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Didn''t the Vince still also acknowledge him as President and CEO, which I remember being surprising to see on TV?

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on this one and assuming he meant that the PSA frequently played - amongst other places - during wrestling shows. LIke Skittles and video game ads in general. What is it with Skittles ads on wrestling shows, anyway?

Kerry Von Erich in the 60 minute draw with Flair in Ft. Worth that they couldn't air because he got so messed up after his dog died. Gary Hart and Rick Hazzard found him passed out in his car with a needle sticking out of his hip, someone got him upright, and then he went to the ring for a match where he sunset flipped the invisible man and fell over trying the handstand kneedrop spot. Flair was so angry after the match that he threw the belt on the locker room floor and had to be apologized to with a limo full of women on his next trip to Texas.

Memorial show != funeral.

Yup. For some reason I remembered the story being that her husband "Sailor Moses" was also a wrestler but that's not in the surviving version.

Decided to take advantage of the odd story from this past week to do the definitive guide to guys like Big Daddy Bruno Beefcake: http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/3/17/205...ther-pretenders

Hell, if you extend it to add more Matt behavior that's not as relevant to Jeff, there's the entire Lita meltdown (which also covers stuff like THE ANGELIC DIABLO, "ADAM COPELAND IS FECES," etc.), the desperate attempts at grassroot movements to get a bigger push (trying to get people to chant/bring signs that said "MATT FOR CHAMP"), the whole "I didn't fail a drug test, I was recovering from a staph infection" episode, getting outed as someone constantly burying CM Punk to wrestling reporters, running with the "Lita is dating Punk" rumor that had been started by a fan (who posted a photo shot from behind of two people who vaguely resembled them entering an arena together) and trying to give it credibility when it wasn't true, and probably a lot more that I'm forgetting.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/3/14/205...n-to-perform-at Honestly, I'm not sure if I ever expected them to act on this, so they're SLIGHTLY above expectations.

AFAIK, this hasn't shown up on any sites with a track record of reliable reporting yet.

Even if one were to concede that, Sayama wasn't THAT much more athletically impressive than Hamada that it's pretty weird that Hamada not being anything close to a pimped guy until Michinoku Pro over a decade later (was anyone other than Asai and rookie Sasuke pimped individually by American fans at the time?).

What people have been saying is that they don't get why US smarks went so gaga over Tiger Mask but not Gran Hamada when Hamada's spots were as or more impressive and hit cleaner while he was also the better overall/more psychologically worker, not why Tiger Mask got over huge and Hamada didn't.

Baba was a more consistent draw than Inoki, IIRC.

OMEGA becomes OMEGA in '97 while the wrestlers start improving a lot. Some of them end up in Music City Wrestling which ends up taking over the USWA's syndicated slots. MCW had some pretty good stuff early on and is worth looking into. I have some in really nice quality I should go through and get dates for. I think Prentice promoted under North American All-Star Wrestling too in '97 and what I've seen from there is also good. All of the stuff with the AAA guys in the WWF is at least interesting. Some is pretty good. I'd include just about all of it, including the weirdly heatless yet still sort of awesome Vipers-Space Cadets spotfests. The early Shotgun shows have a LOT of stuff that needs to be included both for quality and lack thereof.

Right after Candice Michelle miscarried, too. Awful.

Not sure how long Dragon was in AAA for but he was there. Remember, he was in the AAA match at the Peace Festival. Sasuke fractured his skull on the over the post flip dive.

I don't see this as the big anti-TNA deal that some people are. He lives in LA and is a pop culture junkie stoner in his early 30s. Of course he'd try to get on The Price Is Right.

At least with the promo 2 weeks ago, "blow me" is a standard insult. Still homophobic, and oddly placed after a "You're lame because you're totally gay" promo, but at least people actually say "blow me" when angry at other people. I have never, ever heard a dude threaten to bathe another dude in his ejaculate as part of an angry rant. Especially after promising to totally pwn the other dude.

All comment sections are bad. YouTube is worse than most as far as neutral general purpose content sites go.

They should allow you to block comments on a sliding scale. Surely they can develop an algorithm to use the title and comments to detect the video content. If it's about politics or features a celebrity who is an ethnic minority and/or gay, I'll block the comments. If the video is a kitten playing a jaunty tune on a keyboard, bring on the comments!

Dunno why it took me so many months to come across this but Nick Coffin at Cracked wrote a tremendous article in September about the mess and what the truth is when the situation is examined a little closer. Some of it was obvious it the time, but it makes the pro-Epic Beard Man contingent look even worse than before.

Another way to look at it as what Kurt Brown said to me on Facebook:

This year seems like one with a lot more obvious choices and it's a matter of digging through Lucha, NJ Classics, and random indy stuff, much of which would be handhelds. I believe Sabu vs Devon Storm and Sabu vs Hakushi are both from '95, for what it's worth. For Lucha I'll dig through the Lauly listings and see what I remember I guess.

So bizarre that you bring this up Tim as I just saw that it was on youtube today. Is that the oldest available Lawler match? Yes, it is. Am I remembering wrong or didn't Lawler do double duty on that show and also do a tag with Jim White?

Doña Virginia Aguilera is probably who you're thinking of. She's profiled in Lourdes Grobet's book.

The only non-obvious thing I can think of at the moment is stuff from Global and ICW. There's a decent amount of '94 Global TV around now (I should pick it up) and there's interesting stuff with the Adams-Price feud, Gordy/Garvin Freebirds managed by Hayes, Brandon Baxter as a heel manager, Chaz and Tugboat Taylor with a manager who was really a heel when they weren't looking, etc. ICW I only remember seeing one or two episodes and it was a doozy, with Tony Rumble tearing into ECW for the NWA Title deal, a music video of Sabu clips (he never ended up showing up), a wild tag match presumably taped months earlier that was Dreamer/Vic Steamboat vs Taz Kevin Sullivan IIRC, and a really good Chris Michaels match (before he headed south for the rest of his career) vs some guy named The Hollywood Kid. Hopefully Steve F. has the ICW.