WingedEagle

I was talking to a friend last night during her promo and couldn't decide if she was great or beyond terrible. She's not bad at conveying emotion, but it almost seems like she has zero control over what she's going to emphasize. Kind of like Brick Tamland screaming "LOUD NOISES" with no idea why he's doing it.

People were becoming apathetic to and rejecting babyface WCW Hogan. I also don't believe he was generating anything remotely approaching Cena's merchandise numbers. Would heel Cena sell a boatload of tshirts to adults without turning away too many kids? Maybe, I don't know. But I think there's a big difference between rejecting Cena and enjoying the act of booing him. The latter is part of the show at this point.

The 3:16 promo, first stunner at McMahon at MSG, Tyson angle are all possibilities for Austin. I might also go with the image of him passing out with the blood at Mania 13 or the time he brought the beer truck to ringside. Rock is tougher. As far as his iconic moments there's the face to face with Hogan before they brought the vehicles into play, the finish at Summerslam '98, perhaps the face to face with Cena setting up the first mania match. There's also the taped Raw where Austin helps Foley win the title from Rock with a chair shot that's pretty damn memorable. I feel like you also need at least one Vince promo or strut to the ring on the list, but offhand can't imagine where to start narrowing down that list.

Do people actually hate or even dislike Cena? It always seems like they just enjoy booing him.

As long as it was a face incarnation, why not Dustin? That'd also work great on the eventual turn.

Don't know why this bugged me, but they've got the date of No Way Out 2003 listed as 2/22/2003. Apparently the correct date is 2/23/2003.

I remember doing my best to scribble out Savage's face with a marker on the cover of every magazine I had after he turned on Hogan. It was a lot of fun being an 8 year old wrestling fan. I didn't have cable until 1991 so outside of catching Superstars on Fox, I was dependent on magazines for all wrestling content. Read WWF, PWI and depending on the cover, The Wrestler / Inside Wrestling / Sports Review Wrestling over and over and over to get my fix.

What else do we have up there? August 2013 was pretty solid. Not sure how to single out a particular month from '89, as the goodness was spread out there.

The Fink is definitely #1 in my book. Have to at least give an honorable mention to the All Japan ring announcer. I may not have understood more than 4-8 words every time out (singles vs. tag), but he made those classics feel big from the get go.

Current Favorite Wrestler To Watch: Tomohiro Ishii & Dean Ambrose Last Fun Match You Saw: MITB Briefcase Match Wrestler You Want To See More Of: :LA Park Last Live Show Attended: ROH/NJPW in NY and WM 29 before that. Match You Are Looking Forward To Watching Soon The Most: Brock vs. Cena, Ambrose vs. Rollins and 2014 G1. A lot of hot rematches from last year as well as new, interesting matches this time around. Also the '94 Yearbook. I'm up to the end of August '93 and while I'm looking forward to the AJ tag league and a couple other gems later in the year, I want to get to '94 WCW, SMW, 5/21/94 (first AJ match I saw that blew my mind), 6/3/94 and especially Tenryu/Hash as WAR/NJPW has been the hottest thing in '93. Last Fun Interview/Promo You Saw: Dean Ambrose on RAW 2 weeks ago Last Interesting Thing You Read About Wrestling: Recently reread the WON obituary on Hawk. Forgot how great that one was. Also crossing my fingers that Dave cuts back a bit on the MMA coverage in the WON as he's noted on more than one occasion how UFC is even burning him out. I'm not holding my breath on this one, just crossing my fingers. Last Worthwhile Wrestling Podcast You Heard: Jericho with Heyman & Edge. Most Fun You've Had Watching Wrestling Lately: Post-MITB Raw.

I'd be pretty surprised if Cena's 1A is anything less than 2014 Tanahashi. He may not carry the world title but fully expect him to be the ace of the company for quite a while. As long as he's moving merchandise at a clip many multiples above the next batch of guys I would not expect to see him phased down. Its great that they're looking to elevate Reigns to that level and plan for it, whether it means penciling in a title win over Brock at Mania or otherwise sketching a long term path to get there. But until he's been asked to stand on his own in longer singles matches and promos it won't be clear what just what kind of potential he has. It'll be fun to see how he develops and grows into that kind of role but unless someone takes off like a Cena, much less Rock or Austin, its probably too soon to relegate Cena to the in-house legends role.

I actually just watched this Chamber match last night. For two guys who usually don't hold my attention, HHH/RVD at the start was fun with the blood. I'm curious how many audibles they had to call after RVD nearly killed HHH. Speaking solely off the cuff and with zero research, I may have enjoyed the HHH/Michaels end run more than any singles match between the two other than Summerslam that year.

Only thing I can come up with would be to strongly put over a heel Luke Harper, who's the real star of the act as far as I'm concerned.

Really getting the sense that Bryan comes out to spoil things for Kane and set up his return match with all the focus on him in videos & commentary, as well as Brie backstage.

Dave, it is effing awesome to have you back. I'm out of the city this weekend and don't have the computer I need to get this loaded on the ipod with me, but that lets me save it for next weekend when I can listen to it on an 11-12 mile run. Please keep producing these in accordance with my running schedule Thanks again, and hopefully the rest of the year is smooth sailing for ya!