This Day in Pro Wrestling History

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1484932957429276673

Ykw? In retrospect, it's pretty crazy to think of how short Punk's run at the top of WWE was. It seems longer in my hazy (and apparently recollection). But it was less than five years span from him cashing in his 2nd MITB briefcase to win his 2nd World Title from Jeff Hardy (IE when his WWE stuff started actually getting real good) to when he left.

Then again, SCSA and The Rock had just about as short runs as top guys.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1485580449439170562

Six years already? All things being considered, AJ Styles has had a pretty good WWE run.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

I think that was the last time a Rumble surprise got me jumping and celebrating, and then they actually used him well afterward! Some people are so fuckin' good even WWE can't fuck them up.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

20 Years of ~Pro Wres Love~

February 2022 marks 20 years since Keiji Muto, Satoshi Kojima, Kendo Kashin and several office staff officially jumped to AJPW.

www.voicesofwrestling.com

Prospect of a 2002 Mike Rotunda match seems pretty grim.

 

[tekcop]

It wasn't great. But it could have been a lot worse. Rotunda/Williams vs. Kawada/Fuchi from that year was pretty good.

 

[tekcop]

Btw, maybe I'm just an idiot and I wasn't really watching at that point, but it never occurred to me that the Serena from the Straight Edge Society was Serena Deeb.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I could see that. Tbf, looking at her Cagematch, it looks like she only worked one televised match (a throwaway 3 minute mixed tag on a Smackdown! in August 2010) during that Straight Edge Society run so there wasn't even any indication to casual early 2010s WWE fans that she was even an actual worker.

Looking at Rotunda's Cagematch, he did a US Express reunion in '03-'04 with Barry Windham in that Japanese indie that randomly brought back a bunch of '80s-'90s WWF midcarders.
(problematically accented @BruiserBrody moan)

 

[Valeyard]

Serena looks so much harsher now that it's easy to miss. Between the hair and the mileage she's hard to recognize unless you know already. Took me too long to see how awesome she is.

 

[alfdogg]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1490314584221233154

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/564241150547329025

Wonder if this Tony kid ever acted on his interest in the wrestling industry?

 

[alfdogg]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1491764387547258882

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1492971677914959872

Then it was blown off in a lukewarm mid card match cause modern WWE. 33 is one of the weirdest WrestleManias ever when ya really think about it.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1494091659897827338

Rest in Power King

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1492971677914959872

Then it was blown off in a lukewarm mid card match cause modern WWE. 33 is one of the weirdest WrestleManias ever when ya really think about it.

The most recent segment that I'll go back and watch again years later. The whole thing, not just the ending.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1495310362274582531

Yuck. What a stinker this was!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1495556786543288321

 

[alfdogg]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497546285276086272

 

[JN News]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1495310362274582531

Yuck. What a stinker this was!

Why?

I mean, many wrestling purists actually believe that the Flair/Steamboat matches were the greatest title matches of all time.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Just being silly, @JN News. Well aware of Steamboat/Flair's status as one of the GOAT matches.

 

[JN News]

Just being silly, @JN News. Well aware of Steamboat/Flair's status as one of the GOAT matches.

Okay. I'm glad you were joking. I can't get enough Flair/Steamboat. I'd LOVE to see every single match they ever had.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Serena looks so much harsher now that it's easy to miss. Between the hair and the mileage she's hard to recognize unless you know already. Took me too long to see how awesome she is.

Hrmm... I was prepared to push back pretty hard against this, until Doctor Internet told me that she's only thirty-five. I do find myself inclined to believe that most of it is just her losing weight, and getting her implants removed. I remember when she debuted in SHIMMER, before she had her nose job, and before she got the implants, and she looked pretty similar to how she looks, now. But, that said, I did expect to find out that she was over forty, for how she looks in the face, these days.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1499369548864229379

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1504815494867689478

Man, wrestling in the '00s/2010s would have been so much better with a #2. Piss off, Jamie Kellner!

 

[geniusMoment]

Losing both ECW and WCW was what really hurt. If ECW had been as strong as it was in 1998 and WCW folded the sting wouldn't have been as bad. Hell, you probably would've had some big stars make appearances in ECW, and you might have gotten a legit tv deal. Losing both was the drizzling shits.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1504608536101273604

Today's also 20th anniversary of Brock Lesnar's on screen main roster debut.

 

[Valeyard]

And he was immediately the scariest motherfucker in the business. But I'll never forget the debate, mostly on the Torch, about whether Brock would be "the next Angle or the next Sid." Dude got some contempt early.

 

[BruiserBrody]

And he was immediately the scariest motherfucker in the business. But I'll never forget the debate, mostly on the Torch, about whether Brock would be "the next Angle or the next Sid." Dude got some contempt early.

On this board! Was it Anglesault who was freaking out for weeks over "Broccoli (he's green!) is going to hurt Angle's neck at WM!"??

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1505519271731875842

Still one of my favorites despite being one of the WrestleManias that's aged the worst. At least among the ones that don't feature Chris Voldemort.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

I feel awful for not saying something before, but the late night of 17 MAR/18 MAR is my 20 year anniversary on this board. Sort of an old school observation. Registered an hour or so after Wrestlemania X8 ended. The time, how it flies.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I feel awful for not saying something before, but the late night of 17 MAR/18 MAR is my 20 year anniversary on this board. Sort of an old school observation. Registered an hour or so after Wrestlemania X8 ended. The time, how it flies.

That was when we broke off the Yellow Keith board?