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Hulk Hogan Roddy Piper - The stock on both of these guys is going up with the more WWF house show footage we watch. With Piper, we are discovering so many great brawls that I could easily see him in my Top 100 when all is said and done. With Hogan, it seems like he really slipped after 1987 and his matches were such a chore to watch after that. Before 1987, he was pretty good. • Sean Waltman - Waltman may make my Top 100 but he really fells like a borderline guy. I think I would have both HBK and Cena comfortably ahead of him. • John Tenta - Really enjoyed him when he was with All Japan. Still going through Earthquake footage on the yearbooks but nothing extraordinary so far in terms of matches. • Magnum T.A. - Career cut tragically short. Really great matches from 1984-86.

No offense to Dylan but until Phil Schneider and Dean Rasmussen have a ballot, no one else should have one. Having said that, I think Dylan should have one too.

I was at the RAW for Cena-Bryan Daniel and that match had more heat in the last match of the night than any other match I have been too live except for the last 15 minutes of HBK-Taker in the 2007 Royal Rumble. THe problem is the same as it was for Punk-Rey on the same show. The crowd wants to cheer Punk. They don't want to boo his opponent. The WWE wants them to boo PUnk and cheer his opponent. They don't do either.

Yes!!!! He had really good matches with Patera and Buddy Rose in 1980 and was fucking OVER!!! If you want a guy like Harley Race who was breaking out 30 moves a match, not going to like him. If you enjoyed Jim Duggan in Mid South because of how chrismatic he was, I could see you digging Pedro.

I was bored with the main after the first 5 minutes. I was really hyped after Brock took off the gloves and punched Trips in the back of the head and the announcers played it up. Then he never just played punching bag with Trips face after. It is a match that I would be willing to watch again.

I have a feeling it isn't the complete obit because it was pretty brief.

Plus, Jones just gave off the air of being a pretentious douche who you wanted to see punched in the face.

Shit, I could see Cena easily cracking my Top 100. He definitely wouldn't crack my Top 50 but Top 100 for the amount of great matches he has had isn't unrealistic at all.

I don't know if it would be my #1 but easily a Top 5 contender.

Turn in a fucking ballot

Patera's run from Jan-May of 1980 main eventing aginst Patterson and Backlund at MSG are some of my favourite WWF matches ever. Overall Patera has always been one of the most believable heels I've ever come across because he has the "bullying prick" schtick perfected, even in his interview style. I get the impression that it's a general reflection of his true personality in real life, which is why it looks so natural on him. His time as a face, however, always looked incredibly forced and out-of-place to me. It was rumoured that Patera was going to get the Blackwell face role in the AWA in 1984 (apparently it was extremely close to going that way). I'm glad it happened as it did as Patera in the Blackwell role vs. Sheik and his army I think would not have worked at all. I just don't see how Patera could have been successfully cast as a babyface, even against those guys. I thought his face time in the WWF in later years was awful. DiBiase is a little easier to think of as a face sicne my first exposure to him was as a face in the late 70's. He was so good as a heel in Georgia a little later that it made you wonder how he was ever a fan favourite, period. DiBiase was another natural heel, imo. They'd have made a helluva tag team in the early 80's. Watched the Boston Idol 1980s Addendums while prepping for the new WWF set and Patera has been really impressive. Right now, if I were a betting man, the two Backlund matches from January and May are locks for the set. He carried Pedro Morales to the best Pedro match I have ever seen and the October 1980 match should make the set. He was in a really good Bruno match that may make the set. Along with Valentine and Tito, Patera is one of those guys I am actively looking for more matches since he strikes gold so often.

When I put my lists together, it consists of Top 20-25 stuff... the classics or near classics. Next, there are the good-great matches that may have a shitty ending or a bad bump or a small issue that hurts them from popping up in the above category. Then, there is shit you just disagree with the other guys on that goes at the bottom of the pile. The only listing people should stress over is the Top 20-25 of your list. Everything else is gravy.

I don't pay attention to drawing power but while watching AWA footage and old WWF footage, Patera's stock as a quality wrestler is going up, up up!!! Also, the idea that Ted Dibiase was a great technical wrestler has always been bullshit. Ted's greatness was his ability to be a great heel (in the ring) and his brawling bloodbaths.

I agree with this. I have done individual disc rankings before but then it just fucks me up when I am doing the final list. I prefer to keep a word document where I just color code the matches in how I feel about them.

Being Welsh I got more than my fill of Reslo (watching Kung Fu spend ten minutes massaging Mick [Or "Mic" in Welsh] McManus' balls with his feet for 10 minutes under the auspices of "comedy"), but in 1990 or so some promotion from France or somewhere started up on Satellite with Tony St. Clair, Danny Boy Collins and the like emanating from France. The champion was Flesh Gorden, and even as a 6 year old I knew he was booking the fucker. Did you mean fucking the booker?

Lance Russell started doing Memphis TV in the 1950s. He was on TV into the 1990s.

Fuck the WCW talk... I want to hear you Euro dudes talk about watching World of Sport or discovering some Reslo or French wrestling on some random channel.

I thought 1997 DX was just what that company needed at the time. Shawn was soooo much better as unlikable asshole and HHH was already in prick mode that it just fit. It wasn't because they were actually funny but because that is exactly how you would expect those two to act and treat people. In 2006 or whatever, just embarassing.

I am sure there is an example of the Murdoch head scissors in one of the 80s sets. The only Red Bastien I have is a couple of matches from San Francisco in 1978, I think.

The commercial is on there.

I didn't do it. I am not blaming you. Everyone else... bring up another example.

Finally got to listen to this today while working on the 1990 yearbook and this was a great interview. I don't know if it is the French-Candian accent but that guy seems like the nicest guy in the world and he told so many great wrestling stories that I was completely ignorant on. This is a must-hear show, no doubt. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I learned something from listening to a podcast.

IT still fucks me up someone thinks that Richards is considered a vet. Or are they talking about Kozina?

Vinnie Vegas was right there.