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Mulligan vs Jerry Blackwell from the 1978 JCP year in review shows is also really good.

I'm not Bix, obviously, but I haven't heard a thing about the Summer of Punk DVD other than the fact that ROH released one. Do tell, Rovert, how bad is it? Yeah, what happened here?

The one good thing about the SBGI buyout of ROH on the consumer end is that the decision to unload the back catalog DVDs has led to them finally putting together compilations like this and Summer of Punk. Maybe we'll see ROH vs CZW eventually?

UWA was even closer to death when they worked with AAA in 1994. One of the highlights of the WON back issues lately is seeing that there's still a UWA section in early '95; I hadn't realized they were still chugging along then.

The re-shoot is also clearly in a darkened empty arena. WWE was doing Polaroids of each segment of continuity back then so I'm curious how they screwed it up.

Stuff off the top of my head that should go on but might not necessarily come up otherwise: Bill Watts & Wahoo McDaniel vs Ernie Ladd & Superstar Graham (1973 AWA from clipped Bob Luce film on his TV show in '89) Dick Murdoch & Dusty Rhodes vs Ben Justice & The Stomper (1970 Detroit Silent Film) Steve Grey vs Clive Myers (World of Sport...they had a '70s match and an '80s match) Johnny Eagles & Ken Lucas vs Billy Spears & Raging' Cajun (1976 Gulf Coast TV) Jackie Fargo vs Al Greene (1970 Memphis 2/3 falls hair match on film set) Jerry Jarrett vs Don Greene (1971 Louisville 2/3 falls scaffold match on film set) Jerry Lawler vs Jackie Fargo (everything) Jerry Lawler vs Robert Fuller (Lawelr takes bump down bleachers, on film set) I've never watched all of the Memphis '70s films all the way through so there's definitely more to be mined there, plus we have more coming soon (as well as TV arena stuff). There's more complete or nearly complete stuff than you'd expect. Same goes for the Cornette "garbage tapes" of the Crockett films. There are at least one or two pretty complete Flair vs Steamboat matches on those, for starters.

Yup. They never said it was a title match, but they never made it clear that it was non-title and there was no way to be sure unless you were a newsletter reader. The only bad thing about what's otherwise one of the best PPVs ever.

Mr Wrestling X: - WWE tried to frame the wrongful death lawsuit as being something Bret pushed for because he was bitter about the screwjob. If it was a work he would've said so then. Everyone said under oath that it wasn't a work. - Vince initially tried to babyface himself on TV after the Screwjob. It failed miserably. It was not a work. Bret has actually said somewhat recently that if Vince came to him with the idea of doing a finish like that where it was a work, especially to set up a possible return when his WCW deal was up, he would've considered it, but there's no way what happened was a work.

I didn't realize there was a second Coliseum match. They also had one that's on Wrestlefest '94.

We had a hit in the Philippines called "Apologist Bingo"

"My wrestling death thing"?

Who told Rock it was a good idea to look like his WWE All Stars character? The scary thing is that it's very accurate on top of being a great joke.

If Vince McMahon and Dana White could turn Brock Lesnar into a tree, what type of tree would they choose?

