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It would be easier if I knew who half of the active wrestlers in 83 were, but I'm slowly catching up on things. Seems like most are running short of time or just got a bit burnt out. I imagine it helps more than a little when other people read and comment to keep things moving. When you feel like you're just writing for yourself it is hard to keep it up.

Stan needs to keep his head on straight instead of going after the manager. I like how you progressed the Mansfield/Welch feud with all the Fuller stuff still going on and transitioned right back to it. Duggan overcoming Kaissie's cheating right after dispatching Khan is a nice way to set him up as a big deal off the bat.

Bob is going to start feeling the effects of all those piledrivers soon.

That main looks like it would be a great tag.

Martel has his work cut out for him in Maple Leaf Gardens. Hopefully whoever is reffing that one tosses Ventura early. Somebody is gonna use Deaton's boot against him soon and it's gonna be a nice payoff.

Good TV, moves a few things forward with an Andre match to boot.

Taue was great in big matches during his NOAH run. I think I am in the same boat as jdw on Kobashi. At a certain point he needed to not be the overly emotional underdog who had to kill his opponent with everything he had in order to get the win. In 1993 it was an incredible thing to watch but it got old.

I can do Bob & Joe Marcus for Bobby & Rudy Kay after October 1st.

No, when I run in New Brunswick and Halifax my gateway town comes up on the way in and the way out. The second one is a TV taping and I figure I could have a really hot crowd if I set it up right on the first show through. I also have an optional week I tack on at the end for five week months that has me running Montreal fairly close together. I'm looking at those as opportunities.

Yeah I have been thinking about how to do my setup shows in the towns I run in two successive weeks right and I'm going to have to experiment with it before I get it down.

But none of those guys you listed are stars yet. Reigns is the closest thing to it and will likely be the only one out of the four you can really call a star. The WWE won't get behind any of the other three anytime soon in order for them to get there.

Great TV! The house show looks like a lot of fun too, but the TV was great top to bottom.

I really enjoyed the Dibiase and JYD promos. Putting over the Fantastics and the new tag champs is a good call too. I like the show as a build towards the return to New Orleans.

I like the Maple Leaf tag a lot and the battle of the Polish guys should be fun.

August 27th, 1983, Paul Sauvé Arena, Montreal, QC (4,000, sellout) The Gerrard Brothers defeated Etienne Bergeron & Frederic Tremblay with a Tim Gerrard O’Connor roll on Bergeron Dave Kochen defeated Bobby Kay with an abdominal stretch Quebec Heavyweight Champion Richard Charland & Dan Johnson defeated Louis Laurence & Tony Ricco with a spike piledriver on Ricco The Tongan Terrors & Mad Dog Lefebvre defeated the Can Am Express & Invader 3 with a savate kick/flying headbutt combo on Lafon Gino Brito & Tony Parisi defeated Armand Rougeau & Rene Goulet with a side suplex/flying senton combo on Goulet, the teams shook hands post-match The Midnight Express & Gilles Poisson defeated Canadian International Tag Team Champions the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers & Invader 1 with a second rope powerslam/leg drop combo on Invader 1

Really dug the main as well as the Gagne turn. The Nightmares are a team I definitely need to get into, but just haven't put the time in.

It seems to me that this is the kind of thing that turns a lot of people off to a deal like this. We've already got a lot of folks who are burnt out or busy and I feel like maybe this should be kept a bit more private. I've got no horse in this race and have zero interest in who was right or wrong. I just think that stuff like this causes the number of promotions to dwindle faster than it otherwise might.

Nakajima seemed like he was a fish out of water. He had a sense of how to build up to things and not just throw out a bunch of head drops to get big pops, but he wrestled in the wrong era to work like that. I think that if he had debuted 10 years earlier he would be in a top 100 conversation.

My big problem with the AWA was how every big match seemed like it had to be explained by the referee after the decision. The announcing was pretty damn bad for sure. I never got the idea of Col. DeBeers gimmick against anyone other than Jimmy Snuka as far as people who mattered either. I loved a good portion of the work in the AWA set, and I thought the camera work was really good at times. But I do get the low rent complaint even if the crowds seemed hot to the bitter end. I liked Slaughter when he showed up, but not as much as his WWWF or WWF stuff I've seen. I think he belongs on a top 100 list for sure based on ring work.

I believe that was the implication. I would say his 04 match with Taue was pretty damn boss, if not up to the All Japan level of things. The Ogawa match is right up there as well. I preferred the tag with Taue against Akiyama/Tenryu, but both were a level below the two singles matches I mentioned. On an emotional level, he had a six man tag in I think March of 08, his last return match, that was pretty damn great. It was on Ditch's project and I really loved it as a return to the more vulnerable Kobashi as a sympathetic babyface. If it's the one I am thinking of, Takayama is involved and serves as an equalizer to Kobashi. Kobashi vs. Takayama in 04 is pretty high up on my 2000s list as well. I'd put it just shy of the Taue and Ogawa matches.

Yeah, after seeing the fallout for Kobashi, Kawada and Misawa after 10+ years of that stuff I think the lesson should be that crazy bumps should be taken very sparingly. I'm no doctor, but my time spent training in martial arts informs me a little on how fragile the human body can be. Your spine and neck are two things you want to protect at all costs. And those are the two major casualties of a lot of the ridiculous neck and head bumps you end up seeing over time. One of the other things you're taught is to protect your head. Getting your brain rattled around on a consistent basis is very bad for you. Moreso if it results in concussions. Your brain is the general, it calls all the shots for the rest of your body. If that starts to go on the fritz your life is going to get a lot tougher and less enjoyable.

I understand where you are coming from. When the Tongans or Midnights are out for me it ends up being singles matches and tier-difference tags to fill the card instead of six mans. Sometimes when it seems like I am mixing things up it's more because I didn't have the personnel to run differently.

Good setup on the Duggan vs. Kaissie angle. I like how the angles flow together after the blowoff matches. That's something I have n't been able to do much with yet because I am going more long term with my feuds.

Yeah I was going to watch that at some point. When is up in the air. I would love to see some Poisson and Brito footage from the 70s.

Thanks. That "Listen up, Jack!" was actually a Goldie Rogers catchphrase at some point in his career. I thought given that and the way he carried himself and looked in the little I saw of him made him a perfect midcard heel that was different than any of my other heels. And I think he will be torturing Jacques, Sr. for the forseeable future with that kind of thing, once he gets started in his feud.