Necro Butcher is a complete fanny.
I remember watching him tear a huge chunk out of his arm in some lightbulb match with Pondo or some other gimp and it was just a lot of shite.

Naw, Necro was the fucking man

It is a shame he has cancer anyway

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Terry Funk knew how to suffer for his "art."

Loved watching him man. Right around 20 mins on that one, its just a brawl. I came across Necro Butcher on a suggested video from youtube forever ago.


That, then led me to a match with Jon Moxley vs Brain Damage where Brain Damage uses a fucking powersaw on Moxley's forehead CZW Tournament of Death 8.

I watched a bunch of deathwatch, CZW stuff last year just to be able to hate on it properly.
I think that Vice show episode where they visit CZW and you see a fat bald man get something hammered into his skull which then has to be removed with pliers is one of the most damning pieces of film ever made about "wrestling".

A bunch of fucking idiots.

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Hard Times, Henry's Retirement, and Austin 3:16 would be my picks.

Austin, Punk and THE CREAM OF THE CROP

Dusty, Savage and Austin. That was the "hardest" of all those "pick a few the rest die" gimmicks on twitter.

Bottom row

Gotta keep Hard Times for its "iconic status"

Cream of the Crop... as good as it is, take it away and you still have dozens of great Randy Savage moments and promos, another one would have just risen to the top of "memeablity"

No idea what The Rock promo is, so that's out.

Don't care about ECW so that's out (although I would have kept it in if it was his joining the Alliance promo).

Miz is out because... feel like I don't need to justify. Was good, but... whatever.

Austin 3:16 I'll get rid of because I never cared for Austin, but it seems to me like he would have been just as good without having that catchphrase.

So I'm left with AJ Lee, Mark Henry, and CM Punk and need to cut one of them.

AJ Lee's was good, and did feel like it started slowly the "turn" in the women's division towards "revolution".... but I remember it being utterly ruined by the Bellas yelling "Say it to our face!" over and over again at the top of their lungs. So that's out.

Which leaves CM Punk and Mark Henry to join Hard Times as the 3 I keep.

Henry wasn't just a promo, it was a "memorable moment" so I feel it is kind of cheating. Like I don't really remember the promo or what he was saying, but more "the moment".

CM Punk was a great moment and led to one of the most memorable runs of the "modern era". Unlike with Austin, without the "breakout moment" of this promo I don't think he would have got to the heights that he did.

Seems WWE had plans at one point to move Kairi Sane away from an active in-ring career.

Bottom 3 cause i don't give a damn about the 1st 2 rows.

Hard Times, Austin 3:16 and Cream of the Crop. Nothing else is anywhere close. Well, The Rock is The Rock, and that promo was funny. Everything else is tiers down though.

It’s gotta be Hard Times, Austin 3:16 and the pipebomb. Those are the three that left the biggest mark. The others are just... great promos.

And if it’s just great promos we’re judging, where the fuck is Flair??

That the list includes anything after I stopped watching is utterly ludicrous.

The golden years.

Yeah, it's far from a comprehensive list. And how the fuck did some of the ones that got on get on?

Lol, I remember when people tried comparing The Miz's Talking Smack promo to Hard Times. And Alexa Bliss was also a great wrestler and The Usos were amazing promos. Fantastic times.

Finished the Death of the Territories book by Tim Hornbaker.

What a tremendous book. You really see how Vince was so savage and ruthless during the expansion

:yes:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Them hastily covering over the WWE logo with a completely out of place NXT banner has serious slapping stickers over the GFW logos on the TNA titles energy. <a href="https://t.co/hDvuwGZUXd">pic.twitter.com/hDvuwGZUXd</a></p>&mdash; Garrett Kidney (@garrettkidney) <a href="https://twitter.com/garrettkidney/status/1278477768922206216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is really good/fascinating

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Who wouldn’t want to see cool stuff like this?! <br><br>Cool intro that <a href="https://twitter.com/undertaker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@undertaker</a> did for an episode of WWF Shotgun Saturday Night in 1997<br><br>Please add these to the Network, <a href="https://twitter.com/WWENetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWENetwork</a> <a href="https://t.co/2BXn91uycS">pic.twitter.com/2BXn91uycS</a></p>&mdash; Alexsi (Lex) (@OMGITSAlexsi) <a href="https://twitter.com/OMGITSAlexsi/status/1278747135899512834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The full episodes are on youtube.

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I might go and watch some. Been looking for some nighttime wrestling content.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fuck you El Torrito. Stealing my goddamn gimmick. I'll eat your fucking children. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAW</a></p>&mdash; Mantaur (@RealMantaur) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealMantaur/status/387379706317647872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Supposedly Vince completely soured on her being a potential big star ever since the Rumble and Creative giving her a big win at the Elimination Chamber didn't really help change his mind.

Rumors of WWE buying EVOLVE ended up being true according to PWI.

Wouldn't be surprised if the same eventually happens to PROGRESS since that's another of WWE's partners that is currently suffering a lot and also shut down for the time being.

Check out this channel. Lol you'll lose track of what day it is. I'm ashamed to say I've watched all the 97 WCW Pros and 98 Worldwide already haha




He edits out all the commercials or Raw/Nitro replays. So it's just in ring stuff. He then combines all the segments and sorts them out by month.

Fucking amazing. WCW Worldwide, WCW Pro, WWF Shotgun Saturday Night and WWF Jakked.

So much delicious syndicated C show goodness.

You truly are the Iceman King.

According to the Observer Newsletter, Kairi Sane is leaving WWE soon and heading back to Japan.

She's currently planning on wrestling one more year in Japan and then retiring afterwards.

Also Nia Jax being reckless with Sane ended up screwing up WWE's original plans for both Sane's departure and Asuka's title defense at SummerSlam.

Jax should bill herself as "The Career Killer" Nia Jax.

According to PWI, there was another buyer interested in purchasing EVOLVE but got blocked by WWE who had first rights for a deal due to a clause they put in their partnership deal with EVOLVE.

Also EVOLVE's owner Gabe Sapolsky got hired by WWE to join their NXT Creative team as part of the deal to purchase EVOLVE.

People joked for years that when Sapolsky made that initial deal, he was going to bolt for WWE at the very first chance to do so and that ended up happening, albeit for a genuine reason.

Raven brought this up a long time ago about Gabe. Raven said Gabe isn't really creative, he just puts together matches.

He'd be perfect fit based on how things have been running lately in NXT.

It’s not really the first chance he gets if people “joked about it for years.”

Only reason the joke even ran that long was due to Sapolsky kept fueling the fire with his NXT teases over the years. Even EVOLVE talent were supposed pretty nervous on several occasions because of his antics.

Just so happens when he had an actual chance to jump ship, he did. Only other real time would have been when EVOLVE almost crashed down because of the FloSlam debacle but it would have been such a terrible look for him and Triple H had he bailed at the time due to that debacle being revealed to have been mainly his and WNN's fault.

That might give WWE ideas of Nia Jax vs Orton career killer vs legend killer

Drew McIntyre and Conor McGregor are teasing a match on Twitter. Drew's really good at knowing where his bread is buttered and has been doing his absolute best to take the star opportunity he has by the horns. McGregor talks a lot of shit, surely, but he's obviously angling for some sort of pay-day and he knows how to make money in the "combat sports" business.

If Vince McMahon is going to try and get WrestleMania on an NBC or FOX, or he just wants something huge to boost traffic -- he could do FAR worse than McIntyre vs. McGregor at WrestleMania, especially if they dress it up with potential Dana White or Vince McMahon involvement.