BEN!

Good grief, this is basically just the set-up for a porno.

Riddick HoBowe. Seriously though guys, you can't just put 'hobo' in there for a good hobo name. The essence of their hoboness has to show through in their name. Like if 3MB were hobos, they'd be Fleas Slater, Sad Drew SackIntyre, and Jinder "Sleeps Behind A Dumpster At The Mall" Mahal.

Spike helps but Hogan gets a lot more than Angle and Sting per appearance. TNA shoulders the majority including all his travel perks and he's not flying coach then heading over to the Hertz stand and sharing a car with three other guys and then rolling over to the Courtyard to check-in. And I'm not sure Styles doesn't have any negotiating leverage. WWE's stocked well on credible heels but they're not exactly overflowing with credible main event babyfaces right now. Cena and Sheamus are hurt. They just turned Orton. RVD's a non-factor, they've fumbled with Ziggler and before that they dropped the ball on Del Rio and completely shit the bed with Ryback. Sign Styles to a two-year deal, let him keep his name, push him as a big deal and they'll have another credible main event babyface. Plus, they'll be setting an example for Sting that WWE is willing to treat an "outsider" with respect so maybe Triple H can accomplish the "impossible" for a second year by getting Sting into WWE for the HOF and the WrestleMania match against Undertaker. Have Barrett and Fandango beat down Miz. Next week Flair tells Miz he got him a tag team partner that's "Phenomenal". Styles debuts on Raw, same name, same pyro shower intro, flys around off the top, dropkicks those two tall dudes right in the face, and finishes one of them off with either the Styles Clash or Calf Killer, and just like that WWE has another credible babyface headliner. Maybe he saves Bryan from the Shield later that night or next week. Beats Ambrose for the US Title and then says he's going after Orton next. Miz somehow gets a US Title match but it ends in a no-contest when The Shield takes out the ref. For the rematch, Flair gets named special ref and he and Miz turn and join up with Trips' crew. Styles teases that he's got someone to watch his back and the lights go out and a scorpion logo appears on the TitanTron. At whatever PPV is before WrestleMania, they can either do Miz & Orton w/Flair vs. Bryan & Styles w/Sting or The Shield vs. Bryan/Styles/Sting and the next night on Raw for Sting's first promo, he just howls and points his bat at the WrestleMania sign.

Give me all of the books...for my Delirious librarian gimmick where he runs to the ring pushing a cart of books and throws them at his opponents while babbling "overdue, overdue".

Meltzer's reporting that Lawman Don Slatton died. I remember him from this awesome Harley Race story... http://www.drtomprichard.com/2012/08/the-world-champion-meets-the-king-of-chain-matches-2/

I think there's a handful of guys that TNA should try to retain no matter the cost and AJ Styles is at the top of the list. Dude's in his physical prime, works every show, never gets hurt, and stays over inspite of the company. He really has been their franchise player since day one even though they've rarely treated him like it. If TNA doesn't give him exactly what he wants then they're sending a horrible message to the rest of the remaining roster. If TNA's so cash poor now that they can't afford to pay So Cal Val the peanuts she was getting then they seriously need to go ahead and dump Hulk Hogan. I'm sure they've spent more on just his car service than they've paid her and a lot of these other recently released talents for their entire runs there.

