Eduardo

Last two days, the quality of the stream on my PS3 has been bothering me. It's mostly in HD, but every few minutes, the quality lowers significantly for like 30 seconds, before going back to HD. This happening to anyone?

Anyone recently gone back and re-watch some of the JBL-Cole stuff from SD In 2006-2007? At the time, I remember that being one of the better periods of commentating for either RAW or SD. JBL was going all out in putting over Finlay, Regal, Jamie Noble, Kid Kash, Kendrick & London, etc.

I had no idea he was involved in NJPW until I heard Meltzer saying this. After hearing that from Meltzer, and seeing you also confirm this, I am really curious now. I grew up watching Tharpe's IWF promotion. He was the promoter, TV host, and play by play man. The commercials to his program were usually his own attorney at law ads. At one point, he was involved in the main event storyline, which was a bloody tag team feud. In a memorable angle, he dabbled in brujeria (witchcraft, which is a big deal here culturally) to try to get an advantage in the feud. Happy to hear he's doing good. He's great. A real ham and a student of all the great managers it seems: Oh man, that's awesome.

AMC premiered this show recently. They don't shy away from "low-brow" stuff.

I had no idea he was involved in NJPW until I heard Meltzer saying this. After hearing that from Meltzer, and seeing you also confirm this, I am really curious now. I grew up watching Tharpe's IWF promotion. He was the promoter, TV host, and play by play man. The commercials to his program were usually his own attorney at law ads. At one point, he was involved in the main event storyline, which was a bloody tag team feud. In a memorable angle, he dabbled in brujeria (witchcraft, which is a big deal here culturally) to try to get an advantage in the feud. Happy to hear he's doing good.

A few weeks ago, in the middle of talking about NJPW, Meltzer blurted out that R. Bruce Tharpe is awesome. I don't watch NJPW, what led to Meltzer saying this?

Meltzer was asked this question on Wrestling Observer Radio last week. He said, "Yesterday, Punk. History, Mysterio." Overall, I have to imagine Mysterio has to be up there as one of the top merchandise sellers in company history. Also, wasn't Mysterio one of the top two or three workers that led to a boom in Italy a few years back?

Bix is doing an awesome takedown of the recent Grantland article on his twitter right now. Y'all should check it out.

Apparently, a young Bryan Alvarez was there on his own too.

"Main Event" stream was working perfectly for me on the PS3. But sorry to hear that X-Box users are still having issues.

One of the Tweets they showed during "Main Event" was a person saying they were watching from UK. They also have commercial breaks during the program.

I was watching WWF One Night Only, and the great Undertaker vs Bret Hart match is missing. Apparently, the match was cut from the VHS release, but included in the DVD release. Also, before Davey Boy Smith vs Shawn Michaels starts, there is a sign that gets a decent amount of screentime that contains a certain gay slur that starts with the "F" letter.

I may be wrong but from what I remember of that week, the actual footage of the leg break didn't air on the PPV, it aired on the night after, on WCW Monday Nitro.

In general, we, collectively, were more glad for you for all the really good matches you had ahead of you to watch. Same here, really glad Loss is getting around to some of the better WWE matches of the last few years. Loss, don't know if you remember reading or know, but the slapping spot in Cena/Bryan was based on the go-home segment on RAW. If you haven't seen it, look it up. I loved that moment in that match.

