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Ever since Becky Lynch started wearing that corset, all I can think is that I really do not remember seeing the match where she won the North American Heavyweight Title.

Curt Hennig/Bobby Duncum Jr. vs Texas Hangmen

Been binge-watching NWA World Championship Wrestling from around Starrcade 85. Man, how excited must JJ Dillon have been to over the course of six weeks transition from managing Buddy Landell, Black Bart, and Thunderfoot to managing Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard, and the Andersons?

My fear was that end game was Brock feuding with either Alberto or Sheamus with Rusev being a background player. Also, that Wade Barrett will legit shatter into pieces if Brock suplexes himn

I'm just really fearful that with Brock wrestling Alberto a month ago and Rusev running in then, and wrestling Sheamus last night, that they're entertaining ideas of bringing back Brock for a feud with League of Nations. Because that would just be a waste of Brock I think, even if it's a monthlong placeholder for the PPV between Rumble and Mania.

7:10 through 7:50 of the Andre/Mosca vs Studd/Blackwell is one of my favorite Roger Kent going senile on commentary moments ever. He begins to describe the massive size of the Giant, and it ends up being a 20-second long rant about what Andre eats for breakfast that just gets more and more bizarre with every passing second.

SNL is going exclusive to that new $3.99/month Seeso comedy streaming service NBC is launching. They are hyping On Demand access to the entire forty years, though I can't imagine that will include musical performances and any sketches involving popular music cues beyond what they cleared for the first five seasons on DVD.

For those that keep wondering how this is going to affect ticket sales, officially the show is almost sold out as it is, and what's left on Ticketmaster is mainly obstructed-view behind-the-stage seats. WWE is already pocketing almost all the ticket money they could possibly make off Mania this year. Now, the 10,000 or so tickets that are on StubHub and other ticket re-sellers, that's another story. I'd imagine THOSE guys that gobbled up tickets on day one and immediately put them on the re-sale sites and haven't been able to sell them yet will get really nervous when word of the injury gets out beyond the hardcore wrestling fan websites.

I think what happens to Shawn Michaels in WCW is exactly what happened to Bret Hart in WCW and what happened to Shawn when he ran into Hogan years later at Summerslam. Even alongside Nash and Hall, Shawn Michaels still gets steamrolled outside the ring by Hogan's manipulation, and ends up with an underwhelming run exactly like Bret. He gets thrown into critically underwhelming feuds, a few U.S. title runs, a token World Title run long after it would have had any impact, and a damaged brand due to not being protected by Vince's hype machine. Though in the end, he still comes back to WWE in 2002 thanks to his friendship with Hunter, and the last 14 years happens anyway. There's also a chance that with his drug habits being what they allegedly were at the time and in the toxic WCW environment, he ends up a high-profile wrestling industry casualty.

I popped big time for that last night. A shame they couldn't figure out a way to work that chair landing perfectly in a seated position into a spot in some way, because that's one of those happy accidents that couldn't be pulled off again even if you tried it 500 times.

Does Sasuke even work matches throughout the year any more? Or does he just save himself these days for the annual Sato/Brahmen brawls?

And for those that keep harping on and on about a return to the TV-14/Attitude type of content, next week's Slammy Awards presented by "Coca-Cola" is probably the prime "Exhibit A" of the end game of the PG era. That has to be the biggest brand-name sponsor they've had for anything since probably the Hulk Hogan days.

I am still sad that WWE never did their global developmental plan and add WWE Japan to the chaos of the Japan scene.

Wasnt the knock during his Skip Sheffield days that he was hurting people with the clothesline?

Last year Katy Perry rode into the stadium on a giant mech-tiger and ended the set riding above the field in a jet pack. Unless Coldplay has an elaborate self-immolation planned, they will only succeed at causing a mech-tiger to fall asleep.

AWA Superstars 2/28/88 begins with Larry Nelson drunkenly rambling about how uncomfortable his orthopedic chair is. An offscreen female voice yells at him, at which times he realize that the maker of the chair may be a sponsor of the TV show. One of the most bizarre and nonsensical openings to a wrestling TV show ever, yet I'd still rather have that begin a show than any 20-minute monologue put together by WWE's current creative team.

I heard one time that an ISIS bomber went to a TNA taping with the purpose of carrying out an attack. Then he got inside the building, turned around and left because when he looked around the room and saw the scene around him he thought someone already beat him to the job.

Hell, I'd watch TNA again if the dude from United States of Bacon was hosting. His enthusiasm and love of bacon was so infectious while watching that show, he could probably do the same with TNA in a Don West sort of way. But then again, if he got the gig, TNA would probably suck any love or enthusiasm for anything out of his system. And then even piles of delicious bacon will seem empty and existenceless to him.

Here's an interview the VICE website did with Steve the day of the beer's release

The one time I shelled out cash for a photo op at a wrestling convention was a group "AWA Champions" photo with Nick Bockwinkel, Stan Hansen, and Larry Z. As we're about to take the photo, I stutter out "this is a big honor for me." Not missing a beat, Bockwinkel responds by simply asking me "Are you sure?" Even at a wrestling convention surrounded by loser wrestling nerds like me, Bockwinkel was still sharp and on point with wit. And I will always have fond memories of being an 8-year old wrestling in 1986 discovering a vast world beyond the WWF thanks to cable television, and being blown away by the one-hour match between Hennig and Bockwinkel. It was the first time I ever saw a full hour TV show taken up by one match. It was probably the second bloodiest match I had seen up to that point (Rockers vs Rose/Somers had aired earlier in the year), and while I had seen a couple Hogan title matches on Saturday Night Main Event, this was the first World Title match I had seen on TV that seemed like an epic struggle from start to finish. And I loved finding out and discovering on the AWA DVDVR set that after turning face, Bockwinkel was still a bit of a dick in the ring and on promos, and really was the epitome of an "I haven't changed, just the wrestlers I wrestle have" face turn, and kept his edge throughout the next year and a half before retiring.

Referee Neeley, still my pick for the breakout star of the Mid-South DVDVR set. Been a while since I've watched that set, but I believe there were a couple other king-sized ref bumps from him on that set.

I also wouldnt be surprised if a lot of the money was going to film acquisition. I remember at some point during the original run there was news floating around the movie distro houses were upping their usage fees as the series gained in popularity.

This just made think of the "Death or Bungie" joke for the first time in about twenty years. And if either one involves the Big Show, it's an especially unpleasant joke.

LU tapes afternoons/early evenings on Saturdays and Sundays, right? If so, then Friday night is definitely doable for LU wrestlers to do PWG, and a doubleshot on Saturday might be doable depending on show layout (aka factoring traffic time from Boyle Heights to Reseda).