MikeCampbell

Mistico was pretty shitty the last year or so of his run, so I don't doubt this for a second.

For sheer entertainment value, you can't beat Cornette. But, for sheer content (which is no surprise since this timelines covers six years), and good stories, Bruno's timeline leaves Corny's in the dust!

I'm enjoying it a lot, the Bill Watts story from MSG that led to his leaving the territory is great stuff! The only problem I have with it, is that it's really geared for a much older crowd. Bruno drops quite a few names that I occasionally recognize, but on the whole, don't mean anything to me.

Another plus in the Stevens column: Bruno Sammartino says that Stevens was so good that he's one of a very few that he'd allow to call an entire match, and just follow along.

The only really serious topic I can think of is Jim's overall love and passion for the business, which probably turns into why he despises guys like Jim Herd and Vince Russo so much.

Where is this even coming from?

I don't get why someone would actually ask to be banned. If I decide that I don't want to post here anymore, then I'll just stop coming here and stop posting.

I liked the opener, and I enjoyed the Wyatts vs. Punk/Bryan. The rest I could have done without. I'm happy to see Mark Henry return and beat Ryback, but the match itself did nothing for me. I did get a chuckle when Cole made a point of announcing that Nikki Bella was also a survivor. I yelled out "Now I can sleep tonight!" which got a laugh out of people.

I'm a sucker for tricked out looking armbars, Atushi Aoki of All Japan (and NOAH before that) always brings the goods.

The ECW Arena crowd in Philly usually gets the credit for it. I don't really know how they started it, but Flair wasn't exactly popular to them. It might have been a mocking of him, or to get on Shane Douglas' case.

Do we know if WWE or USA and MTV hold the rights to the old seasons of Tough Enough? I would think that between non-wrestling programming like TE reruns, Legends roundtables, documentaries from their DVDs, WWE films, and compilations like the HOF stuff from Classics. In addition to airing old PPVs, and TVs, and stuff, that they've got more than enough content to fill a weekley schedule. Not even taking into account any other original programming ideas they might have.

I would imagine it's probably similar to the mentality of why you don't see Japanese wrestlers begging off like you see a lot in the states. It makes them seem weak.

I'm normally fine with WWE keeping the same ring names that their developmental guys use in while in developmental. It beats watching them in OVW and them showing up on RAW with a new name and goofy gimmick. But, I think they dropped the ball by not having Xavier Woods use the "Consequences" name. They basically did the same thing TNA did with him, pair him with Killings, but not allow them a clever team name.

Summerslam had Rock/Brock, Edge/Guerrero, Bookdust vs. Christian/Storm, RVD/Benoit. Unforgiven had Angle/Benoit, Edge/Guerrero again, Brock/UT, HHH/RVD, Trish/Molly No Mercy had Angle/Benoit vs. Edge/Mysterio, Brock/UT Hell in a Cell, Trish/Victoria, RVD/Flair, HHH/Kane

What about Summerslam, Unforgiven, and No Mercy 2002?

When Nakamura gave La Sombra the Landslide off the top, Sombra's feet caught the ropes on his way down and it looked like Nakamura killed him.

I've always had a pretty good memory for wrestling, certain things just seem to stick with me. The Johnny Hotbody question that I stumped Corny with in the Youshoot, was just something that I happened to read in a PWI Almanac in their title history section, and always kept in the back of my mind. Now, as a thirty year old husband and father, it usually winds up getting me in trouble. I don't remember to take out the hamburger our for dinner, or to change the cat's litterbox at 5:30 AM when I've been up for 18 hours, but I can remember 'stupid wrestling shit' from fifteen years ago without blinking an eye.

I don't think this is the sort of thing a producer would really know. But, I doubt that they did at that time. Jesse Ventura sued Vince in the 1990's over royalties for his participation in videos. Now then, a couple that I have in mind: How long a process was it, typically, from when they started working on one until it was actually released? An advertisement was shown for a Junkyard Dog themed video, but was replaced by the Hart Foundation. It seems like the JYD video would have gotten pretty far into production if it was being advertised, does he know why it might have been cancelled?

What about Lawler? The NWA Champ had been making occasional stops in Memphis, I could see Lawler and Jarrett agreeing to jump onboard if Jerry gets the nod with the strap. The only problem I'm seeing is that I don't beleive Lawler/Kaufman had happened yet in '81. So, was Lawler really a big name outside the area?

The actual legit DVD masters that I own, I keep in a locked bookcase in my living room, to keep the hellions children out of them. The others I keep in various spindles or in envelopes and grouped together so I can pretty much find anything I might be looking for with minimal difficulty.

Both of the Samoa Joe/AJ Styles TNA PPV matches in 2005. Toshiaki Kawada vs. Jun Akiyama from the 1995 Champions Carnival Toshiaki Kawada vs. Akira Taue from the 1995 Champions Carnival Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher from IWA.

Would this even be necessary if they still had the brand split, and actually treated RAW and SD as separate entitites? Instead they have five hours of TV a week, and only showcase the same handful of names.

If NOAH ever showed any real interest/ability in elevating younger talent, and sticking to it, then it's possible that they might have been popping in 2001. But, they didn't, and they weren't. Akiyama won the strap from Misawa, and Kobashi was hurt, so there's nobody seen on Akiyama's level to challenge him. NOAH never had an interest in Omori, who had lots of history with Akiyama, Takayama really wasn't seen as more than Omori's partner until the Don Frye fight in PRIDE, and the push in New Japan that got the buzz going for him. Akiyama/Vader could have been a hot program, but NOAH never really did much with Vader. So, NOAH had a new king, with nobody to really challenge him for the throne. The Ogawa loss in April was entirely due to Akiyama running out of steam. Ogawa was just a placeholder until the next idea came along, which was Takayama.

Pretty much any nasty head shot. During the Del Rio/Ziggler World Title match at Payback, I was cringing when Del Rio was teeing off on Dolph's head with those kicks.

Is there anything in the WON's from the time frame about the idea behind running the show? I've always heard that it was a test run to see if a weekly PPV would fly, which it obvioulsy didn't.