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I could absolutely see Face Johnny B Badd vs nWo Heel Randy Savage being as awesome of a feud as DDP vs Savage ended up being. And the promo Badd would inevitably cut about how he is prettier than Heel Elizabeth would have been GOLD.

EDIT: -Yes this is one of those 1980s movies where they treat the in-ring action as deathly REAL. -The vintage car dealer plays the lead pro wrestler character. -The lead character is bald but is a hero to kids that show their hero worship by wearing bald caps while cheering him on when he wrestlers. -There is a wrestler whose nickname is "THE UNDERTAKER" several years before the debut of Mark Callaway in the WWF. -The reveal of Fred Ottman's character during the third act may be second in both cinematic and wrestling beauty only to his debut as the Shockmaster. ELEVENTY BILLION STARS.

How the hell have I been a wrestling fan for 40 years and I am only NOW just discovering the existence of HAMMERHEAD JONES, a 1980s movie about wrestling produced by and starring a vintage car dealer and also starring Fred Ottman and Rusty Brooks? https://youtu.be/lkj6rLh2RkU?si=hU9BKU1LFEko7aBn

"Gary Busey Has A Friend That Has A Helicopter" should be a premise that sells itself.

Sid was so awesome that during a Memphis Wrestling television revival in 2007 he cut a promo referencing an angle shot at an autograph signing at an Auto Zone and he repeatedly referenced the "incident at the Auto Zone" and is the only wrestler in the world that could drop that over and over during a promo and still sound intense as fuck, and I am so mad that I can't find that promo now. And on the Lance Russell topic, my personal favorite Lance Russell in WCW story is that there was apparently a time where they would have Lance Russell do audio commentary for house shows on the WCW hotline, but after a few shows on the loop he realized wrestlers were repeating spots and sometimes entire matches spot-for-spot at the next town, so he just started calling different moves and sequences on the commentary that weren't actually happening in the match since it was all audio content anyway.

The somewhat inept ring announcer is promoter/owner of Portland Wrestling, Don Owen, who also owned the arena. I am guessing his logic was "why pay someone else to do this when I already know the matches?" He is however responsible for one of the my legit favorite moments from when I did some digging into Portland 1980/81 a while back. Roddy Piper and Buddy Rose are building to a loser leaves town match, which leads to a couple weeks of Don Owen going off about how loser leaves town matches are his least favorite matches as a promoter, including an incredible rant about how every time a wrestler leaves it costs him as a promoter hundreds of dollars to fly in a new wrestler to fill the spot and starts bitching about how much air travel to Portland costs.

I just always assume now in retrospect that every time they got kicked off a TV station or cable network it was just because ECW had bought the time and fell behind on paying the bill, but because it was ECW there was always something controversial they could point to and spin it to the sheets and their fans as the reason for getting kicked off TV.

That clip is from the same match, I believe that was just a post match brawl outside the ring. And now I am just bummed that it was reported that WWE bought the WWC Puerto Rico video library when they inducted Carlos Colon into the Hall of Fame but we never got any footage at all after that.

It's times like these where I am sad that Larry Flynt is dead because you know damn well if he was alive today he would be offering Algerian boxing lady and French pole vault guy a million bucks each to do things with each other in front of a camera.

I had read the Gojira news and was happy for them but I did not expect this to be one of the most METAL THINGS EVER

This show has been enjoyably fun trash TV since the first season, and I am still enjoying Season Six overall, but holy hell, even my "it's just a dumb TV show" brain is having issues with Kreese staging a very violent jail break, and then publicly showing up at the beginning of a supposedly well-known and well-recognized international karate tournament where it's been said that the finals air on live television (which to be fair, in 2024 could be just a live-stream on Triller TV for all we know, or whatever the Cobra Kai universe's version of the old VERSUS channel was), and cops aren't there immediately to arrest him and take him back into custody? Also, holy hell, a laxative spike was the only way they could figure out getting tension back going between Anthony and Kenny?

Despite being a child of the 80s I somehow never saw it until 2021, but fell in love with it immediately and its been a favorite go-to of mine for the last few years. And not brushing up on facts about the soundtrack before hand, after the opening song hit during first watch I said to myself "I bet Jim Steinman had something to do with this music" and sure enough!

I went to a 70mm screening of STREETS OF FIRE last night and boy oh boy the gasp followed by nervous laughter from first-timers when ...is a moviegoing memory that will stay with me forever. Big pops as well for Raven (Willem Dafoe) emerging out of the flames during the Battery scene and end of the final fight. The 70mm print was from the movie's original run (it has a British Board of Censors rating certification at the beginning and an era-appropriate "Visit Universal Studios when in Hollywood" tag after the credits) but showed barely any signs of aging at all and looked - and sounded - gorgeous in a big sscreen. I dont know who else really does 70mm screenings outside of Los Angeles but if you have folks that do those in your city and this ever turns up as part of 70mm programming, definite high recommend on catching that in that experience.

