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I always think a good reference point when trying to get non Brits to understand the culture and scale of UK entertainment compared to the US is to look at music. If you look up any music tour from the 60s/70s/early80s of the biggest bands in the world, you see them selling out huge stadiums/arenas in the US, then when they get back over to the UK it's the same small theaters and halls that the wrestling was using. Just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_at_the_Races_Tour#Tour_dates . The Beatles were no more of a draw in Britain than Big Daddy, if you're looking at pure numbers. Which is obviously silly but gets the point across that there's more to the cultural impact of something than just attendance numbers.

Big Daddy flunks at least half of the qualifications. His business practices ultimately had the long-term effect of permanently killing all professional wrestling as a viable industry in England forever. And in-ring, he's possibly the single worst wrestler that I've ever see perform on the entire nomination list. Jingus, you're spouting the same old narrative that like Keith pointed out, it just simply isn't true.

Ah, the classic "Daddy factor". Not getting votes due to bitterness and resentment.

As always, totally hyped to listen to this, and a change of pace to a point, going back to 1984.

I can vouch for Carl if anyone is interested in some footage from him. Known him for many years now, and a fine gentleman, with an even finer collection!

As soon as Daddy and Pallo go in, Breaks would be the next strongest candidate. But saying that, as much as he's a great worker, he's no Terry Rudge. I might be in the minority but I feel Rudge deserves to be on the ballot for his workrate and his influence (Rudge -> Regal -> Bryan). Has anyone made a case to Dave about Rudge?

I wouldn't vote ANYONE else in the Euro section until Daddy and Pallo are in.

I voted for 9. You also get 5 Non-Wrestler votes.

My pretend ballot: I FOLLOWED THE HISTORICAL PERFORMERS ERA CANDIDATES I Abstain I FOLLOWED THE MODERN PERFORMERS IN U.S/CANADA CANDIDATES Bryan Danielson/Daniel Bryan Junkyard Dog Ivan Koloff I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN JAPAN CANDIDATES Volk Han Mike & Ben Sharpe I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN MEXICO CANDIDATES Cien Caras I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN EUROPE CANDIDATES Big Daddy Jackie Pallo I FOLLOWED WRESTLING IN AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS/CARIBBEAN/AFRICA CANDIDATES Carlos Colon NON-WRESTLERS Bill Apter Gary Hart Jimmy Hart Gene Okerluind Stanley Weston

Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/wrestlingeye/Episode_9.mp3 Welcome to episode #9 of The Wrestling Eye Podcast, after another long hiatus we're joined by Keith Harris of cagesideseats.com and Dylan Waco of Wrestling Culture podcast to discuss the candidacy of Big Daddy in The Wrestling Observer Hall Of Fame. Keith and I try to convince Dylan to put Big Daddy on his ballot when submitting it for the class of 2015. This episode was due to be around 2hrs long, however I experienced some audio issues, so I was only able to save the conversation we had with Dylan. However, this is a fun show as always! Follow us on twitter at @WrestlingEyePod iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/wrestling-eye-podcast/id793458725 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wrestling-eye-podcast

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Guess that means Weston, unless he's asking Stu about Apter. Doesn't voting close in two weeks? He may just be trying to anticipate things. Or maybe he's just trying to send Stu a ballot.

A great show as always. Not had a bad show yet. Thanks for all the hard work guys.

Remember, Big Daddy should be on your ballots guys.

No-one defends Daddy the worker. He is more culturally significant in his home country than Muto though. Culturally, the US has never seen anything like Big Daddy. The closest comparisons are Rikdozan and El Santo - both are much bigger than Daddy though. However when Daddy passed it was front page news on all the tabloid newspapers, and was the lead story on BBC and ITV news on the day.

Thank you for recording these shows, they're always fun and very insightful.

Upset at the lack of Terry Rudge love here Chad.

What if the peso didn't crash in the mid 1990's in Mexico?

WrestleWar 1992 War Games match.

Ask him if the RT button is stuck on his twitter machine.

Onita for me is the epitome of this.

Here's a link for people who want to get in to UWFi but find the Japanese a barrier to entry. All 75 Episodes of Bushido: The Way Of The Warrior that was shown on Sky Sports UK from 1995 and then again on Bravo a few years later: http://www.scientificwrestling.com/public/department72.cfm

Enjoying this so far, will finish it off this evening. Todd is fine, but I don't think he's knowledgeable to hang with KrisZ or Bix. He does always raise some interesting points thought. I personally learnt that Sting and Sid were working AJ in 1989.

The coverage worldwide for this story proves that Hogan still is the face of US Wrestling to a huge degree.