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Also, doesn't that strongly imply that by beating the challenge, you aren't supporting the veterans because they won't get a donation?

Absolutely, I was surprised at the amount of discourse about the perfume comment, when it happened it seemed like another example of him trying to "play the game like a faithful" and not lying. Given the stress it was apparently causing him, I can't see him being malicious and throwing anyone under the bus on purpose.

Sad news, he was nothing short of brilliant in everything I saw him in. Never watched Star Trek (my wife wouldn't let me), but he's obviously fantastic in X-Men (big fan of Logan, particularly), had a great under the radar series in Blunt Talk, stole the show in Extras and is in my personal favourite Christmas Carol. Has one of the best guest spots in Frasier as well. But whilst he was great in every show and movie I saw him in, he's just brilliant at being himself, and hearing him talk in interviews, it's clear that he was just a lovely man who loved what he did. Gutted that I never got to see him perform live. Ooh, Green Room was a really good performance from him too, and quite different from everything else I've seen him do.

Off the back of this, I watched a YouTube short of Bob doing the falcon arrow a bunch of times, and one time (as mentioned, at Over The Edge 99) JR says "he calls that the Holly Caust". I'd always assumed that it was a fan-made name or something from a video game, but it definitely didn't last long. They *could* have re-pitched the name to him later on as well, but it's probably him getting his timelines mixed up. Edit - here's the full context which has audio transcript from the book, and the clip https://www.reddit.com/r/Wrasslin/comments/zbqsv2/im_watching_over_the_edge_1999_and_was_reminded/

The best equivalent to a Kane challenger would be if they spent a couple of weeks heating up (let's face it, practically unthawing) Lance Archer for a PPV title shot.

Really hard to care about anything WWE related most of the time, but I do think Charlie Dempsey is great so I'll check out his match, even if it's probably not a great opponent for him. Hopefully it's a fairly sensible gimmick that gets attached to it.

I'd love a return of Dark, essentially a much more fun version of the current Ring of Honor (which I find mostly unwatchable due to the dead crowd and flat commentary) to give people something to do and try out new talent.

Whats it supposed to say? I assumed "I ❤️ Dubai" but the letter after B really doesn't look like it could be an A.

Josh Kiszka from the band Greta Van Fleet.

Yeah looks like he did a mixed tag involving Kelly Kelly and Beth Phoenix, and a squash loss to Mike Knox in the UK. Whole televised comeback lasted less than 10 minutes of belltime, with lots of house show matches putting over Manu.

The Outlaws probably had to work harder and do way longer matches on their return than they had back in their "prime" years too. I actually didn't mind their little run against Cody and Goldust to be fair, stylistically they matched up pretty well.

Inoki shouting "bullshit" and stomping around whilst St Anger plays will never not be hilarious to me. On topic, has Gangrel been mentioned yet? He came back with Viscera for a handicap match with the Undertaker and got resigned, didn't have any more matches on TV, got promised some kind of thing in ECW which never happened and got released. Pretty sure Henry Godwin was signed around this time too and then released without many (any?) matches, certainly none on the main roster at least.

Agreed on all points about Roman, but that definitely is a fan-made poster, you can see their watermark on the right lower third.

Really enjoyed the majority of the show, and would likely watch more PPVs all the way through (or at least the majority of the matches) if they were paced like this and were closer to 2 hours in length than 4 or 5. I did think Kofi vs Bandido was pretty rough, and at this point if either of Next Level are getting long singles matches I'd rather it was Austin Creed. The bit where Hangman and Swerve came out felt big time though, so it did the job. Queen Aminata is stunning, and I thought the match was a lot of fun, but once again women are basically an afterthought with no other segments (unless I missed something?). Surprised how much I enjoyed Joe vs Jack Perry. Definitely doesn't sound like anything special on paper but Joe sold enough at the right time, and Jack was there for everything. The molten hot crowd for Joe definitely helped too. I could do without the spitting at the end though, such a lame trope of modern wrestling. If I'm too fucked to fight back, I probably wouldn't be able to muster up gobbing in someone's face either. Fletcher vs Darby was fantastic, really nothing to add there. Main was great too and I enjoyed the tag - the finish to which really surprised me in a good way. Especially given the show last week, you'd assume it was a no brainer that Death Riders were over here, but it really doesn't hurt for them to drop the fall. Great TV all in all, though so many good matches in a row was a little nackering, I wouldn't want it quite like this *every* week.

Loved that WCW six man, but yeah considering how much footage must be available, they do love doubling up on stuff like they did with this.