Khali is almost completely immobile now so technically he's probably the worst guy on the main roster but he's still a giant and he appeals to a country with a shit ton of people in it. Riley and Otunga aren't very good either but I can't remember the last time I saw either wrestle. Ryder's easily the worst guy on the roster now. An absolutely awful babyface character and a mediocre at best in-ring talent. He's not even charismatic. There's just nothing there. I'll never understand that little movement he had for a minute where people kept pushing for him. He's basically the embodiment of this generation of dipshits that think they can achieve something just by putting something on YouTube or getting re-Tweets or likes on Facebook. --- Daniel Bryan needs an army of hobos. Sin Cara can be it since he's pretty much just a bum now anyway. Man, they should've thrown Bryan into an alley in the back of the arena after beating him up. Then the next week he could've come back looking even more disshelved and backed up by his new Hobo Army. Then the Shield guys would've been all, "We didn't sign up for this. Those hobos are all full of hepatitis and shit." So one of the McMahons makes a deal with the Wyatt Family to take care of the Hobo Army in exchange for shots at the Shield's titles. Then when Bryan thinks he's got a clear shot at Orton, the Stud Stable jumps Bryan cause Orton joined up with Col. Parker unbeknowst to Triple H. Now the McMahons' house of cards is swaying with strife between the Shield and the Wyatts, the McMahons that made the deals with each respective group, and Triple H and Orton/The Stud Stable with Daniel Bryan and his Hobo Army trying to topple the whole thing in addition to the wild card of John Cena's return looming on the horizon.

Needs a single tear rolling down the cheek.

He didn't do shit to The Great Power Uti. He didn't punch him in the balls and Uti kept the replica WCW US belt. And look at the shape America is in now. Thanks for nothing, so-called Super Domino. Pro wrestling's greatest one hit wonders are "Outsider Invasion" and "Evil Authority Figure" and wrestling promotions have been covering both for what seems like almost two decades non-stop. I don't think anybody in charge even knows why they keep playing these tunes anymore much less understands why their versions don't catch fire like the originals did.

Virgil looks so out of place on Piper's team now. Can't think of anyone that ever fell from being in a high profile program to becoming a job guy faster than Virgil. And Warlord just looked cool. He looked cooler with the paint but then he got a staff with a 'W' on it. Not just anybody can get away with carrying around a staff with a 'W' on it. Not Warrior, not Wendi Richter, not Wade Barrett. Maybe Wahoo McDaniel and William Regal could've. Wally Karbo would've seemed like a competent authority figure if he had a staff with a 'W' on it.

I blame Jim Ross and his "spine on the pine" for this. Gotta have the pivot for it to be a spinebuster in my eyes.

Cause it was a planned spot. Fortune was trying to get rid of the ECW guys and Styles said he was going to cripple Richards.

Road Warrior Hawk's death is the pro wrestling death that hit me the hardest because it taught me that injecting yourself with gorilla testosterone and horse steroids isn't all that good for you thus proving comic book science to be a bunch of bullshit. And for some news involving a different kind of drug... http://www.gwhnews.com/2013/08/what-is-pro-wrestling-business-coming-to.html The follow-up is that dude was all tweaked out on meth and that people backstage actually called 911... http://www.gwhnews.com/2013/08/video-footage-of-wrestler-quitting-match.html That awful photo choice combined with those red splotches make it look like Cena fell out of a building and his blood is splattered all around him. That's also a really bad choice since you'd think good photography would be the key selling point for Pro Wrestling Illustrated. That checkerboard frame is pretty hideous too. The month he was out with a concussion.

Heenan sold half of WCW Pro (the Sunday TBS show) to Sonny Onoo and NJPW. Of course, Heenan didn't have the authority to do such a thing and the World Cup was simply announced. There really wasn't much set up at all. It really seemed like after Dusty Rhodes left in '89 that WCW stopped treating Starrcade like the "Granddaddy Of Them All". They did stuff like the Iron Man tournament and a couple of years of Battlebowl. Post-Dusty none of them seemed to be treated like that big of a deal other than Flair/Vader, Hogan/Sting, and maybe Hogan/Piper. Bischoff was all about Halloween Havoc in Las Vegas as WCW's showcase event because he thought people would be less inclined to buy a PPV during the holiday season.

I'm not crazy about the Batman from Beware The Batman having a such a casual reliance on his super computer cause it comes across a little too much like Iron Man but this exchange from the last episode made me laugh: "Computer, last known location of Humpty Dumpty?" "A wall."

