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I legit hope the angle ends up being Pat has been trying to convince Orton to bring back the punt. Because Pat was a kicker. And then everyone groans.

Didn't they literally just do this in the last month? Road Dogg gone from SD, both Raw and SD have new head writers. It's still dogshit?

You ever watch some of the 1993 ECW shit and realize, god damn this is some of the worst shit ever put to tape? How the fuck did that get any momentum? Just absolutely dogshit in every aspect. This is from the best match on the card and it wasn't even the worst looking spot.

I think Condrey/Eaton was better at pure wrestling, too. And fucking brutal squashes, my goodness.

Convinced whoever is running that channel probably posts here or at least did on DVDVR putting the Midnights/Mulkeys squash with the worst bump to the floor of all time on a live stream in 2026

It wild as hell that AJ Styles got a better send off from WWE than John Cena did

Erasure of the Hustle 3 main event will not stand here.

About a year before. Last matches are in August of 1994. Nitro starts September 1995.

Wild how night and day the Cena and Tana retirements were. Cena got a 90 second video clip made up mostly of talking heads from interviews from over a decade prior and it was over in about 5 minutes. Tana got his mentors, his mentees, generations in the ring to honor him, and an hour of speeches and waving goodbye to the entire arena and vanishing into the ether. Shame Nakamura couldn't have been there. Having not watched NJ at all since last year's WK, I was a bit confused at the main event of last year's show in the opening match in a tag team battle royal. Did they give up on Shooter?

Darby has got to stop doing that front dropkick to the floor. The best case scenario is basically a flat back bump from the top rope to the floor. The actual way he lands is super herky jerky on the small of his back and breaking his fall with his elbows.

I definitely remember him on WCW PPVs and Nitro/Hardcore TV on Classics on Demand (and the internet version) but it came with a disclaimer like all ECW and Attitude Era shows.

Sometimes I wonder if the Mandella Effect is real, because people have been saying this for a decade and Benoit hasn't been cut from anything from Classics on Demand to WWE Network to Peacock.

Yeah there's no cinema stuff here. No one liked it. There are videos of Punk and Bayley in the crowd seeing the finish and having the same reaction as fans. Punk shoots HHH a look getting in the ring as well. On the post show, while HHH is gleefully trolling fans more, Big E is sitting there like "this mf is my boss?" while the other two stooges laugh along. To recap the retirement run: Cena announces 6 months in advance that 2025 will be his last year. At interviews at the time, he makes it clear he will be doing a full, weekly schedule including house shows. Over 200 dates. The company says they only need him for 36. Despite now 8 months of planning, the heel turn comes together very quickly, with Rock's idea being for Cody to turn. HHH wants Cena to turn, with the angle of a Cena/Travis Scott tag team sometime down the road. Rock washes his hands and is not involved the rest of the year. Travis Scott bails, leaving Cena's heel turn to just be a thing with no story or momentum behind it because there wasn't anything planned in advance for it. Halfway through the year, they realize it isn't working, so he goes back to being a face the night before Summerslam with no angle other than "this isn't working, sorry". Somewhere along the line, he gets into a mini feud with R-Truth, also unplanned and there to throw a bone to fans (and talent) who were upset with the way they summarily got rid of Truth out of the blue. About a month spent on Logan Paul. Brock Lesnar comes back and squashes him with no angle, Brock then himself doesn't appear for two months and there's no mention of this event again. A few weeks feud with The Judgement Day, swaps the IC title with Dom at his last PPV. Does not have even a promo the next 2 weeks for his final match. SNME The Final Show. Cena does a normal entrance, gets dominated for most of the 15 minutes, taps out with a smile on his face. HHH leads the roster to ringside (he gets booed), stands on the apron while Cena is having his moment with Punk and Cody (he gets booed) so he can point to the video screens for the 90 second video with music they've already used for such packages and were using talking head clips from 2012 on. Cena then leaves without any kind of speech. On the post show, Cody rambles and cries for what seemed as long as Cena's match, Jey Uso was drunk and had to be told to get off screen, HHH continued to troll the crowd.

Cena goes out to a bizarre almost trolly tap out (I'm sure the idea was gunslinger realizing this was his last moment and going out in peace but the execution was lol wtf), crowd chanting bullshit and you fucked up at HHH, HHH getting booed out of the building insisting on being on screen in all the post match stuff, even booed in 14 year old talking head footage. What a completely botched retirement run. Incredible, really.

:whoo: that last run of falls at the Lee/Nigel match was as close to wire as you can possibly get with fucking up the timing. Literally down to the ref having a half a second faster than one second count.