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David Bixenspan
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40 years ago this week, the Detroit public school system was trying to encourage high school drop-outs to get their GEDs by using the power of RAP MUSIC, specifically local "rap champion" Frogger Down.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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This reads like a blurb on The Onion but it's real.
"I've got a friend of a friend who gave me a call. The call was like, 'Hey, this thing happened. And I said, 'Okay, wonderful news.' I was told on the call that the president at that time was going to make his speech in 20 minutes or whatever. I said, 'Okay, great.' So 20 minutes go by, and at about the 25th minute, I tweet this. Then I get a second call, and the call is, 'Yeah, the president didn't go on yet.' And I went, 'Oh sh***.'" DWAYNE JOHNSON ON HOW HE KNEW - AND TWEETED - BOUT OSAMA BIN LADEN'S DEATH BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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New @btsheetspod.bsky.social Patreon show: The 1st of 2 shows this month covering the sudden dismantling of Tully Blanchards wrestling career. He & Arn give the WWF notice, Tully fails a drug test, & all hell starts breaking loose.

Just $5.00/month or $50.40/year at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets!
This first part/segment covers everything from the last few months of 1989, while the second part next week will cover the continuing story into 1990 as well as Tully's flirtations with WCW in 1993 and 1994. Topics of discussion include: Tully and Arn, the reigning WWF Tag Team Champions as the Brain Busters, giving their notices, claiming that it was to pursue an opportunity in Japan even though that obviously wasn't true. Is Jack Petrik's refusal to open up the WCW budget for top WWF guys proof that Vince McMahon really made a phone call to Ted Turner in early 1989 begging him to avoid bidding wars so they could artificially hold down wrestler pay? Reports of cash flow issues in the WWF stemming from the "No Holds Barred" and Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Donny Lalonde losses hitting the Titan Sports books, leading to decreasing payoffs, cuts to the Survivor Series '89 card, and WWF talent breaking their brainwashing to seriously consider the stories of big contracts in WCW. Vince reneging on his promise to give Arn and Tully a storyline out on commentary when their tag title loss aired on TV. Tully, already on his way out, getting fired a few weeks before Survivor Series. Did he try to stage a locker room walkout? Was he trying to rally wrestlers to join him and Arn in WCW? Was his failed drug test for cocaine the actual reason, or was it just a nice excuse for the newsletters that they knew would mess with his WCW offer? Some reminders of how big a pro wrestling star Tully Blanchard was in the '80s before his career suddenly dried up at the end of 1989/beginning of 1990. Did the WWF really edit together two different matches to form the Rockers vs. Brain Busters 2/3 falls match on Saturday Night's Main Event? Tully's alleged marketing job with Coca-Cola. Dave Meltzer's personal thoughts on how the drug issue was being leverage to mess with Tully personally, especially as someone who had no reputation for working while intoxicated.
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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My 2025 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame ballot:

Historical: Ole/Byers/Curry/JYD/Sputnik/Vachons

Modern: Briscoes/Joe/Hardys/Mone/Cody/Sabu

Japan: Fujiwara/Satomura/Takayama

Mexico: Dixon/Hamada/Infernales

ROW: Arion/Gordienko/Marino/Tarres

NonW: Brown/Sigel/Sulli/Ted/Roy/Wiz/Koichi
I FOLLOWED THE HISTORICAL PERFORMERS ERA CANDIDATES (Six maximum) Ole Anderson June Byers Wild Bull Curry Junkyard Dog Sputnik Monroe Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon I FOLLOWED THE MODERN PERFORMERS IN U.S/CANADA CANDIDATES (Six maximum) Mark & Jay Briscoe Samoa Joe Matt & Jeff Hardy Mercedes Mone/Sasha Banks Cody Rhodes Sabu I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN JAPAN CANDIDATES (Three maximum) Yoshiaki Fujiwara Meiko Satomura Yoshihiro Takayama I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN MEXICO CANDIDATES (Three maximum) Dorrell Dixon Gran Hamada Los Infernales (El Satanico & Pirata Morgan & MS 1) I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN EUROPE/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/PACIFIC ISLANDS/AFRICA (four maximum) Spyros Arion George Gordienko Ted Boy Marino Jose Tarres NON-WRESTLERS (Seven maximum) Dave Brown (U.S. & Canada modern) Morris Sigel (U.S. & Canada historical) Kevin Sullivan (U.S. & Canada historical) Ted Turner (U.S. & Canada modern) Roy Welch (U.S. & Canada historical) Grand Wizard (U.S & Canada historical) Koichi Yoshizawa (Japan)
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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20 years ago today:

Who am I?

