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  1. 102 pages! • The New Generation takes hold! • The madness of Randy Savage! • Tatanka's ill-advised heel turn! • Vince McMahon's obsession with Roseanne Barr! • Kanyon and the Hardy Boyz as enhancement talent! • The rise of the 123 Kid! • Bob Backlund Crossface Chickenwinging everyone in sight! Click here to order in paperback from Lulu.com! Click here to order on Kindle from Amazon!
  2. That photo of Bret with the AOL floppy disk coupled with some research I was doing today (WWE were still producing VHS tapes as late as 2005 / some Canadian stores don't offer any Blu-rays) made me wonder a mostly non-wrestling thing. I know a lot of people can be stubborn to upgrade (cassette to CD, CD to digital, VHS to DVD, etc.) Hell, until this year I was running a dying PC on Windows XP and I don't own a smartphone, but I wonder what the most archaic form of the internet that someone still uses is? Is AOL even still accessible? There must be people out there still using landlines to get online right? Old people, folks in backwater towns where the technology hasn't caught up? I went to a little Spanish town in 2003 and DVD players were still a new, luxurious item there, all the shops sold were VHS tapes and VCDs.
  3. Dave and Bryan talking about the difference between doing porn and owning dildos was something I never expected to hear, yet isn't a conversation piece I'm even remotely surprised about.
  4. Just wanted to note that we're currently offering Volume 1 of The Complete WWF Video Guide for just 99p / $1.61 as a week long, one time only special offer. Available worldwide from Amazon! Volume 4 is due for release on Monday, December 2nd in paperback and Kindle forms too so now's as good a time as any to grab some wrestling reads if you've not checked us out yet.
  5. We're closing in on a brand new release (Complete WWF Video Guide Volume 4) for late November/early December so I figured I'd get a couple of plugs for some older books out of the way: The Complete WWF Video Guide, Volume 2: The Death of Hulkamania 346 pages! COVERED IN DEPTH: • Every WWF VHS release from 1990 - June 1993! • The decline of the World Wrestling Federation! • The death of Hulkamania! • The sex and drug scandals! • The ascension of Bret Hart! • The rise of Shawn Michaels! • The birth of Monday Night RAW! • The WWF's mass expansion across Europe! • The arrival of the Real World's Champion! • The sorry state of tag team wrestling! • The madness of Randy Savage's commentary! • IRS chinlocking everyone to sleep! STARRING: • Hulk Hogan! • Bret Hart! • Ric Flair! • Shawn Michaels! • Macho Man Randy Savage! • Mr. Perfect! • The Legion of Doom! • The Undertaker! • The British Bulldog! • Doink! PLUS: • Full reviews of each and every tape! • Alternative wrestler biographies! • Exclusive artwork by Bob Dahlstrom! • The 37th Annual Volume 2 Awards! • Star ratings for every single match! • Plus much, much more! Click here to order in paperback from Lulu.com! Click here to order on Kindle from Amazon!
  6. Haha, thank you very much! James was the one who transcribed most of the promos and he said he felt like he'd started to actually go crazy towards the end of the run. My favourite stuff to write were the skits, namely the Phil Collins one, the Jake Roberts dark side stuff, and the magic mirror. War Games '98 was fun to rip apart too, and the Blade Runners/Dingo Warrior era was interesting to get to see the guy develop as a character in chronological form. I think ultimately (ho ho) we came away with a renewed appreciation for a guy who lit our childhoods up. Well, apart from Arnie, who wanted nothing to do with it beyond including a handful of pay-per-view matches he'd already covered.
