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Death is going to just hang over this entire show. Bossman and two of the Freebirds, and everyone else will likely bring up Dusty or Roddy.

They put up Stampede footage some months ago in a deluge with other territory footage, but it was taken down not that long after.

I thought we established that Gary Hart didn't think he was murdered? I'm not sure the Von Erichs could have overthrown Vince, but it's interesting to ponder what would have happened if none of them died and what became WCW was based out of Dallas instead of Atlanta. The NWA could have had a stronghold in that part of the country that would have been much harder for Vince to break through. That still would have left him the major American markets like NYC, Chicago and Los Angeles to call mostly his own.

Has Bret Hart commented at all on making them take down the Stampede footage yet?

Bret Hart wrote in his book about meeting Dylan at a jazz festival in New Orleans (introduced to them by mutual friend and probably a famous fan himself Aaron Neville).

Stephanie and Jerry Jones' daughter appeared on CBS Sunday Morning today

Unless I'm wrong on this, this must be the only time the same guys were in a match together on a WCW PPV and WWF PPV in the same year.

Ayrton Senna did some pretty cold things that could be considered heelish, like driving a guy and himself right off the track at the start of the race to regain his championship. Though he also was quite unselfish in some regards too (like putting his own life on the line to save another driver from certain death).

Yes, well a minister. He's featured in the Heroes of World Class documentary, saying that his time there he learned more about life from his time working for the Von Erichs than he ever did in seminary.

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Russo got to book her anyway. Didn't she actually work matches at one point?

Vader will be the one to induct him.

WCW flubbed the ball a bit with Paul Wight but by letting him do the more athletic acrobatic stuff he stood out. As far as Bret goes, quite honestly if you have guys like Flair, Piper, Nash, Savage and DDP doing promos in a more free-form style than what Vince was doing, someone like Bret who never was a great talker would get lost in the shuffle. Really, what could they have done with him that hadn't been done already by then anyway? Bret's best move would have been to have joined the company much earlier so he'd seem a bit fresh instead of being in the midst of the big exodus of talent from McMahon to Turner. Vince's quote about Elizabeth seems to go beyond just criticizing the content of their show, but criticizing the protection they had towards the talent. Which in the context of what happened is ridiculous, because WCW was out of business for a good couple years when she died.

It got a fair share of coverage I believe.

I hope that in the bigger picture this means the beginning of the collapse of the tabloid culture that exists now. It probably won't, but seeing every new edition of the National Enquirer basically turning itself into a Trump ad is more and more disgusting to me.

That was an impressive moment, kind of a sad bookend to the reunion at WM 7. It would probably be more fondly remembered if they didn't stick them together later on. Vince adding his two cents to what happened really felt scummy at the time, because it read to me as him still being upset with Luger over what happened in '95.

That's an interesting roster from the perspective of people who made their names in WWE. Off the top of my head, the only ones I can think of are Boss Man and Godfather. Hansen had a run in New York, but it was for Vince, Sr. Boss Man was already known for being Big Bubba Rogers in the NWA. Jacqueline was in WCW as Kevin Sullivan's valet, the Freebirds' WWF stint is more anecdotal than substantive of their runs in Texas and elsewhere, and Sting of course is fairly new to the company though pretty much all but done.

I don't think Gary Hart believed that, but that he just overdosed. I can't remember if he said it on the WWE DVD, but in the Heroes of World Class doc David Manning said he thought there was foul play.

Watch and learn.

So is there one or two more yet to be announced? I can't remember if they announce one 5 days before the show or not.

I noticed that too, like as soon as the Network launched.

This has the potential of being a very depressing show. Between Boss Man and Gordy being dead, and the inevitable tributes to the major losses of last year, napkins will be going out quite a bit I think.

Without even thinking about it, before. I watched the Monday Night Wars as they were peaking in '97 and '98, but specifically when it comes to WCW stuff I'm more eager to watch it from the early 90's right up until Hogan signed with them.