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Yeah, one of the reasons I'm glad he's in the AWA is all of the great brawlers, both young and experienced alike. Great place for a guy like Bigelow to spend his time.

That tag tourney is shaping up to be something! Also, wild 10 man elimination tag.

Pritchard is turning into a really good TV champ. I love the Stud Stable being all over every show. Valiant and Rich continue to feud. Really looking forward to Duggan taking on Hansen.

Awesome. I'm not sure we can run that match too often.

Cornette was great on TV. I would go for both Martel match-ups myself. The Cobra and the Assassins really put a working over on Jay and Sugar. I like the feud you have going that builds both American Made and the Blondes. Travis getting a chance to shine is great. Jay vs. Robinson would have been a fun match. Loved the chaotic six man. Hansen winning the Battle Royal is a stroke of genius, really looking forward to that match. Big win for Taylor.

Vachons retiring is big. Paul and Adonis are going to have their issues before long.

Great set-up show for a huge card in Houston. Nightmares will have something to say next week. Not sure I like Jeff getting his win because of Street. Big win for Warrior. Four man elimination tag was great. Reed finally turning on the Nation was a long time coming. I'd agree the amount of screwy stuff might turn off some fans, but also there are a lot of angles and it's hard to job big names clean right in the middle of them.

Good to see that even in this world Sting struggles to get one over on the Horsemen. Speaking of the Horsemen they are making quite the splash so far. Not a bad idea trying to take out Andre's arm, we'll see if it backfires or not. Great tag team main event with a huge superplex moment.

Yeah Vachons and SST would be a good feud for sure. Armand with a shocker over Bundy! Race vs. MS-1 is a really fun what-if match.

For Oldbirds: Intros take roughly 9 minutes. This is the first Toryumon 4-way tag match and it is suitably crazy. As spotfests go it's one of the best I've seen.

Steve Doll in a big match is definitely a change. Bruno was busy handing out matches tonight. Paul stealing the SWAT team seems about right. Wonder how long he and Adonis work together going forward. Huge win for Satanico in what would have been the best match of the night.

Rude & Manny with a great showing in Toronto. Both Jacques and Martel do their part in sending the fans home happy and I don't know how you could call Martel's run on top anything but great so far.

The last 8 matches on the card were all highlights for me. Piper vs. Jack more than the rest, but what a card!

Hall bringing in Dusty was a treat for the fans at Billy Bob's. Big win for Hall.

The heat on Rude pre-match is amazing. The early offense by Steamer on the arm and Rude's selling of it throughout is amazing. Rude's offense on Steamboat and his selling is amazing. The big comeback by Steamer, also amazing. The finish, not so much. But I won't let it wipe out all of that incredible work.

I like the use of all of the foreign talent. White and Simmons would be an incredible long-term tag team. The Facekickers is a good name for that team.

Jarrett and Oliver should tear the house down. I am liking Schultz's chances so far. Corny's promo and the main were great and would have definitely had me at the arena for the rematch.

Steamer vs. Bock again going to a draw. Zenk using the tights? Bigelow vs. LaFon would have been such an interesting match-up. Regal vs. Taylor is always a great match-up. Tanaka getting the push he always should have is great. Piper vs. Hogan-but-not-quite is a fun feud.

I for one can't wait for Piper and Cactus to tear the building apart. Larry and Adams both get huge wins. Pillman is finally free of Sullivan and I love seeing it.

Savoldi preparing for next week is a nice touch. Sammartino is not doing too well of late. I liked Johnson and Cooley coming out after the Assassins later in the show. I like the main event as a clean, yet intense brawl with the hometown hero Race getting to shine some. Great show.

Candido was a guy I at first wanted to put over in round 1. But a google search revealed he was born in 1972. He's not a bad wrestler in his prime, but keeping it pretty simple was my main goal with him. Kobayashi and Lane are both underrated and I want to keep the RnR's big as a tag team right now. My main goal with both matches was to put over all of the wrestlers and show the attitudes of Santana and Kobayashi with how they handled the win after the finish. Owen is a bit of a stretch the way I am doing things. I'm not sure he was ready to be 1994 heel Owen in any fashion in 1986, but it allows me to use the feud to develop both Owen and Santana equally. One of my main goals with outside talent isto always have them come out gaining something and looking good, win or lose. April 19th is a game changer for a few reasons. Bam Bam vs. Ayala may or may not be one of them. Just know that in PR, once the heels cross a line, the babyfaces are expected to do everything that a heel would have done to them in retaliation. Far past the point of reason. I try to get the crowd across in my big events, but TV I tend to not have them as rabid. Also, it's hard to adequately describe in words how amazingly into it those crowds are. During an ambulance match (Edger can back me up on this), members of the crowd actually start attacking Butch Miller when he's laying on the announce table and have to be warned off by military police. Also, fans swarm the ambulance while Luke is being loaded. Craziest scene I have ever watched in a wrestling match. With the aid of Colon and Invader 1 nonetheless. Absolutely. If I get sent somebody, they get the red carpet rolled out. Of course, it might look like they are trying to get themselves killed by a violent crowd, but you get what I mean. Thing for me is guys like Colon, Ayala, the Invaders, they are so well-known at this point in PR they don't need the TV time and squashes. Ron Starr is Chicky's cousin and that's more than enough when you couple it with how clearly capable he is in the ring. Pastores/Sheepherders are pretty well-known everywhere. My big worry is teams like the Mercs and Boyd/Crusher don't get enough time, as well as a guy like Abdullah Tamba. I had to put a lot of time into building Bam Bam into a force of nature and keeping the principal babyfaces on track that I feel like a few teams/guys got left behind. Even the TNT/Gama Singh feud I feel like I did too much right away and the momentum is going away as I reach the big show. Also, I made the comment a long while back about Gordi's booking looking like Baba's with outside input. I'd say I go pretty slow and steady on things in that same way with not a lot of guys winning over somebody higher on the totem pole. Just the tools I use are a little different.

I'm not sure Pritchard wants both Duggan and Taylor angry with him. The way Pritchard backs into the win to keep his title seems right on. American Made is still having issues in both of their matches. And that 6 man tag would have been insane.

Great 4-corners tag match. I was hoping for more Horner vs. Parsons JYD with a huge win over Studd. Embry makes a point in his own inimitable way. Big win for the Von Erichs. Great main as well.

All I got out of this (after googling the names I wasn't familiar with) was that Sasaki and Shinobu had some kind of issue going in. And that Okabayashi is really uninteresting as the unstoppable heavyweight. Other than that it was mostly guys taking turns hitting each other to supposedly keep the match moving. I hate doing negative reviews, but this one didn't seem like much beyond stiff strikes just for the sake of stiff strikes.

Parsons/Horner strikes me as a really good match. Super Destroyers against Von Erichs would be a fun feud as well. JYD taking on Studd would have drawn for sure. Corny with a great promo and the crowd gets a great main event if not a happy ending.