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My thought is that instead of having Wrestlemania be so long. have maybe 5 matches on the show, and all the other matches, push to Raw and Smackdown. Have special "Wrestlemania" edition episodes of Raw and Smackdown, and thats were they can put the Battle Royals and Tag Team Championship and IC/US/Cruiserweight matches, and treat them like they are special episodes, like season finales or something.

Oh. Well, I look forward to Tim's next review then

Until I read this, I was thinking it was Turkey. And since I had been watching the Network this week, I assumed it was the Gobbledy Gooker. I know, I know, but in my head it made sense because it was coming out of a cardboard box. Which immediately made me think of the Box of Gimmicks they always would talk about on Bruce Prichard's podcast, because he is back in WWE now. Basically I thought it was a vignette for a second season of Something Else to Wrestle.

Michael Elgin was wresling at my local indy show on Friday night, and then last night he was wrestling in Halifax. I was surprised when I heard that as that meant he wasn't in the New York area this weekend, but if he is considered toxic in the US indy scene that makes more sense now.

It's probably going to be like the crappy weekly studio show they have in Canada on our Sportsnet channel. It's got like former referree Jimmy Korderas, Santino Marella, and a couple other people I don't recognizing just talking about the top storylines on Raw this week, similar to the talking heads on the PPV preshows when there isn't a kickoff match going on.

I noticed a nice new Match Review up on the main site Devil Masami vs Chigusa Nagayo -- AJW, 08-22-85. I am assuming this is from you Loss? Thank you for posting it if it is. The match reviews were my favorite part of the relaunch of the main site last summer.

I just realized I haven't watched SNL in a loooong time as I don't recognize either of these guys and Weekend Update used to be one of my favorite parts of the show

Hey, I was just wondering if anybody here has played any tabletop wrestling-themed RPG's? Even the official WWF/WWE ones? Just curious if any of them were any good, or were awful, or if anybody just has any interesting stories about playing them. Thanks

I should check that video out. That sounds like it would be interesting to watch. I should also check to see if there is a wrestling-themed table top RPG thread in the PWO archives.

I recently saw Eli Drake at a local indy show a few weeks ago and really enjoyed him. He won the title and then lost it in a nearby city the next night, but it was a fun match

I wonder if he will do ROH or Impact? those might be interesting to listen to, and shorter.

Is Hogan going to be in Puerto Rico the night Bruiser Brody died?

woohoo I can't wait to listen to this. Right now im on the Worldcast of Champions 1 episode. I'm a bit behind because i don't have the network anymore but i am considering jumping straight to this episode.

I would like to see Shane turn heel on Miz. I mean i would rather see Shane not even have a match at Wrestlemania and give that time to an actual wrestler, but if he is going to wrestle at Mania, I think I would like to see him as the heel getting beaten up by a face Miz. And then maybe Bryan and Miz could have another match, but this time with the heel/face roles reversed. That might make some fun promos.

well they did a great job shitting on EC3 in the main roster in like 5 seconds right off the bat by having him be a joke character that Elias walked by on the way to the ring. I hope he comes back out later tonight.

I saw that CMLL seems to post full episodes of their show on their YouTube channel, and was interested after watching the Andrade/Mysterio match in watching some 2014-2015 CMLL episodes during the time La Sombra was in Los Ingobernables. This would be during the early days of that stable. I don't really know much about the original version of Los Ingobernables and thought it might be enjoyable to see how it started since CMLL seems to upload everything to YouTube anyway. However, I'm not entirely sure how to navigate to the episodes I want to see without scrolling through 4-5 years worth of YouTube uploads as searching "Abril 2014" in their video section doesn't seem to help.

Yeah, I thought that match was awesome. I was surprised to see it on television as it felt like a PPV match up until the finish. I think it is a really great idea that they don't use these crazy moves in every match, because when they do use them in a match like this they feel more special. I remember really liking the Andrade/Gargano match in NXT and had given most of the credit for that to Gargano, but now I am rethinking that and wondering if Andrade is actually a much better wrestler than I had previously believed.

Wow I didn't remember the name change being that late.

I watched the most recent episode Being the Elite that rovert posted above and enjoyed it. It was a fun bit of silliness, not exactly what I was expecting. It reminds me a bit of the little skits wwf used to do on Primetime or Coliseum Home Video. The ones with Heenan and Monsoon or whoever. Not as good as what The Brain used to do, but I think it is a lot better than what they do on Raw with the neverending promos about nothing. I do think the audio quality needs to be improved but maybe AEW will use more expensive microphones. I went back and watched the first episode but its quite different. It seems more like a video blog where they talk about where they have been flying to recently and it is just the 2 Bucks. It really didn't seem too interesting or relevant so I don't think I'll be watching it from the beginning. I went back instead and watched last weeks episode and that was fun. I don't think it's something I would want to sit and binge watch though, but watching a half hour once a week would be okay. I do agree that moving forward for other promotions to stand out they need to break away from the stale Raw formula, and doing an internet show that looks like it's shot with cell phone cameras does give it a sense of immediacy that Raw lacks. I think I prefer the format of Lucha Undergound as far as that goes. I do think having some short matches or maybe some clips of match highlights would help break it up.

I hope if it goes on TBS they also show it on Peachtree, as we don't get TBS here but do get Peachtree when it split off from TBS due to Canadian regulations

Awesome man. Thanks

Do you have this podcast in an audio format so I can listen to it on my ipod shuffle?

I like the look of wrestling in dress shirts, but I don't like the look of wrestling in jeans and t shirts or tank tops. Although I have to say I definitely preferred the gear that Erik Rowan and Luke Harper wore then they were in the Wyatt Family then the gear they wore when they were the Bludgeon Brothers. That gear was pretty ugly.

I loved seeing Mean Gene in front of the monitors in the control room talking about what was going on in the WWF during his update segments. I remember Lord Hayes and Sean Mooney also did that but I really felt like whenever it was Mean Gene it felt more welcoming, like coming back home.

Are there wrestling matches on the Being the Elite series on YouTube? I was under the assumption it was all just talking. If there are some good matches on it I might be interested in checking it out.