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I don't disagree with you, but to play devil's advocate, I think they could do a lot worse than signing a guy like Ryder and having him work with young guys on Dark or something. If the second TNT show is still happening after the pandemic ends, that's another good spot. He and Hawkins could be another set of player-coaches doing what QT and Dustin are currently. I'm not saying do the TNA thing and give him the world title, but if they make Hawkins/Ryder the new WCW SN-era Enos/Bloom, what the hell why not?

Dude I miss D'lo. Around 2006 or 2007ish maybe, I was at a SmackDown taping and they had Slyck Wagner Brown doing a dark match, but production played D'lo's music by mistake somehow, and honestly for a half-full building it was a pretty meaty pop

Rusev should start trying to catfish Lana from 90 Day Fiance and documenting his progress

That's been kind of my feeling for a bunch of these releases. I've been telling anyone who will listen how badly I want Rusev and Gallows/Anderson in AEW, but then I think about the great matches they have pretty much just waiting for them in the NWA..

Economic realities aside, I'm suspect of anyone who won't admit how cool would it be to have Tony Schiavone call a Rey vs Jericho match on TNT in 2020. That's like WCW Christmas

This can't be good. My understanding is they weren't really profitable even before the pandemic... I really respect the hell out of Billy Corgan for trying to do something different (in wrestling; Zwan is a different story). Maybe he ends up selling to someone and makes a few bucks on whatever tape libraries are part of it (Houston?)

Cocaine. I say this because this sounds awfully like that wild Rick James kidnapping story from years ago

Who gets drunk and tries to fight the MMA guys? I've got Hager for obvious reasons, Janela, again for obvious reasons, possibly Jericho since he doesn't mind a cocktail, and I'll take Jack Evans as my dark horse

@Smelly McUgly Your post is where I finally realized there was more than one Sullivan booking stint in that period. It was what one might call an unstable time for WCW so I hope my confusion is forgiven.

Who was booking in Aug 99 when Hogan went back to the red and yellow? That was head to head with Jericho's Raw debut wasn't it?

Completely forgot about that Dark Carnival nonsense, or my brain folded it into the KISS Demon stuff (facepaint, songs about Detroit...) I'll never read PG-13 and not think "I was on WrestleMania, bitch"

I honestly don't remember it beyond that first appearance @caley described. I'm also kind of mixing up a bunch of stuff: I think I have a memory of Variety Club wrestling The Dead Pool (another weird late-WCW stable with Vampiro, Raven, ICP and Muta?) But I also feel like Raven was gone to ECW at that point as a result of a Bischoff meeting where he said anyone was free to go if they didn't want to be there (I recall some reports saying Konnan tried to leave too). So Sullivan wouldn't have been in charge yet at that point... that was Aug 99 when Raven returned at the Elks Lodge for the first TNN TV. Sullivan must have not been in charge until summer 2000 and the Dead Pool thing is a false memory?

I did a TEW trial a really long time ago but I found it kinda overwhelming coming from EWR. I wish there was something halfway in between.

I absolutely loved those fictional arenas in the WCW games. In WWE2K17 or 18 I found myself with a ton of random free time, so I did a territory system in my universe mode with WCW, NWO, DOA, EWF and Independent Union and had a ton of fun making it. I wanted to do one based off Power Move Pro Wrestling but never got around to it. THAT was a super underrated game, and the gimmicks were pro wrestling as hell.

I'm sure the segment was boring and awful but in all fairness, people have other shit going on right now

Psicosis, Rey and whos the other gentleman Damien, Ciclope? I'm having a brain fart

After listening to Sandman's Philly accent for less than three minutes, I can honestly say I may never visit the state of Pennsylvania again.

The Rooneys could buy it so that all the gross people I cheer for every week despite the terrible things they've allegedly done can be lumped together in one giant ball of cognitive dissonance

FWIW I reached out to a friend in production there after reading your post - their response was "Heard that too, and I dunno..." Take that as you will, I guess.

I caught that too and it pissed me off. Variety is the spice of life and pro wrestling - if I wanted yolked up dudes 100% of the time, I'd watch WWE; I don't, so I don't. A big reason I think it was gross, and I think some others here posted this in the Dynamite thread that week, is I immediately got flashbacks to Beyond The Mat after Michael Modest and Tony Jones had their WWF dark match, where JR casually told Jones to put on 25 lbs of muscle. C'mon man.

Re: announcer talk I grew up mostly in the tri-state area, so wherever I lived, we always got a different syndicated version of Shotgun on weekend mornings, called WWF New York. I guess to hear it toward our local market, Vince Russo (I think still as 'Vic Venom') was on commentary for a handful of these. Even as a kid, I knew he was the absolute shits. This was when they were airing the RAW magazine commercials where he was, in retrospect, poorly doing Denis Leary poorly doing Bill Hicks, and I just found him super grating - and this was a solid 3-4 years before the rest of the world was "treated" to seeing him on TV consistently. If you thought he was bad doing the lame worked shoot stuff on WCW TV... boy, you ought to hear him try and call a Papi Chulo match. For me, Schiavone is the GOAT. @Stefanie the Human hit the nail on the head, it's actually heart warming to see and hear him on AEW TV.

This is maybe only a bit tangentially related, but it hurts inside so bad when he says "outlaw mudshow" like it's fucking Angelo Poffo in 1976... I respect Cornette, but I hear him use that term and it's like, dude, you gonna complain about your VCR or record player next?

Oh ok glad that's settled

I love pro wrestling more than anything on this planet, just probably not as much as the dudes zooming in and analyzing the pixels on the blue check next to Dreams name like it's the Zapruder film

I checked with my lawyer buddy and unfortunately "The Dream has no memory of this" is not going to be a valid defense