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I'd much rather watch a guy who suffers from having the horror of horrors in a LIMITED MOVESET~! than a guy who throws out goofy contrived looking moves seemingly just so he can get his shit in. That's the new John Cena especially when it comes to the springboard stunner move and his awful Code Red. If he added that shit in to try and appease his critics he's not nearly as smart of a worker as I used to think he was because it's not like it helped his crowd reactions all that much and his matches have suffered for it. I actively disliked the Owens matches and thought they were lame finisher trading spotfests and not even creative spotfests seeing as how they copied so many of the same spots in the rematches. I still don't understand the love for the Rumble 3 way because it suffered from the always present WWE multi man trope of one guy laying on the outside for the majority of the match while 2 guys do a bunch of pointless stuff that you know doesn't matter because the other guy hasn't come back yet. I'd take the majority of the Orton feud from 09 (which seemed to be not very popular as it was going on) over anything Cena has done this year. If I was putting a ballot together then his work this year would be actively moving Cena down my list.

Ron Starr as the Duggan partner was a call back to the stuff that happened in August/September where Ron Starr beat Adnan in the TV Title tournament and Adnan had Abdullah the Butcher attack him and break his ribs. That's why Duggan had the confidence that Starr wasn't going to take the briefcase because Starr was the only other person around who had a personal vendetta against Adnan and was out for revenge. He also had a few babyface runs in various places especially up in Grand Prix even if he was a heel more often than not. Glad you're enjoying the stuff between Welch & his family. I'm a huge fan of all of those guys and the Southeastern territory as a whole so it's been fun doing some family feud stuff between them. I thought it would be a fun twist to have him as a special ring announcer for the match as he could get involved in the finish without actually having to do another run-in like he did the week before. I'm really not high at all on Carl Fergie as a wrestler but thought he was a great referee in Mid-South so I thought it was worth eating up a roster spot to have him in that role for me. As for Saito he's kind of lost in the shuffle right now with the Lucas/Gilbert stuff being a bit of a placeholder feud for all of them but I'm a HUGE fan of his and have some stuff in the future planned to give him a much more prominent role.

Just watched the Bracero/Poffo vs. MX match and liked it a lot. Not quite as much "Bracero rolls around the ring and flusters the MX" as I was hoping for like in the Tully match but still a fun shine sequence for the babyfaces to start the match. That lead to Bracero playing the FIP and doing a really good job selling. The hot tag felt pretty anti climactic but they made up for it with a row boat spot (which I always mark for) and a pretty good finish. I guess I didn't notice it as much in the Tully match but man Bracero is REALLY small. Hard not to notice when ever Dennis Condrey is kind of towering over you.

