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Sara Del Ray in Ring of Honor. She's a fantastic wrestler.

Triple H having daughters has probably helped too. He wants Aurora-Rose to be able to main event a Mania someday.

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Originally Posted by Tom Guycott (Post 5188929)

I know that was a typo, but Callahan did stink in NXT. They didn't play to his strengths at all, and I think they attempted to just add bim to the collection.

Well, his strengths involve capitalizing on almost accidental murder. He should be avoided.

I've been listening to the Solomonster Sounds Off podcast lately. I generally agree with a lot of his views. Also gave a few episodes of the Stick to Wrestling podcast a listen. Does anyone else have any wrestling podcasts they like to listen to? I'm looking for some new stuff. Prefer fan podcasts or more analytical things. Don't really like listening to wrestlers interview each other that much. Unless there is a really good one I am forgetting?

Stick to Wrestling is 1/2 good. John McAdams sounds great. Sean Goodwins has had some bad audio issues on his end.

It's no Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren and Barry. (great one)

Are you missing the 605 Superpodcast, THE MOTHERSHIP?

John McAdam is one of my favourite people to listen to..

SlickyTrickyDamon, check out his three part Boston Garden series with Kris Zellner's Exile on Badstreet podcast. Really great.

Sean Goodwin makes the podcast borderline unlistenable. He keep shouting into the mic like he has autism or something.

Between the Sheets is the best wrestling podcast around. Hands down. This weeks episode is unbelievable.

So I passed out at around 10 last night and woke up at 5 30am. Nothing to do, so I decided to watch something from my collection for the first time in a while. Watching the November 26th, 1984 MSG show. Love 1984 so much. Midway through the show. So far the matches have been:

-SD Jones over Charlie Fulton in an alright match

-Moondog Spot over Jose Luis Rivera in a squash

-Bobby the Brian Heenan! over Salvatore Bellomo in a match that sounds way more interesting on paper than it was.

-King Kong Mosca over Mr.Fuji by dq in a match that can only be described as a miracle

-Cowboy Bob Orton over Swede Hanson in a bleh match

Tonga Kid /w/a returning Jimmy Snuka vs Roddy Piper/w/ Cowboy Bob Orton is next.

Crowd is INSANE for this match. Tonga Kid (Tama from Islanders) was so bloody over and he's only 18 years old here. Too bad he got a big head and started no showing events. What a waste of talent. Match ends in a double dq when Orton and Snuka get involved. Legit 4 star match. Next month they come back with Snuka and Tonga Kid vs Piper and Orton, which sadly signals the end of Jimmy Snuka being a pushed guy.

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Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5189023)

I really wish they'd let Amato have at least one match on WWE television.

IIRC, she was offered a spot in the women’s battle royal at Mania and she turned it down. They were using NXT women to fill out the match and she didn’t want to take a spot away from any of her trainees.

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Originally Posted by The Midnight Gertner (Post 5189120)

I thought Tonga Kid was Haku

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Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 5189126)

I thought Tonga Kid was Haku

My guess is it's his twin brother IIRC

nm Haku went by King Tonga

Fucking Tongans. Show a little more originality.

"In 1982 Tonga Kid and King Tonga were flanked by their cousin, Tonga Guy"

Tonga Kid was way better than Haku.

He's 18 in this match.

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Originally Posted by The Midnight Gertner (Post 5189136)

Tonga Kid was way better than Haku.

He's 18 in this match.

BODY SLAM EXPLODES! (6 years before)

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Originally Posted by The Midnight Gertner (Post 5189136)

Tonga Kid was way better than Haku.

Just sent him this post. Might want to change addresses ASAP.

Luckily I'm a masked poster so he'll never discover my true identity.

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Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5189081)

Triple H having daughters has probably helped too. He wants Aurora-Rose to be able to main event a Mania someday.

Maybe that's the real reason why Triple H is so behind the Women's Division now?

