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Yeah, a roster-related protest would have to involve everyone to be effective/avoid retaliation. For example (and this would never happen), the women's Rumble contestants all go to the ring at their appointed time slots, only no one gets eliminated when they were supposed to, and once all 30 are in the ring they all simultaneously exit over the top rope and the match ends with an empty ring.

There’s also Backlund vs. Bockwinkel in 1979 in Toronto; no footage of that either, to my knowledge. I must be the only person who likes the Backlund vs. Race match in MSG (and Cagematch says they also did title vs. title twice in 1978 and once more in 1980), though I think their match in 1976 from St. Louis for the Missouri title is much better (though maybe because it’s in clipped/highlight form):

When someone earlier on suggested he come in in place of Bad News Brown’s slot, I interpreted it instead as taking the gimmick. “Good-ish News Brody” equivocating on the mic before calling the audience a bunch of beer-bellied sharecroppers would have been GOLD.

I wonder if the security camera feed kept zooming in and cutting to different cameras as he was escorted out…

And she gives out Darwin Awards to the stupidest babyface each week. I suppose she’d have to steal the Natural Selection finisher name from Charlotte.

These are in fact enacted for 2024, not just proposed.

This reminded me of Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, boasting of how well the Marines trained Charles Whitman and Lee Harvey Oswald….

I'd love to see Punk do an apathy storyline and refuse to challenge Roman because "there's no point - someone will just interfere to help him win. Why bother?"

He also had the rare achievement of being a player-owner! Played for the Phillies, owned the Mets. /rimshot

I don’t think that Chase Utley gets voted in immediately, but I think he will get there within a few years.

The Sicilians vs. Sweet Daddy Siki and Art Thomas, Chicago, 1961.

Demon no-sold Laverne's finisher, the Vo-Dee-Oh-Doh.

I'll always have a soft spot for Ross doing this ad for All-Star Game voting in 2016 where he uses a rotary phone: https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2016/06/09/791336283/1465444256242/asset_1800K.mp4

In the Vlad doc, do they show the clip of him in the audience at the Flair/Sting title change at the Meadowlands in 1991?

Or the heel could go in the other direction and just go for endless pin attempts after each move, while shouting that analytics tells him that forcing his opponent to kick out reduces their stamina by .75% each time.

I'm rooting for the D-backs as well, even though they just dispatched the Phillies. I also hold the Rangers organization in personal and professional contempt and disdain.

and three days later, he and Windham debuted in the WWF.

This, too, shall eventually be a thing of the past.

We went very quickly from both LCS looking like sweeps to both needing seven games. Baseball is funny like that. NLCS Game 7 tonight is a coin toss - there's no picking a sure winner. You hit or you don't; you throw strikes or you don't; your bullpen collapse is simultaneously the other team's "these guys never quit" heartwarming comeback. It's all random and all relative. I've seen the Phillies hit 11 dingers this postseason in person, and felt the stadium shake. I adore my ragtag millionaires Philadelphian ball club, and I have my World Series tickets for Game 3; the only question left is whether I'll be using them on Monday, or if I'll be receiving a refund of said purchase instead.

I have a soft spot for Moyer; it’s impressive to pitch that well across four different decades. I wish there was a Curiosities wing at the Hall of Fame for outliers like him and John.

"CRUSH - BACKBREAKER!"

There's tattoos, and then there's that one guy:

Last night's game in Philadelphia was worth every penny that I paid, and then some. And I'm glad that I wear earplugs, because the noise app on my watch registered 108 dB.

I’m glad that the catcher interference run turned out to be irrelevant to the outcome; this was a huge victory for the Phillies. And holy shit, Arizona just curbstomped Kershaw out of the game in 0.1 innings with 6 runs.

I can’t really put into words how fun it was to rent a Betamax of “Best of the WWF Vol. 1/2/3/etc.” and hear the opening music kick in: