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What makes Lauper's appearance even more amazing is the lack of Bobby Heenan in Big John Studd's corner.

Trying to see if Lauper had a gig or something in the area of Puerto Rico that week in October of 1985, and coming up with nothing. In fact, she took the entire year off from touring! Granted it was in between tours and 1986 would be her big True Colors world wide tour, but interesting that a quick Google search suggests she didn't have any thing going on scheduled concert wise in the 1985 calender year.

A better example would be a movie adaptation of an old TV show (or whatever) but took everything good about the original out, and kept in all the stuff that got laughed at. Think Starksy and Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard, Lost in Space, Three Stooges, etc It's like if instead of following up Space Seed, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a followup to I Mudd, Spock's Brain, or one of the original Star Trek episodes considered among the very worst of all-time due to 1960s camp sci-fi silliness.

I think its more of a comparison to the WWE's version of it. Its like comparing the 1960s Batman series, which many do consider an embarrassment to the character and genre (in the way non wrestling fans think all wrestling is pretty much Ultimate Warrior's cartoonish schtick, many non comic fans still think of that show's cheesy camp and "BIFF BAM POW" when talking comic books and Batman) to the awful Legends of The Superheroes/Roast specials a decade later (sadly also featuring West and Ward) which NO ONE fondly remembers, if they remember them at all!

This. I'm all about basically every single Brock match. Whether its the Houston house show against Sheamus or MSG against Big Show, two members of the roster I'd rather see disappear. Why not create an issue with him and Orton, or somehow try and build up Orton before throwing this together out of nowhere? Turns out I'm going to be away on vacation during Summerslam (and unfortunately for Takeover and Connor/Diaz 2), but I'm still a Brock mark so its interesting. But every single outing of his should be a marquee, WWE-ized Mayweather event and instead its just not. It'll likely be a very good, and potentially great, match. But why not maximize the box office and intrigue? Maybe the Bray Wyatt thing falling apart has them gun shy with traditional story telling with Lesnar? It worked with Taker and Punk because elements for the stories were in place. Take the title scene out of the picture for Brock, it seems hard to generate an out of nowhere (no pun intended) instafeud.

Well he did dress up as a female family member to get inside Raw once.

I'm guessing Sheiky Baby's is done with his knowledge, this was an elaborate ruse, fooling those in the industry, that proves Twitter needs to over haul how that verification process works. Pretty much this true example of a Weasel set up a fake account of Bobby's wife as part of the vouching process of their fake Bobby Hennan account.

I'd say look at the DX revival in 2006 where Triple H and Shawn were the dorky Dads trying to act cool and with the "hip" humor that they did some 8-10 years earlier. But then again Judd Apatow and Kevin Smith still pepper their film and podcast projects with the same scatogorical sex and drug humor that they did years ago. Its like Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused. "I get older, they stay the same age!"

ECW on TNN was first. But yeah, it's weird that they haven't done all of Raw and Smackdown. SNMEs were up before ECW, granted they only amount to 40 or so episodes.Ditto all of the Clash of Champions around the same time, but I think both shows are probably thought of as special PPV like TV events, which is why both lost their luster when both companies made their flagship shows more must see than something to watch on Saturday morning to hype the house show circuit/big arena show. So they probably shouldn't be lumped in with the Nitros, Saturday Nights, Superstars and Raws in terms of episodic shows to complete. Plus Raw/Smackdown can never be truly "complete" as there is a month lag in between an episode airing on USA and it being uploaded on The Network.

Attendance to see the 'Stros and the defending champs Reds was 31,039 Astros won 3-0 and Joaquin Andujar got the complete game win. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1976/B06260HOU1976.htm

First, don't compare this to how to handle events in light of tragedy. If that Monday Night Football Game had one of the more iconic finishes in NFL history (yeah I know non-scripted but go with me) no one would care either way that it was the night Lennon was killed. I'm hoping you're saying that no matter what happened on MNF that night, the only thing that anyone would remember from that date was John Lennon being murdered. Cause Jim Brown and Joe Namath could have come out of retirement to play while Johnny Unitas got fucked in the asshole by Frank Gifford drinking a beer from a cup made from Brian Piccalo's skull on the 50 yardline and the only thing people would care about from that night was John Lennon being murdered. Ouch, yeah I meant the NFL action wouldn't matter. I blame being on my mobile device. Point was suppossed to be that tragedy and dramatic social/political/cultural events are still tragedy and dramatic social/political/cultural events and will obviously trump whatever happens in simple entertainment outlets.

First, don't compare this to how to handle events in light of tragedy. If that Monday Night Football Game had one of the more iconic finishes in NFL history (yeah I know non-scripted but go with me) no one would care either way that it was the night Lennon was killed. Second, you are being a bit hyperbolic there. Story of the year? Okay, I can give you that, but calm down with the decade aspect. Especially if it turns out LeBron leaves after next year anyway. And even so, does it matter? What if it was Atlanta or Toronto and Portland or Oaklahoma? The WWE wasn't going to change plans when the Cavs and Warriors clinched their conferences because it promised to be a widely viewed series.

