Cowboy Hats 4.0

I don't have a great feeling with them titling this "Immortal Moments". How long until the DX invasion of WCW gets another spotlight thanks to this?

Could warrant its own thread, given there is a few minutes of wrestling talk (and surprisingly accurate for a non-wrestling fan), but it works here with the DJ talk.

No one who speaks German could be an evil man. But an exception might be made for those damn translators.

I don't know Brian outside of this channel, but he does great work there. The 25-30 minute ppv rewinds give me the right nostalgia hit a few times a month.

Not match order, but at least confirmed matches per night.

And what happened to them, sir?

Ahh, they even mentioned the Chavo talk in one of the clips, good catch. It's worth listening to all, but if you want to be selective, the MJF (in character) and Eddie (because of course) chats are the only true must-listens.

Apologies if this has been covered here, but I didn't see reference to it. Marc Maron has had wrestlers on his podcast in the past (at least Punk, Cabana, Foley, and AJ Lee), though those were probably like eight or nine years ago now. He's 59 and despite those guests and starring in GLOW, has never been interested wrestling, but for some reason, whether it's a need for content for his new subscription service and/or something nice to do for his ~40-something producer, a lifelong fan, Marc is leaning into wrestling a bit. He attended the AEW show in Los Angeles last month and is apparently doing a weekly podcast looking at the wrestling of the week (I've been listening since 2010, but not subscribing to this, at least yet). And from the AEW show comes one of this week's podcast...condensed versions of interviews with TK, Jericho, MJF, Kingston, and a few others. WTF Episode 1408

Is there a defense for the trope of a match to beat the champion just to get an actual title shot? If I recall correctly, they did that twice in the first hour of Dynamite this week? And no issue with the crowd itself, but it looked tiny. What were ticket sales like this week?

Was skimming Eddie Kingston's wiki and couldn't help but laugh/sigh:

https://twitter.com/sagesurge/status/1563179662372548609?s=20&t=x9h7VxPnoMhFE6EPOUZFKw Hmm, thought i could embed a tweet with just a copy/paste.

I still laugh when I think of this...

Really dug the match and the episode as a whole was well laid out and paced. They did a good job with the 'big fight feel', though that might have been 80% Kingston. Ending things up top is a bummer (though a few cool visuals), but could have been saved with Eddie throwing Claudio off the top. Replace Sammy's dive off with that and you remove some of the lameness that's inherent to the bump.

I mean, none of this is objective. It's a legitimate opinion to think that Baker hasn't been that entertaining since the early stages of her 'cool heel' run. I'd put that nearly entirely on the booking, sure, as she has plenty of charisma. But without any real stories, it's mostly in the service of putting her fingers in the air to say DMD. Even after having watched it over three days, the PPV's biggest sin was its length. 4 hours 40 minutes! It really should be two hours fewer, but even 3.5 hours would be a lot better.

I haven't seen the Rampage main event yet, but has any of the programming mentioned why Wheeler Yuta has not been mentioned once the BCC got dropped into the JAS/Eddie stuff. Presumably he's just the odd man out, but his absence has been weird.

I've been worried this is building to Cole/KOR, so now I have two things to sweat about.

wtf

The interim TNT title thing remains so so weird.

JR just never...stops...talking.

What is the Rampage taping schedule? Right after Dynamite? But for the Chicago and now Queens episodes, those are/were presumably live?

Bracket #1 1. Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon VS 16. Steiner Brothers vs. Doom 8. Jushin Liger vs. Chris Benoit VS. 9. Raven vs. Sandman 5. Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels VS 12. Bob Armstrong vs. Jim Cornette 4. Vader vs. Cactus Jack VS 13. Jushin Liger vs. Naoki Sano 6. The Undertaker vs. Mankind VS 11. Konnan vs. Perro Aguayo 3. Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart & Hart Foundation VS 14. Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger 7. Steve Austin vs. The Rock VS 10. Heavenly Bodies vs. The Fantastics 2. New Japan vs. UWFi VS 15. nWo Black & White vs. nWo Wolfpac Bracket #2 1. WCW vs. nWo VS 16. Gaea vs. SSU 8. The Rock vs. Mankind VS 9. Sting vs. Vader 5. Rob Van Dam vs. Jerry Lynn VS 12. Triple H vs. Vince McMahon 4. Ric Flair vs. Randy Savage VS 13. Hulk Hogan vs. Earthquake 6. Ric Flair vs. Sting VS 11. Randy Savage vs. Jake Roberts 3. Los Gringos Locos vs. AAA VS 14. Ultimate Warrior vs. The Undertaker 7. WAR vs. New Japan VS 10. Burning (Kobashi & Akiyama) vs. Untouchables (Misawa & Ogawa) 2. Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan VS 15. Tommy Dreamer vs. Brian Lee Bracket #3 1. Jumbo Tsuruta, et. al. vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, et. al. VS 16. Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio, Jr. 8. Steiner Brothers vs. Nasty Boys VS 9. El Hijo del Santo vs. Negro Casas 5. Raven vs. Tommy Dreamer VS 12. Kenta Kobashi vs. Vader 4. Rey Misterio, Jr. vs. Psicosis VS 13. Michinoku Seikigun vs. Kaientai DX 6. USWA vs. SMW VS 11. Aja Kong vs. Bull Nakano 3. Dean Malenko vs. Eddie Guerrero VS 14. Naoya Ogawa vs. Shinya Hashimoto 7. New Japan vs. nWo VS 10. Sting vs. Cactus Jack 2. Jerry Lawler vs. Bret Hart VS 15. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Randy Savage Bracket #4 1. Mitsuharu Misawa, et. al. vs. Toshiaki Kawada, et. al. VS 16. Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Vader 8. Chris & Toni Adams vs. Steve Austin & Jeannie Clark VS 9. Jerry Lawler vs. Eddie Gilbert 5. Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart VS 12. Edge & Christian vs. Matt & Jeff Hardy 4. Eddie Gilbert vs. Cactus Jack VS 13. Jushin Liger vs. El Samurai 6. Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat VS 11. Cactus Jack vs. Terry Funk 3. The Moondogs vs. Jerry Lawler & Jeff Jarrett VS 14. Razor Ramon vs. Shawn Michaels 7. Rock & Roll Express vs. Heavenly Bodies VS 10. Atsushi Onita vs. Mr. Pogo 2. Jushin Liger, et. al. vs. Shinjiro Ohtani, et al. VS 15. Rey Mysterio, Jr. vs. Dean Malenko