If you have netflix you gotta watch "The Toys that Made Us" on Netflix. They have an episode on wrestling figures. It's amazing.

For a minute I was like wtf I don't remember Johnny Cage saying that then I saw who posted it.

I watched the hell out of that ages ago. Funny to learn exactly how arbitrary the decision to scale down action figures to the widely used 3 1/2 was.

Secret ending. You had to beat Reptile three times all flawless with just high punch then input a code for him to opine about The Toys That Made Us decades before it even was a thing. Super deep easter egg.

By the way, Merry Christmas, TPWW.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas!

So when Ultimo Dragon won the J-Crown and performed in WCW, did it include the WWF Light Heavyweight title as well?

Yes it did

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Ladies and gentlemen, Stan Hansen has been disqualified for throwin' Terry Funk inta the rivah!”<br><br>Thank you, <a href="https://twitter.com/roylucier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@roylucier</a>. <a href="https://t.co/f6Sw4U1kTm">pic.twitter.com/f6Sw4U1kTm</a></p>&mdash; David Bixenspan (@davidbix) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1209700092590071808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Just learned that Pegasus Kid was a champion as well. Quite an interesting history associated with the strap.

That title came and went a bunch of times from the WWF and then set off on it's strange and winding journey.

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According to Triple H, all the British indies that have shut down since WWE got involved in the region with NXT UK deserved their demise and claims WWE's involvement was not a bad thing.

Claims the only ones shutting down have been those who pay their talent terrible or don't care for their well-being despite the opposite being true for a few that have shut down.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Holy shit HHH just basically says &quot;Yeah, we're putting some indies out of business, but just the ones that have shoddy equipment and endanger the wrestlers&quot;. Yep, no indie you work with has ever had equipment problems. Certainly not leading to a career ending injury. Nope. <a href="https://t.co/2YzJZ4s1CR">https://t.co/2YzJZ4s1CR</a></p>&mdash; Trevor Dame (@TrevorDame) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1210166015130136576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Marty is back, Merry Christmas. <a href="https://t.co/YPiJzO1uEE">pic.twitter.com/YPiJzO1uEE</a></p>&mdash; ミスター横浜�������� (@HollywoodAsia) <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodAsia/status/1210284536229191681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

According to the Observer Newsletter, WWE is rumored to be considering the idea having Lesnar be in the Rumble match if he doesn't defend his WWE title at next month's event.

Interesting enough, Meltzer also mentioned Rowan could be a potential opponent for Lesnar at the Rumble since apparently Vince is very high on Rowan's current push.

According to Bloomberg Law, Vince McMahon and other top WWE executives are currently being sued by one of WWE's investors over allegations of improper use of WWE funds for the XFL's revival.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The lawsuit claims there is “a credible basis to believe” that WWE Chairman Vincent McMahonn and other senior officers breached their duties to investors by diverting valuable resources to the XFL. <a href="https://t.co/5ZICo1POH1">https://t.co/5ZICo1POH1</a></p>&mdash; Bloomberg Law (@BLaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/BLaw/status/1210694990504087553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Every day people (falsely) accuse me of drawing inspiration from them. I laugh, because I am the only one that knows truly. However, when someone does it to me I get so excited!��<br>I wanted to be the first to say... I forgive you Kevin! No matter how naughty you are!<br><br>Merry X-Mas!</p>&mdash; Bray Wyatt (@WWEBrayWyatt) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEBrayWyatt/status/1209551787809804289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

WWE so greedy....who pays $500 for some random ass episode of RAW, not even a PPV


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So Mike Rome won the 24/7 title last night.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEPittsburgh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEPittsburgh</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeRomeWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MikeRomeWWE</a> became the 24/7 Champion, but not long enough to announce it... <a href="https://t.co/4AiwC9Dk49">pic.twitter.com/4AiwC9Dk49</a></p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1211041229246517254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Bought another t-shirt with some $ I got for xmas.

Can't wait for it to come in.

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Is it bad that, until I watched the vid, I was thinking of Jim Rome?

