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I would like to get Abdullah for the 1st if he's not in Japan. Edit: scratch that, I'll go with Hansen instead.

Wonderful.

I ran this by KrisZ a few days ago: Richard Garland That concludes the draft for Montreal.

Dave Kochen

Yeah, you did a lot to keep this going smoothly. Thanks for all the work sir.

Does that mean I have to find a picture of Dino Bravo?

I left my picks with Boricua so when my turn comes up he will hopefully be around within a few hours. I'm hoping my 5 names last 2 picks.

Cover band-type wrestlers are very often the most appreciated by the "smart fan" crowd when you think about it.

LOL, I think I like Faker than Fake the best.

I have a few more picks left in me. I want to be able to rotate jobbers around.

Terrible father. All that time spent stretching them out in the Dungeon only to abandon them.

Indeed I would.

Bobby & Rudy Kay

Fantasy Booking the Territories?

EDIT

Creatchman showing up in Detroit isn't a surprise. Detroit provided an English language broadcast of Montreal's show. Seems like they had a decent talent exchange going as the Sheik worked Montreal at least somewhat consistently.

I love how Creatchman and the Wizard just keep trying to top the announcer as he goes on after he's pulled the mic. Awesome.

I actually did a lot of reading research on all the Montreal names listed. Lefebvre and Brito seemed like guys I wouldn't have trouble getting at all given their low profile outside of Quebec, and they seemed like major players. Poisson was a guy who seemed pretty big in the 70s and still had some name value. Posson in the 1987 match I could find was really slow in his chain wrestling and could barely move, so I'm hoping he was a bit better in 83. Brito seemed like he could go and Lefebvre had a nice "mad dog" heel schtick to go with being a good brawler. I'm getting this from under 10 minute matches, mostly squashes that I found on youtube. How they would have handled a longer match is something I'm going to have to dig deeper on. Louis Laurence really liked his headlocks in the one match I found, but I imagine he wasn't used to 9+ minutes of wrestling. Luckily he won't be controlling much of a match as a JTTS/lower midcard guy for me. Eddie Creatchman is quite the annoying weaselly manager and goes as far as to wear the Star of David prominently in what I can only assume is an attempt to get more cheap heat.

Yeah, it's a year with a lot of consistency to it, but it doesn't reach the later highs. It's the last year you get to see a lot of Masa Fuchi or Kikuchi in major roles, which makes it particularly awesome.

I would agree that wrestling went way too far into the direction of rock music. But the idea is to get the crowd pumped up to see a wrestler come out. Adrenaline-pumping rock music is a pretty likely candidate.

One thing about being a more fringe territory is that a lot of your useful guys are not as useful anywhere else.

I left my next four picks with goc. Not that I think they will last that long at this point either through dartboard style drafting or on purpose drafting. I filled all my major roles by the Regal pick and added Creatchman as a bonus that I didn't figure would last. Too bad it's not the right Regal but we all need jobbers. The idea of doing half of this again every six months was a bit of a downer I have to admit.

I for one will be doing plenty of trades for two to three months at a time if that is the case. The Tongans are all well and good as savage heels, but that only lasts so long. I can see the Midnights lasting a while, but again they are going to need to be cycled out. I can see keeping the Rougeaus on forever and a day given where I am, but beyond that it's a lot more flexible.

Man, this went super fast today.

The International Wrestling Association selects Alex & Tim Gerrard