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    https://watch.wwe.com/episode/WCCW-2765
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    The long-distance Rumble winner was worn out long ago--I guess it's a remarkable show of restraint that they haven't done it in over 10 years excepting the other one tonight--but it works best when the winner gets a healthy diet of feature spots throughout the match. Instead, most of this match was spent with the announcers reminding us that Edge was still in there, because he spent lots of it just sitting in a corner. A very unmemorable Rumble. ** Playing the fake "this is awesome" chant while there was literally nothing going on in the ring was a really perfect topper for this. Also on a big guy note, Omas has to be one of the biggest in wrestling history. And saying that Giant Gonzalez "is celebrating a birthday" despite being dead for over 10 years is one of the dumbest things Cole has ever said.
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    "I need you to protect yourself or the match is over." (GOLF CART!) is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in wrestling.
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    All three of those women are absolute total-package stars. Look, charisma, and physical talent. A very solid Rumble with good flow, plenty of memorable moments and star turns, a good finish and winner. ****1/4 Excellent, heartfelt promo afterwards too.
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    I assume he was trying to one up Crockett, who had just done the first dual city Starrcade a few months earlier. Not just with the extra city but by doing a cross-country show in the three most important cities in America instead of just a few hundred miles in the southeast.
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    At American prices, you can currently get at least 4 TB of name-brand storage for 1 year of WWE Network. I'm just saying.
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    https://watch.wwe.com/program/World-Tour-1992-12322 The Sheffield match is on the 2009 Savage DVD set.
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    So I guess I can cancel now, because apparently I get a Peacock subscription as a Cox Contour user? I didn't realize that before, because I have absolutely no interest in Peacock.
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    Some of the talk is that one reason they shut down NBCSN is because their biggest contracts like NHL and Premier League are up next year, and they don't expect to retain them. So maybe that situation would be temporary for WWE.
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    This is quite good, but I love a transition, and the first one here just sucks. Fortunately the second is a really awesome flying forearm. And I just have to know, why was there a half empty beer bottle under the ring? That should have been at the announce desk or some ringside seat. I really love how we can see both guys' faces by the end. Displaying that kind of humanity really helps Liger especially.
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    This drew a complete blank for me, so if it did for you too, it's the Verizon Center/Capital One Arena in DC. Home of the Caps and Wizards.
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    I've only seen like 6-7 live wrestling shows in my life. Easily the best and most heated match was this one. In fact, nothing else is even in the ballpark.
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    It definitely infuriated the hardcore fans, and they were a much better leading indicator for the casual fans back then. (Such that the dichotomy exists anymore.)
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    Bret's "bullfighter outsmarts the bull" handling of Goldberg would have made it much more interesting than what we got, too. Of course in reality, Bret was already injured when he actually did his Goldberg angle, took extra time off after Owen died, and they had a completely different plan to put him on top by the time he got back.
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    This is absolutely on par with their other pay-per-view matches until the much lamented finish. I'm not sure how many times Luger had even bladed in his career before this. I could also see him being the type to absolutely refuse getting bladed by another guy, not that I could blame him for that.
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    Hey now, I would put "Jam-Up Guy" Bret against any comedy act in wrestling.
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    The show occurred on the 29th (per ticket stubs) and the US broadcast occurred on the 31st (print and TV ads).
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    RIP Danny Hodge

    PhilTLL replied to Al's topic in Pro Wrestling

    The Daily Oklahoman, May 6 and 8, 1971. This sellout was after Hodge's prime, when this same match sold out the somewhat larger (5500-6000) Stockyards Coliseum. The '70s were a down period for OKC wrestling, and they seldom worked the largest buildings in the city again until the Watts era.
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    This is what they call "concern trolling". You are making a show of concern that other people are not being respectful to your standards, instead of just letting them cope how they want to. Yes, even Stephanie McMahon deserves that, and so do the million other people using that hashtag tonight. They're not being disrespectful, they're using the medium of their times to share real feelings, maybe even using emojis and slang and hashtags.
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    Wow, I can't believe people use Twitter parlance when they're on Twitter. It has nothing to do with corporate, it's so people can commiserate by reading the other tweets that use the hashtag. If somebody would say that to your face in real life, well, they'd probably have some kind of disorder. FOH with this.
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    Indiana has gone to their full reopening phase. I think that includes fully attended live events. They should just run it as a loop for a while. And by should, I mean all of this is absurd and terrible.
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    This has a truly exemplary Ric Flair City List: "Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Charlotte, Greensboro, St. Louis, Tokyo, Barcelona." Also: "Tag who you wanna tag, I'll tag myself, I'm Ric Flair."
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    James Harris suffered numerous chronic health insults in his later years, including amputations on both legs related to diabetes. It's good that he's released from that. COVID is sadly brutal on the chronically ill. He developed the Kamala character with Lawler and Jarrett when he arrived in Memphis in 1982, including the "steamy jungle" vignette that followed him around the country. Andre/Kamala drew in multiple territories, including a Mid-South run that culminated in a 21,000 show at the Superdome in April '83, with Freebirds/Von Erichs and JYD/Olympia. Kamala worked around the country with Hogan in 1986-87, and of course his 1992 feud with Undertaker debuted the casket match, at least in the WWF. He was also in one of the pinnacles of wrestling schlock, the Dungeon of Doom in 1995 WCW.
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