This Day in Pro Wrestling History

[BruiserBrody]

 

[Valeyard]

Said it before but it always bears repeating: objectively and personally speaking, Terry Funk is the greatest of all time.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1434119037135593474

 

[Valeyard]

That is probably the smoothest Flair sequence I've ever seen.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1437793317354364936

Paging @tekcop

 

[Valeyard]

I don't like seeing Maisie Williams upset.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1440384834325581824

I could be totally wrong, but in my head I think the first Sid in the WWF match I heard of was in an Apter mag covering Sid smashing Dibiase. I remember being a very excited 9 year old that the bastard M$M got a licking.

 

[JHawk]

According to Cagematch, Sid had wins over DiBiase and Typhoon in dark matches before that was taped

 

[strummer]

Shawn v Mankind at Mind Games was 25 years ago today.

 

[alkeiper]

I watched that match recently. It's amazing how much the crowd was eating that up by the end of the show.

 

[Fall of Epic]

That sloppy springboard SCM was the coolest spot I ever saw at that time.

 

[Valeyard]

Everything about that match is perfect. I can even accept the clusterfuck finish in context. Shawn's ppv stretch in '96 doesn't get the love it should. Shitty character and just being a whiny bitch aside, that was an excellent time. Between his main events and Foley saving Taker, I was so down. Second best table bump ever.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

That's one of those "omg 5 starz" matches that I don't care for much. Both guys have done far, far better...just even in the 00s.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1441426455838146570

@Laz and @Valeyard read this post and get a twinge of nostalgia but don’t make any weird noises that Kamala is just projecting on them.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1444334912677552136

Pfft. What a flash in the pan, fly by night company these jack apes turned out to be!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1448415419199541249

I had no idea DX didn't even have a name until a week after In Your House: Badd Blood.

 

[Valeyard]

I only know that because Shawn had the bandage from HITC, and I only remember that because he had it on when they gave Michael Cole a wedgie.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1449022087062949889

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1450797720474640392

LOOK AT ALL THOSE AUSTIN 3:16 SIGNS IN THE CROWD

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://www.reddit.com/r/njpw/comments/qcabst

 

[Valeyard]

One my favorite matches ever.

 

[Slayer]

So weird hearing Glass Breaks and in turn not hearing the crowd instantly jump to a 12

 

[strummer]

The Bella Twins debuted on WWE TV 13 years ago today.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1458195242994356232

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1458376385450311680

It is fun learning as an adult that Regal is actually probably closer to the Man's Man character IRL than the prim and proper stuffy suit.

Medium spicy take...I feel like there's a germ of a good idea in the Man's Man gimmick but just make him a Vinnie Jones style hard man not literally walking around wearing a construction hat. But I guess he was so zonked out in '98/'99 that it wouldn't have worked regardless.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1460154180816060418

Happy heavenly birthday to Randy Savage!

To think if TNA let him win the World Title in '04, he'd only be...well he'd still be way too old but at least, it'd set a precedent for WWE giving dudes in their fifties World Titles.

(Don't bring up Verne Gagne, @BruiserBrody !)

(You can bring up Terry Funk's ECW World Title run, @Laz )

 

[alkeiper]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1458376385450311680

It is fun learning as an adult that Regal is actually probably closer to the Man's Man character IRL than the prim and proper stuffy suit.

Medium spicy take...I feel like there's a germ of a good idea in the Man's Man gimmick but just make him a Vinnie Jones style hard man not literally walking around wearing a construction hat. But I guess he was so zonked out in '98/'99 that it wouldn't have worked regardless.

Honestly he was just took good playing the Lord character. I didn't understand a lot of what Regal did in WCW. When you get familiar with british comedy you see he's intentionally doing everything for a laugh, he's in on the joke and it's just brilliant. The Man's Man gimmick gave credence to his legitimate grappling and tough guy skills, but it also stripped away the part of his gimmick that made him special.

 

[alkeiper]

Having said that I kind of want to see a Ron Swanson type "Man's Man" gimmick now. From parts unknown, weight unknown (none of your damn business). No posing. No flair to his moves, this isn't figure skating.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

...so Silas Young?

 

[Fall of Epic]

More interesting, I hope.