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It could be worse. It's not like you actually watched him use the other teams as human suppositories.

What the hell ever happened to Al Isaacs anyway? He seems like someone that might make for a fun podcast guest if anyone could track him down, even if just to get to the bottom of who kept feeding him the "Yokozuna's joining the Hart Foundation" rumor.

Doing a binge watch of 1988 Superstars right now and last episode I viewed was the first "Fabulous" Rougeau Brothers promo with the little American flags and it really is stunning just how quickly the switch flipped from dreadfully dull babyfaces to incredibly obnoxious heels. Even if it was executed so subtly that at the end of the first promo there were some fans chanting USA along with the Rougeaus.

I had a dream last night where WWE ended up shooting an angle where the Undertaker's Wrestlemania match this year would be against Mike Tyson. And then I realized how excited I actually would be if they went for that. Tyson's at a stage in his life and such a fan of wrestling he may actually be up for doing the job and taking the tombstone also. It would also keep Taker from having to work a match where he's take a bunch of bumps since that's not what fans would expect from such a match.

For Director's Cuts, for me it starts and ends with the Mel Gibson movie Payback. The director's cut actually plays like a gritty 1970's crime movie, and it gets rid of the blue filter of the theatrical version and actually looks like a movie.

I'm sure it also doesn't help that some carriers only have El Rey in the absolute highest tier of their cable/satellite packages. I loved watching Lucha Underground on Unimas last year and it's a bummer that it appears Unimas won't be picking it up again (weren't the rating supposedly pretty good for the Unimas repeats too?), because I love LU, but I don't love the idea of frigging paying an additional $26/month above what I'm paying now essentially just for El Rey.

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