Southwest Championship Wrestling @ San Antonio, TX - The HemisFair Arena 11/6/83 Yin & Yang vs. Bruiser Costa & Terry Adonis - Yang started the match against Bruiser Costa and ended up dominating him on the mat, keeping the big Bruiser Costa grounded on the mat despite Costa's weight advantage. Yang eventually tagged out to Yin who got caught in Costa & Adonis' corner where they worked him over and used underhanded tactics to maintain the advantage, including using the tag rope to choke him. Eventually Yin was able to duck a punch from Adonis while Costa was holding him from behind which sent Costa flying off the apron. Yin used the miscommunication as the opening to dash into his corner and make the tag to Yang! Yang dodged a charge from Adonis who went crashing into the corner and then Yin exacted some revenge by choking Terry Adonis with the tag rope. Yang however grabbed Yin and pulled him off of Adonis and the two started to argue which allowed Adonis to sneak up behind Yang and roll him up for a cover with his feet on the ropes to steal the victory. Winners: Bruiser Costa & Terry Adonis in 8:47 after Terry Adonis rolled Yang up and pinned him with his feet on the ropes After the match Yin and Yang had a long stare down with each other before they left out of opposite sides of the ring and walked back to the locker room separately Larry Hamilton vs. The Canadian - Larry Hamilton started this match looking to fight which played right into the hands of The Canadian as Hamilton's strength is his skill as an amateur wrestler. The Canadian ended up getting the better of the brawl after a short period of Hamilton firing away on him. The Canadian threw Hamilton out of the ring and continually kept him from getting back inside by kicking him through the ropes and kicking him down off the apron. Finally Hamilton made a desperate charge under the ropes to get back in but The Canadian ended up catching him with a big running boot which put his Hamilton's lights out and The Canadian covered him for the count of 3. Winner: The Canadian in 6:09 after a Running Boot as Larry Hamilton was getting back to his feet after sliding under the ropes Yoshi Seito vs. Ken Lucas - Yoshi Seito started this match by bowing to Ken Lucas and wanting a handshake and then attacking Lucas when Lucas fell for it. Yoshi Seito worked on stayed on Lucas and wouldn't let him recover but was unable to pin him. Eventually Yoshi Seito went for his German Suplex to end the match but Ken Lucas went around behind him and locked in his Sleeper Hold and despite Yoshi Seito valiantly trying to fight his way out of it, eventually his lights went out and after Carl Fergie raised his hand and it dropped for the 3rd time, Ken Lucas was declared the winner. Winner: Ken Lucas in 9:12 after putting Yoshi Seito out with the Sleeper Hold Mike Masters, Art Crews & Timothy Flowers vs. Man Mountain Link, Tiny Anderson & Steve Pardee - Link started the match for his team and tried to get Masters to get in the ring with him but Masters refused to get in. Instead, Art Crews started the match and had no luck in doing anything with Link and eventually tagged out to Timothy Flowers who had the same "success" in trying to get Link off of his feet. Link threw Flowers back in the corner and told him to tag out to Masters but Masters instead stepped down off the ring apron. Link then decided to tag out to Steve Pardee which brought Mike Masters back onto the apron and asking for the tag. Masters tagged in and then Pardee baited him close to his corner and then tagged out to Link which sent Masters scurrying back to his corner to tag out and rush out of the ring which got him a lot of cat calling from the crowd. Link tagged back out to Steve Pardee and Pardee eventually locked up with Timothy Flowers. Pardee and Flowers chain wrestled for a bit until Pardee got the better of it and wound up with a headlock on Flowers. Pardee pulled Flowers over to the corner in the headlock and tagged out to Tiny Anderson who came in and took over the headlock. His control was short lived however as Flowers was able to push him off into the ropes and then blasted him with a big clothesline as he came back. Flowers then tagged out to Mike Masters who came in and just started beating the hell out of Tiny Anderson and strutting around and posing while Tiny was down on the mat. Masters threw Tiny into the corner and he and his partners took turns tagging in and out and working over Anderson in their corner. Eventually Crews went up to the second rope for a knee drop on Tiny Anderson but Anderson was able to roll out of the way and then made it to his corner to make the tag out to Man Mountain Link while Crews was still on the mat holding his knee! Link grabbed Crews as he was getting up and took his hand and tried to tag in Mike Masters but Masters and Timothy Flowers both dropped down off the apron to avoid being tagged. Link then picked Crews up and dropped him down with the big Falling Powerslam and pinned him while staring at Mike Masters. Winners: Man Mountain Link, Tiny Anderson and Steve Pardee in 10:36 after Link pinned Art Crews following a Falling Powerslam After the match Link tried to challenge Mike Masters to get in the ring with him but Masters was having none of it and finally Link left the ring with his team mates. Jim Holliday then said something to Mike Masters and Timothy Flowers and the two of them got back into the ring where Art Crews was getting back up to his feet. Mike Masters started arguing with Crews about losing the match and Crews started shouting back at him about not tagging in and then Timothy Flowers blindsided Art Crews from behind! Mike Masters grabbed Crews and put him in the Full Nelson while Timothy Flowers slapped him around and then Masters flung him down on the mat and Masters, Flowers & Jim Holliday walked back to the locker room together. Mr. Saito vs. Eddie Gilbert - Eddie Gilbert starts the match playing cat and mouse against the larger, stronger Mr. Saito and gets some good shots in on Saito until Saito finally is able to grab hold of him when Gilbert misses on a dropkick. Saito starts beating on Gilbert and eventually starts working on his knee, getting him trapped in the kneeling figure four. Gilbert manages to finally scoot himself in the ropes and tries to avoid getting caught again by Saito but eventually finds himself back down on the mat, this time caught in the Scorpion Deathlock. Gilbert again manages to pull himself into the ropes to cause a break. Saito gets behind Gilbert and tries to lock in the Japanese