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Looking like I'm in the minority, as I loved the main event. Possibly one of my favorite ladder matches of all time, mainly because to me it felt more like a streetfight that happened to have ladder match stipulations. I loved Rollins targeting the leg early on, and also loved Rollins leaving Ambrose for dead out in the aisleway and the crowd to try to sneak getting up the ladder with Ambrose somewhere further away. I got really sucked into the storyline of Rollins basically realizing that he would need to kill Ambrose in order to escape with his championship. Finish was a little screwy but it played great into Triple H motivating Rollins to be a real champion and find a way to do it on his own, which he ended up doing.

That clip of Vince gleefully spraying JR in the ass over and over again with the fire extinguisher was so cringeworthy, maybe even more uncomfortable than his JR impersonation.

She was also in that dreadful segment where Steph brought out Daniel Bryan's "physical therapist" to accuse Daniel of cheating on Brie with her.

Out of all the places I could have possibly seen the match of One Man Gang vs. Tommy Rogers live, it was a frigging ECW show in Lansing, MI: January 1999. And my memory is that it was a really fun match.

Yeah, I've definitely been getting a "Hall and Nash" vibe out of Reigns and Ambrose these last few weeks. They definitely seem like they enjoy being linked back together again, and Reigns is way more likable as "bro dude supportive of his bro". loved Owens vs. Cena, started slowly but figured it was building to a hot finish, which it did. I was the only one in the room with familiarity with Owens outside of NXT and judging by my friends' reactions to the match and promo they definitely made a new star tonight. During the tag match it definitely felt like Kalisto was trying to attempt spots that he just didn't have the core strength to pull off, it looked like he was seriously struggling hard to navigate the chain link fence. IC Title match was a frigging disaster, saved only by the feelgood finish they did with Ryback. I did get a kick out of that, and the presentation of the title to him. I am 100 positive that the Mark Henry entry was either a botch or an audible they called. Mark definitely stepped back into the pod and lingered for about 10-15 seconds before finally heading in.

Had some friends over for EC, and they hung around afterwards while I showed them some LU, of the seven friends that came over, two of them had been following it, but others in the room were virgin eyes. Showed them the Aerostar-Jack Evans match (a few of them were WSX fans so a Jack Evans match was a good entry point for them), the trios ladder match which all of them loved even before the big Angelico spot, and then this week's full episode which I hadn't watched yet. All of them ended up pretty blown away by the fact that both the wrestling itself and the production had a different feel, and many of them wishing some of the WWE production looked like this, at least for the backstage/Dario's office spots. A couple WCW fans in the room lamented at how old and broken down both Vampiro and Konnan looked, but at least appreciated that they are booked on the sidelines and not as old-man ass-kickers despite them looking in mostly terrible shape, especially Konnan. Mil Muertes was definitely seen as an Undertaker analog character, and I am now unable to see Catrina/Maxine without the phrase "sexy Paul Bearer" running through my head thanks to one of my friends using that phrase to describe her. Overall, this definitely seems like a show that really could build a bigger following if enough people currently watching force their friends to "stay and watch THIS!" on a night of WWE viewing.

There's a joke involving a "warning of homoerotic content" followed by a reference to a "tripod" in there somewhere that even I'm way too lazy to go for. Here's Hulk Hogan suffering from a bad case of Japanese phrases misspelled by American wrestling journalists: And here's an Andre battle royal picture I don't think I've seen posted here yet, but even if it's a duplicate, it's still awesome:

Hat tip to "goc" over at the Pro Wrestling Only board for posting these over there, but this deserves to be posted in tons of places. Kamala in CMLL circa 1991, working his gimmick more as "foreign dickhead heel" than "African savage", doing handshake fakeout spots, mocking his opponents' mannerisms, stooge selling, and more:

When the Radicalz jumped from WCW to WWE, I had Perry Saturn pegged as the one that would be the most successful based on the assumption that he was the only one with the size/mass to really thrive as a heavyweight, and I figured the Kowalski connection to Triple H would do him wonders as well. Then Eddie and the Junkyard Dog went on to have their moment at the end of Wrestlemania 20, and Dean went to take the agent gig that he has to this day, while Perry went on to befriend a mop, and then literally disappeared for several years.

