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For a foreign title, that's not half bad actually. This was so much better than Beyond The Mat. Everyone seemed more at ease with the cameras (probably thinking little of it will ever see the light of day, as it was really just going to be a puff piece on Bret for Canadian television originally).

This was just pure balls and a bit of class on Rick's part to do this. Bret praised him in the book for doing it and in a segment on Bret's first DVD with WWE about everyone no longer here, he gets a little emotional when talking about Rick. Bischoff's shoot reaction behind him is fantastic.

Seems rational considering the egos involved.

There are pictures, but nothing that I know of filmed, closest I can think of is this Flair/Steamboat match with Andre as ref.

Probably just lip service. Between this and what WWF did on that same night, it seems the Big Two thought they could milk this for publicity (with Princess Di's death the major news at the time).

Dude, I'm surprised he wasn't paralyzed from that hit he took on the casket in the Undertaker match the following January.

We should call him Billy Jerk Haynes both in honor of Bobby Heenan and what a paranoid jackass he's become.

Steve Austin said he'll interview Jim tomorrow for his podcast.

Looks like we won't have Jim Ross to kick around anymore.

The closest thing to an angle they had all year was them and Bobby against the Orient Express and Fuji that was just limited to a couple of MSG shows in the summer of '91. There's a match with Kato and Fuji (I think Tanaka was away for personal reasons) against Haku and Barb that's quite funny because it's probably the only time in his career that Heenan is a face.

Yeah, but he would go up against Hogan again a few times before he left.

Haku and him probably suffered from Heenan retiring from managing, since they had little promo skills. They could have at least put someone like Jimmy Hart or Bruno with them.

I liked Santa coming out at the end this year and the next one with Luger. Doubtful it would have worked in '94 with Undertaker though.

One reason it's too bad Jake never stuck around in WCW is that he could have had a hell of a feud with Arn Anderson over the move.

Someone brought up accidentally locking the Flair thread. It made me think what would happen if someone erased this thread and you had to start all over again.

From what I've heard, Arn has a wicked sense of humor (I heard he does the best Iron Sheik impression of anyone) so Terry could very well have done it to just make Arn and the boys laugh on top of pushing the angle towards War Games into something more personal. The problem lies in the fact that it lends credence to the undeniable truth that Bischoff felt he didn't need Flair and approved things like this to remind people that Arn and Flair represent "rasslin" and that he was angling for something more, ultimately to measures like putting Vince out of business.

Evansville practically is Kentucky.

That they treated a non-sequitor of a music video like it was a backwards Satanic message in a Led Zeppelin song is just funny to me.

Plus if they really wanted this to be a shoot, they would have put Cornette (my fuzzy memory of this is that he was only involved in helping Lawler out during the Dreamer match a month later from this) in Jerry's place.

I've heard this a few times, but I'd like to settle my curiosity on it. Was this Terry Taylor's brainchild? I have heard on a few occasions he was involved in this. I thought it was too harsh to find funny, but that's me. Both WWF and WCW were going into very unappealing areas of "satire" around this time, that I feel was just there to appease the lowest common denominator. I'm with Loss, if it was just designed to do that then it would probably be forgotten or considered less controversial. Whenever someone's personal troubles makes it into angles I have mixed feelings, usually negative. I will give them credit for not making it a running gag, like Oklahoma was.

I'm guessing ratings and that they were just about to start Raw.

Is there a Jackie Crockett shoot interview somewhere? I liked him in the doc and the extras and feel he'd probably have as many, if not more stories than someone like J.J. Dillon (who is always a good interview I think).

Those shows are all good and have done well enough, true. And I can't say if those are the types of shows that can co-exist on the same network as professional wrestling, but I have a hard time seeing it on the same network that produces shows like the ones on FX or AMC.

I can't see USA wanting to give it up. They've branched out into original programming but have not had a breakout critical/audience hit like a Breaking Bad that would maybe justify them wanting to go in a different direction on Monday nights.

Southern Indiana for you. But to be fair it would have gotten the same reaction in Fort Wayne, too.