According to Bruce Prichard, WWE's stale habit of almost always starting a show with a promo segment can be traced back to Vince Russo who loved doing it during the Attitude Era and that mentality stuck with the company since then.

Next, you'll tell me they totally planned the whole "Yes Movement" the whole time... oh, wait, he did try that shit.:roll:

Imagine Vince saying this in the 80s. I get that you have to put over your own company and self interests, but to then try to whitewash the entirety of the consequenses just smacks of blatant bullshit. Yeah, they ran off shady promotions. They also ran off ones who were attempting to be legit but without the bankroll or clout to stave off WWE and thier venue exclusivity (that nobody in the world dare challenged ever until that one ROH/NJPW show in NY) and talent poaching nonsense.

They love always trying to tell people they're the heroes of their own story.

Being fair, it *is* Wichita. There ain't shit to do there until the Shox make a run for the Final Four.

But that $500 is better spent bar hopping in Old Town.

Wrestling, man... Wrestling.

Any update on Orton's new injury?

It was fake

I haven't been following, but my early gut pick for the Rumble Winner is Samoa Joe. I think that's a match Heyman would really like. Joe getting a small babyface push for the first half of a year doesn't offend anyone either.

According to Fightful, Impact Wrestling was investigated by Anthem earlier this year regarding allegations of sexual harassment being committed by a high-level Impact official.

At least once instance allegedly involved threats of a contract extension clause being triggered in order to pressure the accuser into signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement who was later released from the company.

Anthem claims their investigations into the issues found nothing against the official who was being accused.

https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/r...ual-harassment

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That supposed to be a haiku or something?

Lol poor Nikki Cross's flat ass

For those in the UK, WWE's new network home BT Sports announced they will be airing both NXT and NXT UK on their channel.

NXT will air live on the network.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You want NXT? You got it.<br><br>BT Sport will be showing NXT and NXT UK from January 2020 ��<br><br>�� RAW<br>�� SmackDown<br>�� NXT<br>���� NXT UK<br><br>System, shocked. Boom. <a href="https://t.co/EX9hlRan0t">pic.twitter.com/EX9hlRan0t</a></p>&mdash; BT Sport WWE (@btsportwwe) <a href="https://twitter.com/btsportwwe/status/1211965235948589056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's what Karl Gotch thought after he saw Harley Race wrestle. <a href="https://t.co/CWQYDUkCu7">pic.twitter.com/CWQYDUkCu7</a></p>&mdash; SoCal UNCENSORED (@socaluncensored) <a href="https://twitter.com/socaluncensored/status/1212076251063578624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'm no Alexa Bliss fan, but I have never, nor would ever criticize her ass game.

Harley was looked at as a Spot Monkey back then. He wouldn't grind you down or work a lot of holds as it was the style. He would just throw bomb after bomb.

Wow!

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...te_moments_in/

Is that a fan production or a WWE one? If it's WWE official, then it just goes to show their production department is still fucking ace. God, if only everything worked as well as they do.

A fan made it.

Thought the same.... looks like an empty void.....

Haha!

I've seen better photos of her which shows she has a butt.

It's clearly been eaten off by Killian Dain

Andrade and Charlotte are engaged

Good for them, even if popping the question on New Years is unoriginal as fuck

Husband #3, not long to go before she catches up to the old man.

Haven't they been engaged for months?

He was completely right.
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Pete Dunne attacking noted AEW superstar Jimmy Havoc with a shoe

Lol Bobby greened out

Apparently NXT's tag division is in such a sorry state that half of the field for this year's Dusty Classic tag tournament is from NXT UK.

Last year only 1 team was from NXT UK and only 1 of NXT's teams was random guys paired together. This year's tournament has just 2 regular teams from NXT and 2 random guys paired together. NXT UK's side is all established teams.

NXT:
Undisputed Era
Forgotten Sons
Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne
KUSHIDA & mystery partner

NXT UK:
Grizzled Young Vets
Gallus
Imperium
Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster

Eh, who cares? Gives the UK guys more exposure. You only need a few teams to have a good division anyway. There's an idea that more is better, but then you get a mess like AEW's and no one really gets over. The best periods of tag team wrestling I can remember had a few star teams going at it.

