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I agree that it is a bit morbid to keep using people after the point where they have passed but would be more lenient with retirement. Major injuries like Magnum TA are a different consideration, though.

Barring negotiations that might have taken place on the board that I didn't see, I don't think Southwestern is a part of it.

Can we get a definitive list of who is in the NWA and who isn't?

FRICK!

Butch Reed is such a sweet choice.

Fair enough, top 5 worst.

You are up, JerryVonKramer.

Is Phil Hickerson a celebrity? Outside my house, I mean.

Just remember that , in the AWA, titles can change hands on Certain Types Of Count Outs.

Yes! We are off! (For all that I am not as yet participating, I am looking forward to reading all of this).

Thanks, El Boricua, please consider that as me putting my name up for the waiting list.

Frick, just too late Serves me right for going to sleep on this.

Top 10 Worst "Russian" Wrestlers

I also don't care for Bryan Adams and never played hockey (weak ankles). They haven't kicked me out yet. Poutine is awesome, though.

I can't believe i did this, as a long time Bret Hart fan, in fact he will always have a place in my heart for him as one of my all time favorite wrestlers, but I tried to put it on as hard, objective standards as I can. I mentally compiled an imaginary compilation of all of the best Bret Hart matches I could think of. I then mentally put it on the scale against the Curt Hennig compilation I already have . That's they way I wanted to view it, the best of one against the best of the other. I went Hennig.

I have very fond memories of Summerslam 1991. Not quite the intended direction of the question, but I also love the less heralded matches of Super Brawl 2. Rhodes/Windham vs Zbyszko/Austin and Pillman vs Liger deservedly get a lot of praise, but I also love the other matches like Morton/Vinnie Vegas vs Zenk/Van Hammer (the Superbrawl Miracle Match), Simmons vs Cactus Jack, and even Bagwell vs Taylor.

And on Smackdown too, wasn't it? Yeah, this was mind boggling, I mean Taker has always had a history of being willing to put new guys over (Yokozuna in 1993, Mankind in 1996, Angle in 2000, Lesnar in 2002, hell, even Khali in 2006 - which was comparable to Brock squashing Cena at Summerslam this year) on big stages, but this was a random throwaway episode of Smackdown. What's more weird is how the finish came across. Kozlov countered the Old School into a Powerslam and pinned Taker. It came across like Taker simply fucked up, rather than Kozlov actually defeating him. An upset nonetheless, as nobody expected Kozlov to go over. It was a kind of strange path to the Shawn Michaels/Undertaker Mania match. Kozlov beats Undertaker, then a short time later, Michaels beats Kozlov, so there is a bit of buzz going in of "Michaels defeated the guy that Undertaker couldn't beat." Then a few weeks later, Undertaker beat Kozlov so the whole thing was meaningless.

Vladimir Kozlov pinning the Undertaker clean as the proverbial sheet.

Always heard he was a gentle and kind man and sort of a father figure to the wrestlers. I remember Barry Windham talking about Studd kindly but firmly calling him out for wearing the same cowboy boots that he had been wearing while walking out in the streets, and how he should show more consideration for the other wrestlers ... Barry said he really took that to heart.

Just going by the very small number I have met, but one guy I have heard can have a bit of an attitude is Low Ki, however he was an absolute peach with me. Took time to chat with me about where the photo I bought was taken, gracious in hearing me praise one of my favorite matches of his, and just a very sweet man. Also Colt Cabana and Chris Hero were class gentlemen when I met them. Not exactly a household name, but C4/sometime Chikara wrestler Cecil Nyx works on the same floor that I do and he is a great guy.

Am I the only one who went from loving All Japan Heavyweights and New Japan Juniors to loving All Japan Juniors and New Japan Heavies? ( at least 90s era, don't follow much modern Japan).

It's perhaps a comment on how my mind works that it completely made my day to discover that Buddy Rose has his own page on the TV Tropes website. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/PlayboyBuddyRose

I was actually wondering about this recently, what is the British term for metal things that straighten your teeth? (No cracks about British dentistry, please)

Reminds me of the bit in his shoot interview (first RF one I believe) he was aked for his opinion on Don Muraco. "Good guy. Good weed. *laughs*" Guess he wasn't entirely joking.