See, after watching a bunch of DDT in the last few months, Ibushi saying "I want more than anything to go wrestle a giant waffle in Kaiju" makes all the sense in the world to me.

Also, Kota Ibushi is gonna wrestle in Kaiju Big Battel. Let's not forget that.

I don't know that I agree that the Van Halen album isn't essential—Dave Meltzer gave it five stars, after all.

SOME OF Y'ALL FEAR ME, SOME OF Y'ALL LOOK PAST MY APPEARANCE TO SEE THE GENTLE SOUL UNDERNEATH, BUT THE IMPORTANT THING IS I COME OUT HERE EVERY SINGLE NIGHT AND PLANT TOYS IN THIS HERE TREE.

I don't remember if he ever wrestled, but there was the Swagger Soaring Eagle: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I heard Brian May talk about this on Fresh Air, and you're basically exactly right—they noticed that people were singing and clapping along at concerts to their music, which, to that point, had been very operatic and not particularly crowd-friendly. So they decided to both write the most over-the-top crowd-friendly…