He wants Aurora to main event WrestleMania and be the face of the company but he doesn't want her rise to the top to be seen as being because of who her mother and father are, kinda like how people said that Triple H's main event run between 2002-2005 was because he was "married to the boss' daughter".

With Triple H doing what he's doing now with the Women's Division, when Aurora's time comes and she's the top name in the company, nobody can really say that it's because of who her family are because Triple H can just say "but women have been main eventing shows for years!" and so on.

Also, to most people, they won't even think twice about it because it'll be normalised by that time to see a female main event shows and be advertised and being one of the big major names in the company.

Thought this was your Raw/SD Review :(

Not so many images and gifs this week.

Raw:

• Raw is in Oakland, Ca and the first match is Rob Van Dam vs X-Pac and Oakland really seem to hate X-Pac.

Their chant of "X-Pac Sucks" was probably one of the loudest chants of the night. It was pretty loud.

• A shoot promo by Vince now and he's talking about Austin walking out and the crowd is chanting "What!?" after every single thing Vince says. I actually forgot how annoying the "What!?" chants were but the funny thing is that at the time, I don't really remember finding the "What!?" chants annoying.

I also lost count how many times Vince said that Austin helped build the company.

Vince then acts like Steve Austin has died by toasting him and leaving the can in the middle of the ring.

https://i.postimg.cc/xCXVTFb9/z1.png

• Jeff Hardy vs Raven now and this match is happening because of what happened on Heat last week when both men had a match and Jeff got himself disqualified because he choked Raven with a camera cord.

I remember those days when Heat actually mattered and it just wasn't a glorified Raw Recap show that it eventually became.

It was also good to see Raven have a match. I always liked Raven.

• Booker T and Goldust backstage now and Goldust can actually do a pretty decent stereotypical English accent.

Also, we see the boom mic in shot.

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• Chris Nowinski's debut vs Spike Dudley which he won.

• Flair is in the ring cutting a promo and Austin's music plays which makes the crowd go mad. It quickly changed to Eddie's theme which makes the go a different kind of mad.

Eddie says he was scheduled to face Austin at King of The Ring but I didn't know this as it was never actually announced on TV.

Thinking about it now, I actually would have liked to have seen that match.

• Vince is backstage and Chris Nowinski comes into the room to introduce himself. He basically just lists off everything he's done at Harvard. Tony Garea then calls Vince to tell him that "He's on his way" and Vince can only assume that "He" is Austin.

• Trish Stratus & D'Lo Brown vs Crash & Molly Holly was another match taking place because of what happened on Heat last week. Crash challenged D'Lo to a match even though D'Lo was working commentary that night and D'Lo won the impromptu match.

After the replay of what happened on Heat, we had this shot of Trish and Lawler basically said that he would love to get Trish's breasts in his mouth.

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During Crash & Molly's entrance, we see a replay of last week on Raw when Molly Holly choked Trish with Trish's own panties. Lalwer does what Lawler does when panties are on screen and JR said to Lalwer that he (Lawler) would love to be in those panties and wear them because "that's the kind of guy he is".

That was not an image anyone wants.

Anyway, D'Lo and Trish won.

• Undertaker vs Matt Hardy was next and during the match Jeff interferes and both Matt and Jeff are attacking Undertaker.

Raven then runs to the ring to save Undertaker from The Hardy Boyz.

That is also a sentence I thought I would never type.

Undertaker & Raven then work together (again, I thought I would never type that) to beat down The Hardys.

• Another "Get The "F" Out" video is played and it was one I don't think I've ever seen. It was about a woman visiting a surgeon.

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This is the only one of the "Get The "F" Out" videos that I have no memory of, so I can only assume it was edited out of Raw & SmackDown for some strange reason when they were shown over here.

• Brock Lesnar vs Booker T is the main event and the only things worth talking about really are Nash & Michaels on commentary with Michaels coming across as a legitimate douche and also this creative but misspelt Booker T sign.

SPOILER: show

• Vince is in the ring and calls out Austin but Tony Garea runs out and tells Vince that "He" is not Austin.