I know they won't do this, but I do want The Usos to go to NXT and go for the belts. Maybe send The Revival down there too. Put Gargano & Ciampa back together for a few bif matches. Have the real-life friends, Lio Rush & Velveteen Dream team. There are plenty of things you can do to have an amazing division. It's just not the focus at the moment while UE has been running around in multi-mans with Adam Cole.

Fob off Forgotten Sons. They don't work. KUSHIDA and someone could be real good. Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne don't click in my head, but I'm fine with them for the moment.

They could have at least done Keith Lee and Dominik Dijakovic since those two have a past history together and looked like the next challengers for the NXT tag belts. That was before NXT Creative dropped the ball with that and their mess of trying to handle the build for War Games and Survivor Series at the same time.

I'd assume Breezango would have been one of the teams had Fandango not gotten hurt but the tag division might literally just be 3 teams at this point and arguably the weakest its even been in terms of strength.

NXT UK pretty much has replaced NXT as the brand WWE only cares about when it suits them and/or whenever they need to borrow something from it. Its not 205 Live level of neglect though. Not even the low point of WWE's version of ECW was treated as bad as 205 Live has been.

My favorite thing about this is no Moustache Mountain somehow.

British Strong Style as a whole have cooled off tremendously since NXT UK became a thing. If they weren't such corporate shills it would be a real shame.

Current rumor going around the net implies that Joey Mercury was not entirely truthful about his accusations against ROH. Also not the first time this has been rumored about Mercury since his departure from ROH.

Also being rumored Klein might have been cheating on her husband B.J. Whitmer and possibly with Mercury since Whitmer recently announced they are divorcing due to her breaking his trust in their marriage.

I think Andrade could get a much better looking woman. But I also think Charlotte Flair has the look of a woman who will give her man a colonoscopy with her tongue, to keep him.

I remember Kenny Dykstra getting as much heat with the boys as anyone when Mickie James cheated on Joey Mercury with Kenny.

Isn't that what got Kenny basically fired from WWE?

Mickie James cheated on Joey Mercury with Kenny and cheated on Kenny with Cena lol

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It didn't help. Joey was ADORED by the locker room.

I’m sure Mickie is completely loyal to Nick Aldis now though.

There isn't really a glut of actual tag teams in AEW. They had a jobber pairing nobody even heard of join Dark Order, and LAX v2 join late. Besides Bucks, SCU, LuchaBros, and Best Friends, who even is there? Part of thier problem is that all four of those teams are supposed to be top-tier, but there is nobody underneath. Contrast that with NWA, who has about the same number of teams, but aren't blowing their loads with tag matches featuring every team every week.

Private Party

Align this with the fact that she didn't even want to be a wrestler to the Ric Flair doc when he wanted to quit and the trainer wouldn't let him, and your quip has a high chance of becoming an accurate prediction.

"Honestly, who throws a shoe?!? Seriously!"

It is actually a shame I forgot about them, but remembered goddamn Best Friends.

Jurassic Express

I should have added that I intentionally didn't count them in much the same way I didn't count the likes of Cody/Dustin. They're a trio of individuals. Jungle Boy started getting a singles push in the wake of Luchasaurus getting hurt instead of them falling off the world until his cleared return. Stunt is... polarizing, to put that as diplomatically as I can. They aren't exactly going to Freebird rule their way to tag titles like so much New Day or SCU.

PWI reporting that MLW is currently expected to be making a major announcement soon.

Current rumor going around the net is that MLW recently signed a new television deal with POP TV and as part of the terms, Paramount Network (former Spike TV) bought an ownership stake in the company.

why would Paramount Network buy stake into a thing that airs on POP?

answer: POP and Paramount are owned by ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks

Pop used to be the tv guide channel

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I dunno, Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus have been friends since childhood. They feel like a legit team with Marko mostly as their sidekick.

They did have a really good interview with the room service series they do. (And stole from Chuck and Trent)

Wow... very interesting!

