Cornette's racket

I remember rip Rodgers saying in relation to randy savage planning his matches out meticulous that in his experience working for the poffos he never saw that happen. He doesn't deny that the steamboat match probably was planned out like said, but it seems like one match has created a narrative that his whole career before and after that match was scripted to within an inch of its life. I mean I doubt the ric flair matches were scripted given flair didn't work like that.

The last ride documentary of the undertaker first episode will premier after money in the bank and it's clear that the wrestlemania 33 match with Roman reigns was meant to be his last match but because it wasn't that good he kept going.

You are of course correct. I was looking at met life and shea and got the two mixed up.

Well wasn't the closing of Yankee stadium in the 1970's a case of if they didn't they'd lose it because it was an awful condition ? I consider there being only two Yankee stadiums. But anyway to answer the question, I mean they had MSG so maybe they didn't feel the need to run Yankee stadium and shea stadium was in New Jersey so they didn't see a need to run two venues in New York.

I liked the Dr D episode and shockingly hulk has a complementary different recollection of an apparent incident that involved Mr T. Surely is a wrestler punched Mr T it would have been news. Any of the wrestling historians on this forum know if/when that LA show took place and if Dr D was on the card ? Maybe it's because I hate hogan and the person behind the character even more but I wouldn't believe hogan if he told me the sky was blue. Eddie Mansfield is trying to rewrite history. I think David Shultz is a bit rough around the edges but I get the impression he's not a bad guy. He's a bit crazy but not a bad person IMO.

I actually rewatched the Von Erich episode over this weekend and while I have all the sympathy in the world for Kevin Von Erich for the fact he's able to keep going with his life after the amount of tragedy he's seen. Even at the end of the episode he couldn't admit his dad was anything less than a hero was bizarre because Fritz was anything but a hero or good person.

Yes. That was one of if not the most uncomfortable things I've watched as a wrestling fan.

Fritz Von Erich will always be up there for me. How the hell he thought it was okay to have his seriously ill son give a press conference in the state he was in is beyond me. That and other things in the sorry Von Erich story make me always think of fritz when this topic comes up.

I was the same I wasn't sure how suited Arn would be to podcasts but how wrong I was. He's such a good storyteller and his choice makes you listen. The story about his career ending neck injury was just amazingly told and you forget even Arn Anderson isn't immune from pain.

Was St. Louis a territory in the traditional sense though ? It was one city and I know there were shows at the Kiel auditorium and the wrestling at the chase TV tapings so it was hardly a huge slog.

World class in the 1980's ?

I felt tired reading that description of the weekly loop of the Amarillo territory.

Mid south didn't sound like it was much fun either.

Oh thank god it wasn't just me then. I've watched the first match and the wargames cage is above the scaffold for the scaffold match and the order shows the two matches back to back. I wondered how it would work.

We’ll according to Wikipedia it was assumed it wasn’t even recorded. Would this be the last event to even resemble AWA as we know it ? I know it officially shut down in 1991 but I’d assumed it was still going in name only for the last couple of years. That’s the impression I’d always had anyway.

The hidden gems for April 4th 2019 according to WWE network news are the full press conferences of wrestlemania 2,3,and 4. Also the superstar taping where lex Luger had the belt presented to him by vince McMahon prior to WM X.Also, razor Ramon asking roddy piper to make a match between him and goldust at WM 12. I mean those last two are certainly what I'd call hidden gems from the vault. Also, the dark match before WM 9 with Tito Santana vs papa shango with Jim Ross on commentary.

I’d agree with the description of the mania V build between hogan and savage. It’s just done so well. As was said it’s not messy and it worked. I loved the comment from Ventura during the entrances where savage as champion comes out first about the champion normally coming out second. He also calls hulk “lust Hogan” which is great.

Was the randy savage interview with Vince where randy is all black on this march to wrestle mania ?

Were they really that stuck for a female inductee this year outside of Chyna ?

No it has sound on it and commentary.

Is it too harsh to say vince has become late 1980's Verne gagne ? Stuck in his ways and in a "it worked before so it'll work now" mode of thinking. The TV isn't working or not to the level it should be.

I doubt vince and the WWE are that bothered about the star cast appearance as that's just a autograph singing. Yes I know that and the double or nothing are technically separate but there is enough cross over. The issue WWE would have(and be well within their rights to have it) is if taker appeared on the show and was presented as the undertaker. I'm guessing that because Cody Rhodes was asked could he use the Rhodes name when he left WWE and he said he couldn't on "anything televised" which is important.

He's the fifth longest combined WWE champion in terms of days as champion and he only had one reign. Cena has 13 and he's about on,y 200 days above morales. He's the longest combined IC champ by days as champion but that will probably be broken by the Miz at some point.

Thanks. I was genuinely asking was he. Gimmicks ? Like 1990's WWF over the top gimmicks ? I can see why a guy of his generation wouldn't be a fan. Yeah he was inducted in the WWE hall of fame in 1995 and then nothing. I mean I'm a student of history in wrestling so I knew who he was but how many modern fans would know him ? I think I'm right in saying with his death, billy graham and bob backlund are the only WWWF champions still alive.

Was Pedro part of the concussion lawsuit ? I honestly don't know because there were so many part of that lawsuit and that will probably dictate what happens.