Sleeper but Gilbert rushes forward and drops down, causing Saito to crash head first into the turnbuckle and fall backwards. Gilbert tried to climb to the turnbuckles to set up for his Top Rope Dropkick but the damage done to his legs earlier in the match caused him to be slowed down and Saito was able to get up and shake the ropes, causing Gilbert to fall down and crotch himself on the top turnbuckle. Saito then pulled him down off the top rope into a Saito Suplex and pinned him for the count of 3. Winner: Mr. Saito in 11:52 after a Saito Suplex Jim Duggan & a mystery partner vs. The Zambuie Express - Kareem Muhammad grabbed the house mic before the match and announced that it didn't matter who Jim Duggan's partner was because he knew they would take the briefcase full of money just like Duggan's last two partners and this time the three of them would take out Jim Duggan together and finish him off for good. Jim Duggan then came out to the ring alone and Muhammad mocked him on the house mic saying he couldn't even find a partner to abandon him for Sheik Adnan's money when suddenly Ron Starr came out of the crowd and got in the ring behind Muhammad and Elijah Akeem while they were focused on Duggan in the aisle. Starr grabbed the metal briefcase away from Muhammad and when Muhammad turned around to see who it was, Starr smashed the briefcase over his head! Duggan then rushed into the ring and he and Starr went to work just teeing off of The Zambuie Express, much to the delight of the crowd in the HemisFair Arena! The Zambuie Express retreated to the floor while Duggan did his trademark stomp in the corner to rile up the crowd even more and Ron Starr stood in the center of the ring with the briefcase and challenged them to come back into the ring to get it. Referee Jack Howe tried to get things settled down so the match could start but instead The Zambuie Express started throwing chairs into the ring which Duggan and Starr had to dodge and then The Zambuies tried to rush the ring but got caught coming in and once again ate a whole lot of punches from Duggan and Starr! Duggan caught Kareem Muhammad with a Spear that sent the big men crashing through the ropes and out onto the floor while Starr nailed Elijah Akeem with his big running knee lift and Akeem dropped and rolled out of the ring. Duggan and Starr challenged them again to get back into the ring but The Zambuies had enough and instead retreated back to the locker room, leaving the briefcase full of Sheik Adnan's money in the ring with Duggan and Starr! Duggan and Starr held up the briefcase while the crowd cheered and then motioned to each other that they would split the money and walked back to the locker room together. Result: No contest After El Gran Apollo had been introduced and was standing in the ring waiting on Tully Blanchard, a man with wild hair and a long beard suddenly rolled out from under the ring and attacked El Gran Apollo! He pulled a spike out of his pocket and jammed it into the head of El Gran Apollo before police rushed the ring and pulled him off of Apollo and removed him from the ringside area. The fans in the arena were stunned at what they just saw and it seemed like referee Jack Howe was going to call off the match but El Gran Apollo was able to recover and despite already being cut open he demanded that the match be allowed to continue. The ringside doctor was allowed to quickly bandage up Apollo's cut while Tully made his entrance and Jack Howe continued to ask Apollo if he was sure he wanted the match to continue but Apollo was adamant about receiving his title match and the match was allowed to take place. Southwest Heavyweight Title: El Gran Apollo vs. Tully Blanchard - Tully started the match totally confident about his chances of victory, mocking Apollo having his head bandaged and treating him like a joke. Apollo responded with a big punch that floored Tully and then climbed on top of him and started pounding on Tully! Referee Jack Howe pulled him off of Tully and Tully rolled out of the ring and complained about the use of a closed fist and demanded that Apollo by DQ'd. Instead, Tully started being counted out and finally returned to the ring at the count of 9. Tully apologized for mocking Apollo and offer a handshake only for Apollo to grab his hand and pull him into a big armdrag! Apollo then grabbed an armbar much to the delight of the crowd. Tully managed to make it into the ropes to force a break. Tully tried for a cheapshot off the break only to get caught in another armdrag and put back in the armbar! This time Tully got out of the armbar by raking Apollo's eyes and then started hammering him with punches once he got free. Jack Howe tried to get Tully to open up the fist but Tully was all over Apollo and when Jack Howe threatened to DQ him, Tully then tossed Apollo out of the ring to the floor and went out after him. Apollo tried to fight back when Tully came out on the floor after him but Tully cut him off with a knee to the midsection and then slammed his head off the apron and pulled the bandage off of Apollo's head and started working the cut and Apollo quickly started bleeding again. Tully quickly rolled back in and out of the ring at 9 to break the count and continued his assault on Apollo outside the ring. He slammed Apollo's head into the ringpost and then went back into the ring and waited for Jack Howe to count Apollo out. Tully strutted around and trash talked the crowd while Jack Howe made his count and Apollo struggled to get back to his feet. Apollo was roll back into the ring just before the count of 9 only to have Tully immediately start stomping on him and then use his feet to push Apollo back out to the floor. The referee tried to stop Tully from going out after Apollo but Tully went out the other side and attacked Apollo just as he was getting back to his feet. Tully smashed Apollo's head off the guard rail and Apollo fell backwards onto the floor of the HemisFair Arena and Tully got back in the ring and waited on Jack Howe to count Apollo out. Apollo was once again able to roll back into the ring just before the 10 count. Tully met him again with some stomps and pushed him right back out again and followed him out once more. Tully went to bodyslam Apollo down on the concrete floor of the HemisFair Arena but Apollo somehow found the strength to block it and hit a bodyslam of his own! He rolled back in to break the count and then came back out after Tully and charged at Tully just as he was getting back to his feet but Tully managed to dodge out of the way at the last