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IMO Backlund was a bigger "star" than Dory because Bob was the main guy in the biggest markets for 6 years. That's a long run of working on top in New York City, Philly, Boston, DC, & Baltimore and I'm sure if you ask most guys that watched wrestling currently between 35-50 if they knew the names of Backlund or Dory...they would know Backlund. Sure Dory was NWA champ for 4 years and went everywhere but I don't know if his penetration was as strong as Bob.

That pic is AMAZING

Here is Yohe's criteria and basis for this project

Here is my ballot 1. Lou Thesz 2. Jim Londos 3. Hulk Hogan 4. El Santo 5. Ric Flair 6. Strangler Lewis 7. Gorgeous George 8. Rikidozan 9. Bruno Sammartino 10. Andre the Giant 11. Frank Gotch 12. Antonio Inoki 13. Joe Stecher 14. Blue Demon 15. Buddy Rogers 16. Giant Baba 17. Mil Mascaras 18. Earl Caddock 19. Mitsuharu Misawa 20. Ray Mendoza 21. Verne Gagne 22. George Hackenschmidt 23. Riki Choshu 24. Dusty Rhodes 25. Randy Savage 26. Terry Funk 27. Steve Austin 28. Kenta Kobashi 29. Perro Aguayo 30. Karl Gotch 31. Tatsumi Fujinami 32. The Rock 33. Gori Guerrero 34. Roddy Piper 35. Nick Bockwinkel 36. Farmer Burns 37. Akira Maeda 38. Pat O'Connor 39. Harley Race 40. John Cena 41. John Pesek 42. Gus Sonnenberg 43. Stan Hansen 44. Wild Bill Longson 45. Genichiro Tenryu 46. Jack Brisco 47. El Solitario 48. Gene Kiniski 49. Shinya Hashimoto 50. Don Leo Jonathan 51. Bob Backlund 52. Orville Brown 53. Stanislaus Zbyszko 54. The Sheik 55. Whipper Billy Watson 56. Edouard Carpentier 57. Rene Guajardo 58. Ed Don George 59. Dick the Bruiser 60. Antonino Rocca 61. Keiji Muto 62. Dick Hutton 63. Cavernario Galindo 64. Ricky Steamboat 65. Jerry Lawler 66. Dory Funk Jr. 67. Dick Shikat 68. Canek 69. Freddie Blassie 70. Danno O'Mahoney 71. Danny Hodge 72. Dick Beyer 73. Villano III 74. Sandor Szabo 75. Dos Caras 76. The Undertaker 77. Hijo del Santo 78. Bruiser Brody 79. Toshiaki Kawada 80. Ray Stevens 81. Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama) 82. Bret Hart 83. Superstar Billy Graham 84. Big Van Vader 85. Pedro Morales 86. Wahoo McDaniel 87. Johnny Valentine 88. Pat Patterson 89. Abdullah the Butcher 90. Mick McManus 91. El Satanico 92. Bill Watts 93. Ted DiBiase 94. Eddie Guerrero 95. Henri DeGlane 96. Rey Misterio Jr. 97. Shawn Michaels 98. Big Daddy 99. Bobo Brazil 100. HHH

That ICW stuff though was mainly after him & Roop left. Yeah there is some available but most is from 1982.

Regarding Orton.....a lot of people will tell you his stuff from the 70's was his peak. His team with Slater in GCW in 74-75 when they were just young pups is regarded as one of the greatest teams of their era. Plus another issue with Orton is he spent two peak years working for ICW where not a whole lot of that exists on tape.

Mike Johnson is hinting around that there might be a WWE Network launch press conference in Vegas next month. There is a New Media Expo taking place on January 4th so that could be it.

Amazing

Netflix has never run live events either so that would be new

Flair never went back either did he

Holy shit Big E & Mark Henry as a tag team is glorious

WWC detailed results are extremely hard to find especially post 1982

I believe though that the titles probably won't even be on the line but the title of "Face of WWE"

Unification tease is interesting

BIG JOHNNY!

RICK ROSS!!!!!!!!

I think Axel is done now but sadly I think Big E may get Miz next

Goldust was fucking awesome here and Roman Reigns just got made

Dutch twerking was worth the price

If you buy the PPVs I would think its a no brainer

Another thing to take into consideration is that if some cable companies or the dishes don't carry the network then would Mania still be PPV available for them. Showtime does that for their boxing matches

Dog was a true legend and won't be forgotten RIP

I still think it launches Mania night for the post show bonanza

Daga has talent but they have done him no favors in his push. Daga is still very young and green so he has a lot to learn but they pushed him too high for his level of experience. Daga is one of these guys that watched US indies of the last few years and ripped off the style and sadly there are a lot of the younger luchadores going that way. Fenix is very good and has really impressed people with his NOAH work so he is on the rise. AAA as a promotion is hit and miss as they have some really good young talent but some crappy booking and the main events are mostly stale. Hijo del Texano is pretty damn good I agree.

Flair's whole persona was new and fresh at that time as only a handful of wrestlers were like him and plus you bring him into some of the territories that were "old school" in their presentation he stuck out like a sour thumb. Regarding Flair and Race......Race was more methodical in how he worked but the big difference to me was that Flair had a pet hold that the match was built around in the figure-four while Race would use the diving headbutt and piledriver as his pet holds which weren't treated like Flair's figure-four was. Flair also was cool and cocky in the ring while Race had this tough guy persona until he started taking punishment then he was over the top in his bumping and selling at times.