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SteveJRogers

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  1. For some reason its not on the List'em and Learn feed on iTunes. I've refreshed it this morning.
  2. I don't think it was intended for the Network. Its like the old JBL & Cole Show and Z True Long Island Story vignettes where its YouTube Channel only.
  3. Except the first 121 shows were on SyFy right? It replaced ECW on their lineup.
  4. There is still a "celebrity wing" inductee missing. Since bringing back the HOF as a concept, they didn't have one in 2005, and from 2007-2009. I'd like to know if they are going to continue with the Legacy Inductees like they did last year.
  5. Mickie James?
  6. People still believe that whole "Royal Rumble winner headlines WrestleMania!" talking point even though there have been NUMEROUS times that's not been true? WrestleMania XXVII even had the Rumble winner, Alberto del Rio, open the PPV and lose the championship match to Edge. Hell, Hart-Austin is a better example of "Rumble Winner MUST headline" not being a hard and fast rule.
  7. Beth Phoenix officially is in.
  8. Ditto Stone Cold. Another factor is that neither character changed when it came time to turn babyface.
  9. Same reason Road Dogg worked once he and Billy Gunn started the New Age Outlaws. Fans love good sing-a-longs during openings.
  10. Rock vs Brock, guest ref (Nick) Bock(winkel)
  11. Apropos to nothing, but since WWE's YouTube page has hype vids for upcoming shows in every language now it made me realize what a better name NO ESCAPE is for this show (they don't use the name Elimination Chamber in Germany for obvious reasons). Well, the February PPV that EC replaced was called No Way Out for years!
  12. Shane McMahon's return promo almost a year ago now where he mentions being a third generation, and looking out for the 4th (his sons), and beyond.
  13. It was more of an "Anyone But You" pop though. Speaking of which, they called back to Woods being spooked by Bray, but NOT that line from the Bray-Reigns feud? Wasn't necessary, but would have been a good call back at the end.
  14. True that. It would be 2014-2015 all over again if that was Samoa Joe, Nak, Ohno, or another "indie darling surprise."
  15. It is interesting that after 25 years of just Hogan, HBK and Austin as the ONLY multiple time winners, we now have four in five years.
  16. It would be what, the third time it would be hyped as such? LOL!
  17. There have been negotiations and talks of a return for much of the last 5 or so years. Probably the time it looked the closest was right around the end of the Aces & Eights storyline and his final TNA title run/HOF induction. But he still wanted to be considered a full time performer and the WWE, for his saftey and well being, were looking along the lines of part-time/Legends. And so that was that.
  18. No one knew Nicole Brown Simpson or Ronald Goldman, that shouldn't make the disgust over OJ Simpson's lack of incarceration due to their murder any more appropriate. Or the smug satisfaction of karma getting his when he was sentenced on the memorabilia theft charges.
  19. Making her and Edge the first HOF couple, for whatever that's worth!
  20. BTW, to finish up the TNA HOF inductees (Sting, Angle, Not Dudleys, Jarrett, Hebner and Gail Kim), I can see Kim as a future "class padding" women's division pick. There's been worse picks. Back on Kurt, I wonder if this was what made them push so hard for the TNA library last month. Sure they have more than enough for Angle's career, but those 7-8 years in TNA do have stuff worth spotlighting (Samoa Joe, Main Event Mafia stuff, etc).
  21. Also legit from a WWE perspective! = Okay, who presents: Some suggestions: John Cena Eric Angle (change things up, go with a family member who at least has made an appearance on WWF TV) Maybe Shane or Austin
  22. LOL! At least Angle and Dudleys are legit from the WWE perspective, with Sting being one of those "we're trying to be all inclusive to those whom we have video libraries of" picks (though to be fair, a number of the WCW HOFers weren't exactly JCP/Georgia/Florida stalwarts, so there is precedence in a promotion wanting to induct legends in regardless to time spent in promotions/territories the Hall supposedly is set up to honor). It will be one of those hell frozen over days if Jeff Jarrett or the Hebners ever get inducted!
  23. Mandela Effect!
  24. Thinking about the rumored Natural Disasters induction in the WWE HOF made me chuckle at the idea of The Shockmaster as a HOFer. Then I thought about wrestlers with real stinkers of gimmicks that eventually got into HOFs, not as their WrestleCrap considered gimmicks, but as something else. But it then struck me about how derided Steve Austin's "Ring Master" gimmick was, and looking back, aside from being an example of a promotion not realizing what they have in a specfic wrestler, it really doesn't deserve the "OH MY GOD, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING" hate that it got. Sure they clearly were basing their knowledge of Austin of of his WCCW and WCW days where except for the very end of his WCW days he had either a valet, manager/advocate, or a tag team partner to help carry the speaking duties. He also seemed a bit bland cocksure heel as the Stunning Steve character as he bounced from the Dangerous Alliance, Hollywood Blonde and Studd Stable. Oh you could tell he had something, but nothing standout-ish in the character that said "this guy can be the face of the promotion.". Not to mention toiling in the upper mid-card would make one think that would be where he topped off and that he'd fit the "mechanic" role that his Ring Master gimmick was put in. A soild worker that could fill out the mid-card. A strong booking performance in the 1996 Rumble, and getting the KOR kind of proved that he was meant for that not quite "The Guy" level, even after giving into Austin's demand for a character make over, it wasn't until he proved he could go with Bret Hart, amd the company going through a drastic overhaul of presentation that Austin fulfilled company leading expectations. I agree that the gimmick was bland, and not at all what Austin should have been, but not even close to being labeled "WrestleCrap."
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