TheDuke

I was hoping to see a series of fun vignettes of Mark Briscoe being initiated into the Don Callis Family. ("Carry these gym bags, young boy. Handwash these jockstraps") I like the idea of the Death Riders being these attack dogs that Jon Moxley has starved and beaten and trained to be these uncontrollable monsters, and now Moxley has lost control and they turn on him and just run roughshod through AEW unleashing chaos and destruction. Then the question becomes, is there somebody who can get them under control?

I used to love getting the essential Marvel books. They were a lot of comics for a cheap price but were black and white. This is how I read the classic X-Men stories that came out before I started reading comics. It's funny, I believe Volume 2 was the one I was missing. I believe I had 1, 3, and 4. I feel like 2 had the most famous Byrne stories which was why it probably wasnt in stock at my local comic shop when I bought 1, 3, and 4.

"I then had to convince my childhood friend Andre the Giant not to shoot on Hulk Hogan in the main event of Wrestlemania 3."

"SHE LIKES IT! SHE LIKES IT!"

"Khamzat carries a notable scar on his lip, which he got at the age of two when he fell down on concrete stairs, leaving him unable to breathe correctly through one nostril." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamzat_Chimaev "In April 2023, du Plessis underwent surgery to fix a breathing impairment in his nose. According to his coach Morne Visser, du Plessis had been competing in the UFC with "only 8% oxygen" intake through his nostrils." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dricus_du_Plessis It's the battle of the mouth breathers!

I tend to skim through multiman matches unless I see something interesting like run ins or weapons or something then I will watch a few minutes and if it doesn't interest me I fast forward. They feel like placeholders, like nobody is really beating anybody since everyone is ganging up on everyone so anyone who is pinned has an excuse and the person who does win you could say somebody else did most the work. I just don't find them satisfying. Similarily I am not a fan of six man or more tag matches unless its a bunch of babyfaces teaming together against a heel faction because they usually feel like such meaningless matches. I do love during a shine or comeback when you have a bunch of heels bumping for a fired up babyface. For a while those Judgment Day tag and 6 man matches were the highlight of the show for me seeing them bump all over the ring for the face teams.

I usually hate Nia Jax, but I really liked the Last Man Standing with Tiffany Stratton. I was originally going to skip it, but I saw a couple highlights (Tiffy jumping from the apron to run into the steps Jax was holding, and Jax splashing off the apron onto Tiffy through the table on the floor) that made me go back and watch the whole match. I think it was probably Tiffy's selling which makes me want to watch her matches more closely from now on. It's kind of silly that she won, but she seems like she is good at getting destroyed by a bigger woman.

If we can bring up anecdotal evidence, i don't see non-wrestling fan friends or people at my work or whatever talking about wrestlers like I saw during the Hogan, Monday Night Wars, or Cena eras. I feel like their success right now is from doubling down on the modern WWE fans they already have and catering to their whims more (which I think are different from a lot of the people who visit this board). Also, I feel like Undertaker belongs in that list with Foley and Austin etc. Again speaking from anecdotal evidence, I really feel like most of the people I went to school with in the 90s who didn't watch wrestling still knew who Undertaker was.

Wow i feel kinda dumb (my excuse is that Im Canadian). I totally didnt realize until you pointed it out here that IRS is a villain because a lot of political conservatives believe taxes are bad in general ( I always assumed it was because having to sit down and do taxes or getting audited was annoying)

I think the idea is that if you own all the places wrestlers are able to work then you can pay them less because where else are they gonna go.

I like the Captain America ring gear. I hope this is a long term gimmick and is not just going to be droppee after Wrestlemania.

My favorie thing they post is the old Coliseum home videos. They really should be putting those on Netflix but I am guessing Netflix doesnt want them.

Reading this has made me wonder if Triple H spewing the bottle water mist in his entrance was supposed to be symbolic of him having an orgasm. He was in DX which had that "sex-is-funny/let's-pretend-to-hump-things" humor.

Remember the League of Nations heel faction from around that era? That was awful.

I don't know about internationally, but in Canada Smackdown wasnt on its' old home Sportsnet since that deal ended at the end of 2024, but wasn't live on Netflix yet either. Instead it's available for us on their Youtube channel: I'm dismayed that they have made it 3 hours now. I was happy that they had reduced Raw to 2 hours. At 3 hours I usually end up waiting and watching it later and fast forward through most of it.