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They dont usually have tv listings, but prowrestlinghistory.com is a good source for results. Most of what they list are supercards, but its still a pretty valuable resource. They even have results for obscure stuff like SAPW, AWF, and the Abrams UWF.

Bill Irwin showing up out of nowhere in 1993 to job to Davey Boy at Superbrawl 3. Dont know what that was about.

Anyone remember Carl Oulette, Christopher Daniels, AJ Styles, and Mike Modest's short lived runs in wcw around 2000-01?

Mr. Perfect's 2002 WWE run. He had a memorable Rumble apperance (being one of the last 3 guys in there!), and i was hoping for good things, but there were very few people on the roster he really could have meshed with (Angle, Jericho, and Benoit all come to mind, but they never ended up having matches with Perfect), he was made into a JTTS, and then the plane ride from hell happened and we all know what went on from there.

Makes sense, but it did get ridiculous when they brought in Chavo Guerrero Sr, and since Chavo Guerrero Jr was no longer using the "jr", they resorted to calling him "Chavo Classic".

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but why do they always remove "Jr" from a second generation wrestler who has that at the end of their name (Chavo Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Ted Dibiase, etc)? I cant recall any other wrestling promotion who ever did this.

Scott Keith (yeah, i know) had an interesting way of rating matches back when he reviewed Coliseum videos. Basically he would rate the tapes on a "point" system, and if a match was worth watching he would give it a point. For example, if a tape had 7 matches and four of the matches were good, it would be rated 4 for 7. I always thought that was a unique system that could work.

Where i lived we had three. One was a combo video/pizza store (though the pizza store branced off, giving more room to the video section) that had a small, but decent amount of wrestling videos (mostly 85-87 coliseum stuff, though they also had a tape called USA All Star Wrestling which was full of NWA TV matches from 84-85, shocking as a kid to discover guys like greg valentine were in the NWA). We also had one in the city that had a bigger selection. Again, nothing past 1988 (aside from WMVI and Summerslam 90), but they did have the PWI Lords of the Ring tape which is where i first discovered Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler, though i was surprised there was no WWF footage). Finally there was the one in the center of town which only had the Wrestlemanias and Summerslams and a few random Survivor Seroes (they stopped getting them in after Summerslam 93 though). Later, around college, we had two more video stores near the college, but those were slowly phasing out the vintage 80s/early 90s stuff for late 90s wwf and wcw tapes. Still, all those stores (along with the apter mags being eager to acknowledge wrestling history) helped me "catch up" when i became a fan in 1990.

Kind of an odd question, but does anyone have a comprehensive list of everyone who's been doink (not counting guys dressed as doink for angles like jericho) in the wwf/e?

Was it just VHS space issues? I remember in the late 1990's when WWE went back and released full versions of older WrestleManias on VHS, the quality was horrible. Bill Watts addressed it once, as it was something he fought during his WCW tenure and tried to have changed. THE felt that rentals would be a hard sell for a three-hour tape. Watts of course made the obvious counter, that three-hour videos had not hurt the WWF in the rental market at all. They made the switch sometime in 1993, but I'm not sure exactly when. As late as Beach Blast '93, they were still two hours, and as early as I believe Starrcade '93, they were unedited. So I guess somewhere in that window. Then there's not releasing SuperBrawl IV commercially for who knows what reason. Actually, though i havent seen them, i've heard that Halloween Havoc 98 and Souled Out 99 also have matches edited out of the tape.

Why did WCW oftentimes remove matches from the VHS versions of the PPVs? For example, the VHS of Great American Bash 1990 has the first four matches edited out so the show starts with Southern Boys vs the Midnight Express. It made no real sense IMO.

Here's one that always bugged me, Vader going over Cactus Jack at Halloween Havoc 93. So you have a feud where a heel injures a babyface to the point of amnesia, and it ends with the face losing, and not just that, but in a non-title match no less? Cool match and all, but Cactus losing just soured me on it.

Austin/Angle at Summerslam 01. While Angle did win by DQ, having Angle win the belt would have been a huge moment. I know they wanted to wait until Unforgiven so they could have the title win in Kurt's hometown, but you could have just added some "can angle beat the odds?" stipulation to that match to make it more meaningful. Also, i still dont get why Angle was put over Rey Mysterio at Summerslam 02.

