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Part of why Rollins cashed in on the main instead of after was so that he could be in the match itself and get the winner's purse of the Main Event of Wrestlemania. If he cashed in after, who knows if it would have counted as a match when it comes to payoffs. Etc.

I am not quite sure how you run Portland with more than 12 people anyway.

I love WWECW and I've never seen any of the stuff you've written about here (I've seen the zombie, I think!).

Which again, I would be totally happy with. If someone wants to dive in, please, don't let me get in the way (and like I said, I'll even try to help when I can if the person wants it).

I can keep the roster warm indefinitely. You know, if I have to. It's Portland.

I'd be happy to do it(starting the second week of August) only if: A) No one who doesn't have a territory already wants it now. (Were that the case, I'd even be glad to help that person out come August). B ) it'd be understood that mainly I'd be doing it to hold the roster together, because it's a great roster, on the idea that Dylan will want it back at some point. I'd be more than happy to step aside at that point and he could deal with the mess I made with the territory. C) Said Mr. Hales doesn't hold the entire situation against me for three years. (Just saying).

I would take Portland in a heartbeat until he wanted it back, but I have absolutely no time until August. I haven't even been able to read most of what you guys have done yet.

It's too bad they've really de-linked money from the equation.

I don't think it's that he takes the hosting gig seriously but that he's at an age and has experienced enough loss that he realizes how fickle life is and he wants friends and not enemies (except for Honky Tonk Man and even then, he was pretty drunk).

Some of the most interesting things Austin says are about protecting his position, whether it's with Jarrett or with other people. Also, how much he regrets walking out and at the very least losing the years of income. I do think you occasionally see hints of insecurity with him. That's the thing about these podcasts. You just see a LOT of the person as a human being in what they say, in what's not said. Austin can be more guarded since he's not shitfaced, mind you.

Bob was the opponent. Gran was the partner of Gino who was on the outside.

I watched Gino vs Bob Markus. I'm not familiar with Markus but he was fine in this role. I haven't seen too many Gino matches in my life either (a handful at most), so I wanted an introduction through this that wasn't one of the bigger matches. I liked this, especially the early transitions, first with Gran Markus' interference and distraction, and then with a sense of strategy (Gino went for the leg, so Markus countered by going for the leg too). Back half of the match is a bit of a blur to me now as I watched it last night but all in all, I liked it as an intro to Gino.

Yeah, I don't think I've seen wrestling on a TV screen since 2009, so I'm not sure what it's like on that. Sometimes too much of a good thing can hurt though.

This is exactly how I feel. I feel that way and also feel the need to bring up watching seventh generation dubs of tapes or watching matches that you spent all night DLing in RM format in a tiny tiny box in 1999 or dailymotion (DAILYMOTION!!!) and what not. I mean, I feel bad if people get headaches due to problems with their eyesight or something, but this is stuff that we might have never seen period.

There is so, so much on that list that I hope is in their library.

Can we delete the last six or seven posts before Parv gets back from his holiday and pretend like we went to him first?

I don't know anything about Houston wrestling! I'd have suggested Kris but he probably would have hoarded the spreadsheet once he made it.

I really think Shoe should take one for the team and make a spreadsheet detailing each card from the appropriate time period, whether or not a match has already been in circulation, and then whether or not it's been posted yet, and maintain the master. It could be something Tharpe would be interested in too.

I also think we need to talk more about Santo vs Casas.

Where's Bock?! Morton is the most interesting name on that list to me.

There's a Red Rooster vs Blue Blazer match out there.

It's Luke Williams talking about Buddy Rose.

"..The first stop was Wendy's or Arby's... I can still tell you the orders...At Wendy's, it would be two hamburgers, with ketchup, no pickles, no onions. At Arby's... and then after the show it was the donut stand. After he went home, he always stopped at Dunkin Donuts."

I wasn't quite as high on Dusty vs Lewin as others. I thought the first half was excellent, everything to the point that Dusty came back out to the floor to fight back. Even that moment was good but I didn't feel Dusty's comeback and the finish, in a brass knuckles championship match, was really dumb to me. Why was the ref stopping Lewin? That said, the execution of the elbow from the apron in was awesome. I enjoyed Guerreros/Landell vs Lothario/RnR quite a bit. I thought it was balanced well, that the heels played into the shine like champs. The ring positioning on the heat on Morton was good. Tons of attitude from the heels. And I liked the chaotic finish where it looked like the Guerreros were going to take it. I could have used a bit more Landell. They were keeping him away from Lothario to start but that really stopped mattering as the match went on.

It wasn't much of a decade relatively?