I think that they did admirably once the ropes became loose early on in the match. I thought it was a really fun overall. I am glad that Akito finally took off Irie's kneepad when he was working over the knee as that was the obvious logical next step. **** from me.
Sure they would.
I would agree with this, if it was recorded for podcast one at the BSR, but it was recorded for WWE initially, with Vince sat right there listening.
It was the standard script they followed as part of the attraction match it was.
This certainly seems to be the reasonable answer though I'm disappointed it's not something more exotic. Has any non-lucha promotion ever used the minis as a regular part of the show? Obviously they were in a bit of an angle with Bundy/Jim leading up to WM3 and I remember them popping up in for a few weeks in like 96-97 when the WWF was throwing a bunch at the wall, but other than that?
The reason they were doing the minis in 1997 was the deal they had with AAA at the time.
Now now... Billy sold about 19 millions of those albums in the 90s. It's about like saying WCW did some big PPV numbers. They did: close to two decades ago.
There worldwide sales are around 32million for all releases.
There greatest hits which came out in 2001 sold around 3.2million worldwide, Zeitgeist was around 1million wordwide, Machina was around 1.8million world. Obviously the 90's was their peak but they've shifted about 7 million overall since then which isn't too shabby.
I've created a playlist of 45+ of the matches listed above - mainly AJPW, Lucha, AJW, WOS and some NJ
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoeBY9gVL9d2CDl2QDoUf4FffEEWZTq04
If they get 300,000 extra eyeballs on the product - that's an extra 30% if you say they get about 1 million (give or take) on syndication.
ROH are in a far healthier position than TNA.
It was spat started by Coughlin ripping in to Todd on THE BOARD. Basically he called Todd not a real lawyer and a failure of a person in the most venomous and real way and it escalated from there. Dave didn't fire Todd.