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The incomparable Master of Muppets has added a match to his YouTube channel from the house show on Monday night (July 16) in Reading, PA. The match sees AJ Styles team with Daniel Bryan against Samoa Joe and The Miz as part of the awkwardly-named Summerslam Heatwave Tour. The camera quality isn't great in this particular case, but if you can tough it out, it's a good chance to see Bryan and Miz opposite each other -- a matchup that has evaded us on television since Bryan's spring return and will likely happen at Summerslam. RELATED MATCH: Samoa Joe vs Bryan Danielson (ROH Midnight Express Reunion 10-02-04)

Yes we can do that.

Something's fucked up about all of it when a show with four ***+ matches, Extreme Rules, gets 73% Thumbs Down. He's also set up a situation for himself where people will ask why this match "only" got *****.

A thank you to Paul S. for his efforts on this. He has been doing most of the thread title edits and has saved me a great deal of time. (Zenjo, if you're listening, we'll finally fix 1997! And Yammmmamoto too, but only if you ask nicely.)

Yes, they should all be yyyy-mm-dd across the board. I'm not doing this alone, but yes, that is the correct format.

Interesting. So I'm guessing this is kind of an outlaw thing because Thesz had already bundled the NYSAC title in with the NWA World Title by 1950.

Fred Kohler Enterprises June 21, 1950 Chicago, IL Chief Lone Eagle vs The Great Jojo Verne Gagne vs Billy Goelz Great Moto vs Ruffy Silverstein Cyclone Anaya vs Benito Gardini 2/3 falls: Hans Schnabel & Fritz Schnabel vs Rudy Kay & Al Williams NWA World Title 2/3 falls: Lou Thesz vs Buddy Rogers

Fred Kohler Enterprises April 17, 1950 Chicago, IL Match listings are incomplete. June Byers vs Violet Viann

Fred Kohler Enterprises April 14, 1950 Chicago, IL Walter James vs Lord Blears Hans Schnabel & Fritz Schnabel vs Benito Gardini & Rudy Kay Ivan Rasputin vs Great Moto 2/3 falls: Gorgeous George vs Frankie Talaber

Fred Kohler Enterprises March 17, 1950 Chicago, IL Great Balbo vs Jack Carter Hans Schnabel & Fritz Schnabel vs Rudy Kay & Al Williams NWA World Title: Lou Thesz vs Ruffy Silverstein 2/3 falls: Don Eagle vs Frankie Talaber

Fred Kohler Enterprises February 3, 1950 Chicago, IL Mike Mazurki vs Hardy Kruskamp Gene Stanlee vs Kola Kwariani Antonino Rocca vs Benito Gardini Don Eagle vs Fredrich Von Schacht Jim Londos vs Primo Carnera

Thesz had already unified the world titles at this point, yet this is billed as a world title match in the results I've seen. Can anyone confirm what world title? I'm confused.

I thought Dave was fantastic on this issue. Covered it for the first 20-ish minutes of today's WOR. I like how he also pointed out that Hogan comes from an era when everything is a work, everything is a con, and that's what he knows. The next planned steps are charity work with the cameras rolling. All he knows how to do is work and work some more. In this case, he needed to convey some sincerity. When he has no credibility for telling the truth, how does he do that? My thoughts after listening were that if you want to make a wrestling analogy, Sam Muchnick used to say that a great wrestler tells the truth as much as possible because when he has to lie to get something over, his word means something, so it usually works. Hogan has taken the opposite route, which is one reason I think he's going to have a bumpy route moving ahead.

A non-fan friend of mine was asking me some stuff about this the other day and it prompted an interesting question I've been mulling over: Are wrestling fans more nostalgic than the general popuation? He felt like it was odd to even want redemption for someone like that, no matter what they meant to someone's childhood. But I think nostalgia is pretty potent in pro wrestling.

Dave said something the other day that I thought was on point and probably a good thing to remember when talking about WWE and Vince McMahon, who can probably credit a lot of his success as a promoter to being a sociopath. "Nothing this company does isn't a marketing ploy." There is no doing the right thing. That concept doesn't exist. Every single decision they make is based on what they think is right for business. It raises an interesting question that's bigger than this discussion -- if Vince did the morally right thing every time he probably should have, would he even still be in business?

If I've learned anything in short order, it's that I can't do all of this alone like I thought I could. More info here:

Yes. This will help with that goal because it allows me to reuse a lot of content and thus clear out a lot of junk.

So the default sort of the folders can be chronological.

Yep.

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) Matchography 2018 [2018-07-01-CMLL-Domingos Arena Mexico] Caristico - Dragon Lee - Kraneo vs El Barbaro Cavernario - Mr. Niebla - Negro Casas [2018-07-01-CMLL-Domingos Arena Mexico] Mistico - Valiente - Volador Jr. vs Euforia - Gran Guerrero - Ultimo Guerrero

Ultimo Guerrero Matchography 2018 [2018-07-01-CMLL-Domingos Arena Mexico] Mistico - Valiente - Volador Jr. vs Euforia - Gran Guerrero - Ultimo Guerrero

Gran Guerrero Matchography 2018 [2018-07-01-CMLL-Domingos Arena Mexico] Mistico - Valiente - Volador Jr. vs Euforia - Gran Guerrero - Ultimo Guerrero

Euforia Matchography 2018 [2018-07-01-CMLL-Domingos Arena Mexico] Mistico - Valiente - Volador Jr. vs Euforia - Gran Guerrero - Ultimo Guerrero

Volador Jr. Matchography 2018 [2018-07-01-CMLL-Domingos Arena Mexico] Mistico - Valiente - Volador Jr. vs Euforia - Gran Guerrero - Ultimo Guerrero

Valiente Matchography 2018 [2018-07-01-CMLL-Domingos Arena Mexico] Mistico - Valiente - Volador Jr. vs Euforia - Gran Guerrero - Ultimo Guerrero