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Instead of becoming Big Poppa Pump, what if Scott Steiner got booked like Goldberg in 1998. He’s an athletic freak, knew how to work, and always had natural charisma of being a ticking time bomb. So imagine in ‘98 Scott re-debuting with a new larger than life physique and a blonde buzz cut while spearing the daylights out of people like his nephew is doing right now. Could Scott Steiner have been a better Goldberg than Goldberg?
Better is subjective, for sure, but I think he would have been every bit as effective, at the very least. He had more polish and knowledge of the business thank Goldberg and understood how to work. That would have given him an advantage over Goldberg. Both had great physiques and charisma. If they had pushed Steiner that hard as a monster it would have worked well.
Speaking of Scott Steiner, what do you think of his Main Event Mafia promo where he rags on “Mark Wrestling Sites giving 5 star matches.” Is there anything prophetic about that promo considering the loss of credibility of those sites?
Given my site at the time was not doing star ratings because I had already decided how ridiculous it was to do them, I totally agree with Scott. What matters is what draws money. Some of those clowns gave Rock vs. Hogan a super low grade because, well, they like niche stuff. I guess is someone thinks like the rater, it’s useful. To the masses it often makes the person doing the ratings look clueless.
QT Marshall and those in AEW defend unprotected chair shots to the head by saying the chair is gimmicked. Others, like former ref Jimmy Korderas, insist that you cannot actually gimmick a steel chair. Gimmicked or not, the chair shots we've seen recently in AEW still make a very loud sound upon impact. Based on what you know, and from what your contacts in the industry have told you, is it possible to gimmick a chair to decrease the impact of the blow, thereby decreasing the chance of a concussion or other long-term damage to the brain, while maintaining the audible and visual impact that we've seen in AEW?
You can make the chair looser, so that the seat has give to it, but anyone who says that the chairshots are fine because it’s been gimmicked is an imbecile. As you said, and I said a few weeks back on audio, the sound we hear when contact is made comes from the force of the chair meeting someone’s head. It may not hurt as much as getting hit with metal, but while a car accident at 60 mph does more damage than an accident at 40 mph does, they both do damage. It’s a stupid, stupid thing to do give all that we know about CTE and dementia.
Thoughts on Vince trying to buy the Mr McMahon doc off Netflix before it came out? Also, not impressed with his comment about the female ref.....' even if it was rape, it's outside the statute of limitations '. He just doesn't appear to care at all
As I said yesterday, nothing in the documentary changed my opinion of Vince McMahon. I had a low opinion of him before the piece and it’s just as low now.
Why doesn't Shawn Michaels book a thrown-together multi-woman tag team match with no storyline development whatsoever on an episode of NXT as Vince McMahon would often do on RAW, SmackDown or a WWE PPV during the Divas Era? Instead, Michaels frequently books as many as five women's matches, each with a meaningful storyline.
Uh, because he is a good booker and Vince wasn’t? What, do you want him to book badly like Vince did?
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