Ricky Jackson

I'm coming up on 5 years sober from WWE programming. Royal Rumble 2020 was the last show I watched. No Mania's. No Raw or Smackdown. No NXT. Not even a single cherry picked match. My AEW watching over the same time consists of Revolution 2020 (a month after that Rumble), All Out 2021, the last half or so of Forbidden Door 2023, Danielson vs Ospreay from earlier this year, and a few random bits here and there (Punk's debut promo, etc). Can't say I have much of an itch for anything modern, although I do occasionally attend Boom! shows in Vancouver (but that's mostly out of loyalty to one of my best and oldest friends, who is heavily involved). I'm sure something will suck me back in eventually As for the Attitude Era, I really enjoyed the lead up years, especially 1997, and most of 1998, but totally lost interest after Mania XV. I doubt I'll ever revisit or watch anything I missed. The McMahon doc reminded me how much I hated all the McMahon family crap, and I could go the rest of my life without seeing anything with Undertaker, HHH, Rock, and post 1998 Austin tbh

Just finished. Bruce whining at the end was pathetic. But I guess in his mind Vince really is the greatest man who ever lived. Most of the series felt like a WWE history doc from one of their DVDs, but this was mostly for non wrestling, or lapsed, fans anyway. It's also the story of Vince without the true final chapter, so the end of the series just kinda trails off

Yeah, that's what came to mind almost immediately after I posted

What was the context of the clip where Vince says "come out here you rapist!"? (ep 4) Ever since I saw it I can't stop cracking up every time I think about it

Yeah, the Soundcloud feed is now officially dark. Titans of Wrestling (minus a few eps, but including a few adjacent shows) is available on most podcatcher aps I believe, including the recent finale

Thank you!

https://x.com/variety/status/1829197821997666585?s=42&t=5Je0sRgUL7f4IwzSBg7GKg Will be interesting what exactly we get here, since I think the scumbag had a big hand in the production, but I have no idea how much control over the final cut

Yeah, I'm pretty hyped for that. I've finally dipped into classic Joshi the last few months and absolutely love the wild 80s brawls with Dump, Bull and co.

Yeah, just watched this again recently. Masterful selling performance from Bob here. Ironic this is how his long reign ends, considering a typical Bob title defense saw him wrestling on top for the vast majority of the match

I believe the comparison of Backlund and Wanz I was making was to them taking 80% of a match and not anything to do with similar styles

Yeah, MTT isn't going anywhere

None that I'm aware of. Would be cool to see if some of it is out there

https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/formerly-known-as-titans-of-wrestling The boys get together to turn the lights out and they come full circle with an old school Titans set disc review! We say goodbye by saying goodbye to the Bob Backlund era, while also looking at a bunch of matches and promos featuring Titans favorites over the years On the docket: -A bloody farewell to the Spectrum -A classic tag team title match -Victory Corner! -The Persian Club challenge -A salute to the Grand Wizard -Select matches from 12/26/1983 MSG, including one of the most memorable matches in company history -One last bio from Chief Jay Historian! -An ominous warning from the asshole who owns the territory Also: -Someone had a bit too much to drink (and not who you would think) -HYSTERIA! -The secret behind Arnold Skaaland's towel finally revealed! -TURBULANCE!!!!!!! -Plus a special bonus tribute to Kevin Sullivan. RIP Thanks everyone for listening over the years. It's been a blast

Started a work-in-progress chronological career retrospective playlist

Everything I've seen of the Florida Prince of Darkness run has been wild. His passing may finally inspire me to try and watch as much of it as I can. I've been wanting to explore classic Florida for years. I also loved his team with Jack in the 90s RIP

I think one of his attempts at going into business separate from daddy, many years back, was some kind of sports streaming start up in China, or something

Well, the psychology of cage matches originally was to either prevent a heel from running away again, prevent another double countout, or prevent interference. Any brutality caused by the cage was a bonus, not necessarily the goal. The old cages were supposed to have sharp spots to cause cuts and therefore blood loss. But really all you need to do is suspend disbelief a bit

Oh wow. 47 minute video! I think the date is off. Martel lost the AWA title at the end of 1985. Wrestlingdata has a 7/3/84 date for them in Halifax for the AWA strap

And a correction to my initial post, it was Leo's brother who worked as Bobby Kay in the Carolina's, not Leo

Here's a Leo Burke playlist, including several videos from our own Matt D's channel. Lots of Puerto Rico https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2IINZIkUSU7LtHS0wSaOwI9akJaWh3WM&si=ZaP3U2LX3cDPsDPk

Just saw this. Not a lot of footage to judge, at least as far as I know, but he was held in very high regard by a lot of folks, including Bret Hart. Worked extensively in his home area of the Maritimes, wrestling was the family business, and also Stampede of course. Looks like the Carolina's were his main US home (as Bobby Kay). Also helped train a lot of future wrestlers

Is that tag really from 1/31/72 MSG or is it the Boston Garden match between the same teams from 1/22 that came out on Hidden Gems 5-6 years ago? Just wondering because I wasn't aware the 1/31 match was out there

I just want Bruno to make the top 100

Flair won't sniff #1 this time as well

Wow, that's great