second and Apollo instead went crashing into the ring steps and went flying over them. Tully crawled back into the ring and watched as Apollo once again tried valiantly to beat the count but just as he was getting back to his feet at the count of 8, he collapsed back down to the floor from the loss of blood and was counted out. Winner and STILL the AWA Southwest Heavyweight Champion: Tully Blanchard in 11:44 after El Gran Apollo was counted out Before the introductions began, the ring announcer declared that this match had been appointed a special guest ring announcer: Roy Lee Welch! Roy Lee Welch came down to the ring to a good reaction from the crowd. He began his announcement of the challengers as "coming down the aisle the two most low down, dirty, rotten, worthless backstabbers that have every come out of the state of Tennessee the challengers Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden" Fuller and Golden were incensed at their introduction and quickly got into the ring and into the fact of Roy Lee Welch. They looked about ready to attack him when suddenly The Fabulous Ones rushes the ring and attacked them! Roy Lee Welch left the ring and quickly announced The Fabulous Ones and referee Carl Fergie went ahead and rang the bell with all four men in the ring brawling Southwest Tag Team Titles: Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden vs. The Fabulous Ones - The match starts with everyone in the ring brawling with Steve Keirn and Jimmy Golden in one corner and Robert Fuller and Stan Lane in the opposite corner. Fuller and Golden start getting the better of the brawl and attempt to whip The Fabs into each other only to have The Fabs reverse and send Golden and Fuller crashing into each other in the middle of the ring. Fuller and Golden quickly roll out of the ring and regroup while The Fabs hold the center of the ring, soaking in the cheers of The HemisFair crowd. Finally things settle down to a normal tag match as Steve Keirn leaves the ring and goes out onto the apron and Robert Fuller gets back into the ring to face off with Stan Lane. Robert Fuller wants a handshake but Stan Lane slaps him in the face instead! Robert comes charging at Lane but Lane ducks and shoves him into the corner where he and Steve Keirn just start beating the crap out of Robert Fuller. Carl Fergie tries to restore order but Lane distracts him while Keirn chokes Robert with the tag rope and then drops him with a big punch. Robert gets up begging for a time out and The Fabs just mock him and allow him to tag out to Jimmy Golden while Stan Lane tags out to Steve Keirn. Golden also comes in asking for a handshake and Steve Keirn fakes like he's going to slap him with his left hand which causes Golden to duck and then Keirn comes up with a big right hand that drops Golden to the mat and sends him scooting backwards into his corner with Robert Fuller. Robert and Jimmy have a strategy session in the corner as Steve Keirn challenges one of them to come into the center of the ring with him. Golden comes back out of the corner and again tries for a handshake but Steve Keirn just laughs at him and then Jimmy Golden spits at Steve Keirn! Steve Keirn comes charging at Golden who retreats into his corner and Keirn gets baited into going in after him where he gets double teamed. Carl Fergie tries to get in the middle of it but Golden keeps him distracted from seeing Keirn getting choked on the ropes by Fuller. Fuller and Golden quickly take over control of the match with Steve Keirn in their corner, double teaming him and making quick tags to stay on top. Keirn is finally able to break away from them and make a desperate diving tag out to Stan Lane after ducking under a double clothesline and Stan Lane comes in fired up! He takes down both Fuller and Golden with big karate kicks and then gets Golden in the corner and starts raining punches down on him as the fans count along. Robert Fuller runs over to the neutral corner on the apron while taking something out of his tights and then nails Lane with a punch that sends Lane flying backwards off of Golden and down to the mat. Golden discretely takes the object from Robert Fuller behind the referee's back and nails Lane with it as he gets back to his feet. Golden passes it back to Robert as the fans alert referee Carl Fergie about a foreign object and he checks Jimmy Golden over but doesn't find anything. Golden tags in Robert who hits Lane again with the object but Lane is able to kick out at the count of 2. The fans continue to tell referee Carl Fergie about a foreign object so Robert passes it off to Jimmy who hides it in the turnbuckle while Fergie checks them both. Lane crawls to his corner to try and make a tag during all this but Robert cuts him off and whips him back into the corner with Golden who takes the chain out from the turnbuckle pad and nails Lane with it again while Robert has the referee distracted and then hides the chain back in the turnbuckle pad again. Golden gets tagged back in and Robert goes to hit Lane with the chain when suddenly Roy Lee Welch gets on the house mic and tells referee Carl Fergie that Fuller and Golden are hiding the chain in the turnbuckle pad! Fergie rushes to the corner to look for it and Fuller and Golden get him misdirected long enough for Robert Fuller to throw the chain out onto the floor. During all the confusion however Stan Lane was able to crawl to the corner and tag in Steve Keirn! Jimmy Golden tried to cut him off but was too late and Keirn caught him rushing into the corner with some big right hands! Robert Fuller tried to rush in to help Jimmy but ended up crashing into Jimmy and then as Jimmy Golden was getting back to his feet, Keirn bounced off the ropes and nailed with him a Flying Forearm and pinned him while Stan Lane rushed in to keep Fuller from breaking up the pin! Winners and STILL the AWA Southwest Tag Team Champions: The Fabulous Ones in 14:54 after a Flying Forearm from Steve Keirn on Jimmy Golden After the match The Fabulous Ones celebrated with their belts as Robert Fuller pulled Jimmy Golden out of the ring and helped him regain his senses. The two of them then went over to the timer's table and jumped Roy Lee Welch! They started beating on him until The Fabs saw what was going on and went out after them! The two teams had a short brawl around ringside with The Fabs getting the better of it until Fuller and Golden retreated back to the locker room. Roy Lee Welch got up from the floor and The Fabulous Ones were there to give him the handshakes they denied him the week before.

