The time I was most scared watching WWE - Kane's unmasking and 2003 run

On July 14th 2003 WWE presented Raw from Indianapolis Indiana. On this night one of WWE's greatest monsters turned corporate stooge, crossed the line and set a man on fire, that man was Jim Ross.

A few weeks earlier on June 23rd, Kane lost a match with Triple H, back when he was the bearer of the golden shovel, and thus was forced to take his mask off. When he debuted in 1997 he did everything he could to goad the Undertaker into facing him, culminating in a match at Wrestlemania 14. He struck people with lightning, and hit Vader in the face with a hammer, all to get what he wanted. This version of Kane however, was indiscriminate in his violence, just like the great horror monsters of the big screen.

On this night Jim Ross, as a punishment arranged by Raw general manager Eric Bischoff was ordered to conduct a studio interview with Kane. The reason for the punishment was JR's apparent joy at seeing Kane choke slam Eric off the stage. Near the end of the night Kane arrives at WWE HQ in Stanford, bearing a gift for JR. Following the final match of the night, Gail Kim vs Molly Holly, Kane's interview began.

If you knew your history you had a bad feeling about this. Five years earlier Jim Ross had conducted a similar interview with Mankind, which opened up that character beyond being just a strange individual. That interview which aired over several seeks broken up managed to humanise the once inhuman Mankind, but it ended with JR feeling the wrath of the mandible claw, and so in this interview JR's safety was in doubt. Before the final commercial break Kane insists that JR open the present he entered with, revealing a can of gasoline. Kane claims that if Jim makes fun of him one time, he will set him on fire.

When we come back from the break, JR does his absolute best to walk on eggshells, even calling Kane one of the most extraordinary athletes he has ever seen. He then throws to a video package surely designed to aggravate Kane, showing Raw's co-GM Steve Austin trying to motivate Kane into being the monster he used to be. If I were JR sat in that chair I'd have been hating whoever made this video package and aired it in that moment.

Kane explains that he was a normal child until a fire turned him into a hideous monster, but the crucial part of early Kane's character is that the real damage is in Kane's mind, and he isn't as hideous as he thinks he is. A photo of Kane that sometimes goes around pre his televised debut shows him wearing a cape to the ring, This and the mask were meant to make Kane to feel like a superhero, but now they are taken away and we're left with an aimless, vicious monster.

Kane talks about being deformed and JR boldly attempts to convey some truth to Kane, that in the few times we had seen him unmasked, he is not actually scarred or deformed in any way. Kane retorts that he sounds like the doctors who told him the same thing, and Kane responded by hurting all of them. JR is barely looking Kane in the eye at this point, and who could blame him?

As Kane pulls the towel off his head, JR makes one last plea to him. Jim tells Kane that he sees a man that needs help. He pleads with Kane to see that the people love him no matter what he looks like, and that Stone Cold and Rob Van Dam were trying to help him. But not ready for this thoughts to be confronted by rationality, Kane takes this the wrong way.

Having heard enough Stone Cold comes to the ring, not at all helping by calling Kane a son of a bitch. After all the antagonising Kane can take, he throws JR down, pours gasoline on him, and drops a match...

Watching back 19 years later, this is edited truly awfully, but I as a child was filled with fear. Imagine trying to go to bed with that the last thing you saw. Kane's rampage would continue throughout the Summer of 2003. He would destroy Rob Van Dam at Summerslam, the man he blamed for convincing him to gamble his mask in the first place. On the July 21st Raw he would cross the line again, hitting a tombstone on of all people, Linda McMahon. This would cause Shane to return to WWE to get revenge, resulting in some of the most bafflingly violent stunts in Raw history, such as Kane attacking Shane's privates with starter cables, and the big red monster being knocked into a literal dumpster fire. Kanes violent streak would calm down after Survivor Series 2003, where he would defeat Shane in an Ambulance match, and would set his sights on Goldberg and the World title.

How Vince Russo's WCW (and TNA) booking annoyed New Japan Pro Wrestling

This is a script for a video on my YouTube channel. You can see the video here: https://youtu.be/4RXTl9unVF4

In these days of Forbidden doors being smashed down and fed into wood chippers, companies seem to be forming new working relationships all the time. Some times those agreements fizzle out but other times one side does something to deeply anger the other.

