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I am glad that they're focusing on actual wrestlers again, for a time it was looking like a true crime show that just happened to involve wrestlers (ie, the Johnny K9 episode).

And after the funeral they can show The Beastmaster.

So Evil's new name is Naraku. That's,,actually a pretty cool name.

The best match I remember him being in was against,,Velveteen Dream. Yeah.

Everyone's talking about New Day as a tag team in AEW, but what about singles? I can see Kofi working well with guys like Orange Cassidy, Swerve, Kevin Knight, and even MJF.

I'm a big fan of Shawn Michaels, but him having only one foot touch the floor to win the 1995 Rumble arguably started all of that loophole abuse about both feet hitting the floor.

I can see New Day being part of some fun "party matches" in AEW.

To be fair, outside of Taker and Kane (and they had a certain something to them), "darker" characters have never really worked in the WWE (the likes of Mankind, Edge, and Christian got much more popular when they started acting more like themselves and less like horror movie characters), but that's no reason to fire them, just give them different characters or even better, let them just act like themselves. EDIT: Also, if this is true, then explain Danhausen.

Another interesting wrinkle in this situation is that the Roku channel has picked up next-day streaming rights for CW programming, including NXT (Roku Channel is free, so it's free whether you watch it on tv or stream the next day): https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/cw-network-sets-partnership-roku-140000613.html

Yeah, as bland as a name like Lexis King is, it was picked by him as a tribute to his sisters, not the NXT name generator, though they still played up the fact that he's Pillman's son in the vignettes.

At least we still have Tatum Paxley.

The NXT PLEs are now going to air on the CW. At least they're throwing a bone to those who cant afford streaming services.

Just read that the NWA on Comet will have its regular time slot be Saturdays at 4pm. Made me think, does anyone else miss wrestling shows on weekend afternoons? I know exactly why WWE and AEW have picked prime time, but there's just something relaxing about kicking back on a weekend and watching Superstars or Worldwide or World Class or what have you.

This thread also reminded me that we never got Ricky Steamboat vs Sid Vicious, at least as far as I know (they were both in WCW in 1993 so they could have encountered one another).

Here's a real fun six-man dark match from December 1991, Savage, Piper, and Duggan vs Flair, Roberts, and Undertaker:

They were a little more subtle with it during the Hulkamania through Attitude eras though. Heck, 1988 gave us an evil cop (ok, prison guard, but the police imagery was still there) and an evil preacher, something they would probably never do nowadays, not to mention how moral guardians criticized the attitude era. I think this discussion may be better suited to its own thread though.

I could even see he and Davey having a feud based off of their match at The Wrestling Classic and how it ended prematurely (Davey could say that now that he was healthy he could have a real match and beat him).

The number of commercials is why I watch highlights online. Yeah, you only get the last 3-5 minutes usually but at least you still get an idea of what the match is and you do get the finish. Of course, now my main excitement in WWE is more about what they upload on their vault channel anyway.

So recently one of the holy grails of wrestling media has surfaced, a full episode of WWF Radio: (Courtesy of Richard Land and his History of WWF Youtube channel, lots of rare WWF material there).

At 66 years old: https://www.ringsidenews.com/former-wcw-star-van-hammer-dead-66/

As for the Vince chants: If you're a fan of Vince McMahon and want to help Vince McMahon, get hjm some counseling! Introduce him to some women his own age! Hide his cell phone, but dont treat him like a hero! -The Boondocks (paraphrased)

Something tells me that if Bruno Sammartino was still alive he definitely wouldnt be remaining on WWE's side by this point

It would be a definite styles clash, but I'd like to see what Steamboat could have done with Raven (either in ECW or WCW).

And even though I didnt see it, apparently he gave a rambling, incoherent speech. Sigh, sometimes I hate being right.

There's also the option that he decides to go back to the WWF around 1996 or so so he can wrestle Austin and Vader again (as well as matches against Owen, Bulldog, or even Shawn Michaels).