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Hook will end up like Cody: another wrestler who’d better thank God every day that he got more of his mom’s genes.

Anything is better than what we have now. Bucks and Hangman, Top Flight and Andretti, HOB, any combo from Alex Abrahantes' stable of random luchadores, shit, throw three people together at random from AEW Dark 2.0 ROH and odds are they'd hold my interest in-ring than The Acclaimed and Daddy Ass playing the hits.

Fucking Mid-Atlantic weather, man. It's barely getting above freezing this week. Next Friday? 60 degrees. WT everlovin' F.

I feel like they missed the boat by not having the trios division work exclusively under trios rules (by that I mean no tags, more action packed...still one fall, though, not the captain's rules or whatever, which are a little convoluted). I'd rather have this division be something interesting and different instead of "tag matches you're used to, but with one extra dude."

Wait, is there anyone at all that believes that had the Punk/Perry shit not happened that thin-skinned Phil would still be happily working for AEW and having no problems to this day? I mean sure, believe whatever you like, but I feel like Dr. Strange viewing all the possibilities in the multiverse when I consider 14 million eventualities for Punk getting offended and perceiving betrayal or transgressions. I don't think there's any possibility for anything to have worked with Punk and AEW in the long run, Perry's dumb bullshit notwithstanding.

I had a lot to drink and was watching later at night maybe, but god damn, when I see the main start with 30 minutes left in the show, and FTR is involved, it just feels really self-indulgent and not at all like something I want to see. I +10'd until the end. Alvarez described it as being good when it picked up, but took 15 minutes to get going. Maybe I'll go back and watch the last 15.

I haven’t eaten there since college, I’m estimating maybe 96. Jesus. Fellow Marylander here…the Roy’s and Ruby’s are both within a half mile of each other in Frederick!

*boop*

I drove by both a Roy Rogers and a Ruby Tuesday’s today. Is this some multiverse shit?

Didn’t Vince do that once, too? Maybe with Tajiri and Rhyno? P.S., my phone autocorrects “Tajiri” to “Tahiti.” Dutch Van Der Linde approves!

Alvarez always tells a story about working on Flowers shows, where he and another guy were stinking up the place and Flowers would run out and just legit cane the shit out of them both. I can't recall but it sounds like it happened more than once, some real Gong Show type shit.

I saw the Joe/Kobashi/Homicide/Ki and Joe/Danielson/Kenta/Marufuji tags in person. The common denominator is that my old brain can remember all the participants, but not who tagged with who.

Jim Ross continues to be horrible. Maybe the Sting match can be his last match, too. “Swerve reminds me of Ed Reed” is the new “Sammy reminds me of Gino Hernandez.” He had to restrain himself from talking about Shida being just like Inoki and Aminata reminding him of Butch Reed. “Why is Swerve risking going to the top rope?!” Did this bitter old turd ever criticize Bobby Eaton? What good does this type of commentary do anyone? The best was Excalibur throwing it to Ross and all JR could add was spouting Hager’s height and weight before moving on to Hager’s footbaw background. I swear he could be replaced by a soundboard or AI and nobody would know.

I’ll be so happy when this TNA PPV is over so I’ll stop getting the Triller banner that looks like Alex Shelly is wearing a party hat.

I know. And somehow it’s still over the top.

I recall absolutely loving Heat and I guess I still do, but I have to say, in my latest rewatch, Pacino’s overacting comes as close as humanly possible to ruining this film.

I’m fine with the German version of 99 Red Baloons while simultaneously being pissed that I accidentally downloaded the German version of Major Tom. I’m a dichotomy.

We need a Copeland/Hook team so we can get a “you think you know me” / “you don’t even know me” mashup.

On the “Brody lives and gets a run vs Hogan” front, looking at house results, the earliest Brody could have worked Hogan would have been after Mania 5 — Brody died in the Summer of 88 and Savage was champ with Hogan gone until Summerslam. After that, it was the Megapowers run-up vs Bossman and Akeem. Maybe Brody could have replaced one of those two? Probably not. So after Mania 5, Hogan is married to Savage until Fall. Then he goes to Bad News for a bit before moving on the Perfect and, later, tags with Beefcake vs Perfect & Poffo. After Mania 6, he’s gone for a while, regains at Mania 7, then is with Slaughter for a good while. So realistically, the only place he probably would have fit in was maybe Brown’s spot or maybe Hogan vs Brody in the place of those tags, I guess.

That’s a really good point. I’d need to look at house show reports for maybe the year or two after Brody died to see who he may have been able to supplant. Off the top of my head, I’m thinking about interchangeable midcarders like the aforementioned Bubba, or guys like Gang or Bad News, who were heated up for a few runs around the horn, then pushed back down the card. Did Berzerker get a house show run against Hogan or was that too late?

Exactly. Meltzer mentioned this as well, that late-career, no longer concerned with protecting his aura Brody would have absolutely come in and done business with Hogan.

Chairman’s Intent is definitely what’s played on Triller.

Pre weight loss Walter vs Hogan in the 80s would definitely fit. Gimmick-wise, though, it’s a scary proposition. Best case scenario, we get lederhosen. Worst case, we get an act that can’t tour Germany.

Speaking of time machines, I can absolutely see this video in early 80s WWF! I take it you also have Fios Internet? Why not drop linear cable TV and use something like Sling; $40/month and has AXS? A lot of these guys we're saying would be great time traveling monsters for Hogan are big by today's standards but are too short by 1987 standards. Brody King is only 6'3" Jacob Fatu is two inches shorter.

My dude, the Bucks were out there for the last minute of the show. I really love the look of Daily's Place and I'm just a sucker for shows taking place in arenas that look different from the norm. I LOL'd at Taz asking if the concrete stage had been there before, then the realization dawned on him that it was the stage they always had and it was just a different layout.