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Follow him on twitter if you like to see him grumble about the criticism his podcast gets. It's the best part of following him and I only ever listened to his podcast once.

Long before I ever went on the internet I had a wrestling notebook where I would keep track of my action figures' titles & book towards the next big show (Back then it was always a Big Four Event) You don't need someone to explain how booking works to you once you've watched wrestling for a little while. I knew what overbooking was long before I knew that term, The Undertaker never lost without pretty much every heel (or simply "bad guy") action figure interfering. I call that the Royal Rumble 94 influence.

Well...did you buy one of the 8 x 10's?? Surely he worked you up with anticipation of your very own picture with Virgil only to snatch it away from you at the moment of climax, forcing you to buy the picture that you were promised for free.

"I've communicated with Dixie Carter on being a guest on our podcast in the future and potential dates are being contemplated." - JR I might actually listen to that.

They should just approach Hulu about buying out of that deal early if it's just a Hulu thing. NBCUniversal would be probably less likely to go along with a deal, and they DO run replays of Raw & Smackdown on Saturdays on their Universal HD channel. Not being able to keep up with Raw on The Network was another thing that killed my interest. I never watch Raw in real time and I don't really watch stuff on TV period so I thought it would be nice to not use alternate means to watch Raw but the month delay made it impossible.

Really wish I could watch that ridiculous sounding Joel Deaton/Randy Rose Escape from Alcatraz match.

I can't imagine any more than a hundred people signing up for this. If THAT many. He might get some people out of morbid curiosity or people looking to rip it on message boards for laughs but I can't see too many people being THAT interested in him to pay even $3 a month for that stuff.

So with my new influx of footage my plan is to watch the 1987 stuff that I have with Buddy Landel and once his run is over to go back to the earliest footage I have and work from there. That should include the Headhunters vs. Fuller/Golden match that is highly regarded for anyone waiting for that. That does mean I won't get to the Eddie Gilbert years until much later but I get the feeling looking at some of the talent from that time period that it's kind of over rated. The date on this show is 1/17/87. The show starts immediately with a replay of the Cage match, starting right about the time that The Headhunters tear up the ring to reveal the 3rd Headhunter. After the replay we go to the podium where Kevin Sullivan is with Gordon Solie and the THREE New Guinea Headhunters. He brags about getting the better of the "southern boys" but Gordon says that The Stud and Robert Fuller were beaten and not broken. He says they had something to say immediately after that match. They show a promo from The Stud & a bloody Robert Fuller. The Stud challenges all 3 of The Headhunters to a Cage match in THEIR town, Knoxville TN. The next match is The Dirty White Boy who has his entrance noticeably clipped and is now magically in the ring standing next to MY MAN Mike Fever who again has asked to be announced as from "anywhere but Birmingham." They are teaming up to challenge The Nightmares for the Continental Tag Team Titles. I don't think this is really an upgrade for DWB, even as Mike Fever's #1 fan. Gordon reminds me that this is because Jerry Stubbs was suspended 30 days for stealing one of the tag team titles last week. Ken Wayne hits an AWESOME dive on White Boy during this match that means we'll definitely have a good gif this week. White Boy gets pissed that Fever moved out of the way to let him get hit and I am enjoying this pairing. White Boy gets hit with another awesome dive that loses it's impact as for some reason they thought it'd be a good idea to put Kris Von Colt on commentary during this match, forgetting all the other times they have given him access to a microphone. DWB is really impressing me in this one. Gordon does some of his shoutouts which he hadn't done in a while. Nightmares do the obvious and finish Fever off with the Tombstone/Diving Headbutt combo. After the match DWB & Mike Fever get into a shoving match. DWB wants to make amends and offers a handshake but then attacks him, hits a piledriver on him and leaves him laying in the ring. I want to be a Dirty White Boy when I grow up. After the match The Nightmares head to the podium and Gordon shows a video of The Sheepherders who he says are coming in to face The Nightmares. This is the Luke Williams/Butch Miller combo, not the Boyd/Morgan pairing that was active in Memphis around this same time period. The Nightmares aren't afraid of their violent reputation, they haven't backed down from a challenge from anyone in the country or the world. Dirty White Boy is back in the ring after commercial and he says that Len Denton is coming in to be his partner and he promises that before Jerry Stubbs comes back, he and Denton will have taken the titles from The Nightmares. Our next match is Larry Hamilton against Tom Pritchard in a match that is NOT for the U.S. Junior Title. I miss Roy Lee Welch They start off with a handshake which immediately lowers my expectation for this match. Gordon tells us how Larry Hamilton has bulked up to around 235-240. What exactly is the weight limit for the U.S. Junior Title? This goes to a time limit in less than 10 minutes so who knows what the time limit was for this match After that we get a promo from The Stud & Robert Fuller hyping their match teaming with Jimmy Golden to take out The Headhunters at the Lavender Coliseum on January 30th. Then The Bullet comes out with the Continental Title and lets everyone know he has a Loser Leaves Town match with Kevin Sullivan in the same night! Well I guess Buddy Landel is coming real soon. Our next match is Snake Brown vs. The Bullet and I'm happy that we get the full Bad To The Bone entrance by The Bullet after the way they've been cutting intros on this show. Snake Brown attacks as soon as Bullet gets in the ring but Bullet quickly comes back with some great punches, takes Snake Brown down and then puts him in the Figure Four for a very quick win. After a commercial there are promos from Rip Rogers & Brenda Britton, Adrian Street & Miss Linda and then Larry Hamilton & Tom Pritchard but the sound cuts out so I don't know what any of them said. The main event is Wendell Cooley defending the Alabama Title against Kris Von Colt in a Texas Death Match. They do a neat spot where Colt gets whipped into the corner and starts into a Flair Flip but Cooley stops him and hits a belly to back suplex off the top rope for a quick first fall. Cooley stupidly goes to the apron and gets his belt like he's just won the match allowing Von Colt to attack him from behind. Cooley gets NAILED with a chair outside the ring. That looked nasty. They do another neat spot where Cooley gets whipped into the corner and tries come out of the corner into Colt with a crossbody but Colt moves out of the way and Cooley takes out the ref. Von Colt gets some kind of loaded glove and hits Cooley with it to win his first fall of the match. I believe this suffered from a bad conversion process as it gets all choppy and then Cooley is counted down and Von Colt is announced the winner. I think there was a lot of loaded glove stuff that got chopped up there. Von Colt continues beating on him with the loaded glove until The Nightmares take a long time to run out and save him. Oh my god The Bullet tops himself again. This time he is wearing his red hood WITH READING GLASSES. He tells Sullivan that he hopes he's an acrobat and then they cut his promo up so I suppose that was going in vulgar direction. Solie holds up the loaded glove and says that the glove is considered a "lethal weapon" and Von Colt will be fined and suspended. Wendell Cooley asks Solie not to suspend Von Colt and he doesn't want Von Colt to leave until he gets his revenge with Von Colt's own loaded glove. The show ends with a Rip Rogers vs. Adrian Street match that only has less than 2 minutes of TV time and the show goes off with the match in progress.

