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That would be nuts. No.

If anyone else has anything to submit, now is the time. I am putting this together throughout the course of the day and plan to post it tonight. Some territories are getting more attention than others. Remember if you don't control your news stories, I get to control them

Hansen is in Japan on 8/20

SAPPORO 7/12/83 TV Taping · Billy Robinson vs. Jumbo Tsuruta ended in a 30 minute draw · Terry Funk defeated Nick Bockwinkel by Count out · Genichiro Tenryu, Giant Baba & Akio Sato beat Umanoseke Ueda, Tiger Jeet Singh & Alexis Smirnoff when Baba pinned Ueda · Ashura Hara & Mighty Inoue defeated Jerry Oates & Gerry Morrow when Hara pinned Oates · Shiro Koshinaka defeated Ultra Seven in a fast-paced match · Great Kojika pinned Nobuyoshi Sugawara · Toshiaki Kawada pinned Mitsuharu Misawa after hitting the spinning wheel kick

July 12, 1983 Tomakomai · Riki Choshu defeated Tatsumi Fujinami by Count Out · Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch defeated Animal Hamaguchi & Isamu Teranishi when Adonis forced Teranishi to pass out to the Sleeper · Abdullah the Butcher pinned Yoshiaki Fujiwara with the Big Elbow · Rusher Kimura defeated Osamu Kido with the butterfly suplex · Kantaro Hoshino pinned Pete Roberts with a backslide pin · Dave Finlay forced Black Cat to submit with a standing leg lock · Ryuma Go pinned Haruka Eigen · Brian Blair pinned Tatsutoshi Goto · Fumihiro Niikura defeated Halcon 78

Great matches, iconic figure, great peak, toe to toe with Casas in longevity, higher highs, signed my mask. Why don't you make an argument, Matt?

Santo was real cool when I met him and signed a mask I have here in the man cave. That was the tie-breaker for me. I love both of these guys.

Damn 10 years. It doesn't feel like that long.

He just misses out on my Top 100 since Idon't have a personal connection to him and I don't think his peak was Wrestler of the Year level.

Valentine v. Garvin is a really interesting comp. For great feuds what do you value more the Flair v. Garvin feud or Valentine v. Tito? Valentine vs. Tito is the better feud. Garvin vs. Flair may have the better matches overall, match for match.

I love his two Dick Murdoch matches. I watched the Legs match the other day and it was super fun. Loved all the Chicago stuff so far. One of the best punches ever.

We can always do Puerto Rico-Japan. No need to stress over the pairings. I was giving more of a template than a concrete solution.

Gotta read that!!!

This is fine. The whole purpose is to see if somebody over the long haul can actually pull a Vince McMahon. It gets real interesting when you take over and have to run twice the towns and plays into Parv's "winning the game' theory. Can somebody actually maintain this long enough for everyone else to drop off?

I don't know how well this is going to go over but I want to throw it out there anyway... nobody saw Dylan leaving and he has his reasons but I don't think he will be the last. Sometimes, life is just oging to get the best of people. My first thought when Portland went down, was to give it to Vancouver. My first thought if ICW went down would be to give it to Memphis, etc. Would you be interested in coming up with a territory merge system where when somebody drops out, a sister territory "wins the war". So lets say Kris has Georgia... the sister territory would be Southeastern or JCP. ICW is to Memphis. WWF to Toronto. WWA to AWA, etc. So, if goc drops out of San Antonio, Fritz wins the war and Jesse Ewiak would get Southwest and merge with WCCW and vice versa. This is what I was thinking from the territories we have... Portland - Vancouver Florida - Puerto Rico Memphis - ICW Southwest - WCCW AWA - WWA Central States- Mid South Georgia - Southeastern Stampede - Montreal JCP or WWF - Maple Leaf

Me too. Plus i don't want Kido to have a .040 winning percentage on the tour.

Gingears, if you look at it, each segment could be its own podcast. We could do an entire podcast series of just watching matches from the Network or Youtube. We could do an entire series on drafting from different eras. We could do a Living the Gimmick podcast. I like breaking it up in the half hour segments with the idea that eventually listeners of the show are going to have favorite segments that they look forward to when they pop up.

