Matt D

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

I felt bad for Will for having faith in his committee during the Adonis vs Hogan match. (Granted, on my draft list that comes in at 138 for me).

I feel bad doing this to Dylan since we've been in agreement in a lot lately, but My pick's going to be Real World Tag League AJPW - Funks vs Can Am Connection: 11/22/86 (I think it aired 11/29, but there's only one and it's not hard to find). I think this match tells a great story based around Zenk being the odd man out and how the Funks decide to deal with that and then how Martel responds. I might hotshot it up in between the two JCP matches to keep things fresh, but we'll see.

Do they release the full HOF night on DVD now? As things stand now, we wouldn't even get Backlund's induction in the hour version.

Obviously the PWO podcast should be called the PWOdcast.

We should come up with a pool for when he quits.

Honestly, the live reaction is the only worry and these are the die-hard NYC fans. I think even the kids will be okay. Who cares what the order is for the TV ratings.

I actually think they should do Rey vs Henry at EC, or even Rey + Cara vs Henry.

I think Foley would step aside for Bruno, no? He grew up watching New York wrestling in the late 70s and early 80s.

It's not like Lanny didn't wrestle a ton of matches at MSG either.

Honestly? My guess is that he's on the way out and will put over Ryback at Mania. They'll put him over someone at the PPV to build him up and then feed him to Ryback.

When does he start hyping his softball team?

All around I think the answer is yes if we are looking at the last two years or so. I'm not sure anyone is a better promo. No one is a better character. There are one or two guys you argue are better in the ring, but I'm not sure I'd buy it. Who agrees?

So according to Dylan, Henry is the best wrestler on the WWE roster?

Show's had a monster two years, no?

Who on the roster is better than Henry right now? Bryan? Rey? Anyone else?