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Colour me interested in you guys having a Top 20 ep as well.

Is there ever going to be new eps of The Dangerous Alliance?

While these two clips are from 1984, I was hoping the Titans boys could jump in the Quantum Leaping Lanny and go forward in time to do a live watch. First Mean Gene tours the home neighbourhood of Adrian Adonis, with Dick Murdoch turning up halfway through. Then, Adonis visits Murdochs ranch. Both segments are pure wrestling gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QE_BB3KZUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47WR2ZeO7ec[media][/media]

As a fan from Australia since 1980, I grew up on the WWF but would read every Apter mag cover to cover, no matter which promotion the story was on. So that included Continental. This podcast was outstanding, I learned about so many matches, angles, feuds, characters. Very much looking forward to Part 2. Please keep giving coverage to the territory legends. Much appreciated to both Kris and Beau for the time and effort put into such an exhaustive look at Year One of Continental.

Very much enjoyed Chad's reasoning on the Japanese and Mexican workers he included. For someone like myself who has only dipped into the promotions of those countries, some of his match recommendations make me more keen to seek them out. As for Parv, you said your fave company is All Japan. Could a future project, as a one off, or maybe a few shows, be an All Japan for dummies type show? Where we get a brief history of certain matches and feuds, so I know why these guys are fighting each other? I find it hard to be invested, when it is just This Guy vs That Guy.

Titans boys, on Daily Motion, look for a match featuring two of the Titans faves, Sgt Slaughter vs Greg Valentine from WWF 1984. I had never heard of it, hope it's a new one to you boys as well. Thank you any Titans product, to me, it's all quality and sustains me when my interest in current wrestling is shaky at best.

Been waiting for a new one, thanks guys. Interested in where the HHH challenge you are set, is going.

Trying to fit this 4 hour epic in before work this afternoon. Really enjoyed the first part. Parv and Chad, on Daily Motion, look for a guy named Buddy Watson and an AWA show called StarCage 85. I had never heard of this show, but looking at the line up, I think it needs the Big Boys treatment. He also has AWA Super Sunday. http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/RedneckSpiritHunter/1

I agree re being a train wreck. But I kinda expected that. I wasn't waiting for analytical insights, I was wanting nincompoopery. And I got it. Fun stuff. I would also like to hear another ep like this. I am sure if you guys throw things around enough, you'll come up with a concept. The fans are demanding it. Don't be WWE, give us what we want.

As much as I love 80s tag wrestling, I just can't get excited about that line up. I can put up with some crap and mid level stuff, but nothing apart from the SF/Harts matches, really jumps out at me there. If you are after any matches for any point in 1988, I went through my collection and found these. Ones that I remember being good; Hogan and Bigelow/DiBiase and Andre 06\02 Hogan and Bigelow/DiBiase and Virgil 13/03 Rockers/Rougeaus 25/10 Rockers/Busters 17/12 Ones that may fill a show; Patera and Haynes/Race and Herc 18/01 Strike Force/Bolsheviks Feb Warrior and Muraco/Gang and Bass 25/04 Stallions and Houston/Bolsheviks and Akeem 29/11

I was an Adrian Adonis fan, enjoying his stuff right up to his passing. Challenge - book Adonis back to the WWF in 1988. Has he dropped weight? Is he still Adorable? Any chance of a run as a face, how would it happen and play out as time goes on? Who would he feud against?

Johnny Valiant managing Demolition. Valiant is a loud New Yorker, yet he's with the new monster, kickass heels. Grand Wizard and Sgt. Slaughter. There is Wiz in his sparkling suit and turban, there is Sarge in his former Marine get up. Heyman with Curtis Axel. Not even Heyman could make this chump look credible.

I think this feud worked cause Martel and Santana invest themselves in the new team right away. And back then, faces were faces, and fans loved them for it. The Malenko/Scotty match that Marty mentioned is a corker.

Outstanding work. I can see myself visiting often to track down shows I've missed.

I usually enjoy the reaction shows as everyone gets a say. But the last part, where Johnny was trying to get across his liking of the Sheamus MITB cash in, only to be shot down at every turn with comments along the line of Ýou're a fucking idiot' made me sour on listening to future reaction shows. I would have thought differing opinions would be welcome, so it sparks debate. It just became a total mess and not worth giving time to when there are so many other pods out there.

