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Sherri had nothing but nice things to say about Moolah in her RF interview. Did she change her tune subsequent to that?

Yes! I'm fond of saying that on reddit it feels like the majority of users feel that anything before the Monday Night Wars was in the dark ages.

Just confirmed, 100 hours of SN from 1992 onwards to be available on April 2nd. Personally excited for this since this was the flagship show for WCW, during the time I was starting to watch wrestling. Lots of great matches and segments that I'll be able to relive.

I hope that is the case, because my first instinct was to think that this was much more about his WWE legacy than WCW. Especially since Heyman was so anti-WCW back then.

Brian Koppelman, one of the creators of Showtime's Billions (and director of the Jimmy Connors 30 For 30, which I liked quite a lot) was on Simmons' podcast last week and talked about the doc. He was shown the final cut and sang it's praises pretty high. It's clear going into this that this is almost as much about the death of the territories as is about Andre, which makes me doubly fascinated in this. Koppelman said he wants to create a show about that period of time, and went as far as actually having a meeting with Vince (he says in the doc this is the most human he has ever seen Vince, BTW) about it.

The Steve Austin/Bret Hart angle made both significant and subtle changes to their careers. From a character standpoint Bret was never more convincing then he was as the Hitman character got more agitated with the fact more and more of the audience was cheering the other guy, and how that spun off into the whole Hart Foundation/Canada vs. USA angle was great. Austin had the goodwill of smart marks and people in power like Heyman and Prichard before he even signed with the WWF, he'd gotten an unusual amount of buzz from the "Austin 3:16" promo, working with Bret made him into a star, and the match at WrestleMania 13 made him a legend. Even just on a company level, that angle and the chemistry they had together as characters and in-ring talent, this felt like the first time the WWF could really move on from the ghosts of their previous success and forge a new path.

For better or worse, the company has continued to embrace people with checkered pasts and embarrassing incidents. At least he has apologized for what he has said, even if the veracity of his apologies are questionable. In today's world, can you imagine what kind of shit Warrior would be spewing right now? Things he said, even months before he died, were just as offensive if not more so than what Hogan did given the circumstances of when he said it.

If he ever does return I can see the company using him in a more subdued role. Maybe not doing in-ring stuff, but for the Network. I'm still enough of a mark for the persona that I'd love to see him do a comprehensive career program where he watches old matches and comments on them.

I've been watching the WM 19 doc again on YouTube after hearing about it a little on the Prichard show on it this week. Using this as an example as I know they did it for more shows, but I wonder how much of the actual show was shot on film stock, and if they could put together a version of the show using just that footage.

Some of our English friends might refuse to call it that anyway

Diamond Dallas Page said on Steve Austin's podcast that he has filmed some stuff for the new Savage release

Charlie Ebersol, with help from his dad and Peter Thiel, are starting their own football organization set to rival the new XFL

Nice. That's a perfect quote for the story that match was telling. In another life, Elmore Leonard would have been a hell of a booker. Makes you wonder what their run from 87 to 88 would have been. One tantalizing possibility is putting together a Shawn/Ricky Steamboat match. It's a shame it didn't happen in '91 during The Dragon run.

Billy Jack "Vince McMahon secretly killed the Benoit family" Haynes?

I take all of this back

I like the MSG match with Bret and Raymond from '86. I understand why he wanted to come in as a team with his brother but I think Raymond could have had a stronger singles run. His perspective is perhaps tainted, particularly when it comes to Randy Savage. He told a story in the shoot about Randy and Angelo Poffo insulting him because of his weight in Memphis, and in a rather cruel way too from how he put it.

This is perhaps the most underwhelming class, in terms of how potentially interesting each individual speaker may come off as. Jeff Jarrett might be the one with the highest potential considering his upbringing and his relationship with the company and how it ended, but as far as anyone else I'm not seeing it.

I believe Little Beaver was seriously injured by that spot. You can see Blackjack Lanza going nuts on his headset briefly afterwards. I watched it again recently and came to the quick decision that the opening match was probably my favorite of the whole show. All the tag team matches here are kind of my favorites for different reasons. I liked seeing the Rougeau's as faces, how Brutus became the barber in part of how it ended, and I liked the energy of the Bees/Sheik & Volkoff match mainly from Jim Duggan who at the time was poised to be a top guy. Also how odd it seemed that for such a big crowd they had three run-in spots.

I heard that the Detroit crowd booed the hell out of the video

I might be the only one here who feels this way but if all they had was just the 80's and 90's PPVs like they started with, I would be okay forking over 9.99 a month for it. That material takes up the bulk of my Network-watching time even 4 years after it started.

I really just want to see this for Hogan and Savage's body language towards each other, as I think this was just around the time they were about to have a real-life falling out with each other over the impending divorce from Elizabeth.

I increasingly think they should do something like that around a big UK show. They could probably charge a million bucks for the tickets and the UK fans would gobble that up. Bulldogs (or at least DBS), Johnny Saint, Lord Alfred Hayes, Regal, (I was going to say Haystacks Calhoun but he's already in). Maybe Big Daddy? Finlay? That's a great idea. One for Canada wouldn't be too bad either.

Of all the emotional items in that great read, the image of Dusty cursing out a video store clerk will stick out for awhile.