MikeCampbell

I just remember Michael Cole on commentary saying that Big Johnny looked much better on those videos that he'd watched, and my buddies and I totally cracking up!

I never connected the dots before, but, yes, this does seem to be the start of the heel turn. The fallout from this was Jake getting a new snake, Damien's brother Luficer. And, when he turned on Warrior, he told him to open the coffin and find Lucifer waiting for him.

I only bothered watching this show for the Sugiura/Takaiwa title change, and found this hidden gem. It's based around Marufuji working over Shiosaki's arm, and being just as crafty as he was with Misawa's knee from the 12/10 GHC match. But, this time it actually matters! Shiosaki sells it the whole match, and when he tries to start a comeback, he'll throw chops and elbows with the other arm, and even remember to sell it when he's in control. There's a really nice part where Shiosaki wears Marufuji down with a sleeper, stuns him with an Oklahoma roll, and then tries a German suplex, but loses the bridge because of his arm. The finish is odd, but goes back to NOAH not really getting submission finishes over, Marufuji gets a juji-gatame out of a Tiger driver, and Shiosaki lingers for a little too long, and grabs at the ref, and the ref winds up calling it. With how much he'd been worked over, Shiosaki really should have maybe held out for about ten seconds and tapped out.

Wow, that's a real class act by Jericho.

I understand that Misawa didn't want to have to be the champion, but basically was forced to take the title here. And, it showed with how little he seemed to care about this match.

Objectivity, to me, means being able to watch, analyze, criticize, etc. with an open mind. I don't care for Yoshinobu Kanemaru in the least. But, if I'm watching one of his matches, I don't automatically think that it'll be a bad match, or he'll be the reason that it's a bad match.

I second Soup's motion for Hashimoto/Iizuka vs. Ogawa/Murakami from 1/4/00.

They really need to do what WCW attempted to do in 2000. Take a hiatus, and then do a complete relaunch, and hopefully re-brand things. Memphis Mark already pretty much summed up some of the steps they need to take, like *NOT* looking like WWE lite, and focusing more on the in-ring product.

It's like Fuji Vice, only better!

Kitao got his comeuppance for this bullshit when Takada double crossed and KO'd in him the next year in UWFI.

Well Loss, I know you said it's not really you or Will's bag, but heavier moderation is what it sounds like you need. You guys are good about trying to keep things in order here, but, there's only so many times that you or Will can run in on thread and tell someone to knock it off, or to attack the argument and not the poster. I don't know what more you guys could really do, aside from maybe institute some sort of warning system, where a member gets 3 warnings for being out of line, and that leads to their account being suspended and then banned if they keep things up.

As a young mark in the late 1990's, my buddies and I were always convinced that Norton was the toughest dude in the world. I'm with NJT as far as loving that whole angle with The Cat. it starts with Miller just talking his usual smack, and Nash decides to tell Norton that Miller called him out, so Norton kicked his ass. The next week, he really did call him out, and Norton kicked his ass again. By the third week, Miller came prepared and KO'd him with a pipe.

Mid South had the SuperDome.

I'm finally watching the Raw Bowl, since I've been one of the more vocal whiners about it being omitted. I've always said it wasn't something I really even cared to see, but, that it's omission was bothering my OCD nature. I have to say, this Bowl game gimmick is really awful, and Vince and Lawler's commentary is horrendous! Eric Bischoff summed it up best the same night on Nitro. It's the Toilet Bowl!

No, the Kid Rock episode is up, and that random one from 2012 also got put up. So, RAW is complete, save for #141.

I can't imagine what the issues could be. They managed to skate around the whole Kid Rock deal with Raw #366, even while showing Joe C. in backstage vignettes and running in during the tag titles match. So, I imagine that, they're just trolling the OCD types, by purposely holding that one episode out.

DDP laying down for Undertaker's wife, Sara?

Scott Dawson sending out a tweet taking a shot at the tag match on Smackdown, and then having to take it down and apologize for it, is everything that's wrong with the business!

I was in a store with my Dad once, and saw a bunch of non-wrestlers, like Mean Gene and Jimmy Hart, and freaked out when I saw Freddie Blassie. I begged for him, to go with my Sheik and Volkoff, but couldn't get him for some reason. A few days later, we went back to get it, but it was gone, and I never saw it again. Bix's Ted Arcidi is a good pic, along with Ken Patera. I was always partial to Paul Orndorff since his positioning made it look like he was ready to give someone a pile driver.

It's an entertaining interview, because it's Cornette and Funk. And, now I'm forever going to associate Billy Bob Thornton as "The Dog Whacker" - but you really don't learn a whole lot about the actual promotion. They just get into some of the names and the towns they ran.

It's even better when he talks about giving Heyman the book, but requiring that he has to give his approval of everything. "Paul E. would have burned down the building during the first year!"

Apparently Heyman and Crockett were planning on doing something, but, Tod wasn't involved and didn't want to be. Eddie got paranoid and quit, and then came his senses a few days later. Tod also says that Heyman didn't get the book right away. Tod went back to booking, and Heyman was helping him out, and then later on, he decided to let Paul do it, but, everything had to be approved by Tod.

I think part of the problem with the Austin heel turn was that the first full fledged program for the new Austin/HHH alliance was with Undertaker and Kane. They just took an already stale program and flipped it so that it would seem fresh again, it failed miserably and the matches were awful. There was really no reason that they couldn't have kept on going with them against the Hardys, even if only for a month. Based on the heat Austin got for going apeshit with the chair on Lita, and Jeff's IC Title win over HHH, there seemed to be genuine interest in it.

I wonder if it's just a coincidence that the one Raw from 1/09 that they didn't upload was the one from Chicago with the Regal/Punk IC Title change?

Well you'd have to actually watch the footage to know that and I think it's pretty safe to say he's probably not watched anything outside of the Superclashes. Plus you don't really expect Scott Keith of all people to give any kind of credit to Jerry Blackwell do you? He's fat and fat wrestler = terrible without exception to Scott Keith. He once claimed that he used to watch a lot of AWA.