Robert S

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".

I can fully agree with the second tweet, just not the way Aries meant it.

Without the accident Pillman never ends up in WWF, if you believe Kim Wood. He clearly stated that Pillman wanted to choose the better money offer, which was WCW, but the problem with the WCW deal was, the contract could have been dissolved by WCW at any time (with just a three months salary to be paid; he formulated it a bit differently, but that is what he meant) while apparently the WWF deal had no such clause (I guess WWF began with such contracts only after the Monday Night Wars ended, otherwise they would not have tried to get guys like Mark Henry to quit giving them humiliating gimmicks; might also be, that they had different kinds of contracts back then). Pillman knew that after a short time WCW would have realized how broken down he was and would have terminated him, at which point WWF also would not have had any interest in him as an in-ring performer.

I always saw it as Boesch being the last leftover of the early days NWA where membership granularity went down to the city level, in some cases. He was to 80ies territories what Liechtenstein or San Marino are to today's European political map, a remnant of the past that somehow got passed by during the big unification phase.

As I thought that maybe Bret meant that Austin had never bladed in WWF, I looked it up in the book and he wrote:

What's your problem with this sequence? No one taking a suplex pops up afterwards to hit another one like the Otani vs. Ultimo Dragon Tombstone battle at the Super J Cup 95, for example.

A cousin of mine (56) nearly died from Corona (he was in ICU for a week, for a day or two his chances for survival were 50-50), a couple of weeks after he got out of the hospital he wrote a letter to the editor of a local newspaper to complain that restaurants were closed at that time.

Like a book about the end of the Soviet Union might start with the Soviet-Afghan war, the first chapters of a book about the end of western civilization will heavily feature Mark Zuckerberg.

I am 40 and still buy into two of those three things. No worker handshake? What a mark.

The only Low Ki thing I have seen (or heard) that would have made me think he might be a fun guy to have a talk with was a clip from the NOAH Christmas musical (or whatever you want to call it), where he has a genuine smile on his face. Apart from that, we are talking about a guy who was fired from every wrestling promotion on this planet at least once (from many multiple times), once being literally carried and thrown out of the building.

Also Dr. Death was broken down by that point, so even the good ringwork part was not there anymore.