Tim Cooke

Is that the Guadalajara match?

The Lawler/Helms match is really good but there is no heat at all. I think the RnR vs heavenly Bodies from Survivor Series 93 had more heat

He wrestled a few times for UWF after Crockett purchased it. That's where the Murdoch match comes from.

Windham was a full time Crockett guy from January 87 - February 89. He never wrestled in Mid South.

That was his first stint. He def booked in 2000 as well but I don't have exact dates

Jimmy Hart booked WCWSN from 9/18 until 10/31 or 11/7

Awesome podcast. Sounded better and more professional than a lot of radio talk shows. Looking forward to hearing every yearbook year.

Sin, Superbrawl Revenge, and Greed are all solid to very good PPV's. TV in January is not great. They run the cruiserweight gauntlet on Thunder, which is a decent match, and Daniels vs. Modest is interesting to see in comparison to what WCW put out in 2000. February TV is much more interesting. The qualifying matches for the Superbrawl Revenge match are mostly good, with Helms vs. Kaz from Thunder and Kaz/Yang vs. Styles/Paris from Thunder being the standouts. There is also the potential WCW MOTYC when Booker T returns at the end of February for a six man tag. March TV has the cruiserweight tag title tournament. Week in week out, there will probably be as much garbage as there was with Russo. But as an 8 - 10 hour comp tape, it's really good and you couldn't get that much good stuff out of November 99 - December 2000 for an 8 hr tape

Every Choshu vs Hashimoto match is great but you want to sample the other heavyweights first to get an idea of how the matches are worked and then get to see the genius of Choshu v Hash. I'd suggest Muto v Vader from August 91, Muto vs Chono from Aug 91, and the 11/90 Muto/Chono vs Hase/Sasaki tag as the first three matches to search out.

He started a week before Bash at the Beach

My own experience was the 6/9/95 tag was excellent on its own. The 12/6/96 tag had great work but didn't match up as well as a potential #1 match of All Japan in the 90's. Watching the May, June, and July tags helped cement the main storyline. It definetly helped knowing that post December 1996 the Misawa/Kawada storyline became really fucked up (it was clearly already in trouble), so I think that added some value to 12/6 being a pinnacle storyline and in ring work wise.

I think 1996 MPro is a good gateway into Japanese wrestling. It's fast paced with tons of great spots and features one central storyline over the entire year, KDX v Sasuke and Co. You don't need to know anything background wise as the in ring and crowd reactions make everything clear.

Really it's just the last 3 months that are steadily good but there is a handful of good stuff from July to December as opposed to almost nothing redeeming at all from January to June

So true

Segment of the Year material and if Flair didn't return on September 14, 1998, this would probably be the greatest Four Horsemen/WCW moment ever. Arn's promo is simple, direct, and heartfelt.

Shocker - Scott had never seen Joe/Necro until today and thought it stunk.

Hadn't seen this before. Way better than it had any right to be. Nash as Sting wasn't presented well by the announcers nor for the live crowd but everything else was executed well. Good end to a good PPV.