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Not whole matches, no. I think I can get my point across with moments and segments. He's not a great worker, but he was great at certain undervalued things.

My wrestling goal for 2018 is to get people on board with my very specific points about John Studd.

This seems relatively benign, to be honest. If we went back and rewatched the match and what he's describing didn't happen, or if he's overstressing the crowd's reaction, that'd be different. If anything, it almost helps Dave, because he's gone from the guy who "knows nothing because he's never been in a ring" to a guy who served in a director's/screenwriter consultant role on a PPV match. On the other hand, his creditably is shot as a journalist. Now people will say that it is absurd to be a journalist in wrestling but he's making a living off of it. We already knew he had friends in the business over the years, that they were often his sources, that he arguably gave them better coverage, and that he even fielded consultation calls for Vince at one point or another. I said relatively and I mean it. The bar wasn't super high. I don't think this lowers it in the least. Dave has talked about this type of stuff all the time. He has talked, on several occasions, about giving advice and input to that worked PRIDE fight with Takada vs Coleman with the people involved in that. I ignore even the worked MMA coverage?

This seems relatively benign, to be honest. If we went back and rewatched the match and what he's describing didn't happen, or if he's overstressing the crowd's reaction, that'd be different. If anything, it almost helps Dave, because he's gone from the guy who "knows nothing because he's never been in a ring" to a guy who served in a director's/screenwriter consultant role on a PPV match. On the other hand, his creditably is shot as a journalist. Now people will say that it is absurd to be a journalist in wrestling but he's making a living off of it. We already knew he had friends in the business over the years, that they were often his sources, that he arguably gave them better coverage, and that he even fielded consultation calls for Vince at one point or another. I said relatively and I mean it. The bar wasn't super high. I don't think this lowers it in the least.

This seems relatively benign, to be honest. If we went back and rewatched the match and what he's describing didn't happen, or if he's overstressing the crowd's reaction, that'd be different. If anything, it almost helps Dave, because he's gone from the guy who "knows nothing because he's never been in a ring" to a guy who served in a director's/screenwriter consultant role on a PPV match.

Moments in time: 75% of the AWA except for Brusier Brody by the WON in 1984/5. (High Flyers by everyone but us, always) Mocho Cota by WON (1993, DEAN 1998) Akira Taue (By everyone but like ten of us, always) Demolition Ax and Earthquake by the Scott Keiths of the world Jose Lothario through no fault of anyone. Most ignorant/ill-informed/shortsighted performance-based opinions in pro wrestling could potentially be more interesting, but it probably wouldn't be all that interesting either.

Not CMLL.

Someone point me to a few free WALTER matches online. I havent seen anything of him at all.

This is a great point and surely, the more savvy board members of WWE will be resistant to it? I know for a fact that a Mr. Levesque will see a massive opportunity stemming from this, if everything pans out how people are expecting. Theres probably money in it though.

I'm implying this is welcomed by the POTUS. I'm even being slightly paranoid about it since it's that sort of week.

You have to wonder if hes got support from the top on this.

This is the real issue. It isn't players protesting or anything like that. CTE and everything we know about concussions and all of the players we've watched kill themselves over the past 17 years is the cause of the NFL's declining ratings. Also. The fact that football is actually secretly boring as fuck doesn't help. Basketball is right there. Go watch that. Or the DVDVR 80s Puerto Rico set. You'll be way happier. You're giving people a lot of credit (or maybe "lot" isn't the right word. How about "too much.")

I can just imagine the tweets.

Yeah, the real problem with that shoot is that it showed Flair knew bupkis about Pro Wrestling.

I'm all for Brock vs Kane. In a world without a Suplex City...

Mooney talked about that on his podcast about Monsoon and Heenan.

Should people make an argument for Arn as an agent?

High school gyms and local armories?

Loss is obviously a huge Hart Foundation fan. Maybe we should reopen that old thread.

I liked this a lot. These two are uniquely matched against each other as both like to take a bunch of the match if you don't stop them. Sometimes (like when Mil and Brody interact) that goes poorly. With these two, it worked and felt like a real struggle. At points they really went at it too. The Backlund high knee, piledriver, and headbutt were some of the best things I've EVER seen out of him. I absolutely loved that Hansen got a revenge high knee later on. (I saw this clipped, btw, and what I saw started with the armbar which made for a slighter match but a better one. That's a weird argument for editing I guess?). Every missed Hansen lariat was just massive and I liked some of the outside stuff towards the end plenty. It's worth a watch.