Back in December of 1999, WCW's on again off again head writah Vince Russo, booked a rather legendary several month run of Nitro's that were so bad they were at times hilarious.  I have several memories of this run of Nitro's which I'm sure I'll get to, but let me know yours in the comment section below. Near the end of that first run he seemed to have gotten bored of pissing off the Western world, and turned his efforts to angering New Japan pro wrestling, the company WCW had been working with since the early 90's.

One thing that New Japan is known for taking very seriously, is the handling of their talents when they travel overseas. One notable example of this is when they ended their several year relationship with TNA over the way one talent on excursion was booked to be a joke. He was known as Okato in the impact zone, heavily inspired by Kato from the Green Hornet, and mainly wrestled on lower cards and syndicated shows. This man would return to Japan in 2012 and would go on to become one of NJPW's biggest stars ever, Kazuchika Okada. Incidentally, who do you think TNA's writer was at the time? Any guesses? Nowadays the relationship between the two companies seems to have been rebuilt given that several New Japan talents have worked in Impact over the past couple of years, some even initiated into the Bullet Club, but it took a long time, a complete regime change and several rebrands for this to happen.

Another thing New Japan takes very seriously is the lineage of its championships, usually. The current ongoing situation with Karl Anderson feels like a strange anomaly from this. Usually if a champion fails to make an an advertised match they are promptly stripped of the championship, and they are often strict about this. Togi Makabe was once stripped of his Never Openweight title for being stricken with the flu, but won the title back two months later and resumed the run he was intended to have. More recently in 2019 Jon Moxley was stripped of the IWGP US title after a Typhoon in Japan meant he would be unable to get into the country. He also would win the title back at earliest convenience and hold it for another six months. The reason I bring these things up is that Vince Russo managed to annoy New Japan on both of these grounds on the November 29th 99 episode of Nitro.

On this night, Russo booked a match between the IWGP Jr heavyweight champion Jushin Thunder Liger and Juventud Guerrera. Neither man got any entrance or introduction as we came back from the ad break and both men were already in the ring. Seconds into the match before the two can even tie up, Buzzkill walks down the ramp. Buzzkill was a hippy played by Brad Armstrong, who was supposed to be a parody of his own brother in the WWE, Road Dogg Jesse James. In the ring Liger and Juvi try their best to have a good match, but its hard to focus on it with Buzzkill being insufferable on commentary. He acts as though he has no concept of what wrestling is with Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan having to explain that they are competing for a championship, begging the question why is he even there? Tony then mentions that Juvi is fighting for his work visa in this match which makes even less sense.

When Juventud signals he going to try for the Juvi Driver Buzzkill gets up and starts distracting the referee for seemingly no reason, as he has no affiliation with either man. With the referee distracted, Juvi smashed a tequila bottle over Ligers head, and the ref counts the three despite there being glass all over the ring. We don't even get to see Juventud celebrate with the title as seconds after the three count we cut to something completely different backstage. In fact, we never actually saw the physical belt at all.

In the following weeks Wrestling Observer, Dave Meltzer writes that the booking of Liger was forced upon Russo, and he indicated that bro wasn't happy with it either. Dave also points out that WCW is only watched by hardcore fans in Japan, and they perceive Juventud as a lower card wrestler who never gets a push. WCW forcing Russo to use Liger might explain the awful segment, and his solution to retcon it the following week. He couldn't book a straight rematch because Juventud injured his elbow on a dive in the match, so to pick his replacement the "powers that be", played by Russo himself but only his voice, called Psychosis and La Parka into his office, he explained that the first man to leave the room would defend one of the most prestigious titles in all of wrestling. Psychosis wins this dubious honour, and even walks out with the title belt on his shoulder.

Once again Liger and Psychosis attempt to have a good match, and once again Buzzkill lives up to his name, this time handing out flowers in the crowd. This is made worse by there being so many crowd signs that they can barely get a camera shot of him. To be fair though, this match got a lot more time and focus than the prior weeks match did, and was a very good cruiserweight match that Liger wins cleanly with La Magistral. This moment of good wrestling is overshadowed in seconds by La Parka coming out to get his revenge on Psychosis, but at least Liger got the title back. This whole situation made New Japan very upset, and only years later did they officially recognise either title change.

