That’s a big loss, but let’s not discount that his last decade or so of life was clean, sober and he was able to do a lot of wrestling related things that just weren’t possible before.
God bless DDP
DDP worked wonders with Hall, Jake Roberts, and even Mick Foley (overall health and injury, not substance). He really does give back. Also, he is currently starring in the new Netflix series “The Guardians of Justice”, along with John Hennigan. It’s cheesy, and cheaply made, but I’m watching.
Also, for the young’uns, DDP was a manager before wrestler, and one of his stable was the Diamond Stud, aka Scott Hall, pre-Razor Ramone. Also, he suggested to Sting the Crow gimmick, though in Hall’s retelling, I think Hall was suggesting to embrace more of the undead aspect and “ripping off” Undertaker.
I ordered Tony Schiavone’s “Butts in Seats” through Amazon back in December. I got notice a month later it wasn’t available until the end of February, and I could cancel the order if I wanted. I decided to wait. Now I got new email that the order has been cancelled.
It still has a page on Amazon, with plenty of reviews, so other people have managed to snag their copies. Wonder why my order died in the ether? Maybe I should contact my “favorite comics and graphic novels distributor?”
AEW Dark Taz/Excalibur moment of the day
Today, Taz thought Colt Cabana should change his name to “Cult Cult,” criticized a 10-year old’s fashion sense, and did a silly singalong with Shalonce. Ex said we can now acknowledge Jeff Hardy’s existence, and Remix Jones made an appearance. Special shoutout to Luther dumping Serpentico’s prone body on the ring apron and squealing “You wait here.”
Frankie Kazarian vs Jorah Johl
Last match on the card
Taz: Just a minute Excalibur, I want to get in some house cleaning: If you’re new to AEW, the gentleman in the red is Frankie Kazarian. If you stumbled across us on YouTube.
Ex: That’s right. You may have jumped to the very end of this video.
…
Taz: Why do you talk when I talk, sir? We’ve been doin’ this for friggin’ four hours here, let me get a word in, dammit!
Ex: Inside cradle package… well Taz, even though we’re sitting side-by-side, it’s almost like we have a one to two second delay, while we’re sitting side-by-side.
Taz: But I see you staring at my mouth, then you talk. You’re a wise guy!
Ex: Well Taz, I’m transfixed by your dental work.
Taz: I know. I have new veneers.
God, I love these guys’ byplay. Don’t ever stop this feature, okay?
I’ve been doing this over a year. It’s my life’s calling.
They haven’t reached Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon, but they are one of the most enjoyable pairings I can remember.
I was listening to Cornette’s segment on Scott Hall, and I remembered a story Hall told of how he broke into wrestling. He first trained under Hiro Matsuda, who was very old school Japan in his agenda. He required his students to do 1000 pushups and 1000 squats. Hall got bored of it. He spotted Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda at a grocery store and introduced himself. He told them about his desire to be a professional wrestler, and that Matsuda was training him. They replied “Yeah, all he does is squats. Come over to our gym and we’ll show you a few things.”
Kind of ironic that his son Cody went to Japan to train.
AEW Dark Taz/Excalibur moment of the day
Today, Taz points out that “telegraphed that move” is an obsolete term and we should use “email” or “IM” instead. He suggests that it takes longer for The Acclaimed to write Bowens’s lines than Max Castor’s. He accuses Ex of stealing his lines (again). For the Moment of the Day, we turn to Taz’s ongoing scorn for Referee Bryce Remsburg.
Mercedes Martinez vs Gemma Jewels
Ex: Do you think Gemma Jewels is related to Jewel the singer?
Taz: No, but I think the referee Bryce Remsburg is probably a cousin of Jewel the singer. Cuz he sings, he’s got the same type of voice, the high pitch annoying voice like Jewel.
Ex: (chortles) You caught me completely off guard with that one.
Martinez gets the win with the Dragon Sleeper.
Taz: Well, speaking of Jewel, her big hit was “Who Will Save Your Soul,” heh heh. Well, good luck with that, Mercedes Martinez. Someone’s gonna have to save your soul, Excalibur.
Early Hall/Nash team-up. One of the first?
i actually remember watching that… I always felt sad for the z-man tho he should of went back to the WWE and formed strike force 2.0 with rick martel … I mean they already teamed up as the cam/am connection around WM 3
funny if you bleached his hair you’d think he was mid 2k Dallas page or his brother …
Tom Zinc was the Dolph Ziggler of that time. Fashion model looks, but usually fed to the pushed.
I think it was Cornette, but it may have been someone else, who said that Zinc wasn’t exactly well liked and, while quite competent in the ring, was not someone whom you would want to rely upon. Comparing to Ziggler, Zinc had considerably less charisma, IMNSHO.
Also, we should not forget that after Oz, there was Vinnie Vegas. This was back when WCW was trying to out WWF the pre-attitude WWF.
Also:
“should of” NO! NO! NO! No other common spelling or grammatical error makes me see red and smoke come out of my ears than this. It is “should’ve” (same number of keystrokes), a contraction for “should have”. Same with could and would. This is in the top 3 of my pet peeves (and I have many, many pet peeves) and I cringe every single time I see someone type this. Had to get that off my chest - it’s been bugging me for quite some time.
Okay, okay; down, boy. He doesn’t capitalize very well, either, but you didn’t mention that.
The not-capitalizing isn’t ‘nail on a chalkboard’ to me. Would/should/could of, however, is like death by a (several) thousand cuts anytime I read it anywhere. So much so that I’m surprised I’m still alive. I can’t help not seeing it and getting grumpy. I’m surprised I held back for as long as I have.
I feel ya. My biggest teeth-gnashing moments occur when somebody uses “literally” the wrong way.
Triple H, a 14-time world champion, went on Stephen A. Smith’s show and officially announced his retirement due to a heart issue that had nearly cost him his life.
Here’s a video of the full interview.
I saw Buff Bagwell trending on Twitter tonight and was worried that, as is often the case when a celebrity who nobody’s heard from in years abruptly trends, it was because he’d died.
Turns out it was much more wholesome - he was live-tweeting Rampage last night, commented on how much he loves Nyla Rose, and started informing transphobes who tried to misgender her that she is indeed buff and in possession of the stuff.
Who had “Marcus ‘Buff’ Bagwell, LBGT ally” on their 2022 bingo card?
Buff, you are the Stuff.
First time I’ve ever agreed or liked anything from Bagwell. He certainly is nowhere to be found on my bingo card. Sting doing top rope dives to the floor was more likely to be on it (but it wasn’t).