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Yes, in '87. Gary Hart, Brody's good friend who booked Brody to promoters for various one-off dates and was a respected booker himself, said that Brody's booking wasn't very good, especially in terms of formatting TV.

On tonight's WO Radio, Dave said that medical records for 2 of Chris's concussions have been found.

Plus the whole roster watched him die, which also had to be terribly traumatic.

It does make sense with the Bulldogs feud being blown off during the cage match run after WM and the Harts having nothing to do until the Strike Force title switch.

Ok, I somehow missed that the Benoit as dealer speculation in the Muchnick column linked above was by Jerry McDevitt: Anyway, the lawsuit filing: http://muchnick.net/toffolonicomplaint.pdf Irv on the suit: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Benoit...12/9772341.html

I think that was a Zenk talking point.

She had the death certificate sealed after she joined the company, either right before or right after the Benoit murder-suicide. That way, media and Congress couldn't dig it up and use it.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/fay...or_lawsuit.html With Astin broke and in prison, I'm curious to see who the "three unnamed drug distributors" are. Meanwhile, amidst a column from a day earlier the brings back the "Benoit dealt drugs" speculation, Irv Muchnick brings up an important point: So if Chris Benoit's parents and/or his surviving children are filing their own suit (wrongful death against Astin and/or WWE for his suicide?), it'll happen within the next two weeks.

There was one PPV where both Canada and Dish each drew low 2 figure buys.

I dunno, when I went to the Bash PPV last year, a lot of people seemed to passionately hate her (well, aside from the oddly booked moment where she got the face pop of the night).

In fairness, WWE has had plenty of people on the payroll as charity cases.

Adamle did not get the heat Vickie did by any stretch of the imagination.

Well, at least we know now why things got so mean-spirited on TV recently. "How dare she quit WWE when Vince was generous enough to give her a job after her husband died and embarrassed the company! She should have apologized for Eddy's death embarrassing WWE like Hector did..."

In J.J. Dillon's book, he explains that another part of the rationale for putting the belt on Garvin was to headline with Flair-Garvin title matches everywhere to differentiate their brand of wrestling from WWF with credible, hard-hitting main events.

Wasn't Mansfield considered a good worker or did he mean "and/or"? Is this the beginning of Watts making his wrestlers read the WON? Oh c'mon... This sounds more like a WON talking point based on Meltzer and his readers hating the "new fans." Bundy was actually pretty good here. How did Hawaii get talent from all the warring promotions at this point anyway? Fear of Lia Maivia?

If I ever go back to this I'll jump to the "Five Years of Stories" deal that's the meat of the annual.

Again, I remember it otherwise, but to prove it so would be a long and tedious process. I recall Phil and Tomk saying Henry was decent, and the bandwagon jumpers going crazy and overexaggerating him completely. The problem starts when people start saying, and I quote, "people who don't like Mark Henry don't like him because he's fat, black and sweaty". There were people using euphemisms for fat, black, and/or sweaty.

I forget which board it was at but I think it was tomk who pointed out that what you're responding to isn't a talking point that anyone actually tries to argue. Nobody argues that cool moves are bad, just that cool moves by themselves do not necessarily make a great match and lack of cool moves does not make a match bad.

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