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The GI Joe comic from Marvel (and the IDW continuation, but I havent gotten to that yet) is worth checking out too, surprisingly enough. It gets really good once it starts focusing on the various power plays and backstabbing in Cobra, in fact, I'd argue that the Cobras, not the joes, are really the main characters (though the Joes get plenty of moments to shine during the battle scenes).

According to a commercial they aired on Smackdown, Ozzy Osbourne is also going to be inducted. Pretty sure this must have been a request from Triple H ("If I cant get Lemmy, might as well get a guy who sang some songs he wrote").

Reportedly, Titus O'Neil will be getting the Warrior award this year.

Well, they didnt edit out Pillman's "You know what a mark is?" promo from Cyberslam 96, so they arent going completely crazy with censorship. Wonder how they'll handle Heat Wave 99.

I was thinking that since WWE is so chummy with FOX, they can take the stuff that NBC might think either has little to no demand (AWA, HIdden Gems), or that may be "problematic" (ECW, SMW) and put it on the Tubi (An ad-supported streaming service owned by FOX).

As a big heavy metal fan, that's having the same problem with aging fans, as most of the fanbase are now much older. Of course, most of that stuff is more easily accessible and doesnt require the "commitment" that it takes to have to sit through a 3 hour (or even 2 hour) wrestling show, not to mention that they do at least try to stay relevant at times by working with people who are relevant (a lot of people's first exposure to Ozzy Osbourne was his recent collaboration with Post Malone), though to be fair, that is what the WWE is doing with Bad Bunny, but Miz vs Bunny is going to be seen as a goofy novelty match, not something that's going to intrigue people.

WM6 no longer has the Piper/Bad News match.

Looks like Peacock isnt on my older model Roku (even though stuff like HBO Max is), guess I'll have to watch it online until I get a newer model.

Looks like I spoke too soon as it refers to content, they cut the Vince/Cena segment (THAT one) from Survivor Series 05.

Cant think there's any issue with content. They have stuff on Peacock (ie, Code Monkeys) that makes the Attitude era look tame in comparison.

Wrestlemanias 6, 23, 28, and 31 are missing from the Wrestlemania archive.

They do have a healthy number of Attitude-era PPVs.

Would it be too soon to induct Jon Huber? I mean, after his death, we got a lot of tweets from WWE guys showing how loved in the locker room he was, and for a time, the Wyatt family were pretty big. OTOH, I dont know if he really had a HOF-level career (yeah, I know about other guys like Koko or Hillbilly, but they were arguably more over than Huber). On a different note, I can see the Warrior award (if they give it out this year) being a "virtual" award for all the front-line workers, a safe induction and some good PR for the company.

Has Steiners vs Sting/Luger been mentioned yet? Excellent match, but the Nikita run-in kind of detracts from it.

I wonder if they'll edit some of the more "questionable" stuff out like blackface, confederate flags, violence toward women, violence toward animals, etc. That may have passed on something niche like the Network, but I dont know if something more "mainstream" would let it go. (though at least that means we wont have to see the DX Nation skit again)

You mean, of the United States? Because i've never heard of her having any political ambition. But anyway, back on topic, I wonder if the success Young Rock will make them to want more early 80s footage on there so fans can see the real Rocky Johnson in his prime (as well as some of the other wrestlers mentioned on there).

Uh, I think you're responding to a different message.

Same with youtube reviewers. I wonder how this is going to affect Wrestling With Wregret and Wrestling Bios.

Kind of a timeline goof as the LJN toys didnt come out until 1985 (and they didnt look like the one we saw there, the LJNs were solid rubber). I wonder if they'll bring up when Johnson and Tony Atlas won the wwf tag titles, that was a pretty big moment (and I wonder who they'll get to play Atlas).

While that could work, the problem is that you'd have to go with a "no fans" method (much like the current state of wrestling shows) to avoid spoilers coming out.

^ Though to be fair, Disney had success with the Mandalorian and (especially) Wandavision being in the once-a-week format, especially since it keeps people guessing on what happens next. OTOH, those are established IPs, it's unknown if the same format would work with something brand new.

The only real thing that defines current pop culture is superhero films/shows, but those are more built by the personalities of the heroes, so you cant even really replicate that.

That's why I think a "random match" option for WWE network would be a good idea. Now granted, being completely random, you may happen upon a notroriously bad match, but there's also the chance you could happen upon a particularly good match. The network has literally thousands of hours of content, so adding this may help people who feel overwhelmed by all the content (of course, there's no chance of this happening with the Network folding into Peacock).

Isnt Reddit essentially a message board? I mean, they do have threads and topics just like other message boards.

Those Coliseum Video review books by James Dixon have apparently been put online by him: https://historyofwrestlingblog.wordpress.com/reviews/vhsdvd/ These are the same reviews that were published in the books (however, the site itself hasnt been updated since 2017).