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They should just have an AI Howard Finkel disembodied voice do the ring intros. I'm only half kidding.

A company named Basic Fun is getting into Arcade1Up's space, and one of the first they're doing is Wrestlefest: https://toybook.com/retro-replay-basic-fun-goes-big-with-home-arcade/

WWE Vault just posted the Smack 'Em Whack 'Em Coliseum Video which features both the Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels Ladder Match and Bret Hart's first WWF Title win over Ric Flair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So91qcyEu2c

WWE Vault posted a video of behind the scenes footage of the filming of the RAW intro in 1995 on the roof of Titan Towers. There's a spot in the video, which I've linked below, where it shows Triple H and Goldust, in full gear, playing the Wrestlemania arcade game in the weight room while Undertaker, Bret and Razor watch. Undertaker is clearly not impressed and basically rolls his eyes and walks away, but you can barely hear snippets of the conversation Bret and Razor are having about doing the motion capture for the game. I really wish we could hear that conversation more clearly. Also, in the background right at the start you can see a split second of Kama playing the Royal Rumble pinball machine. https://youtu.be/SPV6DICD9YE?si=iqk8Vflmuxy8u5lC&t=427

WWE Vault just keeps on giving, a dark match featuring Bret Hart vs Hakushi in a steel cage: https://youtu.be/7jfGcROtUL0?si=8yzrfRQry5QnoIjj

This is the first time WWE is doing Halloween Havoc in an actual arena. I know all of WWE's set are just giant LED boards now, but if any show needs some set decoration, it's this one. A giant inflatable pumpkin and some plastic tombstones can't be that expensive.

The WWE Vault Youtube channel posted a two minute video of behind-the-scenes motion capture footage from the In Your House game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn7w1nCpnXk

That's because of the cage, it doesn't fit around the LED posts. They didn't have them on Smackdown and the PLE because they don't bring them overseas, Backlash in France didn't have them either.

So the tournaments start tonight and we still don't have full brackets. You'd think with how crazy people get over March Madness they'd release the brackets early and do some kind of bracket challenge contest to get a little more interest into them, allow people to share their brackets on social media and compare. Have some prize if anyone can predict a perfect bracket for both the men and the women, then book a couple of crazy upsets to bust brackets, it would be fun.

So apparently Virgil had been kayfabing his age even through his death. He had told everyone over the years he was born in 1962, but he was actually born in 1951. Most reports list him dying at 61, but he was actually 72, thus making him one of the oldest guys on the WWF roster in the 80s and 90s, older than Hogan, Piper, Jake, Dibiase, Savage and only two years younger than Flair. He was 40 when he won the Million Dollar Title at Summerslam 91, which is absolutely crazy.

Not sure if you recognized them, but the doormen for this show were a very young Matt and Jeff Hardy.

Playing Devil's advocate, what if the plan is still Cody and Roman and this is just a way to build some groundswell support behind Cody a la the Yes Movement? Not saying I believe that, but I think we see a lot of "We want Cody!" chants in the coming weeks.

Not sure, they didn't tell us anything other than that it's a new show.

As someone who was there, this did a really good job at getting the crowd hot for the live show. Local start time was 6:45, only 15 minutes before Smackdown went on the air. They managed to fit in two matches with entrances in that 15 minute window. With the matches being so short they were non-stop action, no stalling or rest holds. The second match ended only a minute or so before 7, they went right into the Smackdown intro and the crowd was on fire.

It would actually be a perfect Elimination Chamber match. Start the match with Sami and Jimmy, bring Solo in third to double team. KO fourth to even the odds, Roman fifth for a 3 on 2 advantage, then Jey last where you don't know who he is going to side with.