Wrestling Dreams ( Reviving a TOTSM Pseudo Sub-Classic )

[King Kamala]

I had a dream last night that I was watching some random indy show from the '00s on IWTV and Eddie Guerrero (with bleached blond hair) was wrestling Tony Mamaluke for a shot at the ECW Television Title. And Eddie Guerrero and Kevin Steen (also with bleached blond hair) were part of the "original version" of The Second Gear Crew (referred to by announcer as the original version).

After the match, there was a heel beatdown by SGC and a group of babyfaces ran in for save but the only one I recognized was Kevin Nealon (!?) in harem pants doing some sort of kung fu gimmick.


Even dream me was baffled by all of this. "How are they fighting for an ECW TV Title shot in 2002? Wasn't Eddie already back in WWE by the time Kevin Steen became a star on the indies? There was an original Second Gear Crew!? Kevin Nealon wrestled and did a Caine on Kung Fu gimmick!?"

 

[King Kamala]

I had a dream last night I was entrusted, for whatever reason, to help run the backstage area at the United Center for the debut episode of AEW Rampage. And even more randomly, the backstage area at United Center looked exactly like my parent's attic. The Black Crowes were backstage as celebrity VIPs and I told Chris Robinson to fuck off and not steal my dad's old Starting Lineup figures and America records. CM Punk was there warming up and was surprisingly a chillass dude. Like 5-10% of my dreams are me meeting CM Punk and him either being a dick like I expected or a surprisingly cool dude. Not sure what that says about me.


Then some nerdy cosplaying contest winners came in and saw CM Punk and ran back out to tell all of their friends and CM Punk went to hide in a more secluded part of my parent's attic/United Center backstage and I thought Tony Khan was going to chew me out for letting Punk be so visible in the first place. Then dream ended with me realizing "Well, frig, everyone already knows CM Punk is going to be on this episode. Who cares?"

 

[King Kamala]

Had my 2nd AEW Rampage related dream. Which is weird cause I only follow AEW casually.

Anyway, I came home from a show to see Punk's debut only to realize that the surprise debut was L.A. Knight , who showed up as a mystery opponent for Sammy Guevara. It seemed like the crowd was about to riot and I thought "Gee. I sure hope that this is just a mulligan and CM Punk's going to show up later." but dream ended before I could find that out. Pretty mundane! Seems like how Vince McMahon would book AEW though.

 

[King Kamala]

Had a dream last night where I was watching an unaired promo for the Natural Born Thrillers debut in '00. In this dream canon, they debuted when Mike Sanders chastised the rest of the group while they were playing pickup hoops at the CNN Center gym and said they needed to get their act together and take over WCW.

I thought it was v. cool that they actually tried to tie in Mark Jindrak's angry basketball player gimmick from '99/'00 WCW Saturday Night.

Also in this dream, BILLY GUNN jumped over from WWF to lead the Natural Born Thrillers. (Damn, my dreams saved WCW, @The Art of Postin' ).

And in my dream, the Misfits were also an ancillary part of the Natural Born Thrillers cause even in my dreams, '00 WCW is like a poor man's Attitude Era and this was their Corporate Ministry?

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Would it be a shock to learn I was a huge fan of the Thrillers? That stable would be bigger than the nWo.

 

[King Kamala]

I had a dream that Malakai Black decided to supplement his AEW income by becoming a wildly successful cam model.


Yeah---yeah....I didn't know my subconscious was into tatted Dutch dudes either. WTH?

 

[BUTT]

Had a dream that Barry Horowitz was wrestling on TV and he pulled his trunks off and stood there nude wiggling his dick. And I was like "wtf they can't show dick on regular TV, can they?" Sorry, I've been watching Euphoria and I've seen more dick (outside of porn) in the last few days than in all of 2021, so I guess I have penis on the mind. Normal stuff.

 

[King Kamala]

I had a dream last night that AEW ran a house show at the Civic Center in Portland, ME and they sat me, my brother, and my friend behind a giant concrete beam. I spent all night trying to find a customer service rep to try and get my seats switched but couldn't find anyone. Show was super poorly attended so I wondered why we didn't just sit somewhere else.

