PhilTLL

The week before this, Regal gives one of the best promos I've ever heard: MEAN GENE: Joining me at this time, and he looks a little worse for wear, Lord Steven Regal. After what happened at Uncensored, I get the distinct impression you have some unfinished business with Fit Finlay, the Belfast Bruiser. REGAL: Some call it a fight, I call it a war of epic proportions, and it's not over. It can never, ever be over, and you know why? I will tell you peasantly people why, because I know what goes around in Fit Finlay's emerald green mind, and it's certainly not anything in my favor. He cannot finish this until my demise. Well, nourish your hopes, Mr. Finlay. But get reality into your brain, because I'm going nowhere, sunshine! Last week he ambushed me, fracturing my cheek and putting twelve stitches in my eye. Two weeks ago he broke my nose at Uncensored. Now, brutality and violence are not something that enchant my soul, but when it comes to you, Finlay, I bloody well thrive on it! Next week on this show, I want one more battle. And I'm going to show the wrestling world, as I take Fit Finlay from the endangered species right to the bloody extinction list--it will horrify some, give many nightmares, but it will satisfy my soul! And through all this, I've got no grievance, because I have something firing me inside, and it's revenge! And a vengeful man is one to be watched. Next week on this show, Finlay, I want you one more time. (Gene harrumphs) And don't interrupt me, it's too serious. It's going to be one that this world will never, ever forget.

Merely reading about it cannot prepare you for how terrible the $5 frying pans are. They are so obviously those flimsy little college-apartment things you can dent by dropping on the floor.

Yeah for some reason the middle tier is called premium and there's not a catchy name for the actual premium tier other than "ad-free".

Whew this was not good. The intro heat was nice, but the match turns into disjointed, ugly "these guys are really out of shape and practice" nonsense about 2 minutes before the finish. Much higher-ranking in the category of "entertaining WCW crap" is the strap/lumberjack/six-man tag team match between the Mega Powers + Booty Booty Booty Man and the Horsemen + Sullivan. All of the lumberjacks are in red flannel shirts and Regal is wearing his little white ruffle with it, an unintentional tease to his Real Man's Man gimmick.

Hey, that's a good sign. Peacock Premium Plus, or whatever they call the ad-free version, is the same price as the Network was before, or 25% off if you use the 4-month promo code ("PEACOCKMANIA"). And if you are a cable subscriber, you probably already have access to the Premium tier.

I would guess the number of comic book fanatics in both the writing staff and the WWE fandom is huge right now.

I don't think the world will miss any of that retrograde shit, but I am concerned that eventually, everything from before about 2010 will be hacked to shit and annoying to watch.

The prosecutor uses it during his closing. It goes all the way back to Kipling, except he wrote it as a "red" line of British soldiers.

It also messed with the layout of the show, as they had to go directly from the ladder match into the main event. They slotted that 10-man as a cooldown. Awhile back when I was going on about where WWE would move the Thunderdome (don't worry, I'm the only one who remembers) I forgot college basketball season was ending soon. They chose the Yuengling Center, better known as the USF Sun Dome, a frequent WWF venue in the '80s and '90s.

Mongo: "Woman, Elizabeth, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson. We got enough heels around ringside to open up a shoe store." Before his shocking loss, Hogan manages to get Arn in a figure four and Flair in a roll-up at the same time. Afterwards, Hogan and Savage promise "helter skelter" in next week's rematches, which hopefully doesn't mean what it did in 1968. In a bizarre coincidence(?), TBS advertises the TV movie of the same name on the following Saturday Night.

The Peacock app should work on any Android phone or tablet running at least 6.0, or Android TV device running at least 5.1, which would include any you could buy new right now. It works fine on my Samsung Galaxy Tab from 2016 on Android 8.1. Craigslist is usually full of used Android tablets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People_Meter It's crazy shit, man! "The Portable People Meter (PPM), also known as Nielsen Meter, is a system developed by Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) to measure how many people are exposed or listening to individual radio stations and television stations, including cable television. The PPM is worn like a pager, and detects hidden audio tones within a station or network's audio stream, logging each time it finds such a signal."

