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How many episode of Legends of Wrestling are there exactly? They just put up another one and it looks like there's 36 altogether on there right now.

Hogan is not the example to use here, Bob Backlund is. It's one thing to just carry the company like those two did, but Cena arguably has put more work and dedication into it. He's already made headlines for his work with the Make-A-Wish foundation. And nobody is a better spokesman for the company like he is. Making him a heel now while he's still fairly young and strong would be a mistake for those reasons. Do it when he's almost out to pasture and forgotten about when so many others will eventually pass him by like Reigns is being designed to do now.

Today is JR's last official day as a WWE employee.

How many matches besides the 8-man and the coal miner's glove match did Jake Roberts have in WCW?

I'd ask him about the finish to his match with Orndorff at SuperBrawl '93.

The WWE Network description of the first episode of The Main Event says it was the most watched wrestling program in American TV history. I'm curious, what kind of ratings did it pull that night and how did it hold up against the other networks?

If Watts was racist, he must have hated wrestling. They just added more SNME's, through the end of 1989. That's smart, as opposed to putting them all up at once.

Bob Holly and Scott Norton would be an excellent shoot.

I think they started in 98.

Yes, but Flair was super over in 1993 for just having come back, especially in their southern strongholds.

So Cena = 22, Flair = 44. I can live with that.

How many championship reigns have both of them had, including non-WHC ones?

Being in A-list movies hasn't stopped WWE from keeping the belt on guys before though. It's just a number, and as much as I respect him he's not done nearly enough of what Ric did in those 16 title runs. To even further my bias towards Ric here, I think WWE should have at given him at least one run with the title during his 2002-2008 run.

I would bet Ole was just window-dressing to give the segment and the new group a little credibility, and that if expanded upon his role would have been similar to what it was in 1990. I think if it was Roma and one other guy of his stature/talent, it wouldn't have been the flop that it eventually was. Jeff Jarrett was a much worse Horseman than Paul was.

Part of the Roma problem is more that they just had 3 instead of 4, as Ole didn't do a whole lot other than that initial segment I believe.

On paper Sid could have worked, and they could have stayed faces. But if it actually happened, there's a chance the scissor incident still could have happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiGRps99HsU

About the B shows, I think it would be interesting if they just made compilations out of those. Just put the best matches and segments together and put them in chronological packages that go up in order.

Sounds like it was used on Glee.

They didn't use "Born In The U.S.A." then? The replacement sounds very Springsteen (that is, if Reagan brain-washed him).

Darius Rucker (or Hootie for some of us still stuck in the 90's) just asked his fans on Twitter who was the greatest wrestler who never held the world championship.

@TNACreative pointing out the bullshit on Twitter was nice. Between this and a lot of the original programming I get the sinking feeling that the order of the day with Network is to establish a legacy lionizing Vince McMahon built on half-truths and out and out lies.

Don't think I can watch this "Monday Night Wars" special. Hearing Vince imitating Turner's "I'm in the wrasslin' business now" for the umpteenth time isn't doing it for me.

Maybe legally but marijuana technically is not a narcotic.

The "narcotic paraphernalia" bit is a little troubling though, unless that was just bad wording. Alcohol yes, weed maybe, but I have a little bit of a hard time seeing him as a coke-head.