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I liked the struggle over the suplexes and holds at the very end, and I don't see the lack of heat either--the crowd seemed pretty legitimately loud for this, of course that message would be completely lost on Russo.

That WhipFlash onto the chair could have been pretty badly mistimed or misplaced but they make it look good, and I like that they actually make sure to conceal the chair while the groggy ref is making the count. Yes, I'm on board with a hardcore rematch between these two.

Sorry for being dense but where's the gang rape part? I see he had sex with a minor when he was 21, but that's as far as I can see it.

Weird venue, not one I remember seeing much of for AJPW. The slow start to this almost telegraphed a draw and the match took awhile to get going, but by the end I had forgotten all about the time limit with some strong work down the stretch, with a nice tease and cut-off of the Burning Hammer. I agree that this series doesn't really seem to be going anywhere, but maybe we'll get some progression for one or both of these teams in the Final.

Well...there's Torrie Wilson and A-Rod. Alex isn't as A-list as George, I'll grant, but he has quite a wide variety of women to choose from in his own right (like Cameron Diaz). They're really 1a and 1b as far as I'm concerned.

Typical late-period Sandman "run-in" where he shows up in the balcony, lights up a cigarette, and shotguns a beer before meandering down to the ring, all while the heel beatdown is ongoing. Raven tries to get some revenge for Sandman attacking him last week, and when Dreamer tries to break it up, Sandman accidentally canes him while aiming for Raven. Then the Impact Players beat everyone down. Styles: "THE IMPACT PLAYERS ARE BACK!" ... uh, did they leave?

Minister blesses Corino with a half-hearted "Dominus ominus...uh...mazel tov..." but it gets the job done as Corino goes from death's door to healed. Minister isn't a fan of ministing and throws down his collar and lights one up, and says "it beats managing Mortis and Wrath." Well, that was uncalled for.

Albert did interfere somewhat, but BBM basically beat Rock 90% clean, one of the most baffling results in the history of Raw. I'm assuming Rock gets that win back tonight.

Part of a UPN Invades Vegas-themed week, evidently. I did enjoy the Rock-catchphrase-spouting fan as the constant thorn in their side and Mankind not grasping the concept of tipping a stripper.

Liz isn't much for cooking and cleaning but is intrigued by Chavo's jewelry. I'm fairly sure Amway doesn't actually sell Rolexes.

Five months later, let's get back and finish this fucker off. Can't let dawho overtake me. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is Ed Ferrara doing both voices. Kind of a cute segment in a vacuum, really. It's not so much that this couldn't get them over in WCW, but ultimately they weren't going to be allowed to advance anywhere regardless.

Yeah, Jake was probably more over and pushed higher than his W-L record, but I don't think *anybody*, even ones who did the power-walk with them, bought the 'whackers as legitimate title contenders.

I guess the thing about Cass is that he asked ahead of time if he could continue the beatdown after the kick, was told no, and then did it anyway. Not sure why it wasn't beaten into his head in the Performance Center that it's easier to get forgiveness than permission.

You can go back to May of '87 with Jarrett (vs. Bockwinkel).

Nah, that's Strummer's sig, and it's definitely a Norm MacDonald line. RE had enough of his own issues both sex-related and not. I would have sworn this came from a RE post back in the days… damn… The thing as I recall about RE is that he *did* seem to see sex as a competition that you could win. He had a lot of thoughts that seemed to be in line with "pick-up artists"--he was probably really into negging and peacocking.

Nah, that's Strummer's sig, and it's definitely a Norm MacDonald line. RE had enough of his own issues both sex-related and not.

I try to hit one Jackets and one Indians game a year.

Ole is also responsible for the Road Warriors becoming stars and he knew what he had in them (first Animal solo, then as a unit) from the start, so it's not like he was totally biased against non-great-"wrasslers."

