Uncle Coaster

Both 2022 Royal Rumbles. “Surprise“ entrants win both rumbles on the same night. Why watch the weekly shows?

You make a lot of great points. The way I see it the biggest difference between today’s moments and yesterday’s moments is indeed the frequency like you mentioned but that it’s more of the WWE reacting to changes in society than the fans being conditioned by the WWE to get excited for certain things.

Maybe it’s because I grew up on pre-Hogan WWF but it seems like wrestling has always been about moments. When I catch up with old friends from my childhood and we talk wrestling they bring up the King Kong Mosca water pitcher incident or Ray Stevens piledriving Jimmy Snuka. It’s the moments that we remember. For everyone who mentions the Flair-Steamboat trilogy I seem to get someone who mentions Funk suffocating Flair instead. So I ask…what is the golden era or promotion that didn’t book to moments?

This thread is depressing. I love minor league baseball. I am hoping to get to my 50th pro baseball stadium this year. And to tie it into something wrestling related: # 49 will be in Las Vegas when I’m in town for WrestleMania.

I seem to recall at one point either Bobby Heenan or Jesse Ventura saying something about a wrestler catching his breath and not trying to kick out when there was no ref to make a count. Feel like Gorilla said something about how it would have been a fifteen count and the Bobby or Jesse responding with that.

Alexis Smirnoff

Top 5: Bayley, Ron Garvin, SD Jones, Tully Blanchard, Kurt Angle Mt Rushmore: Bruno Sammartino, Harley Race, Steve Austin, Lou Thesz Magi: Stan Hansen, Bruiser Brody, Great Muta Magic/Bird: Carlos Colon vs Abdullah The Butcher GOAT: Ric Flair Hardest Person To Leave Out: Nick Bockwinkel

Unforgiven 2003. Goldberg beat HHH for the World Title and Shane McMahon’s jump from the Titantron.

I was a big fan of The Wild Samoans as a kid. They were so tough and scary, I loved it. As an adult, I used to attend a lot of Afa’s shows with mostly his students when he was based in PA. A year or so after he moved to Florida I waited in line for their autograph at a WrestleMania Axxess. I was telling Afa how much I missed his shows and told him about a time when I was sitting front row and Afa yelled at me for not cheering loud enough. Sika turned to Afa and said sarcastically, “Huh, that doesn’t sound like you at all.”

Bucket List Type Items: My second live event was at the Scranton Catholic Youth Center in 1982 when I was 9 years old. I got to tap Andre The Giant on the arm. He was truly larger than life and I feel it's something I can tell younger people about today and not sound like Grandpa Jones telling falsehoods about things being bigger or better back in my day.

So should there only be good guys? Are we upset at the Young Bucks for mistreating their elder before his retirement match or does this only apply to certain social issues. Where do you draw the line?

If that’s his real name.

I’ve been happily surprised to hear a few things I didn’t know or remember in this Vince series on BTB, but oof it is a bit of a chore to get through these. I don’t find any of these guys nearly as funny as they find themselves.

Your significant other.

I have been discussing Jay Briscoe in my Sunday School class the last two weeks. I’m going to show Mark’s eulogy to the high school aged students this week. It is beautiful and there is a lot that we can discuss from it.