Mr. Lacelle

I'd love to see you review the territory I grew up with, here's Ron Starr vs Leo Burke

The difference with Brock/Goldberg is that it was at MSG, which makes for far better acoustics for chants and what not. At a stadium and with way more casual fans there wil not be nearly the same reaction.

Bam Bam Bigelow would have been a good choice.

Kane

I think you're all underestimating the aesthetic of today's wrestling. It just looks so pedestrian that it's counterproductive to being memorable. This includes most promotions. You look back at older matches and most of the time they have a more natural feel and appearance. Plus the commentary usually wasn't such a hindrance to watchablity.

Konnan should have come around back in the 60s. Not a lot of footage from the 60s exists.

I have that Monopoly game, the cheapest properties are AJ Lee & Dolph Ziggler. Cena is the boardwalk and The Rock is the Park Place. PPV's represent the railroads and it's all kinds of fun.

I always dug Austin/Steamboat, I don't think they ever had a bad match together. 94 Austin is one of my favourite wrestlers ever and you could see that Steamboat brought out the best in him. Someone made a comp set of their feud and I loved the heck out of it, just two awesome wrestlers putting on great matches each time out. I don't know of any two guys save Vader and Sting who never had a so so match between them.

My pick is Paul Orndorff, I love him to death but I just wish he had the matches he should have been having. He had a great crispness to his moves and great intensity but no great matches. I like his stuff with Piper & Foley but he seems like a guy that should have countless great performances & it's just not there.

Rocky Mountain Thunder was by no means anything close to good.

I really dug his Wrestlemania 17 match against Benoit. It reminded me of the Williams/Gordy-Steiners match from Clash 19 in that it weaved amateur style seamlessly with the pro style.

Konnan was the shits.

A match I haven't seen mentioned that I absolutely love is his match against Low Ki in ECWA with Ricky Steamboat as the special ref. I enjoyed the way it was worked & its my favourite match for Danielson until his WWE run.

Draw in casuals. The hardcore audience is very forgiving. They'll watch it & fantasy book & critique but that's the thing. They'll still watch. You draw in your future hardcores by getting their eyes on it first. Let them know it exists. I became a wrestling fan in part due to my love of all things A-Team. Having Mr. T involved made me curious about what this whole wrestling thing is about. Lebron James could probably do it nowadays. Someone or something with a built in fan base but with a natural progression. It can't appear to be suddenly happening. It has to be seamless.

I'm partial to 2014 cause it's the first time I've been able to watchi t in real time and not just via tapes. It's on TV and I pvr it and watch it. I love that it's just an hour and they cycle guys on so you don't get sick of seeing the same faces. Plus The Briscoes are just the best thing going in wrestling today.

The main event of Starrcade 94 probably would have been better served being Vader vs Hogan instead of The Butcher vs The Hulkster. Give Vader the big win and then have Hogan start doubting himself instead of being such an unover super babyface for the entirety of 95. Hogan could even get his win back at Bash at the Beach 95 after going through some Dungeon of Doom guys while Vader could wrestle Sting and Dustin and others at PPVs and Clashes. It probably would have softened the WCW fans hatred of Hogan if they saw that he was willing to play ball and actually put over WCW's homegrown talent instead of turning it into a WWF tribute card.

Roddy Piper in They Live, it's one of the rare performances by a wrestler where non wrestling fans would buy that he's just an ordinary actor and not a wrestler.

I remember watching Don Muraco's shoot interview and he said he was most influenced by Brisco and then watching Barry Windham's shoot and he said he was mostly influenced by Muraco so his influence runs pretty deep considering the guys who have been influenced by Barry and it all goes back to Brisco.

You left out stuff from his 87 comeback. Most of it was dreadful but there was a couple of good tags with Orton.

Savage worked the Maritimes as well. This would have been in the 70s

The Good: Vader's super push, it was the first time I can recall as a fan that a rulebreaker was getting clean wins over fan favourites. No feet on the ropes, no salt in the eyes, no crooked officials, just straight up dominance and Sting didn't lose a bit of his shine. This proved that fans would accept a dominant heel. The Bad: WCW was having some great matches and moments that were sadly tainted by happening in a vacuum, either their PPVs were doing awful numbers (this is kinda like how 97 WWF was incredibly interesting and fun but WCW had a larger audience) Stuff that happened on one syndicated show was not being acknowledged on other shows so it felt like what you were watching was inconsquential. The Ugly: Erik Watts' push was abysmal and the fans rightly shit on it and rejected it.

Not voting for Edge?

I always thought it meant how much stuff worked within the match. High work rate meant that the stuff that was attempted went off without a hitch. Thus I always assumed matches with low workrate were matches with poor exectuion and blown spots.

You guys need to get over it, Austin is an out of shape reality star/ pod cast guy. The fantasy booking stuff is not unlike reading someone's dreams. Dreadful.

I know it's not too loved around here but I absolutely love Great American Bash 92. It was just presented so seriously & like an actual sporting event, no bushit & featured my favourite match of all time. Vader with the most decisive victory for a rule breaker over a top fan favourite I had seen. I used to have a vast VHS collection of wrestling tapes & I used to work with this guy to whom I'd loan tapes & he flipped over GAB 92, loved Barry Windham & the officiating & the commentary & said it just made WWF seem so silly in comparison. I also dug Spring Stampede 94, Super Brawl 2 & 3 & Canadian Stampede.