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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76_AbXh_VCQ

Shawn Michaels = Leo Di Caprio. Pretty boy who got respectable with age.

AVC: Here’s a question you probably don’t get asked much: What do you remember about your match against The Ultimate Warrior? PC: [Laughs.] Oh, yeah, well, I remember that very well. He just died recently, didn’t he? AVC: Not too long ago, yes. PC: [sadly.] Yeah. Well, [my son] Simon was very happy to meet him. It’s funny, just thinking about it now, Simon was 12 or 13 when “Two Hearts” came out, or something like that. You can work that out, thinking of the dates. But he was very keen to meet The Ultimate Warrior. He was very into wrestling. And my other two sons Nicholas and Matthew went through that phase, too. We went to see the wrestlers in Geneva when they came through. We saw them a couple of times, and we got to know some of them very well. They’ve grown out of it now, though, so I don’t go around watching scantily-clad men so much anymore. [Laughs.] AVC: Well, the clip of you and the Warrior continues to float around YouTube. You put up a hell of a fight. PC: Yeah, and he was a good guy. But it hurt. [Laughs.] Those ropes, they hurt if you’re thrown against them. I mean, you’ve have to be pretty tough to do that stuff. It was a surprise just how much they hurt. Source

It's great that they've left those F-bombs intact, particularly Bobby Heenan's. When he's poking at Andre at WrestleMania VI and spits "I'm the fucking boss" is a great moment, and shows you how deep in character he got.

Was he sympathetic towards Nash?

Hate to be that guy, but it's funny that if you watch only WWE it seems everything is wrestling BUT wrestling.

Sheamus appears on a commentary track for the Blu-ray release of the 2nd season of Rick & Morty

"Dangerous" Danny Davis=Fred Ward

I'll go back to what I said in another thread, that they should have put Slaughter on ice for awhile after WrestleMania. The war was over so they really didn't have to milk it anymore.

I didn't mean to infer by posting it that it wasn't true, but just to add to the discussion. And I actually believe if it's the same guy, he possibly worked for Vince before coming to work for Turner/Time Warner as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_tq0nhgjC4 Somewhere in this it's inferred that Vince had someone on the inside of Time Warner sabotage the potential sale of WCW to a new group that could have rejuvenated the brand.

First show I ever watched was the first SNME on Fox. WrestleMania VIII was in Indianapolis and I remember there was some state-wide buzz about it. My brother was already a fan, so my curiosity was doubly piqued. We got the PPV in lieu of actually going, which I don't remember it occurring us to ask to go but I'm glad we didn't. Not that the show wasn't bad but we were 7 and 8 and probably wouldn't have stood to be too patient with watching it like that.

Were the Von Erich sons good heels? I just can't imagine Kerry delivering that type of promo.

My initial impression of Dillon as a manager was that he was a poor man's Heenan. They could have brought him in to take over Jack Tunney's role on-screen later on, instead of Gorilla Monsoon (who was okay in that role admittedly). One thing I would have done is to have taken Slaughter off TV for awhile after WM, have him come back months later and make a dramatic save and turn good again. That would have been the best way to turn him, instead of how they went about it.

Jimmy Hart managed Flair a few times in WCW, it was a terrible fit. I could see it working if he managed Flair coming in to Memphis the few times he did. They kind of did that with him and The Undertaker, from about the time before Survivor Series until the SNME tag match with them/Hogan & Sid. How they had The Undertaker implicated in the Hogan/Flair feud, as well as being a part of the Savage/Roberts angle was interesting. One thing I'd definitely change, is to align Hogan and Savage together during this period in lieu of Warrior not being there. I think if Warrior was more of a team player during this time, he could have been the one in Sid's place during the whole time Savage was relegated to broadcast duty. Putting them together and tying in the new Savage angle with the already established program between Warrior and Jake/Undertaker, could have made for some interesting segments where they have this uneasy partnership because of their own history. Basically, it's what they did in 1992 anyway with the brief Ultimate Maniacs run.

Sports Illustrated on the upcoming ESPN 30 for 30 special on him. Really looking forward to this one, sad as I suspect some of it will be.

He missed the Rumble due to a leg injury.

I only learned recently that his last match was just like a month before he died. I'm amazed that he worked at all those final years.

My memory is that the IWC was going nuts for his coming to WCW. It petered out so quickly it was kind of amazing. I remember seeing him chase Hulk's nephew who of course had a job WCW by then, and thinking "we're not going to see him again". I remember hearing that Russo wanted to bring him back, turn him heel and have him feud with Goldberg.