Vince then asks who "He" is and The Rock's music hits and the crowd goes wild.

The Rock cuts a promo basically saying that he's back a month early because Austin walked out.

SmackDown:

• Just like Raw last week. This weeks SmackDown is "flipped".

• Kurt Angle kicks the show off with a promo.

https://i.postimg.cc/zf6p1dwm/z4.png

Also, doesn't the smiling guy in the glasses look like TPWW Legend, Xero?

• The first match of the night is Rikishi vs Christian and Rikishi wins but Christian's foot was on the rope and the referee didn't see it and this makes Lance Storm come out to complain to the referee.

A break finishes and Lance Storm is with Christian in the ring and he has a mic. Storm cuts your basic Anti-American promo and this promo is pretty much the beginning of The Un-Americans.

• Triple H is being interviewed and decides to break the fourth wall.

SPOILER: show

During the interview, he makes more gay jokes about Billy & Chuck.

• Jamie Noble vs Billy Kidman is next and it's a Number One Contenders Match for the Cruiserweight Championship.

Before the match, we found out that Nidia wears Hurricane's mask (which she stole last week) over her own underwear.

Noble won the match and Hurricane attacked him from behind and took his mask back.

• During the Billy/Triple H match, Tazz said the word "ass" but he wasn't censored, however, whenever wrestlers say ass during promos either backstage or on the mic, the word is censored.

• During this exchange, Tazz reminded of Simple Fan:

Michael Cole: What's gonna happen on Raw this Monday night live from Cleveland the night after King of the Ring!?
Tazz: I don't know. I work for SmackDown, that's my concern.

• Backstage, Stacy Keibler brings in Finlay and Big Johnny who look like some kind of office tag team.

https://i.postimg.cc/pXB9jqdD/z5.png

Vince asks them to each bring Undertaker and Kurt Angle to him and later they're all talking and it leads to a fight with Vince getting caught in the middle of Angle and Undertaker.

Finlay and Big Johnny then pull Angle away and out the room.

I actually found the fight a bit funny when Angle gets pulled off Undertaker and Vince is still rolling around on top of Taker, who is trying to get up and you just hear Undertaker say "Vince, get off me!" and then the look on Vince's face as he rolls off of Taker.

SPOILER: show

In case you miss it in the gif, here is Vince's face:

SPOILER: show

• I'll leave you now with a random sign from one of the two shows, with it being one from Raw aimed at Brock Lesnar.

https://i.postimg.cc/13CrG9zc/z7.png

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Originally Posted by XL (Post 5189176)

Thought this was your Raw/SD Review :(

I was actually just reading it over when you posted that.

Apparently WWE bought a few special emojis on Twitter for tonight's Evolution event. Problem is not only did it give away the main event of the show, it also showed they only care about the main event and nothing else.

#WWEEvolution, #RondaRousey and #NikkiBella got the special treatment while everything else tonight got ignored.

Stone Cold Becky threw a little shade at the WWE because of it afterwards.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">People are saying there's no emoji when you <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeckyLynch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeckyLynch</a> - no surprise there - but if you want to see my emoji just use <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEEvolution?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEEvolution</a> and up pops my title. Why? Because I am the PPV.</p>— Rebecca Quin (@BeckyLynchWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/status/1055912619306041344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Nikki Bella wins the main event.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And here’s part two of John Oliver’s ethering of WWE on the “Last Week Tonight” that just ended, including a special hype video for Crown Jewel. <a href="https://t.co/OlXC9ROWwv">pic.twitter.com/OlXC9ROWwv</a></p>— David Bixenspan (@davidbix) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1056751068451930112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'm glad people are going after this company. They get away with so much because no one gives them the time of day, but hopefully some of this coverage gets people to take notice and eventually affects their stock price and business relationships.

Beck as WWE Champion... I'd take him over a few options.

AJ Styles made their fake commercial! He's officially big time now!

