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Speaking of Dwayne, when he eventually deflates, physically, will he end up looking like current Lex Luger or more like Rikishi?

Wrestlers today would look at the greatest move of all-time - the Triple Lindy - and try to add to it.

John Cena's "Vacation Friends" > the Rock's "Red Notice". Don't@me. (In fact, I've probably enjoyed Cena's recent performances more the Dwayne's recent ones.)

We know there's less people watching wrestling live or on television today than there were in 1983, when Vince began to make wrestling more popular (ahem)....I didn't know America's population has increased by almost 100 million people in the same time. It's damning and shameful that Vince oversaw an audience decline during a population boom. But I guess it was never about the industry , for Vince. It was always about Vince.

I enjoyed the show a great deal. I do yearn for a Bundy vs S.D Jones or an L.o.D vs Power & Glory on these shows; ten "serious" matches in a row gets a bit much. Hell, give me a Doink and three Dinks, just something to break things up a bit. Casting my vote for Punk/Eddie as MotN.

It's good to enjoy pro-wrestling again. I say we start a GoFundMe GoCokeMe for Tony K and just send him aaaalllllllll the coke.

Young Bucks in the NXT 2.0 tribute pants makes me want to adjust my screen.

...and getting $20 from Mum for a Jungle Boy t-shirt would be a piece of cake, too.

“To out-do Vince McMahon, you have to out-coke Vince McMahon.” - Coach Tony, possibly.

I know WWF ended up with Buster Douglas, so I did some digging. Here's the story from http://stholeary.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-buster-douglas-changed-history-of.html: According to the Wrestling Observer, rumors of a Hulk Hogan/Mike Tyson match started percolating in 1988. At that point, there did not seem to be anything substantial to the rumors other than everyone agreeing it would be the biggest money-maker in the history of pro wrestling, boxing, pay-per-view and potentially live entertainment. By 1990, these rumors picked up serious steam and Don King – never one to back down from a microphone – did nothing to quell those rumors. Whether a Hulk Hogan/Mike Tyson match was ever actually in the works is something known only by a select few. We do know it was floated in the mainstream media by Don King. As King told the Daily News in early 1990, “If Vince came up with the money - and I'm talking between $100 and $200 million - I might be able to convince Mike to do it.” These rumors gained steamed as it was announced the WWF would be paying Mike Tyson nearly $1 million to be the special guest referee at The Main Event on Feb. 23, 1990, during the live, primetime NBC special. In the world of the WWF, there was another superstar who was on the brink of mainstream acceptance – the Ultimate Warrior. As Vince McMahon ruminated on the eventual end of Hulkamania, everyone knew that the Ultimate Warrior was being groomed to replace Hogan as the top star. With everything swirling, there was little doubt that something big was going to happen in Detroit. In fact, in the weeks leading up to the Buster Douglas fight, Don King had a special guest in Tokyo – Vince McMahon. The two reportedly discussed creating a partnership to promote wrestling supercards, Mike Tyson fights, movies and even a cartoon featuring Tyson.... In 1989, the second Main Event featured the breakup of the Mega Powers as Randy Savage turned on Hulk Hogan. The breakup included Savage producing arguably the best heel promo in pro wrestling history – see above about the WrestleMania V buyrate. So the stakes were high going into 1990, as Savage and Hogan would face off in a rematch for the WWF title with the most famous athlete in the world as the special guest referee. While the Main Event for WrestleMania VI was officially announced as The Ultimate Warrior vs. Hulk Hogan, the pro wrestling rumor mill was in overdrive stating that it would not happen. For one, the Hogan/Tyson match loomed as a possibility. Secondly, speculation soared that Vince was getting cold-feet on his plan of having the Ultimate Warrior defeat Hogan for the title – Hogan had never lost cleanly in the WWF. To avoid this, it was believed Savage would win the WWF Title on the Main Event, potentially with help from Tyson, to set up Savage vs. Warrior and Hogan vs. Tyson at WrestleMania VI. From a 1990 news article on Buster Douglas: “In the months before Douglas' stunning victory, King and McMahon were working on a three-part scheme designed to take hundreds of millions of dollars from foolish sports fans and the parents of impressionable children. King owned Tyson, considered unbeatable at the time. And McMahon's WWF owned Hulk Hogan, the kind of cartoon character only pro wrestling can manufacture. Together, these two super hustlers planned to combine their two super heroes into one of the grandest money-making schemes in sports history. According to sources, the scenario was to unfold on Feb. 23 when Tyson received $1 million to serve as guest referee on a wrestling card pitting Hogan against Randy Savage, a designated bad guy. Tyson was to somehow interfere, allow Savage to win, and Hogan and Tyson would then be matched in a pay-per-view extravaganza expected to generate at least $125 million.” Then Mike Tyson lost."