Even the much, much more??

I'm really not trying to be crass here but breaking your hip and still trying to drive to the show is about as old school as it gets.

I've figured out that this promotion used masks to hide age and not identity. Pretty sure that Ron Fuller decided to start wearing The Stud mask when he started going bald and Bob Armstrong became The Bullet to hide his age and I also read that he felt insecure about the way his face looked after having facial reconstruction in 1983(?) due to a weight lifting accident. Jerry Stubbs more than likely started with the Mr. Olympia mask due to being bald, but at the time of the naming, having a great body.

The thing about wrestling that's different is that there are way more lapsed fans than currents fans. I think there should be an equal focus on the current product & new shows like Legends House along with uploading archive footage like old Raws, Nitros, territories, house shows, etc. They don't just have one audience to cater to. I realize that there's no way you are going to get every lapsed fan to buy The Network, or even a large majority of them. But they aren't getting ANY money from them now and if they hit the right niches I think they could get a significant amount of people who have no interest in watching the current product to subscribe to The Network.

I didn't think the $9.99 was too much. I also think there is a ton of content on The Network. It just isn't the content I wanted or the content I thought it would be.

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I had to get a new card and then didn't send them the info for my new one. I had my INITIAL sub get cancelled because I paid with paypal and it wouldn't draw money from my bank account attached to paypal and I never just leave money in my paypal account. I can definitely say that that if they send a collection agency after me I will pretty much be done with WWE forever. The launch and the initial free trial was misleading. The initial content made it seem like they were going to put a lot of focus on older stuff like house shows, WCCW & ECW. But they haven't uploaded new house shows or WCCW episodes in MONTHS.

I don't know how much time you have, but I'd say you'd pretty much just not be getting to 1994. At least at the pace I watch. There's a lot more 80s footage than you might think, my DVD storage problem can attest to that. Anyway, that distracted me and I just popped into this thread to say I don't know how people copy twitter into their posts here but JR pretty much had no support on his own twitter for his podcast. Followed by like 8 different people telling JR he interrupts his guests too much.

I can just see Dixie and Russo somewhere ranting and raving about how dare Spike tell Dixie Carter how to run HER company! She's a wrestling veteran of 12 years!

Of course there could be an invasion right now! TNA is going to go out of business and WWE can do that big TNA vs. WWE feud everyone has been dreaming of!

There was some talk about the Brody/Flair title incident on Classics around the time of the original interview and the people over there seemed to think that was a BS story in the first place. I had certainly never heard of it before that interview.

Buck talking about his time in Kansas City is the best part of those interviews to me as he attempts to sell the idea that he could have made Central F'N States a hot promotion if they'd just given him more leeway/time. In 1984 no less.

I honestly have no idea what Cena's physical condition is. There have been reports for some time about how he's banged up and it's worse than people know but those reports have been going on for like 2 or 3 years now. I know that he seems to have either incredible pain tolerance, incredible recuperative abilities or both. Because he has a harder schedule than anyone in WWE but he never seems beat up or down when he's on a public appearance. And he comes back from injuries very quickly. I don't know if just has some lucky genes like Jerry Lawler or Ric Flair where he can wrestle all the time, have relatively few major injuries and still keep going well into his 40s.

I suspect this will just be a case of TNA fans being delusional until the end about how Impact is really a great show and it's just a big "smark" conspiracy to hate on TNA and Spike would never cancel THE ONLY SHOW THEY HAVE NOW THAT UFC IS GONE!!

Haven't been watching Raw but I got a good laugh out of this.

You sound like me. Wrestling is kind of the only thing I ALWAYS come back to. In some form or fashion, whether it be watching, TEW or just message boards I'm always somehow interested in wrestling but stuff like music, books and video games don't last. Usually they are just things I'm obsessed with for a short time until one day I just have absolutely no interest in it any more and just forget about it and move on. Or on the rarest of occasions I do actually finish a book or video game.