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anything higher than Free.99 and they got scammed worse than when I went to the Great American Bash Tour and got P.N. News instead of Ric Flair.

happens fairly regularly in the 3rd place match. Mbappe is in Golden Boot contention, though, I did figure they'd take a real shot at getting him that. Doesn't seem so, however.

anything can happen in the world wrestling federation the third place game

my first thoughts upon seeing Brian Cage was that Hercules Hernandez had somehow returned from the grave. I will not complain about Willow Nightengale getting to be in the main event, that's for sure.

Well? Who Won?

Come on everybody! Let's Do The Curse! Just shake you hips and make it worse

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"Big" is doing some generous lifting there. I think the 95 In Your Houses might be a better overall PPV selection if for no other reason than they were shorter and cheaper.

ECW was the first, for better and for worse, case of the promotion/audience itself being a character on its own show. (Chanting for "ECW" instead of for a specific wrestler, for instance.) I think it's also the place where everyone WHOOOing after knife-edge chops started, but all these years later I'm not sure that's a "first" to want to claim. anyway, if we're talking ECW and Mt. Rushmore Promos:

some say Kimona is still shimmying on top of the ECW arena to this very day.

Jerry Jarrett said it best: you tell the truth at Point A (Mox/DeathRider Fatigue) and Point B so that when you work 'em at Point C and D, they believe it. Except if you get too ridiculous or make too big a leap from point to point (Bubba Ray could actually beat any of these guys in a real fight) it all falls apart and reinstates the audience's previously suspended disbelief.

Was Jake handsome, brave, or strong? Did he enforce the law? Did he always get his man? Good theme, but there are better.

i'm interested in the sense of "how would he blow shit up this time?" Not necessarily interested in the sense of "could he finally play nice with AEW's ruling clique to tell cool stories." it's very much this. CM Punk coming back was the one thing we thought we could never have, hence why so many people wanted it and were pleased as punch (myself included, I remember my cringeworthy gushing posts at the time, trust me) to finally get it. The great What Ifs and unsolved mysteries of "what would Punk vs ___ be like?" and all. That's gone. The mystery is solved. The exile is over. He's back in normal circulation now, more or less. And perhaps most importantly, now that many of us have finally actually gotten the thing we wanted but couldn't have we've come to realize we don't necessarily want it anymore. A bit of getting back with your ex and being reminded of why they were your ex in the first place, so to speak. AEW doesn't necessarily need to be "the place that finally gave you CM Punk again" anymore, and "the place that gives you CM Punk" doesn't have the luster it had in 2021 anymore, even without the "can't play nice with that locker room" factor, but particularly with it.

Styles (and Harry Slash, for that matter) were also important to the continuity of ECW's general vibe & presentation, which was doubly important due to the high roster turnover rate it was always going to have, and the way the audience & the company itself were characters on its own show. Styles in ECW is a more than the sum of the parts scenario, for both. Styles was "best TV announcer" from 94 thru 96 because ECW was cool and Styles was a contributing factor.

"So, you COULD ban interference the rest of the time, too, but you just choose not to. Because...?"