happy 15th anniversary

This pic has huge 90's video game ad vibes

Listening to Cornette go over the Observer awards and actually said fucking hell out loud when he questioned HIROSHI TANAHASHI having charisma

The WWE main event scene is as stale as it's been since the late 90's. Same select guys on top, with others allowed to hover around them, but never truly break into their elite club. Rotten.

Roman Reigns and Liv Morgan won the Rumble matches - both were the betting favorites The closing fireworks display was probably the same cost as all the added fighter bonus payments introduced by the UFC this year

The fashion of 1986 Jim Crockett Promotions

More 1986 Crockett fashion

a very subtle plug

At Raw in Belfast and OMG the pacing is going to kill me

HE IS VERY DIE HARD! HE’S JUST JAPANESE ROCK ROCK ’N’ ROLLER! HIS REAL NAME IS MASARU TOBITA. KNOCK OUT ALL ENEMY! ATTACK ALL MONSTERS!

It sure was Gypsy Joe.

Pete Gas gets suplexed on his head by Bull Pain. Why didn't William Regal tweet about *THIS*!?!?

It's weird constantly seeing people who know better talk about how and why Anthem "bought TNA." They did not. They foreclosed on Impact Ventures when Dixie defaulted on Anthem's loans to TNA, giving them the company per the terms of the loan agreement.

FIRE PRO WRESTLING

I think it's time to ask Cagematch and wrestlingdata why they are HIDING the fact that The Mountie and Abdullah the Butcher wrestled Carlos Colon and Marty Jannetty on February 14th 1993?? What else don't THEY~ want you to know??

When my wife asks why I just took $60 out of the ATM:

If you're a TV/pop culture nerd, this Cynthia Littleton piece in Variety is a must-click: She's compiled dozens of vintage ads from the trade, hyping everything from Kukla, Fran & Ollie and Columbo to The Sopranos and Freaks and Geeks. This is the good stuff. variety.com/gallery/tv-a...

Since 2023, Keiji Muto in NOAH, Sting at AEW Revolution, and NJPW today for Tanahashi all absolutely crushed the retirement show. 3 incredible events. Just mind-boggling how WWE screwed it up for Goldberg & Cena.

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

Folks

Bobby Davis managing Gorilla Monsoon 🤼 The prototype of the wrestling manager, Davis very much patterned the slick, motormouth style that influenced the Heenans, Harts and Heymans of the wrestling world in later years and would be more well known, if not for a lack of footage. Ahead of his time.

I'm not sure there's anything in all of pro wrestling that hits quite like that moment where Yoshiaki Fujiwara has had enough.

TV literally just has sports and wrestling lol

Sting's going to have the best retirement in US pro wrestling history isn't he?

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Netflix as the lesser of two evils versus the Ellisons as the potential WBD buyers might distract from what is still an insanely miserable bit of corporate consolidation. A slophouse run by people with some of the most depressing outlooks on the future of film and TV.

Does anyone know where I'd be able to find the Giant Baba special that aired on NTV in 2009?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9DJ... Hello friends! I recorded my first ever piece of wrestling audio going over some of my thoughts on the 2025 WON HOF ballot. If anyone is interested and has the time to listen it would be greatly appreciated!🙂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9DJ... Hello friends! I recorded my first ever piece of wrestling audio going over some of my thoughts on the 2025 WON HOF ballot. If anyone is interested and has the time to listen it would be greatly appreciated!🙂

Oh to have this much swagger, it’s almost too much for one man

The Triple H selfie thing is a really underrated aspects of why modern WWE is bad. Every debut or new champion has to get the lame endorsement from an overrated guy who sucks. Also feels like it’s actually about “take a look at MY booking” rather than the person themselves.

Since I have the relevant data, I did deep dive into the key part of the WON HOF candidacy of Kevin, Kerry, and David Von Erich as a unit: The gates WCCW drew in 1983. I went in w/o preconceived notions, and the results are...interesting. But there are question marks about how the criteria applies.

One of the all time great tweets from @jackbaker1311.bsky.social.

SILENT HILL PUZZLE: I am not 1 but I am not quite 3 - pray tell what could I be? ME AFTER 30 MINUTES: is there a gamefaq for this

One of my favorite post WWE interviews ever. You get the full scope of how much of a “dumb guy who thinks they’re smart” Black really is. The socks, saying Vince liked him and it wasn’t his call to release him, saying Heyman told him his issue is he’s “too smart and creative”. Beautiful shit.

"So Batman, I hear you don't have a father"

Great moments in @btsheetspod.bsky.social Patreon history: In which Paul Heyman seemingly pretends to be an Australian newsletter reader so he could write a letter to the Observer about how awesome he is.

When I say he is making a very obvious effort to do this he literally shocked the commentary team last Saturday I think when he went to do the promo. Its something that means a lot to him seemingly.

Friday night on BBC One trailers which go so hard they're ushering in fascism 29 years later

love the mat-level camera, which is especially helpful for watching El Hijo del Santo dribble Shocker's bloody face off the ground like he's trying to crack it open and find the secrets inside (Monterrey, 10/21/2001)

Oh, and that they're doing this at a time where it doesn't seem like they're signing any men to Legends contracts. That too.

You say that like it's weird for the most penny pinching version of WWE in its history to routinely sign women from Vince's 2/3rds life crisis era to Legends contracts where they get paid to do absolutely nothing for WWE

Numbered console generations were made up by a random Wikipedia user in 2004 in an attempt to standardize the "__ era game console" articles, and nobody ever corrected it. It's nonsense that no actual historian uses and you have permission to ignore it

🤼I'm not saying Samoa Joe stole that walkaway bit from a 1989 Russian sambo wrestler but I am saying you can't prove he didn't.