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Scott & JT’s Vintage Vault Refresh continues with the 2/27/95 Monday Night Raw
Continuing on with the 1/12/91 Superstars… DiBiase really abuses Virgil here, one last time before the split.
They leave one slot open for the Rumble match, 29 announced and say the last man will be revealed right before the show… I believe that ended up being Knobbs.
I enjoy how Piper calls Herc “Power” and Roma “Glory”… “What happens if Power eliminates Glory?”
That sounds right. And I believe Tito replaced Honky.
Wow, how weird that Tito wasn’t included originally? Had he fallen that far?
He was pretty much enhancement talent on the house shows.
OK, on to 1/19/91, the morning of the Rumble!
Piper talks about his dinner with Virgil and Honky gives him shit for getting involved in the issue.
Vince positions Quake as a RR favorite and is still pushing his feud with Hogan.
All Rumble super hard sell on this one, 100% focused commentary and promos.
DiBiase had a lot going on here… feuding with the Rhodes Family, Texas Tornado and the Virgil stuff too. Busy winter for him.
Mr. Perfect is wrestling the infamous Kevin Greeno!
Started watching The Defiant Ones on HBO last night. Fantastic doc. I’ll probably finish it this weekend.
That is on my eventual need to watch list too with a thousand other things.
Apparently Sling has a PPV option? Is this new? I just got an email promoting the UFC show Saturday for $59.99 through the app.
David Price could be heading to the DL with “elbow issues”. This is unbelievable.
I knew that was a terrible signing from day one. I remember arguing it with Cowboy and Senior… what a bad fit.
It’s real bad. Part of me wonders if this alleged upcoming DL stint has to do with the Eck stuff and he’s not really hurt. The timing is raising a red flag for me. He’s supposed to start tonight.
Sweet wrestling day today.
Heading to NXT tonight, and Seven, Dunne and Bate announced for King of Trios.
I don’t know most of the British teams they’ve announced so far, so it’s nice to have some people I’m a little more familiar with. Really glad the Sendai Girls team is coming back too; they were great last year.
I’m going to ICW Shug’s House Party tomorrow night, with a WWE UK title match and Noam Dar making his return, would anyone be interested in semi-regular updates on anything WWE related?
Of course!
Consider it done! I wanted to check before I spammed the page with British wrestling that no one was interested in!
Pretty cool article here:
http://deadspin.com/which-baseball-legends-had-two-separate-hall-of-fame-ca-1797030880
20 teams have reached out to the Cavs about Kyrie and six have made offers, including the Knicks and Wolves.
Understandably….he’d be a huge get for anyone. He’s the best ball handler and the 2nd best PG in the league.
Heat are offering Dragic and Winslow for Irving.
Welp.
https://twitter.com/RochieWBZ/status/890957108707028993
Bum
Karma
Saw this at Kayfabe Memories regarding Tugboat. Was this true?
If he was underrated, then how come the original idea for WM7 was Hulk Hogan vs Tugboat? They clearly changed their minds about doing it because they realized Tug was overrated. The original idea was to have Tugboat eliminate Hogan (ala Sid the following year), have him turn on his “best friend” Hogan. The plans were scrapped when Andre couldn’t appear and win it, they had Hogan go over and Hogan is the one eliminating Tugboat, which then leads absolutely nowhere..
Prichard confirmed this on his pod.
Insanity. Who would Sarge have defended against? Duggan?
Didn’t Prichard say Tugboat was originally supposed to get the Iraqi sympathizer gimmick?
I swear he said that on Flair’s podcast. Of course, with Bruce, who knows, but Sheik Tugboat would have been … somewhat unique.
Yeah, Sheik Tugboat was the plan. Slaughter was supposed to be allied with Tugboat, but Tugboat was to be the top guy with Slaughter as a manager/mouthpiece.
So who would be champ going into Mania then? Warrior still?
I forget what Bruce said the booking plans going into Mania would be with the belt. Here’s the episode – it’s episode 9
http://www.mlwradio.com/something-to-wrestle-with-bruce-prichard.html
Awful.
Sheik Tugboat is the funniest thing I’ve seen/read today.
Rumored card for SS:
Announced:
Lesnar vs. Reigns vs. Strowman vs. Joe
Mahal vs. Cena and/or Nakamura
Alexa vs. Bayley
Naomi vs. Natalya
Rumored:
Sheamus & Cesaro vs. Ambrose & Rollins
New Day vs. Usos
Owens vs. Shane McMahon
Miz vs. Jason Jordan
Styles vs. Jericho
Hardys vs. Gallows & Anderson vs. Revival
Balor vs. Wyatt
Cass vs. Show
Neville vs. Tozawa vs. Daivari
I find it interesting no Charlotte, Sasha or Becky there…
No Orton or Corbin either. Interesting.
I think Cena/Jinder and Nak/Corbin makes sense. Or they could just do two four ways for the titles too and add them all.
I think Cena/Nak goes to a non finish next week and I think at the very least we see a triple threat match between Cena, Nak, and Mahal.
I’m starting to think the same
Nakamura/Corbin makes no sense since Nakamura just pinned him clean on SD.
Corbin will probably not be booked so he can cash in or Jericho can put him over.
AJ/Jericho makes no sense either since they fought each other a million times already and feuded/teamed forever.
Mahal/Cena, KO/Shane, Styles/Nakamura makes the most logical sense for SD’s part of the show.
Ugh, Daivari is the least interesting guy in the CW division.
I thought Jericho’s appearance was a one-off.
If he’s back for a little run, I’m still not sure going back to the AJ well makes sense.
Maybe AJ-Corbin or AJ-Nak would work better. Or a freshly turned Gable?
LOL Shane vs. Owens? For real?
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Any consensus on a live watch tonight? Some options:
InVasion 2001
Great American Bash 2008
Night of Champions 2009
Bash at the Beach (any from 1996-2000)
I am, of course, always down for some WCW. Most of the older WWE branded GABs look goddamn awful. I really, really don’t feel like watching InVasion and having the same discussions that are always had about that show/angle. BUT! I leave it up to the quorum.
You are in charge as we have company coming over and I am likely out or will be in very late in the going!
I won’t be around until later but will join in when I can.
Can’t participate, but I do love that Invasion show and I’m much higher on the angle than most, just because I think the TV was super entertaining.
It’s the 20th anniversary (well, close) of BATB 97 so that might be a good one for you to do.
Maybe we should try for Sunday this week instead?
Yes. Let’s put a pin in it for tonight.
Looks like Guns N’ Roses added another date at MSG along with Newark and Hartford.
Shaughnessy just said Price may be headed for Tommy John.
I guess the only good thing is this happened before the trade deadline, curious to see what Dombrowski does now.
Probably trades a bunch of top prospects for some overpaid, overrated, putz. Is it football season yet???
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dfd1c2e7d7ca5b9fd899542d554762e6e7b03770209266161faabb5aa3b040ad.jpg
Live watch going on shortly
Rumble 2016 on the stream right now
The pop for AJ Styles debut is still so awesome.
One of the best WWE debuts of all time?
The final WWE Show at Joe Louis Arena is tomorrow.