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I can watch current WWE for the wrestling matches, but it has a limited shelf life for me. The announcing makes me want to kill my own eardrums. But as long as I keep it to a match or two I'm usually not ready to hunt down and kill JBL. It's more than I can say for NJPW, which drives me really nuts every time it's not Minoru Suzuki or somebody outside of the modern puro bubble who will make their matches a little less uninteresting.

I think it's been mentioned before in this thread that the title is as important as the promotion makes it. I can apply that same idea to everything about wrestling, so it's not something that should elude any wrestling promotion. I think a lot of it is derived from the way the WWE is what is important and not the wrestlers, the titles, the feuds or the matches. I think a lot of the focus on the Authority also comes from that as they are representatives of the WWE and very much an ingrained part of what the company is and will be. You can say the same for Cena, Orton, Batista, Kane, etc. These are all things that have become as much a part of the backdrop the show is presented against that they are the things that will be focused on regardless of who has what title. It may drive a lot of us nuts, but it's how it is.

As far as the Hansen looking great against a noon-world class talent, watch the 4/18/91 tag against the MVC and his matches with Williams from that year. Then watch everything else you can find that Williams and the MVC did that year. If you don't think hansen is amazing after watching that I'd be surprised. Also, re: goc. I always thought that when I watched the Colon vs. Hansen matches. With all the U.S. workers who went over there and were scared of the fans, Hansen openly fucking with them like that is so ballsy.

What a dick, picking on a 16 year old kid. Soon he'll need an entourage to stop wrestlers from shooting on him!

The mistakes are a part of the charm.

He can want to build up guys as much as he wants, but the WWE has to book them right after Cena is done with them for it to mean something. Anyone else see that not happening the way I do?

I do remember Sally Ride, but I thought the Dory vs. Muraco bit was the funniest part. I've listened to enough podcasts to know your feelings on both.

This was incredible. I LOLed at the description of the Dory vs. Muraco match. Who knew this was going to be a perk of the 1983 project?

It took me three hours plus to find the right websites that pointed me at arenas with building dates and capacities and arrange them into a sensible loop while fitting in the monthly trip to Halifax. I can't imagine looking up 1983 schedules for 7 or 8 junior hocky league teams and trying to work around that too.

Crap, I need to remember to add details when necessary on these smaller shows. Lazy writing will be the end of me. Thanks for the reminder.

July 12th, 1983 from Gatinaeu, Quebec (2,300) Richard Charland and Dan Johnson defeated the Kay Brothers with a spike piledriver Phil Lafon and Jim Brunzell defeated the Gerrard Brothers when Lafon hit a Canadian Rocky Buster on Tim Gerrard Gilles Poisson defeated Tony Parisi with a bearhug Rene Goulet defeated Tonga John when Tonga John passed out in a scorpion claw hold after John dominated the majority of the match when he busted Goulet open with a headbutt early and worked the cut all match The Midnight Express and Mad Dog Lefebvre defeated The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers and Armand Rougeau when Lefebvre used a second rope superplex to pin Armand Rougeau

Hey, Kochen is actually kind of over as a babyface in halifax and he won. But yeah, the heels got a few over on the faces on this night.

Oh only the first 6 months are more than just a bar skeleton of "this feud, followed by this feud" type stuff. If I had time I could actually write every show out for the first 6 months right now, but I'm not going to spend all day and night doing that. Google Chrome works for C & P so by the end of the weekend I should have most of July done anyway. I still have internets research to do on my wrestlers and 5 discs of AWA to power through before I start on Memphis. Sometimes I am too ambitious for my own good.

I have main event storylines involving the big 8 until 1986 backed up. So unless soemthing really major happens that kills me on wrestling in general I think I'm around for a while.

Man, great stuff. The background is a nice way to go, gives you a backdrop to plug in the new faces against.

Whatever it is, we should be clear going forward where each promotion's guys go before the next person quits. It will save on the arguing when two or three people want guys from a territory and have even a semi-valid claim.

Montreal I only have one touring day per week. I don't figure on making a ton of money on touring shows given the fact that Montreal is the only real big city in the province. Anything else even close is really, really close by except for Saguenay, which I am not running in winter or fall and every second loop in spring/summer. I have a couple of guys who are actually bigger names in Halifax than they are in Montreal, something that was done on purpose. They will be running those shows a lot and in a bigger role than in Montreal.

Why don't we just let things stay the way they are with Portland going over to Matt in August if they are still unclaimed? I would guess Matt intends to honor the deal with Toronto as far as sharing, but if he isn't that's in August. Just play it like nothing has changed because in the long run it's going to still be an occupied territory.

House Show, July 9th, Paul Suave Arena (2800) Louis Laurence/Tony Ricco defeated Bobby and Rudy Kay when Laurence submitted Rudy Kay with a half crab at 6:11. Armand Rougeau defeated Tim Gerrard with a sleeper at 5:31 Dave Kochen defeated Dan Johnson with an abdominal stretch at 7:44 Mad Dog Lefebvre, Gilles Poisson and Tonga John defeated Phil Lafon, Jim Brunzell and Tony Parisi when Tonga John hit a running big boot on Lafon at 16:08 Gino Brito and King Tonga went to a double count-out at 18:56

Yeah, I've never seen Hansen in the States as a face. I think it would be a lot of fun to watch after a few of his tags against the MVCs in the early 90s. Hansen as FIP and a world-beater to close a match are two roles he excels in.

Whoa, a semi-serious midget match, Bundy inducing blood vomiting in Dick the Bruiser AND a finish in the time remaining main event? That's a good TV show right there.

Hansen and Orndorff as babyfaces seems really odd, but that's probably due to a significant lack of that sort of usage of them in the real world. I would love to see Hansen as the avenging babyface start lariating the crap out of whatever heels/managers/seconds got in his way at the end of a big match. Jake has been great so far. Getting a babyface over big has a lot to do with the heel he's up against and I could see Butch Reed being ready to challenge for the NWA title after a feud with Jake. The Shadow Riders are wrestlers I'm not familiar with, but I may have to look them up. I'm glad to see the Rougeaus got a warm welcome in Georgia and also love the Flair/Martel stuff going on. Seems to me like that should be what we talk about as far as when and where once Flair is champ again.

I had thought about putting time stamps on my show like I did on my booking too, but went the other direction. Still not sure as to a finalized format for my TV, but I like what I've read from other people more than mine so far. It'll likely be an amalgam when all is said and done. I enjoyed Piper as the prickish babyface as well as the Sullivan/Army stuff. Hennig looks to be a guy to watch.

Killer Khan as an evil bodyguard is all kinds of awesome on it's own. The fact that he's Tully's bodyguard makes it even better. Tully can be as much of a little shit as he wants because who is gonna get past Khan long enough to do much to him?

I say we leave it until the second week of August. If it is open at that point Matt is free to take it. If somebody steps up in the meantime that works fine too.