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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.

I'd chalk stuff like that up to that it maybe felt like they were working 350 days a year,and that the further away from that time of their life they are it becomes fact in their own heads.

Jim Cornette even loved this match.

So it was Andre's casket being pulled out of the ground by the Big Boss Man?

What was Paul's big hard-on with WCW about?

Only way I could see this happening is if Vince and Universal butt heads over something like the dog show again. How well did the WrestleMania prime-time special draw for NBC btw?

@WCWToday on Twitter posted this today, probably in light of the news coming out of the NFL today.

I think the point was that Vince wasn't exactly starting from scratch, he took what his dad built up and went national. Exactly.

That could have been true in the 80's, but they were fully national by the Nitro days as I recall.

Luck factors pretty big in Vince's success, along with the other attributes mentioned here. His father ran New York City, and he inherited that. Yes it was a localized territory that didn't maybe didn't play as well in other markets. What Vince Jr. did to make it more accessible on a national stage wasn't exactly genius in and of itself. He reached out to the music business and Hollywood to help the company's national profile, and it worked fabulously. A large part (I think) of that is because he had Madison Square Garden, not the Mid South Coliseum.

I don't blame you. If I subjected myself to all this, I'd want answers too.

I'd say it's his memory, but I've never sensed that he wanted to go deep into what happened to Brody since he and Colon are still friendly. He gives it a few sentences in his book and isn't talked about in his 2008 shoot interview (don't know about his RF one).

I bet Daniel didn't take him up on drinking. He doesn't seem like much of one, but not a straight-edge guy like Punk (who I'd imagine Flair just loves).

I think anybody with Flair's emotional history who has lost a child has at least thought about suicide. I speak from personal experience in dealing with someone who lost a child who was in their 20's that is entirely possible. Of course I don't know him so it may not apply, but I'd be very surprised if we don't lose him soon. Besides the emotional toll of this recent loss and whatever damage alcohol has done to his body and mind, there's the issue of the fact that he never bothered looking for his real parents which if he did doctors could have access to family health history and such.

This is his IMDB page. It's interesting you brought someone from England up, I think someone in the cast of Alien 3 was a wrestler. I seem to recall hearing David Fincher telling a story about him on the commentary track for one of his films (Zodiac I think). For the record, I think if he showed the same kind of passion towards acting as he did his native profession, Roddy Piper could have been (and who knows, still might get the chance) to give a genuinely great performance or two.

I watched the Real Sports segment with DDP, Jake and Scott the other night. Jake looks better than he has in quite awhile, even possibly since his last run (I'm guessing he's even lighter than he was then). Ditto Scott, and was interesting seeing him with his son. I just bet WWE won't do anything to promote this given it's checkered history with the show and the fact that the final segment of the night was about Donald Trump's attempt to turn part of Scotland into a corporate monstrosity.

I could be wrong but I think Animal backed this up in a shoot interview.

It's a dated joke, but this reminded me of Bill Maher's line about how he'd rather have 64 good Sammy Davis Jr. years than 1,000 Ken Starr years.

DDP tells a great story about how they kept cutting time away from the segment, ultimately to where it was down to four minutes (match included). He was freaking out, but Hall and Nash were cool about it. He also said he was legitimately pissed at something Mark did but didn't quite bury him for it, too.