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I was just wondering what happened to him the other day when I was watching 'Beyond the Mat' and they showed him being held back after someone had spit on him and it made me remember seeing him in PWI where he was billed as La Migra Maxx Justice and feuding with Hispanic wrestlers.

Also, the Cena heel run might not be making especially enjoyable matches, but the heat was absolutely nuclear last night. I love how they popped for his music, booed his entrance, cheered for R-Truth like he was 1980s Hulk Hogan, popped huge for Cena seeing the error of his way, booed when he cheated again. I don't know if the Cena "I'm going to ruin wrestling" really makes a lot of sense given his ties to The Rock and his being on the board of directors etc. etc. etc. but it has made for some unbelievable crowd reactions. I wonder how long it goes on for because I think you HAVE to let Cena run out the last few weeks (months?) as a face for his and the fans' sake. If Cena doesn't see "the error of his ways" until his last appearance or whatever, I think it would be a failure of a run.

Man Jesse Ventura on commentary was great in how uncomfortable it made Cole/McAfee. I miss the days when colour commentators went on unhinged tangents and things were just less corporate and over-produced. Ventura mocking Priest's exit while Cole and McAfee tried to explain it ("He's making a statement by walking out!" "Well if you're gonna do that at least go over the top!") and refusing to let it go when Cole and McAfee are desperately trying to move on was amazing.

I kinda think you could debut Tony D in his current gimmick, somewhere very Italian-friendly (Chicago, given his billed city) and make a big deal of it (Maybe pay some guys to lose their shit in the crowd over him), give him a big win, have him throw his opponent in the trunk and drive away and if he's over enough there it can transfer to other cities where they react favourably to appear to be in on him the same way he was his first night. Alternately, he would be a great heater (Even though he's not HUGE huge) for a cheating heel (Dom, for instance, if you wanna keep him heel!) and you can kind of build out his character from there.

https://youtu.be/QXlqF7g-tjU?si=cwIUwUIWY2a2SgSu How was I not aware, until today, that Goldust was once on Conan O'Brien, in character as a guest. It goes...it goes about as well as you'd think.

This show blew my mind as a teenager. I was vaguely aware of Japanese wrestling as a friend had taped that Superbrawl with Flair-Fujinami and had seen Great Muta once or twice, but I somehow had no concept that there were more than 1 or two Japanese wrestlers, never mind a whole federation including a guy with a sweet bodysuit and mask. I used to leave my TV on the PPV preview channel and look up and intently watch every time the Starrcade promo would come up (Had all the wrestlers standing in a row while Sonny delivered a motivational speech: "Liger? Fly high. Come down hard on WCW!" I can still remember that some...sigh....30 years later. But the new password I made LAST WEEK for my Apple account, completely gone! Oh, I should add, blew my mind as a teenage before I actually saw the show. All I saw was the preview and I may have listened to it in squigglevision. I finally tracked down a copy maybe 4-5 years later and gleefully purchased it and was STUNNED how matches with guys I had seen in good matches (Liger, Chono, Ohtani) and guys I had heard good things about (Kanemoto, Tenzan) wrestling actually good WCW wrestlers could be so stunningly BORING. This is where she calls Onoo "Hop Sing", right? And the crowd is mild for it, everyone is mild for it, except Dusty Rhodes who flips out: "Hop Sing! She said Hop Sing!" [laughs uproariously]. This match was impossibly boring. Three great wrestlers in a poorly-structured mach should be able to overcome it and present something interesting but it is SO long and SO dull that it's one of the most disappointing things I've ever seen.

I watched a Hakushi-Sabu match the other day and, man, does his entrance lose a lot of his mystique without simple things like lighting and, oh yeah, music. Watching him walk to the ring, the same slow gait that he used in WWF and costume, but under glare-y gymnasium lights with no audio accompaniment was really jarring. IIRC Bret Hart loved wrestling him, he said they had a really good match, then everyone after ate him up so when he got progammed against him again he decided to make him look good. Hidaka was one of those guys, like Tajiri and Crazy actually, who got super over with the ECW crowd but it took them forever to get behind. He had good to great moments in ECW, but the only real thing they did with him was have Joel Gertner call him "Poky-mon" because he was Japanese and taking the US by storm.

Considering the absolute hoops they dove through last night to discuss Mina and Toni's history without once mentioning Mariah May, I'd say it's highly unlikely ("Toni and Mina were involved in a sort-of love triangle" which if you were unfamiliar with their past, you'd wonder how they had a triangle with only two people!).

So that WASN'T something I thought I might have imagined/hallucinated?!

Apparently Brock's other son is named "Turk" which is just amazing.

http://bsky.app/profile/jonlanenhl.bsky.social/post/3loorazfecc2p I have no idea how to make these things work but.. per johnlanenhl on blusky "Duke Lesnar, a 14-year-old forward eligible for the 2029 NHL Draft, was selected by Medicine Hat (WHL) after he had 28 points (13 goals, 15 assists) in 30 games for Notre Dame in the CSSHL U15. His father is pro wrestler Brock Lesnar. His mother, Rena, was Sable in WWE in the late 1990s and 2003."