Music: Nerdy indie rock--Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire on down. Was a huge Mountain Goats fan before the wrestling connection really came out. My all-time favorite band is Guided by Voices (just about any incarnation--I must have a weakness for super-prolific indie songwriters. The Magnetic Fields would fall into that category too). Dad-rock, but a lot stuff that falls outside of what plays on classic-rock radio if that makes sense--Warren Zevon being the prime example (there's more to him than "Werewolves of London"). Classic folk-rockers like Dylan and Phil Ochs and Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell (which sort of fits into the above--mom-rock, maybe?) African music from all over the continent, generally leaning towards the funkier side. The Indestructible Beat of Soweto is one of my favorite albums ever. Obscure African psychedelic-rock compilations. Fela Kuti, though sometimes a little bit of him goes a long way. Besides Kanye and Public Enemy my hip-hop tastes tend more toward the quirky and off-center as well--Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Dream Warriors, acts like that. Garage rock from the '60s, anything you'd find on a Nuggets collection. Lots of other '60s stuff, mostly centered around Stax/Volt soul recordings, surf, and the British Invasion (and the folkies from above). Pop-centered classic punk for me too--Husker Du (speaking of bands with wrestling connections), the Clash, the Undertones, Ramones, X--or where punk intersects with new wave (Devo, Joy Division). I do like quite a bit of '80s new wave even though I tend to prefer guitars to synths. I don't know where Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds fall in this category but they're another all-time favorite act--I drove from Columbus to Nashville just because that was the closest stop on a rare U.S. tour, just so I could make sure that I saw them once. Jazz--I'm not going to pretend to be a jazz expert but I like Miles Davis, Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Billie Holiday, and Ornette Coleman. Stuff that Greil Marcus called "the old, weird America." Love the Anthology of American Folk Music and Goodbye, Babylon box sets, the latter of which has some crossover with the AAFM but centered around gospel recordings from the turn of the century to WW2. Country leanings are very old-school and canon-based--Cash and Willie and a little bit else. Modern-day pop-music-with-twangy-guitars-and-lyrics-about-pickups might be my least favorite genre of music ever invented. Don't really care about techno/house or R&B, but as I've become more of a song-collector than an album-collector my collection has gotten very playlist-and-compilation-heavy, so I'll have a smattering of just about everything. --- Sports: Ohio State football (even as I get more queasy about the very idea of football, I'm sort of already down the rabbit-hole with wrestling with everyone else here so I'm probably not stopping until the sport disappears or becomes unrecognizable), Cleveland Indians baseball, Browns football (speaking of getting queasy...), Blue Jackets hockey. Really only pay attention to basketball during the tournament and NBA playoffs--the Cavs wouldn't have been my first choice to bring a major title back to Cleveland by a long shot but I was pretty glad they did and am hoping against hope that the Lebrons can do it again. I hate golf and auto racing but I do enjoy curling both as a spectator sport every 4 years and a participant.

- The Simpsons (let's call it seasons 2-9) - Seinfeld - Frasier - The Twilight Zone - The Office (US, through Carell's departure+finale) - Law & Order (the classic) - Breaking Bad - Arrested Development - Batman: TAS - Mystery Science Theater 3000

She's an agent, I think just for women's matches.

I'm pretty sure JT came to the right conclusion: I distinctly remember most of these early Monday nights and these shows definitely aired head-to-head. For instance, I remember the shock tag title change but I never even knew about the Bluebloods/Eaton fakeout until years later, I think all the way until I watched the '95 Yearbook here, because I happened to be on Raw while that part was going on. I actually have no memory at all of Thursday Raw replays and don't even remember Meltzer going over them in the WON, so I don't think they lasted long.

For the record, the one bump I've seen the Sheik take is in a RWTL match where Billy Robinson gives him a gutwrench suplex. Of course, if Billy told Sheik, "We're doing the gutwrench," then there wasn't a whole lot Sheik could do to stop him.

There's no way on earth I'd ever classify New Japan of any era as an "indy."