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And Irv outright said in "Chris & Nancy" that Benoit and Chavo flushed Eddy's Winstrol/stanozolol (yes, he was specific about which steroid) before the the police and paramedics arrived.

Ging by past history it's probably the production schedule. Wrestler and Inside Wrestling have been the same double magazine for a few years now. It amazes me that they've survived in any form.

More likely Springer, it's not like you can imagine Russo getting ideas from watching a wrestling show. Russo stated in one of his shoots that he and Ed Ferrera would watch Springer virtually all day at Russo's home in Connecticut while they wrote RAW More specifically, they lived in overlapping markets that got different episodes so they were able to take in a lot.

He could potentially sink Linda's next campaign Could he? When would the statute of limitations on any potential evidence tampering/obstruction of justice/whatever chargesw be up for the Eddy cleanup and whatever might've happened on the weekend of the Benoit murder/suicide? For latter he may not have done anything criminal, though. I bet he may very well know the details behind Dave Taylor and his wife showing up at the crime scene seconds after the bodies were found.

I don't get it. Chavo knows where the bodies are buried. Why not just keep him on Superstars forever?

PWI, Wrestler, and Inside Wrestling were all monthly for sure...I think Sports Review Wrestling might have been as well. The rest were all quarterlies or short runs, IIRC.

Damn, that may get me to buy a ticket to an Evolve show.

That's splitting hairs awfully thin."Painkiller," especially on a pro wrestling message board, is going to mean narcotic pain killer to most people. That goes for real life too since Tylenol and NSAIDs are marketed as "pain relievers" (presumably for the reason I mentioned already and the different ways that they work). Novocaine is a topical numbing agent, narcotic painkillers are mind altering substances. There are no inconsistencies there.

At least when I read New Wave, all of their ads were for stuff they sold: Old merchandise & VHS releases, etc. I dunno if they ever took outside ads but it struck me as odd and I don't remember much else about the magazine. Where they hell did the "Dwayne Glastieu" rumors come from, anyway? That wasn't even Rocky Johnson's real name before he and Ata became U.S. citizens.

Given the precedent for how these things turn out, I'd say the chances of this happening are less than zero. But this reminds me, does anyone think that Eric Bischoff's bitterness toward the Internet is related at least in part to his attempt at a worked shoot blowing up in his face so badly? Back to the novocaine thing. A few of you seem to be unaware of some comments Punk made. Someone had asked him how long he could last in wrestling without taking painkillers. He replied that he wasn't a pussy. Someone else then asked him if that meant that wrestlers who took painkillers were pussies, and Punk replied in the affirmative. Novocaine isn't a painkiller, it's a topical anesthetic.

Oh crap, we forgot Clive Myers and The Sunshine Boys,

Not sure what you mean here. Care to expand? I refer you to the case of Bruce Mitchell vs Derek Burgan Plz explain.

Tommy Young = JCP/early WCW referee Tommy Lane = The RPM that wasn't Mike Davis. He was eventually replaced by Alan Martin as "Kevin Dillinger"

I'm not sure if Dave's made any claims in recent years but he already claimed to have about 900 subscribers by early 1985.

Don't forget that it was immediately followed by the fans allegedly voting for an Arm-Wrestling contest, as opposed to an actual match. By that point, I was practically certain that the WWE was just rigging the vote and stealing everyone's text money in a case of blatant fraud. Following that with the fans not voting for "ban Vickie from ringside", and it looked more and more likely. This new info about the voting being fucked up actually makes more sense than anything else I saw on Monday night. They were standard rate texts. WWE didn't get a dime.

As far as Adonis goes his team with Ron Star in Portland was pretty good, too, plus the cage match with Savage against Tito and Bruno is excellent.

I love the Doc/DiBiase team but don't really see an argument for him all time in tags. Money Inc. was the nadir of his career and he was incredibly disappointing in AJPW. I always found the latter odd, as there were plenty of guys who you'd expect him to match up with well in the '80s but his work always fell flat even though he was tearing it up in Mid-South. I agree with a lot of Dylan's picks so I'll just add some: - Stan Lane: Fabs, MX, & Heavenly Bodies. His one available match with Koko Ware as a team is excellent, as well. Even the one match I've seen from the short post-Fabs, pre-MX run in Florida is very good (with a green Scott Hall vs Bill Dundee & The Barbarian). Really should be a no brainer pick. - Dick Murdoch: Existing Texas Outlaws footage is excellent (and it's not just him, Dusty was a great working heel), North/South is sort of superficially awesome even if you're not a fan (and it's too bad that WWE has never released their full title loss to the US Express, which I'd expect to be one of their best matches), and his various short-lived teams (Masked Superstar, Ivan Koloff, Eddie Gilbert, and others I'm probably forgetting) are very good to great. He's at least worth discussing. - Eddie Gilbert: Great with Morton, Rich, and Murdoch at the very least. At least good with Nightmare, Steiner, Simmons, etc. As a great Memphis style worker, like with Dundee, it makes sense. El Hijo del Santo: Excellent in straight tags with Eddy, Casas, Rayman, Octagon, and other people I'm probably forgetting. Curious to see the UWA tag with Villano III vs Negro Casas and He Who Cannot Be Named. - Jushin Liger: Very good in underdog tags vs heavyweights, excellent in stuff like the NJPW vs Noah feud, ROH tag with Joe vs Danielson & Low-Ki, etc. Guys who theoretically make sense but wouldn't necessarily make a list for footage or other reasons: - Greg Valentine: Already an excellent worker, Hid Beefcake, was apparently awesome with Flair. - Don Kernodle: We know he was awesome with Savage and Koloff, not sure if there's any footage of him with Orton, but what we have is awesome. Not sure if Slaughter should be considered just on the strength of their run since he didn't really have any other teams.

In fairness to Roland Alexander (did I really type that?), there is a scene where he's shot at a low angle with tuba music or something similar dubbed in on the soundtrack. Blaustein was definitely trying to play it up.

I'm shocked you like Sting vs Reed. Literally nobody likes that match, which was the byproduct of George Scott telling guys who weren't suited for it to work holds in long matches.

TNA comps now technically by not charging anything and they can't get half that TNA isn't running Los Angeles and has never worked with schools to fill the building AFAIK.

WOW tapings (and I would think the PPV as well) were heavily comped, as they worked with schools a lot and had tons of kids bused in.

I always thought it was strange how they booked this with no buildup like the Quebecers sneaking the special rules in.

IPW with Jumpin' Jeff Farmer was an obscure Arkansas indy.

Mark Young = Mark Scarpa = Jay Strongbow's son. Besides his cups of coffee in WCW and the WWF a a JTTS type, he worked in Continental as Pvt. Pyle When Gilbert was booking, had a tour or two of AJPW, and worked in South Atlantic early on when they had name guys like Ricky Steamboat, Robert Fuller, and Matt Borne. I have no idea if he did anything after 1990.

There have been rumblings about it for a while but nobody has given specifics yet.