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It's been a few years but I remember quite enjoying it. Adonis and Backlund have a really, really great Lumberjack Match at the March 1982 Capital Centre show that I remember catching me completely by surprise.

I wanna say it was Missy herself who put them out there. She was selling the segments on her website well over a decade ago and someone bit, bought the DVD/VHS, and put them up online. And then Missy put them up online herself later on. I wouldn't have thought Missy would have the footage herself. Did stars then back then get copies of stuff they were in? In most other forms of entertainment it's pretty commonplace so it wouldn't surprise me if that's the case here.

I wanna say it was Missy herself who put them out there. She was selling the segments on her website well over a decade ago and someone bit, bought the DVD/VHS, and put them up online. And then Missy put them up online herself later on.

I wanna say I remember hearing Rogers was totally game for wrestling again in 1983, but he fell in the shower and broke his hip and had to bow out.

His last upload was the UK-exclusive matches from SummerSlam '92 and once I saw that I was like "this is where they're gonna pop him". I was kinda shocked and sad, he's a super super nice and accommodating guy.

I think these are the Classics on Demand versions of these shows. I have a few I recorded from Classics on Demand and they had the blurring.

They were a genuine non-factor tonight other than the quick Hardy Boyz announcement. I know people don't like them as much as they used to but it's still a weird move. I'm guessing any other segments got cut for time since we didn't even really get a major backstage comedy segment this year.

That ended abruptly and the match as a whole felt super rushed and short. Kinda disappointing but I did enjoy some of the stuff they could cram in there.

Started off super hot with the Nia segment and has kinda felt disjointed since her elimination, which I wasn't expecting.

Yeah. Dave has said frequently that him and Bruce were friends before the podcast stuff and Bruce just started picking at him out of nowhere.

Oh that poster is absolutely terrific. Many thanks for finding the origin of that match!!

The footage of Rogers-Flair is absolutely fantastic and well worth it alone. I'm curious the real origin of the Steele-Sammartino cage match. I don't think I've ever seen this specific match before.

Prepping for a huge project of the WWF in the Rock'n'Wrestling era by watching random stuff from 1982-83. I absolutely love Dick Graham and Kal Rudman on commentary together. Two dudes who are clearly having a blast and it shows. When Gorilla is hanging out with them it's just as fun too. I love these arena shows when it's just the guys shooting the shit and having casual discussion while Johnny Rodz is putting some dude in a headlock for five minutes. Breaks the monotony up quite a bit and reminds me of the silly discussions I have with friends while casually watching. I've grown to appreciate the hell out of Dick Graham/Kal Rudman/Gorilla Monsoon/Gene Okerlund/Alfred Hayes a lot for this reason.

Piper's final Pit before Wrestlemania III. "Daddy's coming home!!" That buildup period to Wrestlemania III (Fall '86-Spring '87) has some of the best angle and mic work all-around in that company.

If I remember correctly he's one of the names listed in that concussion lawsuit being filed against WWE, so who knows.

I just recently watched Shawn-Vader from SummerSlam '96 so this is cracking me up right now.

TMZ just confirmed, she was 45. Found in her home just a few hours ago. http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/20/chyna-dead-wwe-legend-dies/ Statement posted on her official Twitter as well by her management team: https://twitter.com/ChynaJoanLaurer/status/723002666834497536

His Blackjack's Barbecue interview segment was a fun little look at a face alternative to Piper's Pit the couple of times I've watched it.

I'm a sucker for names with "Connection" in them. East-West Connection, Can-Am Connection ("I guess Martel's just the can now!!"), Colossal Connection.

A ton of wrestlers are into the mobile game Clash of Clans as it turns out. There's a private group that most of the wrestlers and their family members use, and apparently Rusev, Cody Rhodes, Goldust, Xavier Woods, Finlay, Cesaro (who apparently is known to group text everyone GameFAQs-length strategy guides on the game) are all big-time players in the group. Sasha Banks is super into anime and a huge fan of Sailor Moon. AJ Lee, Bayley, and Xavier Woods are pretty into anime as well. Xavier Woods is a pretty notorious nerdy professional wrestler, he even co-runs that YouTube gaming channel that features a bunch of wrestlers with him. I remember way back Dolph Ziggler used to talk a lot about being a huge fan of that 60s/70s sketch series Laugh-In. Rob Van Dam is super into comics and has a pretty decent-sized collection of valuable stuff, I remember him saying he was super into Ghost Rider especially.

Currently going through Superstars of Wrestling from its inception. Was curious to watch the slow build to Andre/Hogan for Wrestlemania 3, which is genuinely fantastic and is being done excellently. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Danny Davis build is fucking terrible and is dragging on for way too long to the point where I'm finding myself skipping segments where he's the referee. They just beat that dead horse so far into the ground; I think hindsight has been much kinder to the angle than it really deserves. Also, Vince really wanted to make Kamala into another big monster star. Almost every week there's a Kamala match, which is unprecedented since I can't really think of any other guys that would do more than one squash match a row.

Was taken down immediately before I could have a chance to grab it unfortunately. Rats!!

Yeah. They teased for ages in late-86 the fact that Heenan was the only one to show up to Tunney's reinstatement hearing of Andre. Gorilla would prod him about it on Prime Time and Challenge constantly but Heenan was always very quiet about it. Then the trophy segment in 1987 happened, which only helped prove to Andre that what Heenan said was actually true. I always figured it was just their way of saying that during Andre's suspension Heenan somehow reached out to him.

Could've swore Junkyard Dog and Don Muraco were supposed to be in 1988 as well, both got fired for drug busts IIRC. I think Casey replaced one of the Killer Bees who was replacing one of the two of them.

Wasn't he fired from WWE for allegedly selling unlicensed WWE shirts, or am I thinking of a different ref?