Scott Keith
How would you, SCOTT KEITH, have ended the nWo?
Bonus question: what's the big angle and/or feud that proceeds it?
Not a fair fight
Shameless plug for Thea Trinidad and myself!
It’s ol’ faithful, Bonzai! For those who haven’t kept up in the daily threads for a while, I was hired at the end of last year to be the video editor of Thea Trinidad’s (FKA Zelina Vega in WWE) Youtube channel, which was relaunched today into a gaming channel, so here I am with a shameless plug! To say this has been both a daunting and wonderful creative challenge would be an understatement on both counts, and it’s been an amazing opportunity to go from being a fan of a talent to working in daily collaboration with her and both of us embarking on this channel as our new day jobs.
Basically, my gig is to take her full live-streams and mine the best minutes for comedic effect, with enough visual cutaways and video game audio gags to make even Maffew blush (or sue; and if Maffew sees this and asks “You got any Simpsons gags, mate?”, there’s a split-second one in the next episode!). This debut ep has Thea playing “Among Us” with some special guests including Ronda Rousey and Saraya (aka Paige) on the “we know them from TV fighting” side and folks like Jirard The Completionist and Grandpoobear on the “professional streamers who are famous and popular” side. Any support with a like and subscribe would be greatly appreciated!
PS: Yes, I have briefly met Aleister Black, and I only mildly embarrassed myself.
I want this game and I don’t want it all at once
Might need to give this one a go.
If Dino Bravo & Joey Marella shared a jail cell
They should have left Marella in there.
Tom Magee: Klingon Bastard
Sure, everyone loves that Tom Magee match with Bret, and that time he lifted all the cheese, but what about the time he played Fek'lhr, the guardian of the gates of Klingon hell?
Ratings for Particular Tegan Nox Matches
Monday Night Wars, US Only?
I've been enjoying reading the Wrestling Observer flashbacks on your blog, especially since we're now into the Monday Night Wars.
This got me thinking. As a lad in his teens living in the UK, I grew up on World of Sport wrestling and then, when that vanished in the late 80s, the WWF.
I wasn't able to watch RAW at the time, but I never used to miss Superstars. I was aware of WCW, hell I even had a WCW LCD game where you could play as Arn Anderson or Sting, but I didn't follow it, for me, it was the WWF.
WWF was the only wrestling I had available at the time and therefore was the only one I watched.
Truth be told, I wasn't even aware of the “War” and took the Huckster skits as jabs at the older, now gone, wrestlers. Think was probably 2001 when I first heard the term (which coincides with when I got internet access)
My question is, was this the case for most people outside of the US, or was it just me living a sheltered life?
Tom Magee has been surpassed
Pix of the cheese deadlift or GTFO. You can’t tease me with something like that and leave me hanging.
Huber/Lee/Harper
Scott,
Hope all is well.
I didn’t know Luke Harper/Brodie Lee/Jon Huber.
The closest I came was seeing him live have an awesome match at RAW in Brooklyn in 2014.
My anti-Cena bias at the time led me to immediately marvel at Harper’s work and appreciate how much the guy can go.
Anyway, I watched the WWE Best of Luke Harper special they put on the Network today.
I got to say for a guy to make the entire Wyatt family and especially Randy Orton of all people tear up just talking about him speaks volumes.
This was obviously an incredible person whose friends and family were very lucky to have known him.
The video they put with Harper tearing up talking about his son is a heartbreaker as well.
Can’t imagine how his family is dealing.
The special is definitely worth a watch at any rate.
Judas in your lungs
Chris Jericho reveals he tested positive for COVID back in September, despite having no symptoms of the virus. https://t.co/ACUvIBK8wN
Koko vs. “The Patriot”
An item that became fairly popular with the internet was video of a Memphis squash where Koko Ware just massacred a knockoff Patriot. Was it ever established just what this guy did/said to get Koko to go off on him the way he did?
Horrifying question about Starrcade 95
Or potentially what could have been. So we all remember the Dungeon Of Doom yeah? We all certainly remember THE YETI. Here's the thing. The Yeti was presented as being originally AHEAD of The Giant in the pecking order. He was introduced right before Halloween
Havoc and the entire show built up as The DOD's diabolical master plan or some such shit. So Hogan faces Giant at HH. Was he originally supposed to be face the goddamned Yeti at Starrcade??!? I mean obviously it went over even worse than the DOD's usual shenanigans
and within weeks Yet-tay was a ninja then vanished for a while then came back as a generic big man but for a week or two The Mummy that was also a Yeti was treated like a VERY big deal and he was TALLER than The Giant so in Hulk Hogan logic that meant he was
TOUGHER brother.
So yeah. Starrcade 95. Hogan vs. Yeti. I wonder how close we were to getting this.
Too Sweet
The Good Brothers have invaded AEW to join up with the Bucks and Omega, sealed with the Too Sweet hand gesture. Meanwhile, Bullet Club leader Jay White seems close to leaving New Japan after losing to super babyface champion Ibushi. Omega has history with Ibushi
as the Golden Lovers, but has hinted at travelling to other promotions to collect belts. There's a possible dream cross-promotional booking scenario where Omega turns on Ibushi to chase his belts and Jay hooks up with the new AEW-Impact faction.
First he needs 5 years of seasoning in NXT so he can learn to work to the hard camera.
Damn the COVID
Top 20-somethings
Payday
Does WWE still have PPV payoffs or “being a champion pay bump” for the wrestlers like one would read about back in the day? Or is it straight-up contract pay; regardless, for example, if you’re on the WM card or not? Is the true motivation gone for some of these guys?
Regards
The WWE Roster is so old