It is well worth the time to trawl YT and DM on a regular basis. Over the years, I have found so many Bulldogs/Dream Team, Bulldogs/Harts, Tito/Valentine, Tito/Savage. Lotsa fun Hogan tags where he teamed JYD, Hillbilly, Piper, snuka. And gems like his series vs Kamala, and lesser known matches with Beefcake, Adonis, Orton and Rude. Same for Andre, fun tags teaming with JYD, Snuka, Hillbilly and Orndorff against Stundy and Piper/Orton. Sarge has become a huge fave of mine, I think he's one of the finest brawlers to ever lace the boots. Sarge/Backlund Cage match from March 21st of 1981 is 5* from me. Also grabbed 4-5 matches vs Iron Shiek, a very good match vs Orndorff, and plenty of tags where his partners were JYD, Orndorff, Andre in various matches vs Sholkoff. Backlund, I really enjoy his matches vs Sarge, Valentine, Patera, Snuka. As Bret Hart is a huge fave, I made it a project to track his early career in WWF. So singles matches vs Sivi Afi, Rick McGraw, SD Jones, Ivan Putski and a ripper vs Lanny Poffo I found interesting, as you can see Bret gaining confidence with each passing month, defining the kind of wrestler he wants to be and letting his inner heel shine. Same for the Hart Foundation tag matches, pretty basic to start but you can see the progression from the squashes to good matches with the Bees, Islanders, Rougeaus, Tito/Pedro, to the great matches with the Bulldogs and Strike Force.

Have been motoring through Titans Of Wrestling the last week, and with that, have searched for stuff on the wrestlers Titans focus on. Just found this on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5XKTolMMTk

Whatever happened to James who did the first 12 or Titans shows with the gang? If there was ever an explanation for his leaving, I must have missed it.

I await the greatness to follow.

The Titans era does get little love, even from the company itself. While I would like there to be Titans shows on a regular basis, I think the good thing is with PTBN, is that there are so many shows, that we fans can always find something worth a listen. For myself, there is Tag Teams Back Again, Where The Big Boys Play and I dip into other shows if the topic has my interest. I sometimes don't have time to watch wrestling, but I can have a podcast on as I go about my day, and I get my fix that way.

The momentum AJ Styles gives to his springboard forearm. Christopher Daniels being The General currently in ROH. When Christian was tagging up with Jericho, and Jericho would call him C-Man When Tony Schiavone would interview Flair or Cornette, and he was smirking, trying to stop himself from smiling at the bizarre heel logic he was hearing.

I wanted to thank the Titans boys. The last week I have been listening to Titans from the beginning, and finished episode 10 this morning. I listen on the bus to and from work, and at the gym, and I am always making mental notes of angles, promos and matches to look up. As I am Australian, there is a huge part of wrestling history, that being before Wrestle Mania, that was never televised here. So with that, thanks to you guys for covering an era that was lost to me. So far I've tracked down stuff to do with Bruno/Larry, The Valiants, Strongbow/Valentine, Sarge, Valentine, Tito, Andre. Outstanding viewing.

C.S. I have not watched the JR heel turn in years but am keen to see it again now. Thanks.

That is very well put. Flair ran David down at times but then felt even he had to something when Nikita took Davids head off with the Russian Sickle.

I hadn't thought of Eddy Guerrero looking like a dude who hung out in front of a liqour store, but the description of his character at that time fits very well. A few more; When Hogan tagged with various guys and he took on little parts of their character. Two I can remember straight away are doing The Bird with Koko when they they against Kamala and Honky, and dancing the Juke with JYD, One of the great joys of wrestling for me is Rick Martel as a babyface getting a hot tag. The vaulting into the ring, the clapping of the hands, the bouncing on the spot. The outrageous costumes Jesse would wear, as opposed to the straight man suits of Gorilla or Vince. Bobby Fish's evil looking mustache. Nikita Koloff speaking English with a Russian accent and a growl in his voice. I believed he was actually Russian at the time. Just having Dennis Condrey with the nickname of "Loverboy"was enough to get a smirk out of me.