Dav'oh

Over/under US$41.5m (Fighting With My Family's reported takings)? Having seen various Von Erich documentaries, and as someone more interested in wrestling's past than its present, I don't feel compelled to watch this film. I do hope it has some degree of success and everyone enjoys it.

Not a chance, imho. It doesn't appeal to women, young or old, for starters. Plus, we've all seen the trailers. There's not even an audience for Young Presidential Hopeful Rock anymore.

If he embarrasses the company, he'll walk away? That's shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.

"Fightful Select reports that these are the planned match times for tonight’s WWE Survivor Series: Wargames. * Women’s WarGames Match: 35 Minutes. * Intercontinental Title Match: 15 minutes. * Dragon Lee vs. Santos Escobar: 12 minutes * Women’s WWE Championship Match: 12 minutes. * Men’s WarGames Match: 45 minutes."

What sort of return were they getting? It had to be peanuts selling to banana republics, did it lead to the promotions running tours? We had our own news, but we leant heavily on the BBC; we had our own foopball (sic) but we still got Jimmy Hill; we even had our own Burger King, but we still got...Burger King. (As an aside, British cultural hegemony still ruled in the 70s but the septics were getting their foot in the door. By the 80s we were the 51st state.)

Why weren't they sent to Japan, Australia and the United States, wrestling hotbeds, often very discerning, rather than Malawi and the Cocos Islands?

One night compared, equally, to over a decade? One stadium show compared to the infrastructure of a nationally touring company? You're better than that. Plus, 1992 isn't in your time-line. Adjunct schmadjunct. It's still the Australian "scene".

That falls within your parameters, so yes ("I would put it to you all that in the 60s, 70s and even into the early 80s, the centre of the wrestling universe was Northwest Europe"). To deny us patronage of our own wrestling scene and attempting to invalidate it due to the ethnicity of the promoter, is quite something. The crowds were Australian, the arenas were Australian, the moolah was Australian. Doyle (Barnett's partner) sold his share in 1968; Barnett left in 1973. He did not "fold it to spend more time and effort on Georgia". "The tax code changed, making it more expensive for Barnett to run WCW; and the new government required that all Australian companies be composed of at least 51% Australians. On top of that, Channel 9, on which WCW had been airing for years, decided that the current product was much too violent, and decided to no longer broadcast the shows live, so that they could edit the footage if need be. Barnett hated this. So Barnett began looking to sell off WCW, and to buy back in to the American circuit. Furthermore, by the end of 1972, business had begun to taper. However, in 1973, while he started looking to get out of Australia, Barnett began blowing off of his big storylines, presumably to ensure that was around when his share of the percentage came in for those shows. Additionally, he concocted the most famous angle in WCW’s history: The War. Beginning in April and lasting until the fall, The War saw groups form around Mark Lewin, the babyface leader, and Big Bad Jon, the heel leader. The feud was marked by its violence, blood, and brawling, highlighted by either 6-man or 8-man cage matches. While the rosters of the respective teams changed, the main babyfaces, known as the People’s Army, in addition to Lewin were Spiros Arion, Sheik Ayoub, King Curtis, Mario Milano, and Karl Kox, while the heels were Waldo Von Erick, Bulldog Brower, Hiro and Hito, Abdullah the Butcher, Tyler Singh, Blackjack Slade, and others. The angle was a financial success, although business dipped towards the end because of how long and intense it was. Also during the year, the NWA World’s Champion Jack Briscoe had four different titles defenses during his visit. Barnett had used up every major angle in the territory, and squeezed as much out of this year as he could. All in all, Barnett had booked 1973 as the most fiscally successful year in the history of WCW. And then he sold his shares in December, and was gone by the new year. Thus was the beginning of the end for World Championship Wrestling." (credit: Lance Larson). I am not for one second asking why Australia isn't considered the "centre of the wrestling niverse" in those years. I have no horse in this race.

This ignores a lot of curation, official and unofficial (I place the bevy of wrestling mags in the latter). I also feel you ignored/overlooked Australia as the world's hottest territory at one, prolonged, point. Apparently they were very well paid, too, to continue a different observation. You even mentioned Spiros Arion, but in a European context.

