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Haha, that's amazing! Also, somehow the original is dirtier-sounding, like you could get chlamydia from listening to it.

As a kid I could NOT figure out the Roddy Piper song, I liked it but could not figure out how the chorus of "For everybody" made any sense (I DID figure out that "kiss my trash" was a cover for "Kiss my ass" even when I was 11 or so) but the chorus completely baffled me "For everybody? Does he mean that the song is for everybody? Is he saying he's standing up for everybody? So whey does it sound like an insult" and it wasn't until many, many, many years later that someone on here hipped me to the original version.i' Since just about everything on there is a cover song/reinterpretation, I've often wondered the same for 'Grab Them Cakes' because it seems way more, uh, adult (?!) for this album ("Once you get started then it's hard to stop you just go for your partner's you-know-what") than anything else, but I never found one.

As with the Hulk song being a recycled Bonnie Tyler song, the Piper song being a remade song, this is ALSO a remake, of sorts, of an insane NRBQ song about Captain Lou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyjAqBy4keM

So many Cero Miedo taunts in that third one!

I HATE these types of things (WWE does it all the time, too) where we're supposed to act like these guys don't speak/text/talk outside of a wrestling show setting! So MYP invites MJF into the HS and they don't immediately contact him and go "Uh...no!" but rather wait an entire week for the next wrestling show before coming out and going "Actually we don't want him!" So these guys were just COMPLETELY out of contact with each other for a whole week?! I think my favourite thing of the night was when Blake Christian stuck his hand down his tights, then licked his finger and Tazz goes "Uh, that was kinda gross actually. It was really disgusting." and just seemed SO put off by it. So, do I have this straight? Aussie Open go on hiatus because Mark Davis is injured. Davis comes back and goes after Kyle Fletcher, verbally trashing him then teaming up with the Callis Family's enemies. Callis acquires (?!) Davis' contract and Davis is his reluctant heater. Davis is a less-reluctant heater. Davis completely forgives Fletcher and helps him. Is that it? The Joe/Hook/Wrestler group is really fun, really natural and entertaining together AND have a terrible name and terrible entrance music. Also they should be doing SOMETHING?! Going after Mox, going after Hurt Syndicate, going after Learning Tree.

I remember when I was a kid seeing WM V and Martel walking out on Santana and it was SUCH a big deal. And as I was playing catch-up (I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling until I was about 10 so, this being pre-internet, the only way to catch up on what I had missed was to rent the videos the video stores had available and try to piece it all together), I thought Strike Force must have been this long-running, super-succesful team. But I was surprised to find years later that they teamed for less than two years, with Martel taking 6 months off during that less than two year run!

That story Jericho told in his book about how they told him to work her like any other opponent and he caught her with a shot and asked how she was and she said fine, then immediately went to Triple H to complain about it leading to a meeting with Vince culminating in Vince shouting something along the lines of "How could you? She's a WOMAN!" read like some bizarro episode of The Office. It's actually amazing Jericho came out of WWE as well as he did when you read all the stuff that went on that first half a year or so, from DX doing a promo where they pointed at a homeless guy and said he was "probably a better worker than Jericho" on TV even though they weren't in any sort of feud at the time to Vince comparing Jericho's wrestling to that of King Kong Bundy (Bundy's stuff looked like shit and really hurt).

There were at least two clotheslines where Dralistico bumped before Hobbs hit him and he missed one of his own kicks by about two feet. Also that sequence where Harleygram gyrated while Mortos stood there with his hands on his head was reminiscent of WWE Attitude-era shenanigans.

Every time I see (saw?) the latter, I always thought of that one promo I saw for a local radio station promoting a house show, clearly written by someone who had no wrestling knowledge who had him listed as "Seth 'Franklin' Rollins". "So his name is Seth Rollins, but his nickname is "Franklin"?" "I guess, print it."

Recently I've watched the first 8-9 Royal Rumbles and now I'm watching the first Nitro and a question struck me: Who is a better wrestling play-by-play guy: Eric Bschoff or Vince McMahon? Bischoff is dreadful as a play-by-play guy, yelling as loud as he can to try to get over how close a fall is but seemingly unable to call almost any move by name unless it's martial arts-based. But he might be better than Vince whose over-reliance on "1...2...it's over...no it isn't" or "1...2...and he wins it...no he doesn't" is pretty much the worst thing ever. Now when they both become wrestler characters, Vince leaves Bischoff in the dust as evil owner vs evil president. But straight play-by-play, I MIGHT lean Bischoff.

Last week when Yuta nailed her with the knee and the crowd all reacted with a somber "Ohhhhh" and Copeland stared on, slightly upset, and White pointed and laughed like Nelson Muntz, and I thought it was a great touch.

It's too hard to go back and like all the posts, but I have to say I greatly enjoyed the back-and-forth about the multitudes of Damien Steeles and Justin Sanes. I wonder what the most common indy name actually is?! At the opposite end, there was a guy who worked up here in BC named Count Baron Von Hugenstein and I have to say I doubt that unique combination of names is unlikely to be repeated. Maybe Count Von Hugenstein? Maybe Baron Von Hugenstein? But put them both together? Unlikely, I say!

Am I crazy or did the ring announcer also say "To face Tiffany Stratton or Iyo Sky" before the chamber. I spent 5 minutes looking it up because I thought I'd missed a title change.

