Cobra Commander

i'll be kinda honest, it seems like Austin's interview style didn't totally mesh with Dusty as well as it could have, but maybe Dusty was a bit short in some of his answers just because

All they need is someone to do Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton and along with Aiden English they could have a hell of a Vaudevillian stable. And they all coincidentally have loaded hats that they can hit their opponents with. Porkpie hat of death

Skimming RSPW awards voting results, and from the rejected votes pile: Most Disappointing News item, 2003: "Death of Animal (didn't happen yet as far as I know - ed.)" Although it took them until 2000 to start rejecting votes of "Kurt Angle" for "Best Angle"". Fortunately the end of 400+ voter RSPW awards probably cut down on people making intentionally rejected votes

the difference between the 3 seed (faces some 8-8/9-7 team) and the 4 seed (faces the likely 12-4/13-3 Chiefs) is gonna be a bit enormous this year

so they'll run the WWE Network like the NFL Network and ignore the giant freaking vault of potential programming?

apparently I needed to watch NXT because Simon Gotch is dangerously close to working Charlie Chaplin's Tramp gimmick

is Crusher Rusev too close to an old name for a certain 80s superstar?

keeping in mind that i'll compare the shopping mall brawl to the Grocery Store Death Match, so the shopping mall brawl will have a lot to live up to. Unless the shopping mall brawl WAS the Grocery Store Death Match, in which case, you are right

For those of you into the Facebook, You can read about how Mick Foley met Topanga in 1999 and how they reconnected recently

Claudio Cesaro could have been a name used if the pro-alliteration agents were still in power in the WWE Random pondering: I wonder if the WWE takeover of WCW's tapes included the raw tapes of the Disney tapings (or if their tapes were only the TV versions of the shows). Just wondered that since there had to be some matches they cut off of those shows because someone quit, got fired, or the match was a total abortion.. so if they had the raw tapes of those matches (without commentary, obviously, as they'd clunk down the commentary sometime in the week before the weekend shows went out to the affiliates) then they could just get one of their generic announcer flacks to lay a commentary layer over the match and they can post it on YouTube or something random [Offtopic note: the delay between finishing the commentary and the show only really stood out when i was watching a WCW Pro that was aired a day after Souled Out 1998, so they had to refer to the PPV in a past-tense in commentary taped before it aired.. which worked as well as you'd expect from an organization with such stellar long-term planning as WCW] But yeah, the sheer amount of stuff they have in some form in that tape vault has to be completely freaking crazy

and Florida just lost to Georgia Southern. Georgia Southern had 0 passing yards on the game

today's UNC/Old Dominion game is brought to you by UNC scoring 80 on another living football team

Yuko Miyamoto v. Isami Kodaka - BJW/Union Pro - 200 Lighttubes Death Match (3/29/2012) Felt it was important to at least mention the gimmick for people who don't want to accidentally venture into the ghoulish realms of wrestling. Don't ask me which one is which because they both apparently highlighted their hair at one time or another, making posthumous photo identification harder. But i'm guessing black pants = Kodaka and white pants = Miyamoto. So a series of observations as the match went on 1) I wondered how the process of buying hundreds of light tubes went (that was indirectly answered later) 2) Nothing more fun than the "running off the ropes and shattering some of your light tubes for nothing" 'spot' 3) Also loved the variety of kinda stupid looking light tube spots, most of whom seemed to be the domain of Kodaka/black pants. Like holding tubes in front of the guy's chest and punching the tube. At least the back bumps can make one forget about the corner spots. Or the several times they tried to break the tube over the guy's head and didn't break it on first try. But yeah, its a light tube death match, you kinda check certain parts of logic out the door quickly 4) In between the screens of gruesome light tube violence and ill-advised light-tube spots were some good stuff and stuff that's interesting purely because someone just landed in a pile of tube shards, although you can question the logic of the moonsault when you see it 5) I wonder what the Japanese health care system is like for pro wrestlers having to remove shards of broken light tubes from their bodies So, always good to mix the observation of some light tube violence into a weekend.

neato.. the Breakthrough Battle Royal is on the WWE YouTube now.. which means I restate my idea of Vince having amnesia and becoming his pre-97 commentator self again. Vince really got into his commentary groove as the match went on,

although i'm sure there's some Jersey Hellhole indies that would love to book a double-amputee v. "guy with 2 legs" grudge match

considering that Kamala had both legs amputated by 2013, either the date of that match is wrong, or it's a different Kamala

from the Hot Stove: Translation: "If these other teams don't step it up, Carlos will just sign with the Royals, serious, no kidding, give this man his money and his years or he'll sign with the Royals and you'll lose a bidding war to the Royals, call, e-mail, text, lets' make a deal big teams"

so Eric Philbin will be the grandchild of Regis in Regis' bid to take over the WWE for some reason. Cahill will be some random dude. Print that money

the worst possible leadups to Ryback/Goldberg: Goldberg returns to the WWE, only to be mercilessly bullied by Ryback. Goldberg leaves the WWE for a few weeks, only to be motivated by John Cena to be a star, leading to his comeback to the ring

Even that way, Cabrera will be better at 1B than Fielder. He won't be good but he's at least semi-athletic and not 320 pounds. Hell, I have 2 bad knees and can't even hardly bend over and *I* would be an upgrade over Fielder. Cabrera clocked in at -5/150 in 2010/2011, and his overall is -2.2/150 thanks to a good 2009 at First (Cabrera was -4/150 in 2008) Fielder, on the other hand, has a -5, 0, and -4 in his last 3 years at first. I don't know how much the injuries effected Cabrera's metrics at 3rd (where he dropped from -11 to -20 from 2012 to 2013). But I suspect a healthy Cabrera and a healthy Fielder probably post the same -5 at first in 2014

He Who Must Not Be Named & Dean Malenko v. the Blue Bloods from the Havoc preshow. Come for the talk about the Monster Truck Match and the beginning of the Heenan/NJPW angle (along with Dusty/Bischoff mixing up Bobby Heenan and Bobby Eaton) and stay for the actual match. I believe Benoit was in the Horsemen quickly after this. So the NJPW stuff is coming up soonish, YT legal mercies permitting

watching a trailer for Kevin Sullivan's timeline. Somehow, Kevin Sullivan without hair looks even more sinister/satanic than Sullivan with hair doing one of his Satanist gimmicks. So Sullivan could always go back to that well as a mouthpiece and look even more sinister. Ok, Sullivan kinda looks like Mike from Breaking Bad. But he could also be Anton LaVey.