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Miro's birthday is today too, which seems too perfect to be true that the Redeemer was born on Christmas.

WHO CAN STOP THE PATH OF HOOK

Opener was fun, Jungle Boy seems like he should be more than a guy in a tag team at this point but that's the breaks when you have so many talented people.

FIVE MINUTES TO HOOKMAS

Shanky looks like a giant sized Rush.

Also your reminder that swag is genetic (Shinsuke's mom doing his pose):

OK that Rik Boogs shirt is awesome.

Well they sure are getting Toni Storm off to a great start by leaving her blubbering in the corner before the mighty Charlotte.

Watching SD on delay, and man as much as we all agree Heyman is a great promo it still seems like he's underrated as a promo. The emotion he puts into this really is something not too many people can reach. Like he's seriously at Eddie Kingston levels of "this motherfucker can make you feel something".

That would explain why my head canon in 1994 was that Bob was screwed, I was a voracious PWI reader and seeing that mentioned in this thread jogged a memory of that exchange.

So I never noticed until recently that watching Peacock on my laptop that has Adblock gives me the ad-free version apparently. I get a message saying to disable it when I first load the page but after that I can watch whatever without ad breaks.

Maybe the earliest bit of WWF(E) revisionism? The only knock I can see on Bob is he's 100% not a fit in VKM's vision, but there didn't seem to be any problem with him drawing fans.

Yeah there's no way 1984 Bob Backlund is going to agree to turn heel even if you held him at gunpoint. The idea that Vince suggested it sounds like he was trying to pull one of his moves where he asks someone to do something he knows they will never agree to so he can paint them as unreasonable. I would gather Bob saw that BS coming a mile away and just noped out. Also looking back, there really wasn't any other person that would be a better transitional champ than Sheik. The cartoony Iranian heel is the perfect launching point for Hulkamania, I suppose maybe Ivan would have worked too, but he wasn't as over the top as Sheiky and the Iran/US tension was more of a hot button at the time than the usual US/USSR deal. Actually, I've always wondered if maybe giving Sheik a little longer with the title to build heat would have made the eventual Hulk win even bigger and maybe some of the markets that were initially rough to break into would have had an easier time, but obviously things worked out pretty well the way they did it.

I loved Taz taking great joy in calling CM Punk the #2 seller on Pro Wrestling Tees (#1 of course is HOOK)

What kind of moral issues could anyone possibly have against KOR unless terminal dorkiness offends you for some reason.

WWE stans really seem to believe that Cole/Fish/O'Reilly only existed in NXT, which is an interesting if not insane peek at how well WWE trains its fans.

To be fair I'm pretty sure they can do it better, at the very least they don't have HBK to lay out all their matches to be Self Conscious Epics.

They are. yet Dan Lambert's promo kind of foreshadowed it.

Sting having his Terry Funk "old man can still go" period is one of the best things about AEW right now.

They mention it pretty frequently, they just don't bash you over the head with it like WWE would.

Well that was quite the main event

STING WTF

Not bad, Bryan was a great asshole as usual and they set up a rematch with judges like Sting/Flair in case it goes the distance again.

"Cody is a bigger dick than I am" Dan Lambert out here doing GOAT stuff.