Interesting developments throughout wrestling, with rumors of WWE buying TNA, TNA moving to Wednesdays to counter AEW, and WWE moving main roster PLEs to do the same. So of course, all anyone really wants to talk about is this:
I mean, I don’t even like the guy but give the poor man a break. He had heart surgery or whatever, so it’s kinda amazing he looks as good as he does. I am quite certain I will never understand this world…maybe you fine folks in the mailbag will help me to do so.
Ken R. kicks us off with…”If it was up to you to put one prop in the WWE hof, what would you choose? Undertaker’s urn? Bret Hart’s sunglasses? Smoking skull belt? The laptop the Anonymous GM communicated through?”
For me it would start and end with the Gooker outfit of course, with the Katie Vick outfit being right behind. One day I really hope they want that back so I can sell it to them for 20 times what I paid for it. What can I say, I’m a dreamer.
Ralph A cranks it up with…”What’s your favorite 90s band”
I was immediately going to say Extreme, but they actually hit in the mid 80s, so I guess they don’t count. So I’ll go with Foo Fighters. What’s weird there is that I think I somehow only knew like one of their songs (“Learn to Fly”) before I bought the pinball machine, then really fell in love with their music. Helps that the Foo Pro pinball machine is currently my favorite pin hands down.
Ryan S wants to know…”What’s 1 dark match tryout that you heard of that you want to see the WWE Vault release? Mine is Chris Chavis as Humongous against Shane Douglas from Chattanooga, TN January 8, 1991.”
I refuse to believe there was only one Phantasio match. Absolutely refuse to believe that. There has to be a tryout match somewhere in the archives where he rips the underwear off of, say, Iron Mike Sharpe right?
Meagan N asks…”How bad do you think the Colts are going to be this year?”
In a word, HORRIBLE. From the little I’ve seen they have a real shot at being all time bad. I know folks would love for them to tank and get a high draft pick for QB, but we just had that a few years ago and got Anthony Richardson. The draft is anything but a lock, which is why I forever question why more teams don’t do blockbuster deals to get a good QB like the Rams did a few years back to get Stafford. The draft is a total crap shoot.
Shawn asks the question for the ages with…”Best topping for vanilla ice cream?”
I honestly just like some semi-sweet chocolate chips honestly, but a good hot fudge ain’t far behind. A little whip cream helps. NO CHERRIES though. Why would you want to ruin ice cream with fruit?
Dustin rolls us back to Crockett Promotions with…”Is the never-ending feud between Johnny Valiant and Paul Jones’ Army induction-worthy?”
You mean Jimmy Valiant, right? If so yeah, I should probably do that, if for no other reason than to fill my hard drive with 937 different MP3s of various folk calling their enemies BALD HEADED GEEKS.
Arya W wraps us up with…”Thoughts on the rumor of TNA possibly moving to a bigger network and head to head with Dynamite? Personally I think this would be a dumber decision than when Impact went to Mondays against Raw. Even with the NXT partnership, their popularity is still quite low.”
I mean, it just goes to show how desperate WWE is to do anything and everything possible to torpedo AEW. It really does feel like Hunter will never forget that he was sent out with a mission from Vince to kill Tony off before he could get that second TV deal and he failed, so AEW will always be public enemy number one. And here’s the thing – if AEW were to die, it would be the absolute worst thing for the wrestling business. Tons of people would lose jobs and the people in the business would have no leverage at all when it comes to negotiations. Does no one remember what happened when WCW died and how horrible wrestling was for a nearly two decades after that? Why on earth would anyone want to live through that again? I ain’t shilling Death of WCW here (although if you haven’t read it, what are you waiting for?), it’s just simple logic – when the competition goes away, the consumer always loses.
Gonna wrap it up with that one, but we will be back soon with another mailbag. Feel free to keep sending in those questions rightchere!