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Tim mentioned that he would consider putting Honky on his bottom 100 and so I thought he was worth a nominee. He was an amazing seller and did great at commanding a crowd and making them hate him. The Blonde Bombers stuff was great.

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I really do see these as lazy criticisms. Go and watch that match from Starrcade 88 where the finish is Luger buckling under Flair's weight because his legs are so fucked up he can't stand. Watch closely everything from the transition to the home straight and see how laser-like Flair's focus is on the leg. Psychology is amazing. Now watch the Morton match I listed above where Morton comes in with the nose injury and count how many times Flair deviates from the core game of attacking the injured nose. It's just such a lazy misnomer of a criticism. But ALSO even if it was true, there's no great crime in switching from an arm to a leg and if there is I am going to harp on it till kingdom come in every Kawada, Misawa and Kobashi match we have left to watch and ask you to justify why they they switched limbs or from the back to the arm or whatever. The idea that you work one part and one part alone is just one way of telling the story. Even the Andersons would switch up limbs. I'm not saying this against you in particular Steven, but it's just really lazy criticism that doesn't bear up to any sort of scrutiny. "Ah but I'm talking about Flair in 2004!!" Well fuck Flair in 2004. What difference does it make? Anything great after 1991 is a bonus. And he has more of that than most people have in their actual cases. I just don't get it beyond "well Flair's the boring choice and I want to be different", which is what it boils down to. I'm not getting into it again beyond this post, said it too many times in too many places, but stuff you're coming out is some Scott Keith level stuff. It's not that it always sucks. It's not that Flair doesn't make it work in a lot of matches. It's not that it works a lot of times. We are talking the greatest ever here. When I am watching Ric Flair I often feel he is dumb and just doing things out there. I don't get that with the other 9 mentioned. Do the other 9 do dumb things? Of course. With those other 9 it feels like mistakes. Flair just feels dumb. The working limb was just an example of it. It might be a bias, it might be that I didn't grow up with Flair. It might be that he annoys me so much when he is out of character, but those bias I can not fight. Again, easy top 10, probably top 3 for me.

Everybody knows I'm not huge on Flair. Here is the deal. He's been in more great matches than anyone. He's greatly athletic, super charismatic, one of the greatest sellers and can make everything exciting. For those reasons he will be top 10 for me easily. What keeps him from the easy spot of number one is the fact I find him a dim wrestler. He would do some great arm work, then move on to leg work for no reason. He would always try to get his spots in, whether it made sense or not. This things were not an issue when he was super athlete at the prime of his game, but they became HUGE flaws when he got older. Overall two or if not all of these guys will be above him on my final poll: Stan Hansen, Terry Funk, Jerry Lawler, Jumbo Tsuruta, Toshiaki Kawada, Rey Mysterio Jr. Negro Casas, Bret Hart and Jushin Liger.

Also same thing (minus MSG/Winnipeg) for the rest of the Maple Leaf roster.

I'll state it again, but the NWA Canadian Champion is free to work between Tuesday-Saturday except for MSG shows in the WWF and Winnipeg shows in AWA. Contact Jack Tunney.

I'm trying to steal as many ideas as I can from hockey.

It went up because it went digital.If he went to the Torch website or had somebody create a wrestler observer site while putting up the newsletter digitally and adding podcasts he probably would had been better off. Yes. Totally, completely agree 100% and really thinking about it, your latter option (just getting someone to create the site and be his co-host producer) would've been the best bet. Bix missed his opportunity!

Holy shit a Buddy Landell-Al Snow New Rockers tag team would had ruled!

It went up because it went digital. If he went to the Torch website or had somebody create a wrestler observer site while putting up the newsletter digitally and adding podcasts he probably would had been better off.

I am so pumped to unleash my first card on you guys on Wednesday. Some cool surprises setting up future shows and lots of awesome wrestling! Who will be the NWA Canadian Champion find out Wednesday! Plus, I plan on making the Canada Cup a yearly affair ala the Championship Carnival/G1 Climax.

Let's be honest how much would people be paying for f4weeklonly without Metlzer?

I think the Psicosis-Rey matches are the best touring get new stars over matches in history.

Yeah no rush. Harley is keeping the title for a few months at least.

Sounds very reasonable! It really depends on who is winning it. If it's Martel in Toronto. Lawler in Memphis and Bockwinkel anywhere really.

He certainly ticks a lot of boxes. The belt is staying on Race for July right? Yeah. Race starts at champ and we work from there.

Toronto wasn't a real promotion so there is that. I tried to follow the spirit of my home town though.

If it's possible to have him and it's okay with everyone, I'll take him. He can then work July 4 onwards for Central States (dedhemingway did request him for July 4 around that time) until the election's sorted out. Sounds like a plan.

That's a pretty good suggestion. Right now I would go 1) Lawler 2) Bockwinkel 3) Martel

He looks so happy.

The suggestion to add one subforum for events, not one for each promotion. I think that is a good idea.

THE LETHAL LOTTERY!!!!! I love it. Although the Canada Cup was designed from the finals backwards.

Man.. Valentine got a hard draw there.

Monday when Raw starts as a deadline for undecided voters? Also to sway any voters that might change their mind.

That's true. Central States has full reign on Harley until matters are settled.