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It doesn't come off that way watching it. Sami said he hated KO, but respected him and where they came from to be two Montreal kids main eventing a show in Montreal after KO had been the guy carrying Raw for the past 9 months (lol). This caused the fans to chant for KO, who got emotional and said something in French that I presume was something like "fuck off".

Pretty much how I feel about a lot of the YouTube-exclusive WWE content. So fucking silly and backward - and downright infuriating - for WWE not to have this shit on their own Network. They actually had a section on the Network devoted to their Youtube stuff for a while. I don't know why or when they got rid of it.

I'm struck by the 2010 class, which had Bob Uecker and Antonio Inoki chatting it up next to Gorgeous George's widow while having Bruce Hart in jeans and sunglasses at the end of the stage.

I mean if Drew Gulak can be on Raw and 205 Live a few times a month, surely Biff Busick can, too.

Neither were/are 300 pounds, but they do share a pretty similar in ring style of overweight looking guys for their era who were nevertheless very athletic and huge bumpers. There's certainly a lot of overlap, imo. I assume it's probably somewhat intentional since Pierre was one of KO's trainers. And considering Jacques was the other trainer, I'm sure Pierre was the one who did all the work.

A lot of athletes have always given Tyson the benefit of the doubt on that incident, I have to assume because being in a situation like that where they'd get accused of something is probably a fear a lot of them have or have experienced. One one hand, being from Indiana I know Greg Garrison (lead prosecutor) on the case and he's a huge piece of shit that definitely doesn't seem above getting an innocent man of color convicted. On the other hand, the evidence sure doesn't seem like Tyson was an innocent man. I guess it's similar to the other side where people are still convinced OJ did it despite not being convinced.

Does anyone remember that they had a match on I want to say the Japan show, which Lorcan (wtf kind of name tho) won clean with a half nelson superplex and then it was never mentioned on TV again, nothing ever came from it, and Lorcan went back to doing house shows while Almas was on the next Takeovers?

He was quite a bumper and made late stage Mountie tolerable. Really got dicked with a fucking pirate gimmick, but such was 1995.

A match that I never see get any talk is Macho vs Bret from Slamboree 1998. It's basically Macho's last quality match, Bret's best WCW match that didn't involve Benoit. The whole match is pretty much Macho's great babyface selling as Bret destroys his already bad knee and his neck. Even with the fuckery finish and Piper trying to steal the spotlight, it's two old vets taking their time and doing what they do at a point where it was really the last chance they'd get to do it and have it be any kind of decent, let a lone good.

I really, really like the green belt. Everyone has a hard on for the 88-98 winged eagle, but I have an affinity for the green belt even though it was before my time. What's really weird is the belt Hogan wore for The Main Event with Andre, as it was basically a blend of winged eagle and the Attitude Era belt, but was only used for that one show. It was different from the winged eagle title from WM 5 to 14.

Of course, which is why I find it weird that someone would think Brodus Clay was a potential Earthquake level big man because he had some solid squashes on TV.

A lot of guys are great at squashes. That doesn't mean they're good wrestlers.

HALL PASS, UCE! HALL. PASS. Lmao.

I feel like AA really settled into their formula before they even left NXT and they're trying to do this weird mix of RNR + Steiners regardless of opponents, all while SD portrays them as these top level talents even though even when they were called up it felt like they were way high in the draft and they've done nothing of note since. I don't even blame it on bad main roster writing, because they fell off hard to me as soon as they won the NXT titles and stopped having anything that felt like an organic match.

It's really interesting how much the shine has faded on AA since getting called up. To me, they peaked at Takeover Dallas and after that went full blown video game psychology every match, but it sure sounded like a very sizable portion of the crowd at wherever they're at didn't like them at all, and another solid chunk didn't care about them either way.

He's been directionless since getting called up. All they've had for him is give him a few matches with KO every few months.

Considering that reaction never happens in WWE except for comedy, it's seems pretty weird to add that "oh I fucked up" element of storytelling when Taker didn't even have a reason to turn around other than to get hit by the spear. If he knew it was coming, he could have just...not turned around and exited the ring.

Pre-debut internet hype, basically. Before he came out as a fat dancing dinosaur. Sheer ignorance. I was hoping for a John Tenta worker and instead got Junkyard Dog. Pre-internet hype also got people thinking Dean Ambrose and Sami Callihan were top tier talents. You can't trust pre-internet hype.

Why would you have expected Brodus Clay to be good?

This is all I saw of the show and it looked more like he was dreading having to take a bump and it didn't read like that to me at all, since Taker has been around for 300 years and never had a reaction like that before.

Pretty good is right. But pretty good for the Ultimate Dream Match doesn't really cut it, does it ? Hell, Rock vs Hogan far exceeded its expectation (although it's way overrated) while Rock vs Cena ended up underwhelming (and thus is underrated). Actually, maybe the fact they re-did it the next year is what hurts the first match, which may be better than pretty good actually. But the second being just there hurts the perspective of the whole deal I think. Like most Taker matches at Mania. It's funny because the streak had this incredible, legendary aura, but people seem to forget most of it consists of really shitty matches. And I don't mean only in the formative years, I mean during the vaunted Streak years too. And the ones who weren't shitty were overrated as all hell (yeah, I'm looking at you, self-conscious epic Shawn matches). Of Taker's 23 WM matches, less than half are worth a shit. Maybe about 10. Taker's career in general follows the "incredible, legendary aura that people forget mostly consists of really shitty matches". As early as 1997, JR was hyping Taker as the single greatest wrestler in WWE history after audiences had just seen 6 1/2 years of garbage with a couple of solid matches with Mankind. And that just kept going the rest of his career. For every great match Taker had, he'd have a year of trash.

Correct. I don't think anything game show era NXT counts except the first and second seasons, and only because of Nexus/New Nexus.

Has nothing to do with the pics/vids, and he's cutting a 9 years too late Heath Ledger Joker promo about his pain.

Callahan/Crowe is absolute garbage, and it's refreshing to see that viewpoint expressed by someone else too. Most of the internet treats him like this amazing talent. I sure as hell didn't see any evidence of that in NXT. He reminded me of Jericho taking the worst excesses of his early heel midcard character and ramping it up x100 with horrible mugging, bad facials, etc. (and I liked and still like Jericho, but nothing about his character was subtle back then). The real reason Paige isn't getting fired is because she's currently out with an injured neck. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. If she gets her shit together instead of constantly self-sabotaging her plum WWE dream job and overall career (and I don't mean the sex tape), all of this - including the tape - will be long forgotten by the time she's healthy and ready to come back. He was garbage on the indies, too. How about we keep CZW guys out of WWE.

WWE isn't making the movie about her. Rock's production company is. Once Rock got involved, WWE signed on as either distributors or something similar. They aren't making or funding the movie in any way, although they're letting the film use WWE trademarks. The main reason they haven't cut Paige is because she's hurt, and they haven't cut people who were out hurt for quite a while now, instead freezing their contracts until they're cleared to wrestle.