MikeCampbell

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.

I see what you're saying, but I have to disagree. Yes, Steph took the majority of the match, but, the heel is supposed to do that. Steph vs. Brie isn't exactly Ronnie Garvin vs. Jim Cornette in terms of a mismatch. And, Steph's win was due to Nikki turning heel on her sister, which should have theoretically transferred the heat from Brie/Steph to Brie/Nikki. But, it never really went anywhere, and, the Bellas just sort of kissed and made up without any explanation.

One could argue that Bryan isn't exactly impartial when it comes to Miz, given their history together when Bryan was a rookie in the original NXT.

So, did they actually specify what the names of the new Tag Team and Women's Titles are? It seems stupid to call them the "Smackdown Tag Team Titles" since part of the excitement of the draft is that titles can potentially switch brands.

With Jose losing, and Aries already being moved into a new program, and the bloom already looking like it's off the rose as far as Almas goes, I'm wondering if either of them is going to be around much longer.

Well, the tons of main events part is right... I'm intrigued by the team bullshitting, but oddly enough, they both did work MSG early in their careers. Vince Sr. brought in guys from all over the place in the WWWF days, especially young guys for one-shots. Flair's one and only MSG match before his WWF run is on his first DVD set. It's from just after the plane crash comeback. (This is obviously me regurgitating from Cawthon's exhaustive MSG history.) I believe that Flair actually wrestled the pride of Columbus, OH, Frankie Williams!

He hasn't struck me as a "heel" commentator in a long time. A few years ago, he did that angle where he tried standing up for Lawler against the Wyatt Family.

I'm wanting more episodes of World Championship Wrestling from 88-89.

It always seemed odd to me that he always yaps on and on about Miz and his "A-List" gimmick, considering he used to outright BURY him in 2006. And then, when Miz won the title in 2010, he actually specifically mentioned JBL (who wasn't even in the company at that time) as someone who held him back.

This is easily my favorite UWF match, and probably Yamazaki's best one. Their mat exchanges are great, and Fujiwara has no problem going 50/50 on the mat, and selling big to make it seems like Yamazaki would be able to knock him off. The finish is Fujiwara blocking a German suplex, and countering into the Fujiwara armbar, which is a hell of a lot better than what others had been doing, which was taking the suplex and then going to the hold.

I gave it a whirl, because I like Brian, but you said it. I'll probably check out the next couple of ones for the same reason, just to see if it gets any better.

They can more or less skate under the radar on that subject. Benoit had been drafted to ECW by this time, so it's not like there's going to be much talk about him on any upcoming Raw episodes. The actual event was cancelled that night, so they can get away with skipping it in the 2007 uploads and not considering it part of the official Raw series. They've somewhat done it before, by not counting those special Raw episodes that aired on Saturdays in 1998 and 99.