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First look at ESPN's "Nature Boy", the 30 For 30 profile on Ric, set to air November 7th, and it looks like no punches will be pulled.

When Hall and Nash attacked guys backstage at Nitro (the famous Rey Mysterio Jr. "lawn dart" spot). Not so much all that, but the aftermath. It was done in a pretty realistic way, for someone who hadn't been entirely smartened up at the time yet.

It's funny to me that they broke up right when Nirvana's Nevermind album was exploding, and the pop metal of Poison and others (with an aesthetic Shawn and Marty were pulling off) died off in the court of public opinion at the same time.

I'm surprised WWF never gave him a shot, unless what they were offering wasn't comparable to what New Japan was giving him.

Charlie Sheen's walk of shame at the end of Wall Street.

I'm just wondering how he injured his neck, specifically if it was related to wrestling.

He gets a lot of crap online, and maybe deservedly so in a lot of cases, but Hulk Hogan deserves credit for making this turn. It could not have been easy for him to do. Whatever was going on in arenas where he was getting a tepid reaction at best, people still depended (financially and personally) on his image as a good guy. As touched on earlier you can really see all of that in his face just before he drops the leg. It's not a classic Hulk Hogan run-in save, he basically walks down and has a blank expression. He'd even go on to say in later interviews he was nervous that people wouldn't buy it, or it would fail. But obviously it didn't, and helped cement his legacy even beyond what it had been by then.

While we're on the subject of music, I just noticed that King Crimson's two dates in Atlanta for their upcoming fall tour are at Center Stage.

Van The Man...the fan?

I'm way behind on this, but I have a general question about the man himself I hope someone can answer here. Kevin Sullivan was talking about the time Brian Pillman came up behind Bobby Heenan at the January '96 Clash, and briefly mentioned that Tony had a broken neck. Has Tony talked about it at all on the show by now?

Maybe but it could mean the death of the movie studio too.

Chivalry has never been a noted side effect of long-term cocaine use.

Someone replied to Bix that stuff like this is why guys needed shoot managers back in the day.

I never thought I would lose respect for someone who gave so much to what he loved, and made it something a lot of people loved, and in the process becoming a rightly beloved personality himself. If just to defend her reputation to the countless online trolls who will tear into her anyway, what he said is still indefensible.

I'm listening to the Russo show. Getting major douchechills listening to excerpts from that landmark of written word that is his auto-biography, but hearing Bruce bring it all down to reality is worth it.

Alberto was detained at the Orlando airport yesterday, under investigation for domestic battery.

I thought it'd be funny if this was a Burns/Mattingly-type situation but that's much more funny to me for some reason.

What about Kevin Sullivan?

Glad they're doing this fast. They just want to get them on there and be done with it.

Weird they asked him to cut his hair.

The bad taste in my mouth was that it mocked his very serious injuries that went almost beyond ending his in-ring career. He said the pain after one of his operations was so bad he wanted to kill himself. What gets me is that Kevin Nash, obviously no stranger to major injury himself, didn't balk at it. Hard as it is to imagine after what I've said before and am here, but I don't put as much of the blame on the people who performed the skit anymore than I do someone like Bischoff who took much more glee in doing asinine things like giving away the competition's results and almost depleting ECW of their whole roster. In light of the friction he would have with Flair the following year, it's no surprise that he let this go to air with the full knowledge the NWO would go over at War Games, and putting the final nail in the coffin of that gimmick match. But of course, it doesn't really matter now because it didn't erase Arn's stature or anyone else this supposedly buried. His legacy, in large part to the integral role he plays in WWE now, is set in stone. And when I hear stories like about how Nash offered to drive Flair home once after a show, and someone like Schiavone (who I guess has a neck injury himself?) who thinks of it as he does, It makes me realize what do I know, since I don't know the people center to this. The bottom line is that I never really go for humor that makes light of those who can't defend themselves, and I may take it to a highly sensitive degree.

But he did https://youtu.be/5GoxLI3kDDI?t=2m49s

My consumption rate was maybe half an hour or more of Raw when the Benoit stuff happened. I was hooked on the cable news coverage of it after and joke that I probably watched more wrestling on MSNBC than anywhere else. I had to stop at a certain point, it was getting to be a bit too much for me.

Is there any available footage of WWWF in the 60's?