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I would hope WWE wouldn't have the balls to induct Owen in the HOF after pissing off his wife with the DVD release. The HOF is all about good PR and there's no reason for them to stick their proverbial dicks in that particular hornet's nest.

That's the only way I could believe that story, I could totally see Hunter just fucking with the noobs. Otherwise, it just seems like something written as fanfic designed as fap material for people who think Hunter is the devil.

No matter how this ends up, Finn Balor trolling people on Twitter is the best thing in wrestling right now. After numerous hashtag tweets, he posted a photo of himself holding the door open at the Performance Center wearing a Bullet Club shirt looking at his watch saying "they should have been here by now".

Well Averno was going to be signed as a favor to Sin Cara before they realized what a doofus he was. I doubt we'll see the same thing here.

No , he a monster that dropa human being from the roof of Kemper Arena. Fritz drove two of his sons to suicide.

Sinclair is worth $ 3 billion , the WWE is worth $ 800, 000 . Sinclair owns 179 TV stations and they can buy and sell the WWE 3 times and have money left over. They run ROH on the cheap by choice , Agreed. But WWE's business plan of late states National TV = direct competition. Doesn't matter if Sinclair is worth trillions, if they stick to their local affiliates WWE doesn't say boo to them.

Getting national TV gets WWE's attention. ROH got on Destination America, NJPW, got on Axess or whatever the hell that station's called now. ROH's off DA so I would expect WWE to go back to not paying much attention other than the occasional building date collisions.

Don't forget Jim Crockett Jr. also bought out quite a few of our beloved territories. There's a case to be made that he would be the evil monster of wrestling instead had Vince not cock-blocked him from PPV in 1988. Vince did the same thing every promoter tried to do when cable took over local TV, he's just the one who succeeded.

I think it's that and how the most popular stars in MMA are a woman (Ronda) and a 140 pound Irishman, and that may have changed the mindset that guys have to be 250 pound jacked up musclemen to be stars. Granted, Vince is always going to have a place in his heart for bodybuilders, but there seem to be enough other voices he listens to that vouch for the smaller guys.

According to the taping reports I'm seeing, the answer seems to be no.

During the Monday Night Wars there was certainly a time both WWF and WCW would sign guys just to keep them from the other. You can also make the case that it was personal with the AWA since he poached guys clearly just to stick it to Verne for whatever reason, but the rest were just guys signed to build up for the national expansion. You have to remember they were running A, B, and C house show circuits then and needed bodies to fill them up.

Except they really haven't done anything to hurt ROH other than run a few NXT shows in buildings ROH usually runs. AJ really was only a special attraction type.

The money WWE had to part with to get them would mean they have to put them on the main roster. Also, Nakamura became chummy with JR when he did announcing for WK9 last year, wonder if that helped grease the wheels for him.

That would be amazing except that the company seems so stubborn they don't even want to give any credence to the fans maybe being right about Bryan at all (even in a heel run).

I can't tell if Loss really likes this topic or really hates it. Fritz exploiting his own sons makes it a level of scum higher than the usual "promoter exploits wrestler" routine to me. When you watch Mike post toxic shock trying to wrestle or give interviews it's really disturbing to know his own father is the one behind it. In fact Mike killed himself because he couldn't live up to being the next great Von Erich and I think that falls on Fritz. So to tl;dr it, nothing will out scum Fritz driving his own son to suicide to me.

I think Corino would win since I'm sure he's been to all the places the rest have and he was in ECW at the tail end as well.

Dave mentioned today that other than maybe a Kevin Owens style quick run to get acclimated to WWE style, AJ and Nak aren't going to be in NXT,.

Odd that they are apparently concerned that Finn Balor may not be able to take the punishment of a WWE schedule, yet they sign Nakamura who's 35 years old and has taken a beating the last few years.

Where did the concern about Balor not holding up under the physical toll come from? He doesn't have any injury history I'm aware of that would raise any red flags, is it just a case of WWE looking at him and thinking "well the last guy his size we gave a push to broke down, so he probably will too"?

I've already begun the process to redistribute funds so I can sign up for services like NWA Classics, and will continue to trawl the intertubes to find more channels that offer full years (or close to it) of territories I've either never seen or haven't for a while . Once I get done with my current 82-83 Mid South run I think 70s-80s Memphis will be next.

Dave once mentioned that since Vince has granddaughters who are right in the age range of Bayley's core fanbase , if Hunter shows him any video of those girls going nuts for her that could mean she'll succeed on the main roster.

I'm finding more of an appreciation for Mr. Wrestling II in these early years, I've previously only known him as the grumpy old man feuding with Magnum.

Getting back to the topic at hand (quickly).... I had never seen Iron Mike as anything but a jobber in the WWF, he was definitely in the upper level of jobberdom where he was given offense but I don't recall ever seeing him win a match. Speaking of jobbers, I know it's his real name but man did it seem wrong to see Arn as Mid South jobber Marty Lunde. I'm also convinced Arn was born with thinning hair and a beard, since it seems he looked the exact same from 1982 to at least the mid 2000s.

I figured since we have a neat pinned thread with all sorts of YouTube channels that have classic wrestling, it would be fun to have a thread where we can discuss what we find there. I've been watching 81-83 Mid South stuff here and it's been very entertaining so far. Some things stand out: Bill Watts loved him some "challenger turns because he lost out on a title match". First Paul Orndorff turned face on Bob Roop after Roop sabotaged his car causing him to miss a title shot, then Ted DiBiase turns heel after promising he'd leave the territory if he can't beat Bob Roop only for JYD to beat him for the belt before the match. Somehow Ted's stips still apply and he has to resort to KO'ing the Dog with the Loaded Glove of Doom to keep his job. Not complaining mind you, but it shows how you can recycle the same basic concept fairly quickly and not have it come off as a rehash. Boyd Pierce's suits. My God. Bill Watts kinda sucked as a commentator. He was good at establishing guys' backgrounds and angles but it was like he would get stuck on certain words/phrases and sidetrack himself. Having said that, it's clear JR looked at Watts's style and decided "do that, only be better at it". Surprised to see Iron Mike Sharpe get somewhat of a push, He wasn't too bad either. Between his size and his family history it's baffling he was a straight jobber in the WWF and didn't get at least a midcard push. I don't think I've seen someone go in one one guy like Watts did on JYD. I'm pretty sure at one point he was holding all the titles at the same time . Finally, I think they might give JCP a run for the money in the race for the jobberist jobbers I've ever seen.

By the way, has anyone suggested a connection between Rock announcing his involvement in WM just a few weeks after WWE suddenly figuring out how to book Roman correctly? Considering how he's always helping his family it doesn't seem ridiculous to think he may have suggested some things.