Matt D

Who innovated the heel color role? Piper in Mid-Atlantic?

Now I want Regal to accompany Bryan to one of his matches vs Orton to help fight off the Shield only to turn on him since Bryan is getting what Regal never had. They could have a great little two month feud to tide things over before the December HHH match to earn the Rumble spot that I (and apparently no one else) seem to want to have happen.

You know, Dustin really never main evented for any length of time. I think he had one In Your House vs Taker main event, a War Games and Thundercage over in WCW.

It means a lot more if you watch the two matches previously. They pull spots and counters and even themes from the earlier matches.

I do not know about Eaton. He had the king gimmick in memphis briefly, main evented vs Bill Watts and had the Clash match vs Flair. It isn't Hogan level or anything but three runs in three territories is notable.

I'll go into this more tomorrow but part of my love for Gorilla (And I understand the knocks) is because he reminds me of my late grandfather so I can kind of get that.

Big match feel is the WORST

Actually, yeah, I won't make my own list but i was surprised to see Caudle so high. There are guys who I am excited when I find out they're commentating something (Cornette is one) but Caudle is someone I'm always disappointed about.

Does Rip Rogers count? He main evented the Maritimes, Global, Poffo's ICW maybe? Wherever that Adrian Street feud was?

how do we define main eventer? One main event program (Morton, who might have had more if we count Mid-South)? Multiple main event programs with different people? Over different years?

Bix sparring with the crowd over the announcers was great entertainment. Was there a reason you didn't rate Heyman? I didn't see an explanation there and he is one of my favorite color guys. Was it lack of longevity? That's the problem with Bock too. I've been thoroughly enjoying Bonnema. Any thoughts there? I really love Bill Watts as an announcer too.

What's the cut off date? Because after 91 or so, the answer is almost everyone. Hall, Nash, Austin, Foley, Dustin, Jarrett, etc, etc. Maybe not Mero.

You are a scholar and a gentleman. I know you've held off on the Colossal Connection MSG match and are kind of dreading it but I really enjoyed it. I'll post my thoughts for whenever you get to it. I'll also post my Twin Towers write ups later. I know you didn't like the one match you saw of theirs, but I think it's some of the best babyface Demolition stuff in part because they don't eat them alive. SOMEONE earlier in this post thought they gave them way too much actually, because they wanted more of a LOD style match. Actually, forget that I'll just post this. It has MOST of the reviews until the DVDVR archive comes back: http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/demolitionproject.htm

Big Bubba is the answer to that.

Honestly, the Polka Dots help his mythos. Steamboat being the one behind the Dragon costume is much more confusing.

Piper vs Rip Rogers popped up on youtube this week. I suggest everyone check it out. It's only 7 minutes or so but I think it's great. There's also a Battle Royal with Piper from later in that same night where you can really see what made him special in 1980. The promo in between the two is very solid too.

Sarge really doesn't get credit as a worker. Dave hated him in 90-91 when he was really working his ass off and obviously his earlier runs are his earlier runs.

I think Luger's WWF run is hugely underrated. He was very effective in there vs Bret/Perfect/etc as a heel and I think everyone who went through the 93 year book (if you read those posts) talked about how well built Summerslam was. They just didn't pull the trigger.

There's an alternate reality where Windham is in the Zeus role in 89.

Every pro hates him for being a shitty payoff guy so no one in the business has anything good to say about him?

And since we're in touch with each other, someone whose opinion he would have trusted would have said "Hey! You should check this out!" and he would have. So he might have missed the ground floor but not anything else. Far less grief than if he had been tuned in the whole time and it was horrible.

I would probably listen to the opinion of almost anyone here, whether they've seen whatever it is or not if I think they've educated. I'm not saying i'd agree with that opinion. I will say, however, that I'd probably be more interested in what most people here have to say after reading the Smackdown spoilers than I do at what Johnny has to say after WATCHING smackdown because he's been so absurdly positive at everything this year that I don't need to read what he has to say in order to know what he's going to say.

Ken Patera deserves extra points for his role getting Flair into the business

Now you need to act as middleman so Will and his wrestling conglomerate can purchase all of this footage from Color Vision.

I can't imagine they'd put Goldust over the champ in this setting. Maybe if BD costs Orton the match it'd be good.