Matt D

In 94 there was a North Georgia promotion that had TV on Channel 14 in Atlanta. Was that Peach State Wrestling (which had the Armstrongs as heels) or something else?

You should look at the Austin/Rocker Dropper lawsuit next.

As humble as ever, but some of his comments here were definitely against the usual company line.

I don't know. I kind of loved this, just for Lawler laughing at all of Dibiase's jokes. I haven't seen a lot of 94-95 so maybe they end up interacting a lot but there's something novel about the two of them heeling it up together.

Apparently, the two awards I cared about the most went the way I wanted. NXT and Regal.

I thought Cody looked especially good this week on Raw. Usually there's this barely controlled awkwardness to his stuff, that I think he generally uses as a plus since it adds this veneer of believability to his offense. Here, though, he was smoother than usual and I thought it made him look all the better. I liked the finishing segment too.

How much better would have this been if it ended with Paul Bearer managing Michaels for a night.

I think almost all of us are in the same boat, though most of us realize why they're doing what they're doing. I applaud your directness on this matter though.

I don't think it is an issue at all, but something to examine and really look at, in part because we do have so much weekly tv so we can see how it was utilized and handled on a week to week basis.

Perfect's face offense in 93 is a lot better than his heel offense in 89-91. You can see it in the Doink series really well. He was probably the most over guy on the roster in January 1993, so it's a bit of a shame they didn't run with him more.

I do think there's a lot to say about the 2/3 fall structure in Portland because it's this crazy combo of them using it and them having to pull it out almost weekly in front of the same crowds, so they had to switch up structures and stories and finishes and format. This is true in both tags and singles.

At some point Cena has to get his win back from Bryan, right? I'm just saying.

Of course, 92. I am all over this place this week.

So, there was a ton of talk about Bret Hart jumping to WCW, MAYBE with the IC Title at the January 1991 Clash, with the only reason he didn't (per Meltz) because his contract rolled over and he didn't realize. What the heck would have they done with him in 91?

I feel like she got humiliated a lot between 00 and 02. Did it happen much after that?

I think for the longest time it was because she was in charge of the writing team, and one thing I've gotten from hearing interviews from former writers over the years it was that they weren't trying to make a solid product but instead please Vince and/or Steph at every turn.

The stories that people never got out of that guy.

Weren't you paying attention? The NWO sabotaged his personal bus.

I think the idea is that the WWE Universe is already tuned in regardless and pushing Batista might draw in some lapsed fans or people who aren't Cornette's hardcore fans or whatever he called them. http://pwchronicle.blogspot.com/2006/01/an...our-groups.html

What's MVP doing these days? He'd be a good guy to use as a surprise.

We should really do a "debunked accepted stories" note.

I would like some clarification on youtube embedding once we move forward. I know that DVDVR is a bit more lax in what they let people post and traditionally for both reasons of caution and principle, it's been a bit stricter.

I know I saw at least one of them elsewhere which inspired me to mention them in the first place. Warrior's full one is another story though.

Any reason why? On a separate note, I've been thinking a lot about hashtags and I do think there are some very cool things we can do there. There's a juvenile subconscious thing where you might post differently in order to garner likes. I think it has led to some of the trolling over on DVDVR and less genuine posting. It's not a huge thing but I don't see that as necessary here. I'm not saying there's necessarily something more academic and adult and mature about this place, but the level of discourse is pretty high and I don't think inviting that level of sophomoric popularity pushes is necessarily a good thing.

i'll be honest. I've learned from what happened at DVDVR and I've been backing up some of my ridiculous write ups elsewhere. I think, maybe, if you do upgrade, it might be best to disable the "like" functionality. We just don't need that here.