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There’s one at the end of the MSG Raw on the same night as Austin stunning Vince, and the Cactus Jack debut.

Now that I’m thinking about it; does AEW even own security cam footage from an overseas arena? I would assume there is no viable DMCA claim unless Wembley Stadium’’s operators sold them the footage.

Your Hogan mention made me realize how much I wanted him to show up during the cameos in the main event, just to get Solo Spiked in the throat and then do a Jimmy Valiant-esque writhing, leg-kicking, spasmodic sell job.

If this was Vince, he'd give us 2 months of Cody vs. Omos, and then Sheamus.

Breadsticks instead of kendo sticks?

I’ll have to rewatch it to be sure, but I feel that there was something very unique about the audience reaction when Cody beat Roman. There was the standard 1-2-3 crowd count-along, but the subsequent pop after that was 10x the reaction, like a good portion just wouldn’t believe it until it happened, and then everyone exploded into a sheer combination of relief that this story was over and they could see something else starting tomorrow, genuine happiness for Cody, and a joyful feeling that Vince is truly gone.

My favorite type of heel comeuppance is when it’s due to their hubris - Drew just wouldn’t leave and wouldn’t leave; when he squatted onto the announcer table, I almost thought he was going to pantomime taking a giant dump onto it. And then he went just a little too far, and that was it. Drew and Punk’s interactions have been terrific for months, and tonight was no exception. They obviously enjoy working with each other.

Indeed - the December 1996 PPV was held in the former West Palm Beach Auditorium (capacity 6,000), the site of where I watched Ric Flair bleed a gusher at a random CWF house show in 1985.

I'm not entirely sure why Philadelphia keeps catching backhands in this thread, but: the Wrestlemania crowd is from everywhere, and not made of 70,000 local denizens there's only a few of us on the board formerly/currently from there, and we already hate ourselves more than anyone else could

Rock being presented with a "People's Champion" belt gives me the dreadful suspicion that they think Cody can afford to lose on Sunday, and then instead win this "title" from Rock later on this year.

All of this pension talk makes me realize what a unicorn I am in the modern age, having being employed at two private-sector companies (including my current one) that offered a pension plan. I say "offered", because both ended enrollment in the plan to new employees and just kept the legacy folks in there. And my current employer is as solid as they go - a private monopoly that can never be leveraged/sold/merged. I look at the projected "if you stay here until 65, your benefit is:" page on the pension site every month like an obsessive recluse. At my advanced age, I just need to grimly hold onto my current job for another dozen years, and take the lump sum distribution. I'll be one of those jerks from my grandparents' generation - not well-off, but with plenty of non-perishable goods in the bomb shelter.

The frère birds?

Absolutely should be on a crusher/explosive powerhouse - put it on Bron.

"Old Man Yells at Cloud" rant from me: I don't get/like recent fashion changes over the past couple of years. Short and boxy cuts on tops that make people look like they're wearing a tarp; floods-like cuff hems on pants; loud patterns on shirts; dumpy sweatshirts/sweaters; haircuts that look like they were self-administered with a butter knife; wispy mustaches. Everyone looks like shit.

That has to be it for Nia’s story arc for now, right? Surely she’s not going to just show up next week and deck Becky from behind on the entrance ramp yet again for the umpteenth time….

Well, Ole will certainly not move now...

If it wasn’t for Mike Tenay’s helpful Nitro segments on lucha, I’d never have figured out that “rudo” meant “rude” and “technico” meant “technical”.

It is weird. It's not like he didn't have an impactful career, and he main-evented the very next year! I also forgot to include Matt Borne in the list of participants not inducted.

Now that Rotundo and Ali are getting in, the only people left from Wrestlemania I not already in the HoF are: King Kong Bundy David Sammartino Cyndi Lauper Leilani Kai Billy Martin Matt Borne

The simplest way to Seth going heel is a combo of him being weakened/injured from the tag match leading to him losing his title to Drew, and then the reveal that Rock was secretly working from the inside all along; that leads straight to the inevitable “Cody, why didn’t you tell me / I had to keep things a secret / I lost everything thanks to you” heel turn and post-WM feud for those two.

How did Tenta never get booked in ECW? I would have loved seeing the Earthquake Splash off the apron and through a table.

I wish somehow the Hall of Fame was like a combination of the Cagematch database and a video game, where every gimmick/character in a wrestler's career is inducted at the same time, and if they were in a tag team, their half of the graphic has their photo and name, while the corresponding partner is just a silhouette until they get in, whereupon the tag team unlocks and is automatically also inducted.

L is Roman numeral for 50, meaning they’re going to drag this out for another ten years?

He’ll sled down using the frozen “Green Boots” guy as his vehicle, like Homer Simpson did with C.W. McAllister.

Yes and yes? He and Dusty planned the 1979 face turn to set up the heel turn a year later; he was booking in Georgia in 1983, Dusty booked the ‘85 and ‘87 ones, and 1990 was just part of Flair wanting to be a heel.