And I was getting increasingly livid because AEW wasn't bringing any of their "A wrestlers" to Portland. Main event was Sammy Guevara Vs JD Drake and they only had one of the Young Bucks teaming up with a guy that looked the other Jackson brother but wasn't against 2.0. I was having a petulant fit about CM Punk and Bryan Danielson not being there and how I wouldn't have cared if they half assed it cause it was just a house show.

Show ended with me reading a review of the house show in The Portland Press Herald where the writer and the arena manager ragged about how much the show sucked and how it was even worse than the TNA house show in 2009 (which I actually heard was pretty good FWIW, @Laz !)

Do newspapers even review wrestling anymore? I used to look up archives and they did up at least up until the '80s wrestling boom. I think anything after that, newspaper articles about wrestling were either just "WTH is wrong with these people?" moral tangents or bemused slice of life stories.

 

[King Kamala]

I had a great/horrible one.

Onita starred in a prestige indie drama where he played a loosely fictionalized version of himself (ala JCVD). He played a semi-retired Japanese death match wrestler turned reality TV star (on a show that was old Japanese death match wrestler version of Jackass, which if it's not a thing IRL then it should be) who was now battling dementia and was falling in love with a much younger nurse treating him.

For some reason, Onita showed his hog in the movie which I didn't know was even allowed in Japanese movies.

Movie in my dream was actually really good! Now I want to live in a reality where Inc Stans Onita like he does Simon Rex.

 

[King Kamala]

TSM related dream last night!

I dreamt I read a clickbait article about how Journey was supposed to perform "Don't Stop Believin'" at Starrcade '96 and Steve Perry was supposed to accompany Roddy Piper to the ring. I excitedly rushed back to the board to post in the WCW thread.

In my mind, '90s reunion Journey does seem like the perfectly out of touch band (@BUTT: Trial by Fire was a hit album!) to represent Team WCW. It'd have made more sense for subconscious WCW to book them at SuperBrawl VII though considering the San Francisco connection though.

 

[King Kamala]

I dreamt there was a Terry Funk Vs El Gigante match in Japan and it was by far, the best El Gigante/Giant Gonzalez match I'd ever seen. Terry Funk did a great job selling Gonzalez's piddly offense like death and Gonzalez was surprisingly adept at garbage brawling.

If only this dream were real

 

[BUTT]

Had a dream a few days ago that sometime in the 2000s there was a match, or should I say fight, between Andre the Giant (in an alternate reality where he didn't die) and Edouard Carpentier (who I've never actually seen, and in my dream he looked kinda like De Niro's portrayal of the Frankenstein monster). They were fighting by a van in front of a house when Andre picked him up with one hand and flung him 50 feet into the front yard. When Edouard got up and started walking towards Andre, the Giant pulled out a machine gun and started fuckin' blasting the Flying Frenchman, who was knocked over but did a zombie situp, at which point Andre drove away in fear.

EDIT: This was before I saw the pic in that other thread of Andre with a gun so it wasn't inspired by that.

 

[King Kamala]

I dreamt last night that AEW lent Hook out to some indies to get some reps and his bodyguard and occasional tag team partner was 1991 SID. I've been having weird dreams lately but last night, my sub conscience KICKED ASS!

 

[Mickey Massuco]

i haven't had a wrestling dream in ages. wish I had one to write about, tehse are pretty cool.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Yesterday I dreamt Andre the Giant was leaning over me in a hotel room we were apparently sharing. He said in his Andre voice "So Andrew are you going to blow me or what?"
"But Andre I'm not gay!"
"It's not about being gay, it's the convenience"
I started to work towards his little giant and thankfully my mind warped away from the scene.

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

I remember having a dream a few years ago where Bret "The Hitman" Hart came out of retirement to defeat Triple H on RAW. The Hitman beat The Game clean in the middle of the ring with the Sharpshooter.

And Bret looked as much in great shape on a physical scale as though he had never retired. It was so cool.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Yesterday I dreamt Andre the Giant was leaning over me in a hotel room we were apparently sharing. He said in his Andre voice "So Andrew are you going to blow me or what?"
"But Andre I'm not gay!"
"It's not about being gay, it's the convenience"
I started to work towards his little giant and thankfully my mind warped away from the scene.

I hope I didn't kiss him with my cum breath.

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

I also used to have dreams that WCW Monday Nitro was back on TV, even though Vince McMahon and the WWF bought out WCW before I woke up.

