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  1. This was mentioned up thread, but I was thinking about it yesterday and can I submit Sabu in 1995 WCW as the most out of place a particular wrestler has ever been at a particular place at a particular time?

    It was like this alien being had arrived through a wormhole from some alternate reality. Like one minute there’s a “Sullivan, my son” skit and the next Sabu and Sheik are throwing a fucking fireball at some hamandegger and putting him through a table.

    It feels almost impossibly juxtaposed. A couple of others that come to mind are the Earthquake WWE dark match in 2001 and ECW showing up on RAW. But nothing tops Sabu in WCW I don’t think. Some serious David Lynch shit.

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  2. Man, this is a big one.

    Like others have said, you can’t tell the story of pro wrestling without telling the story of Sabu. He instilled that sense of real danger that very, very few wrestlers in history have been able to do: Abby, Sheik, Stan Hansen, Sabu, Onita. That’s probably the list. 

    He wasn’t pro wrestling’s Nirvana because Nirvana was too mainstream. But he was at minimum pro wrestling’s Mudhoney or Dinosaur Jr. Pro wrestling’s Eraserhead.

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  3. 13 hours ago, DragonZombie said:

    The Universal Championship apparently has been quietly retired. WWE has retroactively amended the Universal Championship’s title history. So Roman is now the last Champion, and Cody history with it is retconned out, and the last champ is not Cena anymore. 

     So really anyway whatever with the mess, then The Undisputed WWE Championship is now only carrying on one title history and one set of records, the old WWE title history and records. And not two into one anymore. Lineage is another thing, like linkage of belts.

    The page to the retired "belt" is broken for now.

    They probably did all this to avoid Cena being 18 time Champ.
     

    https://www.wwe.com/titlehistory/universal-championship

    https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2025/4/22/24413556/wwe-officially-retires-universal-championship-roman-reigns-cody-rhodes-john-cena
     

    So how exactly does this shake out? I’m not trying to go all DC Comics here and retcon the history of the universe every 3 years, but isn’t the logical option to present Cena’s title as the Bruno/Hogan/Austin WWE title, and Jey’s belt as the WCW/Batista WHC/Big Gold title? It all gets real messy with the Lesnar/Goldberg/Reigns stuff, but like…just put that all in the WWE Title continuity.

    That may be what they’re doing here, but I dunno. I think the typical fan sees it the way I describe here. Maybe most see Jey’s belt as a new, separate thing (I know it was presented that way at origin), but why not just do this. 

  4. I love the new pairing as the two have been completely separated from each other this whole time. It’s fresh.

    It will be interesting to see if they go with a Sith and Apprentice dynamic or if they present Bron and Seth more as equals. I think the latter would be more successful because in their heart of hearts I think the fans view Bron more credibly as a world title type guy. Seth’s sort of that long time main event revered guy, but no one really wants to see him as The Guy The Guy. 

    Very cool pairing though because of how out of the blue it is, yet it fits. Sort of like if Randy Savage linked up with Shawn Michaels in 1994 or something 

  5. Late to the party here but this felt like the weakest Mania in a while. It had no juice going in, and has no juice going out. And that’s with playing the big Cena heel turn trump card.

    My theory is that the lack of Sami Zayn on the show is the same as AEW’s lack of Best Friends. No heart and soul. Sami has done more than anyone with the “ultimate fun and entertaining” Mania presentation than anyone, dating back to the Jackass match

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  6. Lots of discussion the last few days on what kind of “trade compensation” would be adequate for AEW to allow Sting to induct Lex into the WWE HOF

    So, here is my apples to apples (legends contract for legends contract) suggestion: Mick Foley to somehow be involved with (referee, announcer, or intro video) whatever death match they have planned for Mox in Texas

    Given the respective histories, maybe Edge and Christian vs Mox and Claudio in a Texas Death Match. That feels like a win/win. E&C reunion while hiding the limitations of Edge in particular. Blows off the Death Riders angle without the title involved (Swerve vs either Ospreay or Hangman in the main event). 

  7. The Dynamite after Revolution is always a transition show heavier on narrative than in ring action and this was no different. Some doors closed while some new ones (Toni/Bayne, MVP/MJF, Ospreay gunning for the title at All In) opened. 

    I absolutely loved every main eventer staking their own claim to the title / number one contender-ship throughout the course of the night. That ruled.

    Marked out big for THE POUNCE (.)

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  8. It’s appropriate that the Hot Takes thread recently got resurrected because anyone that’s a YAY on the Death Riders in the month of our Lord March 2025….well….congratulations on winning DVDVR. Move over, “Mid South actually kind of sucked”

    Big shout out to Yuta’s quality Oddjob. That’s honestly all I got on this one.

    Nightmare Collective: “Yes, This Really Is The Main Event Of Our Global Wrestling Show” Edition 

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