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On paper this looks to be a strong match. It doesn't fail. I thought they did a good job establishing things in the 1st fall that would carry over into the other 2 falls. We get some fun grappling early. Slater transitions into working the arm. Moves into a key lock. Getting personal with a slamming of the head into the mat. Bock starts after the leg. We see him hook on a Figure 4.I love Bock's Indian Death Lock It goes to the outside and Bock wraps the leg on the ring post. Bock stuns Slater with a whiplash on the top rope for the fall. The 2nd fall Slater is looking for revenge. Here in some revenge spots Slater goes after the leg. A big elbow finishes Bock off. The 3rd fall is quick. Early in the fall Slater is after the back. In a finish that is used a lot in world title matches, Bock reverses a a roll up for the win. This was an excellent match. 4*

http://placetobenation.com/this-week-in-wrestling-112916-nwa-on-demand/ Pete and Johnny are back discussing Houston Wrestling via nwaondemand.com. On the docket for the night. 1. Terry Allen vs Kelly Kiniski 11/27/81 -Does Allen show flashes of his future in the match? 2.Greg Valentine vs Tiger Conway Jr 5/18/79 -Is Tiger Conway Jr. a lost great worker? -A Jive Tones reference 3. Butch Reed vs Dick Slater 12/29/85 -Reed wins he gets Dark Journey for 30 days --Discussion of why they worked the match how they did. - Butch Reed's last Houston appearance for Mid-South 4. Ted Dibiase vs Dick Murdoch 12/29/85 -Discuss the big angle that set up this feud. -Does this match deserve to be in the talk of Tully-Magnum, Lawler-Dundee rare air of great brawls? -Speculation on why the feud ended so quickly. Plus the guys discuss the matches, the commentary, and the history of the area.

http://placetobenation.com/this-week-in-wrestling-112816-wwe/ Pete and Johnny are back to discuss things under the WWE umbrella. 1. WWE Story Time -Which one was our favorite 2. NXT Takeover -Discuss all the matches -Who comes across as huge stars -Speculation on Tye Dillenger -How we would use Mickie James going forward 3. WWE RAW -Pat ourselves on the back about Goldberg turning into an open ended deal. -Is a New Day heel turn coming up? -Does the comedy in the Owens/Jericho act feel more suited for a midcard act? The guys take sides. -Will 205 help the cruiserweights? -Why Braun feels so special. -Charlotte delivers another great 80's style promo. -Our thoughts on the main event 4. Smackdown Live - Why go forward with more Ziggler vs Miz? -Miz hits another home run, this time with Kalisto -Ambrose the man of 1000 masks -Is the James Ellsworth character getting stale?

Becoming difficult since spliiting the show into 3 things.

Tiger Conway Jr. vs Greg Valentine This was solid stuff. Gino is out and goes for the cheap heat with a promo on Tiger. Paul Boesch on commentary agrees with Gino's side of things. He also put over Valentine's feud with Bob over in NY. This match is more of a set up for the Conway/Gino dynamic. I really like Conway here. He shows a ton of fire. Throws a decent punch here. I really loved his arm work here. It looked like it hurt. Valentine's work was all solid stuff. He was a great anchor here, and his job was to make Tiger look good. He did his job well. In the 3rd fall I adored the interferance blowing up in Gino's face, and his sell of it was tremendous. 3*

This was solid stuff. Gino is out and goes for the cheap heat with a promo on Tiger. Paul Boesch on commentary agrees with Gino's side of things. He also put over Valentine's feud with Bob over in NY. This match is more of a set up for the Conway/Gino dynamic. I really like Conway here. He shows a ton of fire. Throws a decent punch here. I really loved his arm work here. It looked like it hurt. Valentine's work was all solid stuff. He was a great anchor here, and his job was to make Tiger look good. He did his job well. In the 3rd fall I adored the interferance blowing up in Gino's face, and his sell of it was tremendous. 3*

Do you have a card listing for May 18th 1979?

http://placetobenation.com/this-week-in-wrestling-112516-indy-international/ Pete and Timothy are back talking some Indy and International wrestling. Topics Include 1. Wrestle Circus The Main Attraction -Pete shares his live thoughts -Pete and Timothy review 2 of the matches that made it online. ACH vs Mr.450 vs Jordan Len-X vs Laredo Kid vs Bolt Brady www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trFnnC0eS4 Prince Mustafa Ali vs Sammy Guervara www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMheEV0cP…eature=youtu.be&a Then talk about some of December's card 2.ROH TV -We talk about the tv show -If Kyle O'Reilly fails in his quest to win the ROH title will he be labeled as the Lex Luger of ROH? -What they liked and didn't like about the Casatle/Cabana angle. 3. Lucha Underground TV -Thoughts on the White Rabbit tribe -Prostituting their big gimmick match for nothing. Thoughts on the matches. 4. CWF Worldwide -Ultimate Survivor is here -The guys discuss the booking -The Announcers role is discussed -Who impressed them on the show. 5. PWX: X-16 Night 1 and 2 - The guys talk about all the matches and give star ratings. - Somethings they liked and didn't like on the show. -We discuss the things that we didn't like about the Flo-Slam presentation.

