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The Hart Foundation only happened because Bret didn’t want to be “Cowboy” Bret Hart, correct? In the NWA, that doesn’t happen, and maybe he just stays a single and gets Windham’s original spot with Dusty after Windham jumps in late 1984, instead of Magnum getting it?
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Well, at the very least, 1967 Busch Stadium had a deeper right-center (386 ft.) and right field (330 ft.) vs. 1966 Yankee Stadium’s equivalents (367 & 296). That’ll give someone with “power but not awesome power” more deep flyouts.
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On 11/29/2019 at 3:29 PM, sydneybrown said:
Hogan took a ton of countout and DQ losses during his first reign. That's how you'd get a three match series out of them. For example, Savage beat Hogan by countout in MSG twice before Hogan finally pinned him in a lumberjack match. Don Muraco was another one. Kept getting countout wins which would lead to a cage match.
Likewise vs. Big John Studd at MSG, where a debuting Heenan as manager helps Studd win by countout, and the return match stip is that Hogan can lose the belt via countout (match at 43:39; Heenan goads Hogan into rematch at 2:25:38):
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Joe Maddon is the Angels manager.
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Say “The House that Ruth Built has no roof built” five times fast.
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This also will be the first World Series taking place in Washington D.C. since 1933.
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They could tie in Madusa to the Kabuki Warriors by revealing that the green mist is actually old WCW cologne.
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Atlanta hasn’t been beaten this badly since Sherman set it on fire.
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Paul Lucas from Uni-Watch was one of the SI layoffs - he was only hired seven weeks ago, after being laid off from ESPN earlier in the year. I’m a big fan of his work...this sucks completely.
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3 hours ago, elizium said:
If you're talking just ten year stretches, the Yankees went 13 years between 1981 and 1995 (not counting the strike year)
Not to be even more pedantic, but it was 1996.
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9 minutes ago, Infinit said:
Know who should've tried to make a save? Chad Gable. Have him run out and get the upper hand on Brock for a bit before getting laid out. That's what a courageous underdog babyface would've done.
Gable running out, getting grabbed for a German suplex, and then doing a standing switch and launching Lesnar for a suplex would have gotten a huge reaction.
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15 hours ago, clintthecrippler said:
It looked like that they were MAYBE booked for a double-pin to build to Superclash but Madusa either (a) intentionally tried to double-cross Wendi or (b) got worried that Wendi was going to double cross her and she got cold feet.
Either way, just a helluva breakdown. I know the Network presentation is pieced together from the night of the taping and those matches aired across several episodes of AWA TV but I am genuinely curious if this made any of the final air tapes back then.
Not to mention the terrible sequences involving Magnificent Mimi, and the endless post-match mic shouting from Richter and Mimi - just brutal, awful stuff.
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On 9/22/2019 at 12:40 AM, clintthecrippler said:
Jesus, the finishing stretch of the women's tag match on the AWA Road to Superclash III...if that happened in WCW or TNA instead of nearing-the-deathbed AWA it would be an all-time great botched finish.
Medusa looked somewhat frustrated during the match as well.
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Also, by doing the monologue in the acting class scene, Kong is a wrestler who is acting as a wrestler who is acting.
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All of that, along with a Cannell manager who distracts the opponent by flinging a piece of paper into the air, and then smashes him over the head with a typewriter.
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The Twins have already set the MLB single-season team home run record. There’s an entire month of games left to play.
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1 hour ago, CreativeControl said:
Was it just to really put a hot territory on the map and give it another boost?
I think that, and also that Harley was agreeable to doing a belt drop/regain during a tour - besides the two times with Baba (7 and 5 days), he did the same thing with Dusty in Florida in 1979 (5 days), so Rich's 4-day reign doesn't look that bizarre in context. And you get the two bonuses of both legitimizing the local hero as being able to actually win the title, and smaller-town house shows being potential sites for title changes.
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23 hours ago, CreativeControl said:
Flair dropped a bit of a startling fact on his recent appearance on the SCSA podcast: the only touring champions left now are him and the Funks
Tommy Rich would qualify, except he didn’t hold the belt long enough to tour.
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The White Sox had Bill Walton do color commentary for an entire game last night.
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3 hours ago, Matt D said:
That is correct. More accurate would be that it was right before he was done with Crockett.
It's a really good cage match and people should check it out.
Yeah - I was just marveling over the time span (not being snide nor corrective); it’s got to be pretty rare, especially when Piper and Orton vanished fairly quickly in contrast.
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It’s one week before Valentine started on the road with Vince, but *two months after* he started doing WWF TV tapings.
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3 hours ago, J.H. said:
With The Rock's daughter at the PC, and creative giving people stupid names, if they don't call her Pebbles Miavia then they are missing out!
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They’ll call her The Rockette and give her a front kick for a finisher.
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Hell with it - just have Luger wheel out wearing his old shirt with it billowing around like a smock.
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It’s tough being a rookie umpire. Maybe Boone bought him a beer later that evening, like in this old vintage Bud commercial:
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Wrestling What Ifs
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Bad News likely would have refused to go - during a tour in Japan he felt that Dusty was racist and so refused to do a job to him in a tag match.
Other matches in this alternate-history timeline that would be good: Midnight Express vs. Windham/Rotundo, and Rock-n-Roll vs. Adonis/Murdoch.