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That has remained my favorite take of the election on Twitter so far.

(paraphrasing) Bill Watts: ...this was around the time JFK was killed and the territory just went into the toilet (actual response) RF: What year was that?

I seem to recall hearing there was actual racial tension between the two men, that smoothed over as time went on. Slick inducted Boss Man into the HOF which I imagine would be a testament to that.

I watched this for the first time several months ago. Something that gets a little lost in the history of this, is that this is the last big match Vince called before becoming leaving the booth and becoming an on-screen character. It's a very interesting transition in that we see him call a match that would become an Attitude Era (and beyond) staple, that would introduce a character that would be pretty integral to the company for 2 decades.

I liked it too. During the Monday Night Wars I really grew to hate him, and thought the whole Taker-Kane feud was over the top WWF silliness but looking back I can recognize how brilliant some of it was.

This is probably the first time I ever heard Petty's music. I was 9 years old and music wasn't that big a deal to me (that would come more when I was 13). In all probability I'm sure I heard stuff of his on the radio before that but I never really took notice. I saw him in a documentary a decade later or so and he said rock and roll was becoming like pro wrestling. He said something to the effect of "the fans know it's fake but they love it anyway". That had more wisdom about both that made me admire him all the more.

I have to think that with Netflix as the primary distributor, and not the WWE Network, there will be some more emphasis on hitting him with harder questions. I don't expect it to be any sort of old-school Mike Wallace "gotcha" type journalism, and those subjects will surely just be grazed upon with little or no substance towards him about it. At the bare minimum, I think it could just be entertaining to watch if they get anything good out of him. He was fascinating in his relative candor in the Andre doc, which Simmons helped produce.

Trying to think who'd be comparable to Denzel, and it's either Bret or Shawn but I'm leaning more towards Bret. Bret made his name as a technician and not so much a flashy persona, but became WWF champion. Denzel did serious theater and television, won two Oscars, but credibly headlined several movies by the producer perhaps most like Vince McMahon, Jerry Bruckheimer. Comparable egos, and I would not doubt it if Denzel ever thought to himself that he was the best there, is the best there was and the best there ever will be. And he'd probably be right.

Raven's got a lot of mileage out of that one.

Just watched the Road Warriors episode. I heard Ellering tell the story about driving the van to the funeral on a shoot before but the way it's illustrated here, and the memory of Hawk's funeral did bring a tear to my eye. Joe Laurinitis' recent passing brought a whole new perspective to it obviously, but seeing how some of these guys are now is sad. Especially Droz, jesus.

Me and my brother went as them for Halloween when I was 9-10 years old. Face paint and boxes spray-painted red. Can't remember if we did the spikes, as alas, no pictures. I was Animal.

An episode on Eddie Graham would be good.

Meltzer just reported on Twitter that Stephanie sold 43% of her WWE stock yesterday

A Nash podcast, regardless of content (or whether or not everything he says is of a factual nature), would be great. Him and Conrad could have good chemistry. If they brought on Hall or Waltman once in awhile would be cool too.

That's kind of his style on his podcast too

The book written by Piper's kids is way better.

https://cultaholic.com/posts/the-rock-and-redbird-capital-buy-the-xfl?fbclid=IwAR30clk8MNKEjxvgkroQdV7fyTOWz3DEPsSSz9XmJnFUGYU_GoOlj4YhUqY

"my lunchboxes gotta sell too" Piper on not jobbing to Hogan

Some of the English reviews on Letterboxd for it were pretty funny. One compared MJ to Alan Partridge.

Wonder what Vince made of it, if it was even brought to his attention.

Bret talked about it in his book and said him and Hogan were prepared to come down and back Tenta up

The last episode dropped today