Ricky Jackson

I had a great time doing this with Sleeze but by the end I was running on fumes and basically playing the "check out this podcast for my views on this guy" card quite a bit

Oh wait, I wasn't the high vote on Fuji. Never mind. Not sure who it will be

Great idea. I'll change mine to Mr.Fuji when I get home from work

Can't lie, seeing a podcast that long is a huge buzzkill. Just need to be prepared to make dents and get through it in time. But loving it so far. Makes the commute and traffic a whole lot more tolerable. Oh believe me it's a buzz kill for me as well. Going in to this I wanted it to be the "concise" GWE pod. Silly me

https://soundcloud.com/jerryvonkramer/tag-teams-back-again-episode-15-gwe-top-25-sell-out-special (PTBN link to follow) Kelly and Marty jump on the GWE bandwagon and somehow talk for 4 hours and 40 minutes on only their top 25 wrestlers ever. Foolishly they thought they would also have time to run down their top 25 tag teams as well. (haha...next time we promise!) So GWE junkies, here's another dose to feed your addiction!

The boys will be back in about two weeks. Card subject to change, as we may first review the September and October 1982 Spectrum shows as a farewell to the wonderful commentary of Kal Rudman.

RIP Hell yeah, check out that WWWF TV tag from 75. It's amazing

Graham worked the Miami Superbowl of Wrestling show against Race, title vs title, in early 78. Probably worked some other dates since he was a name in the territory. Florida TV was available in the New York area as well. Most fans in Florida wouldn't have been familiar with WWF guys outside of the ones that worked there before, like Graham or Backlund, unless you followed the mags. Backlund staying Florida wouldn't have really benefitted Graham much because he wasn't going to be pushed ahead of Dusty or Jack Brisco as a top star.

Vince Sr was a part of the NWA at that point and tight with a lot of promoters, especially Eddie Graham. Backlund worked in Florida while WWF champ on occasion, perhaps most notably against Harley Race in a couple unification matches in 1978

I'm fully behind the Drifter now. He's well on his way to being the most over heel in the company

I think part of it is context. I'm more familiar with both guys than you. So I picked up on some of the nuances that you might have missed. Also again because of familiarity some of the nuances hit me.I had only seen brief clips of Nakamura before Friday and never a full match, and I almost wet myself I was so excited with the Takeover match. The unique atmosphere mixed with an unusual for WWE style match and Nakamura's awesome charisma, worked at super crazy pace, make it easily one of the best matches I've seen in years, even counting old school stuff

Awesome news! Welcome aboard Stacey! It's about freakin time Matt.

Great job guys! Kal was more awesome than I ever could've imagined

Yeah, that came up when the episode was originally released. I just play an historian on Titans, I'm not one in real life

I initially though Karl and thought "Yeah, that would rule." Realized you meant Simon and yeah, thatd rule too. I thought he meant Frank haha. Now I'm imagining Cesaro going back through time challenging legendary wrestlers. There's an original gimmick!

I had Fuji at 99

I now feel a little sad that I didn't squeeze a single person from the Titans mass nomination onto my list. I'm sorry Dominic!

Thanks. I also added a bit more to my initial post

How are the results being revealed? And do we reveal our ballot ourselves, or do those who agreed to be public have their ballot revealed by the admins?

The show was an endless, bloated slog for me. I haven't hated something in wrestling more than Taker vs Shane in a long time. Made me want to puke. Women's match actually felt like something other than just sports entertainment hell. Other than that, what a waste of fucking time

New winner for worst "this is awesome" chant

Lapsed Fan of Wrestlemania's

And fucking Tatanka