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Not sure it's ever going to happen. But WHAT IF

Cody Rhodes , Young Bucks and CM Punk randomly show up on RAW.

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Feel like Raw will have a bump in the ratings tonight due to Roman being out and a low rated MNF game. I wonder which of those 2 are going to bring in more viewers.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Giant returned for the match with nary a scratch on him and it was never explained how he survived the fall (if you remember, he was tipped over by Hogan). I mean, it was a five story fall. <a href="https://t.co/IPlw2cxUbg">https://t.co/IPlw2cxUbg</a></p>— Italo Santana �� (@BulletClubIta) <a href="https://twitter.com/BulletClubIta/status/1056975839659745280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Have on some NXT UK in the background......

Love Noam Dar's theme..... one of the best themes around I think.....

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Originally Posted by Woken Anthony (Post 5189663)

Not sure it's ever going to happen. But WHAT IF

Cody Rhodes , Young Bucks and CM Punk randomly show up on RAW.

People will be excited about CM Punk, recognize Cody and be confused as to why these other two geeky looking guys are supposed to be a deal.

They'd also probably be a bit confused why CM Punk is with those people

I want to point out how nice it is the early promo material for WrestleMania features current superstars only.

https://i.imgur.com/WZYQrSY.jpg

They're all very happy to be there. Well, except Braun.

It's nice for now, but I'm sure the later promo material will change all that.

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Originally Posted by WrestlingInc

Earlier today Cody Rhodes took on Delirious aboard Chris Jericho's "Rock & Wrestling Rager Cruise". Following the bout, Cody took the microphone and addressed the crowd. Wrestling Inc. can confirm that during his address, Cody told the cruise full of fans that he had no intention of signing with WWE. He also promised that he will be doing everything in his power to bring everyone an All In 2.

While things could change 2-3 months from now, that does add a bit more fuel to the speculation of another All In event being held next year.

WrestlingInc did have an article recently about the future for All In could be known very soon due to the Patent Office wanting some clarity with the Young Bucks trademark for it. Supposedly the wording makes it unclear if the Bucks actually want to keep it beyond the first event since that affects how long the trademark is valid and their legal rights regarding merch sales.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">GET. READY. FOR. THIS.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RAW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensChampion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WomensChampion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RondaRousey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RondaRousey</a> squares off against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDLive?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDLive</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensChampion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WomensChampion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BeckyLynchWWE</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SurvivorSeries?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SurvivorSeries</a>! <a href="https://t.co/ICHLsATWj8">pic.twitter.com/ICHLsATWj8</a></p>— WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1057070714207916033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Seems like a "weird" match to just announce outta nowhere for no reason...... I could understand if they were leading teams, but a one-on-one match seems like it should have more "build" before being "officially announced"

We might get Brock Lesnar vs AJ Styles 2 this year at Survivor Series.

I guess there was no point in getting inventive when it came time to putting stuff together for Survivor Series. It's very easy to just throw four champion vs. champion matches at the wall without any care as to who comes out looking like what.

* Brock Lesnar vs. AJ Styles II
* Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch
* Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (I might actually track that one down)
* Bobby Roode & Chad Gable (random guess) vs. The Bar

Then you'll probably get Team Triple H vs. Team Shane again and maybe that rumored Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels match. Throw in one with SmackDown women against Raw women and you can call it a night off.

Noid I'm bookmarking that post, I swear to god if it turns out the way you say it does....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Who wants some of this kayfabe? <a href="https://t.co/xl6s03nDlR">pic.twitter.com/xl6s03nDlR</a></p>— 'Bad Boy' Tama Tonga (@Tama_Tonga) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tama_Tonga/status/1057321683550261248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 5190007)

I think the Raw champions vs Smackdown champions is a Survivor Series tradition now. So they’re all probably gonna just be announced without build.

I was really hoping that it would be a unification match and after that, the Women's Champion could appear on both Raw and SmackDown, just like the champion could back in 2002.

