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I think he was supposed to wind up in a program with Davey Boy, as the initial Davey Boy heel turn actually took place on an MSG house show a few days before the taped turn on Raw.

WWE really wants Mason Ryan to be Batista, don't they?

I wonder if Ross applying the ankle lock is part of a giant rib on Kurt Angle.

In case anybody doubts this, from a recent WO.com poll:

While Bryan's overall point isn't really wrong, I guess, he made the wrong comparison. Zack Ryder isn't Low Ki or Danielson or any of those guys, he's the poor man's Matt Hardy, though not nearly as over to the public at large as Hardy.

Episode 9: Episode 10: I was really satisfied with how both of these shows came off - episode 9, because I thought it was a pretty decent go-home show for our April 16th show, and episode 10, because I think the match and angle were strong and set up the Secret Society and the commissioner to have a good deal of heat moving forward.

I do think that around late '93, for whatever reason, Vince did lose faith in him. He was the lead play by play man for Wrestlemania IX and King of the Ring '93, but Vince handles the commentary for SummerSlam '93 onward, with Ross demoted to doing Radio WWF with Monsoon for the Survivor Series and Royal Rumble. Clearly, something happened in the summer of '93 to cause Vince to lose faith in Ross, be it a poor performance at KOTR or something else.

I don't know, but there's no way she left the business without crying.

Episode 7: Episode 8: I really liked episode 8, and thought it was one of the best episodes we've had so far, so of course it's the lowest viewed of the eight. Go figure.

Basically, yes. Russo's video store sponsored John Arezzi's radio show in the New York market. Arezzi developed a reputation for absolutely killing Vince during the steroid/sex scandals in '91-'92. So McMahon talked with Russo to get him to pull his sponsorship of Arezzi. Russo took control of the show, made it far more pro-WWF, and when it eventually failed, he landed with Vince editing WWF Magazine (which is hilarious if anybody ever saw Russo's writing, as he is not what anybody would call a good writer).

Does this mean that they're going to change Daniel Bryan's t-shirt so it says "Submission Entertainment"?

Warhead is actually the promoter. He's been around for a long time, I want to say at least 15 years and maybe longer than that, but until UWC started running monthly again last year, I don't think he was working much, as UWC was running two shows a year and I don't think he takes a lot of non-UWC bookings. I enjoy working with him, he's a nice guy and is pretty open to ideas, as long as we keep the shows PG (they are pretty adamant about not doing any weapons shots or major heat angles with injuries, as they try to cater towards kids, thus Silly Billy is one of our featured wrestlers). Will definitely watch your show this week sometime and offer thoughts.

Maybe it was because I threw a party and was drunk by the time the show started, but I enjoyed the show. Nothing stood out as being particularly bad except Lawler/Cole (and that should have been better, but they were given way too much time, they should have cut this match in half), and most of the matches ranged in the pretty good range. Nothing was particularly great either, but it still felt like a good show to me. My main complaint is, four hours is WAY too long for a wrestling show, or really anything at all. I wouldn't want to watch a four hour ANYTHING, be it a movie, sporting event, or wrestling show. I know they want to make sure that as many folks as possible share in the Wrestlemania payday without cutting time from the World title matches, the yearly Undertaker spectacle, and the long intros and what have you, and I get that they want to make Wrestlemania seem bigger than every other show. But four hours is just too long to be sitting in the same place.

I'd say it's also possible that they are "saving" the piledriver for Undertaker/HHH, since that one figures to see at least one tombstone piledriver, so it could be a matter of just protecting a main event finish. Besides, it's not really necessary for this particular match, and Lawler hasn't been associated with the piledriver in WWE in at least ten years, so I don't think it's a big deal at all.

Seriously? What kind of mutant typo is this where Cena is going to drink 30 Make a Wish kids? I can't even figure out what the verb Dave was looking for here - maybe bringing? C'mon Dave, get it together.

It's weird, because this is probably the one episode of Raw I didn't watch in its entirety in 1993. For whatever reason, I was out that day for some reason I've long since forgotten, and didn't come home until the very end, just as Jannetty won the IC title (which was obviously a shock to me, since I missed the opening angle). Of all the episodes of Raw to miss in 1993...

That is Shockwave the Robot. He's an outside guy we brought in for this show to help draw a crowd, figuring he would be a good fit for our family-friendly audience. He's been getting a little more indy exposure of late, and he will be a participant in this year's Super 8 (I believe the first Super 8 not promoted by Kettner).

I put together this music video from our show last night in Pemberton. I'm probably not going to air this stuff on "TV" until the summer (we stop running shows after June) so I thought I would use the footage now to put together a little promo video for what fans get to see at a UWC show. Check it out and let me know what you think - it's the first time I've ever put together a video like this, and I have to say I'm pretty satisfied with the end result.

How many former WWE workers are actually clean, though?

My point is more, fans aren't going to care if a building is set up for 18,000 people vs. 23,000 people. That's a distinction nobody cares about. I do think there is something to be said for a certain fan demographic wanting to buy the hot ticket, but even that is more predicated on a team winning more than anything else. Team winning drives increased attendance, which in turn drives up demand from casual fans as a ticket becomes "hot." But no fan is going to care about an arena's actual capacity. What benefit would it be to, say, the Dolans to claim that the number of seats available at Madison Square Garden for a Knicks game is 19,763, while the actual capacity is lower? There just seems to be no reason to do that to me.

Yeah, that's a good question - who are the NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB working with their fake arena/stadium capacities? Fans generally don't care how many people their favorite teams draw to games, unless attendance is particularly good (like a sellout streak) or particularly bad. Even in the "particularly good" column, how many fans know exactly how many seats their favorite team's stadium holds? I'm a Mets, Nets, Devils, and Cowboys fan, and I couldn't tell you the exact capacity for any of their home buildings, even a particularly gigantic stadium like Cowboys Stadium. There is no reason for the teams to work these numbers on the high end, as fans just don't care. If anything, I'd think it would be more likely for teams to work on the low end, for reasons cited here (skimming money for taxes).

I don't know that I agree with this. Jim Crockett/NWA was largely critically acclaimed from '84 to '89, with periods here and there where smart fans complained about the booking, but generally liked the in ring quality. Mid South/UWF was generally a fan favorite. World Class and Memphis had their fans for sure. They might have complained long and hard about WWF wrestling, but I'd say American wrestling was pretty universally liked until the business contracted, with the early 90's really being a period where smart fans did not like American wrestling much, with WWF being WWF and WCW having their litany of problems.

In the UWC, we have a wrestler named Legion, and I named his finisher "Legionnaire's Disease" pretty much for my own amusement.

I think when Taker beat Flair at X-8, they mentioned he was 10-0 at Wrestlemania and that's when it first started getting pushed on-screen.

Guana just started with Chikara as "Kobald," so I don't think he's coming back for a while.