Ricky Jackson

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I really liked the initial run when the book was still X-Force. Once it became X-Statix I thought it slowly lost its appeal. The reboot from the last few years with the original creative team-The X-Cellent-is good although kinda stuck in first or second gear right now

Ha, I was wondering why Backlund was trending on Twitter without having died

Yeah, Martel and Callis had been working the Super Models gimmick on the Canadian indies earlier in the year

Not a singles match, but in 2013 during Bryan's ascendancy they had an awesome encounter as part of a gauntlet match on Raw

Yeah, the site upgrade a few months back eliminated a bunch of mobile features. No idea how easy it is to fix

I'll bump Ivan because he's been great in almost everything I've seen of him in the last decade or so. Be it a random TV squash, mid card MSG match vs Jules Strongbow from 83, or in major matches from the 70s, the guy was always awesome and seemingly unable to have a bad or dull match. Super underrated worker imo

Yeah, really wish we had 1972-75 Graham, when he was involved in hot matches and feuds in San Fran, AWA, and Florida. There is a little bit of AWA but nothing much. Agree that 76-78 WWWF Graham is special. Those MSG matches with Bruno and Dusty are magic. From what I've seen, 80s Graham is almost tragically sad, at least the Kung Fu stuff. At his peak though, a transcendent star with plenty of matches worth seeking out

I'll just say you can't go wrong diving into the 1980 Portland output of Rose, Martel, and Piper. All kinds of great matches, singles and tags, involving the three of them

No, I think at least one member of the team has to be not already in the HoF to qualify. Great write up on Lynch, @ethantyler

Maybe time for an avatar update FB

As a long time fan of this era, cool to see someone going through it for the first time. You picked a great time to start with the beginning of the awesome Bruno vs Larry feud. Lots of fun stuff through the year

The end of Vince was huge of course, but considering how HUGE we all thought the end of Vince would be in our minds, I was surprised how quickly the story cycled out and everyone just stopped talking about it

Probably winning his manager of the year award 12 of 13 years was enough to be in his HoF?

Here's my analysis from back in ye good ol' days Unfortunately, it looks like most of the links no longer work

Read that yesterday. Really cool

Yeah, I didn't know she left and came back

Grace Slick getting a lot of love in 2022 wrestling

Meltzer writing lately like Reigns vs Rock is a certainty for Mania, but maybe he drops the strap beforehand since that match wouldn't need the belt. Or, even better, at Summerslam after 1000 days

Give Danielson the strap and one last great run before the end please

This whole deal is giving off aftermath of the Montreal Screwjob vibes. Not sure if there is a Mr McMahon vs Austin to come out of this but we'll see

Hmmm, see, I liked the first 12 issues of The Spectre but wasn't blown away. A plot involving a serial killer murdering women with HIV/AIDS is as early-90s as Mandrake's art style (yeah, not a huge fan either). One of my favorite things about the DC universe are the supernatural characters, in addition to the Spectre, like Dr Fate, Demon, Phantom Stranger, Swamp Thing, etc, so I immediately perked up for the next story. I'm on issue 16, so we'll see how it goes. Yeah, that's true about Kirby. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say by the 70s he was just plain sick of having to tell a continued story with no ending, like he had been doing for years and years, and so everything ended up fizzling out as he lost interest. But it's probably more than that. There is also a sameness to everything from a layout perspective. Splash page, two-page spread, "chapter 1, chapter 2...", exclamation points everywhere, etc, from New Gods to Devil Dinosaur. I'll always love Kirby but he is definitely not above criticism

Someday I'll finally pull the trigger on 60s Legion/Shooter's Legion. I had a false start about 2 years ago, reading the first 5-6 issues of Shooter's run and then getting sidetracked. I've read bits and pieces of 60's Legion over the years but not much. It looks like it might end up being my final frontier, after going through so many other long runs in the last few years and still having a bunch ongoing or in the queue. I'm currently on Kirby's Kamandi, which will take a while since it's by far his longest sustained run of the 70s. I've entered the home stretch of Thomas' Avengers run with the famed Kree-Skrull War. I started Spider Verse from 2014 last week and it's interesting so far. I really like the Spider Man Noir concept. I didnt realize it is essentially a Golden Age/Earth 2 take on Spidey, which of course I love. And 90s Spectre really ramped up around issue 13. Really cool stuff here as the Spectre goes full-on "the whole human race is beyond redemption" mode

Thesz was the one who gave Buddy the "easy way or the hard way" line before the title switch in Toronto. I think Buddy may have balked at being told he had to lose in less than a minute to Bruno, but by that time he had serious heart issues and had to stop wrestling anyway

Just a reminder, using accents in thread titles always screws them up