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This isn't specifically Classics related but due to the exposure to Boesch as a personality that we've gotten from his commentary, things like the Guerrero promo, and reading a few threads on kayfabememories about him, i decided to pick up the kindle version of his war memoir. I'm a quarter of the way through. Obviously there's really no wrestling content in it, but on its own, it's very gripping, especially if you can find his very specific voice in it. I'll admit that I haven't really been able to as of yet, mainly due to the striking nature of the content. Anyone with even a passing interesting in World War II should check it out.

Work firewall has decided to laugh at my attempts of joining up while here. I blame your Marc Mero comment.

I watched the Street/Linda vs Dundee match and loved it. One of the best handicap matches ever. The story was so simple. Anytime that Dundee had an advantage against Street, Linda interfered. Anytime that he went after Linda, Street took over on him. He had to fight on two fronts and try to fight out of a corner and the build just kept ramping up and up until he finally was able to counter her attack long enough to force the heel miscommunication. Even then, he lost the war. Great stuff.

I got a few minutes into this and realized I hadn't heard the last 95 one yet, so I had to go back to there.

There's a lot of exciting stuff on that list, absolutely. I'm really curious about the 3 - Nick Bockwinkle vs. Tito Santana / 11-20-81 card in general since I think that was the gold cup that Boesch ran to celebrate his 50th year in wrestling.

Psst, Bruce. My monthly sub just rolled over again. In honor of that, can I request a Bockwinkel match soon. I don't think we've gotten one yet.

Only Steven is allowed to hate fake statistics.

Watched the Gordman match. I like him a lot, especially on offense (though the trap hold went a bit long/uninterestingly). How crazy were the two STOs? And then there's the DDT. Not at all a fluke. He did it in the 60s black and white footage i saw with Santo. He did it in the 77 match with Choshu/Inoki and he did it here and Boesch even pointed out it was one of his favorite holds. Roberts was in and out of Houston at this time. That whole story is debunked now. It wasn't some sort of accident that caught on. I know all wrestling is BS but that's especially so.

I figure there's at least a 40% chance it's Kane, so I'm looking forward the possibility of hat-eating-pictures.

It's a damn shame that I don't know the name of a 1980s Japanese Actress of note or else I could make a Molly Ringwald joke.

Right now I figure it's going to be Kane.

As said elsewhere on this board, that's the sort of mindset that's going to leave them in big trouble in a few years.

I love how smoothly Andre slipped into that role. We had some idea that he could from some of the early 70s 2/3 fall matches in Japan but this was so blatant. A NWA title match from that era really brings forth a certain style and on paper, he's not a guy that you think would do that, and he absolutely did, while putting his own spin on it. Andre's awesome. For a guy who could have just coasted on his size, he was so good.

Someone asked the Bellas about Grado at a media event in the last week I think. I know I saw a quick video clip.

It's an absolutely great match, no doubt, and up there with the Cowabunga match as the best Cornette performance I've ever seen.

I loved the moment when Eaton conducted the "two" chants during the beat down on Mr. wrestling II.

On Austin, Keller sure loved the finish to Undertaker vs Brock.

One of my favorite things about Austin is how into watching wrestling he is.

Personally, I want to know what the heck he's saying on commentary most of the time.

I love the WCW C-shows in 1995. Prime has a ton of fun match ups and Dusty hosting.

A lot of the main events from the 70s are more exciting to me personally than the Mid-south stuff, but the undercards aren't as strong, no. The flipside is that I think we have had less of it previously available in general so it could give us some new looks at wrestlers. Again, I'm probably more excited about all the Dale Valentine stuff (especially the stuff towards the top of the card) than I should be.

I think that's just what got sent to be processed first mainly.

It's sped up (here's the non sped up version: https://gifs.com/gif/y3kYq0) but that's Gordman hitting a DDT in 1968 vs Santo.

As an aside, I think it could be worth looking at "how it was intended" at some point. In the older stuff we watch, the intention was pretty much to goad a bunch of easily manipulated people into first giving up their money and then feeling good about the fact that they did so that they'll do it again.