Yeah, I have lasted 4 shows without dropping an F Bomb.

I don't want to book current talent.

July 10, 1983 Edosaki · Yoshiaki Fujiwara defeated Dick Murdoch by Count Out · Tiger Mask & Nobuhiko Takada defeated Kazuo Yamazaki & Shunji Kosugi when Tiger Mask pinned Yamazaki with a Tiger Suplex · Animal Hamaguchi, Isamu Teranishi & Tiger Toguchi defeated Kengo Kimura, Seiji Sakaguchi & Makoto Arakawa when Hamaguchi pinned Arakawa after a Samoan Drop · Rusher Kimura pinned Akira Maeda after a butterfly suplex · Osamu Kido upset Adrian Adonis after fallin on Adonis who had the sleeper hooked in but had his shoulders on the mat. Adonis attacked the referee after the match · Ryuma Go, Haruka Eigen & Masanobu Kurisu defeated Brian Blair, Pete Roberts & Dave Finlay when Go pinned Roberts

I have big plans for Singh in December. I am keeping things sort of status quo right now until I can drastically alter some characters and stories. More of a slow burn right now. TOKYO 7/10/83 · Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Nick Bockwinkel & Billy Robinson ended in a 30 minute draw · Ashura Hara pinned Genichiro Tenryu after a lucky enziguiri knocked Tenryu out · Tiger Jeet Singh & Umanoseke Ueda defeated Jerry Oates & Gerry Morrow when Singh pinned Oates · Terry Funk pinned Akio Sato in a short match · Mighty Inoue pinned Shiro Koshinaka after a judo roll · Alexis Smirnoff knocked out Rocky Hata with a heart punch · Great Kojika vs. Gypsy Joe began as a comedy match but ended up in a double disqualification after both men used weapons in a bloody match · Yoshihiro Momota & Mitsuo Momota defeated Hiromichi Fuyuki & Nobuyoshi Sugawara when Yoshihiro pinned Fuyuki after a shoulder breaker · Mitsuharu Misawa pinned Toshiaki Kawada after hitting a big splash from the top rope

This is why I just wanted it to merge with Vancouver. It is close in proximity and people are already trying to grab wrestlers, like fighting over a wishbone at Thanksgiving.

Fuck, I would love to see Portland and Vancouver merge. Seems like a simple solution and it feels right.

Wahoo is to chops what Lawler is to punches.... pure perfection.

July 8, 1983 Toyohashi · Riki Choshu vs. Tatsumi Fujinami ends in a Double Count Out · Yoshiaki Fujiwara forces Kengo Kimura to submit to a Fujiwara Arm Bar · Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch defeat Isamu Teranishi & Tiger Toguchi when Murdoch pins Toguchi after the brainbuster · Akira Maeda pins Haruka Eigen after a kick to the face · Rusher Kimura defeats Abdullah the Butcher when Abdullah is disqualified for using his spike to destroy Roberts’ face · Pete Roberts & Dave Finlay defeated Black Cat & Tatsutoshi Goto when Finlay used a piledriver to pin Goto · Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Kantaro Hoshino · Masanobu Kurisu pinned Ryuma Go · Fumihiro Niikura forced Halcon 78 to submit July 9, 1983 Wakayama · Riki Choshu & Animal Hamaguchi defeated Tatsumi Fujinami & Seiji Sakaguchi when Choshu forced Sakuguchi to submit to the Scorpion lock · Tiger Mask pinned Kuniaki Kobayashi with a Tiger Suplex · Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch defeated Abdullah the Butcher & Brian Blair when Murdoch pinned Blair on a sunset flip · Akira Maeda defeated Nobuhiko Takada by hooking in a triangle choke · Kantaro Hoshino pinned Tatsutoshi Goto with a flying body press · Isamu Teranishi pinned Ryuma Go · Haruka Eigen & Osamu Kido defeated Makoto Arakawa & Masanobu Kurisu · Black Cat pinned Halcon 78