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Another thing that I found disturbing with the story was the family emergency that was floating around was that Nancy and Daniel were throwing up blood. This may have been a bit of foreshadowing.

This is just horrible. I can't even begin to wrap my brain around this one. Their are so many questions here. My condolences go out to the rest of his family and friends.

I think it's really unfair how people are critical of Cena because of how the fans react to him. Ric Flair was cheered a lot when he was winning best heel in the Observer awards. Steamboat is thought of as one of the great babyface workers of all time. He was booed a lot in his 89 feud with Flair. Dusty was a great babyface. He was booed in a lot of places. In today's WWE it's upside down world. Just look at a few years ago how HHH the heel was winning clean with the pedigree. The Heels do most of the ass kicking in the WWE. cena is one of the 3 best babyfaces to be in the WWE in the last 10 years behin Austin, and the Rock. The main difference is that Austin, and Rock got to kick ass much like the recent DX reunion tour.John Cena won't be the last babyface to get mixed reactions.

This was a great match, The crowd was hot for the whole 35+ minutes. Kernodle was one of those guys that was really underated at what he brought to the table. I thought everything made sense. Both Steamer, and Youngblood were fantastic in their role. Sarge was fantastic as well. Everybody brought their A game. It's a shame their really isn't a lot of footage of them as a team. Everything I've seen has been good except that Brody/Hansen tag where they got the Summerslam DDP/Kanyon treatment . I remember when the match resurfaced; and in the Observer Dave was saying that Arn Anderson thought this was the greatest tag match he had ever seen and this point. Personally, I would easily put it in a top 5 tags in the U.S. I just loved how it just built and built. Not only was this a sucess in the ring, but business wise it spawned the idea for Starcade. It's also neat to see Steamer bring a lot of the spots he uses with Jay and 9-10 years later use them with Shane Douglas.

I really enjoyed this angle. I know Sting and Funk worked the houseshow circuit together in 89. I remember seeing clips of them on Entertainment Tonight haveing a match. They seem like they could have a good match with each other. Too bad we didn't get one @ a Clash or something. Overall just a great piece of bussiness.

Michael Hayes in the 80's was really cool. Doc Hendix not cool.

I really enjoyed this match. The crowd was so into this match. Bobby Eaton was a human superball taking just awesome bumbs making his opponents even better than they normally are. I just loved how Arn changed his mind by not going into the ring to take Sting's press slam that Larry Z and Eaton just took. It's a shame they don't use this formula much anymore. The associations with each other really helps give the rub to each other. Dustin, and Steve Austin to me got the most mileage out of it even Marcus Bagwell got a rub from these associations as a future star. You look at Arn,Bobby, and Larry Z and you realize they are really good workers individually, but as a group are phenomenal.

Just got mine.

This seems like a lot of fun. There are so many avenues to go with this. You could do a wrestler of a month or a territory of a month, or just the build and then the big match. Bottom line count me in.

I have the 89 Observer Yearbook ironically autographed by Mark Henry and it's a pretty fun read. They have all the observer awards of that year, plus all the previous years. It has a summary of the key things that happened in 89 and for the past decade. They have a list of the top workers, and the top 100 matches of the 80's. Plus a lot of other neat stuff.

Well the Davey Boy Smith one in book 2 was full of Dynamite stuff. Then again they were tied with each other for years.

This weeks Observer was a total overload of MMA with the sale of Pride, and both UFC, and Pride shows. I wish he'd tone down the MMA some. A lot of weeks it's overkill. I think MMA has a place in the Observer, but not to the degree that it gets sometimes.

Well done. It was really good for a 1st episode. You should be proud.

At times Brody was a good brawler. For the most part he was a mediocre worker, with a rep for being an incredible brawler which was far from reality.

Ditto, I've had the same problem.

On Alvarez's Figure 4 Daily radio show Meltzer said he was pushing back the Bigelow bio for another week. ~SWERVE~. On a sidenote he took a pot shot at the HBK haters. He pretty much said that Michael's and Kobashi were at a different level of work than everybody else.

I have always really enjoyed the Rock/Austin match in Houston. To me the problem with finish was that the company misread the landscape of how over Austin was in his home state of Texas. The fans still didn't want to boo Austin so the turn came off flat. The crowd was pro Austin before and after the bout. The way the audience reacted to his turn was foreshadowing of his heel run in general.

The Tully-Garvin match was executed very well. I preferred the Windham-Tully match from 88 a little more. To me both of those matches are excellent. I was hoping the Garvin-Hennig match-ups on the DVDVR best of the WWF in the 80's set would be close to the Tully-Garvin match. Both of the Garvin-Hennig matches were solid, but nowhere near the level of the Blanchard match. Hennig is somewhat similar to Blanchard as a worker where you'd think he would get similar results with Garvin in match. Yet they didn't. I personally thought Tully was a better worker than Hennig, but here he really outworks him.

I also liked how when recapping the X-divison match with Backlund as the judge on the ppv; he said it was a good "moves" match with him putting moves in quotations like someone making a point on a message board.

I loved how Dave called out Heenan's potential first joke when/if he was to induct Bockwinkle.

There were a lot of things about Russo that have bothered me in the past and present. Not understanding the current wrestling landscape, and not hiding wrestler's weaknesses, and highlighting wrestler's strengths. I remember him booking Benoit/Malenko in a street fight. Two of the best mat workers in the company in a street fight. I mean WTF. I remember Russo bragged in interviews how he got Ernest Miller over, Misfits in Action, Norman Smiley, and the AFKNAPI. Ernest Miller had that turn off the t.v heat. MIA was just stupid,Norman Smiley was entertaining but it didn't draw any money. It was a mid card gimmick. Anyone who would watch his television would realize he writes bad wrestling. He doesn't know how to seperate the mid-card from the main event. No one will never forget the Tequila finisher in the Liger-Juvy match.

I like Baba. He has a large catalog of good to great matches. He is a fun guy to watch because he has a lot of footage around of him working a wide variety of opponents. I think some of the criticism is valid. I do feel his chops are weak. For people who say he wasn't athletic they are just wrong. For a man of his size I thought he was an incredible athlete. If I had to choose between Baba and Inoki I'd rather watch Inoki because I preferred him slightly, but a Baba comp would be fun.

I was watching a Backlund/HBK match from Goodhelmet's excellent Backlund comp the other day and Hays just buried him in commentary. He called Backlund ugly,old, unathletic, and not the all-american boy. Lord Al was rooting for the heel HBK the whole match. Anyone know what the backstory is there?