Death From Above

I've never understood the "Bigelow is up there with Vader" thing some people throw around. I can't think of anything Bigelow has done that would threaten Vader's top 30, to be conservative and kind. Granted, I'm a giant Vader mark.

Re: Blading. I've been waiting for a player in the NHL to do it for years. High sticks that draw blood are an extra penalty. I'd bust that shit out in a Stanley Cup final without a doubt. And if you got caught it would be great watching the mainstream media have an aneurism over the whole thing trying to figure out where this psycho player came up with such a horrible idea. My stand by response for most of my life to "U KNOW ITS FAKE RIGHT HURR HURR" is "so is surgery on TV, people still watch doctor shows, what's your fucking point". I've never really seen the need for people (and both fans and non-fans alike do it) to classify wrestling as this form of entertainment where the same rules of everything else don't apply. It's just a show on TV with a studio audience that participates more than most other TV shows.

The last one was Horace Hogan. And he was probably the best worker of the bunch, which is pretty scary. Yep, they came off like bitches. But hey, Virgil is a wrestling superstar. Horace and Sting had a stupid fun match on Thunder once the Russo era begins you'll probably enjoy. As for the Fingerpoke of Doom... I actually argued at one point that in a totally different context, it could have actually been an amazing angle. But it was totally the wrong time and wrong place for it.

I still haven't cleared my mind of the PPV match these two had. Burned in permanently. Also... they had a PPV match. Which in itself is boggling enough. I mean... In a sense I commend WCW in an ass backwards way, in that at least for a brief time they got away from "random guy 1 vs random guy 2" as a PPV undercard (I seem to remember A LOT of that on PPVs, which always seemed lazy given the gigantic roster) and at least there's a storyline attached to it. But... these are not the people to use in that scenario. It was also pretty obvious to any sane human being that Scott Norton could have physically ripped either of them limb from limb. The angle still would have sucked if it was Stevie Ray vs. Scott Norton, but at least I can believe that. Norton, Adams and... whoever the hell else was there I can't remember, came off as massive bitches that they'd even allow fucking Vincent to get one over on them and be the boss.

My only selfish complaint is I wish the old newsletter recaps hadn't died out but I understand they are probably a ton of work setting up.

I'll say it will be time to hide the sharp objects by Great American Bash 2000. By then you don't even have the obscene glory of the Arquette/DDP/Jarret triple cage match (which is a match I actually enjoy for reasons that are probably impossible to justify) and you're just into Slap Nuts vs. Big Daddy Cool.

Steiner had an amazing run in WCW once it was too late to matter. I'm on board with that too.

I found WCW's death sprial totally hypnotic so I can't wait to see how long you last before you just run from the house screaming.

Now we need a HHH vs Bret thread where people can imagine up all these great Bret matches that make him better than Flair again, and measure them against matches HHH imagines are great, then we can break it down into which imaginarium is better.

Thank you good sir.

Fuck it. Requesting: If you could do something with either of these I will... say thank you. If you have way better things to do, I'll understand though.

Wrestling stories from shoot interviews are still real to me, dammit.

Also, Americans obsession with turning music discussions into a race baiting contest is seriously fucking sad.

Charles Mingus is way better than John Coltrane.

WWF tag wrestling of the 80's isn't really good enough at any point to fight over, that I've ever seen. Never really seemed like a focus for Vince. Not to say there were never any good tag matches at all. But I'd have my doubts there's really enough genuinely good matches there to build a real sample size worth dissecting.

I'm actually Atsushi Onita. I use myself as an avatar because using someone else would be lame. I'm a much better promo than you. And I lived with Terry Funk once when I came to the US. He thought I was weird and he's Terry Funk.

The Yalta one is absolutely incredible. I should make that a wallpaper.

Five stars.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Bounty angles. Lots and lots of bounty angles. Speaking of which... Paranoid Compilation of interviews about being worried a wrestler is out to get you. And matches where it turns out a wrestler not in your match is indeed out to get you, and interferes. Are You Experienced? Young Guns vs. Vets matches. Let it Bleed Three guesses. Bitches Brew Inappropriately titled Joshi compilation. Or appropriately titled, depending on your point of view I suppose. Wish You Were Here A truly memorable compilation dedicated to the wonderful angle where Eric Bischoff stupidly called out Vince McMahon to fight him on WCW PPV, and other highlights of WCW doing things that increased WWF business. Bonus: music video set to "Wish You Were Here" featuring Vince and Eric making goofy faces.

Only problem I have with FLV is that when I just want a completely theoretical mp3 it downloads the completely theoretical complete file to my computer before theoretically converting it. Which theoretically wastes a lot of bandwidth. But it theoretically works when other outlets theoretically fail me in my search for Educational Material protected by international law.

I note he dodged this. Very suspicious.

I don't recall WCW being available in this region of Canada pre-Nitro, although I am told it indeed was. But again I didn't have cable in those days. WWF Superstars was a Saturday morning broadcast on I think ITV, which has since become Global. Non-cable channel here. They also did Raw Saturday afternoons when that became the real show. They had a Disney thing on in the afternoons before it and I remember the days of watching Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, and Raw back to back to back. That's some TV for you right there. I never saw a Nitro until Sting was doing his Silent Man thing, I think. Although my WCW timeline may be slightly askew.

I should really just start writing full time here about football as pro wrestling as a follow up to my old Brady piece. These dudes give me so much material to work with it's fucking amazing.

He sucks a lot. Doesn't mean he isn't kind of fun as such.

The other thing that works in Tenryu's favor is that because he worked in so many different spots (and W.A.R. was very much "Tenryu vs Insert Star We Can Get") he's a guy that crossed off the huge majority of his potential realistic dream bouts too. I think Tenryu is probably the best thing about post-split All Japan, which is kind of amazing at his age. I couldn't give two shits about Taiyo Kea otherwise but watching him try and MAN UP against Tenryu is a great memory, for example.