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Jesse the Body got a classic Belzer line during the Hogan/Warrior match at WMVI. Hogan had Warrior in a front facelock and Gorilla said something like, "Hogan with a front facelock. That'll take the starch out of you in a hurry!" and Jesse shot back, "Absolutely Gorilla! Just ask Richard Belzer!" That line was cut from all of the home video releases but I think it's back in on the Network/Peacock versions.

Currently playing The Surge 2. The gameplay fun enough but there's no map or quest markers. I get that some like that but I hate it. I don't like running around like an asshole and having to remember or take notes where things are. It was only like $15 in the Playstation store so I'm not bent out of shape about it, just annoyed.

No fanny pack for Scott? Rick's fanny pack looks too small to have both of their "gimmicks" in them. I'm guessing Scott had one of his freaks holding his.

Yeah, that's it. Also, Bret said that HBK/HHH were always griping about Rock not selling correctly.

Boeheim just issued an apology (can't get the tweet to embed)

I noticed he mentioned Miami too. He can eff off as he's a hypocrite https://insidetheloudhouse.com/2023/01/23/syracuse-basketball-adam-weitsman-offers-nil-deal-4-star-jalil-bethea/

Nah, it was a Tuner in-house creation IIRC. They basically took a bunch of Hendrix riffs and put them into one song. The main part of the theme is a riff from "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice" and there are elements of Highway Child and Stone Free there as well.

I read somewhere that he got it because the area he grew up in was pretty poor and had a lot of dirt roads so he turned that into Dusty Rhodes as a name. Also, I remember in Gary Hart's book, Gary talks about first meeting Dusty and hearing the name Dusty Rhodes. Gary wanted to change his name to Lonesome Rhodes after the main character in the movie A Face in the Crowd and Dusty replied, "Well, I don't plan on being lonesome so I think I'll stick to Dusty" or something to that effect. Sidenote-A Face in the Crowd is a pretty good movie starring Andy Griffith as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a drifter who becomes a big country music star. Publicly he's a folksy, nice guy but privately he's an arrogant prick. It's pretty wild to see wholesome Andy Griffith as a beer drinking, asshole redneck heel. He was Steve Austin before Steve Austin was Steve Austin!

Yoko was actually cutting promos in English towards the end of his WWF career and not even bothering trying with a Japanese accent or anything so maybe they were going to go down that path.

You're probably right. I just remember hearing that they were going to be a big part of an angle with Fatu but it never really got off the ground to any great degree. I couldn't remember if they actually made tv or not.

I can't remember if it was D'Lo or Godfather but one of them said that Simmons tried to mentor Ahmed but he (Ahmed) just wouldn't listen. They said Simmons told him something like, "listen man, they're literally trying to give you money and basically begging you to take it! Do you know how many other blacks who've been in this business would kill for that?" Basically trying to get him to stop being hard headed and appreciate his spot but obviously that never took. Ahmed has only been in the business for a couple of years at that point so when you think about it like that, the amount of push he got was crazy.

I vaguely remember hearing that the Samoan Gangsta Party were going to be involved in the whole Fatu deal at some point but it never came to fruition. I don't know how serious that was as it could've been one of those "Yokozuna in the Hart Foundation" things where it made sense on a few levels so people ran with it as a rumor but it just never came together.

I've said it here many times and I'll say it again, Goldberg/Raven is probably the best sub-10 minute match ever. They hit every story beat perfectly and gave the fans exactly what they wanted. Packed a shit ton of storytelling into about 10 minutes of entrances and bell to bell time. Probably Goldberg's best match other than the match with DDP at Halloween Havoc or one of his matches with Scott Steiner.

Joe Gacy's stupid woke heel gimmick was the first thing that came to my mind when I read this. Not exactly ripped from the headlines but woke vs. anti-woke is certainly a thing nowadays. Just not something I want to see on a wrestling show.

Yep. Except they actually had the announcers explain that at various times so fans remembered it.

What's funny is that's something I could totally hear Hogan saying. "Brother, they wanted me to be 7' for that movie and they had me in mind for the part like 10 years ago. So Stallone had been saying he was 5'2 before that so that I could appear to be that much bigger."

Anyone here play Bannerlord II? I started playing it on PS4 last week and it's pretty fun so far. A little bit of a learning curve as the tutorials are pretty worthless and the controls aren't the best. It's probably best played on a PC rather than a console. It kinda feels like an unfinished game as well. It's worth picking up a used copy and I'm enjoying it but definitely don't pay full price for it.

The only thing missing from that story would be if Duggan was wearing his gorilla suit from Mid-South.

She's already cycled through like 10 gimmicks since she's been in WWE so I guess she figured she might as well add "asshole autism denier" to the list.

My great-grandfather, great-aunt, grandmother used to watch wrestling with me and my uncle when we were kids and it was funny to hear them talk about it. We watched JCP. They'd refer to the heels as "dirty men" and the good guys as "clean men". My great-aunt would always be like, "why ya'll root for them ol dirty men like Tully and Ric Flair? Why don't ya'll root for the clean men like Dusty and Wahoo? Ya'll too young to be rooting for them dirty men." And whenever someone cursed on tv, which back in those days was never worse than Dusty or Magnum saying, "damn" or "hell", my great-grandfather would say, "alright now, alright now sonny. You can't be saying that on the television!"

So yeah, Lacy Evans posted this on IG:

I hope he's involved. I was intrigued by mentions of him and the "space people who run the politicians" and thought they'd figure into the ending. I figured he and the space stuff had to lead to a sequel or something.

Doesn't one of the endings where V ends up working with Mr. Blue Eyes hint that he (Blue Eyes) may be able to help V live?

IIRC, JJ was Budro's manager when he (Buddy) was calling out Flair. That's what led to the famous, "I spent more on spilled liquour last year than you made!" promo from Flair.