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Try it now. I think it needed a Google Login before.

UKFF probably counts.

won't load for me I think the permissions might've gotten screwed up so I'll check when I get home, but I'm pretty sure I have it set to public or at least "anyone with a link can see it." What happens when you click the link?

I eagerly await the review of the other bloodbath, vs THE MASKED INVADER. Maybe I'll upload some other Tommy Rich, too, like the non blood stuff on the tape. Also, Dylan, have you seen the Lawler '87 matches from that McAdam tape?

On a similar note, if machine translations and CD Japan listings are anything to go by, why did AJPW & Noah comm tapes always use Akira Taue's real last name (Tagami) instead of his ring name?

While i missed the beginning of the show, honestly, I don't see how WWE could be lying (directly or by omission) here. It appears this triggered whatever local ads were cued up on each cable system, and a Linda ad came up on some CT systems. This sounds like someone guessing based on their system getting the Linda ad, not something from within WWE.

Here's a scan of a column Dave wrote for the National circa 1990 about Madusa's success in Japan: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-NNkZSWAAYlQWJrQmY1ekV6b0U It was in an envelope of stuff Kurt Browns sent me last year and I was going through that stuff now, so I scanned it. Wish more of these were around...

Last night, someone who hadn't seen any of my Tweets or anything like that emailed me to ask about the show and all he knew was that a bunch of guys did Benoit spots, so it definitely picked up steam elsewhere.

Did AJPW ever actually market the June '94 & '95 matches as best singles/tag ever for the comm releases or were those all tape trader nicknames? It picked up a good bit of steam around '99.

It's not a huge reach: Presumably all of Superstars will be taped on Tuesdays starting next month and I can't see them taping a B-show before 3 hour Raws. So it would have to be house shows or more stuff from Full Sail, wouldn't it? I just don't get why they aren't using this as a new outlet for Superstars or NXT.

Not knowing what a garrot is doesn't make you an idiot. Not using the interconnected network of computers to find out does.

Headbutt and chants were one match. Cross face was another. Throat slash, garrotting, and Daniel Bryan firing joke were the main event.

They should have avoided those spots this weekend, much less on a show that happened to be booked today. And (effectively) nobody used anything close to the Crippler Crossface before Malenko "gifted it" to Benoit.

I'm not sure who I blame more: The Indy geeks for doing it or Cornette & management booking a show this weekend (much less the anniversary of the bodies being found) and not telling everyone to not do any Benoit shit/garrot people. I mean it's not like there are a lot of matches with garrotting spots, at least it wasn't a cable/wire. Corino referencing the Daniel Bryan firing on commentary made it worse though since he was fired BECAUSE WWE had banned garrotting spots for Benoit reasons.

Wait, I didn't have to use the Flash player link that someone dug out of the HTML code last time? It was showing up for everyone who logged in? All of the Benoit tribute spots topped off by a Benoit chant and Davey Richards garrotting Kevin Steen was...something. I didn't watch but if that's true, fuck Richards and fuck every fan that chanted that. From what I saw: Mike Mondo did a swan dive headbutt that got a "Benoit" chant, Jay Lethal did the crossface, and Davey Richards did the throat slash gesture twice. And then Richards garroted Steen with a chain.

Wait, I didn't have to use the Flash player link that someone dug out of the HTML code last time? It was showing up for everyone who logged in? All of the Benoit tribute spots topped off by a Benoit chant and Davey Richards garrotting Kevin Steen was...something.

They shot the show as if it was going to be a comm tape but never released it, but raw footage leaked out via Tommy Noe years ago. Since this match wasn't available complete from TV or the handheld, Will used this raw footage version.

Dusty is a guy who suffers from the vast majority of his available matches being from when he was either past his prime or way past his prime. From what's available he comes off as a deceptively athletic, tremendous all around worker in the '70s who started to slip as his weight ballooned.

See if you can track down the handheld of the Flair-Morton 60 minute draw. It's clipped to about 35 minutes but it's a pretty fantastic match that's different from the other famous long Flair matches available on tape.

What exactly are all these flashes Morton had in singles? I recall one or two good/great matches against Tully and a couple overrated matches against Flair. Eaton had a better singles run in 1991 alone. I would rate Michaels above Morton. But I prioritize guys who work 20-30min singles main events over tag workers. Morton was great at what he did, but I think it's more difficult to work great singles matches than tag matches adhering to a formula. Not to mention Michaels was a great tag worker himself. Which of the Flair matches have you seen? Off the top of my head there's also the Lawler match from Louisville in '79, the Sonny King WMC studio match from '80, and various singles matches as part of tag feuds, but he was a tag team guy for most of his career, whether it was with Eddie Gilbert, Ken Lucas, Robert Gibson, Tommy Rich/Terry Taylor, or Gibson surrogates like Chris Hamrick on indy shows. And all of those teams were awesome in their own way. I suspect we'd have more singles matches if we had more '79-'81 Memphis, though (and I think there's some house show footage that's out there but not currently circulating with a bunch of Morton).

His name was used semi-regularly by heels cutting promos on him, at least in Florida, but maybe also in GCW & JCP. Kris would know better. I agree with your general point, though: That (and the other credits of wrestlers under their real names, like Alan Rogowski & Paul Taylor) was just WCW being weird (and in the case of Dusty, stupid).

Link, please...I did not know there were even clips of this around. The assumption is that *all* the MSG cards were filmed, but I don't recall an "unseen" show post-1980 coming out on the monthly WWE Classics on Demand Channel in as long as they have been around. 12/28/82 wasn't aired, but it showed up on Classics on Demand, commentary (done for the CCTV audience in the Felt Forum) and all. It seems like all of those scattered unaired MSG shows from '80-'84 were shot for CCTV and had commentary like the televised shows based on what's shown up later (the above show, scattered matches on comm. releases, the 5/21/84 stuff on MSG Classics & the '80s stars DVD, WWE vault leaks, etc.). The unaired matches (Race-Backlund, Hogan-Andre) from that one show that DID air seem like the exception, as they didn't have commentary.