MoS

Is it me or is Tony Khan just completely wasted in all of his Impact promos? I am not complaining mind you, the best way to have an upgrade to McMemphis is to have someone be drunk or high on weed doing the shtick instead of Vince presumably being tripping balls on cocaine in the early 90s

Not saying you meant this that way, but this, in my opinion, comes across like "If you think blatant misogyny is bad, it's your problem." Lots of things were acceptable back in the day which should never have been acceptable and are not acceptable now. Corny's racist and sexist rant is one of them. Like, none of us here have defended Jade Cargill's working ability. You just have to look at the weekly AEW threads; I have frequently said she is the absolute worst promo in wrestling today, and that the Shaq angle is the drizzling shits which I don't know the point of doing. But there's a way to convey that without coming across as a dumbass bigoted dick. You managed to do that. All of us have managed to do it. I don't think it is unreasonable to expect that Corny also manages to do that.

Just had to share this masterpiece with you good brothers. Have a great weekend!!

10-year anniversary of this all-time legendary moment

He probably didn't like Bianca cuz that's one too many black women on his TV

I mean I think it's obvious what held him back

He absolutely should have, but Ernie Ladd excepted, most promoters did not book black wrestlers as heels. And of course they were not going to give a black wrestler their world title. This might be a topic for another thread, but how many black wrestlers did Hogan feud with in his big WWF face run?

Terrible news. He was one of the best, most underrated wrestlers of the 1980s. RIP

Yeah, Goldberg was not an unselfish top guy. But, going back to the original post, his was a case when he should not have been unselfish. His character depended on being invincible and he couldn't do what Rock and Flair did and get his heat back after a loss with a promo. He needed to win almost every match he did.

I am by no means a Jade fan, but of course Corny had to be racist and misogynistic while making his point

Point B looking forward to Friday morning @MoS It's going to be the first Test Series on Network TV in the UK since the Ashes 2005. And we'll need a performance like that again. And finally, Point C) Disco Bollywood tunes ucking bang Thanks, mate. I would shamelessly spread my culture a bit more - which actually includes Fake!Taker and Crush having a wrestling match in a Bollywood movie, but I think I shared it a few years back, and I don't want to be the desi version of, I dunno, Don Callis

Taker confirmed and talked about it in detail on the Austin podcast

I agree with this, with the very minor caveat that I don't think anyone in 1980s WWF had any cause to complain about Hogan. I know the story about Jake Roberts DDTing Hogan and fans chanting DDT, but if Jake or anyone thinks that fans would have gone with Jake over Hogan if they had taken that feud across the horn all over the country, they are deluded. Hate to disagree with good bubba, but I am not sure this is true. I think Roman's problem has been that he has been booked really strong, kept in main events, won against so many hardcore favourites, but..at the exact time when they should pull the trigger and put him over the top, they get cold feet. That doesn't make him look like Rock, it makes him look like Cena..except if Cena had jobbed to Hunter and Shawn at WM 22 and 23. That for the longest time was the biggest issue with Reigns. He was overpushed and was the new Super-Cena...except he really was not, cuz he would choke in his most important matches. But "most important matches" by default means that he never lost to a mid-carder or someone that came completely out of the blue. He beat Taker, he beat Cena, he beat Hunter, he beat Styles, he beat Jericho, he beat Bryan, so many people. And his losses were against Lesnar, Rollins when for whatever reason they were really pushing him, Strowman when he was so over people were comparing him to Vader, etc. His issue was that his losses were at the absolute worst time possible for him. In particular, his loss to Lesnar a couple of years ago at WM was just unforgivable. Rock, on the other hand, for absolutely zero reason, in 2000, when he was over like God, jobbed to Bossman for no reason. He once tapped out to Benoit's crossface when faces in WWE just did not do that. He once jobbed to E&C to lose the tag titles he had a cup of coffee with along with Taker. Hell, he lost to Triple H way more times than he should have, even though the fans thought of him as the God-King in the first half of 2000. He jobbed to Angle and really made him, after Hunter had refused to lose to Angle cuz apparently it was not realistic that a woman would ever leave a manly man like him for a mere Olympic gold medalist. And of course he jobbed to Austin, but Austin was the only one in the entire era who was above him in fan popularity and the totem pole (by the slightest of margins), so that was fine.

I did, which is why I was a bit surprised at how shocked some of the reactions are. I completely get the forbidden door point, and the bad blood between the two promotions, but this has been teased for a fair while now, and kicked into overdrive last week

You all need to chill out and rock out to some party Bollywood songs

It was cool seeing KENTA. The match itself started flat and then Ray Fenix fucking turned up and made it a banger. What a fucking stud that guy is. I really hope he gets a good single run before he retires. Good episode of Dynamite. Not as good as last week's, cuz I didn't like the Sting segment and I thought the wedding was underwhelming, but it's still better than some of the recent episodes, when I had legit started losing interest. Hope they continue being interesting like the last two weeks

Mox is just so much cooler than Omega and the Good Brothers combined. Combine him with Fenix and it just becomes a complete massacre

That wedding was...meh? The lumberjack match was aces tho

The SINISTER MINISTER

Really good match, this is in the top 2 Britt Baker matches in AEW, the Shida match where she broke her nose being the other

A friend of mine said derisively: imagine if WCW had had Pedro Morales lurk in front of Sting in the rafters in 1997

I am absolutely done with these Sting segments. He comes out and cuts the same promo every week, and he was never ever a good promo. And now he is coming second after Darby and speaking for him while Darby lurks in the background. Darby is a hundred times cooler than Sting ever was, let Sting remain in the background. Wow Britt looks serious and ready to fuck shit up

The main event is an absolute banger, extremely excited for it. Also looking forward to Miro finally ditching Superdork

@joeg's excellent thread about winning streaks made me think of this. It has to be between Cena, Rock and Flair, isn't it? ALl of them have ridiculous losses on the record. If I had to go with one, I would pick Rock. Cena had the more squashy, jobber-y losses, but he was also booked like a superman in some of his matches. Rock's run was much briefer (although obviously had much higher highs) and even during that run, he was jobbing clean to Big Bossman, E&C, and even tapping to a Chris Benoit crossface. And this is something I would like to be discussed, should a top guy be unselfish? Like of course they should not sandbag their opponents, but do we really need THE GUY to lose too much? Wrestling is not real sport, but Michael Jordan won 6 championships in 8 years, was basically the Hogan of wrestling, and that never stopped his drawing power. The difference of course is that pro wrestling is scripted and thus to ensure the health of the business, you have to make new stars. But where's the line? What's the balance? Should Hogan have traded wins with Roddy Piper in 1985?