I never publicly said this, but while I had watching wrestling before and had video games of it, the match that hooked me as a weekly professional wrestling watcher was Bret Hart vs Issac Yankem in a cage match (with Jerry Lawler hanging in a shark cage above the ring!). I tend not to talk about it in length, but sometimes it'll naturally come up and I like to listen to people if they have some stories about it. I write a weekly regional music column for a local newspaper, and my editor wanted some cute byline, so my love of wrestling is alluded to there. So I've had random newspaper readers email me about wrestling, some asking questions about Southwest Championship Wrestling. I used to be embarrassed talking about it, and seldom mentioned my enthusiasm for it, but I've gotten older and most people are cool, so I'm pretty open about it now. I casually brought wrestling up to a local community theater director recently at a breakfast, and he started telling me how much he loved going to see Jose Lothario, El Santo and Mil Mascaras matches in South Texas in the 1970's. Like him, some people have cool stories to share, and bring up old names that I hadn't thought much of. It made me a bit curious about wanting to learn more about Lothario. In this region, wrestling seems pretty acceptable. WWE house shows here have been legitimately selling out for the past ten years, according to Meltzer. Lucha Libre is also pretty popular here. I have a friend who's from Mexico City. He usually works a lot with the local artists and he was surprised at how much the local art scene is interested in lucha libre aesthetics.

Is is the real version? There was a version a while back from either a DVD or 24/7 that had Jerry Lawler doing voiceover for some reason I didn't notice who was doing voice over. It may have been Lawler. It's airing right now, it's not Lawler doing the voice on the version that is airing.

I just saw this earlier today on the network. Also, this is random but former DVDVR poster, and current UFC fighter Tom Lawlor did the Shockmaster bit as his UFC weigh-in entrance a couple of years ago.

I am having issues with my PS3. I can watch the network on my laptop, but a lot of videos won't work on the PS3, although the live channel and WrestleMania X-Seven did work right briefly.

Testing out different names in the search engine. Amused how you can find Pantera but not Perro Aguayo.

MSG Shows - 10/28/91, 10/22/84, 4/6/81, 6/27/77, and 3/17/75. This is the lone WCCW show that is on there: Kevin Von Erich takes on Wild Bill Irwin in the Main Event. The Fabulous Freebirds vs. Gran Marcus and the Destroyer. Great Kabuki and more. TV-PG First nine episodes of RAW are on the network. Also, looks like the recent RAW replays (from January 2014) are the complete episodes as opposed to the edited Hulu editions.

Just signed in. Glad to see that the old PPV's are in their original aspect ratio. Funk still has the great Ennio Morricone music here.

In my home area, the local Spanish-language newspaper had a story about Santo's retirement. Sad news. I've seen Santo work about five or six times over the past decade. One of my favorite live memories was the first time I saw Santo, in a Tejano nightclub in my hometown. It was a tag match, and it was so much fun being up close, watching Santo and Pirata Morgan slap the hell out of each other. I agree with what Graham Crackers above me said, his trademark spots looked incredible in person. Beautiful, graceful stuff. He always gave the fans a great show. The last time I saw him was on June 2013, at a small norteño nightclub. It was a family atmosphere that day, with young kids all the way up to old grandparents. Everyone was having a blast seeing Santo do his thing. All his spots still looked great. Has anyone on this board done a podcast show dedicated to Santo's career? It would be nice to hear different people, share their thoughts on Santo.

When I was young, in the mid-90's, I pretty much accepted this, and just saw it as, "At least [insert wrestler I liked] is getting featured in two segments instead of just one." I always just thought that's how it is. Then I remembered being shocked when Austin-Benoit in Edmonton got 24 uninterrupted minutes on Smackdown. I had been so conditioned with commercials that it always stood out for me, and I wondered why we didn't get more matches like that, that were formatted without commercial breaks. I remember wishing I had DIRECTV and had "WCW Nitro Backstage Blast". Back in 1999, I was always curious of how Hart-Benoit was without commercial breaks, and I know there's some tape traders out there with it now, but I'm not really interested in watching Benoit stuff at the moment.

I agree that Tajiri had the best sustained run and was treated the best overall, but Hakushi did peak higher because he got to do a serious WWE Title program with Bret Hart, and was pushed harder than Tajiri was prior to that and up to that point. Then he sunk down the card and ended up in the lower mid card with Horowitz & Skip. Hart wasn't the champion when he had the In Your House and RAW matches with Hakushi.