lol, I’m a sucker for a solid gimmick. Sub-Zero in WCW? Sign me the **** up! Loved playing him in the N64 games.

I do think there was going to be more of a push for him initially (I remember reading that his ring entrance was rather expensive). But, everything obviously shifted to the nWo stuff once that immediately caught fire.

Wow, any news on that situation?

Police referred it to their cold-case division. Then Marty walked it back, despite continuing to verify that he had done something.

https://www.cbr.com/wwe-marty-jannet...ng-with-brick/

So his story was that he beat a guy, seemingly repeatedly, in the head with a brick. Outside of a bowling alley. And then posted "they never found him ... they should have checked the river."

Seems like a fair chance he murdered a guy. But you can't convict a man of murder unless you can actually tie him to a specific dead person, so...

Ha, funny that I just run into this post randomly on Twitter given my Jannetty posts.

Jannety's on drugs.

(Have you ever seen clips of any interviews he's done in the last decade or so on YouTube?)

Yeah of course he's on ****ing drugs. What does that have to do with the other stuff?

Just that nothing that comes out of his mouth seems very reliable.

I mean obviously I'm aware that Jannetty has been on drugs for as long as I've known of his existence, but that doesn't lead me to the assumption that this was nothing. Though at this point I'm sure it's very unlikely that anything significant will come of that Facebook post.

I would guess many 13 year old boys who kill someone they believe meant them serious harm would be on drugs as an adult.


Story checks out.

Wow just watched Big Show vs Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series 2002, what a great short, high impact match!

Nice build up to the night too, Show injuring Brocks ribs and then Brock opening up Big Show with a chair the week before. I amazingly didn't see the Paul Heyman swerve either.

A really enjoyable fued this one

Eddie Guerrero is the most entertaining to watch wrestler of all time, what a gem he was

10 years this week since CM Punk’s pipe bomb promo. That and the Hall of Pain angle made for a great year in wrestling, notwithstanding all the other standard WWE trash.

Should be on a short list of greatest short matches. That was my first time seeing Brock as I'd quit watching shortly after the Invasion angle was over and thought he was amazing. My mind hasn't changed

I knew that Tony Schiavone overusing superlatives had become a running joke over the years, and I was vaguely aware that he used "greatest night in the history of our sport" too many times, but until I started rewatching I really had no idea how over-the-top it was. It's almost every ****ing show. "Greatest night in the history of our sport." "Biggest main event in Nitro history." But just now I had a full-on Gob Bluth "OH COME ON!" moment where I actually blurted that out loud at my TV.

A feud has kicked up with Curt Hennig, Brian Adams, and Rick Rude (albeit not in an active wrestling capacity) having heat with Bret Hart, British Bulldog, and Jim Neidhart. It's not a bad little feud, but there's been nothing memorable in it yet, and it has no particular heat. During an Adams/Hennig vs. Bulldog/Neidhart match, Rude sits in on commentary. Incidentally, hilarious stuff with Heenan openly schmoozing with Rude while Tony gets increasingly furious, a bit that's been going on for a few episodes.

Tony addresses Rude and says, "I don't think you guys realize what you've accomplished here, with upsetting Bret Hart...probably as much as we've ever seen him in this sport!" Jesus, Tony. The Montreal Screwjob isn't six months old yet, and THIS random midcard feud is the most upset Bret Hart has ever gotten in wrestling.

There is not enough frothing-at-the-mouth hatred of the Val Venis gimmick.

Great American Bash ‘96 was fun until about 3/4 of the way through. Love DDP getting over despite being a skeezy heel, Rey Jr.’s debut was solid, Steiners tag match was great. Lex Luger vs Giant put me to sleep.

LKJ, forgot to say that I laughed hard at “the adjective” on the preceding Nitro.

I absolutely love that show, though I fully agree that the Luger-Giant main event is crap.

Of course, that show was where Scott ****ing Norton hit his peak form, truly asserting that there was no limit to his willingness to no-sell literally anything.

Duuude, Norton seemed PISSED after that botched spot onto his shoulder.

He refuses to break the arm bar on an unconscious Scott Steiner?

Was this a trait of his?

Yep. He was a ****ing nobody, but in his mind he was Undertaker circa 1991.

Is that Charles Wright he's tagging in the top video?

Nah that was Ice Train. They were a team for a bit.

Norton being a tag team wrestler would have made sense if you gave him a partner who could work, and he could just take hot tags and do some quick power stuff. The Neidhart role. But teaming him with another limited power guy was dumb.

Lol I love that Norton's ridiculous no selling gets called out regularly, what a dickhead

Nice short video here, I remember this F Bomb Bret mouthed distinctly from when I was a kid

https://youtu.be/Axgi0H_VhkI

Lol, yes. Feels like he says "never before" every other sentence.