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Holy crap Paige has been gone from WWE for NINE years I had completely forgotten about her GM stuff
 
Rodman having an emotional breakdown while also burying stephanie mcmahon for talking for a long time was quite the clip to see. Apparently Stephanie’s deal took over an hour but her kids apparently inherited their dad’s lack of brevity because they took more time.

AJ won co-worker of the year for cutting off his own speech and saying go home because everyone has to go to work tomorrow.

Andre’s kid was there and she seemed genuinely moved by their tribute to her dad so that’s nice, i’m not sure i’ve seen her appear at a WWE event before.
 
He also posted the first ESPN article about the Vince sex trafficking lawsuit. Apparently ESPN went years without mentioning it until his article came out a few weeks ago.

Someone on reddit posted the search results on ESPN for "Vince McMahon" and only the one article by Andreas Hale about the lawsuit from 16 days ago is shown. The only other mentions of Vince are his car accident stories.
 
Why are two of the McMaHHHon daughters the White Chicks?
 
The one Steph daughter got Triple H's nose lmao. The brunette one looks exactly like Stephanie.
 
I love some Koko Ware/Sweet Brown Sugar, but the idea that he is in the WWE HOF and not SID is pretty preposterous, as Sid had a bigger career -- both in the WWE and out of it.
 
Hawk 34 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2045142459726901618

Amusing list that immediately got credibility with me for saying Bret and Shawn isn’t a top 42 match and it ranked Piper/Bret and Flair/Taker way higher than most of these WWE friendly media partners ever do but also doesn’t put Bret/Owen in the top 14 which is a criminal offense.
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This is a really bad list. I thought I loved Flair vs. Taker but man, Flair’s matches with savage and HBK were both better. Number four, I can’t even fathom. Same goes for the Mayweather match and that’s coming from a combat sports mark. As far as that goes, Butterbean vs. Bart Gunn was better.

Needs more HBK closer to the top, though I agree that the iron man match is overrated. Yeah this list is trash, and I find it hard to believe there haven’t been more recent mania classics deserving of it.


alfdogg said:
Bret vs Austin is #1 and it's arguably not even the best Bret vs Austin match
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Idk my guy, survivor series 96? Other than that I can’t think of a singles match between the two that comes close to being better. Mania 13 is the best double turn ever. Heat-filled from start to finish, the way they work leads to the double turn and is pulled off brilliantly, blend of peak brawling and technical wrestling. And then the iconic finish. I watched it recently and it’s still goated.
 
Valeyard said:
That's by far the best three-way in Wrestlemania history (20 was always just okay even when the investment was there) and probably top three IC title.

But moments > matches so
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I will give this match a watch, what mania is it on so I can watch it directly rather than accidentally being spoiled. The Gunther 3-way.
 
Mickey Massuco said:
Idk my guy, survivor series 96? Other than that I can’t think of a singles match between the two that comes close to being better. Mania 13 is the best double turn ever. Heat-filled from start to finish, the way they work leads to the double turn and is pulled off brilliantly, blend of peak brawling and technical wrestling. And then the iconic finish. I watched it recently and it’s still goated.
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It's the more iconic of the two for sure but as a straight-up match I think it could be argued that SS96 was better. You can't go wrong either way of course, I wouldn't argue passionately against WM13
 
It feels top 20. But I'm not going to try to make a full list. But I'm sure my Big Show bias is showing.
 
tekcop said:
It feels top 20. But I'm not going to try to make a full list. But I'm sure my Big Show bias is showing.
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It was extremely well laid out.

As far as recent matches, I'll give love to Knoxville Vs Sami despite it being a celeb comedy match. It was also extremely well laid out and genuinely funny. I also don't think Knoxville was booked as an actual threat, just as a guy who can take a lot of pain, which is fair.
 
tekcop said:
It feels top 20. But I'm not going to try to make a full list. But I'm sure my Big Show bias is showing.
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This reminds me, modern discourse on social media and Reddit and all the other places where people talk wrestling, they talk about Kane like some legendary WWE star who was one of the best big man workers of all time. How he was underrated at the time and had lots of good matches. It blows my mind.
 
Kane was underrated until he got shitty.
 
He was a great character for a few years and had some great stuff. Peaked with the X-Pac team but had some bangers over the next couple years. Might've found a groove when he came back looking like red Mortis if Katie Vick didn't happen
 
Bianca returning to announce her pregnancy was kinda cute, i can’t be a hater on that.
 
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