Robert S

After spending two minutes on Wikipedia clicking on "Personal life" on the pages of the main eventers I remember one of the reasons why I stopped watching MMA.

In some parts of Europe (e.g. Austria or France), WWE PLEs are still part of the original WWE Network. The expectation was that content will be moved to Netflix in 2026 or so when local TV deals expire, though so far nothing official was announced. Not that I care too much, to be honest. I am neither interested in their product to begin with, them going full-MAGA (and stuff like bringing back Brock) does not help either.

Which is funny because aren't the "Polynesians" actually really tribal (pun intended)? I mean the story going around why it took forever for Samoa Joe to get a chance in WWE was because he was NOT an Anoa'i and the Anoa'i family was actively pushing against Samoans not related to them.

this I am able to do approx. conversions from pounds to kg (divide by 2 and round down a little), from feet to m (divide by 3 and round down a little) and from miles to km (times 5 divide by 8 - or if I need rough estimation is good enough, times 2 divide by 3) in my head, but I will never be able to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius without using digital assistance. There should be a section in the Geneva Conventions about the the use of non-SI units.

Even better was Virgil (an obvious shot against Dusty Rhodes, Vince at that point really had it out for Dusty considering Akeem "the African Dream") being called Vincent in WCW.

It feels like that they have these kind of plans every 10 years. There is this famous picture of Triple H in front of a world map with lot of small NXT markers on different parts of the world and I am pretty sure there were similar news sometimes in the early to mid aughts. Anyway, who could they grab in Europe? Both RevPro and wXw feel too small to make actual plays for real fulltime touring companies.

There are about four page on this at DVDVR (though far) in the general April discussion thread, so I wouldn't say there were no reactions over there.

I am realizing only now that in some way Triple H bought AAA, at least there is something funny about this.

Even cockroach is borderline considering that cockroaches are vermin and you know who used the termin "vermin" for whom.

Yeah, that was one booking decision that seemed suspect (as have no clue about Joshi, I can't judge the booking of those matches), though Aoki does not seem super protected in DDT either, so I guess you could try to argue for that result. I was positively surprised about Natalya's performance. She was the biggest name WWE provided for the show (with maybe the exception of Pete Dunne) and you could have expected her to do the bare minimum here, but she seemed motivated. Except using the Sharpshooter as a finish and spot or two, where I guess her instincts made her do something that did not fit to the style, it was a pretty good match.

I generally agree with that sentiment. The early shows at least had a cool "underground" vibe to them and it felt fresh to have wrestlers outside their normal environments trying to work matches. Also the shows were relatively short which made them easy to get through (in a good sense). Now it's three hour shows in a fully lit arena. I would say in general the quality of the work has improved (I am halfway through this show and all but the first match were at least okay, the opener was a stinker, though). I guess it's still good enough to watch one show a year of that style. The point regarding inconsequentiality is definitely spot on. The agenting was a bit suspect. In one match, you have Regal's kid winning after a backdrop suplex (or a Regal-plex, I guess) where the ref stopped the match immediately after the move. In the next match you have a similar finish, though the ref did not care that the guy taking the backdrop was selling the move like death and had the match continue. Not the refs fault, just bad booking / agenting. I guess you have to expect such things on an indy show (especially full of wrestlers that probably wrestler 2-3 times that day).

It's from a home release, WWF Wrestling World Tour, released in late 92 (so I guess the commentary was taped during Flair's second run). The match is from the same Barcelona show (in 91) where Tito Santana pinned the Undertaker: https://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/videos/wwf/listing/coliseum.html#misc https://thehistoryofwwe.com/wwf-results-1991/

Seriously, fuck this company. As bad as WWE was at its own, somehow TKO made it even worse. I finally cancelled my Network subscription a couple of months ago (not that I was interested at all in the current stuff, but the back catalogue kept me there) as I could not give that detestable company any more of my money in good conscience. Fuck them and fuck a lot of the people who work there.

The WWE Hall of Fame class of 2025 - whoops, all nepotism?

Which is funny, because my only interactions with him were when he was 15-16 years-old and was posting on a German message board (and he was like "I am the son of Axel Dieter and I am going to become a wrestler" and I was like "sure, you are"), so for me he always will be a kid.