https://youtu.be/KG5LI168rBo

These twitter links are not working for me, anyone got an idea how I can get them to open?

That's odd that it's not showing up for you. Here's the normal link: https://twitter.com/allan_cheapshot/...46649420247040

I have to turn off blocking of trackers to make them show up (using Vivaldi).

Thanks for the help team, this link worked for me, Im using tapatalk app fwiw

And m8 that tweet/vid was worth the wait, just lol at Big Kev

Steve Austin always tells the story of how he got his nickname idea from his then-wife warning him that his hot tea was going to be stone cold if he kept ignoring it.

I never entirely believe that story, but I think a part of me just thinks it's such a lame origin story that I want it to be a fib.

Not really network related, but this vid cracked me up

https://youtu.be/p68w3BESrEA

Network related or not, any vid involving Mean Gene cracking up is worth posting imo - I miss him so much

I've always loved Heenan just wordlessly exiting stage left after the sign falls.

In mid-1980 a young, new enhancement talent named Jim Duggan (pronounced Doogan by Vince) appears to do the job twice to the Samoans. In the first match, he just lies on the mat in the claw hold for like 5 minutes until the ref calls for the bell. Wikipedia mentions that he was trained by Peter Maivia, so the Samoans may have been instrumental in bringing him in and giving him his start.

He seems like he's getting featured pretty prominently in 1982 Mid-South - he was a good natural heel, even though that's never how Vince used him - so it doesn't seem like he was a homegrown WWF guy.

Bill Watts also pronounced it Doogan sometimes, and Duggan other times, seeming to treat it as though the two were interchangeable. Watts also often pronounces DiBiase without saying the last E, so it's just Dee-bee-oss.

Regal said on a recent (or maybe not so recent, I'm months behind) that he used to intentionally mispronounce Umaga as Umanga because it made him more noticeable.

https://twitter.com/WrestlingNewsCo/...06499976323073

Before there was Larry Z spamming "New World ODOR," there was Mongo on commentary repeatedly saying, "Bobby the STAIN" as his clever nickname for Heenan.

I actually loved Mongo, entertaining character

Really sad to see his condition these days

I more or less remember Mongo fondly, but didn't like him on commentary at all. Definitely hate seeing the shape he's in now in any case.

For some reason I'm rewatching Survivor Series 87 and I didnt skip the women's elimination match

Amazing how high level the Jumping Bomb Angels were. Its cool to hear Jesse Ventura genuinely popping at their electric offense

Most of those women could really work too although there were way to many irish whips, body slams and slingshots in to the middle of the mat

In both 1989 and 1994, WWF randomly does a rare tag title change right before a big show, in each case SummerSlam. And then they curtain-jerk the event with a tag match that could have been a tag title match, but just...isn't.

No real idea what the thinking was there. As you can imagine, Brainbusters vs. Harts is WAY better than Headshrinkers vs. Bam Bam/Tatanka, but in both cases it was a killer that the titles weren't on the line as they could have been.

It's so weird that they once named a show Thursday Raw Thursday Live.

idk about the 89 change but the other one was weird. Having the belts didn't add to the HBK/Diesel storyline and ending The Headshrinkers title reign so quickly and quietly was lame and killed them after they'd just become pretty popular faces months earlier and then conquered The Quebecers.

It's probably difficult to ever really know what went on in 1989, because it doesn't seem like they meant to take the belts back off the Brainbusters as soon as they did. Tully Blanchard gets popped for cocaine use, they do the extremely rare title change on Superstars to give the belts back to Demolition, and then Tully just ends up being an unannounced scratch off the Survivor Series card and Heenan wrestles in his place. However, with SummerSlam it was Brainbusters vs. Hart Foundation with the Brainbusters simply refusing to put the belts up. There was enough lead time to have it be a discussion point on TV where Heenan just refused to give the Harts a title shot. And then the Brainbusters went over anyway, so it just seems silly that you don't let it be in a title match. The Harts did still get the belts back the following year, so the booking didn't kill them, but still just seems weird.

I'm curious as to whether the Headshrinkers' big pop in 1994 after winning the belts was actually them generally becoming popular as a face team or if it was that the Quebecers had built up enough heat that basically anyone conquering them for the titles was going to get a big pop. I don't know that the Headshrinkers really ever got a crowd response like that again, but as you note they didn't get a great chance to build on that momentum either.

That title switch definitely didn't do anything for anyone, and as much as anything just feels likely to be the result of some sort of early Kliq power play to get more titles. The biggest result of that sequence of events was for Bam Bam to lose in the finals of the tournament to crown the new champions and then set up his LT match, but you could just as easily have made Bam Bam a tag champ and then set that up when he jobs the tag titles away at Rumble. In fact, that honestly seems better than what we got, because they relied on this framing of "OMG HOW COULD THIS MAKESHIFT TEAM EVER LOSE" about Bam Bam and Tatanka, and it never felt believable at all. If they were champions then it would help make the point a bit better.

During the Perfect vs. Rooster match at SummerSlam '89, Mr. Perfect delivers a standing dropkick. Tony Schiavone says, "That was totally AWESOME!" It's such a cringeworthy delivery that it haunts me in my dreams over 30 years later.

Arn tells the story on his podcast, that he and Tully had given their notice. Vince had told them they were going to make far more than they did in WCW and when they didn't, they asked him to "catch them up" and he let them go over a dispute of $50K. They took the titles off them soon after, but since it was taped, Arn said he felt silly having to carry the titles around on TV for another several weeks after they lost them.

I do remember some of that story now. Surprisingly, Arn actually says that during the notice period Vince actually paid them more than they had been making up to that point. His best guess is that Vince was making a point about what they were giving up.

Of course, it seemed that Tully was maybe going to be gone regardless, since they decided to just scratch him off the Survivor Series card at the last minute and never let him be seen on TV again.