I think her reputation as "unstoppable" is impacted (which was always just more rooted in really good hype from UFC and not so much in reality) but not really her drawing power in the UFC. Especially considering there isn't a bigger main event fight in UFC right now than Rousey/Holms II. But then I don't see where her simply "appearing" at the event was going to have a lot of impact either way unless they went whole hog on having her in a really prominent position like they did with Mike Tyson and I don't see how they could have really done that anyway.

WWE was never going to be allowed to have her wrestle a match at Mania anyway so all that is moot. Dana White was never going to risk his top draw getting injured in a pro wrestling match. WWE did all that hype of her without ever having anything even close to a guarantee she would work Mania and the only reports I ever heard about Dana White's end of it was that there was no way he'd sign off on it.

The idea that Rousey's career is over and she's going to now fade into irrelevancy is so silly. I've seen it pretty much everywhere there has been discussion about her. It really doesn't matter that she got dominated at least in the sense that her rematch with Holm is now going to be a HUGE fight and the hype for that will be even bigger than the original. I would be shocked if the UCF doesn't do everything they can to make that fight happen at UFC 200. People like to see a fall from grace and a comeback story and no doubt that UFC and Rousey's people are going to be selling the rematch as just that. Her next fight will almost assuredly be a rematch with Holm, Dana White has already pretty much said so.

I've been wanting to see more El Bracero ever since the Tully/Bracero match so I'm definitely hyped to see this one.

Yea the idea that Jacques has anything on his resume that puts him over Duggan seems pretty insane to me. And I say that as a guy who has seen the whole Garvins/Rougeaus feud from Montreal and really loved it. But those brawls still don't measure up to stuff like Duggan/DiBiase or Duggan/Sawyer. Duggan has like a 3 year period where he was probably the best in the country at big main event bloody brawls.

