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Really booking should be simple, just like story telling. Set up something people want to see, make them want it and then give it to them.

Ok, tried to do what Chad did. It's difficult, but here it is: 1. Stan Hansen 2. Terry Funk 3. Toshiaki Kawada 4. Jerry Lawler 5. Jushin Liger 6. Negro Casas 7. Jumbo Tsuruta 8. Ric Flair 9. Mitsuharu Misawa 10. Rey Mysterio Jr. 11. Daniel Bryan 12. Bret Hart 13. Kenta Kobashi 14. Bull Nakano 15. Greg Valentine 16. Eddie Guerrero 17. Dustin Rhdoes 18. Genichiro Tenryu 19. El Satanico 20. Randy Savage 21. Rick Martel 22. El Hijo del Santo 23. Nick Bockwinkel 24. Steven Regal 25. LA Park 26. Akira Taue 27. Vader 28. Ricky Steamboat 29. Aja Kong 30. Sgt. Slaughter 31. Arn Anderson 32. Fit Finlay 33. Brock Lesnar 34. Jaguar Yokota 35. Akira Hotkuo 36. Jun Akiyama 37. Tito Santana 38. Barry Windham 39. Shinya Hashimoto 40. Steve Austin 41. Ricky Morton 42. Tully Blanchard 43. CM Punk 44. Buddy Rose 45. El Dandy 46. Bill Dundee 47. Wahoo McDaniel 48. Riki Choshu 49. Andre the Giant 50. Villano III 51. Blue Panther 52. Lioness Asuka 53. Tatsumi Fujinami 54. John Cena 55. Rick Rude 56. Atsushi Ontia 57. Ted DiBiase 58. Larry Zbyszko 59. Sean Waltman 60. Bobby Eaton 61. Yoshihiro Tajiri 62. Too Cold Scorpio 63. Manami Toyota 64. Mick Foley 65. Masa Saito 66. Dynamite Kansai 67. Ron Garvin 68. Chigusa Nagayo 69. Chris Hero 70. Koji Kanemoto 71. Abdullah the Butcher 72. Terry Gordy 73. Masa Fuchi 74. Dick Murdoch 75. Christian 76. AJ Styles 77. Atlantis 78. Hulk Hogan 79. Curt Hennig 80. Mascarita Dorada 81. Lex Luger 82. Butch Reed 83. Kerry Von Erich 84. Masked Superstar 85. Jerry Blackwell 86. Billy Robinson 87. Mascarita Sagrada 88. Killer Khan 89. Psicosis 90. Carlos Colon 91. Owen Hart 92. Low Ki 93. The Rock 94. Koko Ware 95. Combat Toyoda 96. Dusty Rhodes 97. Super Porky 98. Don Muraco 99. Dutch Mantell 100. Sabu There will be lots of changes, but it's nice to have an initial list to work upon. There are a bunch of guys I need to watch more, so this list will be massively different in the end.

Stan Hansen is still my number one and he is a brawler. Favourite brawl ever is Andre-Hansen in NJPW.

MLW debuted the Premium Action show! It's basically a cross between Prime Time Wrestling and Best of the WWF. I wanted to use my taped show footage and since home video is not really a thing yet, here we go.

Maple Leaf Wrestling presents Premium Action August 25, 1983 The opening video package of Premium Action opens the show featuring clips of: Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Wahoo McDaniel, Stephen Petipas & Rocky Johnson, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, NWA Canadian Tag Team Champions Ivan Koloff & Super Russian, Leo Burke and ends with a clip of Rick Martel being awarded the NWA Canadian Title. We go to Billy Red Lyons and Jesse "The Body" Valentine are in a studio and welcome us to the debut episode of Premium Action. They run down the show in Maple Leaf Gardens on August 30th: Main Event for the NWA Canadian Title Champion Rick Martel vs Mr. Saito with Jesse Ventura NWA Canadian Tag Team Titles Match in a Steel Cage Champions Ivan Koloff and Super Russian with Don Carson vs Wahoo McDaniel and Buzz Tyler with Alexis Smirnoff Toronto Street Fight Rocky Johnson and "Big" Stephen Petipas vs Cuban Assassin and Chicky Starr with "No Class" Bobby Bass NWA Midget Title Champion Little Tokyo vs Tiger Jackson WWF Intercontinental Title Match Champion Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs Greg "The Hammer" Valentine Plus Andre the Giant and much much more! They proceed to talk about airing the finals of the Canada Cup later in the show, but after the break they will be back with Mr. Saito in action. Commercial #1 Lyons and Ventura throw it to the Halifax Forum to see the number one contender Mr. Saito in action. Ventura raves that Saito will take the title on August 30th. 1. Mr. Saito vs Ben Bassarab (from July 11 at Halifax Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia) Basarab was a fighting young lion, but gets beat be the Saito Suplex. Winner - Mr. Saito @ 12:16 Commercial #2 Lyons and Ventura are back in the studio and Ventura raves about Saito again. They then talk about the important of the Canada Cup. It will return in 1984 again, but the first one was on Canada Day on July 1st in Exhibition Stadium. The winner of the first Canada Cup won the NWA Canadian Title. They throw it to the action. We get the introductions of Sgt. Slaughter and Rick Martel. Commercial #3 Canada Cup Final (NWA Canadian Title Tournament) Sgt. Slaughter vs Rick Martel (July 1st in Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, Ontario) Martel enters the match with a badly injured leg and his head wrapped up from the earlier bleeding.This is your classic babyface vs heel match with the heel having a big advantage. Slaughter works the cut and rips off the bandages which gets the blood flowing again. He works a little on the leg, but mostly focuses on the neck to set up the Cobra Clutch. Martel takes every advantage he has to attack Slaughter's back. Late in the contest Slaughter hits the Slaughter Cannon, but Martel gets his leg on the ropes. Slaughter goes for the Cannon again, but Martel ducks and Slaughter bumps huge to the floor. This leads to Martel's comeback and him getting the win with the Boston Crab. Winner - Rick Martel @ 23:12 Rick Martel wins the Canada Cup and the NWA Canadian Title Commercial #4 Legendary former NWA World Champion Gene Kiniski and Maple Leaf Wrestling President Jack Tunny present Rick Martel with the Canada Cup and the NWA Canadian Title. Back to the studio and Lyons raves about Martel's performance that night. He was tested on Canada Day, but Ventura believes his biggest test is on August 30th against Mr. Saito.

