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I am hoping they can find and air the Bash ‘87 from the Orange Bowl in Miami with the second Wargames match (with Bubba in a mask as War Machine); there are some clips of it on YouTube so I know it exists somewhere.

Sign Private Party, give them the name Private Profits and have them be the heel capitalist foes to Street Profits.

Bonilla Day will always be my favorite free money baseball deal (though it pales in comparison to the Silna Brothers of the ABA who received approx. $800 million in payments until the NBA could finally extract themselves from their agreement).

I love this idea. Runs parallel to the concept of The American Dream, if you weeeeeel. Edit to add: Get Trevor Murdoch, put him under the mask, and have him be a delusional Dusty, clubberin' everyone with a loaded elbow pad instead of the loaded mask.

When I think of Duggan during that era, it’s that one PPV where the WCW roster is sitting at ringside (Souled Out ‘97?), and during a match he just stands up and tries pulling focus with a “USA” chant.

We've done variations on this joke before, but Lex should have worked a cruiserweight bully program by wearing a Liger mask and calling himself Lex Liger.

I think the complexity with a slow burn is that Bron is presented as way, way too unstable/short-fused - there's not really a slow build in that; if you want it to go 15 months, 12 of them would need to be with nothing building it up, and then all of it happening Rumble-to-Mania.

I want to see Cena try and get nuclear heat in Saudi Arabia - make fun of a kid and his father in the crowd, what they're wearing, the usual stuff. What could go wrong?

I’m assuming that Punk will eventually win the World title and then Rollins will immediately cash in on him and win it.

I truly mean this without any pointed criticism toward anyone specific at all: Could we all please, for efficiency's sake, just stipulate/agree that Punk was a hypocrite to return to WWE, and every subsequent individual moment/decision/statement/whatever that he's done/decided/said/whatever is contained within that folder? Even if we don't think that? And then we could all move on with our lives as wrestling fans without another thing bringing forth a "YOU SEE? YOU SEE? IT'S LIKE I SAID ALL ALONG!" Like, I get it; I do. Really. Or do whatever - disregard my opinion; it's worth no more or less than anyone's.

Things I don't understand about this - Is WWE still its own corporation, but just owned by TKO? If so, is WWE making these talent contract decisions themselves? Or is TKO ordering WWE to make specific cuts of these people? Way too meddling if so. Or is TKO just doing the standard shitty "your WWE division of the TKO conglomerate must reduce costs by X% to meet our quarterly blah blah" corporate thing, and WWE is selecting how/who to cut?

A good chunk of the Southern Alcohol Comix are on the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20121002123213/http://www.deathvalleydriver.com/soalccomix.html

I was witness to the absolute nadir of that era - an MSG house show in September 1996 that drew under 4,000 paid, featuring Alex “The Pug” Porteau, TL Hopper, The Stalker, The Goon, Freddie Joe Floyd, etc. along with the eventual Attitude Era stars (Michaels, Foley, Austin, HHH). It was truly terrible, but worth the five bucks I paid the scalper for ringside.

No, I think you're on the right track - today's Internet is a terrible by-product of the original creation; for every site like this (and this truly is an exceptional discussion forum) there are a thousand loathsome counter-examples. It's very depressing; I've spent literally my entire professional career in direct service of the Internet - for thirty years! That's right, Dusty! My first job out of college was tech support for an ISP, and then ever since I've spent over a quarter-century producing/updating websites. That's hard times, daddy!

Yeah, I think subtle heel/tweener is close enough for what we're all saying - the touring champ was adaptable as needed.