Over the years and as recently as 2022 ahead of the Forbidden Door event, Vince Russo has been critical of the use of international talent, and still can't see their value. This feels like a very narrow minded approach given how several years after WCW folded, Smackdown was very popular among hispanic viewers thanks to two of its top stars being Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio. These days most top level wrestling rosters are extremely diverse with many more countries represented, which can only be seen as a positive in todays world of global media.

A history of WWE Wrestlers on Saturday Night Live

This is a script for my video on Wrestlers appearing on SNL. You can view the video here: https://youtu.be/C2V_WkQYn3k

If my first love is wrestling, my second love would be comedy. About a decade ago I found a show that I fell in love with. Saturday Night Live. From Ackroyd and Belushi in the early days to the Iceberg that sunk the Titanic recently. That gave me an idea to look into any times that I could find where wrestlers appeared on SNL and there more than I expected. For full disclosure, in researching for this topic I noticed that Dave Knows Wrestling has a similarly titled video to this but I assure you, mine is very different to his. And yes, we're going to be talking about the Rock, just not yet. I also wanted to say if you can think of any wrestler appearances that I've missed why not let me know in the comments, and I might even do a follow up video.

As far as I can tell the first time a professional wrestler appeared on Saturday Night Live was on November 17th 1979. On that night Andy Kaufman would wrestle a woman from out of the audience, which is a gimmick he was doing at his shows at the time, even dubbing himself the inter gender wrestling champion. Despite technically counting later on as a wrestler, Andy isn't the person I'm talking about yet, as the bout was introduced by the first recognised WWE champion, The Nature Boy Buddy Rogers. Rogers was the NWA World champion when the WWWF broke away in 1963, but one month later would lose to Bruno Sammartino, who reigned for 2800 days. Thats just over seven and a half years.

Kaufmans time in pro wrestling and the feud with Lawler is a story for another day, but on May 15th 1982 Kaufman would return to SNL one month after his famous match with the King of Memphis. On this night Andy is interviewed while wearing a neck brace, that he wore everywhere in order to sell the injury from the match. According to Jerry Lawler in a recent episode of Tales from the Territories, Andy only took the neck brace off because the producers of Taxi, a sitcom he was in, threatened to write him off the show. Also according to Jerry, Andy even kept the secret that he wasn't really hurt from his own parents, who spent two decades despising Lawler for what he did to their Son. It was only when the film Man in the Moon was being made in the late 90's that they found out the the injury wasn't real. I would also like to recommend that film, its one of my favourites.

In a strange feeling moment they show Kaufman doing heel stalling tactics, and we can hear the SNL audience laughing at his antics. They also show the entire match, even replaying the moves Andy takes in slow motion, while Andy in studio sells how much pain he was in. The segment that is mostly played very seriously, then ends with Andy offering a series of apologies most YouTubers would be proud of, proving that Andy Kaufman was indeed, a man ahead of his time. This segment took place two months before the more famous Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. One final note about this is I found out afterwards that the man interviewing Andy is Brian Doyle-Murray, who is known to my generation as the voice of the Flying Dutchman in Spongebob Squarepants, a reference I never thought I'd be making when I started this channel...

The next time wrestlers would be on SNL would be March 30th 1985, just one day before Wrestlemania 1. That episode was hosted by Hulk Hogan and Mr. T, ahead of their showdown with Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff the following night. Full credit to Dave Knows Wrestling because I didn't know this, but Hogan and Mr. T were actually last minute replacements as their scheduled host cancelled due to illness. Therefore Hogan and T's role on the show was fairly limited. They performed a monologue which is to say Hulk Hogan cut a promo then Mr. T pretended to choke out a heckler. T refers to "that TV guy" who thought wrestling was a joke, but quickly moves on from it. This is a reference to an incident that occurred a few days earlier on a show called Hot Properties, where Hogan demonstrated a front face lock on actor Richard Belzer, who passed out in the hold. Very quickly Belzer popped back up to his feet with blood dripping down his jacket from where his head hit the studio floor. I'll admit I don't know much about that situation other than it got litigious so I won't go into it here but its interesting to me that Hogan and Mr. T would reference the incident in a comedy sketch a few days later.

