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That's one way of looking at it. Another, is that at 46, he's exactly the midpoint between the new World Heavyweight Champion, Damien Priest (41) and the man that won the main event of night 1 at WrestleMania, The Rock (51).

And TIL that on top of the "50 McNugget Challenge" story.... this, too, I've said before. Like one of those talking Hulksters with pre-programmed phrases at the pull of a cord. Or a psychotic Krusty doll.

I'd be happiest if Gunther went back to being fat.

Wasn't Lance Storm the undisputed intergalactic multidimensional champion of Canada in WCW?

Re : belt names. I've never seen one before, no-one has, but I'm guessing it's a White Hole. The problem with that is, with two shows and two rosters where two blokes are going to be "the champion" its massively counter-productive to present one as overtly more important the other. In terms of getting people to watch the shows or buy tickets to events, you can't have anyone feeling short-changed if they have the "lesser" champion, even though that's exactly what they fell into with Roman's rarely contested Neverending Story of a run with the Undefeated, Undisputed, WWE Heavyweight Champion of Life, The Universe And Everything, gobbling up all challengers into the Nothing, and Seth's Silver Medal - defended most months but nobody really wanted to win it anyway. The nearest they got to parity was in the first brand split - SmackDown, the junior and fairly obviously less important TV show, still had the WWE title, the oldest title in company history, still regarded as THE title. While Raw, though in possession of the brand new/revived title with the Big Gold Belt as its symbol, could still argue the toss that it had an argument to have THE top guy, because they were champion on the flagship brand and expected to be drawing the ratings on THE show. But they fucked that by swapping Cena and Batista over and taking the respective titles with them, even then.

Still think "World" next to the title names is rubbish and there is nothing wrong with "Raw" and "SmackDown" as prefixes for midcard titles - especially with the Womens. "Raw Womens Champion" and "SmackDown Womens Champion" are far more logical than what they have now - they were the champions of their respective shows. Today, there's a Womens Champion of WWE, and a Womens Champion of "the World." Huh?

Conversely they could have done wonders if, like with a men’s title, she’d have been presented as the heel champion where you don’t just have her to worry about but the rest of the squad. Instead, she beat all the biggest obstacles to her dominance - Charlotte, Nia, Becky - by simply being better than them when the bell rang. Which is fine, if you want her to become a hero. But apparently she’s a heel. Still not ruling out a bitter divorce and full face turn culminating in her vs Dom at Mania 41.

Warrior vs Rick Rude, Bret vs Shawn and Rock vs HHH being the obvious ones that come to mind.

What an incredible time we have now, where thanks to a record setting champion, a good story and a fine, well booked win, we see an Intercontinental Champion presented like this - fortuitous timing though it is that they’re back in Montreal - like “look at this guy, he fucking won big, he’s walked out a bigger deal than when he walked into Mania.” Bit early to say they’ve rescued the ICT having value but in the here and now, let’s forget that Sami is in his fourth reign because this feels like a first in all the ways the big wins for Bret, Razor, Bulldog and Tornado did - so meaningless was the title when Zayn won it three times before. Good for them, good for him.

Chalk me up as another who has “Dr Britt Baker DMD” down as a natural fit for WWE: Firstly, she has her character nailed already. Secondly, they need some new heels - Damage CTRL are finished, Rhea isn’t really a heel, they’re bound to try and bring Charlotte back as a face, short of turning Belair they’re lacking badly for a baddie. Finally, I really like Lockjaw, always had a weakness for a unique finish that isn’t shit. As an aside… I can’t believe someone actually took the midcarders favourite lazy choice, Roll The Dice/The Testdrive/Last Rites/Heros Welcome all the way to winning the big belt at Mania 40.

I don't know if Ted would have ever bankrolled the creation of WCW (as a promotion rather than just the name of a TV broadcast/re-brand of JCP) if he hadn't had such a personal falling out with Vince over Georgia Championship Wrestling ; he'd probably have just carried on broadcasting other wrestling promotions' TV on his networks rather than buy one outright and pump a load of cash into it, rebrand it etc. McMahon's impersonation of Turner calling him to tell him "I'm in the rasslin' business" has been repeated a few times, I'm not sure he dives in headfirst and buys JCP if he didn't want to directly compete with Vinny Mc.

There is a pair I'd love to see back in WWE, but I doubt very much she'd go back.

Probably didn't help that they were flogging Hogan's t-shirts and he wasn't seeing a penny. Although having said that... I forget where I heard that, so it might be Terry brand bullshit.

In AEW is he permitted to do the Canadian Destroyer as a nearfall, as I saw him do on an indy show? Bush league nonsense, that.