  7. It's not really odd, it's just down to the whole TV thing. The WWF was on over here in the early/mid 80s, but hardly anybody could see it. It wasn't until the arse end of the 80s/very early 90s that more people got access to it, which coincided with Davey Boy Smith returning. Hogan doing stuff like Suburban Commando helped for publicity too. Everyone I was at school with was massively into it in 91/92 (not just teenagers as John mentioned, we were all 7/8 years old at that point), SummerSlam was the peak, then it dropped off incredibly quickly. By the end of 1992, Gladiators had supplanted the WWF as the cool new "thing" amongst my age range, though it didn't hurt that it was on terrestrial TV in prime time on a Saturday while the WWF was still on Sky, making it hard for kids whose parents wouldn't get a dish to see it. By about 1994, most of the same kids had turned their attention to Premier League football and Merlin stickers, and by 1995 there were very few kids left willing to even publicly admit they watched wrestling.
  8. My God, that discussion on the podcast about the AJ Styles leaving TNA angle was the most excruciating 20 minutes of radio I've ever heard, Dave just completely ignoring Bryan's points (which I'd normally advocated but not here) and Bryan not realising he needed to give up, instead just leading Dave round and round and round in circles the whole time.
  9. I did, I covered a fair few matches for it and did a lot of the research and think it came out pretty well. A lot of people seem to like it so I hope you've been enjoying it! For those who've not seen it yet: Superstar Series: The Hart Foundation 106 pages! • Over 150 Hart Foundation matches! • Complete reviews and star ratings! • Behind the scenes information! • Complete chronology of the team! • All PPVs, TV and house shows! • Exclusive content! Paperback: http://www.lulu.com/shop/product-21182516.html Kindle: http://getbook.at/Harts ------------------ We've also just released our second 'Superstar Series' book, this time covering the entire career of the Ultimate Warrior from his earliest days as a Freedom Fighter through to his 2008 swansong with Orlando Jordan. This one was principally put together by just myself and James Dixon since our third writer Arnie dropped out. Superstar Series: The Ultimate Warrior 162 pages! • Over 150 matches reviewed and rated! • Over 100 promos transcribed! • From the Blade Runners to the Dingo Warrior! • CWA, UWF, WCCW, WWF, WCW and NWE! • WWE’s Self Destruction of the Warrior DVD! • Warrior’s Ringside Collectibles shoot interview! • Extensive listing of all his matches! Paperback: Click to order from Lulu.com! Kindle from Amazon: http://getBook.at/Warrior!
  10. Our first book from just over a year ago has been given a nice makeover to correct some grammar and remove the "roundtable" format of certain reviews (which I personally was never keen on), making it a much tighter and better edition. The Complete WWF Video Guide: Volume 1 322 pages! • Every home video release, 1985 - 1989! • Full reviews of every tape! • Alternative wrestling biographies! • Exclusive artwork by Bob Dahlstrom! • The 37th Annual Volume 1 Awards! • Star ratings for every single match! • Plus much, much more! "Very comprehensive and a genuinely useful reference guide." - John Lister (Fighting Spirit, Turning the Tables) "An incredible resource for our generation of wrestling fans." - Blake Norton (WOW Magazine, The Bagpipe Report) "A lot of good information here…a fine research resource…fascinatingly nostalgic.” - Brian Elliot (Fighting Spirit Magazine) Paperback edition available from Lulu.com here! Kindle edition available from Amazon here!
  11. He might have been worse off based on his position on the card but he just didn't have the choice like some other guys did, and I think given his standing at the time (I mean, he was fired and all), he was probably better off in the polka dots anyway.
  12. Dusty didn't strictly go from the NWA to the WWF, and he didn't really have a choice since he got fired from Crockett in '88 then went back to Florida and the AWA before joining the WWF. Plus, he drew some good money on C-show loops against Big Boss Man besides the runs he had with Savage and DiBiase, so he made out pretty good I think. If he'd been sacked as Crockett's booker but retained as a wrestler, it's possible he'd have suffered a fall from grace from whoever took over. It's also possible he'd have kept himself over despite the booking so who knows. At least we got Flair-Steamboat in '89 instead of another round of Flair-Dusty. Maybe Dusty could have just reformed his team with Dick Murdoch or something and feuded with the Varsity Club.
