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  1. Here is the template for this week: EVENT #29 LFA 180: Lawrence vs. Ward (03/29/2024) - Louisville, KY (Broadbent Arena) Lance Lawrence vs. Landry Ward - Kegan Agnew vs. Richie Miranda - Dustin Parrish vs. Victor Valenzuela - Angelo Robles vs. Kibedy Gordon - Ben Parrish vs. Alik Lorenz - Joshua Perreira vs. Jesse Martinelli - EVENT #30 Urijah Faber's A1 Combat 19: Juarez vs. Kaldar (03/29/2024) - Wheatland, CA (Hard Rock Live) Ernie Juarez vs. Abdikabyl Kaldar - Namiki Kawahara vs. Anthony Do - Kevem Felipe vs. Jason Butcher - Billy Brand vs. Brandon Spencer - Katarina Legorreta vs. Annabel Kelly - Sczar Charles vs. Jimmy Dixon - Jessie Rosas vs. Keenan Lewis - BONUS EVENT #1 Top Rank Boxing on ESPN: Valdez vs. Wilson (03/29/2024) - Glendale, AZ (Desert Diamond Arena) Interim WBO Super Featherweight Championship: Oscar Valdez vs. Liam Wilson - WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO/Ring Magazine Female Strawweight Championship: Seniesa Estrada vs. Yokasta Valle - Richard Torrez Jr. vs. Don Haynesworth - Raymond Muratalla vs. Xolisani Ndongeni - Emiliano Vargas vs. Nelson Hampton - Sergio Rodriguez vs. Sanny Duversonne - Lindolfo Delgado vs. Carlos Sanchez - Art Barrera Jr. vs. Keven Soto - Alan Garcia vs. Gonzalo Fuenzalida - Ricardo Ruvalcaba vs. Avner Hernández - EVENT #31 Cage Warriors 169: Vucenic vs. D'Anna (03/30/2024) - London, England, United Kingdom (Indigo At The O2) Jordan Vucenic vs. Simone D'Anna - Lone'er Kavanagh vs. Shawn Marcos Da Silva - Will Currie vs. Leon Aliu - Darren Stewart vs. Carlos Pereira - Jamie Richardson vs. Olli Santalahti - BONUS EVENT #2 Golden Boy Boxing on DAZN: Goulimarian vs. Zurdo (03/30/2024) - Inglewood, CA (YouTube Theater) Arsen Goulamirian vs. Gilberto Ramirez - Alexis Rocha vs. Fredrick Lawson - Santiago Dominguez vs. Jose Sanchez - Kareem Hackett vs. Rowdy Legend Montgomery - Ricardo Sandoval vs. Carlos Buitrago - Joel Iriarte vs. Kevin Beltran Aguirre - Jose Mancilla vs. Rueben Johnson - Deni Davtian vs. DaJuan Robinson - Johnny Canas vs. Daniel Lugo - EVENT #32 UFC Fight Night 54 on ESPN: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot (03/30/2024) - Atlantic City, NJ (Boardwalk Hall) Erin Blanchfield vs. Manon Fiorot - Vicente Luque vs. Joaquin Buckley - Bruno Silva vs. Chris Weidman - Nursulton Ruziboev vs. Sedriques Dumas - Bill Algeo vs. Kyle Nelson - Chidi Njokuani vs. Rhys McKee - Nate Landwehr vs. Jamall Emmers - Virna Jandiroba vs. Lupita Godinez - Julio Arce vs. Herbert Burns - Connor Matthews vs. Dennis Buzukja - Ibo Aslan vs. Anton Turkalj - Melissa Gatto vs. Viktoriia Dudakova - Andre Petroski vs. Jacob Malkoun - Angel Pacheco vs. Caolán Loughran - EVENT #33 PBC on Prime Video PPV: Tszyu vs. Fundora (03/30/2024) - Las Vegas, NV (T-Mobile Arena) WBC & WBO Super Welterweight Championship: Tim Tszyu vs. Sebastian Fundora - WBA World Super Lightweight Championship: Rolando Romero vs. Isaac Cruz - WBA World Middleweight Championship: Erislandy Lara vs. Michael Zerafa - WBC Flyweight Championship: Julio Cesar Martinez vs. Angelino Cordova - Elijah Garcia vs. Kyrone Davis - Curmel Moton vs. Anthony Cuba - Interim WBC Super Welterweight Championship: Serhii Bohachuk vs. Brian Mendoza - Mirco Cuello vs. Sulaiman Segawa - Justin Viloria vs. Erick Garcia - Kaipo Gallegos vs. Eric Howard - Adrian Neaves vs. Steven Walker - The Friday events deadline is March 29, 6:00 p.m. CT. The Event #31 deadline is Saturday, March 30, 12:45 p.m. CT. The remaining Saturday events deadline is March 30, 5:30 p.m. CT.
