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Some of the fans do make timestamps in the comments, still, the uploaders themselves should do that, especially if they slip in rarities.

Those are behind paywalls though, the Vault, while it is monetized via ads, is free, so it may be different.

Yeah, I read that most of the library is just going to be on the Vault channel (sadly, they wont post any events that had Benoit, just highlights, even though they could just edit Benoit out, but then you miss out on certain Royal Rumbles and WW3 Battle Royals). It would be nice if they could post it in some order though, right now it's like digging through a bin of tapes.

This would be a great way to post short runs in companies. They could do it for stuff like Owen in WCW or Barry Windham's stint as the Widowmaker.

I dont know, I think Ric Flair's final match (I mean the tag with Andrade vs Lethal and Jarrett, not the Shawn one) was pretty bad. At least Cena was healthy here.

I remember that one of the Best of the WWF tapes had a match from Kuwait involving Mr. Fuji vs some blonde guy (since the commentary was in Arabic, there was no way to tell who the blonde wrestler was). I wonder if that match was from this tour. EDIT: The tape in question is Best of the WWF volume 16.

It's wild that Cena's entire push can be traced back to impersonating Vanilla Ice on a Smackdown Halloween skit.

I've always wished I could have seen Andre the Giant or Kerry Von Erich when they were in their prime. Sure, there's plenty of older footage which I'm thankful for, but I'm talking about appreciating them back in the day (I was born in 1979 and didnt start watching wrestling until 1990 when Andre was semi-retired and Kerry had lost his foot and was nowhere near as good or over as he was in the 80s). Any examples you have?

Bump Anyone read the Gorilla Monsoon biography? Pretty comprehensive, and kind of works as a history of the wwf type book as well.

The problem with face paint is that, from the ones I've seen, it flakes off during the match, which means that for a long match, by the end of the match the "mystery" is gone (if they used the same type of paint that circus clowns or rock groups like KISS used, it might stay on better). As someone who basically sees wrestling as a live-action comic book, the masks help the superhero image (and it's still possible to show emotion depending on the mask, look at Rey Mysterio Jr for example).

Only one guy smiling there (Heyman).

The recent WWE Vault uploaded a WWF show held at the New York Stock Exchange, which made me wonder, what are some of the most unusual venues to have held wrestling shows? Of course, there were some of WCW's free shows like the first Nitro at the Mall of America, Bash at the Beach on an actual beach, the Road Wild shows at the Sturgis Bike Rally.

https://www.tmz.com/2025/10/20/sir-mo-dead/ Never was a huge fan, but MOM were a fun face team in retrospect.

So, thoughts on the Cena/Styles match? I've only seen highlights, but I've heard varying opinions on how they were using the finishers of their opponents, some calling it just finisher spam, others seeing it as a callback to what they learned from their rivals.

So AJ Styles is retiring next year: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25253051-aj-styles-announces-hell-retire-wwe-2026-my-body-can-no-longer-move If they want to give him a retirement tour angle, lets hope they learned from the mistakes they made with Cena.