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Hamhock

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  1. The feud begins in a tag match when Buzz jumps off the top rope, intercepts an in-mid-air Coffin Drop Darby, and turns it into a powerslam.
  2. Kevin/Kerry came into Florida as heels to back up David one time during his heel run there.
  3. My turn to say what many have already eloquently expressed; I would be immeasurably poorer in spirit if I had not encountered Dean on RSPW and then through the decades of DVDVR and this board's many renditions. I've never met him, but he's provided decades of entertainment and joy for so many of us. As a specific shout-out, I was/am a huge fan of Dean's SOUTHERN ALCOHOL COMIX serial from back in the mid-aughts, which then sort of inspired the short-lived run of Throw the World Away - or maybe it was the other way around? (both of these links are from the Internet Archive, and therefore aren't complete). His work in both is fantastic.
  4. When did the wave of "fans singing 'OHHHHHH' to the melody of wrestler's entrance music" begin?
  5. "Trash & Vaudeville" would be a great name for a tag team.
  6. I have a truly terrible idea: I want to see a year-long meta storyline where the roster collectively agrees to stop challenging for the World Title because "there's no point...someone from the Bloodline will just interfere, or interfere again, or if you ban the Bloodline someone new will debut and interfere and join the Bloodline", and Reigns grows rusty and desperate for attention each month as no one wrestles him. In Simpsons terms, Reigns is leader of the Stonecutters, and everyone else just forms a Ancient Mystic Society of No Romans. The US Champion wins The Money in the Bank, and just says, "Nah, we all know how that goes - I'm going for Gunther's IC Title - now there's a fighting champion!" This person or Gunther (now the IC/US dual champion) also becomes the Royal Rumble winner, declines to face Reigns and declares himself the true/uncrowned champion, and "defends" it at Elimination Chamber. Reigns has gone nearly a year without defending the title, and they're going to strip him of it if he doesn't, but no one will agree to challenge him for it. He tries defending it against jobbers on Smackdown, but the Royal Rumble winner just heckles him from the stage, and Reigns agrees to an insane list of stipulations guaranteeing a clean outcome in order to get an opponent to face him at Wrestlemania.
  7. I initially made a joke about Shane McMahon blowing out his knee, but had second thoughts - it’s a lousy thing to have happen like that.
  8. Wouldn't it make more sense for Solo to win via chicanery? Or Cody wins by DQ via run-in/beatdown/obligatory-and-cliched-injured-body-part-can-he-overcome-this-grievious-wound-and-fulfill-his-dustiny
  9. How I’d book it: Dom does some truly-awful thing to make Rey furious Rey finally agrees to fight him Dom then refuses to fight and gets Rey to put his career and mask on the line in order to agree Rey dominates the majority of the match; ref bump; Dom grabs a chair and does the Eddy “smack the mat, toss the chair to your opponent, pretend you’re KO’d” Rey loses his career and mask via DQ to his shitty, terrible son Dom appears the next night on Raw and does the Eddy-style wordless promo where he just holds the mask up as the boos rain down
  10. I assume it’ll be if Rey’s wife gets threatened/attacked; similar to when Flair wouldn’t fight Undertaker until David (and Arn) got attacked.
  11. I always liked that scene at the end of All-Japan TV where Misawa and the gang are sitting around eating a meal and laughing as the credits roll; I can’t find it but I know it exists.
  12. I tried to set an alarm reminder for this, but somehow put myself in a wristlock instead.
  13. My favorite Boyd Pierce non-reaction is when DiBiase turns heel on JYD. The crowd is in shock, JYD lies unconscious in the ring, and the segment ends with Boyd emotionlessly saying, “so Ted DiBiase is the new North American heavyweight champion; that means we’ll have more action, there’ll be standby matches after this commercial message.”
  14. Real-life example from Mayweather/Hatton fight:
  15. Hell yes - "he just knocked Dusty Rhodes out with that 100-pound bag of wheat!" is one of my favorite sneak-attacks.
  16. Yeah, absolutely- all of the post-match stuff worked fine. And it could have just been my initial impression in real-time was skewed. I’m totally fine with Roman retaining/dropping it to Cody - I just think there was a better way to get there last night. Hell, Sammy could have lost clean! Just have him make one little mistake that costs him. Or a tiny amount of chicanery (Sammy gets his foot on the rope; Heyman pushes it off).
  17. There were moments during the multiple ref bumps/interference where the crowd collectively groaned, and the reaction at the finish was sad silence more than booing; regardless of what anyone would prefer storyline-wise, these are things that should be avoided if you don’t want a half-filled building next time. I swear there was a tiny moment right after the pinfall where it even felt like Reigns and Heyman (as people, not their characters) knew that it was a bad booking decision.
  18. For a refresher on all upcoming rules changes, there's this handy page: https://www.mlb.com/rule-changes-2023
  19. I am a huge mark for Jack Dempsey (I read his autobiography when I was 7), and the Bellows painting is one of my favorites, so this was in my wheelhouse.
  20. It is almost certainly the George Bellows painting Dempsey and Firpo.
  21. That’s no cane - that’s Andre the Giant’s femur bone, brother. Andre left it to the Hulkster in his will after his tragic death via bodyslam at Wrestlemania III.
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