I remember him wearing that get-up (jeans, chaps, tank top) with a regular leather vest instead of the jacket. That was not a good image change.

I'm pretty sure Cena came back before the show even ended so he wasn't even gone a week. If they're thinking of bringing back Cold Stone for WrestleMania it should be either against Bray Wyatt or teaming with Trips and some other Attitude Era guy against The Shield. RVD needs to quit the weed. It makes him paranoid.

Chocolate briefcases! And Trevor Murdoch! Looks like an episode to see.

I'm so disappointed that the Kane/Wyatt 'Ring Of Fire Match' is just an 'Inferno Match' instead of a match where the winner is the first man to beat his opponent down long enough in order to get to the stage and successfully sing the entire Johnny Cash song. I'm more disappointed than when I found out that a 'Chair Match' wasn't going to be a match where the winner was the first man to sit in the chair. --- Monday Night War Games Team WCW: Sting, Goldberg, Bunkhouse Buck, Barbarian, THE MONSTER MENG! vs. Team WWF: Austin, Undertaker, Bradshaw, Faarooq, Vince McMahon? Vince McMahon originally annouces The Rock for Team WWF but Colonel Robert Parker tricks McMahon into putting himself into the match instead. Dick Slater is originally announced for Team WCW but McMahon has him taken out in response to the Colonel tricking him. Team WCW responds by announcing Goldberg as Slater's replacement. And Robocop and Chuck Norris are the neutral cageside enforcers to keep both companies from trying any shenanigans.

An autobiographical Hulk Hogan film, hmmm... Opening scene: Tracking shot through darkness, faint beeping sounds in background, sounds get louder as tracking shot continues towards a light, beeping tones become clearer as they start forming into "Real American" as the light gets closer. POV changes as we see a tiny finger emerge from under a sheet and we hear a bellowing "You" as the scene star wipes into an action montage set to "Real American" of Hogan battling various opponents, jumping a river on a motorcycle, wrestling a Pteradctyl in the sky, etc. into another star wipe of the title card... HULKAMANIA THE MOTION PICTURE Yes, I will take your free jacket but give me a free pair of pants as well.

Behold, the ravages of time. Shoes for your feet! Pockets for your stuff!

Say what? (I didn't see a lot of the FCW) vs. Johnny Curtis, Donny Marlowe, CJ Parker vs. Colin Cassidy, Mike Dalton, Jason Jordan She's mic'ed for this one. That's all I found on a quick search but I don't think they were all together that long anyway. Seemed like Colon got called up just as the gimmick made FCW TV and then Diaz got repackaged.

The continuity editing on this show is awful. They're on the plane eating and then the food is gone and they're drinking and then the food is back and then they're drinking again. 'Jon Uso'. None of these twins do shoot names correctly.

Homeboy needs glasses. I think he has real depth perception issues. Like when he jumps off the top and has to flap his arms because he misjudged the distance. Some Horace Grant goggles would do him a world of good.

Jakks did some LJN-style figures. Didn't capture the charm of the originals at all. I'd imagine the same thing would happen if Mattel tried to tackle the Hasbro-style figures. I used to have this MUSCLE Thing figure that I thought looked like Abraham Lincoln. Creeped me out so I traded him to a friend. A couple of weeks later, same figure comes back to me as part of a lot in a trade with another friend. Figured I had to book the guy out of the territory to get rid of him so I had him lose a loser leaves town match and like any sensible child, threw him out the front door after he lost. Few days later my dad finds it while mowing the lawn and gives it back to me. Guy's got some tenacity so I made him a mid-card manager but he still creeped me out so I was still looking for ways to get rid of him. Dad dug a ditch in the backyard and filled it with water for some reason and MUSCLE Things don't float so I had some matches by the water-filled ditch and Abe ended up getting thrown in and a couple of days later that trench got filled in with dirt. Maybe a year later, my dad plows up the backyard and finds that damn figure again. So I quit trying to get rid of him and made him a referee. No idea where it is now.