Ricky Jackson

I have 7 guys from their top 10 in my top 10. Flair at 11 makes no sense, but Tito at 101 is just plain insulting

I agree, such a tease. But I guess this is all the $ they can throw at something most fans, sadly, don't care about

Does Thunder really warrant being "long awaited"? I don't recall too many stand out moments from the first year or so I watched in real time

World Cast What If...? https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-what-if-mid-atlantic-9121981 September 12, 1981 (Mid Atlantic 1) From the Blue Area of the Moon, the Watcher turns his gaze to an alternate reality where the boys chose Mid Atlantic over World Class. The talent roster is much deeper, the commentary way better, the in-ring action a lot faster, the jobbers less jobbery---it's 1981 in the Carolina's! Follow along on the WWE Network and enjoy a really fun special edition of World Cast!

Yeah, my main complaint about Mid Atlantic after going through a half dozen episodes is that everybody seems to be feuding with everybody and nothing stands out. Sgt. Slaughter's progress from debuting, quickly winning the US title, and then recruiting Jim Nelson and doing the full drill sargeant routine on him is a ton of fun though

Some is in rough shape but there is a bunch out there in good quality. KrisZ's YouTube channel has a ton

Oh for sure, Memphis was awesome and had the most enjoyable TV show. But I think Mid Atlantic had a deeper pool of full time talent and bigger business. It's close. Georgia is also in the conversation

Oh the dubs are awful. Come on Vince, forget about football and for the love of God open up the wallet and pay for the music rights! Really good match between Piper and Jay Youngblood on the 10/17/81 show

I think Mid Atlantic TV in 1981 comes off far more polished than WWF, WCCW and AWA and several other territories for sure. Actually, I think you could make the argument that overall--talent, in-ring, promos, business, TV--Mid Atlantic was the most well rounded territory going at the time

Well, it's going to be a one off "special" rather than an ongoing show. That said, it would be great if people with podcast aspirations followed our lead and started shows based on the Mid Atlantic footage on the Network, or Mid South, etc.

Haha...not quite, but be on the lookout for a Mid Atlantic show from an alternate reality to drop shortly

3 more fell for me--Dom, Rodz, and Blair--but somehow I wasn't the high voter for any of them

Episode 20 https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-20 July 17, 1982 (WCCW 30) A controversial episode of WCCW where referee David Manning emerging as the #4 babyface in the territory drives Johnny to the brink of uncontrollable rage, and he nearly relinquishes his hard won "Mr. Positivity" title as a result. In other news, we have jobbers galore, THE SUPERFLY, a surprising Elvis aficionado, and Good Ol' Al trying his damnedest to squeeze an extra half star out of Bill Irwin (he does manage to squeeze a lot of blood from his own head). World Cast: Five months until the good shit!

No, Sleeze. I regret not voting for Martin. I guess I'm not as progressive as I think I am 😜

Virgil is my only guy to drop yet. I've likely single handedly boosted several of the 70s era wrestlers, haha

Ric Flair won and not enough people voted for lucha guys

Damn, that's the joke I was looking for but wiffed on. Minus 6 stars is so 2017

Episode 19 https://soundcloud.com/prowrestlingonly/world-cast-19 July 10, 1982 (WCCW 29) The boys ring in 2018 discussing a very good episode of WCCW TV. Things get off to an auspicious start with a turgid match out of the gate (if you are a fan of star babyface referee David Manning this one is for you), but then we get some really out there vignettes followed by an amazing PENALTY BOX MATCH between Kerry/Kevin and Kabuki/Dragon!!! Definitely one of the best matches we've seen so far, folks. World Cast and Wednesdays: Better than Peanut Butter and Jelly, and meant to last forever, like Sonny and Cher

Asuka and Nak winning would be an awesome story. My gut says that's unrealistic, but I don't have a better prediction. I don't watch the weekly tv so I have no idea who is even considered the men's favorite

Of course they're going over the top. Why wouldn't they?

"Interesting", such as...?

That's some lazy typing with the thread title Mick 😉

Meltzer wrote this in the latest Observer "To show how bad things are in Puerto Rico, WWC has still not run a show since the island was crippled by the hurricane. CWA has run two shows since the hurricane and WWL is talking about coming back in February or March. The hurricane basically destroyed a wrestling industry that had been having regular shows for about 45 years" Just a very sad story. Of course, the state of the wrestling industry is secondary to the impact on society. Hope long time conributor El Boricua is doing well in spite of the disaster

Yeah, totally underrated venue. Built in, I believe, 1919 and still standing, so coming up on its 100th anniversary. Hosted wrestling cards as far back as at least the early 30s, nearly twenty years before Stu began running shows there

Victoria Pavilion in Calgary, 1964. Sweet Daddy Siki as top heel before a crowd of prairie rednecks would probably be pretty fun