Sean Liska

Jerry has a long history in his personal and professional life of not being bigoted, I would dispute that account.

Next week. Cool announcement on social media coming today.

So much of the stuff they've been doing with the Network over the past few months has been great and now they have more money than they know what to do with, who knows what is possible.

Bryan-Joe to celebrate a billion dollar major network TV deal. What is wrestling right now. The 2004 ROH mark I me just can't even comprehend this reality.

I mean this is a business so I think this would be considered a boom, even if it doesn't look like a traditional wrestling boom.

Love it all! Feel free to keep adding here until the show is done, as far as I'm concerned (which hopefully will be a few years). I will try to get to all of these, I love the community here.

No that's not off limits. It probably wouldn't be in the first month or two of shows as his passion is Memphis but I can see us getting there, sure.

Thanks for the responses! Lets keep this going! I love the intelligence of this forum. I can ask him anything. He worked with Lou Thesz, Harley Race, Terry Funk, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, Bruiser Brody, The Rock, Sting, Jack Brisco, Undertaker, Billy Robinson, Warrior, he booked Georgia, we can ask him about other territory promoters, Vince Sr, Sam Muschnick, Eddie Graham, NWA conventions, I mean, this is our chance everyone, I'm the PWO rep getting history out of a guy who has more to share than almost anyone alive, there's no limit here.

Ugh the Bruce Prichard fans are coming after Jerry already. Well, the Bruce stuff has been a positive and a negative for the show I guess.

So somehow I've pulled off the task of getting to pick Jerry Jarrett's mind once a week for an hour for a podcast. To me, outside of Vince McMahon, I don't know who alive has more interesting stories to tell than Jerry. This board is the smartest one on the internet - please, feel free, just start firing questions or topics at me here. Everything is on the table. I'm as fascinated by wrestling history as everyone else here. I've watched almost the whole year of 1979 WWF TV from the Network by god. We plan on picking a general topic from Memphis ever week and going into depth on it. https://twitter.com/JerryJarrett/status/995766600149200898 https://twitter.com/JerryJarrett/status/995766880957759488 https://twitter.com/JerryJarrett/status/995767053117198336

I loved ECW as a teenager more than I've ever loved any entertainment product. Insane loyalty to that promotion. Could write a book on it. Then I got older and realized Memphis was ECW 15 years earlier and love it passionately but its not quite the same as actually living through it.

I will always trust Loss to know what's best for the board, he's one of the best guys on the internet. I still get a little perplexed though that a group of adults with a shared passion, a passion that is so rare that this one board is the only place in the world to find other people who share it at our level, that we can't come together and have nice civil discussions about our silly fun hobby. I guess that's the nature of the Internet, people just act differently than they would in a real world setting.

I thought Gabe was awesome as a booker from 04-08 which makes me wonder about the past 10 years and if Heyman secretly had great influence on peak ROH creative because I don't know how that Gabe is the same one who hasn't been able to capture any buzz with his current promotion for so long. Or maybe Gabe is writing Gargano-Ciampa and he has been hamstrung by circumstances with WWN.

Did Vince Sr. book the weekly TV or did he have bookers?

Talk about it here.

Obviously what you think of CMLL's in-ring style will heavily influence how you think of them in this discussion, since it's not like we're watching it for the promos. If you think CMLL sucked from 2000-2010 then yeah, not good, but I think they produced lots of great stuff in that era and are still producing fun stuff today. It's all taste. A lot of it is how you feel about the formula they've used to death over the past 20 years of the rudos dominating the first fall, most of the second fall, the tecnicos coming back to win the second fall, and then back and forth in the 3rd fall. I'm a big match structure guy, I love a nice clear face/heel dynamic, it works for me, but I totally get people bored by it. My favorite stuff is more like 96-97 when it wasn't so structured but you still had some unbelievable talent doing great stuff. Also, I love old territories, so I love the idea that CMLL has been running the same building weekly for 50 years or whatever with no end in sight, again that's just a personal taste thing.

I agree with everyone who says Prichard is worth listening to just because it's the closest we'll ever get to a detailed Vince McMahon autobiography. And I find Vince McMahon fascinating, so hearing what's basically his rationale for all of his decisions over the years is very useful to me.

Very good match. Look, either you enjoy the classic CMLL formula of the past 20 years or you don't. I thought this was a fun version of it and Negro Casas is my favorite wrestler ever so that helps too. Shocker seems to be having dissension with his teammates.

I'm glad you said CMLL because they get slept on so much. We have 35 years of footage and outside of a maybe a brief period in the mid 90's, they've just always been putting out high quality stuff with their best stuff being epic and their big apuestas matches being the most emotional things in wrestling. They've maintained just a remarkable level of consistency that goes somewhat underappreciated.

Talk about it here.

This was great! I didn't know I needed to see Fuerza as a tecnico like this, he really brought it, and the stakes felt high with the Satanico-Buancero/Guerrero feud. Probably the best thing from CMLL so far this year.

Talk about it here.

I've seriously been meaning to watch this match for 17 years, lets go. Very good match that never quite got to that next level to be great. But still good fun to see these four guys smacking each other around in the Dome, although not a lot of heat surprisingly.

Talk about it here.