that was Wendi's last WWF match, and talent no longer existed once they left, it was pretty much a "Moolah won the title back" and they moved on. The bonkers shit is that the match showed up on a Coliseum Video. The whole thing, including Wendi trying to keep going and do the planned finish. And Gorilla's outrage: "What was THAT? The ref made a THREE COUNT?"

I've never wanted to see Tom Selleck tell David Schultz that wrestling is fake more in my life than right now.

Is this a real picture? That's clearly post haircut Andre in his heel jacket sitting next to circa 1982 Vince.

The 20/20 episode aired in Feb 1985. BTW, the footage they showed of Schultz firing his gun and Vince losing his shit aired on TNT after David had already been fired. It's his last WWF appearance. He's even joking about the Stossel incident in the interview. 3/1/85 on the Network. He pulls a gun on Vince during the interview. Not kidding.

Fucking LOVED this. They got Mansfield AND they showed the hypocrisy of Hogan purposefully injuring Richard Belzer. Schultz was spur of the moment, Hogan went out of his way to injure someone. The craziest thing to me and I'm glad they brought this up too: The David Schultz incident happened on an MSG show in 12/84. 20/20 sat on that story for EIGHT WEEKS and didn't air it until the WrestleMania hype was underway in 2/85. Could you imagine Chris Jericho punching Chris Cuomo in the face right now and it being kept a secret until Independence Day? Now you'd know within minutes. I think Stossel's "F**K you David" was kinda petty. It came off more that Stossel was angry that no matter what he did in his life, he's always going to be known as the guy who got smacked in an interview by a pro wrestler.

Pretty sure Finkel was still an employee when he passed, Petrol thinks Gerald deserved the Janet treatment.

Coming to CBS this fall "Rick and the Fatman."

Randy decided to combine all the rest of his 2020 wrestling into that one match.

I mean that's rule #1. If you're sick, stay the fuck away from people. A lot of lives would probably have been saved if rule #2 was "send anyone home who looks sick but insists "No, I'm fine." And fuck this allowance thing. This isn't about Miz. This is about all the people who he comes into contact who may not be able to handle whatever illness he has. I guarantee he didn't have COVID but he had something. And he was still spreading that shit. And now those people who might get it are going to think they have it too. I agree with everything you say if Miz doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself. Because that's the only way your comment makes any sense. This isn't HIV or cancer. You TALK to someone and you're potentially spreading it. Motherfucker was going to WRESTLE people...

Oh my God, the few times I've seen Midnight Express, I kept waiting...and waiting for the bouncy synthesizer to start. And it never does. Actually kinda ruins the scene.

Honestly, I think it would be better if the doc ends with Schultz saying something with meaning or with regret and suddenly Stossel runs in, smacks him in the face and yells "Payback's a bitch, bitch!" and then runs the fuck out of there. And it cuts to black.