This Day in Pro Wrestling History

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1567819887778713600

I know we riff on this every year, but the bewilderment I felt when WCW announced after months and months and months of teasers that Glacier would finally debut.... on the D show.

I wonder if concerns over the special effects played a role?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1568311678281957377

Crown jewel being like the undigested crown in a piece of poop?

 

[alkeiper]

Even then not being as socially conscious as I am today…this was so gross.

 

[Valeyard]

Agreed. Umaga hit that thrust kick way too hard.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1568581349438521345

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1569070689172463616

 

[Mickey Massuco]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1563218304080044032

I feel like the Un-Americans t-shirt with the upside down flag must be one of the worst selling WWE shirts of all time.

I'd totally rock that now though ngl.

cc @Mickey Massuco

don't drag me into your america-hating cesspit, traitor

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1569481993464778756

Of all of the PPVs that WCW produced, this was certainly one of them.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1570175809884590080

Commented on this recently, but it still baffles me that I have no recollection of watching this. There is a chance we were gone that Saturday, but I don't even recall WWF magazine covering it off hand and 10 year old Brody read those things front to back for a month straight. I should dig it out of my magazine collection and investigate.
I need to retire so I have time for the important things in life.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1571099721892233219

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

 

[alkeiper]

Sometimes you forget how insane and just...present how Marge Schott was.

Her wikipedia article does a better job describing her than I could:

Marge Schott - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I was going to say it's amazing that we had powerful business owners that were so transparently awful and racist in our lifetimes. Then I remembered Donald Sterling was an NBA owner in the past decade. Then I thought another beat and remembered Robert Sarver is still an NBA owner CURRENTLY (for time being).

I guess moral of the post is rich people are mostly bad. (That's not to even mention Vince and our last POTUS...)

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

28 years ago...for the first time but far from the last, Ric Flair retires!


Also John Tenta debuts in WCW!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1584554096412893184

@BruiserBrody mo—-clutches chest and keels over.

 

[Valeyard]

That's way funnier now than it was then. Perfect example of the questionable Diva booking while at the same time having some fantastically dumb shit.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1585391774159482883

What a weird weird match.


In retrospect, it was obvious that this was a plant because even WCW wasn’t so incompetent to do a closeup on a fan interference. Also I don’t think the average wrestling fan could climb up a steel cage (even the old ‘80s hoss cage) that easily.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1585972811226501120

Happy Halloween from World Wrestling Entertainment.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

 

[BruiserBrody]

Still super eye rolling that Meltzer didn't think that promo was anything special once the Flair DVD made it legendary.

Dusty cuts almost the exact same promo on the other JCP show from that era, but this one was a much better home run than his 2nd go at it.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586730764204494848

HBD my woke king.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587068858577420513

20 years ago today, John Cena saved himself from the chopping block and started the trajectory that launched him into superstardom.

 

[Valeyard]

Dude could've waited and gotten cut so he could bring that gimmick to TNA and change the face of wrestling.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I almost asked "What would have happened if Cena got cut in '02/'03" in the "What If?" thread. I feel like he would have ended up with a modestly better version of Mr. Anderson's career if his prime is in TNA instead of WWF. He gets a few World Title runs and is fondly remembered by hardcore wrestling fans but we never get him buying 57 suits at once or hosting SNL. TNA is too distracted by putting over Jeff Jarrett or whatever off prime WWE main eventer they just acquired to make Cena "the man".

Unlike Ken Anderson though, he'd probably get to go back to WWE though once TNA crapped out in the mid 2010s if not earlier.

 

[Valeyard]

Or he goes to ROH and becomes Brent Albright.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Possible if not probably that Cena ends up being the standout of Voodoo Murders in All Japan if WWE releases him in ‘02/‘03.

 

[BruiserBrody]

How long into his run was the Christian feud? That seems to be when me and many TSMers turned on him.

Cena did get me to legit angry pop when he was in Green Bay as a rapping heel. The show was...2003?....right after the Packers lost their first ever home playoff game to the Falcons. Cena came out and shit on them, as one should.

That was probably my last live show. The first few SD! Tapings after the Resch Center opened was my farewell to live WWE.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

How long into his run was the Christian feud? That seems to be when me and many TSMers turned on him.

Summer of 2005, just two or three months into his main event run.

 

[Valeyard]

Cena backlash really started around late 2005 I thought, like Taboo Tuesday or something. Regardless the Angle feud was officially the end and I don't care how history has made it look out of context but Angle's "I can do anything I want and still get cheered over John Cena" period is highly entertaining.

Him going to Raw hurt him and Batista more than they expected, I think. Guy I worked with at the time was livid about them swapping shows the same way someone is mad when their favorite team trades top guys. I wonder if Cena (or Batista for that matter) become as big without the switch. Probably.

 

[strummer]

Late 05 anti patriot Angle with Daivari as his manager was so desperate but it kinda worked. Iirc this is the period where Angle said his pain pill addiction started getting out of control.

And damn I have zero recollection of Angle going face a few months later and Daivari managing Mark Henry during their program