This involves the Thorn In Your Side intro music instead of the bumper but this post reminded me of this oldie but goodie: https://www.cbr.com/seinfeld-raw-is-war-intro-perfect/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR25su6HMOY5hq_V2ehSmZUhnBkmtHxIo4kGI1tdaHJqvzpKVg0RToAfNZ4_aem_PAFU6F_NEvD8kkyYcGAXlA

BAM NEELY! DAN RODMAN! ERIC ESCOBAR! JACKSON ANDREWS!

I recall at some point Lemmy was asked about the war memorabilia and his response (i am very much paraphrasing here) was "I was born in England in 1945, how could I NOT be obsessed with the war that was ending as I was born in a country recovering from being bombed nonstop for the last decade"

My absolutely favorite live wrestling experiences these last couple of years were the two Tokyo Joshi Pro shows that have come to Southern California recently. Each show Two hours long almost to the exact minute, match cards of 5 or 6 matches but with variety on all of them and the main event being the stand out match. Enough action and variety to feel like you got a full show but no points where the crowd burned out. Oddly enough the other show that did that a little while back was a Circle 6 deathmatch show. That one was actually only 1 hour and 45 minutes but the violence escalated gradually from each match with the main event being an all out war and no one went home thinking they didn't see enough action. Of course they had to screw that up with their next local show being a bloated deathmatch tournament that was SIX HOURS to final bell, but at least they got the "leave them wanting more" right before. I really think a tight two hours is the absolute best way to save for 1 or 2 "super" shows a year, though I do think that places extra strain on making sure your main event/final match of the night REALLY connects, which to be fair the shows I mentioned previously did a fantastic job of doing so.

Thunder Rosa was promoting customs matches with the women's roster of Mission Pro Wrestling on social media as recently as 2020, though admittedly that year there were very compelling reasons to be a little more aggressive in openly promoting that as a service. Whatever, it's wrestling, money is money like bobholly138 noted above (I never had Hardcore pegged as a Misfits fan, tbh). Whether it's customs or OnlyFans, get that cash. Though admittedly the "intergender POV" customs kind of give me the creeps, where it's a first-person POV of a man doing moves to a female wrestler. I remember someone posting a few clips of Lacey Von Erich taking choke spots in some of those some years back and the people that were specifically ordering that seems like they should be on a some sort of watch list.

All these Olympic festivities that have budget shortfalls could be made profitable by just biting the bullet and selling a condom sponsor for the Village.

I havent poked into the AEW thread so its entirely possible someone else already threw this out in there. I am wondering now if Will Ospreay taking the title from Swerve got bumped up to Forbidden Door so they can pull the trigger on the big Ospreay vs Ricochet rematch in AEW at Wembley.

I would say the second highest point of Disco's career was beating Manabu Nakanishi after the disco music started playing during the match, Nakanishi got distracted by a Fat Elvis impersonator disco dancing down to the ring, and a disco ball came down from the ceiling and Disco knocked out Nakanishi after swing the disco ball at him. And third highest point was when Craig Pittman went to put a Kimura armlock on him and Disco tapped out before it was fully applied because if Craig Pittman locked it in, Disco couldn't wave his hands in the air while dancing and run his hands through his hair anymore. Disco had his moments. Dude still deserved to get cooked by Cody and has nothing to offer as far as advice that should be followed in 2024 by anyone in wrestling.

Eh, at least the Candyman won't ask you if you listen to his podcast.

Rick "The Model" Martel flirted with some tennis imagery every now and then, most notably at Summerslam 92 for his entrance against Shawn Michaels. https://giphy.com/gifs/l1J3Fjxe82pG8dqXS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBEVc3E2iCk

All of the above once again reinforcing the decision i made many years ago to not engage in any broadcasted sports media at all except for halftime discussions and occasional pre-game shows and post-game wrapup attached to game broadcasts.

What SirSmUgly said earlier, if you are doing the Mid-South dive and didn't want to start from the very beginning of what's on Peacock and instead go to maybe the best launch point for "when the territory becomes its hottest", October 1983 is maybe the best place to jump forward to, as Junkyard Dog is still the hottest face in the company, Butch Reed is still a helluva hoss heel, Magnum TA's star is starting to shine, Dusty Rhodes pops in for a few weeks around this time, the seeds of Crusher Darsow turning Russian are planted in what may be my favorite "American turns foreign menace heel angle ever" and some of the "week-to-week" episodic television structure is very much in place by that point. And by the end of the year, the Midnight Express comes into the territory and Mr. Wrestling II starts to get upset with Magnum TA's increasing shining star, and it's off to the races for 1984 and 1985, where the Peacock run fills out almost the entirety of the year. There's still plenty I enjoyed running through 1982 and the rest of 1983 up to that point, but if you are looking more to start at a "things are getting REALLY hot" point, October 1983 is good to jump forward too and see out the run from there.