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It would be admirable of any actor if they could pull off the way he would move and bump around. That just makes me think in general how actors could study matches and see how far they go in mimicking the trademarks.

Tom Petty said something kind of profound in Rosanna Arquette's documentary about the music business, about rock and roll being like pro wrestling, that it's fake and the fans know it but don't care anyway. It's made me wonder all this time whether or not he was a fan himself growing up in Florida.

Figuring out body parts like the carotid artery and the ACL.

Really has no bearing on the question, but I think he's a good conversationalist but a terrible interviewer. I listen to his podcast because I enjoy hearing him talk with other wrestlers and people in that world, but when he steps out of it he often comes off like he knows more than he actually does. And in most of the stuff with musicians he does he's good at it enough because he either knows them personally or is a genuine fan. But when he interviewed Stewart Copeland for example, his knowledge of anything outside of the hard rock/metal world (or Beatles trivia) is pretty apparent. I don't like that he defended Bill DeMott. I can't say I have the inside track on what went on but when so many people say one thing against somebody, I tend to believe it.

https://streamable.com/19jq Re-posting it, but I found this on reddit and found it really funny.

Found this on reddit

DDP in The Devil's Rejects. I don't remember much except that he had a tremendous rapport with Danny Trejo.

Tom Hardy would make a perfect Roddy Piper.

Hogan had a few spots on WWF TV beforehand, partnering up with Bob Backlund against the Samoans, and hyping the MSG match. Nothing as defining as that MSG match. The card itself is also notable for (I think) being Piper and Orndorff's debut. They, especially Piper, were as defining to the early success of Hogan as anything else was. So it was a special show.

Andre and Haku also had a match with Hogan and Bossman in Chicago, just a couple days before WM. I wonder if they teased the Hogan/Andre thing at all.

You're absolutely right. The Clash events were big in my house growing up because our PPV company did not carry their broadcasts, and wouldn't do so regularly until 1996 or 97. I think even until their last CotC, the show still had a purpose as long as they only did as few a year as they did by then.

Putting a top on it and getting them out the door would make more sense.

This is as probably as good a place to say it but I've never had a problem with how the WWF approached cage matches, with regards to escaping as a way to win.

I think with Thunder coming on TBS, continuing the event would have been overkill (as if the show itself wasn't overkill).

Bret and Owen's reconciliation. DDP giving the Diamond Cutter to Hall and Nash. The Andre memorial segment.

I kind of feel that it's an unwritten rule that the exceptional talent that retires (or in Eddie Guerrero's case, dies) they get in the HOF the next year.

Would have been better if they just had guys from both teams come in at the same time.

Plus it might be too soon anyway, and who knows what'll happen with him in the next year with regards to his relationship to the company. And maybe they'll keep him onscreen somehow. Lots of variables to consider.

Starting to add a lot of ECW Hardcore TV today.

So...Daniel Bryan? Or will they wait until next year?

My problem with the War Games match is the coin flip. It pretty much guarantees that the face team wins every time.

Just starting on the Simmons one. I guess he's got ones with Jimmy Hart and Booker T. coming up. I have a Sony Blu-ray player and for some reason the Network is not working for me on it.

There was a heel Jake/heel Randy match from a SNME in '86.