MikeCampbell

Because both were New Japan wrestlers who the WWE showed interest in. Yamamoto made the move, and his career has been pretty much dormant ever since. Hence: If Okada was considering it, he should ask Yamamoto how his career is going. It's actually not that complicated if you think about it.

Like I told a friend on facebook who mentioned this. Ask Naofumi "Yoshi Tatsu" Yamamoto how his career is going. . . . .

I'm impressed, it only took him ten years to admit that. Meltzter shot that down in like 2002, and it still wound up in one of his books, even after it was pointed out to him.

Quickie thoughts: My friend and I both thought that the opener sucked, even before the botch. It seemed like Show was bumping too early for Del Rio's shots, and some of their stuff barely made contact. Cesaro/Miz was lots of fun, and I liked the booking, although I'd have preferred to see Cesaro cheap shot Miz. Chamber was probably best of the night. Like I said before, they need to find something important to do with Henry now, before he cools down. The fact that he still got on ovation after laying the other three out speaks volumes for him. If Henry couldn't win, then I'll take Swagger. It was a surprise that nobody saw coming, but they can make it work, with Mantell cutting promos on ADR and Ricardo. Did anyone else notice that Cena, Sheamus, and Ryback didn't really get much of a reaction? That comes from having to follow Mark Henry . This was fun too, although it took some time to warm up. Once again, surprise booking, with Shield pulling it out, and I'm surprised to see Ryback eat the pin, I figured it'd be Sheamus. Doph/Kofi was fun for what it was, and they've worked together 1,000 times, so it's to be expected. The Biggie beatdown seemed to take forever. Diva's Title match: Can't say I cared one way or another. WWE Title match: Not bad, but not up to the level of the EC or the six man. The booking has me thinking that Punk is getting inserted at 'Mania to make it a 3-way.

The boys and I went nuts when Henry finally got in, and our interest plummeted when he left. He got an ovation when he left the second time too. This should be an indication to someone to pull the trigger on him in some fashion.

What a pop Mark Henry got tonight! Then the 'One More Time' chant when he dropped Hornswaggle. Can this guy do no wrong?

Paging Goodhelmet!

Freddie Blassie's "performing" chicken!

Murdoch and Koloff vs. Windham and Garvin from 3/14/87

Has anyone seen Henry in OVW when he'd really slimmed down and was doing monkey flips?

It wasn't an in-depth and detailed as all of what you posted, but yes, we pretty much agreed that Larry was full of it. You pointed out the losses to Bruno, and the fact that he was protected better than most afterwards, but he was never pushed as a serious threat to Backlund.

This is the story according to Larry on the new KC DVD, so take it for whatever it's worth. Larry felt like he was getting screwed over, because he was the top heel and drawing the crowds, but Backlund was getting the credit and the compensation for it. Larry was scheduled to face Bob for the title and made a pitch to Vince, sr. for the belt, saying it'd make him that much more hated. Vince wasn't interested and after some back and fourth Vince told him "Let's just forget it." Larry no-showed a few spot shows, claiming Vince fired him (knowing Vince was on vacation and he couldn't be reached). When the office finally reached Vince, he came back and had another meeting with Larry. They agreed for Larry to go back to work and go with the flow, and in return Vince would run Larry/Bruno at Shea, with a big payday for Larry. After Shea, they had no more interest in him, so he was in the mid card. Anytime they'd want him to lay down, he'd refuse because Bruno never pinned him, so if Putski, Morales, etc. did, the it'd just make Bruno look bad. The frustration eventually boiled over and Larry left in early '81.

Even more so when Larry himself has said that Vince Sr. wasn't interested in putting the belt on him.

And, in the youshoot, he talks about the Orndorff/Vader fight as though it happened right in front of him. Even though he was the WWF Champion at the time.

I'm halfway through his youshoot, and despite the fact that he's almost always totally full of it, you can't deny that he's a really funny guy.

If you're talking about Pro Wrestling This Week, an almost complete set of shows from 1987 made it's way onto Classics a few months ago. I'll see if I can find the discs and check the early 87 episodes to see if I find that angle. Found the discs but not the angle. Sorry. Thanks for checking, Goc. It's just one of those angles that's always piqued my interest, mostly thanks to how much Corny loves talking about it.

Even though it was delayed for months, thanks to their own stupidity, I really think that the Rockers showed up ath the perfect time in the WWF. They were the only tag team at the time that had the combo of being talented, experienced, and also were young and 'happening.' Dynamite's back was pretty much fried. Bret and Jim had just recently turned babyface and they were popular, but not the same way that Shawn and Marty were. Roma and Powers never shook the jobber label. The Rougeaus were about to turn heel, or already had. Were the Killer B's even still around?

What he said! I never get sick of watching that Razor vs. Crush match, only because Polo and Monsoon get talking about Fuji Vice.

Yes, from a Pat Tanaka kick. It's on the yearbook.

Date? Christmas, or thereabouts, of '86.

Does anyone know offhand if there's any footage from Doug Furnas' debut in Continental, where he rips the door off the cage. Cornette loves bringing that up, and how he stole that for Kane's debut.

According to Rajah is was Leo Kruger that worked A-Ry, so unless they changed Brodie's name from Luke Harper to Leo Kruger, not him.

I watched IRS vs. Marty Jannetty from the 1993 Survivor Series Showdown special, and it was all kinds of awful. IRS never makes it out of first gear, and because he controls the bulk of things, Jannetty doesn't get out of first gear either. Jannetty does what he can, he acts groggy to get over his head being rammed into the stairs, and he takes a huge bump off of the Write-Off. I'll probably watch it again tomorrow to see if a second viewing brings anything new to light. From the same show, Crush vs. Virgil kills it, mostly because Virgil is dead set on having a good match whether or not Crush feels like it (p.s. he doesn't). Yes, VIRGIL outworked IRS. EDIT: A second viewing showed me that it wasn't as lopsided as I'd originally thought, but Will's assessment of watching paint dry is still pretty much dead on.

There's Muraco promo from TNT on some Coliseum video where he's trashing Ricky Steamboat, and that he knows some "fat broads" that will make Steamboat's fans get sick, or something to that effect.