It feels to me like this Doctor and Rick from Rick & Morty would have a lot in common. I really liked the character conflict here and felt they did a good job playing the three against each other.

Really? I've never seen that in coming up on 4 years of regularly following the show, and I distinctly remember blood when Titus O'Neil turned on Darren Young, which I know happened on TV.

The finale was kind of fucked up, though, because Sting didn't win clean (because Hogan lobbied against him winning clean.) It was a weird Dusty finish (named for Dusty Rhodes, fond of booking matches where it looks like the good guy won but later it's overturned on a technicality.)

"More that one employer around" isn't exactly proportionate, though- you may have 6-8 companies seeking a similar position, but that doesn't compare to a local workforce of hundreds, maybe thousands.

In the 90s companies were enthusiastic about downsizing even as they were making record profits, because there are always MORE profits to be made. If labor is your easiest expense to reduce, well…

Historically I think that's because football season drains some of their audience. Death of WCW talks about how Nitro and RAW always saw their numbers jump a little once the regular season was over.

They've reviewed a couple of RAWs in the past and I think did some other wrestling articles. It's just never been regular coverage, which might be fun.

Probably my favorite reference in that one.

Focusing on smaller athletes is not now, nor has it ever been the WWE's problem.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the character designers specifically went back to Old Hollywood archetypes for her look.

There is one mark you cannot beat: the mark within.

The Royal Rumble is one of the all-time great match ideas. There's always that element of surprise, and the match itself always changes as new people enter and are removed.

Yeah, I think when they're talking about the shit they clearly know about, i.e. magic, it's really entertaining. These are both fun shows.

I will say that maybe this piece shouldn't have limited itself to the WWE- while it has sort of a de facto monopoly on American pro wrestling, there are a lot more ways to see the smaller promotions than there were ten or twenty years ago, so if you don't like the current product but like the idea of pro wrestling in…

Except the pendulum has never swung so far that labor actually ever has more power than management. He who has the gold makes the rules. As long as the standard corporate structure is that of an oligarchy, they'll be the ones who get to set everything.

Except that it's an employer's market, and there are almost always more people seeking work than there are positions available.

I wouldn't put it as being carried, since I think he pulls his weight in those matches. It's more like he rises to the level of his opponents.

Yeah, I've heard it described as a "performance sport" and though there isn't a formal judging system that's still how it plays- you come to admire the coordination that the two guys have to have to pull off sequences.

Mania IV is supposed to be pretty dull, no? Tournaments in wrestling are always tricky because you get a lot of repetitive matches without the kind of dramatic buildup of one-on-one feuds.

They don't do that anymore, haven't for years.