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Here are my predictions for the other inductees: Ken Shamrock (along with Rock and Jericho, the only top Attitude era star not yet in) Tajiri (They seem to be adding more Japanese wrestlers lately ie Muta, Liger, so I can see him going in) X-Pac (Might as well just get all of the Kliq in there) Motorhead (celeb induction, though it wont be the same without Lemmy there) Brian Pillman (They've been talking about getting him inducted, though Lexis King has said he doesnt have many memories of Brian so it'll be an awkward acceptance speech) Mickie James

What happened to Carmello Hayes? He was a breakout star in NXT, but he seems to be basically a JTTS over on the main roster.

Bob Uecker passed away yesterday. Loved his enthusiasm at WM3 and 4, definitely one of the best celebrities involved.

As I feared, the RAW clips on Youtube (at least for the matches) are being clipped to hell, in some cases not even showing the ending (at least they did show the endings for Rhea/Liz and Punk/Rollins, but Jey/Drew was shown without the ending, and Tribal Combat cut the ending but did show the post-match for some reason.

I wonder what Jesse Ventura thinks of this, I mean, sure, the reason he signed a legends deal is because Vince isnt there anymore, but he's no friend of Hogan either,,

Cricket (one of the sponsors on the mat) still being a WWE Sponsor is really weird at this point since if you sign up for unlimited high speed you get HBO MAX (not trying to sound like a commercial, it's just fact), so it's basically advertising both a rival to Netflix AND the service that streams AEW.

I just hope Netflix doesnt stop the WWE from posting RAW highlights onto their youtube channel. It's how I keep up with WWE since cutting the cord (not going to sign up for Netflix yet as I do have Peacock for the PLEs).

Triple H vs Tajiri in Japan: Possibly Tajiri's best WWE match?

I get the feeling they'll try to run Logan/Rock (though at least that keeps both of them away from the World title).

Was also surprised to find that Jesse Ventura never wrestled Dusty Rhodes (then again, I dont think there was ever a time they could have crossed paths).

Cole discussing the history of the Winged Eagle belt made the wrestling nerd in me smile.

If we're going to go there, I'd also put in 1990-91 WCW. Though you still had some straight wrestling matches/angles, that era was also the height of Jim Herd's ultra cartoony stuff like the Black Scorpion, Trucker Norm, PN News, Big Josh, Van Hammer, The York Foundation, Oz, and such.

CM Punk vs Amazing Red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDui1t-c1E

Maybe this belongs on the youtube channels thread, but has anyone seen this channel? A lot of it is stuff already on the network/peacock, but they also have a whole bunch of stuff not there like the Survivor Series 96 Free for all match, a 2003 Nasty Boys Dark match, and even a Dragon Gate match (World 1 vs Warriors). Good to see that they're doing something with their archives.

And though I dont think anyone was asking for it,,Christopher Knight vs Danny Bonaduce from Spring Stampede 94 (dark match) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYnc0LqGvSk

So the American Nightmare trademark was apparently owned by someone else: https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/cody-rhodes-wwe-fanatics-sued-over-american-nightmare-trademark/ Given how iconic the name is now, I can definitely see WWE settling or even trying to buy the rights to the name.

Of course, Jim Neidhart is best known for his work with the Hart Foundation, but are there any solo matches of him worth checking out?

Was Jesse just showing up because it was Minnesota, or is he doing some sort of legends deal with WWE (or both)?

Well, looks like Sheamus is the newest victim of Def Rebel's generic themes.

Actually, here's a video with the commercial breaks from the 3/30/99 Nitro so we can look at what advertisers they were able to get:

As for the claim that they cant get advertisers to buy time on wrestling, it might be interesting to find old episodes of Nitro or Thunder with the commercials intact (albiet, that's harder than you'd think) and see what advertisers they WERE able to get. I'm sure there would be at least some high-end stuff advertised.

I really like where this whole Chad Gable thing is going, but let's hope that Otis and Tozawa do get some revenge on him, if it's just them getting fired and then the Creeds join Alpha Academy and destroy them, it kind of makes them look like nothing but the losers that Chad's been calling them (I do want the Creeds in Alpha Academy, but not until after Otis and Tozawa take out Gable).

If there is a season 6, here's some topics I'd like to see: Virgil Manny Fernandez Renegade Missy Hyatt Dick Murdoch Jim Duggan Heroes of Wrestling Pro Wrestling USA (though that might have been better for Tales from the Territories) The Gilberts (2 hours, one on Eddie, one on Doug) Kamala

I recently saw a cool picture that had Sid about to powerbomb Davey Boy Smith and at the same time, Owen was trying to counter with a sunset flip. Does anyone know what match this pic came from?

Today I learned that Jim Jamison (the second singer for Survivor and the singer of the Baywatch theme) sang the Big Bossman's Hard Times theme.