WingedEagle

That's weird. I downloaded VLC on a mac ages ago and had no problems right away. This happening to you on all files or one in particular?

Dave was "forced" to write that as Court Bauer said it. Apparently Dave told Court that in private. Can you explain further? Perhaps I missed the Bauer pod where he went into detail on it.

So I'm up to this point in the yearbook and just watched the 6/3 tag match. Unreal. I watched the AJPW 80s set and much of the 90s, and never saw Hansen get thrashed so soundly. You had the crowd chanting for JOEL DEATON of all people to make the save just a few minutes into the match. Pretty clear from this they had big plans for Gordy heading into the fall. I can only imagine how well his airplane escapades went over. Most importantly for now -- I can't seem to find the Gordy vs. Hansen singles anywhere. Checked Ditch & the tubes and came up empty. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

From this week's WON: Jeff Jarrett & Toby Keith were close to finalizing their purchae of the company, but it fell apart when Bob Carter insisted that as part of the deal they had to retain Dixie with some input into the new company and as a TV character. I respect putting family first, but wow. Why not just find another way to use family money to take care of her?

I loved Nak/Saku and thought the April Tana/Okada match was great, but personally preferred their G1 draw and October matches. I think Okada is supposed to be the heel when matched with Tanahashi, but he doesn't cheat or do much of anything to go out of his way and heel things up. He also clearly plays the face against Karl Anderson who's a pretty rigid heel at this point. Maybe he's more along the lines of an old school NWA who's not a straight face or heel? Perhaps someone who speaks the language could help give us a sense of how he's presented in the commentary and promos.

Will, what do you think of Shibata? I loved most of the top NJ matches from last year but thought his were really overrated.

But is there anything you wouldn't enjoy given that kind of support?

Sadly, no. It's going to be a bit labor intensive, but I'm editing thread titles. Check the January 1990 folder to see what I've done so far. I've applied hashtags and edited titles there, so you can see where we are going. The good news is that you'll be able to sort those threads in all folders when I'm done by: - Wrestler - Day of the Year - Feud - Promotion - Title on the line - Title Change - City in which it occurred - My star rating (Plan to layer in others eventually, including WON ratings) This sounds awesome and will absolutely make this place that much more of a resource than it already is. Definitely going to be a painstaking process. Thanks for putting in the time!

One other note -- it looks like the new yearbook threads don't display the subtopic which listed the date/promotion/show of the topic. Any way to get that back?

Hopefully a dumb question that I find the answer to shortly, but does the new site have the same button next to each thread you can click to begin viewing from any unread posts in that thread?

Do we know yet what DVDs will be available on the network?

Absent a good reason to doubt Meltzer's sources, why question his reporting. Can argue on taste but I don't recall any reasons to challenge his integrity.

My larger point was that a key argument in the Bryan push discussion has been pointing to how over he is with the crowds. If crowds become unfocused and out of control to the point that they're chanting for just about anything, you can pretty easily construct an argument that Bryan isn't as over as some would have you believe but rather one of many excuses for people to make noise.

I hope it doesn't continue. One could easily point to that and say the crowds just want to make noise and be disruptive as opposed to Bryan actually being over as a top guy.

Perhaps not hardcore by PWO standards. But there is nothing casual about a fan who regularly goes to wrestling news sites.

Plenty of people watch the NFL every Sunday, or their local NBA/MLB team and maybe a national game every now and then. But they're not checking espn.com, rotoworld or any other sites that otherwise track micro happenings in those sports. They take their cues from what they watch. Can't imagine wrestling fans skew all that differently.

Of the overall fan base, I'd guess its incredibly low, as in the low single digits at best. But its probably dramatically higher among those that attend TV shows which is contributing to some of the out of control reactions these days. Not just on the HHH front obviously, but in general. I'd be shocked if more than 5-10% of those watching had any idea about Punk other than maybe noticing that he hasn't been on TV since the Rumble.

I thought Kobashi was thicker rather like Kawada rather than incredibly cut. Rewatching a lot now I have so much love for Taue. His style fit the look and was a master at so many little things.

Because they were playing a script based on Internet memes. "Evil HHH and his old lady holding down a guy who's the best wrestler but doesn't have the look". Find me ONE fan who has ever said that HHH 's promos actually influenced how they think and I'll eat my hat. If it were just promos you'd have a point. But its promos combined with getting laid out every week, always coming up short when going for the title and not offering a glimmer of hope that anything approaching Summerslam was feasible since then. If HHH were spouting off left and right while Bryan got the upper hand in angles from time to time it'd be a different story.

How prevalent were roids among top talent in Japan? It never seemed as big an issue as in the states, or perhaps just wasn't covered as much. Nor did you have a bunch of Warlords running around drawing your attention to it. But it must've had some kind of presence.

I meant more than enough content to pass the time. I actually enjoy Bauer. He keeps the shows from meandering too much.

Yeah, its unfortunate but I just can't listen to the show anymore. MLW and Bauer & Pollack are more than enough.

On the flipside, I thought the '97 Survivor Series was a work while watching live. Can't recall if it was later that night or the following day that it became clear to me.

I always felt the same way. Was it Vince's hair? Was I just out on the Trump phenomenon and missing what the mainstream audience bought into as an incredibly huge deal? There's no denying that the stips there had to have been big as none of the big 3 matches on their own felt like any kind of game changer.