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That has to be a twist.

His episode with Dusty drops tomorrow.

I give Marc credit for saying he doesn't watch it, which makes me forgive him for that kind of stuff. And I like that Punk welcomed it, and explained everything as best as he could. Overall it was an interesting exchange, I'm amazed that WWE let him do it because he let the profanity fly which I was a pleasant surprise.

I want to see Flair live to be 90 and die happy.

I think it started in ECW and carried over when he came back to WWE.

I seem to remember that he did it in his MSG match from '76 too.

If you want to talk about proportion, consider that WCW in 1993 was considered by and large a 2nd rate WWF which at the time was having all these PR problems related to the gov't getting on Vince's ass about steroids. Vader being the champion for most of that year has nothing to do with that.

Spring Stampede 1994. A pretty solid card up and down, at least starting with the Nasties/Cactus & Payne match where it jumps the crowd up pretty good.

Come back from commercial and we see Vince laid out on a stretcher, and security both rushing him out and also separating Randy and Shawn. Jerry at the booth suddenly changes and reports everything as a shoot. Jim Ross comes out and the show goes on.

I wish I could remember the post, but I posted the idea that once I thought of it I wish it really happened it was so good. I won't get into specific dialogue or anything but it goes like this. Vince opens up RAW cold, standing in the middle of the ring. He welcomes everyone to another episode of blah, blah, blah. Then he goes into a long spiel about "the all-time greats of the WWF", with some subtle digs at Hogan and recent defector Roddy Piper. Finally, he introduces Savage. The crowd goes wild. Randy high-fives the crowd and does his pose from the middle rope. The music dies down and Vince approaches Randy with that shit-eating grin. They shoot the breeze, Randy tells everyone how glad he is to be back and breaks out all the hits ("ooh yeah" "dig it", the finger twirl). Once the pleasantries are all done with Vince talks to Randy about his reigns as IC and World Champ, legendary matches with Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior. And about how Vince said on this very show, two years ago, of how he was Randy's biggest fan (being the better man and not mentioning the rest of his speech about how they could not come to terms, etc.). The crowd roars in approval, but Randy is going still as he watches Vince nearly break down saying this last part. And Vince, who can not help himself by now, brings up Savage's personal life and Elizabeth, and now we see Randy more animated but agitated. He tells Vince to back off this, which he agrees to and apologizes. We see Randy, still in his jacket and shades, nod his head in approval and become less agitated. Vince proceeds to blow some more smoke for about 30 seconds before the music hits again, and Vince announces him, mistakingly as... "The Nacho Man". Music stops. Vince has a serious lump in his throat, and the beginning of the cold sweat he perfected on Larry King and Donahue. Randy slowly removes his jacket, and his glasses. He takes the mic away from Vince (or picked it up after Vince dropped it in fear) and proceeds to shoot the "Macho Man" Randy Savage heel promo from Hell upon Vince and the WWF for not only making the character he gave his blood, sweat and tears to a cartoon, but also sticking him in the broadcast booth at the peak of his career. Vince, not Mr. McMahon, says something in his defense to which Randy replies by beating the Hell out of him in the middle of the ring. And right about when he's going to deliver the big elbow, Shawn flies down to the ring to defend McMahon. Go to commercial.

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It would be in no way possible because of the size differences, but Clancy Brown (bad guy in Highlander, prison guard in The Shawshank Redemption) is a dead ringer for Andre. It's funny that someone brought up Pacino as Flair. It probably could have worked 20 years ago, even physically. I've been watching Heat on Cinemax lately (even though I've triple-dipped it on HV releases, I still catch it on TV when I can) and he had to have been in excellent shape during the shootout and especially the run he makes at the end in LAX where you see it's all him and not a double.

I like what Rude did from the time he came back to WWF to his death. He was actually doing color commentary in WCW, and was more of a face too I seem to remember. He was good on the mic in that respect from what I remember.

Vince would have treated the mustache coming off like it was the Rapture.

I have no passion at all for the current product, more a morbid curiosity of how things are being done. I missed apparently what was a hell of a match between C.M. Punk and Brock Lesnar so I could watch one of the final episodes of Breaking Bad and don't really regret it.

I read in PWI that Terry Gordy was 15 when he started.

Paul Roma, sweetheart of a man.

He played a boxer in a movie in the late 90's with bald head and goatee, and was a complete dead ringer for Austin.

I too add my thanks. Let's hope Karma rewards you well for this. I don't remember it word for word, but Flair's promo stuck with me that night. I desperately wanted it to be a shoot, but even then knew it wasn't because I'd known how much he enjoyed his time working with Vince before. It felt pretty hollow once the show went off the air, when they aired a commercial for WrestleMania. The party was over, and the last golden age of pro wrestling was finally dead. I don't think I could even watch Vince's promo again. Much as I liked seeing him fire Jeff Jarrett, it feels like a total shoot looking back. This is where Vince and Mr. McMahon were as one, with his denigration of "rasslin'" and so on. True, they have survived as a corner pocket of pop culture, but it's dragging behind it instead of ahead of it (if they were even ahead of it, really). What we have now is sound and noise, signifying mostly nothing. There are exceptions to this, but they are rare. What's missed most of all is the actual live feel of what now Kevin Nash has described as the most canned live show that you'll ever see. Controversially I think "fuck you's" go all belong to Russo in my opinion (for obvious reasons). Without him, even with what Bischoff, Hogan and Nash had done, they could have survived. They weren't smart decisions but they were based in at least a modicum (and years of knowledge all between them) of respect for what they were putting on the air. He doesn't really merit a "fuck you" but Ted Turner is partly to blame as well, for giving Hogan such a deal that favored him more than the company.

The '87 one holds up good too, especially when it's down to The Killer Bees against the Harts, Dream Team and Islanders.

Hands-down, the 88 match with all the tag teams. Last hurrah for the Bulldogs, only time we see them on the same side with the Hart Foundation, and a glance at what could have been seeing them tussle with Arn & Tully.

This would be great if Billy has someone he can trust to run the day-to-day stuff while he continues on with the Pumpkins.

Just curious but was Warrior-Von Erich/Perfect-Rude ever on television?

Is Ted still affiliated with WWE after Jr. left?