  13. That's what confuses me about it, a friend of mine will claim to hate a show then ask me if I watched it this week and begin dissecting every little thing about it that he hated, and I'll wonder why he didn't do something he actually enjoys instead. It happened recently where he brought up the name of someone from our past who I told him I hadn't spoken to in years, had no desire to speak to ever again and didn't care about. His response was "I agree, him and his mates were all idiots" before updating me on the last few years of this persons life! I JUST DON'T GET IT. I'll ask him if he's seen certain films yet, some more than 15 years old and he'll say "Nah, it's on my DVR... I've always meant to see it, just haven't had time yet." You haven't had time?! But you know the details of the personal lives of people you don't care about?! You don't have time to watch Cesaro/Generico or the Futurama finale despite the fact you're a fan of those things but you've got time to watch everything Will.i.am is in when all you do is tell me what a berk he is?! It's such a disturbing trend because there's a few people I know who do that now. And they'll criticise WWE, TNA, ROH while admitting to not having watched any of them in years. One guy I knew, a promoter no less, who admittedly was running two businesses and didn't have time to keep up with indy wrestling, told me El Generico was the shits. He also told me that he'd never actually seen him wrestle but that "anyone who needs to use something as stupid as a top rope brainbuster to get over doesn't know how to work." He would then proceed to book his wretched trainees in rotten undercard matches. SOME PEOPLE, EH.
  14. Something that baffles me is a growing trend amongst people I know who will willingly watch stuff they proclaim to hate, just so they can complain about it. I actually know people who have grown up as big wrestling fans and as fans of animate sitcoms (Simpsons, Futurama etc.) yet they haven't watched those things hardly at all in YEARS. Conversely, they continually complain about how terrible the X Factor is yet every single week their twitters and facebooks are packed with their live thoughts on the show. They talk about how much they watch Scrubs but they know the show inside out and keep watching the reruns. And they claim not to care about all the shitty people they used to know from old jobs, college etc, yet know every single detail of what all those people are up to these days. And it INFURIATES me, particularly when I recommend them something, be it a film, a game, an album but they "don't have time." Stop wasting it on shit you hate then! To try and tie that in to the original question, yes it's fine for people to develop opinions to something they've not seen (actually, it isn't but there's not much you can do to counteract mass stupidity), and it's equally fine for me to ignore those opinions because I'm not a cretin.
  15. Has anybody else noticed Dave rambling a lot more on topics that don't matter, or is it just me? I know he's always done it, but I was listening to I think it was the Diva reality show stuff, and for about ten minutes straight he kept making the same points over and over and over in slightly different ways without Bryan being able to move him onto another topic. Then, the last show I heard was the one where he kept talking about how much money Bryan Danielson could make on the indies for the next year while ignoring Bryan's pleas that it didn't matter anyway since he wasn't leaving WWE. I mean, I know what Dave can be like sometimes, but recently he's just gotten fixated on these weird little things that he'll talk about over and over and over to the point that I'm starting to find him and not Bryan to be the irritating one.
  16. Some of you might be aware that I've been co-authoring a series of books (principally WWF ones) covering the complete WWF/Coliseum Home Video series, as well yearly review/guide books for Monday Night RAW (I was a guest on Chad and Parv's Where the Big Boys Plays discussing the books a while back, it's the WrestleWar '89 double episode if anybody wants to dig it up, a jolly fun time I had talking with those guys indeed!) I figure now's a good time as any to get a thread going for these books, since we just hit 1000 likes on our Facebook page (facebook.com/historyofwrestling.info) and to mark the grand occasion, we've made our RAW Files: 1993 Kindle edition available completely free for the next three days. After that, it'll go back to the regular (and very affordable) price (about £3.00/$4.80). So if you're looking to fill your e-Reader with a whole bunch of free content, there's no reason not to give this a try, right? The RAW Files: 1993 Every angle, segment and match covered in detail! 104 pages! - Friar Ferguson's ill-fated debut - 123 Kid's shocking upest - Lex Luger's sudden turn - Vince McMahon's hatred for ticket scalpers - Rob Bartlett - Randy Savage's vicious rant on Hulk Hogan - Brutus Beefcake's parents - The wrestling blowjob - plus much more! Click here for the paperback edition from Lulu.com! Click here for the Kindle edition from Amazon!
