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Tony doing the "I have to inject AEW with a lethal dose of poison" Vince speech as he spins around his chair to reveal the letters "m J f" in the nWo logo font...

Not exactly the same thing, but seeing this reminded me that there used to be a clause in the MLB draft rules that allowed independent minor league teams to participate in the draft starting in the 4th round.

They will take your Swedish meatballs and feed them to you!

In Soviet Union, development traps you! Hear me out: Million Dollar Armdrag, a high-velocity/impact armdrag sold as a knockout finisher.

There’s one at the end of the MSG Raw on the same night as Austin stunning Vince, and the Cactus Jack debut.

Now that I’m thinking about it; does AEW even own security cam footage from an overseas arena? I would assume there is no viable DMCA claim unless Wembley Stadium’’s operators sold them the footage.

Your Hogan mention made me realize how much I wanted him to show up during the cameos in the main event, just to get Solo Spiked in the throat and then do a Jimmy Valiant-esque writhing, leg-kicking, spasmodic sell job.

If this was Vince, he'd give us 2 months of Cody vs. Omos, and then Sheamus.

Breadsticks instead of kendo sticks?

I’ll have to rewatch it to be sure, but I feel that there was something very unique about the audience reaction when Cody beat Roman. There was the standard 1-2-3 crowd count-along, but the subsequent pop after that was 10x the reaction, like a good portion just wouldn’t believe it until it happened, and then everyone exploded into a sheer combination of relief that this story was over and they could see something else starting tomorrow, genuine happiness for Cody, and a joyful feeling that Vince is truly gone.

My favorite type of heel comeuppance is when it’s due to their hubris - Drew just wouldn’t leave and wouldn’t leave; when he squatted onto the announcer table, I almost thought he was going to pantomime taking a giant dump onto it. And then he went just a little too far, and that was it. Drew and Punk’s interactions have been terrific for months, and tonight was no exception. They obviously enjoy working with each other.

Indeed - the December 1996 PPV was held in the former West Palm Beach Auditorium (capacity 6,000), the site of where I watched Ric Flair bleed a gusher at a random CWF house show in 1985.

I'm not entirely sure why Philadelphia keeps catching backhands in this thread, but: the Wrestlemania crowd is from everywhere, and not made of 70,000 local denizens there's only a few of us on the board formerly/currently from there, and we already hate ourselves more than anyone else could

Rock being presented with a "People's Champion" belt gives me the dreadful suspicion that they think Cody can afford to lose on Sunday, and then instead win this "title" from Rock later on this year.

All of this pension talk makes me realize what a unicorn I am in the modern age, having being employed at two private-sector companies (including my current one) that offered a pension plan. I say "offered", because both ended enrollment in the plan to new employees and just kept the legacy folks in there. And my current employer is as solid as they go - a private monopoly that can never be leveraged/sold/merged. I look at the projected "if you stay here until 65, your benefit is:" page on the pension site every month like an obsessive recluse. At my advanced age, I just need to grimly hold onto my current job for another dozen years, and take the lump sum distribution. I'll be one of those jerks from my grandparents' generation - not well-off, but with plenty of non-perishable goods in the bomb shelter.