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Hogan joining WCW was the ignition, with Hall and Nash a close second. "Lethal dose of poison" is right. But it's a catch 22. They caused the boom, but their selfishness killed the company.

I haven't heard any pro TNA talk at all. I think he understands his audience enough to know better. He still does the Jerry Jarrett impression...people were apparently worried about that. Well you know

Reminds me of the story of Vince drag racing Court Bauer after a show and trying to run him off the road. What a nut. I'd say I'm surprised he still drives himself but maybe Vince isn't allowed in a limo since the Chatterton thing.

VInce blamed Ted Turner for the accident.

I totally see Vince powerwalking to "No Chance in Hell" in that bottom pic.

Can we get a HOF backstage group shot of Owens, Zayn & Cornette?

Prichard towing the company line is usually easy to let slide since it doesn't impact things too much. Listen to the show enough and you'll figure out how to take the good with the bad. That being said, the Mania 7 and the steroid scandal shows were skippable due to Prichard's insistence on sticking to McMahon's narrative becoming absolutely intolerable. When he's doing things like sticking to the bomb scare story or swearing Meltzer is wrong about the Mania 3 attendance, it's too much. When they covered No Holds Barred, I really wished they'd addressed the rumor that Vince and Hogan locked themselves in a hotel room with a bunch of coke and rewrote the script.

Story of the tournament. NXT and WWE guys get credit for stuff the same way you're happy when your dog doesn't shit on the floor.

This is why I film all my "sex tapes" on 8mm, MAYBE Betamax if I'm feeling futuristic.

we have a winner

Undertaker and Bray Wyatt making scary ring entrances in bright sunlight was fucking dumb

Listening to Prichard's podcast, he mentions that there was always an argument of who made who and who was bigger, between Piper and Hogan. I don't get it and I think Piper played up his importance a bit too much. Piper did play a major part in the War to Settle the Score and the ramp up to Mania 1, but it looks like that was the limit to his involvement with Hogan. Just looking at MSG matches from before and after Mania, it looks like Piper was programmed against mid and upper mid carders before and after that angle and doesn't even seem to have had a singles run with Hogan, probably due to Piper's refusal to do jobs. So did Piper contribute to a hit angle? Yes. Did he "make" Hogan? I don't think so. It's not like they had some drawn out feud between arch-rivals that boosted Hogan's career. Piper helped one hot angle but I feel like Hogan would have been huge no matter what.

I thought it sounded more like Cyrus' Bulldog Brown impression than actually Johnny Ace but it was still hilarious.

Third-to-last episode of the season so of course nothing much happens until the final minute and they're just treading water. Good to know Negan was polite enough to hold off coming out of his hideout until Rosita and Sasha finished their heart to heart.

The revelation here is that wrestlers are actually very creative people who, left to their own devices, can be quite entertaining. Who knew?

Cena channeling the delivery of part Lance Russell, part Gordon Solie. Fandango is channeling Solie's other main characteristic.

AH, I see it now. And knowing is half the battle

This is a great point. They're just not going to get a 15-20 year guy. The last two booms were led by Hogan and Austin, 8 years and 7 years, respectively, though both runs should have ended before they did. 5 years is about right but this is what happens when you have a company whose management never changes. If people are worried about AJ's "bump card," I'm sure he could tone down his style a bit and be just fine. Finn will never be the guy as long as he's under 6' and under 200lbs. GOD DAMMIT PAL HE'S SO SKINNY. Aside from Samoan lineage, sweet pecs and dreamy eyes you could lose yourself in, who in the fuck looked at Leeakee in FCW and thought the same things they did when they saw the Rock on day one? Because those people are idiots.

I don't know if they ever will, though. Vince seems to have gotten even more tone deaf and stubborn in his old age, not less. Vince is a guy who thinks without a doubt that the fans will like what he tells them to like. In his mind, he alone created the 80s and 90s booms, not a combination of his own talent plus timing, luck, and having the right wrestlers. He seems to really believe he can create a star whenever he wants. If they didn't realize Roman wasn't the guy their first six coronation attempts, I don't think they ever will.

I've been on an emergency conference call for two hours explaining every way I can that the vendor is absolutely at fault.

I thought apartment wrestling pics were banned

My guess is, you take something that's an inexact science to begin with, and then you make it worse by commercializing the news industry, and here we are. I can just see a news producer asking their weather person, "well you don't know it won't be 12 inches, so could you just say there's a possibility?" And then let job scarcity and competition in the field do the rest. If meteorologists 1-12 aren't willing to lie to boost viewership, meteorologist #13 will.

I was blown away by what a con the TV weather game is. I live up north of DC and the TV stations were hyping 6-12 inches from the weekend broadcasts until Monday. Suddenly, on Monday, they started downplaying that, saying "this is a tough storm to call, folks." It was obviously a tough storm to call ever since they knew it was coming, but if they'd said that on Saturday, viewers would have changed the channel looking for a more accurate forecast. So the infotainment industry game is to hype armageddon until the last possible minute, then give out the more realistic forecast.

The only thing I've learned from this thread so far is now BOTH Wachowskis are trans. No idea how I missed that.

Years ago, someone on PWG commentary (maybe 2010 BOLA??) said, "I understand alpha and omega, but what's the 'battery half full' symbol there for?" Still unanswered.