Matt D

When and where was Ox Baker on top the most?

How did the PYTs come about? I missed a show in there. Austin was part of the First Family and turned on the Bruise Brothers to help out Stagger Lee(Koko). the team up for a few weeks and seem set to feud with Hart's repackaged Bruise Brothers (the New Fabs). And the next thing I know, they're heels and with Hart again feuding with the "real" New Fabs.

This is pretty much it. I'm going to try to tackle exactly what WWECW was in its last year and why it was so unique in the WWECW note later. No reason to bog this down here.

Has a TV champ ever really anchored a TV show before? The closest I can think of is Austin who would have defenses pretty much every week for the second half of 91, usually on multiple of the WCW shows. I really see Christian on ECW as the ace of one of the smaller territories in 1980 or whatever.

Regal makes an interesting Bill Dundee

I am so glad Bix watches the divas show so I don't have to.

WWECW had about the same talent pool, relative to what was out there nationally as, oh, let's say early-mid 80s Memphis.

He was the Ace for a TV show for a year.

Has wrestling really changed in the last five years? The brand split basically ended. We have a bunch of new B-C shows. There's much more of a web/digital/app presence. We sort of hit the nadir of WWE PG and came back out somewhat.

I've never seen a week-to-week babyface in WWE better than Christian in 09. I will admit to having missed some of Rey's mid 00s runs. He was putting on a TV performance in ring each and every week like no one, ever.

This gave me a genuine lol in real life. "All of youse are pussies. No i'm kidding."

I don't think Bryan has been built properly though. He was in a tag team role for a year and boom... #1 contender. I agree Christian was there in 2011 but as we have seen with Mark Henry, a guy can be repackaged and voila, championship material. Christians look has zero to do with if he is championship material. Hornswaggle could be built to be championship material. It would take some genius booking but I think it's doable. Wrestling is fiction. You can tell just about any story if you do it well enough. Also, Christian was the best babyface in the company in 2009 and is one of the best babyfaces in the history of the company. He was so good at putting together matches, building on the previous matches, working heat segments and getting the crowd behind him. Jimmy Redman is nuts.

I don't fit it all in. That is why I am always behind on my projects Seriously, I just Take out blocks of time and work out a schedule with the wife. Plus, we don't watch the same tv shows so if she is watching Lifetime or some shit, I sneak away and watch wrestling. With the baby, half the time he is sitting on my lap while I am working on sets anyway. Oh I'd definitely never be able to get away with it if my wife didn't watch NCIS and Criminal Minds and Covert Affairs and whatever.

To me, the issue with Christian is that he hasn't been properly built to the role where Punk and Bryan were. That said, Christian WAS built much better for it in 2011 and then they blew that, which again is part of the problem. THAT said, a lot of people seem to argue it on other lines. They're wrong.

Matchwise was limited due to Ladd being limited in what he could do as a worker but they traded great promos and the deal where Ladd turned on Dusty in Florida was fantastic. You think Ladd was limited? Really? I've see stuff with him from the early 80s where I wouldn't call him limited at all. The guy was really good in making the most out of what he had in the ring, much better at it than, let's say Dusty from the same era.

Were Ladd vs Dusty matches awesome?

Part of me seriously wishes that they ran Winner of Hogan v Slaughter v Winner of Warrior v Savage as the real main event of WMVII. I think the innate promise of Warrior vs Hogan II would have helped to sell tickets and that card could easily lose the horrible Bravo vs Texas Tornado match and probably a few others. On some level it bugged me that Slaughter promised Savage a title shot and the poor bastard never got it.

Not to derail immediately, but I just don't know this. Who was Dusty's main heel opponent in Florida before Sullivan? He went face in what, 74? Sullivan's not the guy until 80/81 right? Can we break this up by region pretty easily? Andersons; Flair and Valentine; Heenan, Bockwinkel and Stevens; Graham; Mongolian Stomper; Rose and Wiskowski Patterson turned face in the early 70s right? Lawler was a face from 74-79? Farhat wasn't really a big draw once you hit the mid 70s? I've got more questions than answers I guess.

There's also a sense of him giving ADR the win back from a couple of years ago.

I have some room to at least LISTEN to wrestling at work, which is a perfectly viable way to "watch" old Superstars/Wrestling Challenge and especially old Memphis TV. When I was going through 90s WWF (and i still am somewhat) I'd watch fancams/coliseum matches/feature Raw+superstars+WC+mania matches/ppvs while on the bike and the rest of Raws/Superstars/WCs at work.

A Time Machine

Apparently the Augean stables are in New Jersey.

I do an exercise bike every other night for an hour. The idea is that my wife will exercise on alternating nights and I will watch the baby. That gives me three-five hours a week to watch stuff.

Dylan's crazy quest has made him the pageboy to the stars. It's like the Labors of Hercules.

I certainly don't think he's looked good during the first half of the year. Are people arguing that he did?