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I have no issues with the name. It's a little weird that they're reaching back to the 1950s for a song, but at least it's a departure from late-90s/early-2000s time period they get stuck in sometimes.

Does Owen Hart really count? Bret v Owen was pretty consistently the headline feud in 1994 from WrestleMania through SummerSlam. It wasn't a super draw but the whole industry was down so it's not 100% Owen's fault.

Pretty rote until Nakamura came back into the match. The showdown with AJ was a really, really cool moment.

Randy is bound and determined to cripple at least one of the Singh brothers.

Kind of odd that AWA mainstays Greg Gagne, Baron Von Raschke, and Larry "The Axe" Hennig are being introduced as "St. Louis Legends". Unless they live in the area now or something? Anyway, it was a very nice thing to do.

The whole MitB gimmick is super played out at this point. Hopefully this is the final nail in that coffin.

History has been made!

Ellsworth is swimming in that outfit.

I tend to agree with her. Not really sure what his purpose is.

The Puerto Rico set really shows how good he was - he and Chicky were a great double act. His 9/1986 match with Invader I was my favorite. RIP

Also it looks like there is a youtube uploader https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHDjwPjvzrJhAx4wvRmKdRg that has practically copied the entire Landy channel minus the Coliseum video stuff so at least all of Richard's stuff is out there still. That guy's channel is complementary to Landy's - totally different stuff. Although, he has a great collection too and might fill in the gaps left by Landy's channel being pulled. I love Wrestling Collector but he's been putting up SNME episodes. Might be a little too close to the sun for WWE to ignore.

Holy shit! Swann goes over in his hometown! Biggest upset of the year so far.

Well that was a really good match I think we can all agree . Ambrose kept his annoying bullshit to a minimum and Miz's amazing run continues. Crowd was hot, but interesting that cheers were 50/50. Usually Miz gets consistent heel heat.

Meanwhile he and Kalisto are having quite the good match here, but okay.

Card from WWE.com: Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins vs. Finn Bálor vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Samoa Joe (Extreme Rules Fatal 5-Way Universal Title No. 1 Contender’s Match) Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose vs. The Miz (If Ambrose is disqualified, he will lose the Intercontinental Title) Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley (Kendo Stick on a Pole Match) Raw Tag Team Champions The Hardy Boyz vs. Cesaro & Sheamus (Steel Cage Match) WWE Cruiserweight Champion Neville vs. Austin Aries (Submission Match) Rich Swann & Sasha Banks vs. Noam Dar & Alicia Fox (Mixed Tag Team Match) Kalisto vs. Apollo Crews Like Backlash, this doesn't look promising on paper. The main will likely be good as WWE books multi-man matches very well, and if Hardys v Cesaro/Sheamus was half as good as their last PPV match it'll be worth it.

I don't see why this would be the case. She's still Stephanie McMahon.

Did that have an appreciable affect in 1992?

In 1988, does TBS need the viewers that JCP wrestling brought? If not, and they walk away from wrestling, there is an opportunity for another cable station to pick that audience up. But do they just treat it like ESPN treated the AWA/Global, as filler programming? Or would they invest significant cash to try to get the promotion up if not a WWF challenger, then at least to a TNA level (running a regular house show schedule and semi-regular PPV's)? My guess would be that there would be several cable stations that would try to grab the JCP audience and still a few territories that produced weekly TV that could fill a time slot - Memphis, Continental, World Class, maybe even Portland - all of which were distinctive enough from WWF that it could get a portion of the wrestling audience that wanted a "traditional"/non-WWF product. And also there's a lot of ex-JCP talent floating around that someone (Bill Watts? Jim Ross? one of the Crocketts?) could try to re-form JCP on a drastically scaled-down basis. So if there are three or four weekly wrestling cable shows trying to grab up the JCP audience, that almost certainly ensures that none of those get popular enough that there is ever a serious WWF challenger. How many of these shows would survive into the 90s? If the companies are well-run & well-booked and stay in their distinct geographic areas, indefinitely - hell, Portland and the AWA lasted until 1991, the USWA lasted until 1997 with WCW as a 2nd national company. The danger for these companies (unless they try to go "national") isn't from WWF, it's from each other - poaching talent/towns from each other to go national and/or become the de facto #2. How would this change WWF? Theoretically, leaving these "territories" be would be good for them and the talent - essentially 2-3 developmental territories they don't have to pay for, and a (maybe) decent-paying place discarded WWF talent can land. But this is Vince we're talking about, and his need to conquer all of pro wrestling would probably cause him to crush them unmercifully.

Or Moolah.

That was quite the enjoyable main event. Nothing ground-breaking, and Owens and Ziggler reigned in their annoying tendencies. If that were a house show main event I would have left quite satisfied.

Speaking of managers, I guess James Ellsworth counts. Carmella is beyond help though. I'd love a lower-card heel faction headed by Ellsworth, just to hear his raw yinzer accent cut promos on mid-card babyfaces.

Was Sami's best match on the main roster? (All his Owens matches run together for me.) I bang this drum every time Corbin has a good match on PPV - his work is really good but he needs some help with charisma bad. If only they allowed managers these days.

Certainly not intentionally That was piles of fun.

I like Aiden English's opera diva gimmick. Could be a solid lower card heel for a while.

Card: WWE Champion Randy Orton vs. Jinder Mahal SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos vs. Breezango United States Champion Kevin Owens vs. AJ Styles Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Dolph Ziggler SmackDown Women’s Champion Naomi, Charlotte Flair & Becky Lynch vs. Natalya, Carmella & Tamina (Six-Woman Tag Team Match) Sami Zayn vs. Baron Corbin Tye Dillinger vs. Aiden English (Kickoff Match) Luke Harper vs. Erick Rowan Curious about the booking of the title match and Nakamura, otherwise, nothing really stands out. As usual with WWE big shows, it probably will end up being a good show.