  2. UFC Fight Night 54 on ESPN: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot March 30, 2024 Atlantic City, NJ (Boardwalk Hall) Erin Blanchfield vs. Manon Fiorot Vicente Luque vs. Joaquin Buckley Bruno Silva vs. Chris Weidman Nursulton Ruziboev vs. Sedriques Dumas Bill Algeo vs. Kyle Nelson Chidi Njokuani vs. Rhys McKee ESPN2 / ESPN+ Preliminary Card: Nate Landwehr vs. Jamall Emmers Virna Jandiroba vs. Lupita Godinez Julio Arce vs. Herbert Burns Connor Matthews vs. Dennis Buzukja Ibo Aslan vs. Anton Turkalj Melissa Gatto vs. Viktoriia Dudakova Andre Petroski vs. Jacob Malkoun Angel Pacheco vs. Caolán Loughran Event Bonuses ($50,000) Performance of the Night: Performance of the Night: Fight of the Night: Attendance: Gate:
  3. He wasn't the Ringmaster long but the days of the old IWC, they just made it seem like he was stuck in the gimmick. The Ringmaster thing was just suppose to be a takeoff of something like the Excellence of Execution except it didn't stick. Less of a gimmick and more of a nickname.
  4. Knowing Little Richard, I think his reaction would be the opposite of that. More like, "Why do they got this motherfucker dressed up like a thrift store version of me?" Doesn't also help it's an Italian dude from Buffalo cosplaying as a black dude.
  5. I believe someone also shouted: "Get over it, bro!" Not as bad, but when a guy mentions all of that and I believe also that his parents passed away in close proximity as mentioned in this episode, it's rough stuff. What made it surreal is the fans didn't know how to process this cause he was again off tv for several months and always presented as a certain goofball character (and now in 1993, a character from the past). When Bryan and Vinny were doing the Raw episodes from 1993-1994, as they mentioned, he's doing this all as Brutus Beefcake. Not as Ed Leslie. The guy who has had tights with part of the ass cheeks cut out is talking about his real life issues as this character in 1993 cartoon WWF. It doesn't help that I believe Vince gave the introduction that this big time legend was coming back to the WWF and then out walks BRUTUS "THE BARBER" BEEFCAKE. Lets you know how tough the next few years would be if that's a legend. And then he's out there trying to integrate it into a storyline where he's issuing an open contract challenge and the fans couldn't care less. It's wild.
  6. Just saw the latest episode. I love that Ed Leslie's gotcha moment to Bischoff was the Disciple gimmick. I don't mind people dunking on Eric but if the best you can show of that particular gimmick is him doing the worst stunner in the history of stunners, then I don't know if you can complain about Bischoff not giving a damn about Ed Leslie. Then, the complaint about the WWF no longer doing the Barbershop segment. If Shawn Michaels didn't kick Marty, then who would have remembered any of those segments? Especially for his participation. They tossed him a bone and kept him employed. When he shows back up in 1993 on one of the very first Raws and cuts one of the most surreal and bizarre promos in wrestling lore, it becomes obvious he did all he could do in wrestling. The era of his type of gimmick and presentation was over with. Given his vast limitations, he had the best possible career you could have imagined. I mean it would have hit a slightly bigger peak if he had won the IC title, but the guy got to main event a goddamn Starrcade. Of that entire 1994 WCW roster, he would been have at the very bottom of the list to do that if you had to do a blind reveal. Ed Leslie is one those guys who got lucky the territory system ended cause he would have just been another guy and floating around doing absolutely nothing of note. Hell, there were much better guys in the territory system that ended up as footnotes or lost to time cause they never got to where Ed was when the Barber thing got over.
