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I'm getting a kick out of Kane becoming the 911 of Smackdown,

According to the WWE Archivist twitter, they found a tape with the whole show on it.

My personal grails: 1. Studio Wrestling from Pittsburgh, assumed to be lost/taped over but clips have popped up in the Bruno DVD he was selling on his website a few years ago. I'm holding out hope he had a personal stash that WWE might have obtained in his HOF deal. 2. Hope that whoever holds the various rights to Memphis gets their shit together and/or cashes out to WWE. They love to focus on WWE guys in their Vault section and there's tons of guys who either started there or passed through at some point. 3. One day someone decides to start a project where they go around to all the stations that used to air wrestling back in the territory days and ask if they have any idea what happened to it. As a video game enthusiast, a popular genre has popped up on YouTube where people travel to far flung locales looking for rare games and systems, something similar could be a fun idea for rare footage.

FWIW Dave responded on Twitter to someone asking how WWE got it, and said it was part of the original 130,000 hours (in other words it was part of the vault they already owned and not footage from someone else).

Holy shit the over-the-shoulder powerbomb type move that ended this match, that was a brutal looking bump on what I'm sure was a hard as rocks ring surface.

I was just watching the show on the network where Nikita beat Tully for the TV title, and not only were other babyfaces who were aligned with him in storyline out to celebrate with him, so were assorted jobbers just happy the good guys won. It hit me how that would never happen on a WWE show today where they keep the mid card guys separated from the "real stars", but maybe with the brand split they'll get to the point where they have to go back to a shared universe.

Dave going on a riff about Stephanie being responsible for every case of female empowerment in history had me in tears.

It's so surreal watching a Lou Thesz NWA world title match from the 50s on WWE Network.

Dana's been handled so weirdly on the main roster. She clearly wasn't ready ring wise, but at least she had the fitness model look. Then they've had her costumed in the 1970s women wrestler granny swimwear 90% of the time negating that too. Its like why did they even bother if they aren't even going to accentuate the one thing she has going for her.

There was just a tidbit in the last WON how Miss Piggy is Dana Brooke's nickname with certain people in WWE.

Bo's redemption after hitting rock bottom drunk in an airport could have been Raw's version of the Heath Slater story if done right.

Georgia seemed to be an area that kept the masters of their tapes, and it would be odd they wouldn't have kept a master of something that was the blowoff to a big feud at the time.

Vince is probably happy a guy got in trouble for getting drunk like a real man rather than those wimpy millennial drugs.

Conversely, Storm leaving TNA originally came at a time where a lot of guys' deals were coming up right when all the "MORALE IS LOW" stuff was happening. They may have made Storm an offer bigger than he was worth just to save face with the rest of the roster.

The reasoning (well one of them at least) that always seems to be given for not adding more classic content is that they don't want to upload all of it at once. Maybe WWE's testing the waters with this and it will lead to other gems being unearthed.

That's amazing, it seems like the most sought after footage of the last 30+ years was just sitting at the bottom of the Crockett vault somewhere.

It's funny that people are now just seeming to realize Dave is jacked when he's been like that since the 80s at least. He's always talked about hanging and banging back in the day in the same gym as a lot of guys who went on to the Olympics and how that's he learned about steroid use and its effects from talking to those guys. He mentioned he's finally able to work out like he used to again after a lingering shoulder injury so perhaps people aren't used to him back in his pre injury shape.

Was that the match featured in Beyond the Mat then? With Dennis "I'm not booked" Stamp?

I think it's from the Terry Funk's Wrestlefest show.? Yep, it's on Terry Funk's Wrestlefest 1997. I had this on VHS, as it was released by a company I think called Deltavision (?) in the UK. Just before the ECW rites were officially purchased by WWE they put out lots of the non PPV ECW shows which you could get in places like HMV. The Funk/Hart match is really good from my hazy memory. With Bret being in the middle of his heel anti US run, he works a really old school match, which is a lot different from a much of what Funk was doing in ECW at time. There were some other pretty interesting matches on the show as well including a Sabu/Foley match, but with Mick in his Mankind persona. The Dory Funk/RVD match is something of a styles clash if I recall... The date shown for the match is a few days after Montreal so Bret would have been babyfaced by that point.

WWE matches by nature are going to be very similar since everyone's taught to work the same style.

They seem to think Ziggler is at that level on Smackdown, and while he's probably doing the best promos he's done in a while (ever?) I just don't buy him as a guy who can just be slotted in a main event/title program and have any credibility.

Does anyone know if he left ROH on good terms? That would probably play a role in him being able to go to CMLL or New Japan.

I guess there was something on a MLW podcast that Paige was being pressured to break up with ADR by the company. Apparently it should be taken with a grain of salt, but it wouldn't be out of character for them to do it.

I should know better, but I hope this means that someone is realizing throwing a bone to older fans isn't a bad thing.

So if that's the actual Last Battle of Atlanta, then it must have been in the Georgia footage they got in the WCW/JCP vault. If so, how did that stay lost for so long?