Is he doing it as Xavier Woods, Registered Trademark?

Anyone else getting "Mick Foley, Everyman" vibes from Eddie Kingston?

If I’m going to compromise the integrity of my list by putting Gino Carabello at #100, I may as well put him at #1, no?

I love that Eddie's mum/mom would've known she was renting Memphis' Bloodiest Brawls for her eleven-or-so year-old son. You can take the lady out of Puerto Rico, but you can't take the Puerto Rico out of the lady.

It's the polarising natures of Kenny and Shawn, I'd wager, and that people can find much larger holes in their cases than Bryan's and Misawa's, thus engendering more comments?

I read old wrestling mags in the Thinking Room, and came across this curiosity in FSM: "The Ballad of Rikidozan...In an episode of The Roth Show, Van Halen front-man David Lee Roth tells the story of Rikidozan." Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54Eoh6bxTU. Here's the question: Is David Lee Roth a noted wrestling historian or fan? Wonder if he posts at WrestlingClassics... Also, regarding a conversation here a few months back, I found a tweet from the then Giant Bernard saying "CMLL rings are the hardest I've ever worked in".

This is the company that put Ricky Steamboat on the same Survivor Series team as Randy Savage and Jake Roberts...

Thanks. Not trying to start a fight, brother MoS, I'm just curious as to whether "not just the live audience" is something being projected onto wrestlers (that it "stands to reason") or if it's being projected by the wrestlers themselves (has any wrestler expressly stated they were working for the person, say, buying a DVD in five years' time?) I'm of the opinion that if the live crowd shits on your match, you failed. And no amount of retrospective viewing will ever change that.

I utterly fail to see how it could be any other way. I also utterly fail to see how its "his" philosophy. Sounds like Wrestling 101 to me.

Is your empire crumbling? Well, have we got a solution for you! "As per the the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there's a new WWE directive in place for the company to look to hire shorter referees. Of course, if stood in-ring next to a short ref, wrestlers will naturally appear tall or, as WWE hopes, comes across as taller than they actually are...On the flip side of this, there were stories of certain WCW wrestlers - notably Randy Savage - who didn't like to have Nick Patrick officiating their matches, for Patrick's 6'2" frame would make the wrestlers in question look shorter." (courtesy WhatCulture). I'm picturing the feasibility study, where Nick Khan explains how short referees are cheaper and more-plentiful than tall wrestlers...

...and if we don't want him in our wrestling feds, does that mean we can't buy a burger from him or pay him $20 to mow the lawn or accept an Uber ride from him? Is he "allowed" to work anywhere?

Probably because I meant Wheeling...sorry about that . That seems to be in your neck of the woods, @Blehschmidt. Do you remember it being a wrestling town? Much time and substances have passed through me since the days of buying wrestling magazines (three-to-six months late because they were shipped, not flown, to Australian newsstands) so I could be remembering it wrong...

It was the Arena Reports or Mat Happenings type of pages in the mags that did it for me, where they'd just list results from all over the US. All these wrestlers I'd never heard of, wrestling in mystical, mythical places like Wheeler and Tupelo and Smyrna (is this the only time those places have received those adjectives?). Then there were the wrestler hometowns. I always thought Sarasota was overrun with mad cunts and Stone Mountain Georgia full of serial killers, purely to being "home" to Randy and Jake. Also my US pop-culture is way ahead of all but the Americanophiles here in Australia. TL;DR - Pro-wrestling: teacher, mother, secret lover

I don't understand how people can possibly believe the cat story... c'mon - even a high-powered circular saw would take a second or two to bisect a feline, and that's at several thousand RPMs. Someone just throws a blade and it hits the cat, but the blade keeps spinning and moving forward at its original rate, through bone and out the other side? Yeah, nah... Anyway, 1. Kerry 2. Fritz 3. Kevin 4. David

An even bigger WTF was that Tyler Breeze got the gig. Did I read somewhere that Liger asked for him?