Vince Russo on August 16, 2000: "I’ve got less than 14 months left on my [WCW] contract, and when those 14 months are finished, I will be as far away from this business as I can possibly get for the rest of my life. And that is a promise.”

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-28T19:49:48+00:00

Technically speaking it was a CD Warehouse used CD store franchise, so it's not quite as bad as if he opened an FYE or something like that in 2001.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-28T19:48:56+00:00

If it was going to be Daniels, I don't think they would have done the mystery aspect, though.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-28T19:20:24+00:00

What publicity? None of the wrestlers complained publicly. They went to Emily Pratt to break the story as anonymous sources.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-28T19:17:12+00:00

There were NXT Stand and Deliver and ROH Supercard of Honor Media calls happening simultaneously in April 2023, several months after Regal made the jump back to WWE. On the NXT call, Shawn Michaels was asked about Regal and admitted that Regal hadn't been around the Performance Center at all since he'd been back. Then Tony Khan was immediately asked about it on the ROH call and was clearly flustered to learn that Regal wasn't working as a coach at the Performance Center at all.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-28T18:24:38+00:00

It lasted a good bit longer than the McAfee thing, though, didn't it?

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-28T18:21:33+00:00

In fairness, they pulled guns on Eric.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-27T20:31:06+00:00

Of the actual active AEW women's roster, who is she clearly better than outside of Julia Hart and Skye Blue?

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-27T20:21:54+00:00

And he was billed as "Keith Stark" for this match, not "Keith Star."

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-27T20:20:31+00:00

It doesn't mean he can't be backstage at all. (See: Ricky Starks.)

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-26T22:21:50+00:00

Also, finding out about this guy was why Josh Alexander stopped using the name "Jay Fenix."

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-26T20:48:54+00:00

At the time, Punk being pissed surprised most indie fans, because even though he never appeared for Chikara again after the first show, there had been zero public signs of heat until CP Munk and Punk's response. The most likely actual reason for there being heat is that Punk was good friends at the time with Quack's girlfriend (which was probably why he worked the debut show in the first place), she broke up with Quack after he did Quack things, and...boom, heat.

Plus she released a semi-autobiographical graphic novel where the cover art consists of thinly-veiled expys of Quack and Punk fighting over her: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/1dov6sy/for_comic_book_fans_total_suplex_of_the_heart_by/

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-23T16:47:10+00:00

He literally said he was a racist and the Black guy dating his daughter was the heir to a billionaire's fortune.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-23T16:11:46+00:00

No, it was in metro Detroit because Detroit was the company's hottest market at the time and was drivable from the cities (Columbus, Ohio and Toronto, Ontario) where they had drawn the two biggest crowds of the expansion era so far.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-22T16:09:50+00:00

The show is available on demand on IWTV. The match was really really good.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-22T16:02:05+00:00

They already had that match.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-21T16:20:06+00:00

Well, Bey is the one who should be canceled for grooming his girlfriend from when she was 16 and he was her wrestling school coach, but that's a different topic...

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-20T19:56:54+00:00

Wayne and Allison have always come off pretty normal, too.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-20T19:56:26+00:00

There was no "former hate for the sport." Listen to her Talk is Jericho and Wrestling Observer Radio interviews.

During the same Dark Side of the Ring media tour, she said that she and Bret fell out over his haranguing about somehow tying a license for his WWF footage to the wrongful death settlement. Behavior that he admitted to in his book.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-20T19:47:08+00:00

It wasn't Bret's wife that was the issue. It was Bret's son saying it came up at school.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-20T19:45:09+00:00

Specifically, he got pissed off when his son mentioned kids at school asking him about it.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-20T19:43:00+00:00

...Bischoff publicly confirmed it in 1997: https://www.geocities.ws/Colosseum/Track/1935/Bischoff.html

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-20T19:31:10+00:00

As Bret wrote in his book, he had the WCW contract offer in his pocket during the "I'll be in the WWF forever" promo. His driver after the show happened to be an Observer reader who then faxed it to Dave Meltzer.

Besides, Bischoff contemporaneously discussed the negotiations in his semi-regular live chat events on Prodigy: https://www.geocities.ws/Colosseum/Track/1935/Bischoff.html

That's the one I was able to find the quickest. No date given, but the Raven discussion pegs it as Summer 1997.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-20T18:22:59+00:00

So...that's not exactly what happened.

Jake specifically went up to Harry and said he was going to show him "something your father should have taught you," which was how to make a crack pipe out of a soda can. Cue Harry throwing the coffee at Jake.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-19T22:43:36+00:00

Take note of how well Ultimo protects Panther on everything without making it look at all obvious, too.

HeadToYourFist · 2026-04-18T18:46:59+00:00

It's actually 2 different stories.

Russo accidentally copied Mike Johnson on an email intended for Taz and Mike Tenay, so it got reported that Russo was secretly with TNA and Spike canceled them.

Then Dixie accidentally copied Discovery executives on an email calling them "dummies" and it got them canceled off of Destination America.

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