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Hot take, but I'd say matches that are considered "throwaway" hold up better than matches with a backstory. With a match that has a long backstory, you've got to remember all the details that led up to why it's happening in the first place, but a "cold" match means you can just enjoy a match with a beginning, a middle, and an ending, without it being attached to some ongoing feud.

Considering they're selling merch of them, I think Ken Shamrock and Sid are locks to get in.

Personally, I'd like to see Albert as a surprise entrant. I mean, he's a trainer and they have access to him currently, throw him in for a nostalgia pop and have him eliminate someone like one of the Pretty Deadly members or someone else who wouldnt be affected by it.

To be fair, Taker vs Lashley would have been an interesting match.

And likely related to Peacock, WWE is finally shuttering its DVD division: https://tjrwrestling.net/news/wwe-ending-home-video-releases/ End of an era, I really liked those DVDs (though the only one I got post-network was the WWE Unreleased one). Of course you know this means the old DVD sets will now be going for ridiculous prices now.

Actually, I think they own the whole library now, they have USWA Texas on the Network (inexplicably listed as "Global") and IIRC, USWA Texas was essentially what happened to World Class.

If The Iron Claw becomes a huge hit I can see a lot of people possibly wanting to see this WCCW stuff for themselves, might as well upload the last few months of it (they've got up through 1988).

Something tells me that a President Dwayne Johnson will be a "figurehead" President, who's the face of the Presidency, but the cabinet and the Vice President will do all the "real" work (of course, I thought the same thing about Trump, and that didnt happen).

I miss the old Hidden Gems category (you'd think with the whole Lost Media craze, and some actual wrestling lost media being brought to light via the network, they'd put up more stuff thought to be lost).

We've had 2 months without new classic content uploaded to the WWE Network/Peacock, so it looks like they dont care about that anymore and just see it as a way to air PLEs.

Well, there goes any chance of President Kurt Angle. But seriously IF Dwayne runs for President, you just know candidates will use his attitude era promos against him (did any of Jesse's opponents use some of his more politically incorrect lines against him, or were they not as readily accessible at the time?).

I'm wondering, did British wrestling ever have a presence on home video back in the day? US wrestling had lots of home video releases for multiple promotions, but were there ever any "best of Big Daddy" or "Best of Giant Haystacks" type videos out there?

Makes me wonder how AC/DC became his favorite band (at least the Rolling Stones, his other fav according to Jericho, started getting popular when Vince was growing up in the 60s). Maybe he discovered them during the whole MTV/Rock n Wrestling thing.

Apparently there's a Kurt Angle biopic in the works: https://itrwrestling.com/news/kurt-angle-confirms-a-movie-about-his-life-is-in-the-works-reveals-his-role/

Apparently MJF is the executive producer on this film. Now EP can mean a lot of things, but it's going to be weird seeing Maxwell Jacob Friedman's name in the opening credits (if it has opening credits). If this film is succesful, I wonder if it'll lead to other wrestling biopics. Maybe Martha Hart will get that screenplay about Owen out of mothballs.

Wonder why they dropped televising the MSG and Boston shows. Televising the LA shows died with the death of Z Channel (and showing things like wrestling and sports was a last ditch attempt to keep that channel alive), but I would have love having another WWF show to watch in the 90s (at least the Boston shows on NESN, my cable system never got the MSG network).

With the move to CW, I get the feeling the shows will be more "tighter", if anything, we sure wont have an overrun.

I doubt they book one of the major events in Saudi, just because of the whole time zone thing. It would look really weird to have a WM airing in the early afternoon (in the US).

I think that the WWE Hall of Fame should take a cue from the Academy Awards and put a short "in memorium" segment for the wrestlers who have died in the past year. It would only take a couple of minutes and be a nice gesture. They did something like that for the first ECW One Night Stand.

just watched this on peacock, amazing doc that shows how wrestling is important to fans.

Lex has been looking rather rough sadly (I think he's confined to a wheelchair).

I assume they'll try to get a Thursday night timeslot, which will mean that there will be wrestling on tv 6 days of the week.

Just found out something interesting on the OVP podcast. On March 1, 1986, you had WWF Championship Wrestling, WWF All-Star (in certain markets), WWF Superstars (not the one you're familiar with, this was the c-show, and again, in certain markets), the Slammy Awards. and SNME. Add in all the Saturday shows from other companies, and you've got the most wrestling (or wrestling-related in the case of the Slammys) on one day of tv ever (or at least at that time).

Not only does Randy Orton have the longest tenure for an active wrestler in WWE (not counting guys like Cody who left and came back), but he's also the only one who was there when it was WWF (he had some house show matches in 2001-02 before debuting on tv).

Speaking of Vince, I find it odd that aside from Wrestlemania 2 and Summerslam 90, he's absent from PPV shows until 1992, and didnt become a regular PPV commentator until WM9 (aside from that one off KOTR show with the bizzare Monsoon/Savage/Art Donovan team, which was due to Vince being on trial). On that note, I always wondered what a Monsoon/Jim Cornette team would sound like, but after Joey Marella's death, Monsoon basically became bitter and cynical on commentary no matter who you put him with.