Matt D

I think you're getting Periscope and Microscope confused. The microscope is not a mobile wrestling watching submarine.

I look forward to listening and babbling here about it on Monday.

I had Savage and Warrior as a 9 year old. What? I did.

There is a pretty good Martel shoot out there.

Pride

That set needs more Jack Hart.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/11/22/25...main-event-push it's more even than I said, but still.

What about that Cageside Seats post last year? The one where 90% of a ton of comments were fervently anti henry.

Is there other stuff the guy has that you don't?

With me inserting mine between the two JCPs, we'd have 2/10/13: 11/23/1989 WWF Survivor Series Elimination Match: The Ultimate Warriors (Ultimate Warrior/Jim Neidhart/Rockers) vs. The Heenan Family (Andre the Giant/Haku/Arn Anderson/Bobby Heenan) (Grimmas) 2/17/13: Stan Hansen v. Carlos Colon - Bullrope match WWC (Dylan) 2/24/13: The Fantastics vs. Eddie Gilbert and Ron Simmons - Clash 4 (JvK) 3/3/13: Funks vs Can Am Connection: 11/22/86 (Me) 3/10/13: Murdoch and Koloff vs. Windham and Garvin - 3/14/87 (Mike Campbell) 3/17/13: Chicky Starr vs. Invader III (Will) Which means we have an All Japan - WWF - PR - JCP - All Japan - JCP - PR cycle here. I think that's not so bad and it takes us into Mid March.

What's the deal with Grundy?

There really is something to that. The Bossman turn, the end of the Savage/Dusty feud, Dustin's debut, the Undertaker's debut, Perfect getting the belt back, one of Warrior's biggest title defenses.

No, no. that's what brickhithead would think seeing the first match and knowing NOTHING about the AWA. I know I'm no Dave Musgrave or Jack Benny here but come on.

"Why is this hairy dickhead fighting this giant normal sized hairy dwarf?"

I am going to relook at a few of these matches because of this. I know I put that Hogan vs Bock was everything I wanted from the two.

You guys should watch A Night at the Opera next. Screw Bock vs Wahoo.

On the assumption that the match order is correct (and i never doubted it. Can we get Kevin to confirm?), it makes sense to me that the crowd would be sort of dead for the Martel match. I'd be burnt out too. To me, it was a great early use of the King of the Hill (in Bock was so flustered by Martel's barrage that he HAD to toss him out), the crazy test of strength of doom, and the ending was fun since Martel didn't seem to know how to put him away so Bock just held on til he made a mistake. That said, Bockwinkel and Martel have 3 matches together that are better yet to come on the set, including my working #4, #5, and #16, while this one doesn't make my working top 50. The Six Man is my working #24 and the (so-called) Taped Fist match is my working #41. In case anyone cares.

Johnny fucking up the Color Commentary replay was great. To be fair, my ratings when i went through back in July or whenever were 1. Ken Patera, Jesse Ventura & Bobby Heenan vs. Hulk Hogan & High Flyers (3/13/83) 2. Crusher Blackwell & Sheik Adnan Kaissey vs. Baron Von Raschke & Mad Dog Vachon (Taped Fist Match) (3/13/83) 3. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Rick Martel (3/13/83) 4. Nick Bockwinkel vs. Hulk Hogan (4/24/83) 5. Ken Patera & Jesse Ventura vs. Hulk Hogan & Mad Dog Vachon (1/16/83) 6. Crusher Blackwell & Sheik Adnan Kaissey vs. Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon (4/24/83) 7. Adrian Adonis vs. Hulk Hogan (10/17/82) which give or take SOME shifting I'm not far off a lot of you guys. It makes sense to me that I pushed Martel a little higher and the Verne match a little lower. So it might just be these matches.

So has Chad followed up on the Jack Benny issue. There are episodes on netflix streaming. They've aged pretty amazingly. I forced the 10 year old to watch them a few weeks ago.

Honestly? Having seen a lot of heel Martel, I don't think it holds a candle to his babyface stuff. I know people talk about Heel Hennig not being nearly as good as face Hennig but I think Martel is far worse off in that regard.

You guys did not appreciate that Test of Strength nearly enough, though the Barnett reference was hilarious. Ok you guys are turning the corner on it, at least. Look at the DVDVR note. It's all we wanted to talk about.

"Come on hippy!" Johnny gets no respect. Love but no respect.

The Mad Dog + Hogan joke was pretty great. That was probably my favorite exasperated Kent announced match so you guys missed out there. He went as nuts about the eye rake as you guys did. Also, the thing re: Tenta isn't necessarily that his stuff is different than we remember when we were younger but that we've all changed as watchers since then. We value different things as a community than we once did. That's just my theory.

Looking at my list, it might slip down a few spots, but just a few. I don't know how much thought I'm going to put into spot #142, you know? I kind of like Kent relative to a lot of the other guys on there. The one match on the set with the worst commentary is the Marshall overlay on the 83 Hogan/Bock match. My god.

I do love that it really is sort of a Wrestling Podcast All Star Team