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Thanks everyone for the feedback, this show was a lot of fun to do

Thanks for the feedback Tim and Vedhead

All that being said, my picks would be CM Punk, Mark Henry and Eddie Edwards. Miz would be up there too based on his title reign for most of the first half of the year followed by Christian for his top-notch work feuding with Randy Orton. I loved Punk's run during the summer into the fall more than anything out of WWE in a long time and Henry's current run is up there too. Edwards winning the title and then some of the title matches he had, including his match vs Hero in Toronto which is in my Top 3, make him a top pick for me too.

So what metric should we use? Whoever looks the coolest? Whoever is the best promo? Whoever has the best matches? Best matches, promos and overall performance should be factored along with drawing power. Although drawing power is a more concrete metric, the subjectivity of quality work should not be factored out just because it may differ between people and iss harder to pin down. Critical acclaim and awards in other medium such as literature and film are supposed to be based on quality rather than just the financial success of the product even though the ultimate goal of anything being produced for sale is financial success. Otherwise, Dan Brown and James Cameron are two of the most gifted and talented men of the past ten years.

I'll cut and paste the same correction here lol To clarify, we discuss why pro wrestling is better than mma and not vice versa

I keep picturing old fat Shane Douglas doing the "Blow-Away Diet Powder" ad, but it's actually crushed-up Oxycontin.

I would obviously second this match. Rogers as heel champion was a great thing and although this is a couple years after Petitpas wrecked his knee, Rip makes him look really good in this match. Plus, there is an appearance by a teenaged Kurrgan.

Thanks Cross Face!! We're doing a show in about an hour on the history of the Maritimes.

Noone's ever mentioned Gabe, but I can see it. Actually, when dylan was on tom's podcast a couple weeks back i couldn't get over how much tom and i sounded like each other. Either that, or i sound liek a Canadian dude.

I'm sure you're not expecting the "I was in basic training for the military" at that time excuse.

Wrestling Culture Episode 4 A celebration of the greatest short-lived tag teams in wrstling history. Wrestling Culture Episode 4- Short-Lived Tag Teams

The nickname of "Ol' Brown Eyes" for J.T. Smith is brilliant

There should be links to otehr clips from those pages.

Meltzer has also praised Bret Hart's ability to carry workers, saying it was very different to the way Michaels or Flair would carry lesser workers. I remember during the whole Hart/Flair internet feud, Meltzer writing a long piece in the Observer, that basically ended with Meltzer saying that he felt that Hart was able to make you think a guy he was working with was actually better than he was as opposed to Flair (or Michaels) putting on their show and getting in their spots to "make up" for the lesser worker. I remember Meltzer using a corny line about Bret "being a magician in the ring" in regards to him being able to craft matches with lesser workers I talked to Dave in 1994-96 more than anyone other than probably Bruce and Tenay. Dave liked Bret. He didn't think he was as good a Shawn. He didn't think he was close to Misawa, Kawada, Kobashi or Benoit. Toss in Toyota as well. Seriously... I can't think of any Bret matches we spent much time talking about other than the Bret-Davey IYH (80% about the blading / non-blading) and Bret-Shawn at Mania (which we went to live). "Did you see.... ?" almost never related to a Bret match, and it's not like all we talked about was puroresu. The Flair/Hart internet feud was after Dave started rethinking Bret, not what he wrote at the time. In a way, Bret is almost unique: he's one worker where Dave really rethought his view on his work later. I'm never going to say that Dave didn't like Bret's work. There are positive comments about Bret going back well into the 80s... well, with the exception of Dave bagging on Bret's house show work on occassion. But his comments about Shawn... different level. An example: I joked recently about a comment in one of Dave's 1994 Carny TV reports that was a mild barb thrown at me. It related to a Shawn match... and not the praised Bret match on the same card which was also a part of my comment to him that drew the barb. The kind of funny thing about reading the comments of Noodles and puropotsy is that they're far closer to Yohe's thoughts in 1994-96 on Bret at the time, and not as much Dave's except on a match here and a match there. Yohe was about the biggest backer of Bret's at the time compared to Shawn, and would say as much on road trips when the WWF came up. John I wasn't following Dave's writing in 1994 (sure wish I had been) so anything I would cite would be through the lens of his modern views.

Colt Cabana said that every month when he would request matches from the video collection he would ask for that match but they wouldn't provide it.Apparently there was a newspaper reporter aside from Dave there and they both along with Vince all thought Tom Maghee was the next big thing. Dave talked with Colt in their show together a few months ago as being amazing because Bret made him look great in the match without people ( including Vince, Dave and the reporter) realizing that this was actually what happened.

I actually heard Dave say on an f3w show that he loved wtching Bret's matches between 1994-1996 in a way that he liked noone else's, that he brought an intensity to them that maybe only Misawa had so I' say that he is also a pretty big Bret fan.

Thanks man! It was fun and the feedback is appreciated

Lol, I've gotten that a few times in my life, not as much as Muskrat though

I think it really coms down for people to the business in Japan being strong when Vader had his big runs there and WCW not being big in the early90\s when Sting was on top. I definitely think Sting should in though.

Thanis for posting this link! And the one I posted should work now.

In Episode 2, Dylan "Randy" Hales make an argument for why we think Terry Funk is the greatest wrestler of all time. http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkC...2658&cmd=tc

I heard today that Carlos Colon is nominated as a performer and not as a promoter, so I guess he can only be considered in terms of being a draw, as his in-ring work is generally not well-regarded. Still, with the creation of the new geographical category and people probably wanting to vote for him as a promoter even if he is not listed that way, he might still get in.

This could be a lot of fun, I hope they would go back to a tri-branded formula with something like ECW, or even like superstars with more of a fixed roster, as a transition program for talent coming up. A lot of guys on he main roster debuted through ECW like Swagger, Bourne, Kofi, Sheamus and more and that seemed to have been more successful than NXT. I really hope the Tuesday Night Titans stuff is at a minimum.

I agree on Rich, Dandy, Rose and Roberts. I do believe that Roberts may have been on the ballot at one point but didn't receive support but I could be completely wrong. What do people of think of The Spoiler (Don Jardine) as a candidate?