I went to Royal Rumble 1994 and I enjoyed the Undertaker thing (actually, i was more confused, but the whole rising above the arena thing was kind of cool seeing it live).

Apparently we're getting a whole bunch of attitude era stuff come Monday: http://www.reddit.com/r/wwenetwork/comments/31p8hp/attitude_era_raws_to_be_uploaded_next_week/

Wrestling shows held outside. Love the atmosphere of those shows. EDIT: Bright colored ring attire. It doesnt work for everyone, but when it can be pulled off well (the usos, savage, etc), it offers a unique look.

I was watching an episode of Wrestling With Wregret where the host was pointing out that there were never any "smart" (ie, highly intellectual) or "rich" (think million dollar man) characters given to faces. It made me wonder, are there any characterizations that are strictly for babyfaces or heels? Since the 90s we've seen characters that one would think would be a face get over as heels (ie, kurt angle: amateur champion), and we've seen heelish characters get over as faces (val venis comes to mind). Bear in mind, this isnt really about the crowd causing the character to become a face or heel, its more about how the character is initally portrayed (otherwise i would have used undertaker and austin and the nwo as examples of heels who got face pops).

Here's a truly obscure one. The 80s comic "Whisper" had an issue where the main character was in a fight in a hotel room. On the tv was a WWF program (not a fictional wrestling federation, but the WWF itself), and while you never saw the screen in the comic, the commentary could be "heard", and it related to the fight happening in the comic. I have no idea which issue it was, not to mention it was a pretty obscure comic to begin with, but i found it neat.

Does anyone think that home video had a big part to play in the popularity of pro wrestling in the 80s? Not just the WWF videos, but other promotions as well. For the first time, it was easily possible to see wrestlers/promotions/storylines that fans may have just have heard about, as well as seeing the early years of certain wrestlers. Along with the rise of cable, this had a big impact on the expansion era IMO.

The Nasty Boys first wcw theme from 1990. It was a cool bluesy rock tune that cant be found anywhere on youtube. Also, i've been looking for a version of the instrumental version of Girls in Cars for a while with no luck.

If you think about it, it shows how ECW had its pulse on popular culture compared to WWF and WCW, at least music-wise. Around the 1993-97 time frame, WCW was pretty much using anthemic hair metal-sounding theme songs (Man called Sting, American Made, Pillman's 1995 theme). While i like that type of music, it wasnt exactly setting the world on fire at the time, and WWF themes, while having some iconic ones from that time period (bret's second theme, sexy boy, diesel blues, razor's theme, austin's second theme) was either doing gimmick-based themes (yokozuna's "Japanese" theme, hunter's classical music theme) or incredibly generic songs (123 kid and austin's first theme come to mind). Meanwhile, ECW was using themes that were both popular at the time and likely well-liked by the ECW audience.

Actually, wrestling video games are a good entryway too. I myself got into wrestling thanks to the old Wrestlemania NES game (yeah, i know, but in 1989-90 it was considered good). Hogan, Andre, and Savage were mainstream and known to me, but i wanted to learn more about Honky Tonk Man, Ted Dibiase, and especially Bam Bam Bigelow, so i started watching the weekly show and getting old tapes to fill in the gap. Find a game with classic wrestlers thats not too complex (no overly complicated button combos to do moves), and it may lead to the child wanting to know more about the wrestlers in the games.

Its a dark horse canidate, but how about Larry Zbyszko? Obviously not as a headliner, but he could be one of the more minor inductees. I've seen him as a talking head on some WWE documentaries so he must have a good relationship with the company. They could just emphasize how hot the bruno/larry feud was in the video package to educate the fans, and have Bruno induct him. The only problem is that the majority of his best work was in the 70s, and the WWE HOF is starting to de-emphasize their 70s stuff (aside from Bruno of course) to focus more on 80s-00s wrestlers.

KOTR 1994. People mock it for Art Donovan and Piper/Lawler, but there are some real gems on this show. Not just Kid/Owen and Bret/Diesel, but i liked Razor/Bigelow, Kid/Jarrett, and Owen/Tatanka as well. Also, i watched No Mercy 2004 a while ago and was shocked at how much i enjoyed it. It came during a really weak period for Smackdown, yet i was entertained by the whole show, even JBL/Undertaker. While i would never put it in a best ppv of all time category, it was an enjoyable enough show.