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Wanted to offer a counter view of the Flair-Tito match, which I absolutely despise. Yes it's fine technically although Flair is a bit off for understandable reasons. But Flair does himself no favors here. Tito Santana a guy who hasn't beaten a name opponent in over a year (and that was Akeem) and we last saw getting beat by the Mountie in 2 minutes, goes 16 minutes with Flair here and easily gets 3/4 of the match and offense. If I saw this as an 11 year old kid I'd come away from it (and Gorilla's commentary really drives this home) that Flair was a wimp and a fraud who Hogan would destroy in about 2 minutes flat if that. Flair looks like the weakest name heel in the company after this and that continues (along with Gorilla treating him like garbage which I don't think had anything to do with Bobby and everything to do with a WWF loyalist) right up until Royal Rumble 92 where Flair puts out a GOAT performance that even Gorilla acknowledges. But by then any idea of Hogan-Flair at Mania was gone, Flair was just another guy who'd have about 3 months total as WWF champ and be gone by early 93.

Going to be doing a 2 hour look at Ricky and Robert for my podcast series to some younger fans who have only seen their newer stuff. What would you suggest as the definitive matches to show? I want to include Memphis, Mid South, Crockett, WCW, SMW and something from the last few years as well. Suggestions very much needed. I know the opponents I'd pick but not which are the best of those matches.

So one of my fellow podcasters has requested an episode featuring Herb Abrams UWF. I've seen the PPV shows and a few episodes but this isn't a territory I know that much about. What would you suggest I include for some of the best or most famous (infamous) moments in UWF history? Looking for about an hour of footage or so. Thanks so much!

It's the 44th episode of Wrestling with a Generation Gap as we go to the 1990's to cover one of the last great regional territories, Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Dave, Nick and Rob take a look at SMW's most famous card, the Night of the Legends. Along the way we cover the rise and fall of this legendary promotion and one historic night in Knoxville as well as provide detailed bios for The Mongolian Stomper, The Doctor of Desire Tom Pritchard and the legend himself Ricky Gibson. Along the way we discuss Chris Candido's career moves (always bad or not), a legends match between legends only recently retired that's really good, the sad decline of Terry Gordy, Chris Jericho nearly kill himself (note - the bleeding is explained on Jericho's podcast) and sadly we don't like the stip or the finish of the main event. Comments and feedback always welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PickrmpwC10&t=937s

Oddly enough the next to last episode of my podcast covered this. The new school fans I work with described it as a bad UFC prelim match.

Join us for a just recorded episode looking at the WWF/New Japan/All Japan summit of April 1990. We discuss the history of WWF/NJPW relations, Kobash's early career, Greg Valentine trolling Japan, AWA champs collide in a great tag match, the differences working heel in Japan and the US, Sherri having a career highlight managing the Macho Man, Baba and Andre's last hurrah (except it isn't) and the most boring "shoot" in wrestling history. Then Jushin Thunder Liger debuts in WWE to take on Tyler Breeze back in 2015. Also note - Dave was using an 80's Fisher Price walkie talkie to do the show. He's currently on special assignment for the podcast covering several critical championship tournaments in Rio De Janeiro. Feedback and comments always welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1M-bub3b7s

The podcast with old school fans seeing new and newbies seeing the old continues as we take a look at one of the most famous outlaw promotions of all time, International Championship Wrestling. The history of this company, starting from the Poffos to Plan B, from the glory days to the Jarrett buy out is all covered. Along the way Rob provides bios for Pez Whatley, including the weekend he worked almost 3 out of 24 hours in the ring and George Weingeroff, the greatest legally blind wrestler in history. Also up is the secret origin of Dr. Britt Baker, and the role Ronnie Garvin played in her career, Bob Orton Jr, the Poffos, Liz, a heck of a cage match and more. Then it's time for All In's Hangman Page vs. Joey Janela. Feedback and comments always appreciated! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJleSzSaRZs&t=4156s

Which Kid-Lynn match is the best one to show and is it on the network or online elsewhere?

Trying to put together about 60-75 minutes of samplers for both Global and SMW for my pod/videocast. Any suggestions?

Wrestling with a Generation Gap returns with an episode recorded months ago, just to whet your appetite till our proper return next month. It's a look at the greatest of all time, the Nature Boy Ric Flair in his early years, 1973-1977. On the docked Flair does battle with Chris Taylor, Swede Hansen, Paul Jones, Wahoo McDaniel and teams up with Greg Valentine to battle the Andersons. Then an early match of modern favorite Kenny Omega as he does battle with The Amazing Red. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HWXbz1vgPk&t=5s

Is this the one with the line "Savage you one legged punk"? For whatever reason my oldest friend and I found that beyond funny and work it into conversations to this day.