I. AM. TAUE.
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Look at Bob "Four Touchdown in One Game" Fish over here...
November 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Mood:
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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PUT IT IN MY VEINS
Notification from Bobby Fish's YouTube channel: "The Truth Behind My 'Where's The Lie?' Promo"
November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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HALP
Mike Holloway @mikeholloway.bsky.social Fake and bloody. Got to wonder if the blood is fake okthen25.bsky.social @okthen25.bsky.social The MAGA mentality which seems to be more or less in all Americans.
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Is it possible to post a rasslin video on this app without THIS happening?
Deborah302.blocks se... @debor... 2h There is nothing redeeming in watching 2 people physically brutalize one another - fake wrestling or not. 1 Old Man Yao Guai @hgn-732b.... 34m The story of the match is Danielson, powered by his love for his family overcoming a man who sacrificed everything including his decency to be champion. The story is love triumphs. But sure. Nothing redeeming in that. I bet you're fun at parties. 2 2 Deborah302.block... @deborah302.bsky.social Follow There is nothing redeeming in Edit wrestling or not. Repeat: watching 2 people physically brutaliz one another - take Share November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM Add to Trash
November 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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It's better than the things you like. It just is.
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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"Tony Khan only knows how to book tournaments."
JOHN CENA'S LAST TIME BOSTON IS NOW MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH 8e/5p NETFLIX THE LAST TIME IS NOW TOURNAMENT BEGINS
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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New Center Stage Chronicles is up on the @btsheetspod.bsky.social feed covering October 1990! Halloween Havoc: TERROR RULES THE RING, two different Black Scorpions working house shows, the end of the Midnight Express, Beverly Hills 90210 premieres on Fox, and much more. redcircle.com/shows/f0ecb9...
Center Stage Chronicles Ep. #18: October 1990 Kris Zellner is joined by Rob Naylor and our Good Buddy Charles as we discuss the month that was October 1990 in the National Wrestling Alliance and pop culture in general. Topics of discussion include: The saga of the two Black Scorpions working house shows. Herb Abrams' UWF Fury Hour making it's TV debut. Beverly Hills 90210 debuts on Fox and television was never the same. Gordon Solie enters the Black Scorpion's lair. Two big angles shot in Chicago to promote Halloween Havoc air on TV. The Motor City Madman and The Big Cat are coming. NWA action figures headed to stores for Christmas. Is Bobby Heenan talking to Jim Herd? What the hell is going on with Barry Windham? Terrible attendances at house shows is becoming a regular thing. A full rundown of the very newsworthy Halloween Havoc PPV. Jim Cornette and Stan Lane quit the promotion just days later after a major blowup with Ole Anderson. This was a tremendous show, so we hope you enjoy!!!
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Hmmm.
AEW https://www.allelitewrestling.com AEW May 8, 2025 - Nightingale vs. Statlander, Nigel McGuiness Gets ... May 8, 2025 - Yuta Wheeler provided the distraction, and Marina Shafir choked out Nightingale with a chain as revenge for Willow... AEW https://www.allelitewrestling.com AEW AEW Dynamite Results: May 7, 2025 - Hangman Bears His Soul, The ... May 7, 2025 - ... Yuta Wheeler, Jon Moxley and Marina Shafir at bay. The Opps then more or less took Claudio hostage, making the Death Riders... AEW https://www.allelitewrestling.com AEW May 14, 2025 - Mox vs. Joe Leads to Anarchy, MJF Gets His Answer .. May 14, 2025 - As Mox maintained the advantage inside the cage, Yuta Wheeler and Claudio +
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The only good thing I've ever tweeted.
David Bixenspan @davidbix Shawn Michaels is Billy Walsh. Gargano-Ciampa in the undisclosed location is his "Medellin." 11:31 PM 08 Apr 20 ill View post activity 2 Reposts 4 Quotes 27 Likes 1 Bookmark
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The Google TV home screen keeps trying to get me to watch Loverboy, the Patrick Dempsey vehicle where he plays a college student who earns extra money as a pizza delivery boy turned gigolo for lonely middle aged women, on The Roku Channel.
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I love the section about this match in Larry Goodman's interview with Candido.

