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The hands reaching up to Taker was an awesome effect.

The match was actually from the Meadowlands across the river. In the script it was a hockey game, but they didn't get clearance from the NHL since it emphasized the violent aspects of the sport.

You can bet on anything, really.

Last year it was 50.

From all accounts Trump got massive heat from the crowd tonight. Good.

I found out today Comcast is charging 75 dollars for the PPV (in HD, standard is 5 dollars less). Is this the same rate for the other cable companies?

I don't see how. I'm not sure if Bruno ever worked the South at all, much less during Jerry's time.

Dan Spivey always looked a little nuts to me, even before the Waylon Mercy gimmick.

Weather's calling for sprinkles in the morning but sun in the afternoon, the high an agreeable 62. Likely this'll go off without a hitch.

To be fair, this was when Megadeth started to decline. Their previous album to the one they released that year was a hit for them, and they had some radio play. Not that this is the place to discuss it, but thought it'd be fair to say that much.

What about managers, announcers, special guests, etc.?

The bittersweet thing about that match in particular is that you got a little taste of a Blanchard/Anderson vs. Bulldogs match in there too.

Apparently there's only one such facility in the U.S., for people with felonies on their record. So maybe. Mick Foley posted a touching remembrance on his Facebook which I'm sure most of you have read already.

If I watch it again, maybe. But it was a welcome departure from the sweaty train wreck that was HHH/Steiner.

I really liked the Kevin Sullivan matches, and his match with Angle in 2003. It's still sore for some people to evaluate his legend, but I think as time goes on his body of work will be more far removed from the aforementioned unpleasantness.

I know I'm going to be in bed tonight, wide awake trying to figure out the sense in this.

Flair's emotions (along with his bills and lawsuits, etc.) have seemed to be running high for the last several years. Between this and (to a much lesser extent) the blood clot, he must be in a worse agony than any of us can imagine. I can only hope that what comes out of this is that he finds peace within his place and life, and live his golden years as best as he can now.

I remember seeing the video on a country network, so I'm not surprised it didn't get a little airplay.

Don't think you can top this as far as coverage.

That segment was Gold though. Pure Gold. It was a good segment, considering the place Flair found himself at the time. I think Ric can be equally good as a face as he is a heel, but he's been a bad face more times than he's been a bad heel (TNA doesn't count). Looking back, bringing his family into it like they did seems pointless when you consider that he's probably one of, if not the greatest heels of pro wrestling period.

I can't help but feel WCW getting musical acts to come in and be a part of angles could have been done better. It's something they did a lot of during this time-frame EL-P is covering, there's still KISS, Megadeth and James Brown to come.

I really liked the match they had with the Natural Disasters in Japan, a month or so before their Royal Rumble match. They come out to "Iron Man" and at one point, Tenta's sumo background is played up.

It's an uneven but effective segment. Savage really does make it work, and fits as much in as he needed to to put over the seriousness of the situation by slowly starting to sympathize with the Warrior. I often do wonder if they were going to put Warrior and Savage as a team against Undertaker and Jake after SummerSlam, were it not for Warrior leaving. The way it would have been built could have been way better than the Ultimate Maniacs.

When did he actually start saying that? Because he'd still have the odd inspired performance like the promo on the last Nitro. I always assumed "I had no self-confidence, until Vince/Trip/WWE helped me" was his way of putting over WWE 10 or so years ago. As an aside, I remember in an interview he did with Meltzer around this time (for Dave's Eyada show), him saying that the most fun he'd ever had in his career was the time he was on top with the Horsemen and when he was in WWF.

The shine started to come off when he came back in '98. The Flair of 1986 wouldn't have done a promo cuffed to a rope in his underwear. I'm not even sure if he would have done it '96. That off-time he had that year must have done something irreversible to him because in a sense it was never the same again.