Might as well just crosspost my "How did the Brock-Cena finish make Brock 'just another guy'?" post from THE BOARD over here... --- This, more than anything else, is what I'm not getting about what Dave, Bryan, and others are arguing. Yes, Brock should've won. Yes, that's even more true if Cena is taking time off. Still, the finish was that Cena got lucky, and that's ok. Brock destroyed him the whole match by using takedowns and the clinch. Brock actively refused to take a shortcut at one point (dropping the chain) because he's such a monster. The only thing he did that he really couldn't have done in a regular match was tie Cena upside down in the corner outside with the chain, and that was after he already beat Cena bloody. When Brock finally decided to end it, the ref was bumped. Cena only won because he did what Brock didn't need to do, he used the chain, and not only that, he used it to punch the giant monster of a man that is Brock in the jaw with his chain covered fist as he was barreling towards him. Then Cena hit his finish on the steps, and just barely won the match. From here, with Cena gone, they can have Brock run over everyone else and build to the rematch with Cena as WWE's last hope. This is far from Lesnar being booked as just some random WWE Superstar. He worked a completely different style from everyone else (he did a knee from the Thai Plum into an Irish Whip and a Kimura from the guard on the stairs for crying out loud) while taking 99% of the match against the top guy in the company. Also, WWE just did the EXACT SAME STORYLINE with HHH-Taker. Taker won the first match, but did he really BEAT HHH? It's the same deal here. Cena won the match, but did he BEAT Lesnar? The optimal scenario was Brock winning by cutting off a hopeless Cena comeback and injuring him. Absolutely. But they did not fuck this up, and they did not stop Lesnar from looking different and special.

It comes down to this: Lesnar, on an Extreme Rules match, had no real use for the gimmick and was maiming Cena with "legit" moves and his striking, but got screwed by the ref bumps. Cena got a lucky shot with a chain as Brock was barreling towards him and then hit his finisher on the steps to knock Brock loopy for the win after the ref finally woke up. Yeah, Cena should've lost, but in the context of the post-match with Brock staggering around and challenging little kids to fights, it worked.

Bullshit. What about the wrestlers like Eddy Guerrero who died because their hearts couldn't pump enough blood to their grossly swollen organs? If Guerrero's HGH use occurred in a vacuum, sure. But Eddie had a myriad of other health issues, addictions to recreational drugs and painkillers, etc. His recreational drug abuse caused damage (I think thinning of the blood vessels was named specifically), absolutely, but it didn't cause that specific damage. Look at all the guys with GH guts. When you do enough GH that your stomach swells to the degree that people can tell by looking at you, that's not healthy and you're going to destroy their health if you keep it up. Also, keep in mind that when it comes to steroids and HGH, these guys are doing much, much, much, much, much more than what the safe doses would be. Time to being this back, I guess:

Bullshit. What about the wrestlers like Eddy Guerrero who died because their hearts couldn't pump enough blood to their grossly swollen organs?

"use of these hormones does not lead to the physical or psychological dependence required for such scheduling under the Controlled Substance Act." Wait, what? Since when? Also, remember: They're Schedule III, which isn't "illegal" unless prescribed under circumstances.

And we thought The Rock looked jacked a few weeks ago... That's alarming.

Maybe there is something to the baby blue deal: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2012-04-23/st...we-rules/page-6

Wasn't that Tazz who tore the poster down and said, "Wrong company!" ? Yeah. HHH was the one who threatened to potato the really jacked up dude when he sold like he'd never seen pro wrestling before.

I have never seen the show but I remember hearing good things about this: Great Sasuke & Daijiro Matsui beat Akira Shoji & Kaoru Uno (20:00) when Sasuke pinned Uno. Apparently all of the MMA guys were huge fans who did a great job crossing over into a junior style tag and doing Lucha spots with Sasuke. Elsewhere on the show, this looks interesting: Bas Rutten & Alexander Otsuka beat Naoki Sano & Ricco Rodriguez (14:43) when Rutten forced Sano to submit. Otsuka and Sano were great workers and Rutten was usually tremendous in his few pro wrestling matches so it should be at least good. Also... Kazushi Sakuraba beat Kendo Kashin (19:17) via submission. This was notable because both were doing shoots. IIRC it was supposed to be good but disappointing. Nobuhiko Takada & Keiji Mutoh beat Ken Shamrock & Don Frye (24:13) when Takada pinned Frye. This was the debut of bald Mutoh I think...don't remember much else. Oh, and the show ended with Hundreds of people lining up for Inoki slaps in what I've always heard was a weirdly hilarious scene.

Has he? I thought lapsed wrestling fans were usually cited, not MMA fans with no interest in wrestling.