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Vince also would have Harley listed as just “The King” for shows in Memphis and maybe Nashville, Lawler ended up suing.

They look like henchmen for a Moore era Bond villain.

They did André vs. Studd on house shows for what seemed liked decades so they needed the retirement angle to spice things up.

Why do they have chairs set-up? They should light it Raging Bull style or break out the green screens and have each match look like it's taking place in some crazy location, have this segment in the Sistine Chapel.

It bombed because the whole thing was badly booked and they still kept Sting as the #1 face. The hot shot angle putting the belt on Simmons was fun but there was no build up and they had him feuding with The Barbarian who was a mid-carder and Cactus Jack who was moving down the heel ladder, either start the feud with Rude early(they were supposed to work Starrcade) or have a feud with Vader. With the exception of Flair, WCW/JCP never seemed to book babyface champions right. Simmons should have been booked along the lines of Bruno and Backlund, grateful and humble but will go into raging ass kicker mode when pushed too far. Have Vader and Harley beat up Teddy Long or some rookie Simmons is mentoring and use that as the jumping off point for Halloween Havoc and possibly Starrcade.

Because Bill Watts and Jim Ross treated anyone that played football as someone special, even if they only played high school football in suburban Marietta.

They really need to do a spinoff covering A.J. Glomb's life of crime! That his path in the underworld started after doing amyl nitrate with Harold Robbins is nuts! Also Glomb has the Pittsburgh accent that's more common than the "Yinzer" one most people associate with the city.

Yesterday the Governor of Michigan(Smackdown is in Detroit) asked that events with 100 or more people be cancelled, hopefully the Gov. or Mayor of Detroit forces them to cancel. It makes no sense to put people at risk when the Performance Center is an option for doing tv.

The Lambada movies wasn't either of those it was Golan and Globus trying to out do each other.

Contractually they had to offer the role to Sinatra, the whole deal was talked about in that Netflix doc about Die Hard. Wasn't Die Hard 2 or at least the novel it was based on tossed around as a Commando sequel?

Don't forget about the competing Lambada flicks in 1990 after the Golan-Globus split. Globus made "Lambada" while Golan made "The Forbidden Dance" and both were released on the same day. Also before the split Golan-Globus rushed out "Breakin'" since Orion Pictures had "Beat Street" in the works.

Wasn't a lot of the Drago and his kid stuff due to Stallone trying to work out his own issues with his late son Sage?

Ever since the Rocky Legends game I've wanted prequels and/or sequels of Apollo, Clubber, Drago, George Washington Duke and the mob guys Rocky used to work for. The Clubber Lang story could have picked up after Rocky V with Clubber doing a George Foreman style comeback or have George Washington Duke trying to set-up a way past their primes Balboa-Lang III fight.

Looks like there's going to be a Creed III, while II was great it derailed what seemed to be the overall storyline of a trilogy started by I. I wonder if they bring Tony Bellew back as Ricky Conlan but make him more of a Conner McGregor style of jagoff who got super angry and bitter in prison. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/creed-3-taps-king-richard-writer-zach-baylin-1281094

Roots was 8 episodes with some being 2 hours long and some an hour. It was supposed to air over 8 weeks but ABC execs freaked out when they saw the first episode and decided to air it 8 nights in a row to cut their losses. North and South aired 6 episodes in the fall and 6 in the spring, they were 2 hours episodes.

There's also Bloody Sunday(2002) by Paul Greengrass about the 1972 Bloody Sunday shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland and Hunger(2008) by Steve McQueen about Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hunger Strike, both are really depressing but great. There's also a pretty decent documentary on Netflix called The Miami Showband Massacre which gets into the ties between the Loyalist Paramilitaries, Police and British Military, it's really depressing too. Besides the history between the Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom and the ongoing issue in Northern Ireland, calling it UK Takeover Dublin is just moronic and it would be similar to doing Mexico NXT Takeover Dallas or France NXT Takeover Naples.

Bart Giamatti was decent in his short time as Commish, Fay Vincent wasn't as ghastly as Selig and Ueberroth so that makes him decent in my book.

I'm assuming Uncut Gems, Sandler, Kevin Garnett and The Lighthouse didn't get nominated since Netflix spent a ton of money to get noms for their movies and A24 didn't. You could have easily replaced Jonathan Pryce with Sandler and Anthony Hopkins with either Willem Dafoe or Kevin Garnett. I'm really surprised that so many people didn't pick up that the whole Bruce Lee fight was basically an unreliable narrator daydream by Cliff Booth.

Disney wants ABC back in the Super Bowl rotation and they have enough money to throw around to make the NFL flex MNF. The NFL and networks don't want to start the season before Labor Day so get ready for President's Day weekend Super Bowls.

So they should start thawing the corpse of Billy Crystal? I'm not a big Eminen fan but I'll take him performing one of his old songs over any of the endless forced cringe worthy comedy skits that end up making the show run until after midnight. The Oscars have had stretches without a host or multiple hosts over the years and they'll swing back to having a host soon, when they do Mindy Kaling should be near the top of the list.

Telly Savalas is amazing in this “we’re talking 10 grand baby” and tipsy Howard stirring shit up while also hitting on the ladies is a hoot. They used to make Bob Conrad come out and talk about this incident every time he was on Battle after this, you can tell he was still pissed about it.

They used to show this on The Movie Channel almost every other day from 1983 to 1985! Per Wikipedia there was a planned sequel "The California Dolls Go to Japan" that got shelved since this flick bombed at the box office.

I can see Comcast buying the WWE if it goes up for sale, besides owning NBC-Universal they own Comcast Spectator which owns or operates arenas, stadiums and convention centers. They would own the intellectual property, the cable or streaming service that people watch the intellectual property on, in most of the country they would also own the cable and/or internet service provider that brings in the intellectual property into the home along with owning or operating the arena the event everyone is watching takes place in. Sure they'd still book the WWE into venues they don't own but the big money events will be in their buildings and they can sit back and collect the rights fee money from FOX until that deal ends then move it in house.

Gordon and Jos look like they have wicked hangovers.

I guess most of America didn't pick up on the political messages in the halftime show, not only the kids in cages but J-Lo's Puerto Rican flag cape. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/super-bowl/8549924/jennifer-lopez-shakira-halftime-show-border-crisis-statement-kids-cages