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I didn't buy the PPV but I kept anxiously awaiting it's arrival at the video store so I could rent it and see that match. Extremely disappointing. But how the heck did we start talking about that? El-P I salute your efforts and hope you manage to hold out as long as possible. I tried to do a running review of the start of TNA with the weekly PPVs over on DVDVR but I only made it about 12 or 13 weeks before I tapped. And I actually think you're in for even worse because at least with early TNA they weren't wasting TONS of talented people while making horrible TV.

It's kind of funny how many people at the time loved it and thought it was so great someone finally told off Hogan.

I really don't feel like I'm behind, I'm almost done with Disc 8 but I know how my wrestling attention span is. I can really only do 2 "projects" at a time or one of them will get forgotten and I'm already into the AWA set and a Memphis 85 set I got off XWT. I don't want the AWA set to go the way of my SMW or WCW 1997 watching.

I'm really scared to dip too far into those discs and never finish the AWA set but you're really making me want to peek at the Dundee/Lawler discs.

Taker hasn't wrestled in a year. His injuries are of the "wrestled for too long" variety, not stuff that's just going to away. If he can't wrestle this year then they need to just address it in some way and let him ride off into the sunset. There's no sense in waiting another year to see if he heals up enough to have another match just so he can go have it and destroy himself all over again.

I've seen some Alabama from after they converted to Continental and it was all really fun. I wish there was more footage, or more complete footage because the stuff I've found is all really scatter shot.

The Boss vs. Vader - Spring Stampede 1994 I just watched this in honor of this thread. I'd never seen it before and holy crap is it good. Probably the best non-Sting match I've seen from Vader in WCW. Bossman is definitely not afraid to punch Vader right in his face and ends up busting Vader's eye open. This is pretty much everything you could want in two big dudes throwing bombs at each other, with both guys taking big bumps and eating a bunch of nasty looking strikes. Vader catches Bossman coming off the top and turns it into a powerslam before finishing him off with a moonsault. Definitely the best match I've ever seen Ray Traylor in.

Anyone know anything about this book: www.whenwrestlingwasrasslin.com by Peter Birkholtz? He was Paul Boesch's nephew and around all the shows in Houston for years, I had no idea he wrote a book.

Nothing to add to this except thanks for pretty much answering my questions. Guess I shouldn't have taken things said by wrestlers about "millions of people" watching the TV show at face value.

Bumping this just to post the video of the match in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJWNrzNoxuk I really miss Chris Masters. And 2011 Superstars for that matter.

Who in the history of wrestling not Ricky Steamboat or Tito Santana actually prefer being a face? Dusty Magnum Von Erichs except maybe David Duggan JYD Greg Gagne Verne Gagne Bruno Just a few A recent example is Chris Masters. He's stated as such several times. Which makes it even more disappointing that he's almost always used as a heel in everything he's been doing since leaving WWE. He's one of a handful of guys that I actually enjoy much more as a face than a heel, and there aren't a lot of babyfaces I like anyway.

Here's an awesome video of Ron Wright from 1973 in Knoxville. I thought everyone who'd seen him in SMW would enjoy this.

I've always heard that during it's heyday the Saturday Morning Wrestling show in Memphis would draw millions of viewers and something like a 60+% share of the viewing audience. Yet as far as I know, the Mid-South Coliseum, which sat 10,000 people, was never a constant sell out arena. I've seen people criticize WWE for not converting more of it's millions of TV viewers into PPV buyers, but even that seems like a far better conversion rate than what Memphis was doing. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I realize economics surely plays a part in this but tickets were always really cheap in Memphis.

Don't know about anyone else but that makes it even more of a must buy for me.

How many angles/interviews do you expect the Lawler set to have? Obviously you can't include buildup for every match, but for some of the bigger one like the LLT matches with Dundee, it seems like there needs to be at least SOME buildup included.

I think the blame for that would go to whoever booked a guy wearing sunglasses to try and look up into bright lights and catch a guy falling off a scaffold.

I didn't really like the Rumble that much this year. It just felt so paint by the numbers. Almost every single guy that came in starts with some big flurry, everyone bumps for him and then they settle into killing time until the next entry. Outside of the Kofi spot and the Daniel Bryan/Kane eliminations there weren't that many interesting spots. And there weren't any big time "oh man THESE TWO are facing off" confrontations. Plus this year it really felt like Cena was the only possible winner, I never thought they'd go with Ryback.

Airlines have no access to your medical records. They don't know what's wrong with him if he doesn't tell them, even if he requests a wheelchair.

Gotta imagine they won't bother trying to bring him back for a re-do.

Not in World Class it wasn't. Maybe in Memphis it was better if they weren't actually trying to present him as an authentic "Oriental assassin" like they did in World Class.

Just watched the "Hickerson courting Lawler" video and man that's a great angle. Really fun brawl with the Freebirds too. I like how they book Lawler to not be the gullible babyface and have him force Hickerson to put up collateral to prove he won't turn on him. As far as Hickerson, I've liked everything I've seen him in as Phil Hickerson. Thought the PY Chu Hi stuff in Dallas was really weak though. There is a match with him and Condrey vs Lawler & Robert Gibson from the 70s that's so much fun. So much Memphis BS in that match with Lawler riling up the heels by tearing up photos of them and Hickerson and Condrey having fantastic reactions to the faces and the crowd. He cuts a great promo on that same disc about why you don't want to fight ugly people that really made me "get" why I've seen people on Classics or a couple people on DVDVR and here praise him so much.

Listening to the Nash YouShoot while running around Skyrim this morning, man what a bunch of bullshit. The only tough question was someone calling him out on the Fingerpoke of Doom/Goldberg injury timeline and he pretty much just sidesteps it. At least an hour is wasted on Nash pretending to be a wine guru and teaching Sean how to pick up girls.

I guess Harley fits in Central States, but I always got the impression he only worked there when he wasn't getting booked anywhere else. It's unfortunate that true Central States all stars like Mike George and Art Crews can't be represented.