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Maybe. FWIW, this goes along with the announcement about Drew McIntyre that they could have used a kayfabed injury/ailment to take him off TV and pull out of the Royal Rumble match and not say it’s THE VIRUS DU JOUR, but there is need for information right now for public eye entities to be upfront about certain things. FWIW, just came from a FB group where trolls pissed all over Michelle McCool announcing she has COVID with “OMG why do these people think we care if they get sick or not?” While yes, that is most likely trolling, but I’d imagine sentiments are going to go back to “are you really going to make a public statement when you get the the sniffles?” soon enough, but I’d imagine there is reason enough during a pandemic for those to be reminded that this is still a thing.

IDK, I’d imagine Scott and Kevin would have improvised it as a run-in with a WCW loving Baltimore security rent-a-cop.

Very true as well

He also said “Luthor” instead of “Luger” once. But that can be chalked up to the iconic DC villain being much more known of a mainstream “Lex” than the pro-wrestler.

I don’t know if he is one of those WWE Fanboys waiting to pounce on a major AEW misstep, in order to not just call them out for doing things they take shots at WWE for, but to shout “SEE! THEY ARE JUST AS SCUMMY AS THE “EVIL EMPIRE” IS!” but yeah that seems about right for what he wrote. I use the idea that lesser public people and companies have been vilified for lack of transparency based on where we are right now in the pandemic, so I can see the “gotcha” mentality bubbling to the surface so they can claim “justification” if proven correct.

The Twitter user I retorted to used the “logic” of all the swipes AEW has taken at the WWE’s issues as reasoning to be all “hush hush” Again though, due to all sorts of issues, both ethical and currently legal, research and public policy, reasons, you can’t be all quiet about it due to patient’s privacy issues. ”Why wasn’t AEW shut down” ”Who was told, who wasn’t notified that they were exposed” ”How did they get EVERYONE to stay quiet knowing they worked with someone with the virus” would be legit questions to ask. But considering where he was, Mayo Clinc, does suggest that there isn’t some big conspiracy to hide a major infectious super spreader that was in the AEW locker room.

My first thought was the infection that took out Jim Henson

Wow! I saw someone tweet about that, not quoting Mitchell, to Conrad. I tried to take him down by pointing out how criminally bad that would make her, AEW and the Mayo Clinic look if they failed to disclose if he had COVID. With everything going on with regulations and infectious exposure contact tracing, now would very much NOT be the time to withhold that particular cause of death due to patient privacy. As well as the idea that cases need to go into the public record for research and public policy needs! And never mind how much crap people like Justin Turner (mingling about the post World Series celebration despite being removed from the game after testing positive) get for being Typhoid Mary like self-super spreaders!

I’m still trying to figure out what “50% of a trademark” was supposed to “prove” right to ownership. To be fair though, sounds like a petty thing Vince would do, if the WWE wasn’t a public company. Especially to keep AEW from using certain registered names and concepts like “The Match Beyond” Send them to a low rent, backwater indie that is no threat to you!

Nothing here on the WCW 2021 scam that made IWC Twitter ablaze for a couple of days last week!?

People still sneer at priests of any denomination based on the abuse scandals over the decades. Also they all are still targets of snide remarks and assumptions that they only went into such an occupation solely to act on their predatory desires.

As much as I agree with that sentiment regarding WWE Hall ceremony fan attendees, plenty of physical sports Halls, including the big ones, are doing it the same way, mushing class years together.

IDK about recent years, but soon after Keith was always stating it as a fact that Owen was to be crowned IC Champ the night he died.

How often will “I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news” will be worked in? Especially during setup of the spot moments?

Probably will be the same for players. IDK how much wrestlers saying that it’s a big deal is kayfabe lip service these days as with the exception of WM, and no matter the promotion they’re in the same arenas for house shows that PPVs and special events get held in. And I’ve seen other performance artists say they prefer smaller crowds to the bigger arenas/stages. But yeah, baseball is a non-scripted sport where the “playoff atmosphere,” and crowd affecting performances is very real. Probably the best example is the first ever postseason series where the home team won every game. It’s wasn’t just that the Twins performed better, or had better pitching those nights, but to this day the being in front of the Metrodome crowd is considered a huge factor in why the Twins won the 1987 World Series.

Could be worse, there is a line in The Godfather where Vito Corleone refers to Bonasera (who comes to him in the opening scene) as a “corpse valet” Which is another term for Undertaker.

The only counter point I can make is Rock’s pure heel act leading up to his match with Austin at 19. Like Taker-AJ, it was only fandom or media speculation that Austin was making his final competitive in ring appearance. In fact, I don’t think Austin, to this day formally said “yeah, my in-ring days are officially done!” But, there it was, Rock got the pin as Austin went out looking at the lights. But I’m sure if circumstances were different, and they had to do some sort of cinematic literal “Bar Room Brawl” match, Austin would have ended up having a beer bash toast on top of the bar.

My takeaway, which hasn’t been asked anywhere, or even when AJ did the wrap show, is if the match was done in the ring, would AJ have gone over? The big pre-“announced” ones like Flair, HBK and Foley, as well as the “after the fact ones” like Austin, Batista, and even the Reigns match all ended with the retiree looking at the lights. Now, once the venue and the complexion of the match changed, the finish, theatrics and the ride off makes sense for a “finality” for the in-ring career, but if it was a normal match? I mean it would make sense either way, but I wonder if the winner changed because of the changes.

Irish/Scottish https://www.familyeducation.com/baby-names/name-meaning/mccool You will see plenty of Irish establishments, mostly bars named either McCool’s or Finn McCool after the mythical warrior hunter.

I don’t think it’s wrestling bubble fans. NBA and NFL conspiracy theorists are pretty mainstream. MLB is close, but it’s mostly just “MLB and networks sweating out postseason series, hoping the small market teams/non-uber popular ones (ie Red Sox) do not advance” talk.

Even more crazier is that from what, 1995-2009, he was a fixture in the Main Event/Heavyweight titles scene. And his final match for any sort of title, period, was losing the Elimination Chamber Match for his World Title in 2010 to help set up Shawn Michaels’ retirement match.

Oddly enough I Mandela-ed a “Mean Mark” trading card based off of there being a set of WCW trading cards with cards of The Skyscrapers, and wondered if they’d be considered “Undertaker’s rookie cards”. But the sets (Impel WCW and Championship Marketing WCW) I thought I saw cards in came out in 1991, so not only was Mark long gone, so was the team itself by that point! I’d wager Mean Mark would show up in a trading card set featuring WCW photos now.

Yes, but since “The view, nevah changes, baby. Its to join forces with a crew, and not to be the main guy as manager.

LOL! Trying to compare it to being an unnamed extra in a segment, but yeah, acting like a goofball fan (as opposed to being one organically) is probably high up on the list of things you can mock on list of “before they were known” spots.

Fair, but realizing the point of the stunt that killed Owen was meant to be comedic would suggest that Godfather was going over, with Owen returning to win the belt at Raw the next night or the next PPV. In other words, Blazer winning that night was probably just speculation and not concrete THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN fact.