Perhaps the closest thing to a comedy sketch Hogan and T are involved in is an interview with Fernando, who was played by Billy Crystal. Billy introduces Hogan as "The Hulk" which I'm sure Marvel was thrilled about. Hogan when he first adopted the name was sometimes billed as "the incredible" Hulk Hogan, and from what I can tell through my research Hogan for 20 years actually paid Marvel a royalty to use the name. This is possibly why Hogan would eventually ditch the Hulk part of his name in WCW and become Hollywood Hogan, but again I digress.

I'm not saying this interview was improvised, but it very much looked like it was thrown together at the last minute. It's not that funny until Fernando actually managed to make Hogan and T break, which to means to laugh when you're not supposed to. Billy Crystal, a complete pro of comedy gets even more laughs out of the situation, and ends the segment when he knows it has peaked. Sound advice I feel Edge could do to take in his matches sometimes. Don't at me...

The final notable segment that Hulk and Mr. T are in is called "Mr. T and Hulk Hogan reply", and is less than a minute long and is basically one last chance to promote Wrestlemania 1. Mr. T flubs his lines awkwardly and walks off. I've been quite critical of Hulk Hogan on this channel before, but it is impressive how quickly he can get into full blown promo mode and saves this after Mr. T walks off.

This night would be the last time as far as I can tell that Hulk Hogan would grace studio 8H, but in 2016 Pete Davidson would perform a Weekend Update segment where he would talk about Hogans legal victory over Gawker. In it Davidson refers to Hogan as a "senior citizen who used to oil himself up and pretend to fight immigrants in his undies". I mean he's technically not wrong but come on Pete, some of us built our childhoods around watching that. I'm not helping am I?

Before I talk about the Rock which I promise I am getting to... I want to break the timeline a few times to talk about other SNL moments in the 2000's. Until I researched for this video I totally forgot that Ronda Rousey once hosted SNL in January 2016 during season 41. She was still a UFC fighter at the time, but she is a WWE superstar now so it still counts. This was a turbulent time in Rousey's life, as two months earlier she had lost the UFC Womens Bantamweight championship to Holly Holm in a shocking moment. Ronda was awarded the title as she was the champion of that division in Strike Force, and would defend it six times across a thousand days. Depending on how you felt about Conor McGregor or Jon Jones, Ronda was arguably the biggest star in combat sports, but mostly retreated from public life after her loss to Holm. She would later attempt to avenge her loss by challenging then champion Amanda Nunes, but would again lose, these being the only two losses on her stellar record.

It turns out there was a reason I didn't remember this episode, its a pretty funny one with a really good cast but the most memorable thing from it was Tina Fey reprising her Sarah Palin impression endorsing Donald Trumps candidacy. Little did we know how not funny that would eventually become.

In December of 2011 John Cena would host SNL. His monologue is fairly wrestling based with members of the cast confronting him, the outright best being Kenan Thompson dressed like the Undertaker sneaking up on John with a chair, and quickly backing down when confronted, and ends with the SNL band playing his theme song.

Cena's most famous sketch perhaps is known as "science presentation" which implied a bias from colleges towards sports success over academic achievement. He is clearly given easier questions than his academic peers. In Cena's early career he used to wear football jerseys in his entrance for heat, so it was interesting to see him in one again in what felt like a throwback.

By this time Cena was still an active full timer on the WWE Roster. he was a few months away from the first of his two Wrestlemania bouts with The Rock, and his most notable credit outside wrestling was his role in the Fred movies which thankfully are lost to time. Fun Face though, John Cena actually has an uncredited background role in WCW's 2000 movie Ready to Rumble.

To quote Mark Henry on AEW Rampage, it's time for the Main event. I guess it's time to talk about the Rock. He first appeared on SNL in 2000, accompanied by Triple H, Big Show Mick Foley and the devil himself. The cold open which is usually but not always a political sketch, was built around kayfabe, with Vince begging the other wrestlers to not get into any trouble because it would make WWE look bad, which is profoundly ironic in late 2022.

The Rocks monologue is also interrupted by Triple H, Foley, Show and Vince, making this feel like more of a wrestling takeover than The Rocks own thing. Do you see what I did there? We even get to see Triple H carrying the WWF championship on SNL, the same WWF championship that the Rock would beat him for a Wrestlema- oh wait no, it was Backlash the next month. Which he would lose a month later to Triple H, it's almost like he was in a position of power or something. On this night however Triple H slightly breaks kayfabe by wishing Rocky good luck and shaking his hated rivals hand.