  7. There is a Memphis vignette of Ernest Miller set to Kung Fu Fighting that I never knew I wanted until now.
  8. Yep, that's probably the most famous example of that happening. It's funny we went from that to popular artists flying overseas to perform at birthdays for the kids of Saudi royalty and not a hint of controversy.
  9. Colin is the glue guy keeping everything together.
  10. Pineapple on pizza. That's my line. What argument are we having, again?
  11. I think there was probably a collective feeling among a lot of those foreigners in Japan that now that the American scene was back up and running, it would be time to return and secure spots back home. I mean the days of guys like Vader and Steiners being able to routinely work in Japan all the time and then do some shots stateside between tours was largely over. Unless you were a Foley type guy where you never really left, there really wasn't a place for you. I mean Wilkes didn't do bad for the 3-4 months he was in before the injuries and substance issues got ahold of him, but he probably would have been a hotter commodity when they first wanted to bring him in several years earlier. I think Doc being used a certain level with top guys was only best case scenario and wishful thinking. With both the Vinces and how WWF TV was being structured, it's hard to see Doc being anything other than a decent midcard guy. That's what Vader was pretty much the last several months of his WWF run.
  12. I am guessing they're using actual weight classes cause Super Heavyweight in amateur boxing is anything over 200 lbs (91 kilos).
  13. To their credit though, apparently, Austin in ECW was just a dry run for WWF if you want to believe Bruce. So he had some momentum. By the time WWF took off though, the fans became invested in those characters they became invested in. It's like watching season 3 or 4 of a great show. Unless a new character introduced in later seasons is intriguing (ex. Marlo Stanfield), people usually don't give a damn especially in relation to the characters from earlier seasons. I think with Doc, he had been gone away from the American scene for long that he seemed like a relic. It's like they took this guy from the late 80s/early 90s and unthawed him from a block of ice and unleashed him into this new world. I know he had a cup of coffee in ECW, but if he had showed up in WCW at some point early in the Nitro run, he would have seemed more relevant when he landed with WWF. Even if Gordy hadn't had that OD, it would have been tough for him too. Some of those guys just stayed away too long. As for the Japanese footage, when Wilkes finally came in, they did this whole big package showing his teammates from the University of South Carolina interspersed with clips of the Patriot tagging w/ Kobashi against Misawa and someone (Taue maybe?). That has to be the only time Kobashi and Misawa appeared on WWF TV. So I guess getting footage wasn't that hard as you might imagine. It's just that I dunno if it would have the same effect as it did when they use to show clips of Liger in Japan or when Cactus was wrestling for IWA Japan and FMW.
  14. George probably fired up a nice little rock afterwards. Ok...likely.
  15. Everyone did it out of the kindness of their heart.
  16. And oh yeah here is the poster that was referenced. Something interesting stuff going on.
  17. Yeah, the marquee fights didn't AC until Trump came into the fold. That had a ton of volume though in terms of the Main Events and Butch Lewis cards. I think that's also when Arum had his weekly fights at whatever casino. However, I do agree with the assessment of Hogan being far too big for Vince to just pry him away domestic business. It's crazy though that now, you have multiple shows in back-to-back months happening way on the other side of the world and earlier in the year an event happened at like 1 or 2 am EST.
  18. I was thinking looking at the screencap...is that Nona Hendryx? It is. A great artist unfortunately saddled with the label "one of the other two people in LaBelle who wasn't Patti LaBelle".
