Ricky Jackson

Big bump, for anyone who cares Was going through the 25th anniversary issue of The Wrestler from 1991 on Internet Archive, and in it they have a pic of Bruno vs Hansen from the 1976 Showdown at Shea accompanying a caption for Match of the Year 1976. I was always leaning to that match being the real 1976 MOTY, not the April 26 MSG one, so without better evidence, I'm officially making the Wikipedia edit for the PWI Awards article and crediting the Shea match based on that info

Cool. Titans eps are slowly being scrubbed from Spotify and pod catchers due to our totally brazen use of copyrighted music, but World Cast is mostly fine, other than the one ep that had too much of Freebird

I love Dom. Not even sure I voted for him last time. Anyway, here's a playlist if anyone is interested in his "case" https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV6RCTo_Cd0BQW_rYxZ3Mc9AWavMIMEf_&si=ejwU5wYsmgYlsm8T

I think Fuji was my #99 last time. Watch the footage, he was good https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV6RCTo_Cd0BU1a6Snab1xk55NMKk5hNi&si=OGWekyNhDRf8edu3

Gonna start bumping threads for wrestlers I love who haven't been discussed during this cycle Here's a chronological playlist I put together that may help sway voters https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV6RCTo_Cd0BEElI_Qe-NCcjevfORw9Ns&si=0gTnXPxX6Ch7x55T

Better to concentrate on the old stuff anyway. 2026 is right around the corner and we need to get serious about GWE. Parv you ready to fire up BIGLAV brother?

Can't help but notice that the WWE folder is dead and Survivor Series didn't even stir it from its slumber...

I know I enjoyed Garea vs George Steele from 6/27/77 MSG. It gets violent at the end. (and the follow up tags w. Zbyszko against Steele & Stasiak/Steele & Scicluna on the next two MSG shows are also quite good) Plenty of good/fun/whatever tags during Garea's long run at the top of that division. For a hidden gem, check out Garea & Steve Travis vs Johnny Rodz/Jose Estrada 2 out of 3 falls from 9/18/82 Spectrum

I had quite a few of the Essentials during the first wave in the late 90s, including the first 2 X Men volumes. Definitely my favorite X Men (I've never been a huge fan in my 40+ years of comic reading). I traded in a good chunk of my Essentials about 5 years ago when I did a big purge coinciding with subscribing to MU and thinking "well, if I want to read that stuff again, I'll just read it here". Thankfully I kept Conan, Dr. Strange vol 1, Howard the Duck and Defenders vol 2-3. These days I'm definitely on the lookout for cheap copies of Essentials, plus the equally wonderful Showcase Presents from DC

Definitely could make a decent comp of Strongbow's greatest hits that would be very entertaining. The Valentine feud is awesome. Lots of fun 70s matches with nuclear atmospheres. The early 80s Strongbow Bros tag feud with Fuji & Saito is shockingly good. And the heel match Matt refers to is very good. Vote for Jay!

Cool! Subscribed Can't remember if I've linked my channel since I added a bunch of playlists, mostly chronological wrestler spotlights https://m.youtube.com/@titanstv1979/playlists

He was fun as a wrestler for about 5 minutes in 1998. Everything after strongly contributed to killing my love for WWF/E

It's funny I was just talking with some American friends (shoutout @Superstar Sleeze, @Bigelow34) about how when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s i couldn't see Prime Time Wrestling or MSG shows on TV because they didn't air in Canada. Now everything WWE here is on Netflix. Everything. Be jealous Yanks (of course I have Netflix, but outside of the Rumble, I haven't watched anything. 10 year old me would be very confused lol)

Yeah, definitely one of the best comics I've read in the last 5 plus years. A masterpiece