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24 years ago today, Kurt Angle won Olympic 100kg freestyle wrestling gold medal with a broken freakin' neck.

[video=youtube;ntPMYdMm3II]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPMYdMm3II[/video]

[QUOTE=BurningHammer;14060697]24 years ago today, Kurt Angle won Olympic 100kg freestyle wrestling gold medal with a broken freakin' neck.

[video=youtube;ntPMYdMm3II]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPMYdMm3II[/video][/QUOTE]

And he was almost 28 back then. Kurt, benoit, bryan and bret hart are the best technical wrestlers of all time.

RIP Kamala (Jame Harris) :(

[QUOTE=BurningHammer;14060697]24 years ago today, Kurt Angle won Olympic 100kg freestyle wrestling gold medal with a broken freakin' neck.

[video=youtube;ntPMYdMm3II]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPMYdMm3II[/video][/QUOTE]

Damn he's tough

Renee Young is leaving WWE, just after WWE announcing the return of Talking Smack, the show she was famous for.

She arguably is one of WWE greatest backstage personalities ever, maybe the 2nd right behind Mean Gene Okerlund.

What's next for her; moving up to pro sport network like ESPN, Fox Sports or such, or joining her husband Jon Moxley in AEW?

AEW is starting to sell tickets for weekly Dynamite taping at Daily's Place again with obvious pandemic protocols for attendances such as temperate check and zoning. They will try with 10% of max capacity (~500) first and may expand to 15% if everything goes right.

Here is what WWE ThunderDome, which is a new set at Amway Center to replace WWE Performance Center, looks like.

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef5bNTqU0AAqExs.jpg[/IMG]

So far, there have been these on ThunderDome face screens:
- a sleeping watcher
- Mario
- Pikachu
- A sign "Asuka will rape Sasha"
- A sign "MJF 2020"
- pictures of Chris Benoit
- a video of cartel execution

Roman Reigns is the new universal champion, and he is now a heel.

[QUOTE=Lebron23;14097139]Roman Reigns is the new universal champion, and he is now a heel.[/QUOTE]

They had to wait until the middle of the pandemic where you can fake crowd noises to give up on face Roman. :facepalm

A recent free agent Brock Lesnar is in negotiation with NJPW at the moment. Brock at WrestleKingdom 2021?

WWE has officially banned its talents to earn money with other third parties (Twitch, Cameo, Youtube, etc). :ohwell:

Last night's AEW All Out was almost great, but it may be marred with some bad spots all over the event such as how they dealt with Matt Hardy's apparent concussion during the match and Jim Ross' raunchy comment about Anna Jay's near-wardrobe malfunction.

Yesterday's AEW Dynamite finally reached 1M viewers after many months. NXT being on Tuesday may be one of reasons.

Randy Orton vs The Rock at Wrestlemania needs to happen.

[QUOTE=Lebron23;14112540]Randy Orton vs The Rock at Wrestlemania needs to happen.[/QUOTE]

Never gonna happen. Unless his movie and TV careers somehow totally crash he will never return to wrestle again. Their daughters in a pro wrestling match is more likely.

There are more WWE employee layoffs recently including many live event workers, Mike "IRS" Rotunda and Gerald Brisco.

ROH is back with something new to the current pro wrestling scene, the Pure title tournament that is reminisce of UWFi with much more sport-like representations than every others.

RIP Road Warrior Animal :(

Both AEW and WWE have been hit hard with COVID-19 last few weeks.

There are two confirmed positive cases so far on AEW; Lance Archer and Ben Carter. It affected last Wednesday's taping of Dynamite that many in-ring personnel were missing.

Another COVID outbreak has also hit NXT that they had to shut down WWE Performance Center again. Chelsea is so far the confirmed positive case.

Huge fan of the retribution Stable.

[QUOTE=Lebron23;14139839]Huge fan of the retribution Stable.[/QUOTE]

It had terrible first impressions and its backstory and how WWE somehow signed them don't make any sense, but the talents behind it (Dijakovic, Dio Maddin, Shane Thorn, Mia Yim and Mercedes Martinez) are slowing making it works.

Those wrestlers who has built up their Twitch followers are now screwed. WWE will soon take over all those Twitch accounts under WWE stage names and their Twitch earnings and then later give pay cuts back. Using their real names is fine but they need permissions from WWE.

Vince is going full Jew mode.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has agreed to virtually induct Ken Shamrock to Impact Hall of Fame! :rockon:

Andrew Yang has been very active criticizing Vince McMahon and WWE on how they treat their workers as "independent contractors".

[QUOTE=BurningHammer;14143546]Andrew Yang has been very active criticizing Vince McMahon and WWE on how they treat their workers as "independent contractors".[/QUOTE]

Mustafa Ali was revealed as the leader of retribution

[QUOTE=Lebron23;14148818]Mustafa Ali was revealed as the leader of retribution[/QUOTE]

At least, it makes Ali's supposed hacker gimmick make sense.

Raw is now full of heels though, but thankfully, the draft is coming up again this Friday. :ohwell:

[url]https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2020/10/alberto-del-rio-indicted-for-aggravated-kidnapping-675686/[/url]

Alberto Del Rio's downward spiral continues. :ohwell:

Only 2 days after being re-introduced back into the main roster after a long hiatus from injury/being exposed as a former gay porn actor, Lars Sullivan has been accused of harassment on Instagram.

[url]https://imgur.com/a/EUpe7G6[/url]

Dark Side of the Ring S3 is now in production.

North Korea and Brian Pillman episodes are confirmed.

[QUOTE=BurningHammer;14155036]Only 2 days after being re-introduced back into the main roster after a long hiatus from injury/being exposed as a former gay porn actor, Lars Sullivan has been accused of harassment on Instagram.

[url]https://imgur.com/a/EUpe7G6[/url][/QUOTE]

Lars Sullivan is ugly as hell
If he looks like Orton or the rock. He might get some poohtang pie from yogaforathlete.

The Rock vs Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 2021

[QUOTE=Lebron23;14159028]The Rock vs Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 2021[/QUOTE]

Just a speculation since we all know Rock's schedule is all booked. Even he is somehow available to show up, he won't be able to get into pro wrestling shape to have a decent match in time.

RIP Raw Underground :ohwell:

Any folks here watched Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers and Johnny Valentine?

[url]https://streamable.com/f55oj[/url]

Still the best heel turn in recent years.

Randy Orton is your new wwe champion.

Aalyah Mysterio is hot. Rey's 19 years old daughter.

[QUOTE=Lebron23;14169361]Randy Orton is your new wwe champion.[/QUOTE]

Long overdue. Randy has been great since WM feud with Edge.

RIP Tracy Smothers

He was a long-time indie mainstay with some cups of tea with Smoky Mountain Wrestling, ECW as a member of Full Blood Italians, WCW and WWF/E as Freddie Joe Floyd in the 90's.

[video=youtube;OUexaPENSe4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUexaPENSe4[/video]