Ricky Jackson

Shane being exposed as the fraud he's been since day 1 always makes me happy

Roode's match with Roddy Strong from July 2017 was excellent, one of my all-time fave NXT matches. May not have as much impact in a vacuum, as it was part of a quest for the NXT title storyline for Strong that had played out on TV for several weeks. Still, definitely worth checking out. In general, I enjoyed Roode's NXT run. Can't say I've seen much more of him over the years other than TNA circa 2005-2008 or so

Heading into the home stretch with Tomb. This Dracula and the Satan cult/Dracula getting married and having a baby story has gone on for a long time. Title has lost some steam since around 50. Hoping the last dozen issues end things on a high note. Finished a 50 issue run of 70s FF (103-154). This was up and down the whole way, finishing on a down note with Thundra's long awaited (by me anyway) origin story being, imo, a drawn out 3 issue dud. This was far from Gerry Conway's best stuff, which is funny because at the same time he was writing a pretty good stretch of ASM. Oh well. I fell in love with the Medusa character (running around in basically a bathing suit and with all that red hair, what can I say) after all these years, so it wasn't a total loss. Still buying and reading a bunch of Dick Tracy, going through New Direction EC (currently Piracy, next Aces High) and other bits here and there. Going to start scratching a Batman itch next week with the new Batman in the Fifties trade

Honestly, Cena will probably play the same type of character forever just like the Rock, but right now he's fun to watch (he was pretty much born to play a superhero) and, yeah, Peacemaker has been a blast so far

If anyone is still interested... https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/nwa-launches-all-access-fite-pass-new-ppvs-power-back-youtube-364696

Piper sounded more Canadian than Bob and Doug McKenzie

I'm pretty sure the website is just down temporarily. They're still releasing pods regularly

Happy New Year PWO! If anyone is bored, hungover on the couch, or have nothing better to do, join me and some of the boys on Twitch at 1pm Pacific time for a live watch of the 1974 version of The Wrestler. We'll also watch some mid 70s AWA afterwards https://www.twitch.tv/jarviswashingmachine?sr=a

Yeah, it must've been ICW. It fits geographically and they had TV

Yeah, that's the thing. I cant figure out where it would've fit in. Maybe some short lived indy in the Northeast?

Hogan in 1980 more than held up his end in long title matches with Backlund from Philly. A 1984 version would've been very interesting and probably pretty good imo. Speaking of Skaaland going heel on Bob with the towel finish, I remember reading about something in, I think, the update section in the back of an issue of PWI around 1989 involving Bob and Sheik doing a televised angle somewhere where Sheik told Bob that Skaaland had been paid off to throw in the towel. I have no idea where this took place, but I'm pretty sure it happened somewhere and wasn't just a magazine angle even though I've never seen it. Anyone have any clue about this?

Cool. Yeah, they had the finish/last minute or so on WWE.com (I think?) at one point years ago and it seemed like the end of a hot match

Any early reviews of Backlund vs Koloff from 4/83?

I'm not a fan of the finish (see also Backlund vs Valentine from 3/79 MSG) but the idea is that back then the ref slapping the back of the winner after the count was common, so it "makes sense" that a wrestler could be fooled into thinking the 3 count had been made. Again, I don't like it as a finish either, but I at least get the psychology

I often look at PWO as grad school for my wrestling fandom. I randomly stumbled upon this board around 11 years ago and remember thinking within a few days that I had found a special place. One with not only like-minded (i.e. territory era) fans, but like-minded fans interested in reexamining sacred truths and pimping wrestlers and matches that were often overlooked. By 2010 I was down to mostly watching 70s and 80s wrestling and reading a bunch of history books and Meltzer bios. I thought I was the only one LOL. Fuck, was I wrong. Finding a place with a bunch of old school geeks like me kicked my fandom into another level. I learned a ton about wrestling history from a lot of posters here. I became friends with a lot of posters here, mostly through the podcasting craze that exploded around 2012/13. Yeah, things have changed, tastes have changed, and posters have come and gone. I'm pretty much done with podcasting and rarely watch wrestling or read histories anymore. Big time burnout last year, but don't worry, I just focused my geek energy on something different, as those following the comics thread know. Im not sure if I ever got my PhD, but I still hang out on campus everyday. I like the people here. Long live PWO

I know things are really really really bad creatively, but surely they can come up with something better than that

Feb 89 was the last televised Spectrum show. Graham was there the whole way, and in a cool touch, Kal joined him for 3 or so matches on the final card

Yeah, Gorilla and Mean Gene are a crazy underrated team. A lot of folks dont like them because it was two babyface announcers but I love the pairing. Helps they were commentating those 84-85 MSG shows that were full of hot matches and with a buzz in the air because of the rise of Rock N' Wrestling and sudden mainstream attention. Damn, I knew I should've created a thread for Kal

I've got my eyes on that one and will probably pick it up or get it for Kindle soonish

Cool info. Wasn't aware of Kal's role regarding the music side of things for WWF but it makes total sense

Yeah, he was well known in Philly at the time through radio, but he was also a genuine fan of wrestling. During his run on commentary (80-82) Philly was pretty much Gorilla's town to run, but the timing of Kal's departure from the booth does coincide with Vince Jr buying the territory, so who knows. Kal did stay on as a backstage interviewer for several years though

For anyone patient enough to wade through the often extremely poor video quality and equally poor wrestling of early 80s WWF Philly Spectrum shows, one of the true gems was the insane color commentary of Kal Rudman. He passed away yesterday at 91. On commentary, he had no filter and was totally unpredictable; full of praise for what he loved and unafraid to call out what he didnt. RIP

Yeah, I've come across some late 80s Giffen art here and there recently and it really is not good. I find it puzzling it has ever been considered good, really. As for me, I'm still chugging along with various different things. 70s FF, firmly in its "mommy and daddy are living in different houses" period, with Medusa replacing Sue, is often fun (love the awesome Thundra arriving on the scene looking to kick Ben's ass) but also often quite mediocre. I'm now around issue 54 with Tomb of Dracula and the title is finally showing signs of Wolfman maybe running out of steam (the same thing would happen to him years later when New Teen Titans also passed #50). Oh well, he had a good 40 or so quality issues, and the art is still great if nothing else. I'm still trying to get though 70s Kirby but things are a bit slow going lately. Planning on finishing Eternals and then finally tackling Kamandi. What's really interested me lately is reading 1960s Archie and, especially, diving back into one of my all-time faves, the classic Dick Tracy comic strip. I'm jumping around right now, mostly reading strips from the 30s and 40s I hadn't read before. Plan to eventually tackle the late 50s-early 60s period I've only read bits of in the past. My read next "pile" keeps growing, and I have ton of stuff on deck for 2022

We claim it as a Canadian invention, from a Toronto pizza place in the 60s. I've always liked it

Yeah, it seems totally pointless to waste a months-long worked shoot build for a non-title match on a unimportant ppv, but this is 2021 WWE after all