Apparently Amazon and NBCU still haven't worked out an agreement to bring the app to the regular Fire store. https://www.peacocktv.com/help/article/what-devices-and-platforms-are-supported-by-peacock I don't have one, but a bit of searching says that Fire tablets can use regular Android apps out of the Google Play store like Chrome. That should cover you. You could also sideload the Peacock app. (If you're not familiar, that basically consists of downloading the app's APK to the device and installing it manually, instead of through an app store.)

Chicagoans must really hate sitting around watching CCTV, because Rosemont drew 18k for a B-show just three weeks earlier with Bundy/Hillbilly, Santana/Savage, and Funk/JYD. WWF also drew 16k in Toronto on 4/19 (really amazing for a B-show topped by a freaking Dream Team/Bulldogs six-man) and an almost unbelievable 26k in Detroit on 4/26 for Hogan/Savage, with MSG-style CCTV spillover from Joe Louis into Cobo Hall. Toronto drew at least 12.5k for six shows in a row from February-June.

Flair was booked very strong in angles when he came in. During his first few weeks he got to call Hogan "Thunderlips," tell him "I was winning titles while you were making movies," and issue challenges that Hogan immediately accepted and acknowledged the magnitude. Then he knocked out Piper, who had been so popular since 86-87 that he didn't need a particular place on the card or even to wrestle full time to stay over, and that angle included Vince McMahon himself doing a stretcher job. The problems with his character (24/7 robe) and booking him poorly in the ring (Tito Santana) have been well documented.

2007 was the RUTHLESS AGGRESSION era. I think.

1 2 3, JYD... Practically all of my heritage is in Mid-South country (born in OKC, dad and his mom from Acadiana, mom born in Houston, her mom from NW LA), so needless to say I love this.

Obviously with Bret usually being a face and Flair usually being a heel, Bret had way more submission wins over non-jobbers, including over Flair himself. But Flair did win 4 world titles by figure-four pinfall or pass-out: #4 over Dusty in St. Louis GAB '86, #9 over Savage on WWF TV in 1992, #10 over Windham at Beach Blast '93, and #14 over Hogan at SuperBrawl IX (via pinfall in a first blood match, after bleeding). Without jogging my memory a lot more, the most high-profile Flair win by actual submission might be over Funk at Clash 9?

Flair/Luger at GAB '88 is on par with any of their other standouts until the trickle-of-blood stoppage.

This is an aside, but wrestling is still the only business I've ever seen that uses this particular euphemism. I wonder where it started. Meltzer?

Sorry, what? A man in his forties gave a woman a "promise ring?" Actually, never mind, I'm sure that was the exact same reaction of everyone else who heard about it.

Oh hell, I completely forgot about the Lauper angle, the US Express and Bulldogs and etc. Clearly I'm hazier on that era.

There was also the Captain Lou run with the tag team champion Headshrinkers. Granted, it later included the very stupid idea of "The Barbarian can't wear boots."

It seems like the regular MLB start date is a go. That would mean in about 5 weeks, between MLB, college/NBA hoops, and NHL/minor hockey, every major indoor venue in Florida will be booked up. Maybe they could use (bad Solie imitation) Tampa's Expo Hall, the beautiful Ocean Center in Daytona, the Lee County Civic Center in North Fort Myers, the Lakeland Civic Center... I'm being told the West Palm Beach Auditorium is now owned by the folks at the Jehovah's Witnesses, and we will uh, try to get confirmation on that.

There's probably a tidy answer for this already, but doesn't WWE have to move the Thunderdome again when baseball season starts? Also, the youngest boomers using the most generous definition of the baby boom generation are now 56 years old. Most of them are old enough for Medicare and Social Security. Does WWE's demo stretch that high now or are we actually talking about Gen X?