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Maple Leaf Wrestling August 24, 1983 at Ice House in London, Ontario 1. Wahoo McDaniel, Rocky Johnson & Stephen Petipas def. Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Cuban Assassin & Chicky Starr w/ Don Carson & Bobby Bass @ 15:45 2. "Outlaw" Joel Deaton pinned Tiger Conway Jr @ 5:02 3. Ben Bassarab made Rick Patterson submit @ 5:32 4. NWA Canadian Tag Team Champions Ivan Koloff & Super Russian w/ Don Carson def. Joe & Bob Marcus @ 6:21 5. Buzz Tyler pinned Killer Karl Krupp @ 4:25 6. Leo Burke pinned Bobby Bass @ 7:21 7. Mr. Saito & Masked Samurai def. Dick Murdoch & Tony Garea when Saito pinned Garea @ 15:56 8. NWA Canadian Champion Rick Martel made Jesse "The Body" Ventura submit to the Boston Crab @ 14:02

Finally, Demolition!!

Stop calling them divas. Let them have good matches. Build around Sasha. Limit the sucky workers.

My original plan was far Bobby Bass, Phil Hickerson and someone else to form a Team Canada heel team to dominate (ala Rougeaus being pro Americans). That got morphed into my Cuban team when Hickerson was unavailable.

Taker vs Brock started to lose me before the stupid booking. The first part was cool, but they started into the kick out of finisher mode and it started to lose me. The stupid booking just took it over the edge.

I was hoping for more anger. I think I hated this show more than anybody in the world. Fuck SummerSlam.

Gang-Hogan!!! I'd pay tickets for that big time.

That was billed as the main event on TV and the most hyped thing. Different than NXT where both matches were treated as the main events. On SummerSlam if Cena-Rollins went on last it would had been strange. On NXT either could had went on last and nobody would had blinked.

If I was an upstart company then Cavenario would be my Sabu, easily.

If you don't want Bryan to be the main guy, then just put him in a blood feud. Not hard.

The moment WCW closed and there was no competition the Vince you knew was dead.

Part of why our argument got heated is Steven brought up that Becky vs Sasha match which is massive troll match aimed at me. So one I felt sucker punched which is why I went back to the argument later. I do feel you can compare any match , but you'd have more benefits comparing similar bouts. Like the Lothario/Gordman bout compared to a Lawler/Dundee bout from 98. Or maybe the Becky match to the Roddy Strong/Sabre jr match since both are worked around working a limb . I use star ratings for my own reference. Plus it gives a value that words truly can't. I stick with if you rate one match higher than another match, then you think it's a better match. Star ratings are essentially a ranking system, in my mind. Of course there is only so many stars, so some things will have to be put on the same level. Star ratings tell me nothing when comparing two matches, except which one you thought was better.

None, fucking push up the people you have and don't rely on half-retired guys. Where is the new new generation?

The problem isn't so much clean wins, as opposed to even Steven booking.

Shawn Spears, wrestled in my local promtion here and went to OVW in 2006. Has been in and out of WWE for years and even had an ECW run. Man Neo Spirit Pro was so great. You had Shawn Spears, Eric Young, Bobby Roode, Angelina Love, Cody Deaner, Tyson Dux. What a company. Even Lawler was there once.

If the US Title goes back to Cena seriously fuck this company.