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Very interesting face/face match featuring guys they really weren't doing a whole lot with other than filling the underneath slots. I wonder if Vince put this together to see potential in either as guys who can have a bigger place in the card. Bellomo heels up a little more but I didn't get the feeling the crowd was anything but split in terms of the reaction.

Any good? The list of interviewees are quite interesting and I've heard one clip of him and Prichard reminiscing about Lord Alfred Hayes which was pretty good. Just wondering if there are any dedicated listeners here.

Someone on Twitter speculated about the Andre doc as being WWE's attempt to rehabilitate Hogan's image. From the WWE side maybe, but I can imagine there was more urgency on the HBO/Bill Simmons side to get him on it, because he is a big part of that legacy. I do think the film spent far too much time building up why Hogan became big in the 80's (namely using the Rocky III footage as opposed to stills), but think just as much that it could be a flimsy attempt to add heat onto this already smoldering situation.

Some of the segments they did are problematic looking back (like the one where basically everyone buries Austin, calls him a coward and that he took his ball and went home). If they chose to edit those out, I wouldn't complain. They did a nice tribute video to Curt Hennig that includes a very young and emotional Brock Lesnar talking about the impact he made on Lesnar's life.

WWE said there were no cameras present for the speech he made to the locker room

Any chance of them putting up episodes WWE Confidential?

It might have been dialed down a bit, perhaps given the fact that it appears all that energy will go towards the reboot of the XFL. It gives some credence to the news that Vince has put his personal money into this. Just as an aside, I have to say I really like the artwork for each episode of this, and Bischoff's show. Some of it's a little too goofy, most of it is funny, but this week's episode on Bash At The Beach '94 has a really nice one that could be almost a one-sheet for the show itself.

I'll withhold judgment until I actually see it. Those docs don't shy away from touchy subjects if the programs on Angle and the Hardys are any indication. I would just hope they don't try to wrap it up with some kind of resolution and leave it a bit more open-ended here.

Finished the Heenan episode. Quite emotional towards the end, I didn't realize just how close they were. Bruce said, and I think he's absolutely right, that if Heenan had a podcast it would be huge.

I would agree letting him back on TV would not be a good idea at all. Aside from the optics of it, he couldn't adapt to the heavily-scripted nature of the interviews to save his life.

Wasn't he assaulted by marks when he wasn't even working for them anymore? I forget if it was Facebook or Twitter but one of the comments on the post announcing this show asked Bruce what he thought of ruining a man's life, which I thought was funny (I can have a dark sense of humor sometimes).

Good. Considering the reputations and actions of some other people who were inducted, and as of yet not kicked out, what he said was a drop in the bucket.

I love his anti-Trump stuff on Twitter, but I've stayed away from his podcast because I don't wish to listen to it either.

Sid could have bashed Joe Torre with that camera and the crowd still would have cheered him on.

I watched several episodes of JBL's show yesterday. Kind of a bummer they put the kibosh on it, I thought it was good for what it was.

According to the Kindle link, the publishing company's name is "Walking On Hot Waffles". I should hasten my dream of becoming a writer, sign up with them so I can tell my grandchildren one day that the great American novel was published by them.

I suspect if the book is any good it'll speak truth to power as to what happened between them. Or at least as much as a pro wrestler can, even today. Is it only sold on his website?

Brutus Beefcake's book got a lot of plugs on the latest Something To Wrestle With. Conrad Thompson said something along the lines of it being one of the best wrestling books he's read in awhile.

Halfway through the BTFBB episode, pretty good stuff. Didn't realize he wrote a book, Conrad uses it for a few stories here and he highly recommends it. I'm at where they're talking about the accident, brutal stuff.

I'd like to see them finish out Prime Time Wrestling.

I'm kind of getting back into the show now. Interested to hear both the 83 Weeks episode on him and his rebuttal to Conrad. Not a wrestler, but I'd really like to hear him interview Mike Portnoy one on one. He's been on a few times before but in different contexts, but a straight-up conversation between the two would be great. I've not really enjoyed the times Chris talked to musicians but he's friends with Portnoy and I think it could break through some of the problems he had before with people he probably just met before interviewing them.

Was it filmed?