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When and where did this happen?This happened in 1995 on one of those local indy Feds in the 90s that got TV. The historians on the board would much more than I would about it. I've heard about in the past but last year was the first time I saw it. It appears this was from a Vegas/Sacramento indy called National Wrestling Conference. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/indy/nwc/nwcindex.html August 25, 1995 in Las Vegas, NV Silver Nugget Pavilion drawing 750 The Powers of Pain beat Silver Wings & Kerry Love. Rob Van Dam & Bobby Bradley beat The Mercenaries (Billy Anderson & Cincinnati Red). Judge Dread & Johnny Paine beat The Navajo Kid & Dancing Wolf. Larry & David Power beat The Bushwhackers. Little Tokyo & Cowboy Lang beat Lil' Haystacks in a "handicap" match. Rob Van Dam & Bobby Bradley beat The Powers of Pain. Larry & David Power beat Judge Dread & Johnny Paine. Virgil NC The Thug (Jim Niedhart). Rob Van Dam & Bobby Bradley beat Larry & David Power to win the first NWC Tag Title. NWC Champ Sabu NC Cactus Jack (13:12) in a "lumberjack" match.

Also on this episode, Watts rescinds the top rope rule based on fan acclamation, but prohibits using your knee or elbow to drive into the head, neck, or throat. He's packing a half dozen video examples to illustrate. Actually pretty neat given the examples, which include two Liger dives (legal, for the record). The illegal knee is illustrated by Eaton and Rude killing Rick Steiner and Kensuke Sasaki. Also, in a fascinating tidbit, the ever-dangerous "riding-from-the-top knee to the neck" is explicitly legal.

Word out of last night's Toronto house show is that they'll be airing the next one on the Network, March 12th, under the title of March to WrestleMania. That's fun.

Oh. Yeah, that's pretty gross.

Eh? Did I miss something? I've watched a lot of Bob Caudle and I have no idea what this is in reference to.

Not out of tradition, but I did watch the scintillating Flair/Kerry Hawaii match again yesterday. They really had everything working that night, great catch and hold stuff, great bumps and brawling, effortless transitions, incredibly hot nearfalls.

The excessive lighting looks even worse after digital video compression. Depending on how much your provider bit-starves channels, the shows have basically been in sequin-vision for years now, especially the Titantron and the ramp.

The definitive show of the Hogan era, literally and figuratively. It had such a unique style--theme episodes, colorful graphics, location shoots. The original "Obsession" opening gives me chills and I never even saw it until years later. It was rarely the wrestling equal of the Super specials and Clashes on TBS, but almost every episode is amusing to rewatch anyway. And whatever wrestling deficiencies it had, it still managed to have one of the best WWF 80s matches.

Yulie Brynner! That is fantastic.

The two Flair matches from 12/89 and 1/90, the TV title win over Arn at SuperBrawl I, and vs. Terry (Terrence) Taylor at Havoc 91 are good starts. I don't know his pre MX days very well. Or SMW.

Now the question is, was Shawn so ignorant or unlucky that he stuck the needle right into scar tissue, or was there no part of Warlord's ass that wasn't scar tissue?

Mildly related, I would do terrible things to see the unclipped multicam version of Flair/Windham from '87 and several other Cup matches.

The annoyances are real, like "LOOK AT HIM TONY!!!" and "He...takes him...got him now..." But after awhile I realized I was missing the forest for the trees on good old David. He's like the embodiment of JCP fan fervor in the 80s. I think the moment I became a full disciple was when I actually liked his solo call of Flair/Garvin 9/87. As for Tony, I always loved him, at least the pre-1998-ish Tony. And I think everyone knows by now his decline was mostly due to headset infection.

Yeah--every time I can recall any GCW being used by WWE, it looks VHS terrible, like they don't have real masters to work from. I would expect some Mid Atlantic as part of all this, though, as they've readily used it in the past and it's full of future legends if that's the angle they're going with.

The Frey half of 1992 is better than the Watts half, at least what I've seen of the latter so far. Some of the early Watts stuff goes over like a lead balloon, old and stodgy as soon as it happens. The quickly abandoned Head Ref Ole Anderson thing, the overall emphasis on law and order, the baffling top rope rule. The TV gets repetitive due to the budget cuts reducing the amount of TV tapings, though that's not Watts' fault as such. Totally agree with the match bonuses. The extra effort from pretty much everybody is palpable in that period. Of course, the gates didn't magically turn around in that time, and free spending is one of the things that got Frey fired.

Welcome Power Pro to the Mid-South lineup. Two 1986 episodes posted today.

The first part of your sentence answers the second. He doesn't need one. It's the WWE HOF. And, yeah, everything that Matt D said while I clicked on another window and forgot to hit Submit, ha.

Not *posted* yet, but if you're asking if they possess the tapes, I believe they own the entire SMW library.

So yeah, I'm resubscribing. I hope all this is a harbinger and not a passing fancy.

I suppose, but you can turn off Sasha/Bayley when the final bell rings and have a complete experience, which obviously you can't do with Lesnar/Reigns when Rollins' music hits.

The face plants a big wet one on the heel's lady. Also, shenanigans and/or physical attack on the heel's lady is justified because "she don't act like no lady."

Well, the tons of main events part is right... I'm intrigued by the team bullshitting, but oddly enough, they both did work MSG early in their careers. Vince Sr. brought in guys from all over the place in the WWWF days, especially young guys for one-shots. Flair's one and only MSG match before his WWF run is on his first DVD set. It's from just after the plane crash comeback. (This is obviously me regurgitating from Cawthon's exhaustive MSG history.)

This might be kind of tough to express in bingo form, but the use of "area" or any number of other synonyms for "territory."

I was always amused by the way Neidhart's goofy post-breakup look became the New Foundation's, Owen kept wearing it in his single run after Neidhart left, and then it became High Energy's.

There has to be some reason they went from apparent indifference to pre-Monday Night Wars programming for over a year to adding four dozen WCWs in two days, and that makes a lot of sense. Speaking of, it looks like they added 12/28/85, which is a pretty well-known classic episode. Flair/Garvin is easily ****+ and Magnum/Ole is good too.