I forgot to mention last night that I was joking when I posted this:

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5189167)

But after watching Evolution and hearing Stephanie say this:

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Originally Posted by Stephanie McMahon

When I think of my three little girls that'll be in the audience tonight, 12, 10 and 8, it's for them, it's so that when they grow up, there doesn't have to be a "first ever", it's just the way that it is.

That's what today is all about.

I'm kinda thinking now that my joke isn't really that much of a joke anymore and that there's a possibility that I could actually be right.

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5190590)

I forgot to mention last night that I was joking when I posted this:

But after watching Evolution and hearing Stephanie say this:

I'm kinda thinking now that my joke isn't really that much of a joke anymore and that there's a possibility that I could actually be right.

I have absolutely no doubt Triple H and Stephanie having daughters has affected their stance towards pushing women. Absolutely none whatsoever.

@Cool King, thought of your post when I heard her say that

Weird how Vince having a daughter never made him feel like that.

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Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5190636)

Weird how Vince having a daughter never made him feel like that.

Weird. Very weird.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Did <a href="https://twitter.com/LanaWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LanaWWE</a> just TAKE DOWN the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEChampion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEChampion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AJStylesOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AJStylesOrg</a>? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEMMC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEMMC</a> <a href="https://t.co/YwHqqS2jmK">pic.twitter.com/YwHqqS2jmK</a></p>— WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1057459478994415616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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How has Lana progressed?

It's taken them around seven months but WWEMusic have uploaded Nakamura's WrestleMania 34 theme.

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Vic, you prove my "literally a doofus" rib correct with every post.

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Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5191347)

Vic, you prove my "literally a doofus" rib correct with every post.

With the post above how do you figure?

You just seem obsessed with "satirizing" progressive talking points. I don't "disagree" with you but get the fuck over it.

It's a fucking meme dipshit.

MY BAD if YOU don't find it funny. But you don't see me shitting on your "aids" "jokes".

And this is 100,000 replies so who gives a shit?

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Originally Posted by Big Vic (Post 5191362)

It's a fucking meme dipshit.

MY BAD if YOU don't find it funny. But you don't see me shitting on your "aids" "jokes".

And this is 100,000 replies so who gives a shit?

how dare you call me a dipshit. You must be banned for this.

first you cockblock droford. then you call me, the most beloved poster in tpww, a dipshit. SIR. YOU ARE OUT OF LINE.

I'm bout to ban you from my penis.

wait what? We can't have sex anymore?

Not with that attitude

You two just seem obsessed with "satirizing" homosexual dialog blah blah blah get the fuck over it.

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Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5191372)

wait what? We can't have sex anymore?

NOW'S MY CHANCE!

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Originally Posted by Savio (Post 5191375)

You two just seem obsessed with "satirizing" homosexual dialog blah blah blah get the fuck over it.

t's a fucking meme dipshit.

MY BAD if YOU don't find it funny. But you don't see me shitting on your "aids" "jokes".

And this is 100,000 replies so who gives a shit?

how dare you call me a dipshit. You must be banned for this.

I'm bout to ban you from my penis.

wait what? We can't have sex anymore?

Not with that attitude.

You two just seem obsessed with "satirizing" homosexual dialog blah blah blah get the fuck over it.

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Originally Posted by Damian Rey 2.0 (Post 5190963)

How has Lana progressed?

Her forehead has gotten bigger?

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Elias puts on bathrobe, has instant Damien Sandow Halloween costume

https://www.kayfabenews.com/elias-do...oween-costume/

I'd like to know what makes some women do that.

I can't think of any positives to having breasts that large other than an easy entry into porn/adult modeling and as a result, an easy source of regular income.

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Saw this on Reddit, very cool

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Lmao at the bloodied tape on his forehead

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I just realized how relevant Dolph Ziggler has become since being traded to RAW and being associated with Drew McIntyre. Maineventing PPVs, pinfall victories over notable names, and championship victories.

https://i.postimg.cc/YSHn5RVN/King-o...02-Graphic.gif

KING OF THE RING 2002

• Seeing the big electric chair set makes me miss distinctive and elaborate PPV sets.

