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I’m glad it’s not the Saudis

This show was classic pro wrestling, from beginning to end. The commitment to WM standards by this roster is to be applauded. It’s far more easier to be cynical about wrestling as an adult even if still swayed by the product, so it makes the reward this show has been at times before all the more sweet to take in. Cole and Graves were mostly phenomenal over both nights, putting over the talent and the storylines succinctly enough that it didn’t distract from the in-ring action.

Tonight is the end of an era, that’s for sure.

No lie I feel like this could be a great show. I’ve not watched much WWE overall but the curiosity about the product lately has grown stronger, and with these strong storylines and an able and willing roster, I’m convinced that for at least this weekend we’ll see a company truly at their peak. Very happy my brother is there to soak it all in, more of a true believer in wrestling than I have been in a long time.

When Jericho put her in his finishing hold I was so pissed off

Hebner brothers?

I have likely mentioned this already but I think PSH would have been a perfect Bobby Heenan. It wouldn’t have surprised me to learn he watched wrestling when he was more of a jock before he became an actor so who knows. God I hope he becomes more appreciated as time goes on and people go back to the work and say he was one of a kind in his field.

Kevin Gage, best known for playing Waingro in Heat, in that role reminds me a lot of Jake Roberts in nearly every way but his voice.

I just noticed that Simon and Schuster are putting out RingMaster. Weren’t they WWE’s publisher when Foley’s books came out and after?

Ron Fuller wrote a novel about a bear loose in the Smoky Mountains, and I believe he’s writing a book about wrestling next. Are there other wrestlers besides him and Mick Foley who have written novels?

Good match, Slaughter was a hell of a heel.

They must be announcing the whole class at once, instead of one a week like they did forever

How is this doing ratings-wise?

He had a really good match with 123 Kid on Superstars at some point in 93 https://youtu.be/ih6IC1whujg

How many wrestlers were on Carson? Hulk, Jesse Ventura and Andre off the top of my head but I wonder if there were more

Not that I would ever want to see it become violent at any point in the now 4-decades running on and off feud, but in the current media landscape everything like this is now fair game to be booked.

The actor who played Healy on Orange is the New Black is Bill Mercer, and was in among other things two of the more disturbing episode of the first season of True Detective. Nobody is listed on IMDb or Letterboxd as playing Manning.

Just Jake now and has been for awhile. How is it?

I wonder if Rush goes face after this. Hook and him would have a good match.

I did the Amazon route through the first four seasons of Better Call Saul. Paramount not getting their biggest show on the flagship is the kind of two step forward one step back I feel like WWE is in now. Which reminds me of their annual spring cleaning after WM.

I like this clip especially Sean doing some followups on topics discussed in their shoot interviews. I can dig wrestlers talking about virtually anything else. So this for me is just clips rather then whole podcasts which to be fair my intake of them on the whole is not as regular as it used to be.

The gimmick of The Beverly Brothers and The Genius remind me of Willy Loman’s sons and their neighbor, from Death of a Salesman.

I like Luger getting in. seems like a long shot for Rock this year. All I hope is that whenever it happens Kevin Hart inducts him.

This night rings pretty deep in Bret’s book. Said Kerry Von Erich came up and gave his condolences, saying that his brothers were looking over Dean. Some wanted Bret to go over but it was planned out for Ted to win to be in that match of survival gimmick (surprised they never revisited that), so instead we got the clinic as it was in the end of really solid work by both with that great ending where Bret looks up and says “fuck”, all but looking at the camera. In the back he said him and DiBiase embraced and had a good cry about it. I’d always known the story about Teds father dying in the ring but wasn’t until recently I learned that Harley Race, out of instinct tried to save his life. Bret said all he saw Vince and Pat do was just ignore him and engage in whatever hysterics they were in that night. Later on, learning that The Undertaker’s brother died the night before his last performance really puts the whole match in a new light for me. In addition to what I realized later, was the significance of Dusty “doing the honors” for a guy in his first major appearance in this classic character, in what it meant to guys who worked for him and ranged from silence in deference to what he had done for their careers, or in protest to the point which Arn and Tully left and others later in the shoot interview generation made their feelings fully known. Mostly a lot of love for him, and even from a young age in which he was done doing the grind and being a family man again, he still made the most of that tv time Turner and even Vince again later, gave him. Of all the sort of unspoken things about him I believe, is that Triple H is more entirely a disciple of Dusty then even his father-in-law.