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Larry and Tony Schiovane briefly discuss the Shea Stadium match at the first Slamboree during that shows infamous cage match. I saw a thing with Bret more recently giving Rey Mysterio his props, to the point which he said he regretted not working with him in WCW. He seems to have aged out of some his more ignorant views he expressed when he was younger and in his book, thankfully.

I disagree, but don’t think it was meant to be a full time series anyway just something of an interesting side note to stories featured not exactly fitting the format, but essential to understanding the culture of the territory era. And some of the round tables were really good. Watching Jeff and Jerry Jarrett talk together was a touching thing to see.

Matt Damon in Oppenheimer is almost like a super serious Jim Duggan

Not so much an odd pairing but two names I didn’t think I’d see next to each other, Ric Flair and Big John Studd were tag team champs in the Crockett territory for awhile

He wore the suit in a commercial for the action figures

We didn’t get Smackdown, UPN wasn’t on our cable package. I feel so old typing that now lol. So when I first saw John Cena come out in the 2003 Royal Rumble I thought the gimmick was so bad. That show was a roller coaster between the godawful Steiner/Triple H fiasco and the thorough pounding Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit gave each other.

James Gandolfini = Vader. Not sure where I got the brain wave on this but it has more to do with the presence on screen/in ring combined with the eventuality that you’re also watching someone who is just a genius at what he does. I didn’t see much of the end of his WCW run but when he was a babyface in the WWF he made it work. I would add Earthquake to that list too, he wasn’t bad for a huge babyface either. My favorite Gandolfini performance is in Sidney Lumet’s Night Falls on Manhattan, playing a dirty cop and the partner to Andy Garcia’s character’s father, played effortlessly by Ian Holm. In perhaps his more well known film roles, Gandolfini touched on things he explored deeper on The Sopranos but also made his presence felt in sometimes surprising ways, such as in this or in his last film 2013’s The Drop.

LA Knight sounds like someone whose name you’d only find in the PWI ring results from some really cheap indie show.

Watched for the first time last night liked it a lot

I like Graves and the English guy. Cole and Wade have really good chemistry too. I thought WM this year was an almost perfect show and haven’t heard it this well announced since JR and the King.

People are losing their jobs and the first thing I think of is how this is going to play into the bloodline angle

Today I found out. Cancelled.

this is worth a look too Sheik doing it properly is one of the more incredible feats of strength I’ve seen

We need to bring back no music entrances, not en masse but for certain people it just doesn’t work.

Going back to 1997-8, would the company have been better off putting the plans of Thunder into rejuvenating the Saturday Night slot instead?

I believe that if all the world knew him to be was just an actor, it surely would have been mentioned here by now that John Cena would be a perfect Vince

“fat comedy scat-monger” that’s a new one

It’s my understanding that TNT never got the kind of ratings again on Monday nights with original programming like they did with Nitro.

Best foot on the rope spot has to be Superstar Billy Graham winning the belt from Bruno

Mike Love delivering a sizzling heel promo https://youtu.be/oZSAQX2uuUY

I don’t know if the hiring freeze is still in effect, but either way I’m not very surprised given the Endeavor deal. The optics, which I imagine would be increasingly more scrutinized given that development, would perhaps not be in favor of the situation.

Who else is thinking that Endeavor will buy the show and either edit every episode, or just keep it from legally being sold while the entirety of the series is perpetually on YouTube , as it pretty much is anyway.

Agreed on the DDT but I think Ron Simmons had the better spinebuster I liked it better when it was a big man move, but I’ve come around on how it’s used now. Wardlow’s looks like Kevin Nash’s, which isn’t a compliment (the snake eyes was a better finisher for him).