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Bob Holly was a guest on The LAW recently promoting his book and talked about Benoit. Nothing new, I just never heard him say anything about Benoit so I found it interesting.

Road Warriors vs Kerry and Kevin Von Erich circa 84 or 85 at the Sportatorium always was a dream match for me. A few others were Midnight Rockers vs New Breed and Wild Samoans vs Sheepherders.

Looking forward to this part of the set. Probably listen on a replay. I'm a huge Roadies fan even made a website about them ( see signature). I would never say they were great workers by any means, just fun as hell to watch. Great aura, cool interviews and fun brawls for me. I can see why they are not everybody's cup of tea. I definitely would of wanted to see a match against the Fabs or Longriders over that Brad vs Martel match. Never liked Rheingans and always thought of him as a curtain jerker with a few nice moves. Pretty boring for my taste. I also like Brody, just not blind to his faults like some.

That's my favorite WWE RVD match. Doesn't seem to be talked about much,even when the Benoit name wasn't taboo to say. His hair actually got messed up for once with the ass kicking he took.

I probably should of mentioned its called the Allstate Arena now. I've seen everything from wrestling to monster truck shows there. I wish there was more of the AWA at that venue available. Kinda cool.

Finally caught up with the third podcast. Great job again guys! The guy that you referred to as Captain Kangaroo is Al Derusha. He also had a son that was a ref named Gary. Those red jackets were awful even back then. I heard you guys ask where that Lawler match took place. It was at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois ( suburb outside of Chicago). The match that had Tootsie was from Green Bay. No idea of the venue name. Look forward to the next one.

Buddy Colt is still working? I hope he does because he wants to not that he has to. He has to be only a few yrs shy of 80 at this point.

I voted for Lex. I think the series of Sting vs Flair matches are a bit overrated. I just don't like their chemistry compared to Flair's matches with Lex. As far as loving certain matches or feuds. Love the Rude vs Sting battles along with Lex and Hansen matches. In the mic skills department Sting always seemed awkward and Lex was more believable.

I've been a subscriber to Direct TV for over a decade and I never got an email about a WWE Network survey.

I never had cable in the 80's so I only had the syndication shows here in the Chicago area. The AWA was the first show I discovered in 1981 on ch. 26 at 11am on Sunday mornings. Time slot didn't change until 88 IRC when it went to 5pm on Sundays. We also got a show called Chicago Championship Wrestling which was from Hammond Indiana. Not sure the exact years but it came on after AWA followed by Luce Classics from the Amp. Each show was a half hour. We got World Class in the fall of 83 at 5pm on Saturday nights on either ch. 50 or 60. I can't quite remember which. I think it was 50. The legends show was on here on Sundays at 5pm and 10pm for only a few months. Within a few months we then got the WWF in early 84 a week or so before Hulk won the strap. This show came on at 9am on Saturday mornings after Babe Winkelman's Good Fishing show on ch. 32 WFLD. Which would become FOX. Later we would get Superstars and Challenge. They would show one for a bit then switch for somereason. By that time it changed to 11am on Saturdays. Didn't get another show until Crockett in mid 85 or so at 6pm on Sunday. UWF came on in late 86 on Sunday morning at 10 am. At one point it even came on at 5pm or 6pm on Fridays. This wouldn't of been until 87 . This was a short lived time slot though. Wild West also followed UWF on Sundays. We also got Glow, POWW and Pro wrestling this week all on the same channel. Starting at 6pm on Saturday nights. At one point in 87 or so from 5pm to 10pm on Saturday you could watch wrestling every hour just about.. World Class, Glow, POWW, Pro Wrestling this week, WWF All American and WWF Spotlight. I think there was a break at 8pm. We even got Southwest (Blanchard) on a spanish station but I never knew about that show until recently otherwise I would of watched it. It was a great time to be a fan and we got a lot even without cable here.

Randy Savage also had a promo video about coming to Southwest. Sadly he never came there.