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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.

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).