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Thinking of this, I cant remember many "best buddies" of Hogan in WCW (pre-NWO of course) aside from Savage and Dave Sullivan. Hogan and Sting had kind of an alliance, but it was never that concrete, and i cant think of any other faces he teamed with. Then came the NWO, but that was a different thing altogether.

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They're currently uploading Smackdown 2005. Also, the Bischoff documentary is up.

How about an episode discussing the "darker and edgier" direction WWF was heading in in 1991 (The Iraqi Slaughter angle, Taker trying to kill Warrior, Everything involving Jake Roberts, etc)? A Prime Time wrestling retrospective could also be a good idea for an episode (heck, you even use the prime time theme as the theme of your show).

On a side note, is the "continue watching" feature not working for anyone else? I called up tech support and they said that it's an issue happening with all users.

They just uploaded the most recent Brock documentary as well as the Lawler doc.

Speaking of those coliseum "profile" tapes, im surprised they never made one for Tito Santana. Would have been better than that awful George Steele video (where he LOST the majority of matches featured on that tape).

Speaking of jobbers teaming with big names, i came upon a 1990 match where Tito Santana teaming with Jim Brunzell against Demolition. Not as bad, but there's also a 1989 handicap match with Tito and Jim Powers against Andre the Giant.

Actually, I think they were teasing a Garvin/Rick Martel feud in late summer 1990, i know it was talked about in WWF Magazine, but it only led to one match on All-American where Martel won. I believe the last Garvin TV match was against Sgt. Slaughter in September or October. Also, i cant wait for next week's discussion on Coliseum video.

Actually, Austin's autobiography does end with a discussion about what changes he'd make to the WWE if he was in charge.

They briefly touched on this, but the way interviews changed should also be noted. As the 80s went on, the faces became more and more superheroic in their promos (aside from Jake Roberts, who kept his subtle interview style) while the heels became more and more cartoonishly heel. Granted, this arguably started with Savage and Piper (both of whom had an over the top style as both heels and faces), but compare some of Hogan's early promos from 84 or 85 to his infamous WM4 interview about him destroying trump plaza and the hulkamaniacs jumping onto his back, or Jimmy Hart going from flashy when he first came in into a screaming maniac by the end of the 80s/early 90s. Also, I dont have twitter, but i do have a question for the mailbag (about Lord Alfred Hayes inexplicably being a heel broadcaster in 93-4), is there a way to send a question without twitter?

I'm probably the only one who'd want it, but a sequel to HBK's book (not the religious one he put out a few years ago) would be interesting to read. The first book ends with the Rockers reunion, but the sequel could go into the God feud (i'd want to see what shawn's real feelings on it were), the dx reunion, flair's retirement match, the jericho feud, and the taker feud and subsequent retirement.

This is a really interesting show, lots of neat tidbits.

In all seriousness, it's being titled "Crossface".

This has the potential to be the worst "bio-pic" since Wired.

I always liked to think of wrestling as a live-action comic book (maybe not as relevant now due to the numerous live-action superhero movies, but anyway,,) and the Survivor Series concept fit that perfectly, it was the equivalent of all those company-wide crossover events ,with a group of heroes (faces) uniting to take on a group of enemies (heels). It was even better when there were multiple managers, which added to the threat that the faces were taking on.

I remember the night after Bash at the Beach 96, the heels and faces all had something to say about the Hogan heel turn. It showed how it affected all the wrestlers in the company.

Figured this is as good a place to ask as any. On The Best of the WWF Vol. 16 there's a match with Fuji vs some unknown wrestler from Saudi Arabia. They never mention who it is, and the commentary is in Arabic. I havent been able to find any info on this match or Fuji's opponent at all. Im thinking its from the early 80s (near the end of Fuji's run as a full-time wrestler) but thats all i can come up with.

What does everyone here think about wrestling embracing a "shared universe" concept where events from one angle affect other angles in the same company? When i started watching (1990), this concept seemed to be embraced (for example, during the roberts/martel angle, after roberts got sprayed in the face with arrogance, big bossman came to jake's rescue, despite not being a part of that angle). Heck, even ECW would have multiple angles in the same match. But now, it seems like most angles are in a vacuum. If you had someone do an injury angle on RAW, it seems absurd for the new day to come out so jovial in the next segment.

Not trying to make this thread too depressing, but King of the Ring 94 also qualifies, only 2 matches have both competitors still alive (not counting the Razor/IRS semifinal match or the Kwang/Holly dark match), and all 3 members of the broadcast team are no longer with us either.

AWF was never on ESPN. AFAIK, the only wrestling they carried were AWA, WCCW, USWA Dallas,Abrams UWF, and GWF.

The Legends with JBL episode with Booker T debuted last night and was very good. It mostly dealt with his personal life, but man, he is so lucky that he was able to survive.

They COULD just air the International version of RAW that aired that week, which was just a compilation of PPV matches. There would be little to no new material, admittedly, but considering that they did upload the snowstorm RAW, they could just put it on for the sake of continuity (and its not like they havent used the international versions before, they used that edit for the lawler heart attack episode).

Here's an obscure one, Diamond Dallas Page's Diamond Exchange, consisting of the Freebirds, Badstreet, Diamond Studd, Big Daddy Dink, and Page himself. Even as a younger fan I could tell this was low-rent, and a desperate attempt to keep the Freebirds relevant (i remember Inside Wrestling did an article hyping them as the next big heel stable which i got a good laugh from, especially when the Dangerous Alliance formed that fall).

New Jack in ECW. Not that his style didnt fit, but his stuff always seemed to be in its own separate universe away from the main ECW brand, he didnt even really get involved in any of the major angles (that may or may not be a bad thing, depending on how you feel about him).