It definitely shows, what with groups like The Oddities and all. Not that I would bestow this task upon my greatest enemy, nor that it may even be feasible, but it would probably be interesting to see how many plotlines/dialogue were lifted directly from 'Jerry Springer'. Given the perceived (or deserved) low-brow nature of both outlets, I can't imagine either side would be terribly concerned with the lifting of content or willing (Able?) to pursue it in court. You know, I should really read that Nitro book...

Ah Russo finally gets to the zenith of daytime talk tv (which he is clearly obsessed with, how many hours of Jerry Springer must've have watched!), the Maury paternity test! As an aside, I found someone on YouTube who has uploaded nearly every episode of The Soup from 2007-2009 and it is STAGGERING just how much bottom-of-the-barrel reality tv there was (Cheaters, Stag Party, Tool Academy, Operation Repo (the latter of which I will cop to being a fan of for a bit!)). And I just wonder how much awful reality tv Russo must have cribbed from around this period of he was still booking (or was he still with TNA?!).

(Yes I am just now getting caught up in This thread) This made me laugh really hard -the light part- and kind of encapsulates late-era WCW

Every time I stumble across WWE LFG it's the most bizarre thing WWE has on the air. The Legends (Undertaker, Bubba Ray, Booker T, Mickie James) are always pissed off about some way the prospective wrestlers have screwed up or disrespected their opponents, or disrespected pro wrestling, or disrespecting the legends. But it's hilarious because the Legends and the announce team both talk about them "performing" ("You had three extra minutes, you should have used that to try and impress us and the audience rather than just padding it out"), take them to task for not being professional, but also seem to suggest that the matches are on the up-and-up ("He should have gone for the pinfall there!"). I'll admit I seldom last more than 5 minutes on this show.

It will never die!

I always liked when they played 'Disarm' at the MTV Awards when it was really popular, but turned it into a scream-y, feedback-y 2:30 mess then swung his guitar at the microphone and seemed to trip over the chord on the way offstage, rendering it a lot less cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPPciGdvPY It was a funny middle finger to MTV (Whom likely pressured them to play it) but not as good as Nirvana wanting to play 'Rape Me' on the awards and being told not to and the supposed panic in the production room when they played the opening bars to it, before playing the agreed-upon 'Heartshaped Box'

They should actually bring Bischoff out (The heat would be NUCLEAR) then have someone popular (Hook, Toni, Swerve, Darby) run him out of the arena. It would be a great moment and I'm sure Bischoff would do it for any amount of money.

I really wanted to watch tonight, but either (Canadian) USA didn't air it or my DVR didn't record it. Either way, I don't get to see it.

There used to be a wrestler with a local fed whom, when they toured through here, rolled out of the ring and threw up on the floor. And I posted on their messsageboards about how impressed I was that he was able to work through it and one of the regulars (We only saw them every 4-5 months or so) of the fed was like "Uh, don't be impressed, he does this almost every match." So I guess the guy just liked to party and to wrestle.

"Where's my ice cream van?! What are you talking about?"

I THINK they showed Swerve once more looking angry before the final thing and mentioned. EDIT*: Jay White was beaten up offscreen as cover for his real injury. So it never happened but it did. But no they never showed it. EDIT*8: I don't think so. The Gunns got hurt, came back as faces with no mention of the rest of the group, then disappeared again.

Reminds me of there being an 'Old Town Road' in Sicamous, BC and fans of the song kept stealing the sign, so in a move with unusual foresight for a small town, they just started selling 'Old Town Road' signs and apparently made a lot of money. Which also reminds me of when the 'Weed Man' yard maitenance company first opened back when I was working in a fast food place and the guy came in to eat and had this exchange: Clerk: So you're the Weed Man, huh? Weed Man: Yeah, haha, I guess so. Clerk: The WEED Mannnnnnnn! WM: Uh yup. Clerk: [nodding] The WEED MAN!! WM: Uh huh. Oh. Ohhhh....that's why people keep stealing our signs.

I LIKE that coat (well I did until you explained it to me)! I was hoping it would be explained as being notes with the names of his victims on it, sealed in blood. I was not hoping it would be some board game stuff!

I'm pretty over the whole Death Riders deal, but ONE thing it absolutely deserves credit for is improving the character and presentation of Claudio by a million percent. The ominous opera entrance music, the ring jacket, the no-frills tights and ABSOLUTELY the German (?) promos; everything about him has been improved immeasurably. Now I think he needs to win some matches (Him being the constantly-defeated gatekeeper from Mox is the only thing hurting his aura). As much as I'm cool on the Death Riders, I wouldn't be upset is if Mox ever loses the title, for Claudio to take over the leadership of the group, surrounding himself with a few more like-minded (European?) followers.