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So this isn't a "Holy Grail" necessarily because we know this aired on tv (the 9/30/00 CMLL TV), but it is something I've always wanted to see, that I've never seen or come across a review of. Has anyone actually seen the 2000 CMLL Aniversario main event? Casas vs Wagner, Jr. in the Leyenda de Plata finals. Is it, you know, good? EDIT: FYI Cubsfan thinks that the TV was possibly preempted by the Olympics which is why we don't have it.

The ads all have music in the background so they are very easy to skip.

They could call it "a podcast with subtitles."

My gut tells me that the Springboard Stunner only worked with Owens because of Owens' larger size.

@khawk20 Flagging you on the Outlaws match. Write up says it's probably not new, but I don't think I've seen it.

I'm half watching things here. They should bring Jack Swagger back and let Shawn be the new Dutch. That's what he's going for with that look, right?

I loved all the time he spent with the fans there.

https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-network-celebrates-5th-birthday-with-full-shows-and-throwback-lineup Looks like they're celebrating with a Best Of on the live feed primarily.

We appreciate him more than most! 210) Nigel McGuinness (550 points, 18 ballots, 70.89 avg, high: 4 - ShittyLittleBoots, 2006: unranked) 209) Tomohiro Ishii (557 points, 16 ballots, 66.19 avg, high: 20 - Alan Counihan, 2006: unranked) 208) Osamu Nishimra (574 points, 16 ballots, 65.13 avg, high: 35 - anonymous, 2006: honorable mention) 207) Seth Rollins (580 points, 22 ballots, 74.64 avg, high: 48 - DMJ & anonymous; 2006: unranked) 206) Kota Ibushi (592 points, 20 ballots, 71.40 avg, high: 14 - The Great Puma; 2006: unranked) 205) Pat O'Connor (597 points, 14 ballots, 58.36 avg, high: 28 - simen oem; 2006: honorable mention) 204) Daisuke Sekimoto (597 points, 12 ballots, 51.25 avg, high: 10 - Alan Counihan; 2006: unranked) 203) Big Show (612 points, 21 ballots, 51.25 avg, high: 38 - topropepodcast, 2006: honorable mention) 202) Christopher Daniels (612 points, 19 ballots, 68.79 avg, high: 20 - anonymous, 2006: honorable mention) 201) Cima (613 points, 17 ballots, 64.94 avg, high: 13 - anonymous, 2006: honorable mention)

WWE's not on the ball with this, but tomorrow's the 5th anniversary of the Network. I'd say it became much more of what I wanted it to be in the last year with the advent of the weekly hidden gems.

It's silent but it's very vivid, with entrances and some awesome post-match footage. (You still can't entirely see the crowd).

Ok, the Monroe match is up. Solid VQ. A ~37 year old Solie is commentating. From the 3/26/66 tv show, which also had a Lothario match on it. Hopefully they have that too. Seeing a 32 year old Lothario would be awesome.

Ed Harris needs to hit the roids to play Verne.

Looks like we might get an extra 3 minutes of it though?

Isn't part of the deal that Vince legitimately sees Hardy as a star in a way he doesn't a lot of the guys on the current roster?

They could probably get away with Kofi vs Bryan at Mania. Though they sort of did almost everything they could do in ring (with Kofi) here.

I'd argue that them doing something like that now and again sort of helps everything not seem so overproduced.

Bryan has to be loving it.

Kids are down so I'm just tuning in ~10 mins ago. This has to be ending relatively soon just from the ebb and flow. How is there so much time left on this? Is there a Rollins thing I don't know about or something?

I kind of believe the lights will go out and Bray will show up or something. That's about the company's speed.

re: Flair vs Valentine. I have no idea whether we had this or not, but the angle leading up to this series sounds pretty cool. http://www.midatlanticgateway.com/2016/08/dream-team-part-6.html http://www.midatlanticgateway.com/2016/08/dream-team-part-7.html There's audio on those two pages. Reference for the second page: The 60 minute draw between the two was 5/25. The promo is 5/28. The Valentine swerve came on 6/8. The match is 7/17.

Plus however long he did commentary too, no?

Thanks to you guys, I've listened to the WWE signing and first year episode and now am mostly through the AWA one. I haven't loved the specific PPV episodes (there just isn't enough bang for your buck in those) but the more general thematic ones are pretty good. I'll probably listen to the Mean Gene tribute before going somewhere else (like trying to get back to the Fuller podcast).

Hopefully we get a Morales collection.

Ladd's great. We covered that this week. http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-footage-friday-johnny-smith-miracle.html?m=1