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Buddy Rose is the new Dick Murdoch.

IMSMR, these were Tijuana matches where Konnan had the booking. He had just gotten back from ECW, so he injected a huge amount of ECW style booking.

Reed vs Murdoch .

I know he'd been out for a while, but Beefcake looked really out of shape.

Classic example is the Flair vs. Kerry cage match. Much of this story is supposed to be guest ref Michael Hayes, but Manning just has to get his face in every chance he gets.

"All Wally Walrus was trying to do was to have a barbeque."

Johnny Weaver.

The Bushwackers/Sheepherders? They wouldn't have been available. They were working for Vince. Top of the thread said no restrictions, but if we consider Butch and Luke unusable ... Boyd/Bigfoot Sheepherders.

Chicago hit the Top 10 for the first time in 1970 with "Make Me Smile", "25 or 6 to 4" and "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" They hit the Top 10 for the final times in 1988-89 with "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love", "Look Away", "You're Not Alone" and "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" They hit #1 for the first time in 1976 with "If You Leave Me Now", and the final time in 1988 with "Look Away" that was amazingly enough Billboards #1 single of the year for 1988. So... Long term appeal = GREAT~! Band in the case of Chicago? Or were/are they simply an effective charting pop band? When you think of great bands that have been around since they were formed (1967), does Chicago really come to mind? Strangely, this is the second time I have posted this today (on 2 different boards), but .... Chicago's first 2 albums were awesome. I can't really vouch for the other 87. Back to wrestling talk ...

Bockwinkel seemed to do a good job of checking out. He kept going for a good long time, but I think he was still having solid matches at the end, he didn't look like he was half crippled, has only made extremely rare appearances in the ring since his retirement, and overall seems fairly content with his lot these days.

How about a politics folder?

Crap. Sorry, Jerry.

I wanted to slap that little so and so in the face every time he showed up on TV, so, yeah ...

Inspired by JVK's recent Best Babyface post, I figured we could dig into what makes a great heel (I apologize if this has been discussed before). There are a lot of different styles of heel, but what are the common qualities that define being a great heel? I've said this before in a thread on DVDVR, but I feel that the official best heel of all time is Arn Anderson. The reason being that he could intimidate as a tough asskicker *and* he could pussy out like a chickenshit coward, all within the same match, and it always had credibility and it always made sense. I believe that a purely tough heel can work, but as Lars Frederiksen pointed out in a Good Will Wrestling podcast, one of the problems today is that everybody is trying to be the tough guy heel. They all want to get away with whatever they want, but nobody wants to show "weakness". The wrestling world could use a few more Arn Andersons right now. Edit : Adding JerryvonKramer's guidelines. Breaking It Down 3: Best Heels Ok, so much like the faces thread, I want to breakdown what the heel does in the match and then work out who does what best. The categories this time I'd say are: Working the crowd Best Offence (heat segment) Best selling Best "bump and grind" (i.e. selling of face's comeback, knocked down, get up, knocked down, get up, etc.) Best at calling it in the ring The heel categories are a bit looser than the babyface ones, so let me know any I've missed

I can't wait until I get to the WrestleMania material, not for any particular match, just no more fricking Billionaire Ted.

That's exactly what they were doing.

Can we get some sort of definitive word on Greg Gagne? I confess I haven't seen any High Flyers, but I did initially catch his last run in the AWA when it happened and couldn't quite get the criticism. I didn't think he was as horrible as he was made out to be, I thought he was a solid worker but rather vanilla, still not out and out bad. Then later I watched his Hennig matches on goodhelmet's comp, and goddamn if he didn't come off as one of the most awkward guys I've ever seen in the ring. I don't automatically hate ungainly looking wrestlers (I'm still a big Akira Taue fan), but Greg seemed to be working in higher gravity than everyone else. So was this guy any good or not?