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He should get a point for driving (drawing) an entire tape trading subculture.

This is new ground, but I would lean towards them aping previous WWE products more than some sort of ideal, at least until we know more. I think it's almost more likely they have some NXT style obstacle cousre challenges than we get straight up tournament matches ever week.

Presumably there'll be some tags and what not too, no?

I had to do something a few weeks ago if only to take some stress off of me.

I think I caught the All Star one (three rounds, cable). I'll go find the 78 one next. For what it's worth, I thought the All Star one was an interesting diffusion of the style, sort of a big picture version that lacked some of the build and nuance, but that could have worked as a style in and of itself. Almost like the WWE ten minute TV match version.

I finally got to see the Breaks vs Saint match that Arthur Psycho posted. It felt very much like a cliff notes version of their longer matches but kept all the structural bits that the matches rested upon so it still worked.

That was before Captain Mike evolved into IRS.

Is he better or worse than Morrison?

How much 70s babyface Valentine do we have?

I feel like someone could get Flair to start talking about that as a talking point on a weekly basis, just because it was something he did that other people should do and makes him look good.

They can read newspapers during the show.

I'm sure everyone is horribly busy for some reason or another, but I can speak for them when I say that I'm actively excited about almost every single one of those matches. Ok, not Ivan Koloff vs Tony Atlas. But just about everything else! Actually, I want to see Ivan Koloff vs Tony Atlas too. Who am I kidding?

Something something mookieghana.

In a situation like that, when they're all on the stage, I'm wondering if anyone tells them when the USA broadcast goes off the air. What happened aired on the network but not on USA. I'm not sure when they made the decision to do that either. That said, I'm still clinging to the text as very striking, if only because they didn't clean it up and make it seem more professional when they absolutely could have. It came off, to me, as them wanting to promote Titus as being outright stupid, because it was them being reactionary to an actual newspaper reporting that fans were calling them racist.

I actually need to take a look at that at some point because I could be one of those people. I just don't have time before March.

OJ's done a pretty effective hit on Finlay.

His CMLL stuff does not help his case. I remember his first squash match when he came into WWE and everyone going nuts for the wink followed by shoving a guy off the apron.

I'm a lot iffier on the reactionary text message posting than the initial suspension.

Did people see the Post article with Titus' text to the company released? There's something hugely messed up there. http://nypost.com/2016/02/10/fans-call-vince-mcmahon-a-racist-for-suspending-black-wrestler/

No this:

Nikita Koloff crushing David Crockett. Dusty brawling in the locker room too. The post Royal Rumble 91 promo. At one point, I'm sure 95% of the people here might have answered "Benoit and Eddy standing there with the belts." It was a moment made for us that we never thought we'd receive. Never even imagined.

How do people feel about Andre pulling off the cross? Piper slamming the beer bottle over his head in Portland is up there too. And the Concession Stand Brawl!

Incidentally this is why I see ZERO Flair in him Obviously I hate HHH, but let me play devil's advocate for a minute. Flair had no problem making his opponents look strong and himself weak. But Flair had times where he didn't carry that all the way through and do the job like he should have. The best example of this was his feud w/ Luger in '88. The time was right for Luger to beat Flair and become champion. It didn't happen. Would 1988 Flair have put over Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania like HHH did at WM 30? I think so, but I also think it's worth discussing. No way. 2013 Flair hated putting Daniel Bryan over because he didn't drink and party.

That's weird. I thought we didn't have them for some reason. I'm probably thinking Tito vs Dibiase, where we only have the Sherri cam match.

We have none of the Tornado/Dibiase matches on tape.