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** In his WCW PPV reviews, every time Meng shows up, Zane will call him "the man called Meng", sung to the tune of the Wrestling/{{Sting}} ImageSong "The Man Called Sting".

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* SelfDeprecation: If Zane mentions his career as a wrestler in a video, expect him to not put his skills in flattering terms. He featured his own first match in the video for "Trashbaggers (Are Out of Style)", called himself a "crappy wrestler" in the video for "The 'Legend' of Supertramp", and, when showing a video of Erik Watts doing a bad dropkick in his "Worst Second and Third-Generation Wrestlers" video, he also showed a video of himself doing a bad dropkick. And then in his celebration of ten years in the wrestling biz, in an actual fed, no clip showed him successfully attacking anyone.

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If Zane mentions his career as a wrestler in a video, expect him to not put his skills in flattering terms. He featured his own first match in the video for "Trashbaggers (Are Out of Style)", called himself a "crappy wrestler" in the video for "The 'Legend' of Supertramp", and, when showing a video of Erik Watts doing a bad dropkick in his "Worst Second and Third-Generation Wrestlers" video, he also showed a video of himself doing a bad dropkick. And then in his celebration of ten years in the wrestling biz, in an actual fed, no clip showed him successfully attacking anyone.anyone.
** He's no nicer to [[spoiler:his appearance as an extra (playing a security guard)]] than to anything else in ''Ultimate Death Match 3'', [[spoiler:pointing out that he's not only not actually doing anything to break up the fight, but he's in ''street clothes'' instead of a security guard outfit]].
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He also does shorter, vlog reviews on documentaries and pay-per-views on the channels, as well as vlogs giving his thoughts on recent wrestling news. Zane has also produced three spinoff series; ''Kayfabe Kitchen'', offering recipes given by wrestlers; ''Getting Into the [=BiZ=]'', where he gives advice to aspiring wrestlers; and ''Who [[JustForPun War]] It Better'', where he compares and contrasts each week's episode of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' and ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' and determines which one was the better show. ''Who War It Better'' was largely retooled in October 2019 to cover the weekly episodes of WWE's third brand ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'' and Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's own TV series ''Dynamite'' called ''Wednesday Warfare'', before the ''Warfare'' branding was eventually dropped altogether when ''NXT'' moved to Tuesdays. Reviews for episodes of ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' still went on in separate videos, sometimes by Zane and sometimes by a contributor, until Zane announced in 2022 that ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' reviews would go on indefinite hiatus due to the workload involved.

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He also does shorter, vlog reviews on documentaries and pay-per-views on the channels, as well as vlogs giving his thoughts on recent wrestling news. Zane has also produced three spinoff series; ''Kayfabe Kitchen'', offering recipes given by wrestlers; ''Getting Into the [=BiZ=]'', where he gives advice to aspiring wrestlers; and ''Who [[JustForPun [[{{Pun}} War]] It Better'', where he compares and contrasts each week's episode of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' and ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' and determines which one was the better show. ''Who War It Better'' was largely retooled in October 2019 to cover the weekly episodes of WWE's third brand ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'' and Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling's own TV series ''Dynamite'' called ''Wednesday Warfare'', before the ''Warfare'' branding was eventually dropped altogether when ''NXT'' moved to Tuesdays. Reviews for episodes of ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' still went on in separate videos, sometimes by Zane and sometimes by a contributor, until Zane announced in 2022 that ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' reviews would go on indefinite hiatus due to the workload involved.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Grandmasters of Wrestling'', when he sees that the last DVD ends with yet another main event headlined by the Mighty Maccabee, he leaves to do more entertaining things like bashing his head against a door, pulling out one of his teeth with a pair of pliers, sitting in a bathtub full of water while dropping a toaster inside of it, [[OnionTears chopping onions]], paying his cable bill, and sitting through a marathon of ''Series/GilmoreGirls''.

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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In ''Grandmasters of Wrestling'', when he sees that the last DVD ends with yet another main event headlined by the Mighty Maccabee, he leaves to do more entertaining things like bashing his head against a door, pulling out one of his teeth with a pair of pliers, sitting in a bathtub full of water while dropping a toaster inside of it, [[OnionTears chopping onions]], paying renegotiating his cable bill, and sitting through a marathon of ''Series/GilmoreGirls''.
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* WhamShot: The review of ''Ultimate Death Match 3'' takes a wild turn when [[spoiler:''Zane himself'' shows up as an extra in the film]].
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* TakeThat: Zane frequently takes a shot at BackyardWrestling, "Trash Baggers", the ECW Zombie, the [=McMahon=] family, Pirate Paul Burchill, disregarding kayfabe and the Invasion angle.
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** Zane got very riled up while discussing Paul Burchill's pirate gimmick from 2006, and has mentioned it several times in his other videos, to the point that it's an invoked {{acceptable target|s}}.

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** Zane got very riled up while discussing Paul Burchill's pirate gimmick from 2006, and has mentioned it several times in his other videos, to the point that it's an invoked {{acceptable target|s}}.videos.

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''Wrestling With Wregret'' is a VideoReviewShow on Website/{{YouTube}} that is hosted by former independent wrestler and current independent manager Brian Schiedel aka. Brian Zane. Zane takes a look at some of the strangest, silliest, and stupidest things in ProfessionalWrestling, and explains in depth why certain angles, gimmicks, and moments were terrible, while adding plenty of jokes to keep the reviews entertaining. He's also covered wrestling themed movies, such as ''Film/ReadyToRumble'', ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'', ''Sting: Moment of Truth'', and ''Body Slam''.

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''Wrestling With Wregret'' is a VideoReviewShow on Website/{{YouTube}} that is hosted by former independent wrestler and current independent manager Brian Schiedel aka.Schiedel, a.k.a. Brian Zane. Zane takes a look at some of the strangest, silliest, and stupidest things in ProfessionalWrestling, and explains in depth why certain angles, gimmicks, and moments were terrible, while adding plenty of jokes to keep the reviews entertaining. He's also covered wrestling themed movies, such as ''Film/ReadyToRumble'', ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'', ''Sting: Moment of Truth'', and ''Body Slam''.
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''Wrestling With Wregret'' is a VideoReviewShow on Website/{{YouTube}} that is hosted by former independent wrestler and current independent manager Brian Zane. Zane takes a look at some of the strangest, silliest, and stupidest things in ProfessionalWrestling, and explains in depth why certain angles, gimmicks, and moments were terrible, while adding plenty of jokes to keep the reviews entertaining. He's also covered wrestling themed movies, such as ''Film/ReadyToRumble'', ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'', ''Sting: Moment of Truth'', and ''Body Slam''.

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''Wrestling With Wregret'' is a VideoReviewShow on Website/{{YouTube}} that is hosted by former independent wrestler and current independent manager Brian Schiedel aka. Brian Zane. Zane takes a look at some of the strangest, silliest, and stupidest things in ProfessionalWrestling, and explains in depth why certain angles, gimmicks, and moments were terrible, while adding plenty of jokes to keep the reviews entertaining. He's also covered wrestling themed movies, such as ''Film/ReadyToRumble'', ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'', ''Sting: Moment of Truth'', and ''Body Slam''.
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* TalkingToHimself: Any time Zane is talking to some other character, that other character invoked is probably also played by him.

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