Crazy that this match is 9 years old!
https://youtu.be/ ReEPJybX-k0 - Shane McMahon vs. Kevin Owens – Hell in a Cell Match: Hell in a Cell 2017
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Friday, May 29, 2026
Shane McMahon vs. Kevin Owens – Hell in a Cell Match: Hell in a Cell 2017
Spoiler: Sami Zayn made a move that melted my heart!
Crazy that this match is 9 years old!
Crazy that this match is 9 years old!
Friday, November 11, 2022
Fast Forwarding 1099 Days
I know I post a lot of "back in the day" videos from the WWE and WCW. Most of the time, I do so with no memory of those events happening, though I am fairly confident I would move heaven and earth and my kids in order to watch pro wrestling on Monday nights with Debbie when Karen and I lived on Prospect Court. However, this clip, from when Shane McMahon bought WCW from under Vince McMahon's nose is a scene I definitely specifically remember. I was always as interested in WCW as I was interested in WWE whereas Debbie was more firmly rooted in WWE and, actually, back then it was "WWF" but you get my drift. The two companies were definitely competitors and were definitely trying to win the ratings every week. As yesterday's Reliving the War video, which I embedded below the Shane buys WCW video, by 3-23-1998, the war was on. In context, there was a lot going on:
In the Reliving the War series, we are only up to 3-23-1998, which is 1099 days (3 years, 3 days) prior to the above video.
- I had been on earth for 10336 days (28 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 5 days) and for the last 40 days (1 month, 1 week, 5 days), working at my new job - Jordan Systems in Cedar Rapids
- Megan was 586 days (1 year, 7 months, 1 week, 2 days) on 3-28-1998
- Karen was pregnant and it would be 213 days (6 months, 4 weeks, 1 day) until Alex would be born on 10-22-98
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invasion_(professional_wrestling), the Monday Night Wars came to an end on March 23, 2001, when the WWF bought the rights to WCW's video library, trademarks, 24 contracts for selected wrestlers, championships, and other properties for what was considered to be a lower bargain price.
This episode happened on March 26th, 2001:
https://youtu.be/ 8WbZaT8qSw4
In the Reliving the War series, we are only up to 3-23-1998, which is 1099 days (3 years, 3 days) prior to the above video.
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Retirement of Sting
As I've babbled previously on this blog, I've had a deep appreciation for Sting, the professional wrestler. Aside from his wrestling work, he has talked at great length about his Christian faith and about how he has always tried to follow the path of Christ and to be a good person. I respect him. The news came out the other day that, due to a neck injury, he is going to retire from professional wrestling & that it will be announced that when he is inducted at the WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony on the Saturday night prior to Wrestlemania 32, he will announce his retirement officially.
It's really too bad. As this article highlights, Sting didn't go to WWE when WWE purchased WCW. Instead, he went to TNA and helped that fledgling company thrive. After finally arriving in WWE, the "dream match" everyone on professional wrestling websites wanted was Sting v. The Undertaker. When the Undertaker's match for Wrestlemania 32 was announced to be against Shane McMahon, I wondered if something was wrong with Sting. Seriously, the thought went through my mind that instead of Shane v. The Undertaker, if the original plan had actually been to have Sting v. The Undertaker but (for some reason) it couldn't happen.
Now I know why it isn't going to happen. I actually had envisioned Shane "calling in a favor" to Sting, as part of the buildup to WM 32, to have Sting act as Shane's proxy and take Shane's place. After all, the storyline goes that Vince McMahon has The Undertaker stepping in for him, to be (as Shane said on last Monday's episode of Raw) Vince's "bitch" so it would make sense that Shane would summon Sting to help him.
See that's why I should really be a WWE writer - I get the whole storylines of what WWE is trying to do and that storyline would have made a lot of sense. Certainly, I do not get excited about Shane McMahon fighting the Undertaker. It reeks of a desperate ploy to bring Shane back onto WWE programming. I know Shane isn't going to win. It's a given. Vince McMahon will watch his son get pummeled and beaten. The only way this swerves out of the ballpark is if the Undertaker turns on Vince and "lays down" for Shane so that Shane wins. That seems unlikely because Shane and the Undertaker battled (briefly) on Monday's episode of Raw in order to build up Shane as a "fighter" who won't back down.
The way I see it, Shane McMahon is (roughly) my age and has no business being in the match he is in. None. That's why I expected Sting (getting back to the original topic) to be Shane's proxy and give fans like me a match I would have paid to see.
It's really too bad. As this article highlights, Sting didn't go to WWE when WWE purchased WCW. Instead, he went to TNA and helped that fledgling company thrive. After finally arriving in WWE, the "dream match" everyone on professional wrestling websites wanted was Sting v. The Undertaker. When the Undertaker's match for Wrestlemania 32 was announced to be against Shane McMahon, I wondered if something was wrong with Sting. Seriously, the thought went through my mind that instead of Shane v. The Undertaker, if the original plan had actually been to have Sting v. The Undertaker but (for some reason) it couldn't happen.
Now I know why it isn't going to happen. I actually had envisioned Shane "calling in a favor" to Sting, as part of the buildup to WM 32, to have Sting act as Shane's proxy and take Shane's place. After all, the storyline goes that Vince McMahon has The Undertaker stepping in for him, to be (as Shane said on last Monday's episode of Raw) Vince's "bitch" so it would make sense that Shane would summon Sting to help him.
See that's why I should really be a WWE writer - I get the whole storylines of what WWE is trying to do and that storyline would have made a lot of sense. Certainly, I do not get excited about Shane McMahon fighting the Undertaker. It reeks of a desperate ploy to bring Shane back onto WWE programming. I know Shane isn't going to win. It's a given. Vince McMahon will watch his son get pummeled and beaten. The only way this swerves out of the ballpark is if the Undertaker turns on Vince and "lays down" for Shane so that Shane wins. That seems unlikely because Shane and the Undertaker battled (briefly) on Monday's episode of Raw in order to build up Shane as a "fighter" who won't back down.
The way I see it, Shane McMahon is (roughly) my age and has no business being in the match he is in. None. That's why I expected Sting (getting back to the original topic) to be Shane's proxy and give fans like me a match I would have paid to see.
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