That's a fluke though. You have no idea when you schedule the PPV that you're going to have a hot Game 7 the same night. Every year the NBA finals lasts from early to mid June. It isn't inconceivable for WWE to book their June PPVs on the last Sunday of the month. Same goes for other sporting events. WWE atleast has the wherewithal not to book PPVs during the superbowl or NFL conference championship games, why not have that much attention to detail for other events? If it was a four game sweep we are not having this conversation. Baseball's postseason lasts the entire month of October, should the WWE not do an October PPV because it may conflict with a hot baseball game(s) and a potential hot NFL Sunday night game?

Was there ever a concrete answer to what happened with this? I mean safe to assume it was a private matter and not acrimony with the company since Bryan is doing commentary for the Crusierweight Classic. But since his being removed from events without warnings did get a whole thread started.

I don't picture Roger Miller as "Cowboy." Oh he was a country staple for sure, but matching him up for the Watts feud? "I Fall To Pieces" would have worked for that lull before the title change.

There's also the issue that if someone has this other supposed occupation, especially if it's one that occurs in a public setting, why do we never see them doing their other job? Even when MNM was supposedly famous, it was never established exactly why paparazzi followed them around when they weren't famous. The answer is because wrestling. To be fair to MNM, its pretty much The Miz's current character twist. I'm so good and talented, that the paparazzi follow me despite no apparent reason to do so. Though at least Miz has actual "acting" credits, IRL it'd be laughable to justify his behavior (not that there aren't those out there with far less of a resume than Miz' who act like Miz' character) but still.

Do moves count, whether its a heel being a heel, or a shoot? Like Edge being from Tampa?

I'll give you running with the drunk driving with the crash as if it was common knowledge, but its a little strong to go after him for holding such beliefs about suicide. Or at the very least, Kerry's suicide. Harsh? Sure, especially for those suffering from mental illness, but from the stand point of what we know about Kerry Von Erich, was that ever indicated? That he suffered from some sort of imbalance? It wasn't like he left a note saying "donate my brain for scientific study" as an early case of concussion studies.

This is stuff that seems to get loathed for reasons that far exceed the intention of the gimmick, segment or whatever. In other words, as lame as it may have been, it probably doesn't deserve to get ranked among the very worst instances of horrific bad gimmicks, segments, angles, things that ruined companies, and whatnot. -ECW Zombie. This kind of got me thinking about it, since the PTBN podcast is at the start of the WWECW brand. I don't know, as lame as it was, it doesn't deserve a lot of the hate I've seen online for it. For one, it was meant as a one-off rib of being on the SciFy Network, and was it much different than Boogeyman running around Smackdown at the same time? Second, it got squashed by The Sandman, so it wasn't something anyone was expected to take seriously, so it is a bit pretentious and hipster doofus for smarks to cry "OOOOH that's what they think ECW was! Silly cartoon sci-fi monsters! FUCK THIS!" Third, HELLO! The Undertaker started off as literally a zombified wrestler, and to this day still has a couple of that "un-dead" element to his gimmick (quick sit up). If you are going to shit all over the WWE for bringing out a Zombie on the first episode of ECW on SciFy, then you got to shit on the WWF for bringing out a Zombie character that made legit wrestlers like Bret Hart look silly back at Survivor Series 1990! And yet, I've seen places used that as an example of how badly ECW got the shaft in the new branding era. -Who Another one-off. This time just to waste some Saturday morning TV time doing a lame imitation of the Who's on First routine. But the hate the gimmick gets, you'd think Anvil was projected to be in the gimmick for a long mid-card run. It was just lame bad comedy for a one-time bit.

Ditto Nash & Hall, and even Bret has been inserted into "sent to WCW by Vince as an agent of chaos"

Simultaneously Jericho would be the best and worst MitB winner ever!

Of course Vince has warped into George Steinbrenner circa 1996-end of his life. Someone who still shows the qualities and actions that made his despicable, but beloved and untouchable by the fanbase due to product on the field (Attitude Era, mainstream cred, etc). And Triple H is untouchable because he is the NXT figurehead. Trips would have to turn heel on NXT to get back any genuine crowd heel heat.

No, "You suck" is meant as playing along with a very good heel character. "You can't wrestle" is doing what you think you are supposed to do based on forums and article comment section trolls telling you that the target of the chants can't do shit in the ring.

No one is saying that!

You know, I really don't even know what being a good wrestler is or what being a technical wrestler is anymore. I think I've heard "YOU STILL SUCK" for Reigns as well following epic spots.