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The Hogan ep of EVIL is full of so much bullshit even for Hogan. Some of the more choice bullshit: He implies that he was nearly broke and homeless at the time WCW signed him and saved him by giving him a paycheck. There's a big segment about his creative control, and he legit said that the locker room's egos were out of control being offended at it. He went on to say that WCW went under because it was like the inmates were running the asylum. Just completely avoiding any responsibility for his role. He implies he had an idea to turn heel when he signed with WCW, then the very next segment he says it was Bischoff's idea, and Bischoff saying Hogan told him from the start he had no interest in turning heel. It also sounds like his main reason for being the 3rd man was because he didn't want Sting to get more attention than him. It portrays Hollywood Hogan as the ultimate cool bad guy anti hero that everyone wanted to be, basically talking about him like he was Stone Cold and not a mention of Hall and Nash being the cool ones in the nWo. Acting like the match with Rock gave him and Vince the idea that he could combine elements of each character, as if there weren't both a Hollywood face run AND return to red and yellow nostalgia run in WCW. More than an implication that Vince McMahon was the one who pulled WCW off the air after the purchase, and that one came from the narrator John Cena.

So...if Seth hadn't gone to Vince's office and begged for a match at WM, would Cody have been signed? He was Vince's hand picked opponent, which would imply that Vince directly went out and signed Cody specifically for this match at WM.

Two underrated spots from the tag last night: Dax doing the fake punch out into a DDT spot but doing a piledriver instead Dax catching Nick flipping out of the air. You never think of FTR as power guys but the strength on display was pretty nuts. He did it with one of the Briscoes and it was oh shit there, too.

Sammy/Tay are going to have a killer heel run soon, whether they want to or not

This might be better than the FTR/Briscoes match

Dax is definitely on a run right now

I hope this isn't leading to Hardys/Sting/Darby vs Andrade Family Office in war games.

Surely the Hardys have earned their spots enough to not still have to be doing tables and ladders shit every week

This match is a disaster

I don't think Wardlow was ever a despicable heel, certainly not in a good year if he ever was, and certainly not a as recently as a month ago. Face banned from the building coming in to wreck house is a hot angle pretty much always in every area in every decade.

Dax especially would benefit from staying off Twitter

Nah they definitely implied it had the NWA/WCW lineage for a bit. Video packages of the time mention Race, Funks, Brisco, Steamboat and so on.

WCW claimed the lineage of their title went back to 1905 regularly up to the end, which means they counted from George Hackenshmidt through to the National Wrestling Association through to the National Wrestling Alliance up to Vince Russo and David Arquette. Although it makes very little sense considering there was a time period where both the WCW Championship and NWA Championship were defended as separate titles on the same shows.

Did I read that they burned Bron vs Walter on TV with no build or promotion and Walter lost clean?

FTR/Briscoes was awesome I was more impressed with Lee Moriarty in the Lethal match than anything I've seen of him in AEW, which is wild because he's had matches with Punk and Bryan on AEW TV. Bandido has to get a better set up for his finish lmao. That shit is even sillier than the 619 set up. Both guys had some pretty wonky looking spots that require a guy to go to the floor. Gresh does a lot of really interesting, borderline weird stuff. Very interesting performer. Liked the production and the announce team, certainly more interested in ROH going forward than I have been in probably 12+ years. I'm much more likely to watch an hour of ROH as opposed to either of the Dark shows if it's used like a real show and promotion and not just squash matches for low card guys that can't find their way to Dynamite.

Was there drama about the Hardys theme? Did people not know it was just a random production theme that's been used on TV in non-wrestling contexts for 20 years?

Bron and Dolph have absolutely zero chemistry

The Cervical Clutch is such a Vinceism

Lol what the hell

This KO over the top wrestling bluster is 10x better than what Cody was doing

He isn't sincere, though

Cody has proven himself to be the most insincere dude in the game, so him going back to the teary eyed I'M SO SINCERE THIS IS REAL LIFE promo that he's been cutting every week for the past 3 years is lol

Reaction to Cody is very noticeably less enthusiastic than at WM

Just saying, the 6 months of the original Undisputed Championship run was the last time the main event scene in WWE was booked well and with a clear plan and foresight for every defense and title change. Personally I think everyone would benefit from going back to single band PPVs, too.

I think the idea of the finish was Heyman giving Roman the inspiration he needed to push through, but it's weird to do that with a heel against a face and do a clean win out of it.