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Training Day, I was drawing a blank on the name last night.

Drake Maverick rallying the unused portion of the roster to rise up and take out the Big Dog?

Nexus 2018!

I popped for him ending that trainwreck of a segment.

Vince must have watched that one Denzel movie, so now Big Bob has to go around saying MUH MAN to everyone.

I hate to be "the wrestlers from back then were better" guy, but holy shit are they so much better doing this than nearly anyone on the current roster.

Reason #179789 The Undertaker is the greatest gimmick ever: the older and grizzled he gets, the more he looks the part.

After living through the Attitude Era, Corporate Shill Shawn will never not be funny to me.

Drake's great, and if anyone can make it work he can, but it was just so random of a thing to just suddenly happen.

Also, Drake Maverick with the AOP? Lolwhut?

I can't think of a team where I have such opposing opinions of each guy than Drew and Dolph.

Surprising to see that Dave wasn't a fan of the Andersons back then, I don't recall very many (if any) bad matches of theirs. Also lol'ing at Iron Mike, Hall of Fame WWF Jobber, declaring the Tonga Kid a bridge too far.

Oh man, after mentioning "I hate women that hit men" I got really nervous when Elias brought up Ohio State.

Imagine looking at American Alpha and thinking Jason Jordan would be the breakout star.

Kinda killing Braun's gimmick having Drew stand next to him just as tall as THA MONSTER.

Bill Mercer was a sports announcer before/during his wrestling announcing career, so if anything she should have been better at it than Marc Lowrance. I always had the impression he was kind of bemused by all the wackiness of rasslin' and didn't spend a lot of time doing prep work.

I never noticed until now how much Excalibur sounds like Don Callis.

I wonder how they'll end up handling the Bellas. Brie is fine on Smackdown with Bryan, but they get booed every time they appear on Raw.

I would imagine they never ran there because Chicago was AWA territory, the old school promoter's mentality of not invading another one's turf. They ran in the Northeast since Vince obviously wasn't playing by the rules.

As a video game enthusiast, it can't be stressed how difficult it is to get Japanese companies to understand they have to try to appeal to other countries. In most (if not all) cases, North America is the largest market for game companies but nearly all of them focus primarily on Japan and it's almost like if the West likes it, then that's a bonus. It's the same reason NA has never seen an English release of Mother 3, Nintendo literally can't comprehend that there are people outside of Japan who would want to play it despite it being the most requested game for decades. NJPW is no different. I'm not saying it as an excuse, but more of an explanation of why their expansion attempt seems be going in fits and starts. It's way outside the comfort zone for them.

From what I can tell CS is correct that NJPW World will have this available after the PPV ends, like they did with the US shows that were on AXS. Which actually works out for me, since by the time I get home from work it should be around midnight-ish.

Going through the end of 1982 Mid Atlantic and so far "Masa" Fuchi on excursion and Rick "Rudd" (Rude) have showed up for jobber duty. I love when random stuff like that happens.

Customer calling in to my work upset that All In (which he referred to as Starrcade WCW vs WWE) isn't going to be available on the WWE Network. Which is funny, since my place of work is not the WWE Network.

A lot of the WCCW stuff wasn't preserved well, basically sat in a warehouse in Texas heat, which is who so much of the stuff on the network has the "presented as best we can" disclaimer beforehand.

I don't know if anyone watched it, but there was a documentary after the show on Twich that was sponsored by GoPro. There were three parts: Vampiro as broken down garbage wrestler who realized he didn't have any skillset for a non wrestling job, so he studied the production side to get a backstage gig. He was more or less presented as a cautionary tale, a guy who sacrificed his marriage and watching his daughter grow up in order to be a big star in wrestling. The second part was about Faby Apache, talking about how her dad was the typical Wrestling Dad who didn't want his kids to get involved only to relent when he realized how much they wanted to do it. They show her running the school her father ran forever, complete with some scenes of her son (who was part of an angle in AAA when he was a baby) doing some basic rope-running type training in the ring. She also mentioned how her dad passed quickly after being diagnosed with stomach cancer and how she still missed him terribly. The most striking part was how they showed her living in a modest apartment despite being in wrestling for so long and running the training school that produced practically everyone of note that ever came up through AAA. They showed scenes from a houseshow in December wher Goya Kong broke her leg in two doing a somersault dive in a match where the ref was wearing a Go Pro cam, showing his point of view of Mamba asking "how is Gloria" since he saw her injury from the ring but had to keep selling. The third part was Hijo del Phantasma, showing him living in a fancier high rise apartment since he had a day job with the government (possibly related to his dad being the boxing and wrestling commissioner but they didn't say that) so he had more of a steady income than the others. He was talking about how much he loved wrestling but it was taking him away from his family. He came across as a level headed guy who wanted to balance family and work.