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Which one? I've been to the one in Los Angeles. They had a life-size wax figure of GG Allin. Speaking of Gacy also reminds me of Pogo the Clown from XPW, which, not a great idea looking back at it, huh? With a finisher called 'Buried in the Basement' and a feud with 'The Hardcore Homo' Angel (who, honestly, deserved better).

Something I haven't seen talked about with the HHH/Ospreay stuff, and I could be wrong on it, but it feels like top WWE guys have a lot more media and non-wrestling commitments than AEW does, especially as they're branching out more outside of the US. I feel like it's a 'hit dogs holler' situation. I didn't take it to be explicitly around Ospreay, although I do see why he felt hit, but more so about lesser names who haven't made nearly as big a name for themselves. I've also seen the idea it was at Okada as well, which just doesn't make any sense to me at all. I kinda of lean towards it having been meant more as a general platitude than a personal attack on any one worker, but tribalism gonna tribalize.

Cena/Punk Money in the Bank? Seeing Andre in a cut-off shirt is fucking weird, man.

Fighters (and wrestlers) will continue to get underpaid (on the whole) because they don't have a union. The reason why NBA, NFL, MLB players get ~50% of the money is because they have unions. I'd say it was because of the team versus individual nature of the sport, but golfers and tennis players have unions (and for pro wrestlers, actors would be comparable), so it's not an excuse. From the outside, I think that MMA and pro wrestling, as careers, breed a 'crabs in a bucket' mentality, both by the nature of the sport/business and intentionally fostered by promoters, that keeps fighter/wrestlers underpaid. They're their own worst enemies.

I hadn't really watched much Tom Prichard, but, so, uh, BOTH Prichard brothers just do Roddy Piper impressions for promos?

All the talk about SMW reminded me to go back and get to watching it, because it introduced me to a ton of dudes I love, none of them for their wrestling, though, Ron Wright being the prime example. Jim Cornette knew the power of a redneck calling other redneck's rednecks, and that's what pro wrestling should be, dammit. Plus, shit, I mean, New Jack, Candido, pretty much everyone on the show can talk, it's not so bad once you get over, uhh, Dixie Dynamite. I use up all my ability to overlook that flag on Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Freebirds, so there's not much left over...

Chris Jericho getting the Paul Pierce treatment ('They don't love you like that') after Sting got the Kobe farewell tour would be *chef's kiss*.

Damn, hope he gets better, I loved Mexico's Most Wanted.

I liked Crow Sting during the run up to Starrcade, I just would have liked to see it toned down after that, a hybrid would have been good. That's a fair point and one I didn't think about, it was a good evolution of the character in that regard. I wouldn't expect him to still look the same, I think he could have kept the bodysuits and done a more hybrid character. I dunno, even though I was always a WWF kid, with Bret as my dude, Sting was the one WCW guy I really fucked with. That's fair, and, honestly, I don't think the longer dark hair and neon face paint was a great look for him anyway. In the end, it probably just comes down to nostalgia for the Sting that was there in my childhood, and, considering probably my biggest idol as a kid was Howie Long, with the flat top too (even I had one because of Howie), maybe I just like dudes with that haircut, lol. People are probably right about that type of babyface not being viable in the later 90s, too.

Now that he's retired I guess I can get this off my chest. I fucking HATED 'Crow' Sting. It was really, really fuckin cool during the nWo, but it should have ended after he beat Hogan at Starrcade. The fact that he never really went back to 'Surfer' Sting is, in my opinion, a huge missed opportunity, ala Taker becoming the Deadman again, and, personally, a huge disappointment. Surfer Sting was so much fucking cooler than 'Crow' it's not even funny.

Meta is the new kayfabe.

*shudders* Not a world I'd want to live in.

Terry Funk was old for so long that now when I see any footage of him talking when he's younger it's really strange. Like, it sounds like The Funker, but he doesn't look like The Funker to me, lol.

If I wanted to watch wrestling for wrestling's sake, I'd watch the Olympics or MMA. I want to see stories that get resolved in the ring by two rednecks punching each other while encircled in cyclone fencing. Hold and counter hold is nice, but if there's no story, there's really not a point to it for me. The whole reason professional wrestling is a work is so you can build stories out of it.

I didn't even know there was a roots of hip hop biography series, to tell the truth.