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It's mind boggling how many people 50 and above think the only way to access a website is to type it in a search bar and click on the top result. I can't even imagine those folks trying to use any kind of streaming service.

So from the breakdown posted in the issue it looks like Carlos Colon didn't get in because no one in the former wrestler category voted for him. Kind of odd there's sort of an unofficial blackball going on yet Benoit skated on his recall vote. Say what you will about the Brody deal but it's not like Carlos was the one who killed the guy.

It's all rasslin' to TV execs. Not even WWE could get an offer from anyone when their deal was up. There's pretty much zero interest anywhere, ROH happened to get lucky to be bought by a TV company looking for low priced content for their stations.

When you think there's nothing that could lower your opinion on Fritz Von Erich, there's the story in that bio how he was living vicariously through Kerry's high school discus career to the point of making sure he had access to steroids in 10th grade.

So reading the latest back issue up on the site (Fritz Von Erich bio issue), and I came across an interesting tidbit I've never heard before. It's been mentioned numerous times how David was being groomed as the next NWA champ, but here it's mentioned that one of the key factors that was never answered was that Fritz just suddenly stopped pushing for it even after there was some idea in place for it to happen. I wonder if that was because plans started being made for the first Starrcade, or was word getting out about the boys' partying and the NWA board put the kibosh on it?

Crisis on Infinite Boards!

Perhaps I was exaggerating a little, but seeing HHH and Steph come out and bury the whole roster week after week, having babyfaces get beat up with no one coming out to save them is starting to look mighty familiar.

I don't disagree with anything you said, but the Authority winning again would really push this close to "WCW never gets its win against the nWo" level.

I love how they mainly lost out on getting more money on their TV rights renewal because of the long held stereotype that WWE fans are all broke ass rednecks......and then they announce Larry the Cable Guy will host Raw next week.

I think it's more of a situation that it's part of the NBCU deal than Hulu. NXT was only on Hulu pre-Network and there wasn't any issues putting it up immediately. I believe the Network was part of the renewal talks, so perhaps when the new deal kicks in shows will be up sooner.

Looks like they are back uploading Raws, they're almost done with 1995 now. It's interesting to watch them evolve from the early 90s cartoony era to a proto-Attitude era. It's amazing how much WCW launching Nitro gave them a kick square in the ass. Goldust's TV debut was one of the shows recently added and it struck me how much better he looks in 2014 than he did in 1995.

I get the impression Charlotte's been told to get used to working a more toned down WWE Diva style to prepare for her imminent callup. As you stated, she seems to have hit the wall recently and the booking seems to suggest she's going to drop the title and move up soon.

Yeah, those were the days. I think back in the early days there was more of an "exclusive club" feel since not everyone had access to watch stuff that wasn't shown on TV locally. It certainly lead to a higher quality discussion once the playing field leveled and it just wasn't a select few who were able to talk knowledgeably on various subjects.

....and yet kayfabe wise he's responsible for bringing the Undertaker to the WWF.

So with all the fuss about the Network and the lack of them making any attempt to survey people on what they want to see, I found it quite funny to get a survey from WWE asking how interested I was in the Stephanie McMahon workout DVD. When I responded "not interested at all" it seemingly no sold my response and went on with the survey as if I indicated I did have interest in it.

I believe so. Now it seems to make sense why, no one in power seems to think anything he says is wrong. I still don't know how he didn't get torn in half when he used the n-word to Mark Henry though.

Also was I reading that wrong or did it seem like Dave was saying WWE was expecting Rey Misterio to speak out on their behalf as if he hasn't been telling them to fuck off as loud as possible for nearly a year?

What's really disheartening is how once again WWE gets away with shit behavior. I don't fault Alberto, all he wanted was to be able to do what he wanted with his career, but at the end of the day WWE can keep on being racist shitheads and all it really cost them was letting someone out of a non compete to work places not directly competing with them.

Vince cutting a promo on the Liverpool fans might be the most Vince thing ever. You run 15 shows in 6 days in a country you just blue balled on getting the Network at the last minute and you're shocked the crowd is dead for your B show taping?

The Summer (Spring?) of Brock, book it Vince!

He also showed up in ECW for a match or two as well if I remember correctly. Tully wasn't blackballed, WCW just didn't want to pay him what he felt he was worth after he failed the test since they were in one of those "pay everyone as little as possible" time periods. Somewhere along the way Tully found Jesus and off he went.

I also seem to recall another WCW management change between when Arn/Tull agreed on their deal and when they were supposed to start. The new regime wanted to cut costs and used the test failure as an excuse to pull the offers the prior crew offered.

ECW CyberSlam 96 has Brian Pillman's "smaaart maaaark" profanity laden promo uncensored, that was unexpected.

Southern accent I'd assume. Perhaps he was trying to Cajun it up a little since the Wyatt's backstory was they lived in the swamp.

I'm actually digging how they are building the main event for Survivor Series so far. They've made a point of showing how Team Authority don't really like each other and how Team Cena's game plan is basically "fuck it, let's go down swinging".