  17. "It was not a good thing. It's a very sensitive issue" were the gist of Dave's words on the Bret Hart/Jack Brisco problems in 1984, and I've absolutely no idea what he was alluding to. The Montreal fallout was the second big source of heat with Bret and the Briscos.
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  19. I went about seven hours to Ayr, Scotland... to see Robbie E. That's not as ridiculous as it reads. It was *supposed* to be three and a bit hours but both our sat navs broke and we couldn't pick up 3G, and I went mainly because my buddy was doing ring announcing after having not been involved in that for a while, and because I've started up a video production business and the promoter gave me the green light to shoot some stuff for a showreel. It was Pro Wrestling Elite's second anniversary, and it boasted a pretty damn great Mickie James vs. Nikki Storm match, and a very fine (family friendly) street fight with the awesome Johnny Moss going over Dave Mastiff/Moralez. Show also had UK indy names like Mad Man Manson, Lion Kid, Mark Haskins etc. Been a long time since I was involved in (or even at) any live wrestling so that was good. Getting home at 5:30am, not so much.
  20. I couldn't give two shits about MMA (hell, I could barely give one shit even when Brock was UFC champion) so I'm extremely nonplussed about the whole thing. Like, I get it, the whole Bellator cross-promotion thing but as a pro wrestling fan who wants to watch pro wrestling, I couldn't be less interested in TNA paying a THIRD MMA guy to take up their TV time to not do pro wrestling matches. It's bad enough that Rampage Jackson won't even buy a suit to be in the Main Event Mafia. If you want to play pro wrestler, at least PLAY PRO WRESTLER.
  21. Hi all, I'm Lee, 29 from the North East of England. Long-time lurker, finally signed up when DVDVR went down again. Being English, my story is pretty similar to a lot of the other guys here, the cliffs notes being thus: Early Days Arse-end of World of Sport Early 90s Boom WWF on Sky - WCW on ITV - Apter Mags/Superstars of Wrestling/PowerSlam - Coliseum Videos - Hasbros and Galoobs - Merlin sticker albums - New Japan on Eurosport - Gladiators takes over as the hot new thing on the playground - mid 90s slump Late 90s Resurgence Nitro hits TNT - German satellite TV with DSF carrying everything - ECW on Bravo - underground tape trading and Japanese imports - those incredible Friday nights - getting online and becoming deeply immersed in the behind the scenes stuff 2000s DVDs making trading so much easier - YouTube and torrents making trading largely pointless - training for a time until other commitments took over - working UK indies in various roles - realising a dream when I did live commentary for a card... and having portions of that card later broadcast on TV --- I'm basically just as addicted to the business as I was when I first discovered as a child, and unlike a lot of folks I know who are still fans, I never actually had that period where fell out of it. Here in the UK, for most that would have been after SummerSlam '92 and before the rise of Steve Austin and the nWo, but I was just as hardcore a fan then as ever, always fantasy booking, reading magazines, collecting action figures, etc. I watch just about anything, all promotions and all eras, but my affinity lies with what got me into wrestling, late 80s and early 90s WWF and WCW, though Friday nights here in 1998 and 1999 were amazing with the amount of stuff we had on TV. I'm kind of sad that I trained to wrestle but never had a match, and at 29 I feel like that window is probably behind me since I got deeply out of shape, but I do make a few pennies from a series of Coliseum Video guide books I co-write. I'm not making a living but hell, I get to watch and write about pro wrestling, and it nets me a little bit of pocket money on the side, so that can't be bad. In fact, now that I think about it, I could just post one of my author bios from those books so here goes: www.HistoryOfWrestling.info is where to go for info on my Coliseum Video/Monday Night RAW guide book series, paperbacks and Kindle versions available! That's the other thing about me I guess, expect me to intermittently shill those books every now and then! (I promise not to be overbearing about it okay? Okay.)
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