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There was something in the Studd obit of Dave's that explained the push Studd was going to get coming out of that win. I've forgotten what it was, but I think Dave touched on it fairly well. John

Yeah, his official retirement date is listed as 1979, but surely he had some return matches in the intervening period. Otherwise, he couldn't have qualified for that "only man to wrestle in seven different decades" hat trick. And besides that, even if it were just '32-'79, that's still a helluva run. He worked a WWF Legends Battle Royal in 1987: http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/87.htm

Yeah, I'm aware of it. I wouldn't call it reviewing matches. It was just throwing out some quick comments of Tito's work with various opponents? I have a thread where I reviewed about 40 Tito matches, in some detail. I didn't like all of them, but like a lot of them, and explained why. And in the matches that I didn't think as much of, explained why, or pointed out things that worked and didn't work. Pretty sure others have as well. John

Kawada pinned Hansen in the 1993 Carny, a month after their 2/93 Budokan war. Not a tv taping, no hand held has washed up... yeah, Kawada's big first win there was pissed away. John

What's the point in trying to convince noobs? I just think this: "Tito's career is a disappointment when it comes to matches." Only works for one who doesn't like a number of Tito's matches. I like me some Tito matches. I'm not even wading into the Tito > Shawn or Shawn > Tito notion because it doesn't interest me at all. John

These didn't air on a fix day each month: MSG - January 27, 1986 - Monday MSG - February 17, 1986 - Monday MSG - March 16, 1986 - Sunday MSG - April 22, 1986 - Tuesday MSG - May 19, 1986 - Monday MSG - June 14, 1986 - Saturday MSG - July 12, 1986 - Saturday MSG - August 25, 1986 - Monday MSG - September 22, 1986 - Monday MSG - October 20, 1986 - Monday MSG - November 24, 1986 - Monday MSG - December 26, 1986 - Friday The day is less important than to make a general statement: WWF SNME = NBC several times a year WWF Taped House Show = roughly monthly local to the arena (NY, Boston, Philly, later Los Angeles) I don't know if I would call this a "B-show". It was in a sense the A-Show of USA. It did recap the storylines, but also ran unique matches. The Tito-Savage title change aired on Primetime, not in syndication. MSG main event matches would appear on here on occassion. Yep. I don't think I would go to this being a C-show. It had it's own angles and stuff. Hogan went on the Snake Pit. Possibly a B-show, but in a sense more of an "A-" or "B+" show. The WWF had so much talent that it used both to get over the talent base. All-American by this point was closer to a recap show. They would roll some stuff out here and there, but it was the secondary show of USA. Spotlight was a throwaway, but more of the same from the WWF: blanket the markets in hope a fan catches at least one of them. Primetime moved around a bit. I think their preferred night for it was Monday for much of the year, but there were other things on USA at the time that bounced it and the WWF wasn't yet and anchor for them. John

Unless one actually likes the matches. John

Welcome to our modern education system. And yet some politicians have the nerve to complain that the reason our classrooms suck is because we pay our qualified and competent teachers too much money. Preach it. John

This needs to be put in the Sonnen thread instead of here. John

Lordy... a 19 year old kid with a high school degree with no credentials being a teacher, even as a sub, as being acceptable in states? What a fucking embarrassment. John

I did not know that you could graduate from college and get your teaching credentials in OK in less than a year. Mighty impressive for a 19 year old. Or perhaps: "Mrs. Thompson called in suck today. Why don't you go down to the Exxon station and see if Old Man Richards can spare CP from the lube bay today so the boy can come in to teach the 6th graders." Yeah... that's about as far fetched. John

That was rather predictable. So what's the deal between NXT and FCW? John

I think she needs to get the fuck away from the trainwreck and get her life in order. Not that she doesn't sound like a fuck up herself... but hanging around Ric isn't going to make things better. John

Ah. I think of bootleg to be handheld, despite Lynch's terminology. John

They need to get a divorce, then get counseling. John

Bootleg? Do you mean the match between the teams earlier in the year that was pro-shot and aired on local TV? John

Mike (Lorefice) would do that, I remember clearly browsing through his tape list when I didn't even knew who these Japanese people were, those matches were labelled as such. He got it from John, I can assure you (well, was influenced by John at the very least.). "Beats me. It's probably blamed on me somehow." -jdw John

That's funny. John

That would be more along the lines of the 1996 match in TJ... before Konnan had the clusterfuck run in... which came from watching too much ECW as well. John

I'd add for Kobashi in 1993 as a career year: It is the one year of his career where there is the perfect finish for him in The Last Match of the Year that fitting of where his character was. Even his RWTL wins with Jun later in the 90s didn't really give us something fresh, new and making one look forward towards the new year over what was ahead. 12/03/93... that does something. John

Liz's shoe = Flair then Arn pin Hogan. From Graham's site: I mean... that was fucking great. John

They're not going to air house show stuff on a third tier program like this Main Event. If they ever go to airing house shows, it will likely be on their own WWE Network if they can do it in a low cost way (which they can). They also won't likely be going to a poor production show for Ion. It will be a Nxt / ECW thing, which aren't as upscale as Raw/SD, but still fit within what we could call the WWE Style Guide of production. I think folks are thinking too big for this show. It's on a channel in the 30s here in Los Angeles: the old UHF range. It's a jobber network. You're going to likely get some of those matches that people love on NXT, along with tons of rehash video pieces that replay the big storylines on Raw.

The matches just got the usual com release. Pretty much all the top Budokan matches got com releases by 1994 due to TV editing matches down.