Need to watch that later, I may be the only one but I get excited when I see a Tom Lintz match pop up on the site. Very under rated guy, with his size and look I'm really surprised he didn't ever really get a big break anywhere. His biggest run that I know of was in Southeastern/Continental as fake South African Boomer T. Lynch. He always showed a lot of personality in the ring and was pretty good on the mic in Alabama although his material was pro apartheid racist shit.

I don't think Lintz ever actually worked as a Russian. He worked in Southeastern/Continental as South African Boomer T. Lynch and as a Sheik Adnan managed Ali Khan for a short run in AWA. I haven't seen much of the Ali Khan run but I THINK they were playing the gimmick as just him being an American who sold out to Adnan but I'm not sure on that. Definitely an under rated guy who could show a lot of character in his work and was a pretty good talker in his Boomer Lynch run. Him being completely unknown to most people helped me snag him really late in the fantasy draft. Here is a Boomer promo from Southeastern:

Southwest is dropping Moose Morowski and picking up Paul Peller.

Any chance you already uploaded it but it didn't go "live" yet? I know that the Ivan Putski/Abdullah the Butcher match was on the site for a while before it was ever officially posted because I saw it on the 'discover' thing that rolls after the match is over way before it ever officially got posted. Ditto with a few other matches I've seen pop up there before they officially get posted including the Lintz/Poffo match that played after I watched a match this morning.

I really liked the stuff with Anthony & King Cobra. King Cobra could easily justify why he was right to attack Anthony and both guys having valid points of view in a feud is one of the reasons Memphis was so great in real life. Plus it gives a reason to pair up The Dirty White Boys so all around good stuff there. Seems like you changed your mind somewhere in that Hacksaw Reed vs. Sweet Daddy O/Tommy Gilbert match as you have both guys written into it at different parts. Memphis loved in it's interupted interviews leading to wild studio brawls so good to see you're continuing that tradition here with the Bruiser Brothers & RNR stuff. Pretty interesting that you seemed to position The Andersons with the way they got jumped by Ladd's group. I was pretty sure Butch Miller was going to be half of the Commonwealth but didn't know who the other member would be. Cool that you went with a re-packaged Igor Volkoff. (Although for the record that's not actually the Igor Volkoff that was a WWWF tag champ as Lumberjack Pierre, it's this guy: http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=10690) Bruiser Brothers explode is good stuff although I feel like the stables might be getting a bit too crowded. Ole Anderson coming in after Lars is a pretty good angle and I always dug the way guys would reference past history in the territory days even if it was something 2-3 years old like Lars turning on Ole. Road Warriors vs. RNR Express would have been a big time match in the Mid-South Coliseum would have liked to see that one. Also dug seeing my man Bill Ash make a pretty big debut by beating Mike Graham. Glad I was wrong about him essentially being left on the scrap heap after his Southwest run. Lawler vs Hansen in a bull rope match would have had the potential to top the best bull rope match ever between Hansen & Colon. Lots of good tag teams in Memphis now with The RNR Express, The Dirty White Boys, the Japanese Assassins, the various combinations of the Grahams and Ladd's Army plus the Road Warriors coming in as the World Champs. Lots of good tag team territories in this project and Memphis is certainly making a play to be on top of the heap. I dug the progression on the Ole/Lars feud and Lars avoiding fighting Ole under the guise of not wanting to fight family. Although I smell a Lars sneak attack coming.

Mike Shaw over Curt Hennig is a pretty big upset in this world. Shaw seems like a really good fit for Sullivan's band of misfits and I think that would have been a good learning experience for him at that point in his career. I'm always a mark for fireball angles and using Mike Von Erich as a sacrificial lamb is as good a use for him as any. Poor Rip Rogers continues to get the short end of the stick on TV. I'm rooting for him to pull out an upset one of these days. Glad to see Lord Alfred make his Florida debut and pairing him with the Briscos is definitely an interesting mix. They do happen to perfectly fit the kind of wrestler he was looking for in his time in Southwest. I also dug his promo and thought it felt very Lord Alfred-like. Freddie Blassie as the Chairman of the Board is a pretty big reveal. I didn't see that coming. On the surface he doesn't really seem to fit with a crazy bunch of characters like Maya Singh and the Purple Haze but then he had a knack for making himself over to fit his wrestlers so I'm interested to see where it goes.

