Tim Evans

Friday was Buddy Wayne. Father of NIghtmare Ken Wayne and promoter/truck driver/backstage guy for USWA at the time.

I've been watching some Memphis Championship Wrestling from 2000. Up to March 2000 and the company is still in the early stages. It's mostly KAW without the language and with Jerry Lawler and Lance Russell. Lance calling evening gown matches between Bobcat and The Kat in a nightclub is just weird. The big feud is Jerry Lawler vs the KAW stable of Bull Pain, Todd Morton and Alki Holic. Bull is awesome as the lead heel and it pretty much holding the promotion together. Some of the WWF guys that have joined were Jim Neidhart, Blue Meanie, Reckless Youth and Brian Christopher. Man Meanie lost a lot of weight between late 1999 and 2000. The weirdest angle of the group is HHH sending guys down to take out Lawler after Lawler helped to Rock beat him and the Pyramid. First guy he sends down is a young Tomahawk aka Travis Tomko. I had no idea he was in developmental that early.

Damien sandow: I was a huge fan of his when he was first released from WWE and went to Puerto Rico. Then he got signed to WWE and went to FCW/NXT and I thought he became really good then. He got handed a lot of shit gimmicks like Mizdow and even the Macho man and somehow still made it work. I started to sour on him when they ended the Mizdow gimmick and he started his complaining gimmick on twitter. Once he showed up in TNA, I knew it was over and he's just not good anymore.

I like the idea of bringing back old divas for Asuka to destroy. Mickie, Victoria, hell bring back Kelly Kelly. I'm guessing they are saving the Ember match for Mania weekend which I guess is a good idea since NXT usually takes December to Rumble weekend off.

So are they going to do 3 Hell in a cell matches with Sasha/charlotte, Reigns/Rusev and Rollins/Owens? That seems excessive. Goldberg returns next week which should get a pop in the ratings.

The show was pretty fun live. The texas guys impressed. Dalton I don't think was there as he was replaced by some guy named Juicy. My favorite match of the night was the last man standing match. Those two guys were part of my favorite tag team of 2013/2014 in the Savages and Drennan really reinvented himself. Main event turned into a 3 way with Martin Stone. Stone/Cruz was disappointing as I thought Cruz was boring. Crowd was about a 100 people and they were pretty dead in spots. The last show where it went about 5 hours really killed the town and they have some work to do to get people back.

Junkyard Dog WM4 and Starcade 1988 Lex Luger Mania 11 and Starcade 1995 Ted Dibiase Mania 12 and Starcade 1996 as a manager Bret Hart as a ref in 1997

Guys like Nese, Gulak, Dorado, Cedric and Swann are on NXT. And Cedric is getting over about as well as Nakamura would on Raw. I think TJP winning the title is a mistake. Should have been Dorada. The main roster fans don't know TJP's story and even then, TJP would be a better heel. Nothing about him is likeable. At least compared to Kendrick's story.

I'll be at this live and hoping it's a good show with no stupid pre show like last show. They are running it in the comic book shop again which is small but ok for wrestling. Looking forward to seeing Sammy vs Fox and The last Man Standing match. Main event and tag title match should be good too.

USWA 1990-1996: I know that 1980's Memphis is the best but Early 90's Memphis is probably my favorite. So many great feuds like USWA/SMW, USWA/WWF, Embry/Dirty White Boy, Embry/Moondogs, Moondogs/Lawler and Jarrett etc. It went downhill towards the summer of 1996 after losing a bunch of people. WWC: 2011- March 2016: Recent WWC is so good but no one talks about it because the TV is kinda bad. 2011 started the short-lived IWAPR vs WWC feud with a bunch of ex IWA guys like Chicano, Thunder and Lightning, Invader and others coming in. This period also featured Sandow coming in as Idol Stevens and really finding his footing. 2013 had the return of Savio Vega which led to the return of TNT and the rise of young guys that sadly didn't stay long like Chris Angel, Aj Castillo Abbad and the awesome Sons of Samoa tag team. Also had Ray Gonzalez being great as the lead babyface, the dominance of Mighty Ursus in 2015 and Mike Mendoza/El Cuervo. This year has been a mixed bag. It featured the what I believe is the feud of the year with Mendoza/Cuervo vs La Revolution(Masked shield gimmick that has lasted longer than the Shield ever did) and Mr. 450 having great matches week in and week out. These days it has gotten stale but I hope things pick up with the Chicano heel turn.

The Lashley "Lance storm" angle is pretty good. He's having a hell of a year and I've liked his matches with EC3, Drew and James Storm. TNA has some good things like the X-division matches with guys like DJ z and even the tag stuff with Decay and Bromans. It's just a shame most of it has become a Mike Bennett and Maria vanity project. I like Maria but her Stephanie Mcmahon tribute act is the worst. Bennett is so bland and it's a shame they are wasting Cherry Bomb as the ditzy assistant.