Great review of a meh show but I feel you guys sort of missed the truly hilarious spot of the Warrior murdering a poor cameraman on the way to the ring. The match was on Supertape 3 and an endless rewind of funny for my friends.

I have a question I think worth exploring soon on the podcast, at what point do you guys think Vince wanted the belt off Warrior and back on Hogan? I would argue it was within a few days of WM VI, just based on this SNME alone, never mind Hogan getting the hot new heel Earthquake based on Hogan getting Perfect right at the start and Warrior getting Haku towards the end, and an anemic reaction to boot. It almost seems to me like Vince realized as soon as he saw WM VI that Hogan was again the top guy and maybe that was the plan all along, to simply give Hogan that one defeat to make give his character more depth and shake things up.

Was wondering what people viewed as the best surviving episodes of Georgia Championship Wrestling?

SO I want to introduce my fellow podcasters to the legendary Magnum vs. Tully feud, culminating with the Starrcade 85 match. What other stuff is out there that I should include, matches, angles and promos, to help it all make sense?

A project two years in the making finishes as Wrestling with a Generation Gap concludes a look at the WWE Unreleased DVD set. Dave, Nick and Rob cover a plethora of dark matches and tryouts from 1993-1995, though they mostly ignore the Smoking Gunns bout. Topics covered include Undertaker being stuck with a plethora of freaks during the mid 90's, the bush league Tazmaniac gimmick, the night Rob changed Lex Luger's life for the better, Ludvig Borga - enemy of pollution, Bret Hart goodness and a beyond awful Diesel vs. Yokozuna cage match. Please note that a bunch of podcasts were recorded near each other and the audio levels issue will be addressed after the next one (already in the can, it's Ric Flair - The Rookie Years). Feedback, comments and ideas for future episodes are always welcome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgda_FWQ-Q&feature=youtu.be

As for the 3/23/90 the main event is whatever match Hogan had, rarely the last match. Depending on who you ask this was due to curfew in some buildings, the need to have it happen midway so as to announce next month's card and get max impact or because Hogan didn't want to miss room service at the hotel.

That Main Event was the very first wrestling show I ever recorded. My dad "failed" each and every time to record SNME on our Betamax (he admitted years later he never tried because he couldn't understand it and didn't want to admit that) but this one was on early enough I was able to stay up and record it. To this day I can do the commentary word for word I watched those two matches so many darn times as a kid. It was the only wrestling I had recorded (I never thought to tape the weekly shows as tapes were too hard to get for me) until Summerslam 1990, the first PPV I saw (some of) live.

Wrestling with a Generation Gap, a podcast with video that looks at wrestling old and new from the eyes of 2 generations of fans returns for its' 37th episode (Rob got the number wrong as the original 36 was missing at the time of recording but then found). This time out Dave, Nick and Rob look at Amarillo, with the only footage in Rob's collection from it featuring such stars as Dory Funk Jr., Tito Santana, Ted Dibiase, Stan Lane and a whole lot more. Then we go to today's NWA for a match with an old school flavor as Nick Aldis defends his title against Tim Storm. Feedback is always welcome!

Good point. I will throw in Rufus R Jones vs. Mr. Pogo for sheer ??????? quality.

Thanks guys! I wonder if you meant Roy Lucier's Wrestling Classics. Anyway here is the full list of matches and misc. I am planning on covering for my podcast's CS episode. Criticism of choice is very welcome. Harley Race vs. Ric Flair Marty Jannetty vs. Brett Sawyer The Midnight Express vs. the Batten Twins Bobby Fulton vs. Scott Ferris The Grapplers vs. Bruiser Brody & Buck Robley TIger Mask vs. Grizzley Evans Bob Brown vs. Harley Race Bob Brown and Slick promo The Ted Oates heel turn

Can anyone suggest matches/promos and angles for about 45-60 minutes of the best of Bob Geigel's Central States Territory?

Yes I ended up finding the same thing in time to record my episode and read edited highlights from it. I guess the guys were going like 90mph in the middle of nowhere so it wasn't as brutal as Mid South. Wondering in the 70's and 80's what territories had the easiest travel? Florida and Portland maybe? Montreal in the summer?

That helps yes. Dory did this epic post covering an entire week's loop, towns, mileage, hotels, places to stay and eat, etc but this is good information too, thanks so much!

I did try that and you can't get individual territory threads that way. I'd have to know the URL of the actual thread itself which I don't.