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He said it, but was very clear the two weren't comparable. He was pretty much thinking out loud whether any other MSG shows sold out so quickly, concluded it was probably only Wrestle Manias, but certainly not the first one. He also made clear that you can't really compare shows now with online pre-sales to those in the past, though it is fair to compare it with sales patterns for big WWE shows which use a similar system.

Yep, it seems to be standard billing practice for all Japanese subscription services. You pay the day you sign up and then on the 1st of every month (though it'll actually be some time on the 31st if you're in the West.) The other thing to watch out for is that if you cancel, your access shuts off immediately rather than running until the next payment date.

Hopefully not under the radar for too long, but... 400 pages, available worldwide on Kindle (free on Kindle Unlimited) and in print at Amazon with free postage. https://www.amazon.com/Have-Good-Wee.../dp/1983116246 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-Good-W.../dp/B07DSCLGTZ Full list of contents: Adrian Street Albert Wall & Gwyn Davies Big Daddy Billy Robinson Blackjack Mulligan Blondie Barratt Brian Dixon Brian Maxine British Bulldogs Catweazle Chic Cullen Chris Adams Colin Joynson Danny Collins Dave Taylor Doc Dean Drew McDonald George Kidd Giant Haystacks Jackie Pallo Jackie Turpin Jim Breaks John Cox John Freemantle John Kenny John Naylor Johnny Kidd Johnny Kincaid Johnny Saint Kendo Nagasaki Kid Chocolate Klondyke Kate Kung Fu Len Ironside Les Kellett Mal Kirk Mal Sanders Mark Rocco Marty Jones Mel Stuart Mick McManus Mike Marino Mitzi Mueller Orig Williams Pete Roberts Ray Robinson Ricky Knight Robbie Brookside Scrubber Daly Sheamus Dunleavy Steve Grey Tom Thumb Tony St Clair Tony Walsh William Regal Cup Final Day Holiday Camps Pre-TV Era Royal Albert Hall Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland The Calgary Connection Wembley Arena Joint Promotions

Stevie Richards' WWE run was longer than Hogan's main WWF run. Bob Holly was there for FIFTEEN years.

Admittedly I was watching on VHS at the time, but the TV show picture quality was absolutely fine, as were the (outdoor) tapes of the big shows at Six Flags. It might just be they didn't have the budget/equipment/ability to do a decent recording at Louisville Gardens. That whole Christmas Chaos show was released on VHS and even at the time people were commenting on how it was unusually poor quality.

Taking those guys off the list, it's a relatively small roster when you think of how many guys they'd already 'raided'. Here's the last time before WrestleMania that they ran two shows on the same night: If you look through that era and the next few months, it's surprising how much of the undercards are padded out with people who are being used solely as jobbers on TV, people no longer on TV, and local guys. It looks to be well into 87/88 before the point where virtually everyone on the main house shows is somebody who always wins on the weekly TV.

People who'd been on the two main TV shows as the star (rather than jobber) in 1985 but weren't working Mania: Adonis/Murdoch Dave Schulz (fired by Mania) Briscos Tonga Kid Blackjack Mulligan Spoiler George Wells Moondogs Hillbilly Jim Neidhart Patera Bret Hart Mosca Jr Atlas Putski Luc Poirer (he'd have to wait another 12 years for a regular gig) Muraco Probably just enough for a decent B-show if they'd really wanted one!

https://soundcloud.com/lovethegraps/lovethegraps-episode-47-firsts-miniseries-roh-era-of-honor-begins revisits the first ROH show and has the reaction you'd expect.

Also there's the stupid mainstream logic that because the outcome of wrestling matches is "fake" then there's no need to treat any aspect of the wrestling industry as real.

If Tom Brady died tomorrow and the NFL put out a statement commemorating his nine Super Bowl wins, would people be pissed off if a Boston Globe reporter tweeted to say the figure was wrong?

Where did you cancel the membership on the site? I can't find that option anywhere and I'd damn sure like to use it.

Hope nobody minds a cheeky plug for my new book Purodyssey: A Tokyo Wrestling Diary. Blurb's below and you can get it in print and Kindle at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C8L3DFG or on your local Amazon).

Or a wrong rewrite of Meltzer stuff.

Are we all forgetting the short-lived juniors division?

Not sure if WCW themselves taped the match where Vader regained the title in Dublin. As I always heard it, the full copy of that match that tape traders had came from Doc Dean being at ringside to get B-roll footage, particularly of Regal, for the Robbie Brookside video diaries and having the sense/luck to record the main event.

The full tape of the broadcast exists -- the people behind one of the wrestler-only reunions paid for ITV to find it in their film archives and digitise it. That only covered showing it at the reunion and not making any copies. So to put it vaguely, anyone who does now have a copy will likely be under strict instructions not to pass it on, and if they do, it will be on the same basis. ITV having digitised it meant it was available to licence for the BBC Timeshift documentary on wrestling a few years back which used clips from it.

Shameless plug, but could be useful here: my match listings site at itvwrestling.co.uk now has all the embedded YouTube videos I could find.

Speaking for myself, when I started watching it, I would just download the shows when cappers would post them up on XWT. Turnaround time was usually very fast, especially after Suzuki vs Tanahashi got five stars. I know I got back into New Japan right at the time of that match (2012?) and they'd just started an iPPV service for the big shows that was relatively Western-friendly. They also did a couple of years with a G-1 package where you got every show (other than the ones on Samurai TV) for something like $90, which seemed like an absolute bargain at the time.

Should also add that I'd bet at least 95% of voters don't realise there's a difference between "I am abstaining from this category" and "I am not voting for any of the candidates in this category."

I'm sure their business plan works great and all, but if the problem is only live streaming, then I don't see how they wouldn't do far better business having a $10 VOD of the show within a couple of days (when people could watch spoiler free) than they do by just having DVDs a month or two later.

Yeah, I'd be tempted to ditch the categories and the 10 vote limit altogether. Just give voters the full list and have them tick yes, no or abstain (with heavy emphasis that it's fine to abstain if you don't know the candidate), then put in anyone who gets 60% of their yes/no votes. I also suspect many if not most voters who aren't in forums/listening to podcasts give approximately zero thought to the mathematical effects of which categories they vote in and instead just pick their 10 favourites.

The standard story on Rude is that he quit because when he was out injured they continued false advertising him in main events but then rejected his argument that if his name was valuable enough to false advertise, he should get the relevant payoffs.

Couple of interesting clarifications in the latest issue of the Observer (which aren't on the ballot): * The ballot always says you have to have something to offer in all three categories (work, drawing, historical importance) or be so outstanding in one or two that you deserve inclusion. The new issue says: * The new issue clarifies that even though candidates are divided up by region: While that's great/sensible as far as whole career counting, the idea that part of your career counts against you raises a big problem with a system where some guys are considered before their career is over. I'm almost certain that had Caristico been on the ballot in 2010 he would have got in on drawing power alone, so it seems odd that you can reach hall of fame status and then lose it.

Daddy sold out Wembley one time (actually a handful of seats short.) The other two shows did around 70 and 50 percent of capacity.

The Chikara-like ATTACK group in the UK does an annual late October show called GooseBumps with a heavy horror movie influence: