Elias and ...Ric Flair??

Hour long special and the first ten minutes is an Elias skit. Weird.

Somehow the Elias singing led to a 4 on 4 women's match.

(?)

Rey and Nakamura on the Miz TV in ring set for an interview segment.

Nakamura holding the microphone like a boner is making watching this worthwhile.

Rey mysterio m, in a neck brace, challenging a guy a foot taller than himself is hilarious.

Rey was tremendous when he said Miz didn't understand the importance of Starrcade and to prove that, he rattled off the same legendary names that Miz had just mentioned made Starrcade great. Dunno why Nak was dressed like Elvis though.

The "Extra Attitude" segments at the end of some of these attitude era Raws are hilarious

Its obv supposed to be some bookend for the night for the live audience as there is no commentary. It always ends up with Austin tricking the villian into having a beer with him before him giving them multiple stunners which are ridiculously oversold

Just watched Raw 336 and Triple H was fkn hilarious, loved his nice touch with not being able to catch the thrown beers at all compared to Austin who always catches his brews

Jake the Snake was on Joe Rogan recently, I enjoyed this story about the incident where his cobra bit Macho Man

https://youtu.be/kUtW7ymtOh0

Gotta say, while I certainly wouldn't eliminate the on-demand aspect of the Network and would in fact unsubscribe without it, I do have mixed feelings about just how positive the nearly limitless selection is. Every time I just aimlessly open up the WWE Network, I find that I'm paralyzed by the crazy number of choices that I have.

Part of me does mourn the loss of, for instance, the thrill of a favorite song coming on the radio when you have no idea what's coming next. For that matter, part of me also mourns the thrill of seeing your in-demand tape of choice being in stock at the video store.

Again, let me circle back to saying that I wouldn't actually be willing to give up what the Network offers us, but it's also hard not to get nostalgic for some level of scarcity in the availability of what was out there.

I miss being mesmerized by the clamshell Coliseum Video tapes, whenever I went to a video rental store.

I'm still annoyed that my local video store just stopped getting the wrestling tapes after Survivor Series '89. I kept going back to see if Royal Rumble '90 had arrived, and...nope. And nothing after that.

It amuses me to know that in those days, my folks had to pay over $100 for a membership just to be eligible to pay for video rentals. It was a revelation when the local grocery store incorporated video rentals and didn't charge any membership fee to rent from them.

My mom took me to Delchamps grocery store a lot to pick out the newest ppv when I was a kid. We didn't have so I never got to watch the weekly stuff. It was just magazines and PPVs and I couldn't get enough

Lol that means you missed out on promptly watching that hot Bushwackers vs Rougeaus match that I praised earlier...

I grew up in a small NZ town with 1 local video shop. On TV we only got a weekly dose of WWF Superstars late on Friday nights but the Video Shop had a couple of years of back catalogue of both WWF and NWA PPVs

I remember being a bit freaked out that the NWA advertised bloody matches but it was a different feel to WWF events

Definitely heart breaking going in with high hopes to get a new PPV only to see the "Sorry Im out" sign on the case. Always used to multicall harrass the store asap after the 10am next day required return time to make sure I got it as soon as possible

I'll pop this here as a reminder to all what traditional pro wrestling rules used to be!

I forgot to check that out. Gonna do so after I finish listening to STWW.

The 1988 Royal Rumble on the USA Network, the one Duggan won, was the first televised Rumble, but I never realized that there was an untelevised predecessor.

Bolded is pretty funny:

Omg this is outstanding lol

https://youtu.be/M9LdKw2GzJs

The bump off the casket at the end had me rofling

Mixed match challenge both guys are down and trying their best to tag in their partner asap as they are ****ed.

It was at that point I realised it has no jeopardy at all because as soon as you tag in the other gender the other team has the same thing happen by default. This stupid no wrestling other genders basically destroys 90% of the psychology behind good moments in tag team wrestling.

I assume this **** ends up on the network at some point, I don't think there's a facebook wrestling/MMC thread.

Vince Russo can **** right off

Sort of enjoying the Hennig fighting off retirement angle but wierd that they just dropped the rednecks gimmick so fast with no warning or explanation. WCW did that a lot

Kurt Angle, the only real athlete in the WWF, has just debuted

There something about this guy I think he might become a star

Wow Bret Hart did win the WCW world title at Mayhem 99, that was a surprise

You wouldntve known that the way I have heard him ***** about his WCW run in previous interview snippets

Seriously go back and watch Magnum TA vs Tully Blanchard at Starrcade 85

Ridiculously good

I dunno if this link will work or not, but it's Xmas themed if it does.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCyREM...uery=Christmas

So Triple H drugged and date raped Stephanie Mcmahon then married her while she was passed out

This storyline would not go down well in 2019...