It is lamentable 30 Rock isn’t currently airing so we could hear Jack’s constant complaining about Mamdani or an episode where Liz’s big book signing for Dealbreakers II is the same day as the Knicks victory parade.

WCW YouTube posted the Great American Bash ‘91, the PPV right after Flair left the company. All time bad vibes show, I remember listening in live on scramble vision and being stunned at what I was seeing (er, hearing). youtu.be/A1gj1ZytsbA?si…

Riiita goes around the world but it’s Kzy who has the sudden stop

Beautiful (har har) elbow drop from Bobby Eaton

Both Eita and Dragon Bane end up in the crowd. Match is definitely worth a look

Yokozuna crushes the 1-2-3 Kid

Buddy Landel is out here in a pink bathrobe and Boyd Pierce still looks more ridiculous than him

YIKES

Roadblock looking like he could pass for Brody King’s semi-employed uncle who’s a few weeks away from an intervention

RIP to the Duke of Dorchester Pete Doherty, the kind of character you don’t really see anymore. He lost a lot but was also on the first Saturday Night’s Main Event and beat Haku at the Boston Garden.

Rewatching the Herb Abrams Dark Side of the Ring and I love the subtle imagry depicting Herb’s desire to squash Vince McMahon

Really torn if this is way too high or way too low

Some great shirts on this Nitro

Hulk Hogan’s last ever Nitro appearance had him get Jackhammered through a table by Goldberg

WWE Vault uploaded an infamous (to me anyway) Coliseum home video: Best the WWF vol 17. What makes it infamous? 7 matches and the heels win every one, plus you get Haku’s coronation. Man was young me PISSED when I rented it (matches are good however) youtu.be/aifcowor6Pc?...

Took my kid to a card shop today and they had some old WCW cards. Petty amazing write up for Ric Flair

In winning the junior heavyweight title today, YOH hit the grand slam of junior accomplishments: jr title, Best of Super Juniors, jr tag titles, and a junior tag tournament. The only other names I came up with that did this are Liger, Kanemoto, Samurai, KUSHIDA, and El Desperado

WCW YouTube posted the full Great American Bash 1990 show. The original home video release omitted the first 4 matches and I believe the WWE Network version followed suit (can’t remember if Peacock followed suit). So now we can all hear Jim Ross explain why Harley Race has a crown on his tights

Christopher Daniels these days gives off strong “Teddy Long managing Jim Powers in 1996” vibes

Excellent thumbnail for this video

I love the Osaka Pro ring because it looks like a huge Monopoly board

It’s a cultural loss that enhancement talent these days tends to be presentable independent wrestlers and you don’t get the likes of a Snake Brown anymore

Smokey Mountain opening. You could just have this on TV in 1993

Always loved this sequence, just a crazy visual

I see some Three Stooges in Bischoff’s selling here (compliment)

More dot matrix printed signs at shows please

Really need to know what Talos calls this maneuver

Incredible spear, it looks reality glitches out for a second

Great finishing sequence, nice work. Did Public Enemy forget their jerseys? They look like two house painters picking a fight with Sting

I think about this CZW match from time to time even though I never watched it. I heard it was CZW trying to get the drop on ROH’s own 4 way hour long match (even though this didn’t go an hour). Great stipulation for Messiah.

Another weird AI sounding commentary insert on Evolve

If Bruno Sammartino wrestled long enough to have a Titantron I hope it would look like this

Excellent imitation of a turtle by Cornette

This is apparently a Jimmy Hart bumping account now

Credit to Jimmy Hart, a few months after Goldberg dumped him on his head he’s right back at it. Thankfully it’s an easier (but not exactly soft) landing.

Finished the Grande Americano deal. It was very good! This concludes my expert analysis. I do find it fascinating that somehow this feud turned into a zeitgeist moment, where if you didn’t watch it you felt left out.

Goldberg and Scott Steiner on the cover of Sports Illustrated for Kids in 2000

WWE Vault uploaded a collection of Action Zone matches. They inexplicably left off Bret vs Owen from the first episode but tossed in Bret vs Mantaur. But this does have the Diesel/Shawn vs Razor/1-2-3 Kid match which you should see if you never have. youtu.be/qJEG6Xb3XXI?...

Flamita looks like he found a hidden spring or had flubber in his boots

Goldberg dumps Meng and Jimmy Hart on their domes in a matter of seconds

Lex Luger goes for the Torture Rack on Jeff Belk, it gets messed up, and Luger courageously says screw it and just pins him

WWE Vault uploaded Rey Mysterio Jr’s first ever mask match against Mr. Condor. There’s no middle rope because it broke in the prior match and I guess the show must go on, but that does allow Rey to eat hot death.

Is Speedball going fox hunting after Dynamite?

::Someone punches Ivan Putski:: Larry Zbyszko:

If Ryu Fuda hits this move I will post it you have my word

I like the way Silver King exits the ring, just a different way to do a common move (er, assuming it was on purpose anyway)

Classic late stage WCW moment as Shane Douglas immediately goes from getting choked by the Wall to all smiles as a pallbearer. Mike Awesome, previously thrown into an ambulance that drove away, also appears none the worse for wear.

Last night’s show was the 8th iteration of Double or Nothing. AEW has certainly had it’s eras (Cody and Punk runs, brochachos, Death Riders, etc) but the distance between WrestleMania 1-8 feels so much longer (it could also be because I was a kid during those early Manias).

The New Blood dumps, uh, new blood on Kevin Nash (or tries to anyway)

Here’s a double team move I haven’t seen before