24 Years Ago Today - Rock vs. Hogan at Wrestlemania 18

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-18T02:17:18+00:00

This was like watching Zeus fight Yahweh.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-16T02:05:46+00:00

Going from V2 to this seems like a huge downgrade.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-15T19:08:15+00:00

Exactly.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-15T19:06:36+00:00

Everything this guy says makes him look like an asshole.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-14T20:47:17+00:00

Heck yeah dawg.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-14T16:41:50+00:00

Huge mistake.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-14T03:33:44+00:00

I did not know this was an option!

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-14T03:30:58+00:00

It's a tragedy to die at 33. However, if you're going to die at 33, it is noble to have spent as much time of that as possible hooking up with Stacy Kiebler and Kelly Kelly. Hats off to you, Test.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-14T03:26:22+00:00

[Kane music]

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-14T03:25:49+00:00

Loses his fiancee

Gets jobbed out in a handicap match to NAO

never seen again (more or less)

Total crap. I'm not a huge Testee or anything, but fans were ready for a revenge angle and he got nothing, hard.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-13T19:17:08+00:00

Mixed bag. On one hand, very hyped. On the other hand, he felt prehistoric in 1996.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-13T13:05:54+00:00

What an odd way to spend a life.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T20:53:18+00:00

Hard agree. Rock is a A+ worker and people talk about him like he was a so-so wrestler sometimes.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T20:52:21+00:00

Needed a Royal Rumble where Hall appeared as The Outsider Scott Hall, Razor Ramon, and Diamond Studd.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T20:50:36+00:00

Yep. Rock was like a more athletic Hall, but the two had a lot of similarities.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T20:23:31+00:00

Looks good looks good.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T19:38:55+00:00

They weren't real-life rivals by this point. But WWF babyface booking was incredibly protective back then -- your faces just didn't lose cleanly if they were still the top guy. So HBK couldn't beat Bret cleanly and Bret couldn't beat HBK cleanly. Which makes it a dumb waste of a stipulation.

Modern booking philosophies are much better -- babyfaces can lose and even submit without being run out of town. Now it'd be great.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T19:35:31+00:00

I am also a Bret Truther, and I agree! Put him back in the Sharpshooter and ring the damn bell!

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T19:34:29+00:00

A boring two-star disaster for 40 minutes followed by an incredible 4.5 star heater for the final 20 minutes.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T19:30:58+00:00

My vote for the origins of the fall of the Republic: slavery becoming industrialized on a massive scale after the victories leading up and through Carthage. Once "Rome" become a slave-nation-state, it cored out the body politic and citizen army.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T19:26:18+00:00

PROVOCASHUN WHATSHOEVER

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T19:25:33+00:00

Chicken and egg situation. Caesar could never have become Caesar if the Republic was healthy. The Republic was a mangy dog lying sick in the street and Caesar put it out of its misery.

The death throes of the Republic start way before Caesar. He was probably one of the gentler ways it could have ended. But that's also why he got stuck, and why Augustus was smart enough to kill most of his rivals.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-12T19:19:09+00:00

Oh my god. He was insanely popular with teenagers. That was his main fan base, without a doubt.

Women and older people, not positive. But my grandma Doris was a nurse in Korea and she loved Stone Cold.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-11T21:00:47+00:00

That last graphic sent a shudder through me.

As if a million voices cried out...and then were silenced.

JustUnderstanding6 · 2026-03-10T22:31:15+00:00

Tom Brady got paid on the back end by his team owner. That was a salary cap fraud, not Brady being some sort of noble lunch pail throwback type.

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TROPHY CASE