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I totally agree. Maybe I did it to myself, but I kept getting whiffs of things that happened leading into that first Foley win in 98 and when it was just THAT I was sort of deflated. Now that I've seen the post match stuff with Danielson and the crowd's reaction to Eddie, now I just think it was a first look into him as a legit main eventer. I feel like that first C2 was going to lead to that but the injury fucked it all up. I also completely co-sign the Speedball vs Fletcher as Match of the C2 so far! Incredible pace and I felt like even though AEW gets flak for the sprinting style and all the spots, they really sold things well either with facial expressions or awesome body language.

Yeah he really blew me away and also got me on that selling of the ankle. I was over here about to do a Native American healing dance for this C2 what the hell?! Also, this Speedball and Fletcher match is gearing up to be a great one

Sullivan was a consistently great pro wrestler for many years and sadly, much of his best moments were either in Florida and much of that is hard to find or in awful quality or during drought times such as his really unsung shit with One Man Gang in 91 having to make El Gigante any kind of palletable. I loved him with Cactus as WCW Tag Team champions in 94 just having street fights monthly.

I am painfully late to the great Taueism and yet I feel like every single time you watch one of his matches, he always surprises you. He can have a great King's Road main event or really entertaining, comedy based underneath stuff in NOAH. He was one of if not the most selfless "Pillars" and I think it has muddied his case a bit to some people. That is pretty clear in previous posts but I just felt compelled to say Taue is moving up my list more and more each time I see him.

Thank god I have all of Titans on Google Drive and another hard drive lol now I gotta do the same with World Cast then!

I was watching Mystery Titans Theatre last night and there was mention of the Spotify that Kelly used to put up old Titans and that led me to this pod, and I know criminally little about World Class so there goes my work day!

It's just so funny that a lot of what WWE is doing the usual recycling of gimmicks thing but it's new HERE and hey, it works for Jade. Good for her. Seeing Claudio come out with the title gives some alternative timeline 90s IC Champ vibes

You're really dead on with the AAA comparison and while everyone wants to do the "wehl ackwualy" about how TNA isn't owned by WWE, their fate is in their hands. Without the massive NXT influence, Bound for Glory wouldn't have been in the UBS. Without that, no one would have taken a second look from the AMC camp and etc, etc. They're going to have to build this thing almost from square one, and while I'd say they need to become the X Division company again that's just going to lead to Leon Slater dropping the belt to Harlem Lewis or something equally bullshit. Trick as champion was praised as this huge elevation of that title and in the end, it was used for a Russofied ass angle to get it hot shotted on Kazarian? I'm sure Santana wins it that first TV but come on, is that really your money moment for the future?

I don't even know what to say about all of it other than I truly think it's good for wrestling to have another "big" TV show for talent to be on and I also can't think of anything that TNA has done in years that I've genuinely been excited about aside from when Josh Alexander wrestled the world as champion. All that feels a decade ago and it was only a couple of years. I guess it pays to just loan your IP out to TKO, we shall see.

It's sad times for that side of the fandom it seems.

I just go by the @Johnny Sorrow measure of "Strongbow is a great worker because people reacted to him" and that's all there is to say dammit! No but seriously, for me I think Strongbow is a product of his time in that he knew his limitations and also that he was there to play a character. It's like seeing a guy in the background of every movie of a certain era, they're there because they know their role. If I went back and analyzed the footage, I'm sure he was awesome when you mentioned though. With all that said, he ain't going anywhere near my list!

I've been doing a podcast with a buddy of mine Jim for a little while and I finally think we've gotten into a groove. As the name suggests, we are watching from the start of the WCW era onwards and this latest episode is our review of Halloween Havoc 90! I had a blast, I hope you do listening. https://youtu.be/N0eHS0VJh3g

Thanks to further footage being unearthed, I can easily state that Bruno deserves a spot in this project. Outside of just being a really solid wrestler for his day, he had a great look and his fire as a babyface was second to very few, if none. I really fell in love with his matches against Ivan Koloff, Superstar, and even his stuff with Kowalski that I've seen has been remarkable shit. I used to hate on Bruno because until the late 2000s we really had very little of his full matches, but in 2026 he is a top 100, and perhaps even top 50 for me.

For me it's all of this, and the added reality that at the end of the day he's just doing a rough cosplay of Terry Funk so do we waste spots on Funk clones now? That's a really tough call, and one that I don't know about so much. If he does make it, he's probably my 100 then.

How nuts is it that Panther is STILL wrestling as the GWE '26 will release? Easy addition to me not even with current day stuff added. Legend of legends at a time when he really was needed for CMLL to survive and the way he's become an institution is just dope.