• So coming into the event, the bracket was as follows:

https://i.postimg.cc/X7BsXt6c/zz1.png

• The first match of the night is Chris Jericho vs Rob Van Dam which was a good match and it had some good spots too. This Release German Suplex on RVD was "pretty sick" (as the kids today would say).

SPOILER: show

I also enjoyed hearing JR actually call the moves. Split Legged Moonsault, Release German Suplex, Spinning Heel Kick, Running Bulldog, he called them all, which was so good to hear and it's actually one way how I (and I'm sure many others) managed to learn the names of moves as a kid.

I don't know how kids these days learn the names of moves as all they get from Cole & Co. is "Oh, what a move that was!". It seems like only finishing moves and sometimes signature moves are called and everything else is just referred to as "a move".

I guess the only way to learn the names of moves these days is by playing WWE games.

• The next match is Test vs Brock Lesnar and during the match, I remembered how much I disliked Nick Patrick back then, as I never liked the way he counted pins as he would always place his hand under the shoulders of whoever was getting pinned and then when he reached the count of two, he would push up their shoulders with his own hand and he did it so blatantly. He didn't even try to hide it.

Example:

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Also, I never really liked his voice either. It was really rough and "gravelly" and just didn't sound real at all.

There were just times where he actually ruined some matches for me as he would give away the outcome with his pin counts. If he placed his hand under the shoulders, the match is continuing, if he didn't place his hand under the shoulders, you knew that was going to be a three count. It kinda took the surprise element out of the match.

• After the two matches, the bracket looked like this:

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• Interview time and JR informs us that Marc Lloyd from SmackDown and The Coach from Raw are outside their respective brands locker rooms, ready to interview the rosters inside but he gets Marc Lloyd's name wrong and calls him Greg (Or Craig) Lloyd.

Coach goes into the Raw locker room to ask the Raw Roster who will win the final. Bubba cuts a promo saying how good Lesnar is, even though just a week or so earlier, he hated the man. That appears to have been forgotten about now.

After, Marc Lloyd is about to go inside the SmackDown locker room but Lance Storm and Christian walk out and complain about the final being an all American final when it should have been an all Canadian final. They then continue to do the usual Anti-American promo and build up to the formation of the Un-Americans.

• Cruiserweight Title Match (AKA Lawler pervs on Nidia)

Vince & Co. must have been big on Jamie Noble at the time as not even a month after his debut, he had a title match at a PPV and won.

The Hurricane makes his entrance and debuts a new mask.

I was actually looking forward to watching this match but Lawer just took all of my attention with the crazy stuff he was coming out with.

Here are eight examples:

1) This one isn't so crazy but during the match Lawler asks JR if he's ever lived in a trailer/mobile home and JR says yes which surprises Lawler who can't get his head around it. Lawler then spends the next two minutes asking JR "Really?" about four times and also asking JR how big it was. You could tell by the tone of JR's voice that he was actually proud of living in a trailer/mobile home and that it was no big deal to him.

2) A "she's a crack whore" chant starts that's directed towards Nidia and during the chant JR says that Nidia looks like that she needs a shower and the chant is short lived but after it, Lawler (of all people) says (sounding legitimately unhappy/disgusted) that he wants "everybody to disregard that unflattering chant" but then right after that he says to JR "I bet you'd like to take that shower with Nidia". JR (sounding actually a bit pissed off) says "Oh stop! She's young enough to be my daughter!" and Lawler says "You say that like it's a bad thing".

3) After seeing Nidia squat down to talk to Noble under the bottom rope, Lawler mentions he likes how Nidia squats and that she has "great balance".

4) Lawler also implies that The Hurricane has a small penis and that's why Nidia left him.

5) JR says "I'd like to focus on the in-ring performance" and the camera then focuses on Nidia to which Lawler says "I'd like to focus on that right there!" and then "Nidia will perform in the ring if you wanted her to JR".