How much of these guys have you seen outside of the Cruiserweight Classic? That is a pretty bold statement that just isn't true and I love both guys.It doesn't matter. I'm the audience that needs to be impressed and Sabre thus far has been awful and Gallagher has been great.And apparently Sabre has been told to work as a heel from management so that might work cause he's completely hateable. After seeing one match of these guys you can not say that one is a hundred times better than the other.I can actually say whatever I want since I made it clear that this is what I've seen from them. Based on that, and nearly four decades of watching this shit I can clearly see that Gallagher is by far a better Professional Wrestler than Sabre is. Gallagher does the same style Sabre does and he's entertaining and has charisma. Sabre looks like Chris Adams with a giant head and an eating disorder. Edit: Oh and fuck Ibushi, doing a flip after that match. That's some Teddy Hart bullshit right there . Well, Teddy Hart was in the building( with Mr. Money) so I figured it was just a shout out to the man.

Current favorite wrestler to watch: Chris hero. I saw 4 matches with him in 3 days this past weekend and all of them were among the best I've seen this year. He is incredible. Last fun match you saw: Death by Elbow(Chris Hero and JT Dunn) vs Kraken(Chip Day and Murder One) at AWE last Sunday. Wrestler you want to see more of: Joey Lynch. He had the best performance of the local guys in the SCI this weekend. Really good high flyer from the south that will be the next Trevor Lee or Andrew Everett in the next year or so I believe. Last live show attended (if applicable/different from last time you answered): AWE in Atlanta Georgia on 8/7. Good matches with god awful kill the territory type booking Match you're most looking forward to watching: Joe vs Nakamura at Takeover. Saw the first match at a NXT house show in Orlando a couple months back and it was incredible. Last fun interview/promo you saw:Jerry Lawler's first babyface interview in USWA Texas August 1990 talking about Skandar Akbar. Last interesting thing you read about wrestling: Soup's article about Gunner Miller Last worthwhile podcast you listened to: First Continental episode of Exile on Badstreet Most fun you've had watching wrestling lately: The SCI tournament this weekend. Two days of great wrestling in Chattanooga Tennesse with the hales clan and about 30 people from all over the country was amazing. Favorite recent post on this board: Parv being who we thought he would be Favorite thing about the wrestling landscape in the past three months (if you live in the past, then go with your past three months of time-traveling): CWC.

Isn't Tony Salazar the head booker of Elite? Since he is one of the main guys in CMLL, i guess that's part of the connection.

About 5-10 minutes. I wasn't taking time like GLF or anything but it felt like the usual NXT main event. I'm not going to spoil anything but you are in for a treat watching this first round. Some really awesome matches and guys made a name for themselves. The shocking thing was the low turnout. They tarped off a bunch of seats that are usually full for NXT. The rumor is that people bought a bunch of tickets to resell them but no one would buy. Ticket scalping is a big problem at Full sail and they need to do something about it.

63 was a real good show live. Especially the Trevor Lee/Riddle, Galloway/Page and the main event matches. Every match was at the very least good.

Tye is a cult figure at Full Sail. They've been cheering for him ever since his crappy tag team with Jason Jordan. If they planned to book him as a babyface vs Tye, it wasn't very smart.

I'd say 2-3 hours is the ideal length. Last show I went to, FIP was about 4 hours that started at 9 pm and lasted till about 1 am. Also went to a double show (FIP/Evolve) that was almost 6 hours. The good thing about that was the hour break between shows. It was still too much. The NXT tapings are ideal because they usually tape 4 shows in about 3 hours with little down time.

I remember turning into the preview channel one Saturday afternoon and seeing the preview to Royal Rumble 1995 with Bret Hart vs Diesel. That got my intrest and then I saw some footage of HBK and I was hooked. The match I remember vividly getting me hooked was Shawn vs Tanaka. I think it was from like Febuary 1995. I got into WCW around the time of the first Nitro.

Parties, Have you watched the Dandy/Satanico 6 man from Monterrey that was posted this past week. I think you will like it.

Corey Graves finisher in NXT used to be the Fuller Lock.

Most of the complaints I hear are at live events. LIke tonight for example. NXT ran two shows, one in the midwest and the other in Orlando. All the big time "tv stars" were in the midwest and the only guys people in Orlando knew were the Revival, The Drifter and Nia Jax. Granted the Vaudevillans made a surprise appearance but the Florida shows aren't drawing like they use to. They need to build more stars on TV to help out with these split shows and not just bring in indie guys that only work the out of state shows.

A lot of the backlash seems to be about "homegrown" guys that have been at the PC forever not getting booked on TV over established guys from TNA and other indies. Guys like Manny, Biff, Swann, Dawkins, Moss and especially the women. Also No Way Jose rules. Sure the gimmick probably won't work on the main roster but it's perfect for NXT. Especially on the live events where he's over huge.