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

This morning, I woke up from a super cool dream of actually meeting and talking to legendary Professional Wrestling Hall of Famer, the late, great "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd. I shook his hand and talked to him for a few minutes and telling him about how much I love professional wrestling as a wrestling fan since the mid-1980's.

And then, I woke up, realizing that it was a dream. But it was still a cool dream.

 

[King Kamala]

GOD DAMMIT

Last night, I dreamt I was boarding hard and @BruiserBrody was posting about how Derrick Dukes got a tryout for the WWF in 1989 as the original Mo. According to Brody’s dream Observer notes, Mabel was an unseen character (Mo’s big brother that Mo talked about in promos) and WWF was deciding who should play him.

 

[King Kamala]

I had a dream that Randy Orton wrestled his comeback match on the 1000th episode of Impact Wrestling. FKA Tom Phillips repeatedly clarified that Randy was still under contract with WWE but was such a huge fan of Impact that he wanted to make one appearance there before he retired. And Randy was carrying a dozen belts around him like ‘90s Ultimo Dragon.


Dream ended before I could find out who he was wrestling.

 

[strummer]

Actually had one this morning. I was at my grandfather's old apartment (he died in 2008) and I was sitting next to 1995 Undertaker in hat and long trench coat on the couch. Taker told me I had heat with Kama. He handed me a written note from the supreme fighting machine saying I better watch out or something of that ilk. Then Charles Wright is sitting in my grandfather's favorite chair but he's dressed as The Godfather and we start to talk it out. He was calm and didn't seem mad. Woke up before any resolution was made.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I was dreaming about my cousins and I preparing to go to bed back on the farm and for some reason Jumpin' Jim Brunzell (as his current old man self) showed up with a ring rat and started to look for a bed too.

 

[strummer]

Had a brief one last night. I was much younger than I am now and was walking outside talking wrestling with Jack Nicholson. It was coherent, still with some hair Nicholson from the 90s. He was laughing really hard at what I was saying . We were walking to a wwe/f show in LA I guess but woke up before we went inside.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Thought I shared this one. Guess I never did (copy/paste from something I posted on Facebook in 2010)

I’m Tiger's game. It's a Tiger's game, but it's like coliseum seating. I look over and sure enough I'm seated next to Ric Flair and his wife. And I hate it cause I know what's coming next. Ric has been going to all of the ball parks and pulling this stunt.

Ric stands up and walks down the asile and into the walk way, wearing his Tiger jersey just waiting for a camera to catch him. As soon as he's on the jumbo screen he strips down to his boxers and rubs baby oil all over himself. He's at least 30lbs heavier than he's ever been any time in his career. He doesn't say a word in all of this, but his wife stands up and throws out a challenge to all the fat boys out there to take on the champ in a wrestling match. No one does. Since Ric isn't talking I ask the wife why he's doing this. It's all her idea. She says this is going to make him a star all over again...that's it.

 

[King Kamala]

I dreamt about WrestleMania. The Rock inserted himself into the night two main event but then pulled a switch stop and said he wasn’t going to wrestle two nights in a row and he had a replacement and it was JBL.

Philly fans booed this and The Rock said not only was JBL his replacement but the main event was now a scramble match and a bunch of mostly unidentified goons (which included late ‘90s nWo Scott Norton) sauntered to the ring.

JBL and the goons tried to use their advantage numbers but Cody and Roman formed a strange alliance and comically kicked all of their asses to make them a non factor before the dream ended.

I was pissed that the main event of WrestleMania turned into a dumb late ‘00s RAW angle *and* they brought in prime Scott Norton just for this. They did a spot where Scott tried to purple nurple Cody and Cody blocked it and gave Flash Norton a purple nurple. No kinkshaming.

 

[BruiserBrody]

This was from today and is a bit non sensical. I was at my Grandpa's farm, where I brought a CRT TV and VCR and was watching WCW Worldwide.
Then Mama Brody showed up and was digging around things and found maggots or flies or something.
Then I was morphed to the Walmart liquor aisle where Leatherface was on the other end and revving his chain saw.
I ran to the next aisle, where my Mama was then located. Another Leatherface showed up and started running at us.
Then I flashed to an office building, where Brell and the other bad guy execs from No Holds Barred were trying to figure something out on a CPU that would somehow save me.