6) Lawler says that he wishes that could have gotten The Hurricane's mask that Nidia wore over her crotch.

7) The Hurricane grabs his cape that's hanging on one of the ring posts and Nidia takes it from him. Lawler then says "I'd like to see Nidia wear nothing but that cape!".

8) Nidia distracts Hurricane by kissing him, which surprises Lalwer and he says "Come over here Nidia!" and JR says "Yeah, Uncle Jerry's looking for ya!" and Lawler's reply is "JR, you're only as old as the women you feel".

• Eddie Guerrero vs Ric Flair now and Flair's theme appears to be dubbed with some kind of knock-off James Bond theme, even though on Raw his theme isn't dubbed.

During the match, Flair had some kind of erection.

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Later in the match, Flair just randomly starts bleeding even though nothing touched his forehead and he didn't blade. He actually just began bleeding out of nowhere.

Flair wins the match thanks to Bubba randomly appearing through the crowd and interfering by hitting Guerrero with a Bubba Bomb.

• Molly Holly vs Trish Stratus for the Women's Championship is next and the funny thing is, I knew the outcome (obviously) but a few days ago I was reading the title history of the Women's Championship and saw that Molly beat Trish at King of The Ring and I thought to myself "damn, spoilers", so in a way, I spoiled what I already knew.

I still enjoyed the match though but seeing Trish back then and and then seeing her now, it's such a drastic change.

Time just hasn't been her friend and it's a shame really. Molly Holly on the other hand, still looks good. Sure, you can see she has aged slightly but it's nowhere near as drastic as Trish.

• Hulk Hogan vs Kurt Angle now and during Angle's entrance we see this sign:

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Lalwer thinks it says "say no to rags" but JR corrects him. Lalwer then asks "what are they talking about?" as he can't understand what it's referring to and JR helps him out.

I can see why Lawler would think it said "say no to rags" as the "u" isn't clear as for some reason, every letter on that sign is a capital letter apart from the "u" but at the same time, why would someone bring a "say no to rags" sign to a wrestling event in the first place?

Anyway, later in the match Lalwer asks if JR knows the nationality of the man Angle beat to win the Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympics and JR says Iraq and Lalwer agrees and says "that's right!" but they're both wrong as he was actually from Iran.

Abbas Jadidi is his name. There's a little "fun fact" for you.

Near the end of the match, Lalwer (for some reason) implies that older fans of Hulk Hogan can't get erections. He says "old Hulkamaniacs are like old fishermen. They can't raise their poles". After some silence, Lalwer asks JR "Get it?".

Angle wins by making Hogan tap out and even though Angle spent around five minutes during the match without his wig on as Hogan took it off of him, he still picks it up and wears it after the match.

• Backstage we see Booker T and Goldust and later, The Rock. I must have really liked Booker T and Goldust back then (and I did) as I remember all their skits (including this one) so vividly.

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Goldust stole it for me with his little actions and movements and generally acting like a child whenever The Rock scolded him.

• The King of the Ring finals between Brock Lesnar and Rob Van Dam is next and I really don't remember the match being as short as it was.

It was only around five minutes or so.

• The main event now between Undertaker and Triple H for the Undisputed Championship and halfway through the match, everyone including the referee is down and The Rock makes an appearance but it's only to chase Paul Heyman away from the announce table who's been saying that Lesnar took out The Rock backstage.

The Rock reaches the announce table which makes the three women behind JR and Lawler go absolutely hysterical. They just didn't stop screaming.

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Nick Patrick then enters the the ring to replace Earl Hebner and knees Hebner right in the head in the process.

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In the end, The Undertaker wins with a roll-up.

• Finally, in the spirit of Nashvember, I'll end with an image of Kevin Nash from the event, sporting a T-shirt that tells us which day of Nashvember it is today.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5190581)

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Looks like Regal's got a little Captain in him...