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Fans are "smarter" now than they were in 1993. Roma was just seen as a longtime TV loser, whereas most guys today are seen by many as talented guys being held back by incompetent booking.

That feels like more reason to wanting to see them jump, not less.

So, Sean Ross Sapp just reported that Owens' contract was restructured during the pandemic and it actually expires in January now. Not 2023 as we long thought.

Meltzer rather casually dropped a scoop on WOR that Bray Wyatt to AEW is not 100% done but may as well be. He compared it to when he first reported on Aleister Black going, weeks before it actually happened.

Well, it was clear to me who was carrying whose sorry ass in that GCW main event. I don't have an issue with Gage being a former bank robber but as a fundamental worker he's painful to watch (and I'm not talking about the gore, I mean like how his sorry ass apparently doesn't even know how to execute running the ropes).

I mean, Cornette probably has lots of strong opinions on comics too, but wrestling wasn't just his hobby, it became his livelihood and the livelihood of many of his friends.

I feel like WrestleMania IV-V is Hogan at his physical peak. It was definitely Savage at his.

The point stands but I think that's an inversion--my understanding is that when Super Astros started they wanted everyone except Santo to unmask.

I 100% bought into Patriot as a star thanks to Global, and I think Wilkes came along at the wrong time. Had he broken in a few years earlier, when the domestic scene wasn't on its ass and the money was better in All-Japan, I think Vince would have had great success with him.

He had done an interview with Sean Ross Sapp that was going to run on the 4th of July (and still will), where he talked among other things about how much he'd like to punch Tom Brandi in the face.

It's really not, though. We know Vince has done product-altering stuff to spite people before (moving JR to Smackdown, and not telling him until he was drafted on the air) and I have a hard time not believing that Rusev didn't "deserve" Lana.

Why can't it? The idea that McMahon may be more interested in orchestrating breakups than actually booking a fucking wrestling/"entertainment" program may be part of what makes him brain damaged and out of touch.

Again, regarding Kenice Mobley: that they hired an outsider unfamiliar with the product beforehand is sort of a red herring here. If you've been on the scene for a month or more and you still don't know the name of the top guy on your show, that's a problem. Apparently there was talent that wasn't too happy about that "Bobby Ashley" line, and I don't blame them.

It wasn't so much that, I don't think, as it was the line, "Our World Champion is Bobby Lashley or Ashley or something."

I still think Bobby should have been coached to say, "I never thought I'd actually be happy to see him."

"If it's leading up to Luger having to figure out a way to get one last shot even though the stip says he can't get another shot at Flair Yokozuna? That's long term storytelling I can get behind." --No one ever. Also, you need to do better than having a fucking distraction roll-up in a HIAC match if the goal is for McIntyre to get screwed and then find a way around it.

No, Tunney's announcement did not air on TV prior to Survivor Series--not on USA and not in syndication. The Showdown episode just teases that Savage will be there without stating outright that he'd be wrestling or not wrestling.

This clears up something that's confused me about some of the Japanese results that are online, which referred to a German suplex as something that seems to translate to "atomic bomb hold." That could be the difference between that an an atomic drop, which I recall still being an atomic drop in Japan (except for the inverted atomic drop, which is called a "Manhattan Drop" because Adrian Adonis apparently was the first one to do it in Japan). These obscure (to us) European and South African foreigners are the most fascinating parts of this history lesson to me. The Catchfans Facebook group produced a program from Sweden which featured Anton Laszlo among other more familiar '70s Europeans and that and this one IWE tour appear to be the only recordings of him in wrestling at all.

It wasn't a squash or clean, but even with the photographer it was about as decisively as Hogan had ever been beaten. He can't slam Yokozuna, Yoko kicks out of the legdrop, and Yoko pins him with his own move. Then beats him up some more after the match. There was just enough there to protect Hogan for a possible return on the Intrepid but it also served as an effective way to write him off, which is what happened.

I don't really believe there were any serious plans to replace Hogan with Warrior long-term. Warrior was just there to keep the belt warm for a year and for Vince to prove to the boys and to everyone else that he could get Hogan to do a clean job. So in that sense, yes, it may have built on Hogan's insecurities, but the belt was going to end up back with Hogan by Mania 7 no matter what.

"Dive is...caught." --Joe Buck

One that can't be blamed on these damn kidz today not knowing how to work, dammit: there's a heated stand-up exchange late in a match, things are reaching a boiling point, and...one wrestler grabs a side headlock out of nowhere, for no other reason than so his opponent can fire him off into the ropes a nanosecond later. A total eye-rolling spot, and yet almost every single one of the great workers of the '80s and '70s does it over and over. Also, one-fall triple-threat/four-way/higher matches. I've lost the battle on this and numerous other ones, but I still hate it and sort of find it a canary in the coalmine for a lot of the nonsensical shit that came afterward that fundamentally misunderstands wrestling at its best. And don't even get me started on it when a title is at stake. Ric Flair's motto did not go, "To be the Man, you have to beat the Man or another man in the same match as the Man."

There was an MLB relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins named Matt Guerrier in the 2000s so I knew the name, but he's the only example I know of. But he was from the Beverly Brothers' hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio, not Canada. "Senshi" does not appear to be a surname in Japanese, just for the record.

That came right after Mike Chinoy explained exactly that, so I think the implication was that, yes, Bischoff was full of it.

WCW only sent one wrestler and one boss. Everyone else was working for New Japan or another Japanese promotion. It was a NJPW card the whole way.