Robert S

Not having seen it (and neither planning to do so): Was it worse than e.g. Mr. Pogo slicing up foreheads with a sickle 30 years ago?

The "No one starting in their 30s." part is not the worst idea for something that is considered to be a developmental league. If they sign older, experienced people, either put them straight on the main roster or put them through a couple of weeks long PC-crash-course for some details how they want their wrestlers to work. If veterans can't deal with that, they are probably just not good enough. Also: finally someone found Kona Reeves contact info.

There are about 5 great Steiners vs. Hase & Partner (Sasaki or Mutoh) matches, the Steiners vs. Hart Brothers match from a Coliseum Home Video VHS tape and the Steiners vs. MVC NWA tag title tournament match from 92 (I think it was a Clash) were also awesome. I guess the answer should be one of those (or the Nasties match).

Ole is in bad shape due to MS for something like 15 years now. A quick Google search brings up reports from the Four Horsemen HoF induction from 2012 where Ole apparently said that he would not have been physically able to attend the induction if he wanted to (and would have been invited as well, of course). There is no way that he is able to do any appearences now.

Hmm... is the Bill Clinton lookalike who did a couple of shots in mid 90ies WWF still active?

That can't be true, she looks much older. Cagematch has 1988 as her birth-year and her turning 33 in a week which looks to be about what I would have guessed. Quick googling also shows the 1988 birth-year much more likely than 1998. She signed in 2016 and at that point already owned a fitness studio, something very unlikely for a 18-year-old.

Thanks!

The Discord invite is expired. Can you please post a new one (in case I decide that I need an alternative to the Euro finals today)?

Were Mid-Atlantic and Florida running multiple crews in the 70ies or were they just doing double-shots nightly (or at least every other night)? Also Amarillo ran lots of shows considering what I know (or at least think to know) of the area of their territory (relatively sparsely populated, huge area).

The Dome Show that should have happened in May was moved to July, 25th. That is during the Summer Olympics. Weird choice...

They humiliated Germany 6-0 in the Nations League half a year ago, if Tiki-Taka clicks, it really clicks. Tiki-Taka won them a World Cup and two European Championships. Who has done more in the last 20 years? I guess Brazil, though I would rate two European Championships at least on par with three Copa Americas.

"Just watch it or don't." - lot of people actually are following that advice

That's just a page from Bill Watts old playbook, showing that they were not good enough to hang with your guys (or in this case your gals).

With the WWE going away further and further from regular live shows, especially for the non-TV NXT guys (which is where those young lions would most likely be placed), the guys would mostly be stuck in the PC.

They portrayed Warrior much less negative than they could have, probably because they spent so little time on the period 91 to pre-HOF 2014. I never really noticed that there is a striking resemble between Warrior and (former chess world champion) Bobby Fischer: - both came from dysfunctional families (Warrior's father walking out, Fischer growing up without a father and being on odds with his mother) that might have lead to severe psychological problems for their whole lifes (Warrior apparently having anxiety disorder, Fischer definitely was paranoid, maybe even schizophrenic) - both were driven to become someone, again partly due to their childhood - both (to some degree) dropped from the face of the earth relatively close to their professional peak (in Fischer it was literally his peak after becoming world champion) - both had a, let's call it questionable, comeback against their biggest foe (Warrior rehashing his Mania match against Hogan in WCW, Fischer playing (and beating) a way past his prime Boris Spassky (who was the guy he beat for the world championship in 72) in 92 in Yugoslavia during the Balkan war despite the UN embargo, which lead him becoming a fugitive) - both afterwards became mostly known for their... less then politcally correct statements (which in Fischer's case were even more out there than Warrior's worst stuff was) - and in the end both dying relatively young (Warrior died at 54, Fischer at 64 - though in Fischer's case it was much less out-of-nowhere; Fischer did not have the closure that Hellwig had at the Hall of Fame, but at least he seemed to be somewhat at peace the last few years of his life that he spent in Iceland)

That reminds of a Walter interview where he complained about stuff like that. The argument being if big guys do the same highflying stuff like the small guys and small guys do the same power spots as the big guys, everybody is the same.

I always found it funny when in the late 80ies and early 90ies, US guys took back bumps when being hit with an enzuigiri.

He should post a bunch of Winnie the Pooh pictures tagged with a 6/4 hashtag.

I hate it when in a tag team match, someone tries to break up a cover by stomping the pinning guy, yet at three the guy still lies on his opponent who still has both shoulders on the mat, yet the referee stops counting.

In principle I agree, but mostly because "Warrior" does not seem to exist in English as a surname, unlike in Spanish ("Guerrero") or in German ("Krieger"), for example. Searching for "Guerrier" also returns a bunch of people on Wikipedia.

This was one of the few times in human history when Inoki's statement probably came closest to the truth: "he was killed by a thug". There was another bit of sloppy journalism in the piece: claiming that Inoki was responsible for getting Japanese hostages released from Iraq. Didn't it turn out eventually, that the hostages being released had nothing to do with Inoki's wrestling-diplomacy?

If you believe the story, that is.

Back in our days, they only put firecrackers up their asses.

I felt there was a lot of stuff not said in the docu. Gage was sentenced to five years for (if you watch the episode, I don't know what was really the case) a first time offense of a single armed robbery (without even using a gun, which I would suppose, should reduce the sentence; also he turned himself in) and only got out after more than four years. Booker T was involved in something like 15 armed robberies and got the same sentence but was out after 2.5 years. So either Gage had a shitty, shitty lawyer, or there was more going on. And just a quick look at Wikipedia already tells me, that Gage was already sentenced once in 2005 for possession of stolen property. And not to play psychologist, but I am sure there was more to his childhood than "he loved his mother, he and his brother did backyard stuff on their trampoline and they loved hardcore wrestling".