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Thanks for posting these here Ray. I didn't vote but did watch everything I could from 92 to 96. Glad the Four Way and Douglas vs Scorpio made it very high. I love Scorpio and Douglas in 96, just two fantastic guys. I'm really not that high on any of the Eddie vs Dean matches, which seemed quite boring to me, kinda like the Benoit vs Dean match from Bash at the Beach 96. Technical clinic but devoid of emotion mostly devoid of any psychology. I was much more interested in Sandman's matches from the same timeframe than any of theses "classics". The Rey matches did age quite well to me though, especially the Juvy ones. I'm amazed RVD vs Doug Furnas made the top 10. I'm amazed Benoit vs Al Snow is still ranked at 20. I thought this would be exposed by now. Too much "extreme lucha" stuff ranked too high for my tastes. Anyway, looking back at ECW was mostly quite fun (although I did stop just at the peak years) and surprisingly refreshing to me.

Well, good for them I guess.

When he says his wife his pregnant, does he mean Rena ex-Mero ? How old is she ? Anyway, Heyman sounds as carny as ever here. A thing of beauty.

Brain aneurysm just freak me out. Hopefully Steamboat recovers well and quickly.

Her answer was : "He didn't fucked me, so no." Something to that effect.

Missy's should be showed to every little girl probably.

We know who this is. They should make him have a choke à la Taz as his finisher. They probably will too, since they're obsessed by WWE's product.

This is quite the good introducing vignette from the 80's/90's.

I agree. All of this makes no sense. Really, does most of the WWE audience care about Daniel Bryan, a guy they didn't know who the hell he was before NXT, working the indys ? They don't eve know there are indys to begin with.

Let me say this. He and his company would be much better at doing regular interview than RF or Highspots are (some Highspots ones are brutal, with the interviewer, whoever the hell he is, sounding like he's sedated). Problem is, they already did pretty much everybody, so Oliver has to find some gimmicks.

I sort of chuckled at Maria doing the "back in my day" schtick. A 20-something year old woman, who got a job from the Diva Search is concerned that indy girls in FCW aren't properly paying their dues. God bless pro wres. Watched it, yeah, it was cute to hear her talk about how they used to tell stories back in the days whereas no nothing matters. Sounds like an old territory vet. Even Maria doesn't like Johnny Ace. Does anyone like that poor schmuck ? I can't believe she got told one day by the office that she was fat. Worst question "How big is CM Punk's dick?". To his credit, Oliver looked ashamed at most stupid question. Maria seems like a cool girl.

Maria had it rough... Old-school. Wonder what Luna would say...

WWF does that to you. TAKA Michinoku was ruined by the WWF.

I sort of chuckled at Maria doing the "back in my day" schtick. A 20-something year old woman, who got a job from the Diva Search is concerned that indy girls in FCW aren't properly paying their dues. God bless pro wres. Oh God. I have to hear that one.

The Timeline stuff is a cute concept, but it really depends on who does it. At least it goes against the WWE revisionnist history. The only good Youshoot stuff was Cornette, because it's Cornette. I listen to his podcast as well, and Cornette rarely gets boring. I don't think Raven did one, and he would be the only other guy that never gets old with me. The fantasy booking stuff is terrible.

He's just using gimmicks so he can get Raven, Cornette, HTM and such doing stuff for him despite the fact they already have done shoot interview(s) before. Of course his production values are much better than RF, but that's a given, RF's product are godawful in term of presentation. I don't think he knows the word "editing". Embarrasing amateur like stuff.

Sean Oliver is embarrassing more often than not. He's really squeezing vereything he can to get more "shoot interviews" out of the same people again and again. Fantasy booking, WWF timeline, youshoot (which basically means, smart marks asking stupid questions) and.... Missy Hyatt pajama party...

Yeah. Especially when the only other woman who did it was Missy Hyatt. Then again, Bix is right. Wrestling fans are embarrassing more often than not. I wonder if Dixie got such questions in that Live Youshoot session... Would be curious to see that. Oh, another thing about Jimmy Yang, he said that the very first time he met Benoit in WCW, he thought the guy looked kinda crazy. I know it's easy to say that after the fact, but I also think the guys of Benoit's generation that were his friends just aren't very objective in the way they depict him. I thought it was interesting to have the opinion of a guy that was just a 18 old kid meeting Benoit in 1999.

I didn't think this was boring.I'm not interested in 2000 WWE stories, yet I thought it was really informative on how fucked up that company is and what it does to people. At 29, Yang is totally burned out on wrestling it seems. Tells a funny story about how Vince didn't even knew he was fired. And the way he got into WCW was pretty interesting too. And yeah, Yang comes off as the nicest guy you'd want to meet. Not exactly Jim Cornette's, but not bad either.

Reading this, I'm just glad I'm atheist. Russo is retarded.

Disco had talent. Hell he had more longevity with that gimmick than he had the right to. But he was at his right spot during his whole career. And I don't mean in a booking commitee. The Harris are a waste a space. What an idiot Russo is... I can't wait for me extracts from this abortion of a book too.

Oh, that would explain why he would insist on using those two useless talentless SS-tatooed skinheads everywhere he goes. I remember him saying back in the days that this was the US and people didn't want to see guys who can't talk English on TV, hence fucking with the mexicans and japanese guys.

Wrestling was already pretty dead in Europe. I don't know at which point it died in the UK, but I'd say by the mid 80's it was really past the point of meaning anything. In France the only time wrestling was big was in the 50s and 60's. Well, US wrestling is really big now here , which is a thing I really can't explain. France is so behind the times sometimes. Europe was pretty much Otto Wanz's CWA.

Well, pro wrestling is, you know.... crummy. That, and Finlay is probably full of shit too. Yeah, you surely broke hundreds of thumbs like that. Sure. I guess it has happened a few times, and like any old school guy it becomes "hundreds of times". Love them carny old wrestlers. Does Mattel goes along that sort of behaviour ?

Ah, old-school wrestlers. They broke the mold. Finlay would have been at home in Mid South...