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I like what Rude did from the time he came back to WWF to his death. He was actually doing color commentary in WCW, and was more of a face too I seem to remember. He was good on the mic in that respect from what I remember.

Vince would have treated the mustache coming off like it was the Rapture.

I have no passion at all for the current product, more a morbid curiosity of how things are being done. I missed apparently what was a hell of a match between C.M. Punk and Brock Lesnar so I could watch one of the final episodes of Breaking Bad and don't really regret it.

I read in PWI that Terry Gordy was 15 when he started.

Paul Roma, sweetheart of a man.

He played a boxer in a movie in the late 90's with bald head and goatee, and was a complete dead ringer for Austin.

I too add my thanks. Let's hope Karma rewards you well for this. I don't remember it word for word, but Flair's promo stuck with me that night. I desperately wanted it to be a shoot, but even then knew it wasn't because I'd known how much he enjoyed his time working with Vince before. It felt pretty hollow once the show went off the air, when they aired a commercial for WrestleMania. The party was over, and the last golden age of pro wrestling was finally dead. I don't think I could even watch Vince's promo again. Much as I liked seeing him fire Jeff Jarrett, it feels like a total shoot looking back. This is where Vince and Mr. McMahon were as one, with his denigration of "rasslin'" and so on. True, they have survived as a corner pocket of pop culture, but it's dragging behind it instead of ahead of it (if they were even ahead of it, really). What we have now is sound and noise, signifying mostly nothing. There are exceptions to this, but they are rare. What's missed most of all is the actual live feel of what now Kevin Nash has described as the most canned live show that you'll ever see. Controversially I think "fuck you's" go all belong to Russo in my opinion (for obvious reasons). Without him, even with what Bischoff, Hogan and Nash had done, they could have survived. They weren't smart decisions but they were based in at least a modicum (and years of knowledge all between them) of respect for what they were putting on the air. He doesn't really merit a "fuck you" but Ted Turner is partly to blame as well, for giving Hogan such a deal that favored him more than the company.

The '87 one holds up good too, especially when it's down to The Killer Bees against the Harts, Dream Team and Islanders.

Hands-down, the 88 match with all the tag teams. Last hurrah for the Bulldogs, only time we see them on the same side with the Hart Foundation, and a glance at what could have been seeing them tussle with Arn & Tully.

This would be great if Billy has someone he can trust to run the day-to-day stuff while he continues on with the Pumpkins.

Just curious but was Warrior-Von Erich/Perfect-Rude ever on television?

Is Ted still affiliated with WWE after Jr. left?

Well I would imagine a lot of the workers from the early early days of pro wrestling are thread killers, too.

You have to consider when Crockett was running hot in the 80's in the south, the only thing that maybe equaled or surpassed it in popularity was NASCAR. I'm sure it went hand in hand with a lot of those folks who took exception to it.

Said it before, but they could make a hell of a lot of money off a Netflix-type service using their back catalog of wrestling. Either that or enter a more lucrative deal with Netflix and give them more stuff to put on.

He was their hardcore champion right?

I was at this show. The most memorable thing about it is that we left during the Meng/Bam Bam match, and that Sunday we saw Haku as the surprise entrant in the Royal Rumble, thus being probably the last surprise defection of the Monday Night Wars.

3-Count still had back-up dancers at the last Nitro.

RE: Goldberg. Really wish they'd gone with the idea of having Arn be his manager.

The Limp Bizkit ("WWE's favorite band!") theme music didn't help him much either.

You try ebay?

Almost done, man. Like the song said, a few more miles to freedom

Why?

Well, someone should do it with the "TNA Wrestling" tag at the end.

I bet you could do hundreds if not thousands of those.