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Its sick remembering that Vince was a character in some of those "WWE meets Scooby-Doo/Hanna-Barberra characters" cartoons that were made for kids. Like do you think Vince would have been sending some of those text messages in between recording lines from the studio?

I am suddenly imagining hearing reports about Mauro getting into backstage fights with CM Punk.

Does that mean they're gonna put up all the old JCP, Mid-South, and World Class episodes on Netflix?

I feel dumb. I thought they were still doing clip shows for the holidays. My DVR was set to record IMPACT! Which of course doesn't exist in my cable providers listings anymore, and I realized I had to set it up again to record TNA now. Oops.

Great article! Its funny that nobody from Young Rock made the list since Rock's production company made that. Also sad that Zeus from No Holds Barred did make the although it's a bad movie I haven't seen in 30 years, my inner seven year old still remembers how Zeus was one of the first guys I saw when I first saw pro wrestling.

You must watch Women Of Wrestling every week and post in depth match reviews.

I really enjoyed the 80s show they had a couple weeks ago with all the 80s style gimmicks. Instead of the Million Dollar Man they had the 369000 Dollar Man for example.

Is that the guy wearing the tie? I'm really hoping he wrestles wearing the tie.

Just a reminder for other Canadians like myself who don't pay extra for TSN+, AEW is in Canada this week so Rampage and Collision are on TV. And I guess Danielson is having a tournament match on each show this week so Rampage will be worth checking out.

I'm hoping Dave Karger runs in with a steel chair... And then turns on Mankiewicz and becomes the lead host of TCM. Edit: Actually I'm hoping Robert Osborne comes out and reveals that he faked his death as just a wrestling storyline. "It was me, Mankiewicz! It was me all along!" There's your long term booking.

I feel it was kind of a waste to just throw Creeds vs DIY and Creeds vs New Day as parts of a gauntlet match when they could have been feature matches on Raw. I am hoping that DIY turns heel though and then heel DIY vs Creeds would probably make a better match anyway. It just seems weird to throw those away like that.

It sounds like maybe WWE was only willing to pay for Mania (like Austin a couple years ago) and Rock wanted multiple PLE pay days.

Are we making predictions in this thread? I have to think you don't put Swerve in this tournament to lose, and as a heel nobody should be screwing him over, so he's got to win the whole thing right? I imagine it is to try to elevate him so that some time in the new year he's ready to move up to the main event.

I felt like I had heard that "make money, not friends" line before. A quick Google search shows it comes from a story Scott Hall told about what Jay Strongbow said " in this business you can make money or you can make friends."

That's not the way Round Robin Tournaments work though, is it? What if he is beaten on the last day of the tournament and loses his belts, but the person who beats him for his 2 belts happened to lose all their other matches? They would have won the ROH and Strong belts, but wouldn't make the final to win the Continental belt, right?

A docuseries seems kind of a waste at this point. They should just do a sitcom about the end of WCW. They could call it "Not-So-Young Bischoff"

Thank you you for writing these match reviews. And for sharing them here.

Wow I didn't realize. No wonder they are never interesting.

I'm a little confused by the reactions here. I just checked Wikipedia and Hogan never wrestled last on SNME. He was usually the first or second match. The last match was never the main event.

They did a pretty poor job of promoting Battle of the Belts. I didn't realize it was on this weekend and forgot to record it. These specials should have some kind of big match attached to them that they promote for a few weeks beforehand on tv.

Instead of Adam Copeland, they could have given a name with the first name Edward and the last name starting with a J, then he could have been like Ed Jackson, or Ed James or something. That would have been funny. How come Maria Kanelis isn't with The Kingdom anyway? I am kind of hoping that when Adam Cole returns he turns heel and joins The Kingdom and then we can see Taven and Bennett have more tag matches in AEW.

The Championship Committee must be putting in some late nights debating whether "Escape the Cage" rules should continue to be allowed for title defenses after Saturday Night, since apparently you can win the title without actually beating the champion! I can imagine the piles of handwritten letters that must be coming in from fans disputing that outcome! Hopefully they haven't upset the Network or any of their sponsors! Speaking of sponsors, I wonder if we will see any ads coming up featuring wrestlers? And will this continue into the Ico Pro era?

...unless that's his kink....

You know I was thinking that calling the tag team battle royal the "Bada-Bing Bada-Boom" Battle Royal was an unfunny outdated Italian stereotype, but then the camera cut to a pulled back shot of Stacks and The Don in the corner of the studio watching the match while eating spaghetti and meatballs. So now I am unofficially re-christening this The Spaghetti-And-Meatball Battle Royal.

I just realized if Earthquake and Beefcake were wrestling today, they would be put together in a tag team at some point and given the name "Beefquake."