BigBadMick

No comments yet about about the lovely 'Forever young' Hogan tribute video on Raw? Did anyone tell Parv?

Oh, any chance of doing the same for the '00s?

Enjoyed this one lads - really good topic. Although 1999 WWF is the redheaded stepchild round here, and I'm not calling these top 10 at all, might I be so bold as to suggest Rock/Mankind at Valentine's Day Massacre, Austin/Rock at Backlash and surely at least one or two of the 75 Rock/HHH matches during the year as worthy of mention?

I knew Kubrick started as a photographer and made a short about a boxer but - wow! - cool photos. Imagine if he'd turned his cool hard stare towards wrestling sometime..... Oh well.

Started listening. I'd have to round that out to a top 5 in 2000 - Rumble, Backlash, Judgment Day, Fully Loaded and SummerSlam. Gun to my head, I'd put FL first and JD second.

Hello? Anybody...... (tumbleweed)

I think it's hilarious he's been going for a few months and nobody has commented yet. I haven't listened to any. Has anyone else? Any recommendations?

You clearly haven't heard too much of Colt then. Why's that? I've listened to him quite a bit, thought he was fairly upbeat most of the time.....

In the same boat. I can 'do' Raw in 45 minutes or so. I'm far more interested in the wealth of podcasts out there. That Dylan is one busy boy...

.....that is, of course, if no one has the balls to point this flaw out to Cena (which seems apparent). Work around him.

Similarly, you know how everyone hates the amount of spotcalling we see and hear these days? Isn't that at least partly the fault of WWE production? If you know Cena's tendency to talk freely, surely someone in the truck could ease up on the close ups...

Watched the extras last night. Beth Pheonix tells a story about botching something in OVW and then Paul telling her not to attempt any move in public that she can't hit ten times out of ten. Paul never talked to Sabu, huh?

Enjoyed this show guys. One quibble - why was 'birds talk limited to Dallas? I loved their 1986 Mid-South stuff.

Liked the show from the Mid-Atlantic Convention. Sounded like a lively gathering to hear him preach.

Just got round to this today. Scott's on the one with no HHH? That's just mean. Good show, and reminded me 2005, like 2002 was a bit of a 'all-over-the-show' WWE year.

I was kicking myself that I'd listened to him on Jericho and Austin's podcasts before watching the doc. It would have been far more interesting the other way round.

Gave this a listen yesterday, good stuff. Looking forward to Scott's increasingly desperate attempts to defend HHH for the next 11 months. A thought occurred to me - was there ever such a massive difference in quality between Smackdown and Raw title matches on one show, before or since?

Aha, the plot thickens... Siding with Cornette a bit more now. Of the two, I think Keller is usually more guilty of snide, unnecessary barbs on the show than Mitchell. Maybe Mitchell's grown up a lot since then.

Sounds like Corny alright.... Thanks for that.

This week's audio alluded to a Mitchell-Cornette feud going back 20 years to a piece Mitchell wrote about the Gangstas in SMW - 'Onward Christian Soldier'. Anyone got some more details on that for me?

The Good - INCREDIBLY fond memories of so much in WWF from January through August. The match I'm most likely to go back to watch, again and again, is Jericho v HHH at Fully Loaded. The Bad - Things did dip a little after SummerSlam, and abandoning the HHH-Angle-Steph story was very disappointing indeed. The Ugly - Mae Young at The Rumble. Appalling.

Bigelow and Adam Bomb v Quebecers happened in Sep or Oct 1993...I think.

I think it's also the fact that WWF in 1998-99 was part of the zeitgeist. It hasn't had that sort of mainstream popularity in a long, long time.

Probably true, but the fact is, wrestling is best watched in the moment, as it's happening. The 98-99 stuff was successful in 98-99. It worked for that specific time period, era, and audience. That's what really matters. I'm not saying there isn't any merit rewatching old stuff, but the fact is, it cannot be judged as accurately because something is always lost in translation. Sure, you can still enjoy or not enjoy something from a bygone era, but no matter what, you will never experience it the same way as people who were there as it was happening. Certain references, nuances, and period-specific attributes will be lost on you. I agree that 1998-99 WWF was best in 1998-99, but some of my favourite wrestling has been watched years after the fact. Also, I thought WWE 2005-06 was pretty rubbish at the time, but have a stronger connection to it on a recent rewatch.

Listened to the first 40 minutes on this, right up to Mania 8. Bret gives good thorough answers (as you'd expect) and so far is one of the better guests on this series. Good stuff on his discussions with WCW at the start of the year, the WBF, the steriod and sex scandals, and a thoughtful dissection of the differences in match layout between him and Flair.