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would've been very apropos for the 90s if they'd kept the US Express name while selling out to Dibiase. probably a bit too on the nose for Vince though.

Never should’ve restored fan voting .

Opening soliloquy was a regular feature of both shows in 1997 and was an entrenched feature by 98 which it has remained for far too long. The only real difference is that WCW virtually always had Hogan + Entourage while WWF had greater variety (I specifically remember one where Brian Pillman rather brilliantly got a US crowd to boo a prayer circle.) Sometimes it'd be Bret + Entourage, sometimes it'd be Austin hijacking the opening to call out Bret + Entourage or whoever else he was mad at that week. Nascent Degeneration X took several turns as well. IIRC the "character breaking" pre-recorded Vince segments talking about Bret screwing Bret and We Think Fans Are Tired Of Having Their Intelligence Insulted were used as cold opens, so they established a pattern of Evil Mr. McMahon opening the show once that character became a consistent fixture. Both companies seemed to independently invent it and since wrestling has long since committed to replicating the WHAT of the attitude era divorced from the HOW and WHY of the attitude era in a flawed attempt to recapture the magic thereof, we're still stuck with it.

good. hopefully this shrinks their marketing budget and i'll only have to see 15 gambling ads per sporting event now instead of 20

if "highest bidder" actually mattered when it comes to ownership of MLB teams, Joe Lacob would already own the Still Oakland A's. Ownership is a country club. But good luck to them. I'm always down for more chaos and more egg on Manfred's face however it gets there.

“Red Sox Fan ICE agent gets key foreign Yankee deported just before big playoff push” (or vice versa, or any traditional rivalry) would be the logical final step of this whole trend of indulging fan delusions that they’re a 10th/12th/etc Man and should try to act on the game accordingly

In this milieu Bubba the Love Sponge is the equivalent of a slump buster / homecoming / “get right game”

shittiest King Lear adaptation incoming.

1. Arrogance was not a parfum, after all, it was a steroid. 2. Come on, Roma, you really threw a fit over being too "big" to put Alex Wright over after you sold a beating from Barney The Dinosaur's lackey? 3) Quake really was too big for this though. They really did have no ideas for their monsters after the big loss to Hogan, did they? Alas.

Great, now I’ll be disappointed by anything less

or a human-sized giftbox left on the side of the entrance ramp.

the "trial run" for Money Inc was Dibiase and IRS taking turns tagging up with Repo Man in winter of 91, and I've often said Money Inc should've actually been a Freebird Trio with Repo Man as the 3rd. As a trio they'd represent the three fronts of Dibiase's illegal financial empire: Repo Man steals property for Dibiase, who makes major windfall fencing it at face value, and Rotunda launders the transaction through a front company the state/offshore territory with the lowest relevant tax rate. Obviously when Dibiase's injuries catch up with him and he has to wrap up, they lose the belts and Repo Man turns face in the subsequent implosion, turns informant, re-steals the incriminating title deeds from Dibiase's vault, beats him in something like a "evidence on a pole" loser leaves town match, and the "Million Dollar Man" is bankrupted into oblivion as Dibiase retires. Naturally this white-collar malfeasance also costs IRS his government job and you set up a 90 day vacation while you repackage Rotunda into a gimmick where he can wear a proper singlet again instead of a dress shirt that shows off how sweaty he is all the time.

"I'll never forget you, Fry. MEMORY. ERASED."

"Hey, kid. Let's hit a few." some incredible comedic timing in starting to make those videos just in time to make Randy Savage the face of their promise to never go away right before he would leave the WWF for what would turn out to be the rest of his life.

and even then sometimes he throws it in the drawer instead of mounting it on the wall (putting polka dots on Dusty Rhodes or King props on Harley Race)

instead of his post-bout humiliation ritual being handcuffing the opponent to the middle rope or cutting a lock of hair, he'd just have small packaged him over and over.

Well no, he’s an architect, remember?

"when in doubt, blame Vince's sense of humor" dictates that having Rotunda wrestle in a white dress shirt and thus draw attention to his profuse sweating was yet another rib gimmick.

All forms of pushing the runner forward should be re-included in the assisting the runner penalty. but oh no, gotta increase scoring by all means possible…

Ripple Rumble. over the top rope and both feet into the water

The resistible force vs the moveable object and Bud Black is the latest example of “vote of confidence” being sports speak for Kiss Of Death

Gaylord Perry is specifically in because he cheated and his cheating is celebrated as "a colorful character". By that same perverse logic I argue Cicotte should be enshrined specifically because he masterminded the fix and was so obvious about fixing the series it forced baseball to make it's badly needed anti-gambling reforms. (also, you know, that keeping Bonds and Clemens out for "cheating" has always been selective outrage and purely sanctimonious hypocritical grandstanding by a bunch of self-serving twits cynically attempting to build their own personal brands as "moral" and "principled" guardians instead of just hall monitors tripping over their rings not being sufficiently kissed. Plus Bud Selig, who not only turned a blind eye to all the steroids coming in but who caused baseball's popularity crisis via the 94 strike and cancelled world series that forced the desperate turn to boost ratings via roidball in the firs place, is in the HOF with nary a peep of objection, so miss me with the moral posturing. It's every bit the cynical popularity contest as a high school ASB election and should be afford the same degree of [dis]respect.)

“Chicago will have a pope before it has a hall of fame QB” would’ve been a great one of those comical “pigs fly” metaphors. Alas, it’s time has come

Cornette’s old description of Heyman as someone who would rather climb a tree to tell you a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth is doing a couple laps around my head right now.

there is such a thing as being too unselfish, after all...