Grimmas

That isn't what killed me. I was behind before the expansion.

I, Jack Tunney, tried to throw myself into my work after the death of my brother Frank the greatest promoter of all-time. Maple Leaf Wrestling was a wonderful promotion and it was about to show the whole world that at the second grandest stage there is in MSG. However, life is hard for Jack Tunney. My other job, my wife and other projects are taking up a lot of my time and I feel I can not go on. A lot of my favourite working partners have retired as well, from Don Owen, Vince McMahon Sr. to my good Georgia friend. The fun seems to be sucked out of promoting. Since the IWF is closing shop, let me lay down the plans that were in works. The best wrestler in the world Rick Martel was injured by Greg Valentine and was gone to Puerto Rico for two months to recover. During that time, Martel's partner and good friend Tony Garea was to stand up to Valentine to defend his injured and probably retired friend. That would lead to a hair match in November where Valentine would shave Garea's head bald. Also during that Grey Cup weekend November show Choshu would lose his title to Rocky Johnson who would carry the banner for a long while. That time frame would see the return of Martel to start the epic Valentine-Martel feud that would go on to Canada Day (July 1, 1984) where Martel would end this bloody feud by shaving Valentine bald. Martel would transition back to the Title, while Valentine would be traded off to another promotion for another heel or move into secondary title or tag titles. Epic times were ahead, but now the times have changed. Either someone can take over the great IWF and continue along those lines or MSG, Spectrum, Boston Garden, Maple Leaf Gardens and this hugely great talent pool can be split up. I hope to see great shows in Maple Leaf Gardens soon with whatever happens, but Jack Tunney is no longer able to continue.

That's a noble goal, but it's almost impossible. It's like setting yourself up for failure. What what you can, everybody will have gaps.

Oh man, I prefer Kawada to Misawa and Jumbo to Tenryu. So yeah, like a blind pepsi challenge it really depends on the type.

Awesome. It can't be worse than my list.

If Mistico can regain some of his former drawing magic imagine doing an anniversary show between Mistico-Atlantis for the mask?

If I got all the CHVs I would be super happy. If you start throwing in arena shows from WWF and everywhere else I would be the happiest. I can't imagine that is too hard.

We talked about this on the Andre snapshot on the Pro-Wrestling Super Show about a year ago. Such a fun and ridiculous clip. Andre in King Fu, that is so awesome.

I'm so busy and writing the TV shows is taking up too much time to do well. If somebody wants to come in and help me out that would be awesome.

I've seen a few posts where people don't feel qualified to submit a ballot. They haven't seen this style or that era and feel like they would be doing the process an injustice. To those people, if you have been engaged in this process at all, if you are watching footage, then please put in a ballot As we have seen from the WON HOF threads, that even people who are supposed to be experts are putting out lists that get questioned. If you don't have lucha, puro, shoot style, whatever it's all good. Someone else will not have your favourites on their list too. This list is not supposed to be definitive. It is not supposed to be an all-time list that we look back at forever as The List. It's just a snapshot to follow up the snapshot done in 2006. How have things changed in the last ten years? Well, we can see. Then in 2026 this should be redone and we can all think about updating our lists. All I am saying is, if you are interested at all, please put together a top 100 list (and maybe a top 25 tag team list) and send it in by WrestleMania 2016. We still have about 6 months. If you don't like a style, then ignore that style. If you love a certain style, then favour that style. It's all about the journey and the discussion and it's in no way a quiz on you as a wrestling fan.

Steal any segment/match or whatever from anything that is televised on IWF. From TV or Maple Leaf Gardens, Spectrum or MSG shows.

I loved when Bayley hugged Sasha in the middle of the match and then Sasha used it to her advantage. Awesome spot.

What was great about Sasha being such a hated heel to Izzy was that she lost in the end.

I think they can have all of that and it being really great, but don't over do it on the kayfabe breaking stuff. They explained it away well with Sasha, but every match can not be that.

I got to say that main event was great. Sure it was the third best Sasha title match this year, but those matches are so high end you can not expect that level every time out. I liked the early portion of both going for different things, until they figured out a strategy that worked. It was a 30 minute match so they were trying for the quick falls. Once Bayley started getting thrown into the steps this thing got pretty heated in a great way. Loved the countout finish. One real flaw to me was the tapout with 2 seconds left when the crowd was counting down. Sasha should had held on for a tie. I'd still give it **** 1/4 which blows away just about any WWE special main event this year.

I'm done.

Thanks Brad. It's a real fun atmosphere doing those. This is not a serious take on ECW like Where the Big Boys Play is on WCW.

Really I think Corey Graves is the best colour man they have had since Bobby Heenan.

The 15/50 rule is insanely stupid when people are added on the ballot so early in their careers.

I love that Charles has Bret-Austin from Survivor Series at 5 stars. I still think it's easily the best WWF match of the 90s.

International Wrestling Federation October 7, 1983 at Agricultural Hall in Allentown, Pennsylvania TV Taping for Maple Leaf Wrestling and Wrestling Challenge 1. Leo Burke pinned The Nightmare at 7:32 in a semi-final round match in the IWF Canadian Title Tournament. 2. George "The Animal" Steele made Angelo Mosca Jr. submit at 2:25 with the elevated hammerlock. 3. Wahoo McDaniel pinned Alexis Smirnoff at 6:31. 4. "The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff (w/ Don Carson) pinned Stephen Petipas at 9:31 in a semi-final match in the IWF Canadian Title Tournament. 5. Tiger Conway Jr. pinned Pete Doherty at 4:41. 6. Pedro Morales defeated Bobby Bass at 5:30 via disqualification when Chicky Starr and Cuban Assassin ran in. 7. Greg "The Hammer" Valentine (w/ Don Carson) defeated Dick Muroch at 14:02 via countout in a first round match in the IWF United States Title Tournament. 8. Rocky Johnson & Dick Murdoch defeated Harley Race & Evil Machine when Rocky pinned Machine at 16:30. Also on the show the guest of The Body Shop was NWA World Champion Harley Race.

They need to fix this shit. Colon is a no brainer. Villano III is more deserving than almost anyone. I don't understand why a system exists where tenkoji is even on the ballot and others who should be in are being removed.

Its bizarre icw may stay afloat while the wwf died

First week is posted. Curious how people feel the two TV shows system with one taping works.

International Wrestling Federation October 4, 1983 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan Debut at Cobo Hall 1. Bobby & Rudy Kay defeated Ivan Koloff & Alexis Smirnoff (w/ Don Carson) at 10:00. 2. George "The Animal" Steele made Nick DeCarlo submit at 4:09 to the elevated hammerlock. 3. Rocky Johnson pinned The Nightmare at 9:04. 4. Wahoo McDaniel and Greg Valentine (w/ Don Carson) fought to a double countout at 14:20. 5. Dick Murdoch pinned Evil Machine (w/ Jesse Ventura) at 13:41. 6. Bob Backlund defeated Killer Khan via DQ at 12:02 to advance in the IWF United States Title Tournament. 7. IWF Riki Choshu (w/ Jesse Ventura) pinned Tony Garea at 14:03 with a lariat. 8. Pedro Morales & Leo Burke defeated The Sheik & Cuban Assassin (w/ Bobby Bass) at 13:03 when Burke pinned the Cuban Assassin with a leg lariat in a wild brawl.