Matt D

I vote for Bruce Tharpe.

You did say it first. That's why it's funny.

Can Johnny do a podcast with the History of WWE guy so he can call him Billystar SuperGraham the whole time and then not explain it.

He'll let us see it in 2021

How do you feel about salt throwing?

Didn't David Crockett say in the Flair interview that all the old guard NWA guys disliked Jim, Jr. and that it had been Crockett, Sr.'s son in law that had been the one to go along with the old man to the convention for years before he croaked?

I went just far enough to decide that people who thought he was in the the worst of all time discussion were pretty much idiots. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/29870-honky-tonk-man/

I'm rolling with idiot savant these days.

Sorry Matt. It was so long ago I forgot who suggested it. It was a real fun experience of a match. It's ok. I was just messing with you. I'm glad you had fun with it.

Everyone needs to see the promo, btw. The match is on youtube.

You can sort of have your cake and eat it too when it comes to Gordy.

Doesn't Gordy with Hayes as a mouthpiece (of sorts) make more sense?

Can you write it off on your taxes?

I know what you mean, of course, but I initially saw that and thought "Yeah, they'd be a good #1 seed for a NIT" to the GOAT's March Madness.

A fine Missouri champ who would serve as a challenger to a younger NWA champ though.

Hell of a fun roster.

First one got a lot of praise, but a good chunk of it was "I DON'T BELIEVE THIS GUY I LIKE WON" sort of praise. I still think if you put the two matches together (opening stretch of the second, heat of the first, and some mishmash of the closing segments), you'd get one good match.

Also a comment on the sheer amount of effort you guys are putting into this, yes. I think there's some real merit in this with the research and what not that's been done. That said, we've been in sort of a weird state the last few weeks where instead of a broad range of stuff, we've had two major threads (art and star ratings) that have had a thousand posts each, the Cena discussion, and then almost everything else is this.

This thing is going to make everyone delay GOAT voting for two years.

I thought i deserved a better shout out for suggesting the Mil match. Wounded.

Flair wanted him to run to the next spot?

-Dave Meltzer from the 1983 Yearbook issue of the WON

You know what? I think Ultimately Lawler would do it. I think it did matter to him, and I think that was very clear in his career and decisions he made later. He'd have a run the length of Flair's early run and be very happy with that. It'd check off a box, would be something he'd have forever, would make him money in the short term, and he'd claim it, very, very happily, for the rest of his career. He'd paint the NWA title on the batmobile he bought when he was 60-something. Yeah, Lawler would do it.

I just get the sense that Flair doesn't get how this works. It's interesting, absolutely. I get the sense that Parv wishes we could have everyone's phones bugged. It's compelling and maybe important for historical reasons. It's just occasionally uncomfortable just like everything else to do with Flair. I think we all came in with low expectations of this podcast and it's been one of the best, but for reasons that aren't entirely above ground.