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I think there's a golden opportunity here to rehash an old NWA title finish - let's make the Athletic Commissions a heel entity that we can use in the story and have them intervene and stop one of Moxley's matches because he's bleeding. Shambolic treatment of Nyla though it's been... I'd use it, if she's OK with it.

It's probably because Orton was in the title hunt on and off for most of his tenure to date and held World titles about 10 times, and Sheamus spent half his time there in The Bar. He was stale as fuck when they used him to Luger Roman at Survivors 2015 and that League Of Nations twaddle did him no favours (or anyone, really). That was nearly 10 years ago. Agreed on the match where he dropped the belt to Show though... that was an exceptional, unexpectedly dramatic one. Show was miserably played out at that point, but the fellah did wonders with him on that night. It was an "of all time" scenario so total body of work, It's all fucking bollocks though isn't it? One loser with too much time on his hands thinks that 100 wrestlers as diverse as Jumbo Tsuruta, Sami Zayn, Brian Danielson, Bruno Sammartino, Akira Hokuto etc are/were all better than HBK, by some criteria or another... I mean, it sounds daft to me but in the true spirit of "we've all got our opinions" good for him, but... actually making the list to prove a rhetoric of "I can name 100 wrestlers better than Shawn Michaels" .... yeah? Good for you. I'll be over here, not giving a shit.

There's enough lists going on out there. The "100 wrestlers better than Shawn Michaels" one gave me AIDS. Draft's happening 26th SmackDown - 29th Raw. Knight would be a decent call for Raw, actually - I imagine they could get people behind him for a crack at Priest. Not going to lie, saw a mock up for SummerSlam that showed Rock vs Cody, Punk vs Drew, Reigns vs Rollins and Priest vs Balor, and everything between now and July is going to twiddling my thumbs waiting patiently for the crushing letdown when that's NOT what they're able to put on. Christ, throw in Usos vs Solo & Tama Tonga (umm, at least in story terms) and it's the best sequel to Mania I could come up with.

The woke thread is there for people who want (and currently are) discussing the topic in broad strokes.

Could have.

The best thing they could do now is get blacklisted by OK state, then throw a show called "I'd Sooner Be In Texas" or similar crap pun, in Dallas/Houston/wherever. Nothing beats a cheap pop.

Good one there. Take Kerry out of Texas and does he draw? The NWA obviously didn't think so on a big scale.

I hope I don't regret this. Many casual fans of Belinda Carlisle that love "(We Want) The Same Thing" are probably unaware the version they love isn't the original. The better and more widely-played version (Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! intro) is called the "summer remix" and was used by Peugeot in an ad in the 90s. The original version that was released as a single and was on the Runaway Horses album was a bit rubbish in comparison. See you back in On Topic.

Well, we're a little at crossed purposes here, but Savage got over really strong initially as a heel working Hogan all over the country, and thats when people realized how good he was - later, in combination with the sympathy Liz got, it made for a logical babyface turn. So the question might not really be "would Savage have got the same push as a babyface in a world without Hogan in New York" as "would Savage have got over as strong in 85 if he's wrestling a different babyface?" As to who that babyface would have been...... still Bob Backlund? I mean, a maniac like Savage would have been a good foil for straightlaced Bobby and his atomic drops, but would it have drawn? It's still a question for the Vince Jr debate - no Jr to overrule Sr historically blackballing the Hulk, possibly no Hogan for Savage to work. I'm still slightly bitter "Irish" Terry Hogan never saw the light of day, to be honest. Bruno drew the Italians, Pedro drew the Hispanic... let's get the Irish New Yorkers in the building!! Actually, that probably answers my question as to who might supplant Backlund if there's no Hulkster. He may have been 44 at the time but maybe it was time to pull the trigger on Polish Power! Who Randy ended up working later on anyway, albeit for the ICT.

Ah, you didn’t catch the one word that makes all the difference.

Works for me. something something Storm Breaker something something

Well, assuming he does go with his own instincts rather than pay an agency, he can hit ALL the big ones - MySpace, Bebo, Faceparty, Hi5. Let's just hope he doesn't accidentally revert to using Roman numerals wherever he can, otherwise that last one becomes problematic. Having said all this... remembering WWEs brief fetish for Tout... I still don't know where Vine failed and TikTok has succeeded. Fickle kids.

He'd probably pay some young peoples' marketing agency to help get him up to speed with what all the kids are into these days, and end up deciding that for maximum "engagements" the matches will all need to be short enough to go on TikTok.

@JLM As I may have said before, I wish they'd kept their full names - Deuce Shade, Dice Domino and Cherry Pie sounded brilliant.

From memory... isn't there a fairly decent knock off of Teen Spirit that they dub over WCW's original Teen Spirit knock off, that's miles better than the dreadfully dull, generic Metal jobber tune they gave to DDP when he wrestled for them?