WWF/WWE/ECW/WCW

Graves kills it on commentary. What he told Byron last week about Mrs. Toho's blow up dolls was hilarious.

Gonna switch it to The Voice to watch it with the battle-axe so I can fast forward this travesty of a match later tonight.

Looks like Cass is already sick of Enzyte. Cass is actually funnier and has great delivery mixing smart assery with a hint of stoicism. As for the match itself...

That superman punch while Strowman had him was the worst. Not gonna comment any further.

From Memphis territory:

That was awesome! Lawler just knew how to cut a promo, work a crowd, etc. I see Jericho cut from the same cloth. Who owns the rights to the Memphis archives I wonder?

mikeinfla wrote:

From Memphis territory:

Wow, what year is that from?  That has to be before I moved there.  The guy conducting the interview is Dave Brown who was (maybe still is) the weatherman for Memphis channel 5 WMC.  He was Lance Russell's sidekick on commentary when I lived there and he had gray hair by then so I think that clip predates my Memphis years.

THIS is what I remember!  Kaufman gets more heat here than 2/3 of the WWE roster.  And against Jimmy Hart no less, who was HATED in Memphis.  Incidentally you can see a much older Dave Brown trying to break it up after Hart and Kaufman start getting into it.

OMG.  Keep that clip rolling.  It leads into the classic segment with Lawler and Kaufman on David Letterman.  It has all the GOLDEN clips of Kaufman's heel schtick.  He's so great!

Yeah, great stuff! Love seeing the Kaufman stuff. The Batman bit was from 1976!

Wow, I was still a teenager living at home in PA then.  I knew it was from much earlier than my "Memphis years".  I lived in Murfreesboro, TN in  middle TN from 82 until 88 before I moved to Jackson, TN near Memphis where I lived until 1992.  I got Memphis wrestling every Saturday in both places so I spent a decade watching it.  Everyone who was ever anyone came through that territory.

Well, I never thought it would happen but one of those stupid WWE vignettes actually cracked me up.  The Totally Bellas Bulls**t segment on tonight's Smackdown was hilarious IMO.

Upon seeing the AJ attack on replay it looks like Shane had way too much make up on when he went out to say AJ had a match.

Oh boy.  Borin' Corbin against The Wiper.  Be still my heart.

Don't tell your heart that, there's plenty of stillborn charisma between the two of them.

I've always called Orton "The Wiper" in my mind.  As in the French guy taunting King Arthur and the Knights from the top of the castle in The Holy Grail.  "Yooooouuu...wiper of other people's bottoms!!"

Reading the tweets crawling at the bottom of the screen apparently I'm not the only one who found the Total Bella's Bullsh*t segment funny.

Ugh... the Uggos.

I've always called him The Wiper too but because of a Full House bit. Yeah, yeah yeah, so I had a thing for DJ during the last season or two of Full House and I still do .

I must say that having a heel tag team as champs is a good thing even if it's the Uggos.

And so another "thrilling" match is added to WM; Corbin vs Ambrose  

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't one of the supposed selling points of high profile events like WrestleMania and/or Summer Slam supposed to be "inter-brand" confrontations?  There's not a single one on this card.  Every match is Raw vs Raw or SD vs SD.

akeldama wrote:

I must say that having a heel tag team as champs is a good thing even if it's the Uggos.

I agree.  I really can't get into that American Alpha team at all.  For one thing I think that one guy is the spittin' image of Kurt Angle about 20 years ago.  Plus I just don't think they have any charisma whatsoever.

And looking at the Ugos tonight, was I imagining things or have both of them lost a lot of weight?  I swear when they were faces both guys were easily in the 270 - 290 lb range.  They both look a lot leaner than that now.

Funny segment! The Hellas never looked better. During the mixed tag match at WM there should be a stipulation that the winners would host a rehash of USA Up All Night on Saturdays and Sundays just like Shear and Gottfried used to.

akeldama wrote:

Funny segment! The Hellas never looked better. During the mixed tag match at WM there should be a stipulation that the winners would host a rehash of USA Up All Night on Saturdays and Sundays just like Shear and Gottfried used to.

So it wasn't just me.  That segment was funny.

tohostudios wrote:

akeldama wrote:

I must say that having a heel tag team as champs is a good thing even if it's the Uggos.

I agree.  I really can't get into that American Alpha team at all.  For one thing I think that one guy is the spittin' image of Kurt Angle about 20 years ago.  Plus I just don't think they have any charisma whatsoever.

And looking at the Ugos tonight, was I imagining things or have both of them lost a lot of weight?  I swear when they were faces both guys were easily in the 270 - 290 lb range.  They both look a lot leaner than that now.

I agree that they do look leaner and I think their heavier weight made them more injury prone.

The segment was funny!