Always keen to rewatch Wrestlemania 6!

Man, the ring mat was so loud during this event, every bump made a thunderous sound, it was like every square inch was mic'd up

The execution of the Shawn Michaels face turn the night after WrestleMania XI was really ill-conceived. They honestly expected the crowd to take Shawn's side against Sid in that spot?

Saturday Night's Main Event, 3/11/89. Blue Blazer gives a pre-match promo before facing Ted DiBiase. "Me, I intend to go airborne. From the top rope, from the ringpost, from the rafters if I have to."

Well that's uncomfortable.

Yep, I was doing a rewatch in order of all WWF PPV and SNME and when I hit that one I physically cringed.

Catching up on TLF. Had no awareness of this clip, but it's gold. Lou Albano absolutely going to the mat for kayfabe.

If you can't trust a man who staples rubber bands to his cheek, who can you trust?

You'll really like the latest episodes covering Black Saturday.

Yeah, I’m looking forward to those for sure. Been tempted to just skip ahead, but for now I think I’m going to wait to catch up to them.

Made the mistake of watching AWA Tales from the Territories while eating dinner. Other than that single mis-timed story, Ken Patera was the star of the show. I hadn't known why he went to prison. All over hamburgers.

Underrated match

Hart Foundation vs Valentine and Honky Tonk at Wrestlemania 5

Awesome match and some of the most entertaining commentary you will ever hear

I've always complimented Bret vs. Perfect KOTR '93 for having the model babyface handshake at the end that wrestlers since that time have stupidly chosen to ignore.

What I have not raved enough about is this sequence that Bret did that spanned the first two matches of the event. In his match against Razor, Razor stomped hard on his hand at one point, and Bret sold the hell out of it as extremely painful. He goes on to pull out the match anyway. During the subsequent match with Perfect, he puts Perfect in the figure-four leglock, but before he's able to lay back in it, Perfect desperately flails forward and grabs at that same hand...Bret crumples immediately in horrible pain, obviously repping a broken hand, and rolls out of the hold instead of completing it.

Little touches like that are why he was one of the best ever at ring psychology. (Obviously Perfect was clued in to do it because it wouldn't be a normal escape attempt, but I'm blindly crediting it as Bret's idea.)

I don't think I realized when I was a kid that Repo Man had been Smash. Hell, I'm not even entirely sure that I realized that orange-and-purple Crush was the same Crush as from Demolition. Of course, him joining Demolition was pretty much the moment they became uninteresting.

I did, however, immediately identify Savio Vega as having been Kwang. The spinning wheel kick was a dead giveaway.

I was amazed to discover that The Sultan was Fatu! Ditto on Repo, I did pick that Kona Crush was Demo Crush

My dumbest near-miss was finding Meng on WCW and earnestly questioning myself for weeks on whether he was Haku or whether he just looked a lot like him. He had put on a lot of weight in between.

Road Dogg, who should be maliciously removed from the WWE Hall of Fame for being the one who popularized sing-along, apparently has some thoughts about Bret Hart.

"And I think that's where the money is." I, umm, suspect that Bret made far more money between the two. Road Dogg is apparently going to spend middle age being an exhibit against drug legalization.

Will never forget him getting "you still got it" chants at the Rumble a few years ago. What did he still have - elite-level mediocrity?

Two pro wrestlers developed ‘The Progressive Liberal’ to be the bad guy at matches. Then the atmosphere turned far darker

If you never do interesting or athletic spots, it does stand to reason that you can still do your signature stuff in your 50s. I would hope the dude wouldn't lose the ability to shimmy his shoulders and then throw a punch as long as he's upright.

The shirt covered entirely with a photo montage of Biden pics is pretty great for what he's doing.

A Survivor Series team of Col. Mustafa, The Berzerker, Skinner, and late-stage Hercules. I gather that the 1991 WWF heel roster was not deep. The opposing team of Kerry Von Erich, Tito Santana, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and Sgt. Slaughter felt quite a bit more credible.

Babyface Sgt. Slaughter in the direct aftermath of his Iraqi sympathizer heel run is one of the more painful babyfaces I can remember. It's more believable than Greg "Babyface" Valentine because Valentine just always seems like the human embodiment of a puckered anus, but I struggle to readily think of a more awkward babyface otherwise.

That's pretty funny considering there was only one heel in the (real) main event.

It honestly doesn't make a ton of sense that they didn't curtain-jerk with that match. It had a clean babyface finish and felt like the least important thing on the card.

Flair/Rougeau/DiBiase/Warlord vs. Piper/Bret/Bulldog/Virgil was the opener, had way more big names, and ended in a really goofy non-finish. Not sure what that one does to really be a proper kickoff to a show, though it does have some entertaining action.

Send the fans home happy on Thanksgiving.

Neither one was the closer.