The great one would host SNL again in 2002 to promote the Scorpion King, which we wish he hadn't, again in 2009 to promote Race to Witch Mountain, I have no idea what that is, and a fourth time on March 28th 2015, the day before Wrestlemania 31 to promote Furious 7. Mania 31 is the one where the Rock and Ronda Rousey lay into Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, tying many a loose end in this video, so thanks for that Dwayne.

Maybe the most famous character Dwayne Johnson would play twice on the show was The Rock Obama, a bizarre take on what would happen if the normally calm and collected 44th President turned into the Incredible Hulk. There's one last callback...

On the final time The Rock hosted SNL at the time of this video, he was inducted into the five timer club. A debatably illustrious group that started as a joke but includes beloved names like Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Paul Rudd and Tina Fey, and also Alec Baldwin.

I'm going to end this video by asking who you could see killing it on SNL? Can you imagine the likes of Brock Lesnar, The New Day or maybe even Bray Wyatt standing on the Studio 8H stage?

Andy Kaufman and Buddy Rogers December 22nd 1979 

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=362013272150235

May 15th 1982 Andy Kaufman interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxiJK0EUyYU

Hogan and Mt. T - Season 10 March 30th 1985 

monologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKiwzQUY2Sg

fernando https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFqzDO0EVjE

reply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKEIg5cyl4s

The Rock, Mick Foley, Big Show, Triple H and the devil himself Season 25 - March 18th 2000

Cold open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0it_K3Qmcc0

Monologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR7i1YFH-QQ

Ronda Rousey January 23rd 2016

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS_gQd8UB-hLuU9ZffAle9qSfGNtt1diE

Pete Davidson on Hulk Hogan April 10th 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JRayYnqWVk

John Cena December 10th 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJb4cFWOfY&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hLjih3w_JyKrfPqWA-pe6Y3

Cena monologue https://www.metatube.com/en/videos/339248/SNL-John-Cena-Monologue/

The Rock May 20th 2017

- Promoting Baywatch

John Cena December 10th 2011 Season 42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PJb4cFWOfY&list=PLS_gQd8UB-hLjih3w_JyKrfPqWA-pe6Y3

Rock reacts to his own SNL sketches Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkK2JV2WlZk

Rock reacts to his own SNL sketches Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3P3y_8_d0

AEW Rampage September 30th 2022 review

I started my online presence last July by talking about AEW on YouTube, and I'd like to get back to that while carrying on the history video's I've been doing. You can see the video version of this here: https://youtu.be/TuyLttslThg, though this version is a bit more detailed.

Tonight I watched Rampage, but my question going in was is it even worth the time? I guarantee you there was more effort put into this review than a Rush match, so lets get going:

If anything the opener for the tag titles made me feel a little sad for AEW's tag division. Now don't get me wrong, I believe AEW has had and still has the best tag division in modern wrestling though WWE's is getting better these days. AEW has a lot of teams that are just floating on though. Private Party were there from near day 1, and they even got jump started by beating the Young Bucks on one of the first Dynamites, but that was nearly three years ago and what have they done since? Similar can be said for the Butcher and the Blade except their introduction was handled way worse as nobody explained who they were. Both of these teams then got bundled into the Hardy then Andrade family office, and neither feels as relevant as they should. Please let me me point out again that I like all of the wrestlers involved in this match, but AEW has dropped the ball with all of them, but that doesn't mean they can't do better in future, and maybe this Acclaimed title run will allow for more of the lower teams to get a shot and more TV time. 

The AEW tag titles have sometimes felt a bit too protected, where some champions just feel like they won't lose until it is time and that is the only reason. Like for example when Kenny Omega and Hangman had them, it felt like the belts were on ice until we needed to get the story between Hangman and the Elite going again. I will say that the Acclaimed feel like a more beatable team, and I mean that in a good way. This is only their first title defence, but it feels like they could drop the titles to any other team, which is better than when one team is protected over all others until it feels like the right time for them to lose.

Anyway, sorry for digressing a bit, this match was fine but didn't feel all that special. The Acclaimed won, but Private Party in particular looked good in this, and they kept cutting to Matt Hardy so there is something for them there.

