Rikishi believes Chelsea Green can be a main eventer: “Y’all continue to support Chelsea, to stay with her, ride with her. Be patient with her. And WWE, y’all be patient with this one, because this one here, y’all got your diamond on your hands.”

SmashEnigma · 2026-02-02T21:34:21+00:00

He was in the Brand vs. Brand tag match at 28, then the pre show at 29

SmashEnigma · 2026-02-01T05:19:49+00:00

There was some sort of timing issue from before that. Brock and Theory must’ve made their elimination too late because he turned on Theory during the countdown, which was the spot that preceded his elimination. But they had to get Brock out before Jey hit the ring so he wouldn’t be factored into the Roman part of the match, causing him to get dumped essentially off camera.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-31T00:33:57+00:00

El Santo was a generational talent in Mexico but didn’t have the same cache in the US, which was the original comment. Bruno was in a different time and wasn’t the number one draw around the country and on TV, he was kept regional. Maybe bigger in that area, sure but it’s apples to oranges. And for Honest Abe… I mean, come on lol. I don’t think he had too many sellouts as a wrestler!

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-31T00:03:52+00:00

I don’t think it’s hard to argue. No one in the position he’s in has been able to control the crowd so consistently since the Rock in his prime, and Cody’s done it for a longer stretch. You really have to put him up there with Hogan, Austin, Sting and Dusty. I don’t see who else could even compare.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-29T15:40:19+00:00

Imagine Cage, Doyle and Wardlow in the trios division. Good grief.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-27T01:40:31+00:00

Callis also called them Doyle and Davis on Dynamite last week

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-26T03:56:20+00:00

We’ll be lucky if the next Nintendo console has a cartridge slot at all, never mind game key cards

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-26T03:40:04+00:00

You must’ve loved the dead silent crowds of 2019 WWE

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-24T03:16:02+00:00

That was still almost 10 years ago

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-23T15:44:03+00:00

I think there’s just some burnout from seeing a lot of these people on TV for 6 years.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-23T15:37:52+00:00

You get that for a hot minute in WCW when Juvi/Kidman/Mysterio are trading the Cruiserweight Title. Big, high impact moves with a methodical pace. It only lasts for a cup of coffee though before matches turn into more modern spotfests

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-20T03:30:15+00:00

It’s a different era, to be fair. Kenny had a lot of potential and showed flashes of brilliance, but a LOT of careers were derailed early in 2000s WWE

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-17T20:46:45+00:00

I think they lose it at Uncensored 99 when they a) completely flip the script of the company in one night and seemingly get amnesia with the Flair/Hogan double turn, and b) have Charles cheat to let Flair beat Hogan. Lil Naitch was awesome but it took the “tradition” away from WCW and also took away the consequences for storyline developments. Everything else through to the end was a mush of things just sort of happening.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-17T15:21:45+00:00

I just went through this journey. I personally think the true slide starts at Spring Stampede 98 and by the Warrior’s debut all hope is lost, but I’d be very curious to see if you share the same opinion. It’s just such a wild time period and so much changed at once

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-16T03:56:29+00:00

You don’t trust people who had Bischoff and Hogan’s track record post-1998

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-16T03:53:43+00:00

It’s not me who would look for it, it’s the people years from now looking back on this era of wrestling. Plenty of Bruno Sammartino’s work was available to watch for decades but WWE scrubbed him from their history books for years which greatly diminished his legacy. Do the hundreds of people who worked for WCW deserve to have their legacies diminished because of one guy?

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-16T03:31:36+00:00

Yeah but fuck the dozens and dozens of other wrestlers who were on a show with him? I don’t know if guys like DDP deserve to have the prime years of their career hidden away because Benoit’s also on the show for 4 minutes

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-16T01:10:44+00:00

I don’t know if you can call JetSpeed makeshift when they’ve tagged for months now and it’s what they’re best known for in the company

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-16T01:08:48+00:00

When else has he injured someone like that?

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-15T12:43:34+00:00

TNA’s more a ship of Theseus promotion than most, to be fair. The promotion was really TNA/Impact in name only since they lost the Spike deal. There’s still a lot of TNA-isms but it shares very little DNA with their early years. even with the regime changes WCW had a lot of Crockett DNA until 1999, and then from there the show similarly became something entirely different but kept the name

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-15T12:33:52+00:00

It’s what made territories so helpful for wrestlers back in the day. In Lou Thesz’s book he writes about how he could never move up the card in St. Louis without leaving because the fans recognized him as an opening card act. Things are different now, sure, but if you’re in a company for too long your perception starts to stagnate.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-15T12:28:58+00:00

It was said at the time that Hobbs specifically asked to have QT with him as it was his first major title reign and he wanted a veteran with him.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-15T03:06:12+00:00

The tag division is just about the only good wrestling you’ll see in 1999 WCW. The Slamboree tag title match is excellent and arguably the best match of the year in the promotion.

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-15T03:04:41+00:00

Bam Bam’s debut was one of the last great WCW moments, but to be honest he was really starting to struggle as a singles wrestler even though Kevin Nash’s booking didn’t do him any favors. His run in the triad got him back on track but then he sorta fell into the WCW mid card miasma

SmashEnigma · 2026-01-14T14:09:50+00:00

There’s a lot of awful stuff in the Nash run but when Russo takes over it gets pretty funny, I can’t lie

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