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That is probably the biggest part, but a few posters made reference to an older star (Ross or Flair?) hearing about something negative 1985 Dave said about them in a 1985 Observer. Not that they listened to a Bryan/Todd show, but that some other party did, and passed it along.

Yeah and considering how much Todd respects Dave, there's no way Dave should even take Todd's recaps as "insults". He was clearly having a good time reliving the mid-80s through these classic observers and was never derogatory in his recaps. This whole situation has been handled dirt poorly.

They only had 2 matches, not a trilogy.

I haven't heard Lanny confirm it, although he does speak kindly of Hulk. Warrior called bull shit of it when he did that massive shoot YouTube video on Hogan (the trailer for which was far better than the actual thing). Dave Meltzer has mentioned that people that were close to Savage believe the story to be true. He said that Hogan had told people in TNA about him and Savage laying their problems to rest before Savage even died.

Love the Savage promo game. And the one from game #1 where Koloff and Dusty participated as well. Hope this continues to be a recurring game. And I guarantee I'd put up a mighty challenge to any of you veteran podcasters and go on a Ken Jennings-like run. Consider that a challenge.

Hogan coming to WWF at the end of 1983 as a face isn't comparable to Savage here because Hogan had the name value and popularity before coming back as a face. Dibiase retiring Sammartino in 1983 is less like Pillman retiring Flair in 1990 and more like Pillman retiring Dusty in 1990.

I'm still digging this. The key is that the game judges based on modern day expectations so Parv is correct to load up on guys with great stats rather than the old plodding roster of WWF 1983.

Awesome site. Love the variety, gifs, and your writing style. Always fun to watch a number of things at once so nothing gets repetitive. Some interesting choices here. I hope this catches on and you develop an audience because from what I can tell you deserve one. Thanks for sharing.

Love the concept, especially if it continues to branch out as the episodes go on. Tag Team wrestling when done right is more enthralling than a normal match for me. Surprised no one has tackled this as a podcast subject before.

I had the same excited reaction, but after listening I found it completely unremarkable. The 3 main interviewees are Grantland's Masked Man, Peter Rosenberg, and VINCE RUSSO. As a wrestling fan it wasn't anything really and based on how they presented it, I don't know why a non-fan would have cared either. I'm not necessarily saying they should have gotten Meltzer or not done it at all, but they should have gotten Meltzer.

Awesome stuff. Happy to see this updated. Dibiase, Savage, and the Brainbusters vs. the WWF sounds amazing.

Excited for this.

This may be the best possible scenario.

Your Luger matches are all f'ed up. At Wrestlemania IX, you have heel Luger facing heel Razor while face Tito takes on face Perfect. And at Wrestlemania XI, heel Bundy and face Luger take on heel Blus.

Doubt it. That had blow off written all over it. The only reason they did the hokey television spot was so Ambrose didn't look as bad. Since Ambrose/ Wyatt is co-headlining the house show run that starts in February that I'll be seeing, umm...no. Card Subject To Change

Feel pretty discouraged about continuing to watch as often as I do if that's how Vince feels about Cesaro. Ridiculous.

Oh absolutely. I'm just not understanding some of the vitriol being thrown Colt's way, as if he not working with Punk 100 percent here.

Why do we expect Dave to know what is or is not out there? He must rarely have time to ever watch anything pre-2014 for fun and he certainly doesn't scour the internet for lost matches like some of us.

Who are you to make judgments on a friendship that you know next to nothing about? Leaving other Colt issues aside, there's something really off-putting about making accusations that Colt was using his friend or something. Sure he must have known it would be a big deal (maybe not how big it has become), but why is that a bad thing? Punk does his friend a favor and wants to be on his show and somehow Colt is a money grabbing shyster?

Wait, so in addition to the e-book (which I'm excited for) you'll be posting on those topics in the first post shortly? That's awesome.

When Sting hit the superplex, Bret hit ref Billy Silverman's sprawled out legs. Looked brutal.

I loved this. Wasn't watching WCW in 1998, but through PWI and a decade-plus of online wrestling rants/reviews, I have an idea of how ridiculous it became. I'm watching Halloween Havoc 1998 for the first time ever and this follows one great match (Raven vs. Chris Jericho) and one good match (Juvy vs. Disco Inferno). My impression of the Steiner feud was that Rick never got his revenge, but here he just demolishes three nWo members singlehandedly. Very satisfying. This show so far has gotten me so pumped for WCW 1998. The crowd is so into everything, the wrestling itself isn't particularly rushed and tell good stories, and the characters are varied. I'd watch any WCW 1998 PPV, Nitro, or Thunder before Survivor Series 2014.

I was watching with one big fan and two casual fans last night and none of us enjoyed the show. The casual fans kept asking, "Didn't we already see this last month?" because so many matches just repeat from PPV to PPV. There were no outstanding matches on the show compared to something like Summerslam 2013 where Cena-Bryan and Brock-Punk were both great. Cena-Orton was 26 minutes of wheel-spinning and finisher kick outs and Ambrose-Rollins lost me with that stupid, not very "crazy" bump off the cage at the beginning that was treated like someone almost died. Cesaro-Ziggler was too short, the Bella's match was a better than average women's match, Show-Rusev was a Raw match, and Sheamus-Miz was fun because of Mizdow. I wouldn't even care if the consensus was "decent show with a couple good matches", but I just don't understand how anyone could be over the moon because of the match quality. That's not even taking into account the booking.

Good little match, but too short. Enjoyed lots of moments including the boxing standoff, the dives, and Michaels atomic drop-centic comeback along with the trademark Hennig "Hold onto the ropes and flip" bumps. I assume the version on the DVD is from Coliseum Video? This aired on the PTW WM VII preview show along with matches like Bret Hart vs. Brian Knobbs and the Undertaker vs. Tugboat. Point of the match is Rockers are facing fellow Heenan Family member Haku and the Barbarian so Shawn is matched up with Perfect as a setup match. On the actual show, Heenan is commentating with Vince and talks about how Perfect doesn't need his help to beat a Rocker. Jannetty comes down following Michaels' guardrail bump, but Heenan doesn't come down until Jannetty makes contact with Perfect. There is a cool little shot of the green screened Heenan leaving the booth and then he appears running down the aisle. Then of course Bossman was about to face Perfect at Wrestlemania so it makes sense for him to eventually comedown. The overbooking aspect that makes the least sense is actually why the faces have 3 men to the heels 2.

If Sting was on the ballot as early as 1998, shouldn't this be his fifteenth year as well? Or sixteenth?