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My lady and I are debating going. It's like a three hour ride and we'll be paying $60 per seat plus fees to sit in outer space, but even so, I'm considering going just because I'll never stop kicking myself for missing ECW near me in 99 or 2000, so if for whatever reason things don't work out I'd like to experience it

You guys were ahead of your time man.We had one kid who was like maybe a little too old to be doing it in retrospect, but anyway he had either tried going to wrestling school or taken a couple classes, I can't remember, and he taught the rest of us super basic chain wrestling. Other than that it was everything you described. I was kinda fat but really athletic so I was very stupidly the jump off high stuff guy a lot of the time. It's hilarious to think of multiple "cards" where 15 teenagers in basketball shorts do the exact. same. sequence. in every single match.

I dont recall the controversy, but I will say that I have great respect for her for that, because the two most notable people I can think of who not only approach it that way but have spoken publicly about it are Bryan and Bret-- not bad company to be in. Edit: maybe it's the generational shift? Guys now break in because this is what they have always want to do, not because they failed in football, or someone discovered them in a gym

I'm sad to report the whole record is kinda butt (though unlike you, I actually did like the single). The only stand out tracks to me are Eat Me and Scary Little Green Men. Everything else is very, very skippable.

It's an upper body business, tech!

I wish I could remember who said it, maybe it was Chuck Taylor, but someone said "Do you think backyard wrestling is just kids rolling around doing MMA moves now?"

@NikoBaltimore Rick Rude would knock them both out with open hand slaps

This sounds familiar to me too. I think it was one of those extended-due to injury things from when one of them had their knee did

Way off topic but I've been trying to catch this game on the AG Pluto channel, but every time I tune in it's the big ass q tip fight and they go right to the tennis ball gun or finish the episode. I guess since AEW has been so great I've gotta complain about something..

Darby and Mox as the Sting and DDP to Jericho/IC's Hogan/NWO is a pretty apt comparison. The skateboard is the bat, time is a flat circle, and I love this fucking promotion.

I agree but I dont. I think she's a good promo I just didnt necessarily like the lane she picked for it - if Baker, for example, cut the same promo it feels different to me. Leave the running down the crowd stuff to those types and just go out there and murder.

Britt as the mouthpiece for Nyla but eventually turning on her seems too obvious I think, but would be pretty good. You also have the option of having the crowd eventually naturally get behind Nyla as that Goldberg type world beater, but that works better if she's chasing rather than already champion

I can't say enough about how much I've been enjoying these shows - I echo everything you guys have said and more. One thing I do want to touch on though is how much I absolutely love that cage design. They're going to sell a lot of toys on that thing. It's classic and over the top at the same time. Seems like a lot smoother of a process on the production side too with the cage/truss going all the way to the floor instead of the apron. Edit: I did think of a bit of a negative: I didnt love Nylas promo. She's good on the mic but I don't know if running down the crowd and that sort of thing really fits her character. The Native Beast should be more about fucking people up. Like I thought the "YOUR ASS IS MINE!" after she powerbombed Riho on the table a couple weeks ago was just killer. I'd like more of that with her.

Looking forward to the Bix "think piece"

He was so great on commentary on those early Raws I would have loved to have seen him do commentary again post WCW buyout. That was literally my first exposure to pro wrestling so I'm biased.

That whole week leading up to Souled Out was just absolutely wild. Bret and Jarrett as World and US champion both off the PPV, with Russo being fired because he wanted to put it on Tank Abbott man those were part of my formative IWC years

It's been 1000 years since I've read his first book so I may be misremembering but I really could've sworn there was a whole passage about him being there for a time and staying at Ron Fuller's house

That's a really good point I was thinking from a safety perspective but the reality is the danger and the damage really is a huge part of his presentation, even as far back as Continental when he refers to doing the Nestea plunge in the first book. With that, I change my answer firmly to Bret. Edit: I do want to make the point that Foley was pretty damn good even without all that bullshit though, so even though I concede my original point, it's not a knock on him as a straight up worker necessarily. All things considered, if The Fiend can work today, I think the original Mankind character probably could too

Eh yea maybe, but if he were in today's WWE, there would be doctors at ringside, and crash pads under everything, plus concussion protocol. Back in the late '90s, they would just have that French dude crack his back, and send him back out there.

I definitely want to make the argument for Bret, but I think Cactus Jack works in any era. People love a madman.

Unless of course, there's an offer from another organization on the table. He might have a miraculous recovery like Edge.

AJ is lighter than the last few guys I've seen Taker wrestle, so if this comes to fruition it might be a more decent affair than one would expect at this stage of Takers career. Though who knows what AJs injury will be looking like. Ive read they expect him back. Reading my post back actually kind of made me almost sad that Its gotten to the point where I just outright don't watch WWE. Or not sad but I guess maybe nostalfic. Even though I mostly preferred WCW, I live in the northeast so WWE is kind of our home team. This is what I imagine Giants fans have been going through. I'll probably watch Mania just because my girlfriend and I make a day out of it every year, but I missed my first Royal Rumble since 08-10 this year, and those were just because I had the post Benoit creeps for a while.

I have some unexpected downtime at my job today so I've been watching some Jeff Cobb highlights to familiarize myself more and I'm real high on that dude. Once the Inner Circle runs its course, I hope he and Hager have a good fun clubberin match.

That was a really great episode, maybe my favorite yet. Very prime Nitro. Kudos to the women as well, this was way better than their PPV outing.

I didn't know Waltman was going in with the original three. You'd think they'd put DiBiase and Show in if you're going to put in Syxx, but I get the logic. You start going down that road and you've gotta induct a million guys. Though it would totally be worth it to see Chono at one of these things.