"Dusty got in there and said, 'Chris, start with me. We'll do our shit.' I mean I have shit with Dusty Rhodes now."
Q: Is there anybody that you would like to work with at this stage of your career that you haven't gotten the chance to work with? CANDIDO: Just looking at the immediate future for guys there's a legitimate possibility with? Of course, if you want to go crazy, I'm a huge Kurt Angle mark, so that would be great. I got chopped by Ric Flair in a battle royal a few times. Working with him would be the ultimate. I don't know the immediate possibilities of any of that happening. But right now on the indie circuit, I got to do a deal with Kruel, with A. J. Styles, Al Snow and I have been tearing it down. Getting to work with guys like Dusty Rhodes and Jerry Lawler, where they're almost talking to me like I'm on their level. Just tonight (Candido & Steve Stone vs. Dusty Rhodes & Ian Rotten), Dusty got in there and said, "Chris, start with me. We'll do our shit." I mean I have shit with Dusty Rhodes now. And the only thing we came up with in the back was just one little spot that was in the finish. After the match, Dusty Rhodes was sitting there talking to me. He said, "Chris. you're one intelligent, intelligent man." First of all, I've never heard those words before in my life and hearing them from somebody like Dusty Rhodes means a lot. But working down here doing the stuff for Ian, I would like to work with Chad Collyer. He and I could have a helluva lot of fun. CM Punk and I had a good time with the comedy ridiculousness the other night, but I would like to have a real match with him. But all the guys down here who I don't really know that well that I'm just becoming friends with, like Samoa Joe and those guys, they kind of work with the same people that work like them. I think me being different, we could do something different and really tear it down.
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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New on the @btsheetspod.bsky.social Patreon: Both parts of our deep dive into WWE's big gay ratings stunts from 2002 are up, in separate and combined form. Yes, both the Chuck and Billy wedding AND the "HOT LESBIAN ACTION" disaster.

Just $5.00/month or $50.40/year at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets!
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October 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I'm not exaggerating that at all, by the way. That's some heavy duty conscious propagandizing for a murderous theocratic dictatorship right there.
O’Neil said there were a lot of “scare tactics” and “scare verbiage” when he went to Saudi Arabia the first time for WWE, but he saw a group of kids playing on the beach at 1 a.m. one night. When he asked his driver the next morning if people in Saudi Arabia were worried about that, the driver said no because there would be an automatic death sentence if the kids were sexually assaulted, beaten, kidnapped, or brutalized.
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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uh what
Wrestling Observer Newsletter AEW WRESTLEDREAM Thumbs up 260 (97.4%) Thumbs down 1 (00.4%) In the middle 6 (02.2%) BEST MATCH POLL Bandido & King vs. Okada & Takeshita 173 Perry & Luchasaurus vs. Young Bucks 61 Kyle Fletcher vs. Mark Briscoe 26 ***WORST MATCH POLL Mercedes Mone vs. Mina Shirakawa 63*** Kingston & Hook vs. Karter & Garrison 55 Kris Statlander vs. Toni Storm 37 Darby Allin vs. Jon Moxley 14 Jamie Hayter vs. Thekla 14 Hurt Syndicate vs. The Demand 10 ^ Based on emails to the Observer as of 10/21.
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Am I missing something? Wasn't it someone other than Dave Meltzer (and someone completely outside of wrestling media) who reported this?
Steven Muehlhausen @SMuehlhausenJr SOURCE at ESPN in regards to Wrestlepalooza and the overall numbers thus far after two PLEs in response to reporting by Dave Meltzer:"Things are going well and we have started strong. We don't provide the viewership specifics, but things have been going well." 5:48 PM 22 Oct 25 41.2K Views 33 Reposts 18 Quotes 187 Likes 23 Bookmarks
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Pat Benatar and Niel Giraldo actually perform in New York City challenge: Impossible.

(Seriously. I've badly wanted to see Pat Benatar in concert for a good 15-20 years now and she NEVER does shows in NYC. Always in offbeat suburban venues that are difficult to get to from NYC.)
Artist image Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo Sat, Oct 25 Mohegan Sun Arena
October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Mood:
TOMOHIRO ISHII AS BIG TOM
October 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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New on the @btsheetspod.bsky.social feed: @iamjohnpollock.bsky.social joins @davidbix.bsky.social to discuss the 2025 Observer HOF ballot! Tag team vs. singles criteria, The Randy Orton Problem and the pros/cons of voting for active wrestlers, and a whole lot more. redcircle.com/shows/f0ecb9...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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OK, now I REALLY want to know how and why Sarah Stock got fired.
Sarah Stock on X: "You know who should stop this? Mothers. With their remote control. This is worse than the plastic bag over the head. Kids are going to end up dead trying this stuff at home. @aew"
October 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM