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in lieu of bringing Kane/Glen Jacobs back, they could always put Doc Gallows back under the fake Kane mask/wig. OTOH, it would be really funny if Kevin Nash made a one-off appearance as Fake Kane.

yeah, the way i've always heard it was that Norton knew he had a damn good place in NJPW and would make WCW appearances around that. So he was never likely to get a sustained push, but it also lead to him being pretty protected from losses. seems a fair enough trade off.

cagematch lists Eddy going to Japan for just a single match: Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Black Tiger & Chris Jericho (9/23/98 @ Yokohama) if Chavo had an injury, it must have been pretty minor- you can expect to see him on the next Nitro.

and, if i'm remembering the story correctly, someone (i think Jericho?) convinced Juvi to put it on his tights as a rib

question to kick the month off: i just started 2005 in my TNA/ROH watch. i think the ROH/CZW feud mainly takes place in 2006. Which (if any) CZW shows do i need to watch to get the full effect? And are there any other promotions/shows that i should watch due to a strong correlation? edit: try to keep this as spoiler-free as possible, please.

i fully agree with your larger point, but one of my favorite things about wrestling is all of those short-lived promotions. i have watched all of those "we're going to be the new National #2" (except Wrestlelicious) and have enjoyed each of them to some extent. Whether that be for their off-the-wall ideas, their up-and-coming talent, their familiar talent in new takes, or even their 'back to the roots' ideas, i appreciated them all.

considering there's a monthly comic being published right now called "the Resurrection of Magneto", i'm going to go ahead and assume that no, he won't stay dead. i haven't read it yet (waiting for the Fall of X stories to all conclude) but that specific point made me laugh.

first things first. Garza's last singles win in WCW was 12/6/97 Worldwide, vs. Hector Guerrero. He actually got a number of singles wins that year, even beating Alex Wright (!) and Scott Hall (ok, this one sounds good on paper but was more like the Razor/Kid angle a few years prior). He also teamed with Juvi a few times, and they usually won. So if they had a storyline coming into this match that was Juvi wanted to give his former partner a shot at the gold, it would have made sense. OR, if they had a storyline where babyface Juvi was giving title shots to all of the "deserving" guys that didn't get a chance when Jericho was the champ, that would have made for a series of good matches on TV without having to do much for each individual one. Of course, we did neither and just had a match for the match's sake. yes. yes it is. Silver King, on the other hand, DID get a CW title shot against Jericho (7/18/98 Saturday Night) which he of course lost. His last singles win was 6/27/98 Worldwide, against Lorenzo. i hope you weren't fooled by King's stocky physique. Speaking of Lorenzo, he only had 6 WCW appearances (7 if the "Johnny Lorenzo" in a '94 tag match vs. Nasty Boys was him), but 2 of those are wins. 11/9/97 vs. Tim Cheeks, and 7/19/98 Worldwide vs. Damien. Not good enough for a Cagematch profile apparently. since i'm spiraling down this rabbit hole, Damien has one singles win (over Ciclope). Ciclope got one singles win (over Shiima Nobunaga). Shiima later avenged that loss, HIS only singles win. I think that must put those two at the bottom of the barrel. Jericho's Spinal Tap tribute was, indeed, fantastic. Konnan's salad tossing line continues for a HELL OF A LOT longer than you might think. IIRC he will still use it with the Filthy Animals, which isn't until mid/late '99.

if you think TOO much about it, Dr. Frankenstein creating a monster out of dead bodies is also potentially/kinda/sorta human trafficking. and once you've reanimated dead flesh, is it even necrophilia anymore? Can a formerly deceased human give consent? If the reanimated body is a combination of multiple cadavers, can the brain/mouth give consent if the "other" part isn't originally theirs? Our society does not have enough rights protections for the undead.

also, i forgot this was in KSA. afternoon card ain't gonna work for me. guess that means i won't watch until Monday. ugh.

i know the card has suffered in recent weeks, but i'm looking forward to tonight's PFL vs Bellator card

yeah, that was a lot of stuff that i didn't love. Sabretooth/Sabretooth & the Exiles was unnecessary. i haven't read the X-Force or Wolverine titles. but i LOVED Marauders. and Immortal X-Men/Sins of Sinister. and X-Men Red was pretty great too. i'm really curious what, if anything, happens with Arakko and her mutants. i was just thinking the same thing. like, how do you have this huge new status quo, literally world changing type thing, and then revert to good mutants vs. bad mutants? i don't see that happening, so there's got to be some new angle they're going with. i think after this big climax i'll probably take a couple years off from the X-Men, let it shake itself out, and then play catch-up.

i love this idea and will kick in some later this weekend. i am so hyped for this show.