Next we cut to Lexi with the Firm, AEW's latest thrown together group. The Gunn club say some words about FTR while W Morrisey tapes his wrists for seemingly no reason.

Every time I see Lee Moriarty now I think about Bryan Danielson mentioning him as a prospect back at the start of this year. He could have made for an interesting Blackpool Combat Club member, but instead he's here with a bunch of other dudes AEW don't know what to do with. They already have other groups that are together for seemingly no reason, the Factory, the Trustbusters, the winged alsatians. That last one was a joke but if you don't watch AEW Dark you might well have believed me...

Fuego actually looked pretty good on Dark this week, so it was good to see him again. Moriarty wins fairly quickly with a Crossface. I enjoyed the wrestling here but again, this didn't feel important. Post match the former Big Cass chokeslammed Fuego for seemingly no real reason.

Up next might be my highlight of this show and this is going to sound weird but bear with me. Hangman and the Dark order are with Lexi to plug the upcoming World title match Hangman won last week which is happening on the 18th. Andrade and Jose come in and show footage of a miscommunication that got 10 eliminated in that battle royal. Andrade notes that next week will be the anniversary of Brodie Lee's last match, the amazing dog collar match with Cody, and uses that to provoke 10 into a match on Rampage next week, where it will be 10's mask versus Andrade's career on the line.

When I saw Willow vs Allysin Kay at Death Before Dishonor earlier this year I felt like she would be a great addition for the ROH women's division when they get their own show. Thats not me trying to push her onto another brand by the way, but to me the ROH women's division could be used to give wrestlers who aren't stars yet some exposure and experience, and I feel like Willow and Jamie also would fit that. I'd also put Leyla Hirsh there when she is back, I think she is injured right now.

I'm also a fan of Jamie, but they need to get this story with her and Britt Baker moving forward. Why they are still stalling on it is beyond me because it just feels like they need to get a move on at this point. I liked this match too, Willow especially put a shift in. I don't know if she is signed to AEW or ROH but she ought to be.

Up next we get a video about Samoa Joe and Wardlow, two champions who have nothing going on and so I think are now a tag team? Everything I said about the tag titles earlier apply to both Wardlow and Samoa Joe, it just doesn't feel like they have any strong competition, but that could change with time. I've been a fan of Samoa Joe for many years at this point, since his TNA days but is current AEW/ROH run has been disappointing.

Ryan Nemeth is already in the ring talking at 90 miles an hour. He makes a dig about Rocky, which is fine because his gimmick is that he is the Hollywood Hunk and so I like him throwing movie references in. He makes a weird dig at ECW the which I have more of a problem with. Ryan was 16 when ECW closed it's doors so what does he know, but this is all to draw out Hook who destroys him quickly. Did I mention that this all happened very fast? It went by so quick that they didn't even turn Hook's music off and just left it going New Jack style.

As Hook walks up the ramp the Trustbusters leave him an envelope which he takes up the other tunnel. I've ranted about a fair bit so I won't go into this Trustbuster group today it that is coming.

I don't like repeating myself but the main event match between John Silver and Rush was fine but felt pointless. on Wednesday they are doing Hangman vs Rush so I guess this was to give Rush a win going into that, but this didn't matter enough. It was also the longest match on this show and I'd rather have seen the tag title match gone longer than this. Rush won and the AFO continued the attack until Hangman came in and saved his friends, leading to the Hangman vs Rush match on Wednesday.

Maybe I should have started reviewing Rampage last week, because I really enjoyed the Grand Slam edition. This weeks show really hits on the problem with Rampage as a whole. There was nothing bad on this show at all, I enjoyed parts of it a lot, but nothing feels worth the time to watch it, let alone write about it or record and edit a video version. We have a battle of the belts show next week, and those somehow matter even less, not even enough to give it capital letters. Rampage is fine, but that is my problem with it, in this day and age it's not really acceptable to just be fine. I could have given my time to any other hour of wrestling and maybe enjoyed it more. You have to be better than this with stories that matter for this day and age. I'd also like to point out that I pay a monthly subscription on Fite TV to watch this show. I have since the day AEW plus began, but there is so much other wrestling I could be watching for free.

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