Cobra Commander

I had a power outage this morning/afternoon so I'm only now getting around to watching.. World Wide Wrestling (6/29/1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NubAXz8vfl8

the rare triple by a player moving with a leg injury for 180 feet in Detroit (Kerry Carpenter)

"Please do not chant Guardian Angel at me, I am Bubba again" - Big Bubba, 1994 "That's a long name to chant though" edit: upon reflecting... maybe Terry Taylor doing the "don't call me Rooster" gimmick in the WWF as a heel instead of being a lameass babyface in 1989

Beach Blast 93 on the YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toK5piVkqMo

watching Beach Blast 93 on YouTube and thankful that nobody has done a form of the Paul Orndorff "Paula" gimmick to be a heel who reacts angrily to fans "dead-naming" him (the heel does not have to be trans to be dead-named with how often at least the WWE changes guys names)

Sting vs Bret should have been the next long term build after Starrcade 97 but there was a ton of WCW politics that wasn't gonna let that happen

in the spirit of the "Computerized Wrestler of the 90s" gimmick in WCW... a wrestler that claims to be using AI to win matches extra points if they're using AI and still jobbing

uploading matches from GAB96 (Regal vs Sting) and GAB98 (Juvy vs Reese) on back to back days means I can now tell when WCW is in the Baltimore Arena Sting vs Regal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCH3T2WO9yY Juvy vs Reese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBYo17__mok

was a surprise to go to YouTube and see that CMLL had a live stream from Guadalajara. Although to be fair, it's in Mountain time so it's only 11:40pm there I haven't kept an eye to see how often they're running free streams these days

yeah, I don't think "his dad was a major leaguer, clearly he's more able to understand this contract" will work here

the claim was that Mistico and Malenko had a dark match as a Mistico tryout in February 2007 Mistico actually wrestled Jamie Noble that night

the typed version of the update from the WWE Vault admin: https://i.redd.it/a587h14hrv8f1.jpeg They haven't found Angle/Owen or Hogan on the Snake Pit "More Omni live event videos are coming" Mistico vs Dean Malenko didn't happen They have WCW Cyber Ring footage. Mostly on green screen Also they claim a billion views so far, which, claim all the views you need to keep the channel up, gents

Verne Gagne missed the boat by not getting into baseball agenting

also Duggan was wearing purple/gold for a time to show his support of WCW and literally nobody else in the company switched to those colors to show support. Maybe WCW accidentally invented the concept of changing your Facebook profile pic to show support the whole concept of Hogan turning and WCW wrestlers focusing ire on Hogan's old buddies was a pretty realistic concept though

and Duggan just disappeared for 6 months in the middle of 1997 aside from his match with Super Calo where Duggan had a super lazy finishing move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GxWAcHUvxc

watching a Nitro episode (2/24/97, uploaded to YT today) and thinking... "you know, after a time, all the 'Paid for by the nWo' ads were selling their t-shirts"... like this big group trying to take down WCW was funding their operations by selling their merch also i'm amused at Duggan trying to get himself into the NWO storyline only for them to just never do any attacks or matches with him.. aside from the obligatory Duggan vs Ray Traylor matches

nice of them to announce the ceasefire just in time (if you believe such a thing will actually hold)

the Vladmir documentary is up on the Peacock if you didn't know

checking on on some.. World Wide Wrestling (6/22/1985): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOZa5umVZsA

Riyadh is closer to Iran than Israel really only one US-linked base in that area of Saudi Arabia, Prince Sultan (90 minutes from Riyadh) I'd guess if there's gonna be any problem, it'll be about getting in and out than anything happening while they're there.. but Jeddah would be a better spot for distance from Iran right now

Dom's team is gonna need 1989 John Tenta to be one of the lucky fans

Mark Henry being able to handle the Persian clubs feels like a thing that they should have gotten a segment out of if the 1996 Mark Henry and Sultan stints overlapped longer (just saw that clip of Mark Henry from months ago)

Juneteenth being a Texas thing first comes to mind here, it was a paid holiday in Texas for 40 years before it got to that point anywhere else.. I don't know if there's any good data on this but I'd think Juneteenth has more support among conservative-ish Texas people than conservative-ish people in other states depending on if they see it as being partially a 'Texas' holiday or whatever (added caveat that well... the reason why the holiday exists might not exactly make Texas look great but hey)

I think there was overlap in 1998 between The Rock N Roll Express entering to the Rockers theme in the WWF and Marty Jannetty entering to Austin’s theme in WCW Greg Valentine and Marty Jannetty would have made for a solid tag team of people cashing checks in 1998.

Worldwide (10/18/97 or 10/19/97): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VvhneL0wFM Renegade eventually beats Tim Cheeks, Heenan makes a joke about Mongo's dog being made into Chinese food, ad saying Disco vs Jacquelyn is for the TV title (it wasn't) and ad mentioning Mongo/Jarrett (didn't happen), Tenay drops in for Sumo Fuji vs Konnan for some reason, Alex Wright vs Hugh Morris in a fun match, Glacier and Ernest Miller in action and Kevin Northcutt is tall (Schiavone compares Northcutt to early Ray Traylor), and the main event of Mongo vs Greg Valentine where Tony notes that Ric Flair teamed with Greg Valentine back in the day