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He was also involved in one of the most high-profile matches in WrestleMania history, and his appearance on SNL the night The Rock was on was a highlight of that show. Those things count as much if not more in WWE's eyes.

I have a little faith that Conrad could maybe push him into saying things he normally would avoid in interviews he's done before. One of his favorite phrases in shoot interviews is "I can't recall" or any derivations thereof, often said as if he's being told by his lawyers to say that. If he's somehow worn down by Conrad to the point that those go away, you'll have a hell of a show, in my opinion.

The one in '92 also had no superheavyweights like Andre or Earthquake, guys who were being pushed as certain to win because they were so huge. That evened things up to where you could potentially think anyone would win. I think 90, 91 and 92 are the best Rumbles ever with a few that came later that were as good. I really liked the 2002 one.

The way I heard it is that those two were actually nice to him backstage but that he suspected them of sabotage, because when he went out to do his bagpipe routine he found he couldn't play it and that when he went over it later someone had stuffed it with toilet paper.

Sam Nunberg on when Trump got his dad and him front-row seats at WrestleMania 5

I'm not sure how much of it is on this footage. The turn angle happened on Championship Wrestling, although they may have replayed it on All Star. Not sure how many of the awesome promos are here either. All the big matches happened at MSG, Spectrum and Shea of course So were Championship Wrestling and ASW different shows then?

This isn't shaping up to be the best HOF in terms of television.

I'm all in on making the each month's drops like this into it's own thread. So I'm assuming this has the whole Bruno/Larry feud?

At a MSG match between Nikolai Volkoff and Verne Gagne, he even has a line about how physicality isn't the most important aspect of wrestling.

Steve Keirn sounds and almost looks a lot like Scott Glenn

I'm glad they've found a way in which they can release this old stuff systematically as opposed to randomly like it seemed before.

The March drop will be WWWF All-Star Wrestling

I'd love to see them do something like this, present a whole angle as it plays out continuously like a movie, with no voice-over or talking heads, just present it straight.

Eric Bischoff being a Republican feels so obvious

The R&R HOF is pretty dumb, but it seems to be based on a legitimate voting process - there's a committee that comes up with the nominations and then "Ballots are then sent to more than 900 historians, members of the music industry and artists..." It's more akin to the WON HOF than anything else. And in recent years there has been a fan poll, and the people who are already in get a vote too. As far as WWE's go, I cannot imagine anybody else outside the McMahon bubble having a say who gets in. Which I'm weirdly okay with, it's in line with how the company has always operated.

I think my favorite Bob Orton story is either the one about him beating the hell out of a member of the Yakuza, or the one Mick Foley told about having him second Evolution at WrestleMania 20 and the setup they had planned for it.

Having not watched one match of the Houston territory I suppose I enjoyed it more from understanding how Bruce started and how the experiences he gained from working there would be applied throughout the rest of his career.

There's a series of tapes of old matches from the 50's and 60's on there, one of which I was pleased to find out that I bought when I was a little guy on VHS.

Because I haven't heard every episode (and not really planning on it) I like that there are clips that I found interesting on their own. Hell, the left turn at the end of this video is something I had no clue about but I feel much much better for knowing it.

I imagine he'd probably just stick to talking about WWE, and not go off-script bar an occasional line or jab or something else.

I liked the ones on Houston Wrestling and where he talks about how he got fired.

There is a lot of USWA stuff on Amazon Prime Video. There's a lot of wrestling stuff on there.

It matters more now because it gets mainstream coverage, as opposed to a time when the possibility of the news breaking on ESPN before WWE programming would have been zero.

Elias would be a good choice.