Hollinger.

For sure. Though it would be tougher to book as sustained run because one of his best weapons was that he was extraordinarily good at building heat by playing chickenshit and hiding behind his partners and delaying the payoff. He certainly could work around it, but I don't know that he was as dynamic as a guy like Flair who used it more sparingly.

Even being in a lot of indie locker rooms now, I can tell you that there are a lot of guys who won't work with people who are fucked up. And considering the guys that ECW was starting to bring in at the very tail end, Reck and Quack were in that same circle. While it may not be the full story, I can definitely see them hesitating in part because of the locker room culture.

Yeah, it had been mentioned before, but 17 was the first one where they started to really push the idea. And it was several years later before it became the selling point for him.

I've been wondering the same thing. Whether it's to cover for the possibility, or if maybe that's been the direction since the start.

The Undertaker could come to the ring, murder Daniel Bryan, eat his unborn child from inside Brie, and the crowd would be like "Well, yeah, he probably deserved it..."

I can think of three visa situations they're probably waiting to get resolved. I'd say at least Steen for certain. Kind of the perfect way to introduce a dude like him. Doesn't really look like a wrestler, but busts his ass and has charisma out the ass.

Bryce Remsburg is also a guy that fits that mold, albeit on a much smaller stage. I also think Pee Wee Anderson doesn't get as much credit as he should, because his career pretty much ran parallel to Hildebrand. I think he's pretty much the bridge between Young & Hildebrand as far as great referees go.

On the Roku their are still problems with the houseshows , but they did add headers for 90, and 88. So we are still missing 87,85,and 78. Oh nice, I hadn't seen those on Apple TV yet. I'll have to check tonight. Better than nothing, I suppose.

Any Apple TV users able to see if the Clash menu has been added? There are still problems with the house show listings, unfortunately.

This is a man with ideas.

Exactly. I almost never watch MMA live anymore. I just want to be able to look at a card and be told which fights were worth watching, so I know what to fast forward through. I don't want to read three paragraphs about everything that happened in the fight, because I still want to watch the good fights without knowing how it went down.

In that way, I don't know that stars would be the way to go, but at the least something like Skip It, Watch The Finish/This Round, Watch The Whole Fight... I don't know. Something to think about.

I mean.. it wouldn't necessarily correlate to the star ratings people use for wrestling, in that a 10 second KO wouldn't necessarily correlate to a squash match. You'd be rating the value in watching it after the fact vs rating the work.

In a sport where there are still a lot of people who don't watch live, there is value in rating the watchability of a fight.

Both of those were short lived. Bloom worked full time as Albert for 6 years and was never particularly over during any of it.

Until someone else acknowledges it.

There is a small place for midgets in pro-wrestling.

There is a small place for midgets in pro-wrestling.

I don't see it as much of a gamble for ROH. Sinclair has the equipment already, so there's not huge overhead typically associated with attempting to broadcast live. They know there is an out of market audience with the desire to watch their product live and pay for it... it feels low risk to me. I dunno. I don't pay much attention to ROH, but it feels like a way to take advantage of the Sinclair connection and potentially make some money. There's a lot of dumb shit available to watch on PPV, it's not like going there means they expect gigantic buys.

PWG has been the hot indie shit for a long time now, and it is basically ignored here.

Gross.

I don't think it's a GOOD sign, but I don't see it as a BAD sign. We're far from representative of a national audience.

I disagree with this boards tastes being any indicator. Most of the board doesn't seem to have much interest in the big name indie companies, but interest still exists pretty much anywhere else you look online. The particular tastes of PWO don't tend to fall in line with the "average internet wrestling fan", whatever that might be these days.