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It's possible, if he checked out of wrestling after his WCW stint he might not be that aware of Stone BAH GAWD Cold.

Even at the time it was confusing, and all I can come up with now was it was Dusty just doing a "fuck you, you can't tell me what to do" move. It kind of makes sense when you think about it, he went from being allowed to do whatever he wanted to do with Crockett in charge to having a bunch of suits tell him no more blood and guts (lol) when that was about 90% of Dusty's act at that point. The Herd interview really underscores that Ric Flair has been a neurotic mess for longer than we realized. It really seems he worked himself into a shoot with Turner and Herd, he was so convinced everyone was out to get him he ended up turning them all against him.

I thought Meltzer hit it on the head about Striker, dude started off as a decent enough announcer who had potential to be good, but WWE production messed up his confidence to the point he overcompensates everything to the max and gets annoying fast. Hopefully D-Lo can develop as an announcer and keep him in check. Anyone else thinking all the AEW guys showing up on Impact and being dicks is going to lead to Impact guys invading Dynamite and just trashing the place like Nexus?

I must admit, I never realized Herd had such a background in the business, I always thought he was just a suit Turner brought in to run the rasslin'. Also it never fails to amaze me how it seems *everyone* in the Turner organization just hated pro wrestling except Ted himself. No wonder WCW was doomed once he was no longer in control. Doesn't it seem like one of the more underrated aspects of wrestling history is "Ted Turner buys a promotion known for blood and violence and immediately issues an edict of no more blood and violence"? That one act seemed to be the butterfly flapping its wings that set so many other things into motion.

Brawl for all except everyone thinks they're MMA fighters instead of Toughman competitors.

Yeah that was the part that threw me too. The amount of tape that would be required for that is mind boggling. It does fit in with all the other stories of Vader rubbing everyone the wrong way though.

I wonder if Taya will show up for the women's title deal. She teased on Twitter wanting a match with Shida, but she could have just been shooting her shot.

I love that they got Sammy Hagar to do a promo for Sammy/Hager.

I love that Big Money Matt is starting to tempt Private Party to the dark side.

Shaq does the NBA shows for TNT, so it's corporate synergy with the TV network.

It's still amazing to me in a promotion who's ethos is very much "what if JCP somehow still existed in 2021" still hasn't had Arn turn on a Rhodes yet.

I thought the same, but someone posted a picture of Taz when he was about the same age and he looked like a bulkier twin of Hook.

I mean, Tony was there so I assume so. This appears to be kicking off the next phase of the angle.

We must have fast forwarded a week if it's the 29th already, lol.

At this stage, Mania would draw well no matter how ice cold WWE gets. A 100,000 seater like Dallas might be a stretch, but going to Wrestlemania is still a bucket list item for most wrestling fans and I'm pretty sure they'll get 50-60,000 no matter what the company poops out. Also I think Wrestle Kingdom *could* have been a fair comparison. Running a socially distanced show in a city as large and densely populated as Tokyo could have been seen as proof running a open stadium show could be done safely....had Vince's BFF done even the bare minimum to try to contain things. Even Alanis Morisette would have to apricate that irony. Did anyone else see were Roman said he wanted to face the Rock at WM 39 in LA? Seems like it would be the logical end game of the Tribal Chief gimmick, and it would be one Official Wrestlemania Moment that wouldn't get changed at the last second. Hell, if they kick it off at the Raw after Mania this year it could get the Hogan -Savage year long build and be the mega event they could use to fill out a monster stadium like Dallas legit (or as legit as WWE sellouts get).

The best part is that the Fiend wasn't even physically on the show. Instead we had GHOST FIEND on the swing set with Alexa.

Boogey would have been just as bad if not worse if he was positioned as a main eventer that we were supposed to take seriously. As a midcarder terrorizing other midcarders there was little harm that could be done.

That's some quality carny-ing right there.

He seemed to crib a lot from Ray, including the "flip over the turnbuckle and land on the apron" spot, so it makes sense. Even if you take into account typical wrestler exaggeration, just the idea that Ray Stevens was doing things like this 20 odd years before Flair is a good testament to his abilities.

I had no clue who it was until I saw people mentioning it on Twitter.

I still think Bray would be better served doing horror movies like Rob Zombie. Dude can come up with some creative ideas, they just don't translate very well to wrestling.

Oh God now I can't unsee her transformation to Evil Alexa as a bizarro world Super Sayian deal.

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Omos looking uncharacteristically underdressed tonight.

Seeing the replay reminding me how Charlotte is showing us her babyface bonafides by *checks notes* attempting to break Peyton's leg because reasons. She is the most unlikeable character to the point if we had crowds Lacey would end up getting babyfaced over this.