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For want of a nail.

Too bad Ron H20 Waterman was a year or two off of this. Cliff Compton?

Were there any local promotions?

See, the idea is that a few elites took charge of the entire country and suddenly everyone knew Issac Yankem was Kane. Obviously Keith is Stalin.

Let's get back to my Russian Revolution analogy from page 2.

Obviously the answer is AJ Styles.

I read a lot of Hyatte when I was 17. It took me forever to remember that guy's name.

Batista got to end the night at WM 21, not Cena. In WWE's ideal world of the time, he was the guy who was going to break out.

I think the answer is probably just more Batista.

The explosion fist noise he makes when punching is absolutely the same one my kid makes when simulating any sort of explosion.

Psst. Fancam it for us.

What do we know about Roop and Sullivan allegedly trying to steal Shire's territory in 77?

The sabermetric mentality that sprung up in the 80s when Bill James was writing the Abstracts is largely the same as today. It really doesn't matter whether the statheads of today having read Bill and are instead influenced by Tom Tango. In the end, Tom Tango would admit being influenced directly and indirectly by Bill, even if he disagrees with Bill on a number of things. Would you say the fact the mentality is taken on by a much larger number of people than back then matters?

I would argue that the hardcore mentality that existed before the internet could still be the mentality of the historical IWC. It's just the hardcores plus the kids who stumbled into their mentality once the means to stumble in on a broader level existed.

This is pretty much the only sentence anyone has ever had to write on this board. Well done. I'm staggered.