haven't read past this show yet. this is a reminder to myself to come back and get caught up. i went ahead and read all of the next reviews. Much like when i rewatched a couple years ago, i'm not going to remember any of that. in my backyard wrestling days, i took an overhead sign shot to the top of the head. it fucking hurt, man. looked like shit on camera, but easily the hardest hit i took in the year+ that we did that. definitely caused me to give respect to anybody that takes one of those. also, don't steal road signs, kids. maybe this is the Warrior promo i remember? was he just soliloquizing? i just remember a meandering promo that went on FOREVER. also, i like that the catchphrase he was trying to get over was stolen from a '60s tv show. very timely, as seems to be the MO for WCW babyfaces. new thoughts: i remember being excited to see Jannetty on TV throughout '98, but he never really did anything special to impress, and he never was factored into a feud. i really thought Bisch would have tried to play off some sort of "we've got one Rocker, will the other one show up...." angle. i forgot how much Brian Adams shows up on these shows. just the drizzling shits, both for promos and in-ring. the KroniK team really worked wonders. I was always higher (no pun intended) on Wrath/Adam Bomb than most, but being largely directionless is his entire career until then too. couldn't agree more re: Norman Smiley. dude knows how to work and get over. i'm glad he got his run eventually, but it also kinda sucks that it takes until the "big wiggle" to make that happen. the WCW tag titles were a mess for this entire year. it's not about to get any better. you mentioned that you didn't think Evan Karagias (or however he's spelling it this week) had even gotten a win on Nitro or Thunder yet. I'll do you one better: he hadn't gotten a win on WCW TV AT ALL yet. (cagematch lists one dark match win about 6 months prior). but good news! he gets his first TV win on the 9/19 Saturday Night (against Nick Dinsmore!)

the world is full of terrible people. i hate that so many successful artists/creators are so awful. i can usually try to separate the art from the artist, but man, i wish that wasn't something that we all have to do.

going back a few pages, re: the big pizza wars, there's an awesome youtube video that covers those specific pizzas and those mythical times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLP-wwaI38 also, the History channel had an excellent episode about the history of pizza in America (https://www.history.com/shows/the-food-that-built-america/season-2/episode-1) that's worth checking out. Douglas' gimmick was that he WASN'T PG, so yeah, making a PG version of that is always going to be terrible. and maybe i was just a naïve youngster, but i could never differentiate accents unless they were hugely exaggerated. I couldn't tell Harlem Heat was from Texas because i didn't know what people from Houston sounded like vs. what people from Harlem sounded like. I would have bought in to Bill Irwin being a Texas cowboy as easily as a Canadian hockey player. i don't know that i've ever given a single thought about where the Gangstas were from, or whether their theme song being PE in SMW but Dre in ECW reflected against the East Coast vs. West Coast rap mentality.

oh man, total other boat for me. i was hooked with the original HOX/POX miniseries and haven't even considered jumping off. i am sad to see this era close, it's the most i enjoyed the X books sincd Morrison. i assume it helps that i read by the storyline, instead of weekly/monthly as the books come out. and like @Craig, i didn't pay......much.

very ironic, since Nitro never has clean definitive main events. wow, the disrespect for Kenny Kaos is palpable is this the promo that Eddy throws coffee on himself? Dinosaur Jr. are/were an alternative rock band from the '80s and '90s @zendragon linked a good video, but they are most well known for their early '90s song "Start Choppin" i applaud your appreciating the Warrior's promo, but yeah. hard disagree from me.

"framistan" is the word you're looking for. and as far as i know, you must've used 'bl.ood mo.ney' which triggers it. stems from back to the first wwe/saudi event (iirc the event thread was even titled that!) back on topic, my UFC interest has waned a ton the last few years. more due to oversaturation than politics, but seeing TFG every few events really makes me shudder. i look forward to taking another step back after #300 in april

is Ultimo Dragon still involved in wrestling? i feel like he's due for an AEW appearance. someone alert @CoachTonyK

IIRC the shirts came out like 6+ months after the show dropped. i know that i wasn't able to order one immediately, which i think i needed to time so that i could wear it to All In. my timeline might be slightly off on that tho.

i think i give his best look award to the "Big Daddy V" run from WWECW. simple but effective.

i am quoting this so that we can circle back after the next two months of TV and see if you feel the same way.

there's zero percent chance i would watch that theoretical buddy cop movie. but a wrestler Cannonball Run? FUCK. YES. i'm buying all the tickets.

i am not religious, but i am interested in hearing you expand upon this idea if you want to share. i don't understand the different sects of Christianity, so couldn't discern a Roman Catholic from a Presbyterian from a Lutheran. Understand if you don't want to get into it, but my PMs are open if you do.