...and have Flesh Gordon present the belt.

Just back to Flesh Gordon for a second, if I may? a) You guys are doing the Lord's work, as they say. b) Like most people doing the Lord's work, you guys are bonkers. c) this is why I love you. (Aussie posters: we should replicate the Flesh Gordon debate, using Con "Mr. Damage" Iakovides.)

The acting paradox: if you can tell someone is a good actor, are they really a good actor?

When I'm in the kitchen preparing Koala Skewers and Vegemite Soup and the funnel-web spiders are roasting away, I occasionally listen to Cornette. It's literally the only "content" I consume. ....UNTIL NOW!!!! Love your work mate, keep 'em coming. You can use "As Watched by Dav'oh" as your tagline iffin' ya like.

Funnily enough, I was having lunch with TONY NESE the other day, and he's not real enamoured with PWO either so there. AEW need star-power. They might still not be "booking for the casuals" but if they can get the casuals' eyeballs on the product then of course they'll hire people that stir up even minimal spikes in interest. Are their champs all "home-grown"? If not all, then most? (Not been watching much these last couple of months, cherry-picking the hyped matches). The show may be built around your Edge/Flair/Wight types, but it's clear they're auxillary players. Last I remember, it was the bro-rom-com Better Than You BayBay that was featured. Before that it was I dunno. Next it'll be someone else. I don't think the WWE lifers are taking over.

I thought it was to make Collision seem important.

It's just foreplay, @MoS, no need to get too excited yet . We've been having trouble undoing the bra, that's all. Wait for the knock-out stage, good brother. A tournament hosted by India, in India, for India? Yeah, you'd think India would do well. Making the English play in +35C (ed: 95F) and 600% humidity is priceless.

PWO's Attitude Era Mt. Rushmore is gonna be Michael Cole, Christian, Naked Mideon and Mae Young.

I think it only works if you're planning on turning one of them face. Then hope that the crowd's choice of de facto babyface matches the promotion's choice. Edit: Trump vs Hilary was heel vs heel, and that worked out fine...

Everyone in the company worked "WWE Style", so of course they wanted Mistico to work that style. He should've adapted. He wasn't in Arena Mexico anymore with his favoured dance partners helping make him look like a million pesos (which is why they wanted Averno to come in).

"Fuck Bill Gates" he muttered as he opened Windows 10. "Fuck Jeff Bezos" he grumbled as he checked his mail for updates on the Hogan War Bonnet he had ordered from Amazon. "Fuck Shahid Khan, Stan Kroenke and their pals" he spat as he sat down to watch the SuperBowl. "Fuck Coke" he spake as he drank Coke. "Fuck Tony K" he proclaimed as he watched some of the best wrestling on the planet.

OK... Krusher Khruschev is better than Mr. Hole in One. "Jerry Lawler" is better than "the Kiddy Fiddler"

Respectfully disagree. DICK BLOOD on the marquee is worse than RICKY STEAMBOAT. Sterling Golden is worse than Hulk Hogan. Andre the Giant is better than Jean Ferre. There'd be thousands of examples.

I don't think hiring a Man Called Sue for their developmental undercard will one day be pinpointed as the day the Empire started crumbling.

TORN ANUSES - HELP NEEDED Any good brothers (or lurkers) know much about torn anuses (I believe "ani" is also an accepted plural form)? Asking for me, because I was just reading about Sean Waltman's torn anus and a question arose: he tears his pooper doing a bronco buster on an exposed turnbuckle, but it's not until hours later, in his hotel room, that the blood starts "gushing" until the room "looked like a crime scene". How long did your torn anus take to bleed? I'm not suggesting a champagne bottle or a big, black, ceramic bong was involved at the afterparty, but the timeline does seem odd. Anyone?

The fight, which pitted Minoru Suzuki against Sanshiro Takagi, took place on the 180mph Nozomi Shinkansen bullet train between Tokyo and Nagoya on Monday.