  19. The last part is why I don't think it's TOTALLY different in Saudi Arabia in that they just had a PFL vs. Bellator. That wasn't a big money event. I mean the closest connection to "hey, this is what we want" is PFL signed Ngannou who was the legit UFC champ when he left the UFC and he just fought Fury and was about to fight Anthony Joshua. However, Ngannou himself wasn't on that show. I think Bivol vs. Beterbiev is probably lower on that totem pole as well cause those guys really aren't big stars (Beterbiev is kinda a star in Canada, but a lower level star compared guys of the past). They just wanted to make the fight happen. The concerts, yes, were just a revolving door for tourism. However, you start stealing fights from Atlantic City and the Hilton and Caesars in Vegas, then you're were dead serious because those weren't cheap. And that's not to say Andre wouldn't have been a get cause he was a big star. However, if that was the case, they probably would have went over to South Africa before they actually did several year later. However, I am guessing the point is whether they viewed WWF as just another entertainment attraction or a real live sporting event and how much Hulkamania transcended pop culture worldwide.
  20. That's what is compelling though. When it comes to sportswashing, the folks in control only tend to want the biggest names possible. For example, a story I saw last night for an upcoming card between Dmitry Bivol vs. Artur Beterbiev, the undercards going to be a best of five between Matchroom (Eddie Hearn's promotional outfit) vs. Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions. That itself is amazing cause it would be like, "hey, pro wrestling folks, can we get WWE vs. AEW matches...I know you're direct competitors as can be, but make it happen." Then next thing is the guy who has been the lead for Saudi Arabia is obsessed with heavyweight boxing (and said as much in the story) and is responsible for choosing a couple of those matchups of the 5 vs. 5 series. And his love for HW boxing is reflected over the last year and change cause we have had Fury vs. Ngannou, Joshua vs. Ngannou, a stacked multi-promotional end of the year card last year, and a bunch more coming like the Bivol vs. Beterbiev and Fury vs. Usyk. The one good thing is they are somehow able to untangle years of promotional beefs and even political issues (i.e. WBC allowing a Russian in Bivol to fight for a WBC title that Beterbiev holds when they refused to let Russians to fight for their titles since the Ukraine conflict started). However, it's backed with all the bad that comes with it. I don't see a scenario where they request Hogan and then Vince comes back with everyone EXCEPT Hogan. And then they accept it.
  21. Man, if folks thought Hogan fumbled the steroid topic on Arsenio, those apartheid questions would have made it look like he was coming apart at the seams.
  22. I really wonder if had WWF been doing more international touring then if the Sun City Super Bowl would have been destination for WWF. I say that because boxing in the early half of the 80s, there was some interesting developments to say the least. I believe one of the first integrated sporting events in South Africa was a world heavyweight title fight with Gerrie Coetzee vs. "Big" John Tate in 1979(!). That drew 86,000 people. Then, the next two times Coetzee fought in South Africa in world title bouts (one another failed attempt to win a world title and the other as champion), both were at the Sun City Super Bowl during the height of the controversy of international artists performing there. Now boxing has a long history of sports washing prior to that (Rumble in the Jungle and the Thrilla in Manila being the most famous examples), but the way Coetzee's promoter at the time Bob Arum justified it is was, "well, I mean this is going to be above board and on the level". So you had black South Africans there with Afrikaners. However, the first several rows was just the latter. Even Rock Newman pre Riddick Bowe took Dwight Muhammad Qawi over to South Africa to fight for a cruiserweight title at Sun City Super Bowl in 1985. So you have this weird thing where African-Americans like Qawi, Tate, and Mike Weaver are going over to fight in a place where a bunch of black people are being brutally oppressed and under the thumb of a racist government. It's kinda like WWE bringing over female wrestlers to Saudi Arabia, talking about progression and growth, and then they still have to cover up. If some South African hotel magnate would have thrown money at Vince to do Hogan vs. whomever, would Vince have moved on doing a deal? I was looking at who was Friday, and apparently, it was just some dude who has some connection with pro wrestling at like a lower level wrestler.
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