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@davemeltzerWON And Bret Hart had creative control his last 30 days, correct? They breached his contract twice. Bret had every right to refuse that finish. It was in his contract!

@RHoopsRecruits From what I remember, he had one backstage interview saying he lost on purpose so he could lose DiBiase as his manager and one guest commentator where he was edited quite a bit Austin was far from getting the push leading to this. In many ways, Vince lucked into his next top guy

@IsThisAWork Just rewatched this not that long ago. Austin was getting some decent sized pops in this one for 96 heel.

Stone Cold beating Marc Mero was actually a big upset. Steve was kind of just there and not super featured to this point and Mero was getting the huge push and presentation. I wonder if Vince just pivoted from HHH to Austin because he likes heel King of the Ring winners. #WWF96

Can only think of @OfficialTAZ when this comes on. #ECW

@DarkSideOfRing @RealJeffJarrett @VICETV @TheJimCornette @THEVinceRusso @dlobrown75 @JEFFHARDYBRAND @VICE @IAmJericho Really looking forward to this. I really liked TNA and at a certain time was the only promotion I was able to keep up with due to my work schedule around 06-07.

24 years ago today, TNA held its first event, setting out to challenge the wrestling landscape. On July 7 at 9PM, the first 2 hours of our 3-part event exploring the history of TNA Wrestling through the eyes of founder @RealJeffJarrett premieres on @VICETV. First look is here.

@FadeAwayMedia This match sucked. Jeff was not feeling it at all.

Jeff Hardy reflects on his final WWE match before his release The match that happened to involve The Rock. Jeff had wrecked his Corvette earlier and the moment it happened, he knew his run in WWE was coming to an end 💔

@WrestlingNewsCo @BenVealWrites Jim’s cohost on his podcast is from New York, so that’s not the reason! Maybe Vince should look at his booking style for the reason why Cornette hates him.

Vince Russo was the guest on the latest Wrestling Life with @BenVealWrites. He was on to promote his book, Total Nonstop Agony: The Rise and Fall of TNA. Vince Russo on Eric Bischoff: "Out of everybody I ever worked with in the business, he is the person I like the least... Eric made the decision from day one to be an absolute a**hole to me." Russo on why he and Jim Cornette never got along: "Jim Cornette hates people from New York. It's that simple. Nobody's more New York than me, so the second Jim Cornette meets me, he's going to have a problem with me, and he's going to decide he's going to treat me a certain way." Russo on Triple H running WWE creative: "Triple H has no business whatsoever being involved in creative. I did not see a creative bone in Triple H's body... Just because you're a 16-time world champion doesn't mean you know how to write a television show. He doesn't have a clue." Russo on Dixie Carter's TNA leadership: "She was afraid to make decisions, and you cannot have a leader of your company afraid to make a decision... that is inevitably what bit her in the a$s." Russo on running a wrestling company and Tony Khan: "These guys are not your friends, they want something from you... I made it a rule to never be friends with talent, and I think that probably hurts Tony to some degree." Russo on WWE under TKO versus Vince McMahon: "Even with Vince, man, it was always talent first, talent first, talent first. You get the feeling that TKO don't even know these people's names." Russo on Hulk Hogan's death: "The day Hulk died... this business will never be the same again. It's Babe Ruth dying."

@Coltsplaya22 @davemeltzerWON “I won’t lose here but I’ll lose on this date” sounds reasonable to me.

@IsThisAWork @davemeltzerWON Reasonable creative control.

Based on most accounts, he was a key person, but now we have Vince McMahon, Jim Cornette (who actually came up with the finish), Levesque, Shawn and Russo all taking credit. He does leave out the part of the conversation where Bret would lose to Shawn in any arena if Shawn lost in Montreal and Bret was staying for another month to do it including TV tapings, MSG and one more PPV show. That's the part of the story the anti-Hart side aways leaves out.

@NeroZero__ @BrianRSolomon

@BrianRSolomon Hogan truly did pass the torch to him after Mania 18.

The man was paid $1 million just for his WrestleMania 17 match with Austin alone.

@Fibonacci69 Its funny how wrestling works and how everyone tries to take credit for things. HHH, Russo, Cornette all said they were the ones to come up with the screw job. I only believe Cornette's story. Also, Bret was in the right. He had creative control, Vince breached contract here.

Triple H claims he was the one behind the infamous Montreal Screwjob "Vince had come to us and said, Bret is not resigning and he won't drop the title to Shawn... the conversation was basically, here's what he's willing to do and it's gonna kill business" "There was just a silence and nobody knew what to say. I was probably the least important person on the totem pole at that time, but I was like, 'I gotta say it.' I was like, 'fuck that, like if he won't do business, do it for him.'" "That started a conversation that led to the Montreal Screwjob"

@BustedOpenRadio @_denisesalcedo I actually think Top Dollar ended up being one of the better heels today. He’s a valuable part of TNA and I think he still has a bright future.

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@Youngy54 People say that Austin’s heel turn didn’t work, but I thought it was very entertaining. Truthfully, it should have went to WM18 where Stone Cold faces Triple H for the belt and then he turns face after. Domino effect might have kept Austin from walking out a few months later.

I fucking love some heel Stone Cold. This mini feud with Spike over RAW and SmackDown that week was great stuff.

@TheOVW5 I always thought Show and Brock had really good chemistry. I really liked their string of matches in 03.

Brock Lesnar and Big Show fight off air on Raw (2017) This was probably the last time these 2 physically interacted in WWE.

@16barsgame Lil Wayne’s 2005-2011 was a pretty special run.

Be honest… What rapper had the best “you had to be there” run?

@TheLapsedFan @GreatBrianLast The Rock should also be in this discussion! Even though he had a rocky start (no pun intended), he seemed to have it all.

@TheLapsedFan Hulk really was a can’t miss prospect. The size, the speaking ability (even here) and the athletic ability was all the makings for a superstar. Truly, besides Brock Lesnar, were there any other obvious can’t miss prospects in wrestling? @GreatBrianLast

This is massive. As discussed on the latest episode of The Complete Hulk Hogan, we believe this is the first time Hulk ever uttered the phrase "Hulkamania" in a televised interview. It aired Sept. 27, 1980, and was taped Sept. 10, 1980. The idea that "Hulkamania" was first deployed as an obnoxious heel phrase from a vainglorious Hogan - and not after Rocky III as part of his face turn - blew our minds. So Hulkamania was running wild in 1980, and the fans hated it! Here Hogan also hints at magazine and TV offers coming in. We wonder, is this the earliest hint at Stallone's interest in him? We're pretty sure we know what magazine he's talking about - more on that on an upcoming episode of The Complete. Amazingly, Hogan also predicts here that he'll be the superhero of the 1980s - and it's said in a way that fans are expected to scoff at, not believe in. At first, Hulkamania was not supposed to be something the fans got behind. Quite the opposite. Accept this reality.

@Rayxeets Do you think every UFC fighter that fought at the White House was a Trump supporter?

@davebftv Who’s Tremaine Edwards? This is obviously a Bears offensive player’s ballot and he mixed up TJ and Trumaine.

One NFL player had Bears QB Caleb Williams and TE Colston Loveland in the top 20 for the NFL Top 100 Williams at No. 9 and Loveland at No. 18

@IANdrewDiceClay This is where Paul gets to use all the new corporate buzzwords he learned from Nick Khan

Oh this will be brutal. Heyman sitting down with someone who wont challenge him? Just get the lie counter out now.