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I think they should move him on to be involved in the Rhodes' brothers' break up after this. I'm not sure that makes booking sense but I kind of want to see it.

I do that at work sometimes. It's really best for syndi shows though, none of which are on yet.

Man,if they did a three way Wyatts/Shield/Evolution feud.

I read this as Jim Mitchell at first which would be a lot more interesting a conversation.

JBL is kind of great.

Or it could even end on some network special Main Event that they want to push. Or hell, they could run a Clash of the Champions to hype that they're adding them to the network. All that said, they can't go inferno match after this. Bryan already set him on fire. If Batista is staying, then they could run Bryan/Shield vs Kane/Evolution and that'd be a fine way to go at things.

That flaming table spot was pretty terrible. Bryan winning definitively was good.I think it was also important that he spent a lot of the match as the aggressor. Kane doing the fire thing afterwards wasn't.

Big E probably deserved better. They could repackage him with the 5 count. He had a great little act in NXT.

Wait, what did he have to say about Bray Wyatt?

Feels like a Clash of the Champions to me.

I pretty much agree with all that entirely. They can't book him like Rey Mysterio the Champion.

He was still wrestling Bret on the house shows RIGHT up to Survivor Series (some shows Shawn subbed for him, some he didn't). I'm pretty sure he would have known who he'd be married with on the house shows post Survivor Series considering how long they had people work with each other and how far ahead things were planned out. He was the #2 heel in the company at the time (pretty unquestionably, too, if you look at it). I give you he might not remember.

What I'd REALLY love to know, if you can ask it in a careful way, is what the plans for Lawler in Nov, 93 - Wrestlemania in 94 would have been, especially where he would have been slotted at Wrestlemania X? My guess is a feud with Doink, but he might have been involved in Bret vs Owen too.

Thanks, Gorilla! I think I'm making that stupid thing my DVDVR sig photo.

There are a decent amount of Mid Atlantic handhelds that i've seen online pr as part or comps and what not. How much of that is this and how much of that is just stuff we've never had any access to at all?

He's more like the Buzzkill of podcasts.

Oh I want to hear more about the potential unification match in 1991 with WCW. That is one of the most interesting stories I can imagine.

I'd be curious about the difficulties of wrestling in front of the same crowd every week. It means you can't take shortcuts that you might have been able to on, let's say the WWF roster in the 80s, where you'd work the same match 40 nights in a row.

I know this is the worst question in the world to ask, but does he get why we like him so much?

The ref was supposed to be crooked in that match with Kerry, right?

I thought this was going to be about dating a plug for his softball team on Memphis TV.

To me it's kind of hilarious that this was the show they used to try to sell the Network.

I think that .. I'm not even sure where to begin here. Maybe read the Bret Hart vs Ric Flair note? Which I wouldn't wish on most people, but that might help explain both how people feel about sacred cows here and the fact that we've got plenty of people who didn't watch, in real time, a lot of the wrestling that they now love, and also that go against a lot of the long-standing dogmatic views of WON-centric or (i hate to raise him so high but) Scott Keith-centric mentalities. Don't get me wrong. i get why you said that. It's just not true at all here.

I think people sleep on that Foley match. Some of it was spectacle for the sake of spectacle but I think Foley is very good at making that sort of stuff mean something and he directs Ric through the hoops to create one of those WWE storytelling matches that does stand out.

Every now and again, it'll have an article by someone who we know and that I want to read. In general, I don't think its targeted well to a lot of the people here though. I'm glad the thing exists for the audience that would be interested in it and I'm sure it would have interested me a lot in 1999 or whenever I was deep into my teenager smarkiness, but I think there's a wide gap in viewpoints to the point that I'm not sure this is the best board to even hype up the thing on.