Game Changer Wrestling ran a big show last night at the second-largest mall in the country, American Dream in East Rutherford, N.J.

Of course, GCW couldn’t resist the comparison to the first WCW Nitro telecast from Mall of America in Minneapolis in 1995.

On that show, Lex Luger made a surprise appearance. Everyone thought he was still working for the WWF.

Ricky Starks played the Luger role last night, coming down the mall escalator. He was even wearing a white shirt.

Unlike Luger, Starks does still work for All Elite Wrestling. He was annoyed that he wasn’t on AEW’s Full Gear pay-per-view, which was also taking place that night in New Jersey.

Starks said he was 34 years old, good looking, and not about to let his prime wrestling years go to waste.

Starks has held the TNT championship in AEW, as well as the tag team title with Big Bill.

But he hasn’t appeared in AEW for several months, as the company is stacked with so much talent that Kenny Omega returned to New Japan because AEW doesn’t need him right now.

Starks will wrestle for GCW at its “Highest in the Room 3” event in Los Angeles on Dec. 14 against Matt Cardona (formerly Zack Ryder in WWE).

THREE FORMER CHAMPS

GCW Dream On featured appearances by former WWE champions Kurt Angle, Mick Foley, and JBL.

Foley and Angle hit their respective Mandible Claw and Ankle Lock finishers on Blue Pain, a blue parody version of Kane.

JBL delivered a Clothesline From Hell to help Cardona defeat 1 Called Manders.

Ricky Morton of the Rock & Roll Express faced Little Guido of the Full-Blooded Italians, but they ended up teaming up to defeat Kerry Morton (Ricky’s son) and Griffin McCoy.

Game Changer Wrestling is the No. 1 independent company in the U.S. All of its shows air as pay-per-views on Triller TV.

(Fun fact: I announced for GCW twice this year: at Paranoid in Columbus on Memorial Day weekend, and at Now and Forever in Cleveland on the night before SummerSlam.)