Its really weird. Finished off the 1987 WWF Superstars season set this week. Most of the episodes in the second half of the year are from a Boston feed. Localized promos for shows coming up at the Boston Garden hype a Savage-Honky Tonk match with Peggy Sue at ringside and Craig DeGeorge in his line of questioning is asking Jimmy Hart and Honky Tonk Man about accusations that Peggy Sue is in fact Sensational Sherri in disguise, with Jimmy and Honky denying it. Then a few weeks later Peggy Sue makes her first appearance on the main show and there's no mention of the Sherri rumors at all. It came off like they debuted the Peggy Sue gimmick on house shows, made the Sherri link in localized promos, but then when they went national with it they dropped the "Peggy Sue is Sherri" part of the angle.

I only found DA because I was flipping through the channel guide menu bored one night and came across a show called "The United States of Bacon". That show was awesome, basically an excited fat guy getting to eat the best bacon dishes at restaurants across America. He was like the foodie Don West. Then that show ended and I forgot I had it until Impact signed with them.

Only been to Hammerstein once, for the first ECW One Night Stand. A fantastic night, but the room itself definitely helped with the aura and it seemed like one of those spots where the vibe of the room itself enhances and adds more energy to whatever is going on. It only seats 2500 but the acoustics made it one of the loudest rooms I have ever been in for wrestling.

Does anyone actually own the rights to Southeastern/Continental footage from the 80s? I am beginning to wonder if Destination America might be up for throwing VHS tapes of that on their channel as part of their "stick it to TNA" campaign.

I swear that if you just threw episodes of TNT onto Adult Swim with no editing or context there would be a segment of the audience that might think it was another Tim & Eric production, its that awkward at times.

And on the flipside, nothing worse than that episode of Tuesday Night Titans where Vince basically turns over the show to a shitty local magician for SIXTEEN FRIGGING MINUTES. At least all the TNT segments where Sal Bellomo is building his fucking paper boats has a fascinating "anti-television" aspect to it. This is inexcusable though.

Would the Young Bucks in NJPW perhaps be an analog to when Zack Ryder got his US Title push? Or perhaps Santino?

Sorry, was super jacked up after seeing the movie and the Mad Max thread wasnt just below and was still on the second page of threads at that point. Posted my excitement and then had that "shit, there might be a thread lurking deeper somewhere." I will agree with you though that Life of David Gale was heavy-handed ridiculous garbage. It felt Kevin Spacey's take on the Keenan Ivory Wayans character in "Dont Be A Menace To South Central" that only pops up to shout the word "MESSAGE!"After an inspiring speech by another character. Also, seconding the love for They Came Together, though I look at it as a spiritual sequel to The Baxter, which explored some similar romcom tropes and was also damn hilarious.

Man, I love that Scott Steiner-Ole gif. The look of sheer terror on Ole Anderson's face once he realizes his "I'm a tough guy wrestler" facade is coming undone at the hands of an incredibly capable beast of a young buck.

Saw Fury Road tonight. Yeah, believe the hype. It is THAT frigging awesome.

I see that Lance Russell GIF and I think to myself "Man, you know what's cool...smoking!" I see that Tyler Breeze/Neville GIF and I think to myself "I like Neville, but man, seriously, fuck any wrestler does a feet-first landing sell on a DDT"

So...about that Mad Max Fury Road flick...the hype is real. The HOLY FUCKING SHIT movie of the year, maybe the decade, possibly the millennium. I say this with absolutely zero hyperbole.

Every time I see a picture of someone holding the North American belt i picture them saying "I dont have to put this in a safe. It IS the safe!"

This is how I'll always feel about "Hell Awaits" and "The Anti-Christ" by Slayer since my first exposure to pre-"Reign In Blood" material was through the live Decade of Aggression set they put out in the early '90s. The set starts out with those two back-to-back bleeding into each other and it just works so well, I'll always associate them in a running order even though they the studio versions are on separate albums in the chronology.