BigBadMick

Hope all went well with that.

No show this week?

Sounds good. Do you have a link?

Now that you've started me on this nostalgia kick, I remember WCW first taking on a Saturday afternoon slot in Northern Ireland sometime in the autumn of 1990. Lance Russell commentated, it was almost entirely squashes. The biggest match I remember from then was Flair v Scott Steiner, with Flair pinning him after Scott had come agonisingly close to victory. Another thing that sticks out was Nasty Boys and Steiners constantly trying to interfere in each others squashes, but officials came out and they never, ever got to lay a finger on each other. Infuriated the life out of me.

Watched this a whie ago, isn't there something funny about the editing on the finish? As though they re-did it or something.

No, don't remember that one, Parv. But the very mention of Prisoner Cell Block H still sends a shudder down my spine. Any idea when you'll get together for the January '93 Clash?

Well, since you asked.... Best matches 1. War Games 2. Rude v Steamboat, Beach Blast 3. Arn Anderson vs. Barry Windham (6/6 WCWSN) 4. Windham and Pillman v Steamboat and Douglas, Starrcade 5. Sting v Vader, Starrcade Best Wrestler 1. Steamboat 2. Rude 3. Windham 4. Arn Anderson 5. Dustin Rhodes Hell of a year, hell of a lot of memories. The attempts to tape it at 2am certainly ring a bell, Parv.

During the first fall, I couldn't help but think back to a sign at one of the tv tapings for Mid-South in 1986 'Michael Hayes - All talk, no cock'

The story about Reed and Nord fighting backstage was in Watts' book too. Great episode, and as mentoned it's nice to have a profile like this before someone's passing.

Yes, I was right. Fascinating stuff - really nice to go deep on a lesser-known subject.

PARV IS BACK, BABY! I feel like singing My Boyfriend Is Back! Don't know what you mean by Hashimoto being two-dimensional, but I am pretty sure I disagree. Don't know that is a major blind spot for me. That seems like a slam dunk to me. Junior was in a high profile spot from 73-83. Am I underrating Fuchi's 80s? We talked about this. It is overrated, but it an upper tier run in terms of being heat magnet. It is not Flair '89, but it is in Top 50 or so calendar year runs. Hmmmmmmmm...it is close Have not seen enough Hase. I disagree. You will watch '93 WCW and realize you are wrong. Benoit match and tags with Bagwell against Blonds. I like Tiger Mask in Original UWF and the one Dk match I watched was pretty good. I can get behind this. I don't think this is against the grain. You are focusing on the wrong thing in this case though. They are both great in different ways. Lol @ Mooney. Tully is pretty bitchin' at promos. I totally agree with this! Don't really care for most Tully matches. It is close. LIEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I prefer the early 90s also except for 97. 97 is so so good. I rewatched '98 WWF from March through July and it is quite entertaining. Really good continuity. Disagree! '99 does probably suck. DX '97 maybe my favorite in wrestling ever period. It is so short, but that may be the best heel run ever. I love bombast, pomp & circumstance, so yes I dig HHH's entrances and his heavy metal iconography Jabroni matches, promos AND ANGLES is what TV should be about. Bullshit. 2013 was incredible. I like VinnyMac, but still will take Tony & JR. I abhor Gorilla. He is an asshole. Havent watched much, but yeah American wrestling and puroresu >>> Lucha Parv (if you're still with us), I'd love to get an understanding of what you watched and when before starting WTBBP. You have some very peculiar ideas sometimes......

Good show! Do you have a copy of your Report cards? Got a bit more difficult keeping up towards the end.

Sounds interesting, looking forward to giving this a listen.

Sorry, but this show is awful.

Not much interest, huh?

Just wanted to say I'm slowly working through a backlog of these (3 to 4 hours a pop!) and the interviews are absolutely tremendous. The wrap arounds are fascinating too. The length initially was a turnoff for me, but once acquainted with the SuperUniverse (Sue the Shooter and Orgasmic Larry being particular highlights) time flies.

Just got to this today and really cool hearing a very personal reflection on Canadian Stampede.

I thought Johnny questioning the importance placed on selling in PWO was very interesting.....

Yeah, just getting to these now but the Polish Joe interview series is fantastic- please continue to hunt down these unusual interview choices, they really stand out in a sea of bland everywhere else. Also, the Piper 'that's not my dad!' bit had me in hysterics.

Curious to see what they put together. Orton isn't the type to take a truckload of punishment.

So the Lesnar-Orton match at SummerSlam isn't sending pulses racing here, huh?

The Bob Barnett interview is exceptionally good. He's led an interesting life.

Yeah, they will do nicely Pete

Thanks for the shout out, Chad. Starrcade 92 is always a difficult show to rate - 4 perfectly adequate battlebowl tags and the two really strong matches later in the show push it far, but the over-reliance on a few wrestlers really takes a toll.

That was hilarious! To be fair, the match from summer 92 smokes the autumn 91 one.