Elsalvajeloco

Yes. He did basically a face turn right before the match with Sting in Japan where he got the back injury. He did an angle where he attacked Vader on a WCW Saturday Night with a chair as payback for Race costing him the match at Spring Stampede against Sting. I think it was taped right before the injury. It got a pretty big pop from the fans. They still aired it but once the injury occurred, it got dropped like it never happened. Another casualty of WCW taping stuff weeks in advance. In a way more over the top, raunchier version, he got over with the ECW fans as a face. However, again, in a more lewd and crass way doing stuff predating the Val Venis character. He was also pandering to that crowd making inside jokes about Jerry Lawler liking underage girls, etc. etc. That said, that era of WWF when he was first there? He was over with the ladies and they played that up, but they would have lighten up on some of the overtones and make him more badass. He would basically be what Magnum T.A. was in JCP, which was very much an open spot in WWF seeing as they didn't have that character. Everyone had to be something from a B-movie or a Saturday morning cartoon.

FYI GZA gave us "I slayed MCs back in the rec room era, my style broke motherfuckin' backs like Ken Patera.” Also, Method Man referencing Big John Studd on "N 2 Gether Now".

Alvarez is saying it's over 50% but not much over, which is more plausible. That said, not sure a pay cut past 10% at any rate is feasible unless your performance has dipped to historically low levels compared to your contemporaries or the company is about to go under. Neither is true. At 75%, you might as well say 100% and ask if those parties are you willing wrestle for free at that point.

There is a "grand prize" "hot tub" joke in there that I will leave alone. Conrad's pretty much using the same sources half of these media and media adjacent guys are using. That said, I doubt it's 75% cause you might as well either wrestle for free or they have you go to NXT. At that point, they would just release you.

I was gonna add but chose not to: They might legit ask TK to win that one with no shame at all.

This might draw the ire of Cornette, but fuck him: The Midnight Express Cup. That works as well. Have the finals in the Carolinas or Dallas or New Orleans.

Someone needs to steal MsChif's Desecrator. She did a rolling one on Serena Deeb before Deeb went off to FCW...absolutely devastating looking. DDTs are overused as is, but that one at least looks cool.

People were doing those moves before or around the time those moves were used. Since Chris Adams came to U.S., someone has always been using the thrust kick. The Scorpion Deathlock being used by Sting and Riki Choshu using the Sasorigatame either are parallel to the same time Bret starting using it or predates it. Now that said, reuse and carbon copy are a bit different. Yeah, I don't think I would argue with reusing those moves. However, if you're out here doing the Shawn Michaels stomp stomp stomp to rev up the crowd in a non ironic way or doing the Sharpshooter reversal setup finish like how Bret did on Razor at Royal Rumble 1993, THAT can be a bit much. You still have to make it your own. Michelle McCool was out here using the Styles Clash. It might as well have not happened compared to how AJ Styles was able innovate it.

The problem with using the Jackhammer is that you will get folks talking about Goldberg and acting like you stole the move like Jaguar Yokota wasn't doing that same move in like 1985. It's in that same universe as both The Disciple and then Disco Inferno using the Stone Cold Stunner. Not sure if adding the slingshot aspect would help any. Also, remember when like Billy Gunn was using the Jackhammer? He is a gigantic human being and probably almost the same size if not slightly bigger than Bill Goldberg yet it didn't look as powerful. Probably because he didn't snap down on it I'm guessing.

IMO it could be Legends deal related maybe OR the probably more logical explanation: He's kayfabing that he changed his name a long time ago and actually never did so it can be a big swerve when his real name is listed in the obituary. Better, he pretends that Michael Hayes was his real name all along and was forced to change it to avoid impending litigation cause of that bum Michael Jordan as his full legal name is Michael Jeffrey Jordan "P.S." Hayes.

1. Given how many possible concussions/TBIs Mick has had, we're lucky Mick remembers his own name. 2. To be fair, it's not like in the same breath he was like, "Mil Mascaras, THE BROTHER OF DOS CARAS AS YOU ALL KNOW...".

That is still the money part of the story.

I am talking about in a corporate setting. That guy harassing Yoko is one thing especially seeing how Yoko clearly wasn't in the mood. The WWE doesn't refer to Paul Levesque as Triple H or Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Bruce Prichard isn't referred to as Brother Love or Reo Rodgers. Michael Hayes is still Michael Hayes for some strange reason. For the folks who watch Unreal, do they refer to him as that still or do they have "" around his name on the lower third like some shows do for people using stage names?

Given that 99% of them aren't using their real names either, at the very least they understand Shawn Michaels likely isn't his real name.

That's a bit different though. Yeah, I can imagine people don't call Whoopi Goldberg "Caryn" cause that's been her name forever and a day. Hayes was Dok Hendrix at one point. Then, they dropped that and people have called him Michael Hayes till this day when he's been mostly behind the scenes. There is no use for a stage name at this point.