Ricky Jackson

Meltzer's reporting Bound For Glory is a go

So is anyone going to pony up the $ or what?

All I know is my immediate reaction a second after it happened was "that's stupid and doesn't make any sense"

I can't remember what he wrote in previous weeks, but he called the latest Smackdown "a very good show"

It was something to do with New Japan for their TV. On the footage you can't hear what he's saying because Vince Jr is talking over him about an upcoming match

I just copy the Ken Burns doc voice guy

I think if the Cruiserweight division is condemned to failure it's because it's on the poorly executed weekly Raw slog and won't be presented in a way that will get anyone over, and not really because of the size of the guys

Of course Balor isn't going to be in the Cruiserweight division, he was being pushed as one of the top guys in the company when he got injured

No, we never got around to doing a third part looking at Piper's later years, and probably never will but you never know. It's kind of hard to get excited about those years, but I'm sure we would've had a blast talking about it.

Both look wonderfully bad. I even suggested the 1990 MSG one yesterday before we settled on the one we did

Thanks man. This one was a major test of endurance. I also got my Savage vs Santana matches screwed up. This was the 2nd match, the No DQ, not the 1st match like I thought when watching the show

The main difference is that in NXT he was presented as a focal point, on Raw, outside of the Owens feud, he's been mostly presented as a JTTS

Thanks for all the complements guys. I wish I could produce these more frequently, but it can be a time consuming process, even for only 30-45 minute shows. I will finish the Bruno story and then I'm planning on going back and looking at the 50s era to conclude the story I started with the preview episode

Women's match was great, so was Sheamus vs Cesaro

Thanks man. Parv and I just recorded a new one this afternoon. 4/22/86 MSG. 11 friggin matches!

Try now

You don't see the pic of Bruno?

That looks like it could be great

I mean seriously, $50????

$50? Quick Parv, hit me with a gif that expresses disgust

Man, TSN getting a lot of talk around here today. Good chance I saw that Tito vs Virgil match back in the day, I was such a depraved wrestling junkie in the early 90s I would watch anything. (I used to "listen" to scrambled WCW shows on TBS for probably two years before my parents finally upgraded our cable package in early 94) That TSN WWF show (I believe called simply "TSN Wrestling") was dire, like D-show levels. Don't remember much about it other than they aired a 40 man battle royal once. (WWF did a series of those in 1992) TSN aired a motley crew of wrestling shows during its early years, including the WCW D-show Power Hour, dying days AWA, a several weeks behind Stampede show, Pro Wrestling Plus, and I believe CNWA. (post Stampede show featuring a young Chris Jericho and Lance Storm) I smell a future podcast

So Don and Ron were only kayfabe brothers. Kinda surprised nobody corrected me on that. Just read Meltzer's bio on Don and it's pretty interesting. There was a whole family of Bass's in the 70s, including a female manager called Maw Bass, "No Class" Bobby Bass and a young Dutch Mantell as Dutch Bass

It was on TSN until the very end of the territory

It seemed like most families had it by 1986 when we first got it but I could be remembering wrong. It definitely wasn't part of the most exclusive cable package, like the movie channels and others

http://placetobenation.com/at-the-garden-presents-bruno-sammartino-the-living-legend-1972-1977/ Part 3 of this MSG career retrospective sees Bruno reclaim his throne and undertake a second run on top even more successful than the first, during a time of decadence and disorder in New York. This show gives a rundown of... -Bruno traveling the territories and overseas -Showdown at Shea '72: Bruno vs Pedro -The epic feud with Spiros Arion -The return of Ivan Koloff -Showdown at Shea '76: Bruno goes for revenge against Stan Hansen -Battles with Superstar Graham, Waldo Von Erich, Stan Stasiak, Ken Patera, and others All this and more on At the Garden!