Reed vs Slater If Butch Reed wins he gets Dark Journey for 30 days. I thought the bout would be worked in a more violent fashion. Instead the match was worked with good psycholgy, but lacked something for a blood feud. Reed had a neck injury so both guys worked the match around the neck. Reed worked revenge spots on Slater's neck, and Slater targeted Reed's neck. Slater dung his knee and Reed worked the leg and went for the Figure 4. The finish was pretty bad, and beating Reed cheap twice was terrible.The match lacked a spark, and with that finish hurt the match. 2 3/4*

If Butch Reed wins he gets Dark Journey for 30 days. I thought the bout would be worked in a more violent fashion. Instead the match was worked with good psycholgy, but lacked something for a blood feud. Reed had a neck injury so both guys worked the match around the neck. Reed worked revenge spots on Slater's neck, and Slater targeted Reed's neck. Slater dung his knee and Reed worked the leg and went for the Figure 4. The finish was pretty bad, and beating Reed cheap twice was terrible.The match lacked a spark, and with that finish hurt the match. 2 3/4*

Dibiase vs Murdoch This is pretty epic stuff. This is coming off of the famous Ric Flair/Ted Dibiase/Dick Murdoch angle. So we get this grudge match. Dick attacks before Teddy can even get in the ring. Murdoch is beating on him and both guys are throwing bombs. Soon Murdoch moves onto the neck that put Ted on the shelf for a bit. The work on the neck is really rugged. Those turnbuckles shots looked absolutely sickening. Teddy is now bleeding and Dick is working the cut. The cut bleeds more and more as the cut is worked over. Ted fights him off and he's throwing punches. Dick is bleeding . Ted loads the glove and does a picture perfect fist drop. He misses though and hits the mat. Ted is selling the hand. Actually both guys are selling like they've been in a war. Dick goes for the brain buster but Ted slips away and nails him with the loaded glove for the win. Ted's leaving and Masked Superstar sucker punches him and roughs him up. Dick delivers a brain buster and lays out Murdoch. I never understood why we transitioned out of the singles feud into a tag feud so quickly. None the less the match is worked perfectly off the angle, and then we get a great post match angle to take the feud in another direction. 4 3/4*

This is pretty epic stuff. This is coming off of the famous Ric Flair/Ted Dibiase/Dick Murdoch angle. So we get this grudge match. Dick attacks before Teddy can even get in the ring. Murdoch is beating on him and both guys are throwing bombs. Soon Murdoch moves onto the neck that put Ted on the shelf for a bit. The work on the neck is really rugged. Those turnbuckles shots looked absolutely sickening. Teddy is now bleeding and Dick is working the cut. The cut bleeds more and more as the cut is worked over. Ted fights him off and he's throwing punches. Dick is bleeding . Ted loads the glove and does a picture perfect fist drop. He misses though and hits the mat. Ted is selling the hand. Actually both guys are selling like they've been in a war. Dick goes for the brain buster but Ted slips away and nails him with the loaded glove for the win. Ted's leaving and Masked Superstar sucker punches him and roughs him up. Dick delivers a brain buster and lays out Murdoch. I never understood why we transitioned out of the singles feud into a tag feud so quickly. None the less the match is worked perfectly off the angle, and then we get a great post match angle to take the feud in another direction. 4 3/4*

This was just your underneath young lion match. A match where both guys get some time. Put on a basic match and get a feel for working in front of the crowd. 2*

https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/twiw-nwa-on-demand-11-22-106 Pete and Johnny are back. We take you back to the good old days of Houston Wrestling from the Sam Houston Coliseum. On the Docket for the night: 1. Bruiser Brody vs Alex Smirnoff 6/11/82 2. Al Madril vs Killer Karl Krupp 1/6/78 3. Hacksaw Duggan vs Skandar Akbar LLT for 30 days cage match 9/27/85 -Pete and Johnny give a brief history of the feud. Pete shares his thoughts as a 13 year old being at this show live. Pete also goes into detail why he wanted to go to this show really bad. 4. Moon Mulligan vs Mike Graham 12/4/81 5. Tully Blanchard vs Manny Fernandez 12/4/81 6. Gino Hernandez vs Dick Slater 12/4/81 -The Dynamic Duo vs Dick Slater feud is one of those forgotten feuds that is brought back to the forefront because of this service. We get to share the greatness of this feud with all your listeners. Furthermore both guys analyze the matches, and Pete gives his star ratings on all the matches.

http://placetobenation.com/this-week-in-wrestling-111916-wwe/ Pete and Johnny review the week that was in WWE. 1.Raw -The highs Goldberg-Brock build Development of Braun Angle to close the show. -Lows Very similar story telling up and down the show Poor Execution on angles 2.State of the WWE quick recap 3. Smackdown Live Miz vs Ziggler The dual brand female angle Return of Edge and Undertaker Team Smackdown looking ready for the ppv. NXT All the happenings of the last tv.