Greatly disappointed in you editing out what was originally here, you were just about to turn full babyface with that promo.

A link would have been a good idea for the OP http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/rip-nick-bockwinkel/

Bumping old threads is bad but I re-watched this yesterday and think this needs to get more love and attention. It's only 30 minutes and I can almost guarantee you'll like it.

To me, Sunny for all 3 although I guess it could be argued that Sable had the better "run" between the two with being one of the bigger stars of the Attitude Era and having a pretty high profile mixed tag match at a WrestleMania. Sable also managed to not have any of the really bad periods that Sunny did like her late era ECW stuff and the WCW stint. But Sunny was a much stronger character and was able to carry segments with her personality which Sable could never do. Sable got over on wearing PVC outfits and doing stunts like coming to the ring with hand prints painted on her tits while Sunny actually got over on the strength of her work as a talker and a manger.

I try to be unpredictable with my stuff but I think you've definitely got me beat there. Really tough to predict who is going to win a match in this territory. Like the graphics for the tournament, that's a little too high tech for Joe Blanchard's capabilities. I really dug that first Magic Hour with Paul Christy and Venture essentially making his stable a wrestler's union. Bobby Bass & Doug Somers is an awesome pairing, really like that idea. Christy stirring the pot between Backlund and Morales was good stuff, I think the Magic Hour is going to be my favorite segment each week. Ivan Koloff calling Jesse's guys socialist is pretty rich coming from a guy who made his living off being a fake Russian commie Layton isn't too bright trying to interview Fuchi and Khan, not sure who he expected to do the talking there. You're 3 for 3 on the Magic Hours and if no one else is, at least I'M interested to see how the hypnosis thing plays out. Steele showing up and being turned into a monster by Christry is almost a proto-Festus thing which to me is great because I fucking loved Festus. Finally a "favorite" won a tournament match with Valentine beating Burke. I think a 15 minute match on tape between those two would get a lot of love on this board if one were to exist. Really enjoyed your first 3 shows so far, looking foward to seeing where things go for Big Time Wrestling.

Really interested to see where that Dark Pentagram stuff goes. I'm also amused that you decided to keep continuity with Southwest and have Omar Atlas show up in a neckbrace. Very cool way of doing results for your Rupp Arena show. I definitely would have liked to see an I Quit match between Adrian Street and Ron Garvin and I'm pretty surprised that Garvin was the one who lost. The "ghost or no ghost, Randy Savage is out there watching over all of us" line got a big laugh out of me for it's ridiculousness. I'm glad the Street/Garvin feud is continuing and man these 30 minute shows really leave you wanting more.

Nice rebuilding effort of some of the guys who lost on the big October 1st show like The Can-Ams and Louis Laurence. I continue to be a big Goldie Rogers fan and really like what you're doing with him here. Seemed like a bit more action in that Dave Kocken vs. Steve Regal match than was realistic for a Mr. Electricity performance Darn those TV time limits. Dino Bravo interacting with Condrey & Rose would have been some fun stuff, Bravo is really under rated due to most people only having seen him in the WWF. Who are the Sailor Whites? Still digging the feud between Louis Laurence and Richard Charland despite the fact I couldn't pick either of them out of a lineup. TV definitely picked up on the episode from the 11th with two big matches in the Coward's Way Out match and the Tornado Tag, Sgt Slaughter vs. Lafon and a Jake Roberts debut. Quite the debut for Jake there I liked the way you wrote that match. Coward's Way Out match was really good and definitely shined up Dave Kochen nicely. Lafon got to look really good against Slaughter despite going down in defeat to the cobra clutch. Surprised that The Invaders got to leave the area as winners and especially that a turn didn't happen after the match but you're going for a much more slow burn approach than my stuff in Southwest.

The Fabs vs. Guerreros was a great feud in real life Houston, looking forward to seeing how that plays out here. DVE getting a win over Dory and then dropping a close match to Bockwinkle was a pretty good short run in WWA for him too. I'm rooting for Brickhouse to end up turning and joining Dangerous By Design in that big 10 man Elimination match just so my guys Gordman and Goliath can finally get a win.

Did Dave say WHY he was doing away with the AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS/CARIBBEAN category now that Carlos Colon got voted in? The decision seems like the category even existing was designed to around helping or hurting Colon get voted in.