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  1. flyonthewall2983
    Bobby probably legit hated Tony before this night. I say this because the time I met him for an autograph session at a record store earlier that year (I even remember when it was, because it was the day before Owen died), I engaged in a brief Q&A with him. Because it was a record store I asked him what music he liked and he gave a pretty non-descriptive answer and the follow-up was "what does Tony like?". His response was "little boys in closets".
  2. flyonthewall2983
    Kayfabe-wise I like to think that Bobby Heenan got The Barbarian because he liked the job he did beating up both Hogan and Warrior when they were down and out when he came in. Perfect winning probably would have been a good scenario, but Hogan winning just made him look stronger going into Toronto I think.
  3. flyonthewall2983
    I found it to have some of the same problems the World Class doc had (editing issues, footage shot on low-grade digital or VHS), but at least that one had a more interesting through-line and engaging story on several levels. I felt this one was really for the fans, and if their only aim was to try and bring non-fans to this it would have failed miserably. That said, I liked it as a wrestling fan. I felt the "Extreme Reunion" stuff was necessary to show how things have changed. The Balls Mahoney footage in particular was quite heartbreaking compared to his 2001 interview where he was (relatively) more alert and witty and a good story-teller to have me laughing at the story of the riot he cause (and forgot about!). I thought it was hilarious that the first sound you hear in the documentary is Alfonso's whistle. Likewise hilarious is Douglas' Livestrong gear. I liked Billy Corgan, especially the footage in the bonus stuff of the angle he was involved in. Am I wrong, or didn't he show up in ECW once before this and actually play a song in the ring? I thought I heard about this once in the late 90's, before the TNN era.
  4. flyonthewall2983
    Does Honky really like anyone? Everything I've seen him do is bitch, bitch, bitch.
  5. flyonthewall2983
    I've never heard any bad things about him, except from Orndorff of course.
  6. flyonthewall2983
    WWF hiring him feels more like they got him because they were licking their chops after WCW raided their talent pool. He worked as well as he could, and had some great matches, but I blame the company more for not knowing how to utilize him. He would have been great in ECW, but he must have been way above their pay grade compared to what he would get in Japan and other places.
  7. flyonthewall2983
    It's a damn shame that he was fired from WCW when he was. He could have had some legendary big man matches with guys like Tenta and Meng. Seeing him and a young Big Show do battle would have been great too.
  8. flyonthewall2983
    I wonder if it would have been better if they just had Slaughter go away for awhile, and have a more abrupt face turn when he came back. I have a feeling the turn they eventually did was Remus wanting to turn back and deflect the negative attention from the public he was getting. And for what it's worth, the turn worked. He wasn't a top babyface, but they pretty much stopped booing him as I recall.
  9. flyonthewall2983
    That could be like waiting to watch dry paint crack. Luger definitely comes across as having treated it as a job. It might be interesting if he had any insight into what went on with Hogan during this time. I know they interviewed Jake Roberts for something but it was canned. I'd LOVE to see him do a '91 Timeline, as it was an interesting year for him in WWF.
  10. flyonthewall2983
    His RF interview was like watching paint dry.
  11. flyonthewall2983
    Didn't he date Mulligan's daughter (now his wife) first before getting into it?
  12. flyonthewall2983
    I liked the flip he did once he was handed the belt. A sort-of good way to end the feud, even though it really ended with Repo Man stealing it and giving it back to Ted to get that character over if I remember correctly. A little strange to me that Piper didn't get out of the booth to celebrate with him. First guess would be they were on a tight schedule and couldn't drag out the victory as much as they could have.
  13. flyonthewall2983
    A few other guys seemed to have just done this match as a cameo, something they still do now. I never liked this Rumble, way too short. Shawn could have done a full-length Rumble in his sleep back then.
  14. flyonthewall2983
    This was the last regular MSG show to be broadcast on their network wasn't it?
  15. flyonthewall2983
    I'm sure they knew it was going to be a rather infamous spot. I don't think Rock was ever more hated as a heel before or since that night.
  16. flyonthewall2983
    Women can be as freaky as men, believe me.
  17. flyonthewall2983
    It's on iTunes.
  18. flyonthewall2983
    I didn't see this until I watched the first Flair DVD set WWE put out. Pretty visceral stuff, and a nice way to really introduce Flair to the WWF audience I think.
  19. flyonthewall2983
    That honestly could be taken as either shoot or kayfabe I imagine.
  20. flyonthewall2983
    Did his contract expire in September? I was watching a bit of SummerSlam from this year and thought that the perfect place for him to have started on screen.
  21. flyonthewall2983
    Brutus Beefcake's 1989 Timeline was pretty good. His memory is a little shot because of the head injury but he had some good behind-the-scenes stuff to dish about. Mostly how he hated the Barber gimmick from the beginning, which he "blamed" on Pat Patterson. It is said he made the most of it and got over well with it, but I was surprised at how much he didn't like turning face (Question, was he really over as a heel to begin with? Just by himself, not with Valentine.) As anyone who's seen the youtube clip, he does put down Arn and Tully. Tully is understandable given his rep, but I guess his beef with Arn goes back to WCW (Flair has said in his shoot interview and his book that Hulk & co. wanted Brut-eye to take Arn's place on the roster, basically). And of course, he talks about Hulk about 1/3 of the interview and himself for another third. The match where Bret broke his sternum segues into a diatribe about DDP nearly taking his head off with a chair shot on a Nitro, and making excuses for it instead of apologizing (if anyone knows which show that was on, I'd like to know). "Free James Brown!"
  22. flyonthewall2983
    They were slowly pushing tension between Hogan and Tugboat for some reason. Tugboat eliminated Hogan in the April SNME battle royal (a pretty good one, actually. Not sure why it didn't make the cut here) as revenge for Hogan dumping him out in the Rumble.
  23. flyonthewall2983
    I'd have much rather seen Arn/Dynamite one-on-one.
  24. flyonthewall2983
    Someone please do this for the Flair RF shoot so I don't have to watch it lol.
  25. flyonthewall2983
    There was a brief taste of that in the '88 Survivor Series match.
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