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  1. thebrainfollower
    All hail the return of the greatest WCW podcast around! As for Humperdink, I side with Chad and Parv here. Watching that piece of footage, is he really that good? Every manager I love brought something unique, there was never quite anyone like Bobby Heenan, Jim Cornette, Jimmy Hart, JJ Dillon, Gary Hart, Tammy Sytch/Sunny, or even a Skandor Akbar (though I've seen very little of Sheik Adnan). But Humperdink sort of strikes me as a generic madman. Actually the comparison to Akbar seems valid. Both were around their favorite territories for years and are fondly remembered but never struck me as the top villain in the way Bobby Heenan was, and both could have left without everything falling apart IMO And now thanks to the network I can watch every Clash and PPV as I listen to the podcast.
  2. thebrainfollower
    So what would everyone's picks be for the matches where famed JCP referee Tommy Young contributed the most? I have a friend who's getting a lot of indy bookings as a ref and I want to show him Tommy's best stuff. I can come up with the consensus best matches Tommy refereed but I'm more looking for his standout performances.
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    Well I just watched WrestleWar 91 which I think is the next show to get me ready. Glad to hear the casket has not been closed on WTBBP
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    Sadly, I'm starting to worry we can place this show on hiatus. I was really looking forward to hearing you guys cover 92 and 93 but once every six weeks or so just isn't enough for my old school WCW podcast fix.
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    There's a WWF squash where the jobber takes some liberties and gets a bit too much offense and Koko just beats the ever loving hell out of him that's odd to watch. Poor guy must have been terrified going up for the Ghostbuster. Koko even lost his debut match, a tag against the Hart Foundation, which must be a rarity for someone the WWF pushed at first. I like his matches with Rude particularly for some reason.
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    He was pretty awful as a commentator IMO. He and Gorilla brought out the worst qualities in each. This one appearance, not sure I get it. Maybe he was just in NYC that day and figured he could pick up a payday.
  7. thebrainfollower
    Here's a question - Does Michael Hayes have such political pull in WWE that WCCW is seen as the be all and end all of territories? It's the only old school territory on the network. I get that it might take some months to get the mid South territory stuff together but the fact is the upcoming stuff this year is only SNME and the Clashes. Seems kinda funny.
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    I don't know and I don't care.
  9. thebrainfollower
    Wrong word. Ticket sales, merchandising etc. That they would have lost less money or maybe broken even if Heyman hadn't blown them. That's what I had heard more than once though I cannot recall where.
  10. thebrainfollower
    I love the Quebecers, enjoy the Natural Disasters more often than not and the Beverly Brothers are okay, though they are my dad's least favorite wrestlers of all time (A botched Shaker Heights Spike extended a TV taping we attended when I was 12 by nearly an hour. Show went from 7:30 to 1am. Nuts)
  11. thebrainfollower
    Basically Slaughter brings up his 91 one as good and Ted says that's interesting because in 90 the fans didn't know Warrior but they had a very good match. He implies the Japanese fans loved Warrior at the end of it. Looking completely honest and truthful.
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    No he specifically said it was a very good match. The Japan one. You almost think he's gonna tell the truth when Slaughter mentions the one he had in 91 in Japan but then changes his mind.
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    It is. See the Japanese crowd is actually mocking the match with their chanting. Hence it's a bad match. Until the Warrior died and it suddenly became a good match in Ted's eyes. He HAD to bring that up. Had to expose himself as a hypocrite. Had to break poor Jerry Von Kramer's heart (and he should have or shame on you Parv) He could have just said that wasn't a good match but the Main Event one really was. Warrior really improved between the two. It's not that hard really. Has anyone seen the Warrior-Slaughter Japan match? Does the same mockery happen?
  14. thebrainfollower
    Rude and Bret had interactions during the Hennig feud in WCW but no matches to the best of my opinion. Rock and Shawn is definitely by choice. Rock's avoided many interactions with HHH and Shawn on his returns by choice.
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    Well if you hated a person in life and they die you should, IMO, keep your darn mouth shut. Slaughter said some mixed things about Warrior so I have no problem with him being in a panel celebrating Warrior. But Dibiase ticks me off, he is a total hypocrite to reverse himself 180 degrees without explaining why. A match cannot go from terrible to great just because someone died. HHH I cannot stand but in this case, I can see where he is coming from. He sees his job as to repair the burned bridges of Vince McMahon. And he's been remarkably successful with the two biggest ones, including one who treated him like a jerk and stepped on him when he was nothing more than the clique's bag boy. And then the day after his efforts bear fruition the guy dies. That's gotta be hard to take.
  16. thebrainfollower
    I love the whole idea of PWO - discussing wrestling in more depth than is the norm and giving buried workers (Lex Luger) and obscure workers their due. But when we get to a thread about the Godwinns I wonder if we haven't jumped the shark. I never saw them doing anything more than be serviceable. And Henry Godwinn always struck me as a total jerk. At a small house show in 96 everyone was being cool. Bret, Taker, Nash, Ahmed, Razor and HHH. I heard him actually storm off from a group of kids asking autographs and his well, for lack of a better word, minion telling them "The man doesn't have time for you".
  17. thebrainfollower
    Is there any truth to the rumors that Atlantic City and various other vices ended up with a lot of ECW's profits?
  18. thebrainfollower
    And now the match with Ted in Japan was a great match according to Ted and HHH was honored and loved doing the job at Mania. These guys should run for office.
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    The hypocrisy of all this is beyond belief. Watching the Warrior round table now and Ted does at least admit he's said bad things about the Warrior in the past but now they are there to celebrate him. I would love Vince/Linda/Stephanie to be interviewed by a legit reporter who's done their homework and showed footage of the first DVD doc. We'd get another Bob Costas moment I suspect. Hearing Hogan say all these nice things about Warrior is amusing. These people want to see themselves as entertainers and they are. The 2nd generation of carnies. It really makes it hard to be a wrestling fan. I loved them but the more I see of them as people I actually think I hate pro wrestlers from this era as people. With only a few exceptions. For the record I think Warrior was underrated for years as a big match person. But I also think his views make him him utterly reprehensible as a person (but none of them are related to pro wrestling directly, so I have to let that go).
  20. thebrainfollower
    This match proves how different American and Japanese audiences are. It's about average from what I have seen of Warrior's non big match title defenses. The fact that Dibiase could put on much better stuff with Warrior raises my eyebrow that this wasn't an attempt to humiliate Warrior
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    ok
  22. thebrainfollower
    Well I feel like it's easier to see Michaels working differently against different styles of opponents than it is for Flair. It's there for Flair but you have to look more carefully whereas it's right out there with Michaels.
  23. thebrainfollower
    I've never heard anyone rave over Austin-Taker. Given Austin's condition after the backdrop botch it's a miracle the match happened but still it's pretty mediocre.
  24. thebrainfollower
    The dark match was on a CHV and was about a 2 minute Warrior squash to end a taping.
  25. thebrainfollower
    Savage and Warrior never fought a match during their feud on TV, SNME, Superstars or otherwise. There's a TV taping dark match but that's it. Not in 90 or 91, unless you count the MSG cage.
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