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Old Man Graham in the monk's robe, locking on the full nelson as he shouts "IT WAS ME, MY MAN!"

It was before he got into serious donut-based training:

Fabs also did that as faces during their Florida run vs. the Sheepherders.

Combined service, correct.

That pass is a fine thing to earn. I have many years left before I get one. To me, it’s a unique badge of service; something that ties together lifers who can hang in there - it’s not easy to last 25 years in one industry these days!

I say we bring back purpose-built, temporary stadiums made out of lumber that can hold 90,000-100,000 people!

That conjured up Ace Rothstein’s ending soliloquy in Casino:

It's starting to seem like a little group of individual-wrestler tour buses rolling around, and then one "and the rest!" bus with the undercard folks in steerage class.

Bobby Eaton had a great top rope elbow drop; it just got overshadowed by his knee drop and leg drop, is all.

I’d award partial credit to Hogan’s second run (364 days) and Diesel’s (358 days), since they both essentially run from one year’s PPV to the same event the following year (Diesel winning at a house show notwithstanding).

That’s the hook that gets Austin to attend; now he’s available to Stunner the Rock as a bonus.

They take turns with the radio broadcast here:

I don’t know; I think the general idea would have been for Flair to have been Vince’s endorsed “corporate champion” to feud with Austin in that late summer/early fall time period. Even better would have been if he had made peace with Savage for a feud with Austin. Or better still, an entire wave one after the other of earlier-era WWF guys coming back in a panicked Vince attempt to vanquish Austin.

I hope so, too, though there is at least a fan cam recording of Vader winning it back:

Aw, Big George. I loved watching so many of his comeback fights, and was in the audience for one of his Letterman appearances (neither of the above ones posted) in 1997 where he and Letterman ate a pre-packaged meatloaf (a licensed product Foreman was selling) together, both falling quiet as they just sat there and chewed.

That Old Comiskey shower still exists, too - they moved it to the outfield concourse of the current ballpark when it opened.

One breeze, and that cocoa powder is going to make the fans in home jerseys look like they've sharted themselves.

I think it's pretty much "the booking committee" (initially headed by Flair but with several others involved) until like March 1990, then it's Ole for the majority of the year until December; a temporary booking committee takes over for a month or two until Dusty comes back in late January 1991.

? New Era is still MLB’s cap maker…

“BAAAAAAAACK BODY DROP!”

I'm assuming they'd do a non-promo promo tonight, where Cena just soaks in the boos silently and then leaves, ala Eddie Guerrero in 2005 after he turned against Rey.

I urge everyone powerbombing poor old Faulkner out of his dress shoes to give his short story “A Rose for Emily” a try.

If this leads to a sideplot involving Uncle Moe’s Family Feedbag, I’m in.

I’m currently on a vacation in Thailand; among the weirdest things for sale at the weekend market in Bangkok is this t-shirt of John Cena merged with Chairman Mao: