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The only non-ppv JCP tape I have is USA All Star Wrestling Volume 1, which is basically a collection of squash matches (with a few mid-card "feature matches") from Worldwide. The tape starts promisingly with a wild 6 man bunkhouse match with Dusty Rhodes, Dick Slater, and Ricky Steamboat vs Black Bart, Tully Blanchard, and Ron Bass, but they only show the first half and never show the ending, i've tried to look up the full match on youtube, but no dice.

Another Coliseum Video was unexpectedly added to the network today, the UK exclusive Davey Boy Smith video from 1992 (oddly listed as being released in October 1993, which we all know is untrue).

One-legged tights (ie, zack ryder's tights in WWECW).

It would have been better if the Vaudevillains had wrestled in an old school style, and by old school, i'm talking 20s-30s, but I cant see that getting over with the majority of fans.

As great a team as Seven and Bate are, "Moustache Mountain" has got to be the absolute worst tag team name ever.

Legends is a decent little look at the pre-Hogan era. Nothing really unknown, but good mini-bios of most of the guys from that era.

The Randy Savage one is very good, as are the more recent Bruno and Hardys specials.

I was kind of shocked when I found out Mike Rotundo was still with the WWF in early 87, he even had a match with Spivey against Demolition. Speaking of Rotundo, specifically his wcw run as VK Wallstreet, I was also shocked when I saw him on a random weekend show around the summer of 97. What's odd is that the announcers made no indication that he was with the NWO, and he didnt even wear an NWO shirt, instead an anti-WCW shirt, which they also made no reference to.

Didnt Ivory stay with the WWE until 2005 at least?

I was convinced Haku left after WM7, but he was still around as a JTTS throughout 1991 and even appeared in the 92 Rumble.

The Jesse/Vince commentary was always a nice treat for me as well, since I didnt get Superstars in my area until 1993 (just Challenge), so I always associated Jesse/Vince with SNME exclusively.

Ironically, my favorite section in wrestling magazines were the results sections. Even though they were out of date, it was interesting looking through them, especially if there were any oddball matchups listed and what house show only feuds were happening (of course, now we have Graham's site and various other results pages for that, but back in the day it was the only way to find out what programs were going on).

The "wrestling is family-friendly" line is weird coming from FOX, a network that never really had "family-friendly" programming.

1996-97 WWF is full of this. Of course, you had the aforementioned Bushwhackers, but you also had Duke Droese (left in late summer 96), Barry Horowitz (left soon after WM13), Aldo Montoya (left that spring), and if you want to count non-wrestlers, Bob Backlund was still managing the Sultan as late as WM13 (and I think Iron Shiek lasted into December of 97). Same with WCW from that era, didnt Bunkhouse Buck, Craig Pittman, Greg Valentine, and Dick Slater last into 1998?

I know it can look cartoony at times, but it'd be nice to see someone pull off an airplane spin. It seems like it's been replaced by the giant swing (which, to be fair, does make more of an impact). Also, I dont know the name of it, but Randy Savage used to have a spot where he'd grab a wrestler and jump out of the ring, dropping his opponent's neck on the top rope. I always thought that was a cool move that someone else should use (and if the wrestler uses a top rope move as a finisher, a good transition to the finisher). And finally, i'd like to see one of the larger wrestlers just do a simple big splash, the last guy I know who did that was Mabel/Viscera/Big Daddy V.

According to reports they have tried to spike their subscription numbers quite a lot offering similar deals. I never get why people unsubscribe I then sure if you hate modern day WWE they always have a ton of classic footage worth watching. It's not just be due to disliking the product, as they may unsubscribe due to financial reasons or just not having enough time to watch the content.

It's pretty interesting to look at how the landscape had changed in just a few years in the early 90s, and how Beefcake's career would have been pretty much done by the 90s if we imagine he wasn't a bosom buddy of Hogan. Where would he have gone post-WWF? I can imagine him having some value to the AWA or World Class or wherever a couple of years earlier, but by 93/94 if he'd not gone to WCW? I can't see ECW wanting him, Smoky doesn't seem like a good fit, and I doubt Japan would have been clamouring for him outside of maybe a tour as somebody's tag team partner or something. I don't really seem him going to AAA to work with Konnan a'la Jake Roberts either, so you're looking at Herb's UWF tapings, *maybe* late era Global tapings (but probably not since they were down to just locals), and going around the horn with Hercules on NWA anniversary shows, NWF-level indies, NWA anniversary shows, and stuff like those WWS tours or Germany or Australia or wherever. Which is funny to think about really, because he might not have made as much money as working for WCW, but he probably wouldn't have as bad a reputation as he does these days since he wouldn't have been stinking up the ring on national TV far past his prime. Beefcake could have worked in the early days of ECW (the 1993-94 period, where they had guys like Snuka, Santana, and Mr. Hughes), but by the time they get "extreme", he'd be gone. I could see him working in Memphis too, the whole haircut schtick would get over there.

Has anyone noticed that the recently uploaded shows (I dont just mean the PPVs, but the vault stuff like Heat and WCWSN) dont have chapter stops? I wonder why, especially since it helps if you're looking for a specific match.

I was watching Ernest Goes to School (the Ernest films are guilty pleasures of mine) on the Roku Channel, and Ernest points out he had seen every Wrestlemania since Warrior beat Hogan (the film came out in 1995, so that would mean 6-11). Kind of odd for a film to make such a specific reference, and an Ernest film at that.

I remember a match where Terry Funk kept referring to Z-Man as "Zeman", causing Chris Cruise to repeatedly correct him.

The Wrestling Collector's youtube channel is apparently back online.

All i've got are the two wrestling albums, WWF The music 3 & 4, and Forceable Entry. I did download selected tracks from Full Metal (Thorn in your Eye, We're All Together Now, Sexy Boy, and the digital "bonus track", Broken Dreams). Did anyone ever have those theme music tapes the wwf fan club put out back in the day? I used to consider joining up just for those tapes.

So Jericho (born in New York) isnt really Canadian?

It's starting with 1992. Shame as I'm a big fan of WCW 1990-91 and I was looking forward to those episodes.

Just came up with some good ideas today to resurrect this thread: Rick Rude or Terry Funk (on a side note, i'm kind of surprised they never faced each other)? Alastair Black or James Storm? Kurt Angle or Ted Dibiase? Owen Hart or Genricho Tenryu?