I would LOVE to see MLW on a major nework. I don't consider POP to be a major network but it certainly is bigger than beIN Sports. Perhaps they scrap PPV's on Fite and air their super shows on Paramount and weekly on POP? That would be really cool to me. I know we have too much wrestling content on TV in the US right now but I don't watch it all. I watch what I want. And if MLW had a legit shot on a major station I would certainly give them my ratings.

I guess pop missed impact for them to get mlw pop wants wrestler fans back.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looking sharp, <a href="https://twitter.com/theAdamPage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theAdamPage</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWDynamite</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWonTNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWonTNT</a> <a href="https://t.co/FqLgiffVZ8">pic.twitter.com/FqLgiffVZ8</a></p>&mdash; TDE Wrestling (@tde_wrestling) <a href="https://twitter.com/tde_wrestling/status/1212565039137329158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Didn't take long for Corey Graves to go back to acting like an annoying twat on social media again.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There's being a disingenuous, hateful person, and then there's being a &quot;CALM DOWN!&quot; concern troll to our favorite zen vegan hippie stay at home dad.<br><br>That's what I call leveling up. <a href="https://t.co/xJfsAXusqq">pic.twitter.com/xJfsAXusqq</a></p>&mdash; David Bixenspan (@davidbix) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1213256262718296067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I can't remember when I crossed into disliking Corey Graves territory, but I feel deep in it now.

Still working on my 1997 Raw re-watch. Just about to start the November 4th Raw which is the episode before Survivor Series. The Oct.27 Raw started with the Nation doing an in ring interview regarding their Locker room being spray painted with racist graffiti. The Rock gets some mic time and for the first time I see the Rock we'd get two years from now.

Other observations.

1.DX are so God damn easy to hate. I keep hoping the Hart Foundation kick their asses. Lol I feel like I'm 12.

2. You can really notice when Russo takes control. The shows are drastically different

3. Weird that they had the Hart feuding with DX and the Nation when all three are presented at heels.

4. Dude Love had a really short shelf life and wasn't nearly as over as I remember

5. Ahmed Johnson got so out of shape so fast.

Dude Love was like Playboy Buddy Rose at the end of his career.
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The guy on the left looks like a retarded Harold Ramis

Haha yes he does.

Lol at Jeff Jarrett cutting a promo with Jim Ross about Vince McMahon forcing him to be Double J and how we are going to see the real Jeff Jarrett.

6 months after the NWA thing flops guess who comes back

That's J E double F J A double R E double T

Ain't I great!

It was sad (though unsurprising) that Jarrett went into the HOF pretty much h having to keep playing up that character

Give me Slap Nuts Jarrett

The best Jeff Jarrett was the one who assaulted women with guitars and put them in the figure four.
It was simple and hilarious.

Don't Piss Me Off Jarrett was easily his best run/look.

I had totally forgotten about his return in 97 where he cut this shoot promo on Bischoff/WCW for like 10 minute in the middle of the ring on Raw.

Yep, Jarrett hates Women was the best run and profitable.

and he beat the Undertaker on PPV.

It was mostly about Vince shitting on the Double J character which he went back to in 1998.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This guy was arrested on Live PD tonight for an outstanding warrant related to selling crack and cocaine. <br><br>If you listen closely, you can hear he was watching SmackDown when cops showed up. <a href="https://t.co/XrxdIULoDO">pic.twitter.com/XrxdIULoDO</a></p>&mdash; Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryansatin/status/1213334181448577024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Why is a WWE employee/contractor tweeting this?

Just watched it. Good promo really. Jarrett was a great hand. Got heat, could talk, could work. Perfect gatekeeper heel.

And then he does these backstage one on ones with JR like they did with Goldust and Foley.

This rewatch has been really interesting. It's a very overlooked year in WWF history.

Planning on rewatching the Timeline WWF 1997 Jim Cornette after I'm done the whole rewatch

The worst Sid matches I've ever seen came from either 96 or 97. He had a match with Shawn Michaels where he seems to camel clutch him forever.

The match he had with Bret around that time was actually pretty decent.
I seem to remember Shawn getting up far too quickly from a powerbomb outside the ring too. Like he was up after about ten seconds.