Tully vs Manny Fernandez and then Dick Slater his paired with the Dick Slater match is one of those special Houston moments that the people there still talk about today. Manny is focusing on Tully's arm. All of Manny's work is full of vigor, and most importantly it looks like all the arm work hurts like hell. Manny is one of the great strikers of all time. In a small touch Tully positions his body so his arm is as far away from harms way is possible. Throughout the match Tully would get in some cheap shots. Eventually this leads to the flying burrito. The 2nd fall is short and sweet. Manny misses the burrito and hits his neck on the ropes. He then rebounds into a nasty Tully knee. It had a real UFC feel that knee KO. The 3rd fall is just a fight. Both guys bringing everything they have to the fight. The crowd is hot and when Gino comes out the heat is molten. Gino saves Tuly from getting pinned. Dick Slater is out with a 2x4 chasing Gino into the ring. As Gino runs into the ring, Tully is irishwhipped right into him and they bang heads and Manny gets the win. Slater beats on Gino with the 2x4 making him a bloody mess. Gino can't go on so Tully has to fight Slater. 1st Fall Slater is just taking it to Tully. Tully bumping all over the place. Slater is super agressive and full of anger. Slater takes the 1st fall. The 2nd fall Tully hits a slingshot head butt into Slater's bad arm. This was a great spot and lead to Tully just destroying the arm. Slater musters up enough fight for a comeback. Only problem Gino comes out all spirit of 76 and interferes giving Slater the match. Post match the heels lay out Slater until the cavalry arrived. This was great stuff. 4 1/2*

This paired with the Dick Slater match is one of those special Houston moments that the people there still talk about today. Manny is focusing on Tully's arm. All of Manny's work is full of vigor, and most importantly it looks like all the arm work hurts like hell. Manny is one of the great strikers of all time. In a small touch Tully positions his body so his arm is as far away from harms way is possible. Throughout the match Tully would get in some cheap shots. Eventually this leads to the flying burrito. The 2nd fall is short and sweet. Manny misses the burrito and hits his neck on the ropes. He then rebounds into a nasty Tully knee. It had a real UFC feel that knee KO. The 3rd fall is just a fight. Both guys bringing everything they have to the fight. The crowd is hot and when Gino comes out the heat is molten. Gino saves Tuly from getting pinned. Dick Slater is out with a 2x4 chasing Gino into the ring. As Gino runs into the ring, Tully is irishwhipped right into him and they bang heads and Manny gets the win. Slater beats on Gino with the 2x4 making him a bloody mess. Gino can't go on so Tully has to fight Slater. 1st Fall Slater is just taking it to Tully. Tully bumping all over the place. Slater is super agressive and full of anger. Slater takes the 1st fall. The 2nd fall Tully hits a slingshot head butt into Slater's bad arm. This was a great spot and lead to Tully just destroying the arm. Slater musters up enough fight for a comeback. Only problem Gino comes out all spirit of 76 and interferes giving Slater the match. Post match the heels lay out Slater until the cavalry arrived. This was great stuff. 4 1/2*

http://placetobenation.com/this-week-in-wrestling-111816-indy-international/ Pete and Timothy check out some key shows this week. -ROH we discuss the most recent episode. We look at Adam Page and his lack of connection with the crowd. -Lucha Underground has Aztec Warfare 3. We discuss what we liked and what we didn't. We discuss booking decisions that have helped cool down the company from a year ago. Are their better female options than Sexy Star? Hear the guys thoughts. -CWFWorldwide is looked at. We look at all the matches. Does White Mike have a babyface run in him? The guys discuss key factors on what makes the show consistent. -Rev Pro Global Wars Night 1. We analyze each match and give star ratings. Is Shibata the right guy to be Rev Pro Champ? Was having Sabre Jr. be the heel good for business? Would the current audience know the significance of Flying Yamada? Is Marty regressing? This and much more.

This was pretty ho hum. It was pretty evident these guys were working a 15 minute broadway. Of course it picked up at the last minute. I just found the match to lack spark.

He's such a great bumper. The wrestlers will love working with him.

The selling didn't bother me at all . I didn't think either guy took enough punishment to be selling a shoulder . It felt that it hadn't built enough to get any significant selling.

I think Elgin has improved so much since working NJPW. He's a totally different wrestler from the guy going into the G1 for the 1st time.

Brody vs Smirnoff Hot damn. I wasn't expecting this. This was just a really sprited stiff brawl. Pretty much what you need in a 5 minute fight. Both guys really brought it.

Hot damn. I wasn't expecting this. This was just a really sprited stiff brawl. Pretty much what you need in a 5 minute fight. Both guys really brought it.

Duggan vs Akbar Loser Leaves Town for 30 days. I went to this show as a kid with my brother. This is a cage match. I believe originally it Duggan vs Kamala with if Duggan wins he gets 5 minutes with Akbar. As a kid, my brother and I wanted Duggan to get that no good Akbar. I'm sure my brother and I called him much worse in real time. Bottom line this was worked spot on and super heated. Duggan took most of the match. Skandar used a foreign object to gain an advantage. Duggan gets it and uses his finisher on Akbar. Stuff like this I miss in my wrestling.