WWE: WWE Classics- The Undertaker vs Dave Batista: World Heavyweight Championship (2007)

Source:WWE- The Undertaker vs Dave Batista for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

"Welcome to the Devil's Playground. Experience some of the most brutal matches ever with "Hell In A Cell". Batista vs. Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship. From Survivor Series, 11/18/07" 

From WWE

This is an interesting matchup because Dave Batista in real life is 6'5-6'6, 290-300 pounds, all muscle, sort of like a bigger Rock (also known as Dwayne Johnson) and very athletic. Which meant he was big and strong enough to go toe-to-toe, with a super heavyweight like The Undertaker. And yet what makes The Undertaker so special is that he's always just one power move, whether you're talking about close line, a boot, DDT, choke slam, or other moves, from completely devastating you and either beating right there or getting the upper hand and going to work on you. Regardless of who he was fighting or how big and strong the other wrestler was. As Dave Batista founded out against him. 

HBO Sports: The History of the ABA

Source:HBO Sports- Dr. J. Julius Erving the best player ever in the American Basketball Association. Perhaps the best player in pro basketball in the 1970s as well.

"Longshots - The Life & Times Of The American Basketball Association" 

From The True Sports Junkie

The ABA made the NBA better because it showed them that there were more players and markets that could compete in the NBA. During the 1969-70 NBA season there was only 14 NBA franchises in a country of 180 million people. There has always been a huge market for organized basketball in America, including pro basketball. But before David Stern came to the NBA in the mid 1980s as Commissioner, there was nobody in the NBA that knew how to market the league. And the management of the franchises didn't know how to market their clubs either. 

The ABA was successful because a lot of their clubs did merge into the NBA, like the New York Nets, Indianapolis Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, and Denver Nuggets. But also because the ABA proved that the NBA shouldn't just be a 14 team league that's competing with the NHL and North American Soccer League, and even professional indoor soccer just for attention and to have their games on TV and on radio. As well as proved that the ABA wasn't like the American Hockey League, but a division 1 major basketball league, that perhaps was just as good as the NBA as far as quality of talent and coaches. 

WWE: Inter Continental Championship- Hercules vs Curt Hennig (1990)

"M.R.Perfect vs Hercules. 1990 intercontinental championship." 

From Wrestling Bood

A great matchup of incredible raw power with Hercules vs one of the most skillful pro wrestlers of all- time, who was also a great athlete and very strong himself in Curt Hennig.

MTV: Unplugged (1999) Shakira: Octavio Dia

Source:MTV- Shakira, on MTV Unplugged in 1999.

"Shakira Unplugged 01 Octavo Dia." 

From MTV

I speak maybe 200 hundred words of Spanish and enough to somewhat casually converse and be able to pick up words when I'm reading Spanish and to a certain extent when I'm listening to it. So most of Shakira's 1999 MTV Unplugged performance I missed as far as comprehension. 

So I know in the song Octavio Dia is that it is about a man named Octavio and it's his day or something like that. But understanding every word in a song even it if is written and performed in your first language and enjoying hearing the song and it performed and listen to the performer, are two different things.

I know from this song that Shakira has a great voice and great sound. She's not just a bilingual speaker, but a bilingual singer as well. She's from Columbia, but her family is from Lebanon and she's of Arab descent. And yet she speaks Spanish as her first language, but also speaks English because she does a lot of business in America and perhaps speaks Arabic as well. She's a multi-talented multi-lingual performer and deserves a lot of respect for all of her talents.  

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Leathered Life: Edenbridge in Concert

Source:Leathered Life- Edenbridge in concert.

"Female rock band in tight leather pants." Don't remember the exact tag line for the video, which was originally from Leathered Life, but has since been deleted or blocked on YouTube.

From Leathered Life

I've never heard of the band Edenbridge and I'm not a metal fan. But the leader singer looks like a rocker click. A classic rocker chick as far as appearance and how she performs. Great red velvet top, great leather belt with a great buckle and great black leather jeans. 

The vocalist looks a bit different from Joan Jett, Meredith Brooks, Melissa Etheridge and other rockers chicks with the velvet top. But the black leather jeans are classic in rock culture whether you're talking about classic rock, (my preference) hard rock, heavy metal, etc. You just see rockers chicks dress different depending on the genre. 

Seems like all great rocker chicks have at least one pair of leather jeans with the boots to go with them. And rocker chicks like Joan Jett have made those pants a staple in their performances. 

You don't have to like this band and their music to acknowledge that their vocalist is a beautiful sexy woman who is great to check out especially on stage and a pleasure to watch perform and to listen to. 

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