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I am sure that Ophelia here wasn't Molly Holly, (1) Cagematch has her wrestling for WCW until mid may and (2) that girl here looks much taller than Greewald (even considering the high heels that girl here was wearing).

From the first 160 shows (82 to early 85) they have 145 shows up. From 82 there are 8 shows missing, from 83 there are 3 shows missing and from 84 there are 4 shows missing. By missing I mean holes in numbering used by the Network.

The helmets look way too much like the Shockmaster helmet.

I hate that Mauro gives away every nearfall like the kick-out of the Eclipse by Asuka by shouting stuff like "we have a new champion" before or during the pinfall attempt. Though that is less his fault and more the general way how WWE announcing is done.

When I am listening to BTS at this time of the year I usually do during hiking, i.e. I quite often listen to the whole podcast in one go. The problem with this is that I forget 99% of all comments I want to make. One thing I do remember is that Bix's German pronounciation is quite decent. And yes: New Jack looks quite "Young" in this picture.

I just read that they are dumping the whole thing in two stages (the first on Monday, 28th, the second the week after). Doing it that way is a not a good way to build momentum. It's almost as if they are not happy with the taped stuff so far.

In wrestling there are worse things than a 30-year-old having sex with 16-year-olds. Did any wrestler ever refuse to work with Jimmy Snuka? How many people went back to Puerto Rico after the Brody thing?

It's the same thing as 10-15 years ago everybody was saying "we have to get into China". Shane McMahon founded a business on that premiss (which probably has failed, as he came crawling back).

Start a thermonuclear war; that is if at that point there still would be somebody around to kick him out of the HOF. But this kind of discussion should be moved to "Pro Wrestling Mostly".

Teioh has some real cool stuff here, especially the running manjigatame which I am sure I have never seen before. From what I have seen from him Teioh might be the most underrated guy of the Kaientai guys. At least in the mid 2000s he is at least as good as peak TAKA, better than Hayashi ever was and I am not sure if peak Togo is much better.

On the plus side this has a zombie wrestling. On the minus side this has a zombie selling a low blow and using a Tiger Driver 91 that was kicked out about halfway into the match (a 1/4 final at that).

The Over the Edge comparison was the thing I was thinking about as well when watching this match. Usually I hate these overbooked clusterfucks but this one of the rare cases where it absolutely works. Of course from a logic point-of-view you could bring up loads of problems with this one (e.g. a real heel ref. would work like the "fake" Hebner in Hogan vs. Andre - just count to three no matter if the shoulders are on the mat or not; why do Austin or Linda not come out earlier etc.), but a match like this is not supposed to make absolute sense.

At least he has done coke and steroids together with the boys before which is as close to having in-ring experience as it gets.

Who the heck is "Sasuke Diner"? At first thought that this was some really bad case of typo, but "Sasuke Diner" really results in (a very small) number of Google hits. An alternative spelling seems to be "Sasuke Dina". Cagematch only has (besides SASUKE, The Great Sasuke and Sasuke the Great) some guys (Ikeda, Ishikawa & Gran Apache) wrestling as "Sasuke Tiga/Tyga". Is it one of those guys or someone else?

Does this article remind you of something? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/07/usda-climate-change-language-censorship-emails

You were not joking about the picture being nightmare inducing.

I have a couple of "threads" on my WWE network account where I am moving back and forth between. One of those threads is 1994 ECW. The last episode had the Mikey Whipwreck TV title win over the Pitbull. I always wondered why such a famous moment was not replayed forever but after seeing the finish I can understand why. Either the Pitbull did not really want to do the job here or some bad miscommunication took place here. Another thread is 1987 Prime Time Wrestling. I am surprised how watchable and entertaining the thing is. Barely any jobber matches and if there are a couple of bad matches in succession at least you can wait for the next entertaining Gorilla-Heenan segment. The only bad thing I have to say so far is that sometimes the match selection is a bit weird. For example one episode had three consecutive with the Islanders, Sika and Sivi Afi.

He makes Earl Hebner look understated when it comes to putting the focus on him. Speaking of World Class refs, I was shocked to see Bronko Lubich take a ref bump (pushed by Kevin no less) on one of the 84 shows. I figured he was like a turtle and would never be able to get up again. Manning and Lubich are literally the "unstoppable force" and the "immovable object".

(diggressing even further) The case of the name of "Germany" in different languages is especially interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany Basically there are 6 completely different origins for currently used names for Germany: (1) one derived from an old high German word; this version is the source for "Deutschland" and is used in most German languages (except English) (2) one derived from Latin / Greek which results in Germany, for example; except in English it's used in south-eastern European languages (e.g. Italian, Greek, Romanian, Russian ...) and languages that derived the name from the English word (e.g. Hindu, Malay ...). (3) one derived from the name of the Alamanni tribe; this version is mostly used in western Europe (Spanish, French ...) and languages that imported this via Turkish (Turkish, Arabic, Tatar ...). (4) one derived from the name of the Saxon tribe; this is basically used by Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian and smaller groups) (5) one derived from a Slavic term, used in eastern Europe (mostly in Slavic languages, but also in Hungarian; Turkish and Arabic use this term for Austria) (6) one common among Latvian and Lithuanian languages Regarding Nippon/Nihon and Japan: looking a bit over the Wikipedia article this seems to have to do with some complicated interactions between China and Japan and Europeans as early as Marco Polo were using some variations of names used in China. The Nippon -> Nihon change seems to have happened within the last couple of centuries (Wikipedia says in the Edo period, which means 17th to 19th century). Considering that both pronounciations are still in use (60-40 in favor of Nihon) and apparently younger people tend to use Nihon I would assume that 19th century is more realistic than 17th century.

A big problem with this match is that they began with the big spots (the stuff including the moving scaffold or whatever you want to call that). Obviously afterwards they lost a lot of heat.

Any show that has a 20 minute Wrestlecrap segment like the ambulance crash angle can not be great by default.