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Some of the PWI 500 blurbs. Matt Riddle: "Prior to his Smackdown debut, Riddle was accused of sexual assault by a former partner during the #Speaking-Out movement...He's since denied the accusation." (Ellipses their's) Velveteen Dream: "Derailed by #SpeakingOut accusations in June." Jordan Devlin: "Was stripped of title and released by PROGRESS after being accused of assault." Austin Theory: "Largely absent from TV over the summer following a #SpeakingOut allegation in June." Jay Lethal: "The subject of new and old accusations of harassment, which he denied in a tweet dated July 6." Others didn't make the list. They did not rank Jack Gallagher, Joey Ryan, Michael Elgin, David Starr, Jimmy Havoc, Dave Crist, Joe Coffey, Travis Banks, El Ligero. Personally I think they dropped the ball on the Scurll bio. But I think a genuine effort was made.

Cachorro Grande sounds like a 1940s era Mexican wrestler.

In 2002 WWE was the only other game in town and streaming wasn’t a realistic option. There’s so much free wrestling out there right now that I don’t know what kind of demand this possibly has.

The biggest crime bust since Steve Sax.

I’m through three chapters and I’m convinced.

The Laprade authored Andre bio is $4.99 as well on Kindle.

https://twitter.com/realkingregal/status/1289160535892729856?s=21

Bobby Eaton had to team with George Gulas. No one is touching him historically.

A jobber in 1985 used the name Jim Londos. The chutzpah is admirable.

If they can pay off a wrestler getting an eye ripped out, why the hell would I ever want to watch that?

Villano LXIX?

You're not wrong, but most teams are holding Spring Training (Summer Camp?) in their home cities.

One of the biggest concerns for me as a fan is going to a local show and not knowing if the local promoter acts ethically towards the talent. I mean, I know the answer is usually "no," but still.

Quoted this on mobile.

A few months ago I watched some 1993 ECW and Angel caught my eye. Read up on her backstory, she alleged quite a bit of abuse a year or two ago. She really got a raw deal for it all. In naming so many names I’m not certain she’s 100% accurate, but everything she said is entirely plausible.

That whole thing misses the best part. The first version the lawyer posted was printed on a sheet of labels.

Razor Ramon was way ahead of his time.

Growing up with PWI he was always talked about as a national star as it was.

Ditto. Gargano is too small to credibly move Lee.

Could honestly do a real interesting Hogan piece if you collected all of his media appearances.

Hillsborough was April of '89 and certainly had an effect on how stadiums operate in Britain. Don't know if or how that carried over to Japan though.

I wouldn't make it five minutes. But the logical end is a wrestler breaking the spirit of the match. Ala Kirschner/Volkoff's "Peace Match" on SNME.

One I've been curious about before, one of the 1977 runners up. Andre the Giant vs. Ric Flair. When was that match, and why was that hyped up?

The only thing I didn’t like about the stadium brawl is the logic that you can beat someone down well enough to roll a chalk liner over him, but you don’t bother to pin him. Cinematic stuff, I think until normalcy returns wrestling is in a bizarro world where everyone needs to scrape the barrel. I don’t mind if the normal rules are bent because we’re kind of in uncharted territory.

Could vary by home country though. If harassment came from an outside country with laws on the book...