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I am sure Bill Watts was furious at a spot early in the match when Pillman being in a headlock forgot to kick-out and the ref stopped the count anyway.

As I am more than halfway through the set: I just cannot get into the Lawler/Jarrett vs. Moondogs feud as being a feud of the year candidate. They had a great month and everything afterwards is really repetitive. You could watch the segments in a completely random order and you would hardly notice it. There is no advancement after the replacement of Fuller with Jarrett at all.

I really prefer this pacing to the AJW go-go-go style.

At least the finish of the mixed 6 men was entertaining. I had to rewind a couple of times to rewatch this thing because it was so awesome.

- I began rewatching old (i.e. 2004) ROH, I want to continue that (though that means having to learn to live with Mark Nulty doing commentary). - Watch the occasional WWE PPV. - Finish watching the 92 yearbook and watch the 93 yearbook.

That was the one that aired on Prime Time if I recall right both Jannetty & Virgil got involved near the end of the match I think. The Stars & Stripes forever special for more build towards Bossman/Perfect for the IC belt. Something tells me they could have come up with a better challenger who seemed like they had a chance as Bossman winning the title at mania didnt seem likely. Bret-Owen vs Steiners is my favorite Coliseum match. Perfect-Piper from Battle of the WWF Superstars is really good too. WrestleFest '94, home of said Harts/Steiners match, is a pretty solid watch front to back. Good Martel/Savage match, HBK/Razor in decent action. Invasion '92 has an exclusive of the good first Bret/Flair match from November 1991. And SuperTape 1 is probably easier to hunt down for the 1/90 Rockers/Powers match than the MSG show itself. I could probably come up with a bunch of these if I looked at the match listings. Wrestlefest 94 was a pretty decent tape. Loved that Kings Court exclusive where Lawler ran his mouth about Bret, had a clause that said he can say what he want but Bret cant touch him or Bret pays a ton of money then Bret says screw it and just does it anyway. Loved that segment. Pretty sure Taker & Crush battled on that one unless im thinking of hits from the crypt. Wasn't the very fun Jannetty & 1-2-3 Kid vs. Headshrinkers match (probably the only successful taped tag title defense of Jannetty/Kid) also on Wrestlefest 94?

Not that it has to do with anything but judging by the pre-entrance cross-gesture from Hase he seems to be a Christian.

Punk never seemed particularly athleticly gifted so this really seems to be a very dumb idea. But hey, if that is what he really wants good for him, I guess.

I saw Chris Hero do the Styles Clash 12 years (or so ago) live where the guy taking the thing probably did take it wrong as well (I can only assume, I have never seen footage after the fact) and broke his neck (and ending his career). The guy could at first not move his legs and the show had to be stopped.

I am not sure if it was the language barrier between Liger and Wellington or if Wellington tried to sandbag Liger here. Anyway he looked good in spots and horrible in others. According to Wikipedia "Wellington worked on 28 consecutive tours with New Japan Pro Westling" sp Wellington should have been familiar with Liger so the sandbagging seems to be the only explanation.

I would assume that he learned English in school like it is usual in most European countries. Current situation in Switzerland is that schools have to teach one foreign language for pupils of the age of 9-10 and a second one for pupils at the age of 11 and older. So I would assume for most schools in the German speaking regions of Switzerland (which Luzern is part of) that means English at the age of 9 and French at the age of 11.

Gilbert's face turns so red here you would think that he was close to a heart attack.

If the story with the doctor is even remotely true that guy should be stripped of his license. And the best quote of the interview: "I am dumb as fuck. I am sorry."

It's funny that they begin the interview with talking about how Punk wants everybody to hear his story without anyone having to pirate it (or something along the lines) and yet due to the broken download on Cabana's site I could only get the interview by, well, torrenting it.

That cross-body by Naomi was the worst cross-body in PPV history. The only good thing about this match was JBL name-dropping Aja Kong.

So this was the go-home segment for the biggest PPV in WCW history. The Clash segment a couple of month before this was also corny as well but would have been a much better last segment before Starrcade. The whole Sting vs. Hogan program probably peeked too early. And yes: Hogan's acting is so horrible here that I have no idea at first if was glad to got a mannequin head of himself as a gift, or shocked.

I would really like to know why one announcer (the one Alfonso Morales usually calls "Pistolero"; though Google does not yield results for a lucha announcer called "Pistolero") shortly before the finish began reciting the lyrics of La Bamba.

Who was promoting in Austria (the Heumarkt in Vienna etc.) before Wanz? Kaiser as well? Blemenschütz himself?

German football goalkeeper Tim Wiese claims to have an offer for a WWE development contract. He says he will check the offer with his manager.

A good read, though there is one line, I would argue heavily against: "Hashimoto was a better draw than Taue and the ace of New Japan for portions of the 1990’s but where Taue is the 4th guy remembered in the Four Pillars, Hashimoto is the 3rd in the Three Musketeers." Hashimoto was easily the biggest draw of the Musketeers and arguably the best worker. Taue as a worker has to be seen as you indicated by considering the cards he was dealt. Taue was compared to the rest of the All Japan stars lacking in athletic skills. And even though the in-ring style in mid-90ies All Japan was one of the most athletic demanding styles of all time he did not look at all out of place. Even when he was physically broken down in the mid-00s he still was able to have great matches from time to time, just by his understanding of working. If he had come along 10-20 years earlier he might have had an even more prolific career.

"This interview is probably illegal in 27 states." - Jim Cornette This variation of Goldust probably was a bit too weird to get over.

There are some really horrible choices on the modern US/Canada list. Interesting to see Wanz on the list, as Meltzer before usually just laughed when the name came up w.r.t. the HOF. I am no Catch expert at all, but Georg Blemenschütz might be a better Austrian candidate for the Hall of Fame.

This is the same promotion that has "the sons of Rikishi" Jimmy and Jay Uso and "the son of Curt Hennig" Curtis Axel / Michael McGillicutty.

This segment was almost "death of WCW"-level bad. All creativity seems to be gone by that point, everything here is just some repetition: - Running the same match-up for the 700th time. - Doing the fake Sting angle for the 50th time, this time even on back-to-back nights. - For the second time a mannequin is dropped from the ceiling with the nWo pretending that it's Sting. - Of course the whole thing ends with just another nWo beatdown with no WCW guys even trying for a save.

I wanted to make that joke with writing a line like "One Man Gang beating Kensuke Sasaki for the US title" (funny thing is that the match actually was restarted and Sasaki won).