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That sounds about right and seems to line up with the other Guest Bookers. I wouldn't mind Sean doing a series on wrestling's major angles and have a DVD focus on one specific angle. You can interview like two guys who were involved, perhaps one behind the scenes and one on-air. Like for the nWo, have on Kevin Sullivan and Kevin Nash. It'd allow them to really get in-depth about specific moments.

Ultimately, they'll be fine. Vince still has a bunch of money and as the former great NY sports radio host Chris Russo once said, this is much hubadoo about nothing.

Wasn't NXT booked solely by Dusty Rhodes? Is it still the same way? Being booked/written by one person would explain why its booked better than WWE.

I really enjoyed Gabe's Guest Booker about rebooking ECW but that's about it. I agree that the theory about why things are done has been the better premise.

We don't know if Cole doesn't realize the damage he does. He very well might realize it's dumb but the orders could be that he's supposed to dance and latch onto it.

I can sorta understand WWE feeling spurned since Brock did leave them in a bad spot, but I think it's silly the fans would feel the same way. I mean, if you're that emotionally invested that you can't accept a guy leaving because he can (even if it seemed like it was for a stupid reason), then that's a problem with the fan.

I see where you're coming from. 16 year old me loved watching that first ROH triple threat match back in 2004. I also loved the Benoit/HHH/HBK WM 20 triple threat (never saw the rematch which I heard was also good). Rock/Undertaker/Angle from 2002 was also great. But yeah, it seems like more often than not, triple threat matches are either bad or stupid at the very least. I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the hell out of the ECW three way dances involving any of Tajiri/Little Guido/Super Crazy/Jerry Lynn

Thanks for this. I've only seen a small handful of 90's AJPW matches but always enjoyed them. Reading this helped me better appreciate them. Great stuff.

I thought Mick was solid enough as a color commentator and wouldn't mind seeing him do that with GFW. It wouldn't surprise me either if they bring in Mick in a creative capacity because I could see him wanting to try his hand at writing/booking.

Jimmy Rave might be hesitant to face someone when the finish involves taking an overwrought lariat. Yeah, especially after that happened in his match with Nigel McGuinness and Rave wound up with a broken jaw.

I hope Jimmy Rave appears as the mystery opponent. The heat would be tremendous. Of course, it's just a fake out and Okada kills him in 2 minutes and then someone legit actually comes out as said mystery opponent.

Cornette's idea started off well enough but I absolutely hated the shooty aspects he introduced. Wrestlers breaking the code and shooting on each other in the ring? Really don't like that aspect and I was especially shocked that Cornette of all people suggested something like that.

Virtually every employee in America leaves the second something better comes along. Wrestlers are not our personal slaves although enough fans like to pretend as such.

100% agreed on learning about storytelling from wrestling. In fact, when my friends and I go see a movie and discuss it after, or even with some TV shows, I often use wrestling terms to describe my thoughts and a lot of times will watch something and think to myself, "they just killed Character A's heat by not having him/her react better" or something like that.

My buddy showed me that in like 2002. Disgusting to see the size of the splinter they removed from his leg.

Exactly. I was totally surprised at how much he kept emphasizing logic and the whole slow-burn and not wanting to give too much away too early.

I watched the Vince Russo Guest Booker for re-booking the Invasion and found it both more realistic and more entertaining (on paper) than Cornette's version of the same topic. Granted, Russo's was more abstract and off the cuff (unsurprising when you factor in his booking style), but seemed like it would have made for quality TV. I was shocked.

Yup. When I was a teenager, all of the backstage NEWZ greatly influenced my wrestling fandom. I enjoyed being an obnoxious smark and the obnoxious smark crowds at ROH shows. But that was then and this is now. Now I cringe when I watch wrestling from several years ago and see un-protected chair shots to the head and man on woman violence. I might still be wonderfully immature, but ironically it seems as though I'm an adult with my wrestling tastes.

Maybe you haven't outgrown being a wrestling fan as much as you've outgrown the smarky smark crowds.

I'm fine with the ROH library. I own so many ROH DVD's from 2002-2008, there's a lot of stuff from ROH that's worth checking out. I don't care about the TNA library.

With great power, comes great responsibility. Remember that, Punk. Remember that.

It was probably when he got elevated to the main event. I don't know when that was as I checked out at the end of 08 and he wasn't a featured player then, but whenever he got the mega push, that's probably when people really started to dislike him.

Right? If you're an executive at some company, making good money and have a good job, and then Google or Apple come calling and are willing to triple your money and triple your vacation time, you obviously jump at the deal. No one would question your loyalty or anything like that. But in the wrestling business? They kill you for it.

Maybe, but probably not for a while. I don't recall any of those shows ever being on Classics on Demand. I don't even know how many of those tapes WWE owns. RF Video still sells a lot of those tapes (on DVD), so it makes me wonder who's in possession of the master tapes. They showed at least November to Remember '95 on the network, and maybe Holiday Hell '95. That's good news! I had CoD for a while and don't recall them ever upping either of those. Gives me hope that those types of shows will eventually get upped.

I'll never look at that Bella the same way ever again. Thank you for the explanation.