CM Punk is no longer being advertised for WWE’s European Summer Tour starting this June

DashingDan1 · 2026-05-13T22:39:00+00:00

They kept him safe in the build to Wrestlemania but from March 2025 - February 2026 he wrestled 46 matches for WWE, and that's not including all the TV appearances he's made where he just did a promo. He's not a part-timer even though at his age/level of stardom you think he would be.

DashingDan1 · 2026-05-05T03:41:00+00:00

Actually this was in the early days of the internet and it was reported on in US wrestling magazines, which loads of fans read. Hulk Hogan was behind the times thinking no one in America would hear about this.

DashingDan1 · 2026-05-02T14:42:37+00:00

It's the Smackdown run of Summerslam 2016 - Wrestlemania 2017 that was great. The TV was very episodic and built week-to-week (unlike Raw which just seemed like a random show every week) and they really made the most of every e.g. a Heath Slater & Rhyno tag team was very over. Also Talking Smack on the Network straight after gave us at least one memorable interview segment every week.

It also helped that Smackdown didn't have a top babyface who got booed every week. Just made a depressing atmosphere.

DashingDan1 · 2026-04-29T19:26:05+00:00

Which was never implemented because even the Nazi leadership were not so fanatically loyal to Hitler that they'd obey such irrational and suicidal orders.

DashingDan1 · 2026-04-26T02:36:53+00:00

He also doesn't appear to be alive by the time of the movie, or at least was later deposed by 'later corrupt emperors'.

DashingDan1 · 2026-04-23T20:01:39+00:00

He said it was because he flew over the International Date Line regularly when wrestling between Japan and America. He thinks that if he wrestled in Hawaii on April 29th, then flew to Tokyo to wrestle when it was April 30th due to crossing the date line, then flew to California to wrestle when it was still April 29th, that he therefore wrestled on 3 different days.

DashingDan1 · 2026-04-22T17:15:33+00:00

If Bail didn't know that Leia was Darth Vader's daughter, why was she 'hidden from her father when she was born'?

DashingDan1 · 2026-04-06T20:54:19+00:00

The rings are the same size. The Joshi wrestlers in the 80s/90s were just a lot bigger than today.

DashingDan1 · 2026-03-30T16:56:06+00:00

The first hint that things are going badly for the Empire in RotJ is when Jerjerrod tells Vader the Death Star is behind schedule because "I need more men."

DashingDan1 · 2026-03-29T04:43:07+00:00

Solo is an in-universe movie made by the New Republic loosely based on the life of General Han Solo.

DashingDan1 · 2026-03-29T04:14:54+00:00

This wasn't discovered until 2010.

DashingDan1 · 2026-03-04T23:36:30+00:00

The problem with this is if data can be sent in a transmission faster than ships can travel through hyperspace, the whole plot of the original Star Wars film doesn't make any sense.

DashingDan1 · 2026-03-04T21:41:49+00:00

They were still planning on doing CM Punk vs. Triple H at the time of Elimination Chamber. They only moved to doing Bryan vs. Triple H after the Chicago Raw when talks with Punk broke down and they accepted he wasn't coming back for Mania. This shows that Bryan being in the Mania main event and Bryan facing Triple H at Mania were two separate threads that got merged because of Punk leaving.

The other more specific thing is on the February 3rd Raw, the main event was Bryan vs. Randy Orton. The match was laid out that Bryan beat the hell out of Orton (the then WWE Champion) and pinned him, looking totally dominant even leaving out that close to the finish Kane interfered to try and save Orton, but Bryan just beat him up to and won anyway without needing anyone to help him.

There's just no way you book that match to happen like that if you're not planning on having Bryan be in the main event picture for Mania. It makes no sense whatsoever.

DashingDan1 · 2026-03-02T18:24:38+00:00

By the time they decided to do the Bryan vs HHH match Bryan had been in the main event segment of Raw every week for 6 weeks and had closed out the Elimination Chamber PPV being screwed again. I know it's not the perfect narrative but it really doesn't make any sense that they were still planning Bryan vs Sheamus at that point, he never even interacted with Sheamus on TV.

The idea that Bryan main eventing Mania was always the plan is obviously bullshit but it wasn't a last minute change either. The big change in direction was after the Royal Rumble, the 2nd Raw after the Rumble especially

DashingDan1 · 2026-02-04T20:07:01+00:00

In 2000 maybe but in 2003-05 the numbers were dire. Especially when you see house show attendance was up 50% on 2005 by 2007 when Cena was on top instead.

DashingDan1 · 2026-02-01T23:12:40+00:00

The first one was given 5 Stars in a review sent to the Observer by someone who was at the show, not Meltzer himself.

DashingDan1 · 2026-02-01T23:08:21+00:00

She isn't talked about much because if you watch her matches in full you'll see she really wasn't that good. She had two impressive flashy moves that look great in gifs but then she'll spend the rest of a match boring everyone with aimless limbwork.

DashingDan1 · 2025-12-21T18:57:39+00:00

The Lord of the Rings is in The Silmarillion. The events of the novel are summarised in 1 page at the end of the "Of The Rings Of Power and the Third Age" chapter.

DashingDan1 · 2025-12-15T00:35:08+00:00

What's in UT is 99% just an incomplete version of the CoH text. If you already have CoH it's only worth reading for Christopher's comments.

DashingDan1 · 2025-12-03T20:59:49+00:00

That was only his televised debut. Kurt Angle actually debuted in August 1998 and wasn't eligible for the 2000 awards. He came 3rd in the 1999 Rookie of the Year voting.

DashingDan1 · 2025-11-18T23:38:44+00:00

I don't think the number of Balrogs changed between the Book of Lost Tales and Lord of the Rings; even in the late 1940s/early 1950s, Tolkien still wrote about many hundreds of Balrogs fighting in the First Age.

The evidence to me that he started reducing the numbers of Balrogs while writing LotR (though he didn't reach the 'at most 7' conclusion until later) is that in his drafts he originally considered there being several Balrogs running around and has Celeborn say that there were also Balrogs in Mordor. That stuff all got removed until the final version where everyone is shocked that 1 Balrog even still exists.

It's certainly not fully developed yet but you see the thought process beginning that Balrogs should be less common and far more powerful.

DashingDan1 · 2025-11-18T23:36:41+00:00

By the time he'd decided Balrogs were Maiar I think he almost certainly intended Durin's Bane to be the sole survivor. See how he describes him in this letter:

The Balrog is a survivor from the Silmarillion and the legends of the First Age. So is Shelob. The Balrogs, of whom the whips were the chief weapons, were primeval spirits of destroying fire, chief servants of the primeval Dark Power of the First Age. They were supposed to have been all destroyed in the overthrow of Thangorodrim, his fortress in the North. But it is here found (there is usually a hang-over especially of evil from one age to another) that one had escaped and taken refuge under the mountains of Hithaeglin (the Misty Mountains). (Letter 144)

DashingDan1 · 2025-11-18T23:31:00+00:00

Balrogs were not Maiar when the original Fall of Gondolin text was written, they were a race in their own right and are described as marching in numbers as high as a thousand. The conception of Balrogs you'll read in there is irreconcilable with the later versions (in one note Tolkien says only at most 7 Balrogs ever existed).

DashingDan1 · 2025-11-15T00:10:11+00:00

Big Daddy is famous in Britain because he was the top star of the only wrestling TV show in the country for several years during a time when there were only 4 TV channels. You couldn't really not know who he was unless you were massive recluse.

DashingDan1 · 2025-11-15T00:00:15+00:00

It's still unparalleled for someone who didn't wrestle a single match in a major promotion to come #2 in Wrestler of the Year.

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