I remember at the time being mesmerised by how many outlets (magazines,TV shows, fans, even Beyond the Mat IIRC) could not figure out the name and frequently listed him as "Justin Incredible". Legacy of being a wrestling fan, now suspecting that parent who names their kid "Justin" is doing it secretly as a joke when combined with their last name..."Hmm, that goalie is named Justen Close..."Just in close"? That kind of makes sense..."

Yeah that is kinda U G L Y I mean I know Santana had to consent to it but it just feel like real bad taste.

Boy, his post-wrestling career goes from "That's nice!" to "That's bad! to "That's sad." in a real hurry. "After leaving wrestling, Droese earned a master's degree from the University of Miami.[15] He began working as a special education teacher at Centertown Elementary School in McMinnville, Tennessee[1] where he has also been a strength coach.[15] On September 13, 2013, Droese was indicted for three counts of delivery of a controlled substance, having sold oxycodone and buprenorphine to an undercover police informant in July 2013.[1] He was given a three-year sentence, with 30 days to be served in prison, and fined $2,000. He since resigned from his teaching position.[16] Droese's left foot was amputated due to a staphylococcal infection.[17]"

It's kinda fascinating how the Royal Rumble rules change from year-to-year. In 1989, Andre the Giant climbs over the ropes and out, eliminating himself, to get away from Jake the Snake's snake. In 1992 (I believe), Randy Savage is so consumed with beating up Jake the Snake, he dives over the ropes onto Roberts and beats him up, only for him to be ruled back in the match because he wasn't "propelled over" by an opponent. In the 1993 Royal Rumble, Giant Gonzales comes out and destroys the Undertaker, eliminating him despite not being in the match. In 1996, after being eliminated Vader comes back in and throws Shawn Michaels, Triple H and someone else out, but because Vader was no longer in the match, the eliminations don't count! Also, has Vince McMahon ever loved anyone as much as loved 96-97 Shawn Michaels?!

Has anyone watched LFG? I honestly didn't even know it was a thing til I saw it on my TV guide. It kinda seems like early NXT with all sorts of things about respecting the vets (They hype a future episode where a woman comes up to Undertaker and asks if she can use the Hellsgate submission and he goes "You've been in this business for two minutes and you ask to use my move?!") and that weird mixed-kayfabe vibe where they're trying to pass it off as Ultimate Fighter while also sort of acknowledging that it's fake. I did not stick with it.

During the 95 Rumble Lawler was talking about how smart HBK is and "Who could be smarter than him?" and Vince said "Duke the Dumpster Droese?" and Lawler went "What?!" And I can't figure out if Vince was trying to slyly slam HBK (Unlikely, since he is in love with him) or if he was trying to insinuate another aspect of the Dumpster character being some sort of secret genius.

I'm just shortly into 1996 and I don't know if anything is going to top during Goldust's entrance to face Razor Ramon (If you'd forgotten, Goldust repeatedly hit on Razor with gifs of flowers (And, amazingly, a centerfold of himself!) and Vince McMahon says "And you've got to wonder what Razor Ramon is thinking seeing this!" to which Mr Perfect responds[in a bad Razor imitation] "Let's ooze it together, chico!" and a very annoyed-sounding Vince going "That's not what he's saying at all!"

I'm watching the 1995 Royal Rumble and...woof...what a dreadful Rumble it is. There are maybe 3 genuine stars in the match with a chance to wing (Shawn Michaels, Lex Luger and, being genrous, British Bulldog(, a handful of upper/mid-carders that have no chance (Bret Hart attacks both Owen Hart and Bob Backlund prior to their entries so they're both quick outs), SO many tag teams (Headshrinkers, MOM, Well Dunn, Smoking Gunns, Bushwackers, Blu Brothers) and a big pile of jobbers (Mantaur, Aldo Montoya, Duke Droese, Kwang, Dick Murdoch (I mean he's 49 at this point and actually only lived another year!). The two big guys who are "favorites" (King Kong Bundy and Mabel) both go out rather easy. Even though there are piles of tag teams, they rarely end up in the ring together so there's no storylines there. There's a distinct lack of star power with Hart, Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, Razor Ramon, and Undertaker all involved with matches and not in the Rumble. The camera doesn't seem to be close to the entrance, so they are constantly missing who's coming out so you hear ad nauseum "Who is it?" "It's...uh" [low groan from the audience] "It's Timothy Well!". So really, aside from Pamela Anderson at ringside, there's really no intriguing story save Michaels and Bulldog going from 1/2 to the end. It's actually shockingly dreadful. It might be worse than the 1988 Rumble which was just kind of a house show attraction.I mean, Crush and Henry Godwinn are in the Final 5!

Man...I watched this whole show (That's a lie...I have no idea what happened in the Death Riders match, got completely distracted after Edge jumped off the balcony-ish and then looked up and saw it was over) and I never ONCE noticed that the ring was smaller than usual.

I believe this was the talking point about the NXT women/horsewomen. In particular, I remember a lot of "Sasha Banks/Charlotte Flair won't be able to have good matches on the main roster when they aren't able to rehearse their matches for weeks at a time". And it was wrong, and it's still pretty much wrong.

That song is still amazing. So I read this as as "Tony came out dressed in a DIAPER" and went "No, I don't know wanna know where this is going".

Picturing Mojo Rawley sprinting into an office in a suit (probably with the sleeves torn off) and racing around the room screaming "Stay hype!"