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I was watching a Tiger Mask comp not long ago and came across some clips of Stephen Wright, who looked really good. Was he Alex's father? Was he always really good?

His initial WCW run was November '89 until June '90. He returned in September '91. I'd imagine he worked UWF during the in between run, when he was also working for Global.

No weekly update on Fritz' condition, I guess that means Fritz is finally OK.

Loss, Thanks so much for continuing these, they're an absolute blast to read, even more so with 20 years of hindsight. A couple of things: - I'm assuming the Nikita Koloff bit Dave brought up was about his wife? - When did Doc go back to the NWA? - I guess it's safe to say that Akira Taue wound up doing OK for himself. - I've actually seen the Furnas/Humongous weightlifting angle, it's not bad actually, but it's pretty clear the weights are gimmicked.

He's already been outed as being from NYC.

Most of Puder's name value stems from the fact that Angle couldn't shut up about him. I stopped listening to Kurt long ago, so maybe he's finally gotten off the topic.

I'm actually thinking the opposite, they need to scale themselves back a bit. They're getting to be like SMW. Too small to be big, too big to be small. Being on TV would mean probably paying for a timeslot. And either running more shows, or doing what ECW and the territories did, and tape like a month of TV shows at regular shows. But by doing that, what incentive does the average fan have to spend the $$$ on DVDs when he can see everything on TV?

So the WON is reporting that ROH is starting to scale back on the spending. Puder is already done with them for now, they'll be cutting down on the amount of wrestlers they fly in, and the amount of guys they're booking. I'm honestly not surprised at all, between the trips to England, Japan, and the two shows on the West Coast, there's no way they could have hoped to break even. Nto to mention that while the PPV venture was low risk, it was also very low reward. Especially given ROH's tendency to completely rely on word of mouth.

OK, what exactly is Dave's criteria for a rookie? Unless Eric Stevens is different from Erick Stevens in ROH, FIP, etc. Then the 2007 Rookie of the year has been wrestling since 2004.

Shelton won underrated, and Sapolsky won best booker. Who are you going to hurt, Bix?

Funny, I was just watching the WWE World Class DVD, and when this subject comes up, pretty much everyone interviewed (except Kevin) talk about this as a big sign of the promotion's downfall, and lay the blame on Ken Mantell. Kevin claims that it wasn't supposed to be a heart attack angle, but that the fans came up with that themselves and it just started spreading.

I got the three-disc Best of RAW 15th Anniversary DVD set for my birthday along with the World Class DVD. The match lists for the RAW set look great. But does anyone know if the matches/angles are shown in full? I'm swimming in DVDs at the moment, and with work, wedding stuff, and all the family stuff over the holidays, who knows when I'll get to sit down with them.

Someone, I'm thinking Bix, said it best: One thing a lot of people online don't get is that you can criticise something, a lot, and still like it.

I sort of get what RE is trying to say, although Loss, tomk, and FH all have good counterpoints. You certainly can't limit *all* pro wrestling to being an exhibition form of MMA, but stuff like UWFi could certainly fit that bill.

'You don't need music to wrestle. You need balls, big ones!' - From the movie Bodyslam

I sort of see how Vince could think he was backed into a corner. If Bret is still on WWF TV with the title, especially at a taped show, and Bischoff goes on a live Nitro and announces that WCW has signed Hart, the WWF is basically screwed.

SSS has partial results for the time frame you're looking for.

I just picked this up the other day, and finished it off in two days. It's not bad, but it reminds me of a cross between Flair's and Rock's books. It's really condensed and abridged like Flair's, and like Rock's he doesn't really have a whole lot to say because he's not had much of a career. He's got some good stories, but he more or less just rushed through his childhood and pre-wrestling days. The line about him having a 3-way while his wife couldn't vaccum may have been removed, I don't recall seeing it in the book, and I was especially looking for it when he mentioned her cancer, and his various cheating exploits. The 'fight' with Booker T was totally dodged, he just made a mention of him not showing him respect and that Booker had earned his respect and that was that. Funilly enough, he also mentions that it was his dream to have a Hell In A Cell match with UT.

Flair, Arn, Tully, Ole, and J.J?

Well TNA runs in the south, and ROH runs in the northeast, are you saying TNA > ROH in those departments?

Better in what sense? Matches? Angles? Promos? MOVEZ~!?

No love for Gorilla? 'Give me a break!' Actually I agree for the most part. Lust the other night I was watching an old Coliseum tape with a match between Jake Roberts and Scotty McGhee and somehow Monsoon and Ladd got talking about Migeul Perez and how his son started wrestling, and I sat there asking myself how they got onto that topic and what the point of it was.