Matt D

Still top 5 though, baby! It is actually kind of surprising how thin the elite US tag teams are. I agree those were two other teams I would put in my Top 5. Tully & Arn have longevity issues and Fantastics while they were great with MX, I can't think of many other tag matches they had were great with different teams. I think those are easier arguments for the Rockers, but I would not begrudge anyone having those teams over the Rockers. So where do the High Flyers rate vs the Rockers now? I wish we had more (any) Hennig/Race, and more Valentine/Flair and more 70s Bock/Stevens.

Can I vote Arn?

Is Dusty still polarizing? I think most of us love him in our own way. We're a long way from 1987.

He decimated his leg!

Did they make any of those titles for him or were they preexisting?

Where did this comparison come from?

To be fair, Morton > Michaels but Jannetty > Gibson so much more that I should probably have voted Rockers. The math just isn't that simple though.

Can you tell from watching this that Wilkes doesn't have a tricep?

I'm going with Ricky and Robert. Shawn has a tendency of letting his ego get in the way of things (not often but enough) and Ricky realized more than anyone in the history of wrestling that the better you make your opponents look, the more it means when you get the advantage on them.

Did he ever get the chance to? Was he just content in his fiefdom? Were the bigger players just uninterested in him or did he just come along at the wrong time?

Can Knobbs fit through the door of a dive bar right now?

I contacted him through FB when I had to get a fact checked for what I wrote about Buddy in 79.

One reason why i never seriously get into these discussions is that I always lean towards the novelty stuff. With Hart, I swear the first thing that comes to mind isn't Memphis but him coming up with so many songs. With Koloff, I immediately wanted to know who he trained. With Wahoo, you hear so much about him teaching guys the ins and the outs of the business and serving as a mentor and helping guys get jobs later and what not. Hell, with Patera, I mentioned there'd be no Flair without Patera. I am useless to meaningful conversation here.

I realized I had never seen Royal Rumble 1988 so I'm watching that. I actually quite liked the Rude vs Steamboat match though i don't think Rude was 100% there yet. I was disappointed by Glamour Girls vs Jumping Bomb Angels but thought that the best performance in the match was EASILY Judy Martin.

To me a lot of Okerland is how much he actually "produced" the guys he was interviewing during those marathon sessions and whether people think that those local promos actually drew people in to shows in 1984-5-6-7 or so.

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?