flyonthewall2983

I find this more funny than I probably should.

http://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/lord-littlebrook-passes-away-87-years-old-220511

When news of the Benoit movie broke yesterday, I thought about what might happen if WWE tries to block it from happening. Then I thought it would be a little funny if they countered it with just going ahead and doing a documentary about the whole thing, like their version of The Jinx or Making A Murderer.

I've heard it's based on the book Ring of Hell

"Based on" could mean something different from a straight bio-pic.

Which directly leads me into why I believe this. Barry Blaustein shot the Terry Funk stuff and ECW stuff in 1997, and during this time he was hounding WWE into letting him shoot, maybe talking to WCW too. Vince knows about the Canadian crew following Bret around, pays it no mind until Montreal or sometime after. He remember suddenly that Blaustein was sniffing around, and lets him in. Once the film comes out, he kayfabes resentment towards how the film portrayed him. If the media makes a big deal of it, which they did that won't be repeated for Wrestling With Shadows which wound up getting no press, no theatrical release and quietly premieres on A&E which was really best known for the Biography show.

This maybe veers into conspiracy theory territory but bear with me here. Vince McMahon conning the movie-going public and his own audience into believing the tagline of Beyond The Mat, "the movie Vince McMahon does not want you to see"

I maintain Gary Oldman would be great as Vince but someone suggested Michael Shannon which would be good too. Maybe Shannon for young Vince (late 70's-80's) and Oldman for the Attitude Era.

His Pat impression makes him sound more Italian than Quebecois.

Not too long before I believe, right? I think it was in '82.

A couple I can think of is any possible handheld footage of Hogan/Big Boss Man vs. Andre/Haku just before WrestleMania VI, and Ultimate Warrior/Kerry Von Erich vs. Mr. Perfect/Rick Rude leading up to that year's SummerSlam which I think might have occurred at a TV taping. In 1992 there was a match with Hogan and Savage against Jake Roberts and the Berzerker that happened too, that I think was at a TV taping as well.

Was Bruno Sammartino, Jr. David?

I liked Bruce's dig on Chief Jay Strongbow when Conrad brings up something Strongbow said about the Warrior being a Native American character.

What was on the rest of the card?

More NWA World Championship Wrestling being uploaded as well.

It's the full thing - 29 minutes of footage, including intros and the followup cage match. Is it up already?

That's the thing I miss most about the old-school format for the Survivor Series, how all these personalities and angles would intersect leading up to the show.

On his podcast Bruce Prichard talked about the connection between Coliseum Video and porn, saying that the character of the Colonel in Boogie Nights was based on the head guy at A&H.

Has the Hart-Funk match seen the light of day before?

Their "Netflix and chill" should be "WWE Network and watch the Survivor Series match with all the tag teams from 1988 for the 381st time "

A *big* part ? Seriously ? The Demos had that fucking SM leather outfit, makeup and a great music theme and were killing people. They didn't need Fuji at all. Who did Fuji managed at that time who got over like the Demos ? The Powers of Pain (just joking) ? Demolition wasn't over with Johnny V They never needed a manager as they were good enough at cutting promos. Then again, I can't think of any heel tag teams at this time that didn't have a manager.

"Something to Love" is a better title but would probably go over lots of people's heads.

Free to watch on Prime? The title of this on my iTunes feed is Something to Wrestle With

Someone on SquaredCircle on reddit reposted an item from Meltzer in November 1992 about Jim Ross being reprimanded by his radio station for off-color remarks about gay people. Does anyone know in particular what he said?

Sure it wasn't him and Berzerker vs. Undertaker? He didn't manage Kamala in '92. I liked the Fuji/Tanaka vs. Barbarian/Haku match from MSG where Heenan takes a face full of salt. Must have been the only time (in WWF at least) he came close to being a babyface.