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Baba and Hansen are one of my favorite teams ever. Their whole run in the Tag League was just fun pro wrestling.

Everyone in this thread should see the WWF segment from when Randy Savage first started with him being the hottest free agent. They had Savage and a bunch of managers in a room all pleading their case on why he should sign with them. Jimmy Hart went with the direction of not spending a ton of money but saving it. Blassie talked about how Macho can live it up and be rich. It was a really cool segment and instantly put Savage over, plus gave us some cool insight on the world of managers. There is also another really good segment that everyone should see. It happened around 1992/1993 with a behind the scenes look at Jimmy Hart on a Coliseum video. They showed him booking travel plans for his crew, helping them find their gear and keeping the Nasty Boys out of trouble. They should have done more of those segments. I never had a problem with wrestlers getting traded from one manager to another. I always just thought of it as a manager in sports trading one of his players to another team for some funds or another player. Pat Patterson refusing to work for Albano was a really cool angle that I'm glad was brought up. I really liked the comment about everyone in the WWE having open contracts for shows with the GM's setting things up if they don't set something up themselves. They should explain that on TV sometime. I'm really glad Paul E is back and giving us some tastes of having manager's again. He is the best non-wrestler in the world and is definitely up for the GOAT status for managers. I wish we would have more of them though and I do hope he crosses paths with Zeb sometime. I also really want to see a face manager again. They are rare but they could grab a vet, who they already have signed, put him out there and have him talk for his guy along with taking an odd shot or two and maybe even doing a match for an angle. Managers are just great. They can: - Do any storyline or angle - Be involved in multiple things at one time - Be a priceless tool for getting over wrestlers - Have matches provided their health is okay - Do commentary! At best, manager's like Jimmy Hart were even the top star's in their territory for a period of time.

I reviewed Summerslam with pics and gifs here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/ww...and-review.html Overall thoughts: Great show with many good matches. Check this out, especially Brock vs Punk! Some shots from the show:

Not sure, but it's not looking good. Last night they had on all repeats. Hoping for new episodes next Monday.

No Mercy will always be #1. It was the ultimate multi-player wrestling game. My cousins and I spent hours winning the belts off of each other and creating total mayhem. I had two memorable No Mercy moments: - My cousin and I formed a team and were beating his annoying neighbor soundly in a handicap match. We were being total jerks and just hitting him with everything for over 30 minutes straight without him getting anything in. We could have pinned him anytime we wanted. Near the end of the match, I tried for some move and he somehow reversed it into a cradle to win it. We got owned, but I even had to give him credit for that. - I finally had Farooq and Bradshaw almost finished in the terribly hard No-DQ handicap match in the parking lot that had to be completed in No Mercy. This was legit super hard and usually resulted in me getting my butt kicked 11 times out of 10. Anyway, I finally had them this time as I stuck to cheap mid-section kicks and irishwhipping them very far distances, which spread them far away. I was getting close to the win and one of my cousins trips over the cord to the N64. The game immediately shut off and all of my progress was lost. I also really enjoyed WCW/NWO world tour due to the insane amount of wrestlers on it. I had tons of fun with The Claw, Gran Naniwa. I also got a kick out of winning belts. I have fond memories of Wrestlefest, but I sucked at it. The last WWE game I really loved was Here Comes the Pain. Brock was a beast in it and I really loved the different area's you could fight in. After HCTP, I played some but never got into them. I really hated the Smackdown vs Raw series and I just have no interest any more. I also refuse to buy a PS3 until the PS4 comes out.

I reviewed the G1 Finals here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/nj...y-9-finals.html Overall thoughts - This was a great night of wrestling. There were multiple good matches and a good crowd. I was very disappointed by Tanahashi/Shibata but hopefully they will meet again. As a whole, the tournament has been pretty great but there were clearly "big show" days and "house show" days. Still, we got the amazing Shibata/Ishii spectacle and the fabulous Tanahashi/Ishii battle. This was a great G1 and quite possibly the best G1 yet. Some shots from the show:

I reviewed Day 8 of the NJPW G1 Climax 2013 here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/nj...and-review.html Overall thoughts: There was sadly more bad than good on this show. The main was good and should be seen and I liked Ishii's match, but Ibushi was awful and the usual suspects weren't much better in the bad match department. The crowd wasn't totally there until the end though and I didn't like NJPW leaving Shibata totally off the card due to Goto's injury. Some shots from the show:

I reviewed Day 7 of the G1 Climax here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/nj...and-review.html Overall thoughts: This was one of the lesser days of the G1. There were only two matches I liked here and I just was not into this one at all. This one also had a house show type of feel to it. Some shots from the show:

I reviewed Day 6 of the G1 Climax here(Yeah, I know, I'm a few days behind): http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/nj...esults-and.html Overall thoughts: Good show overall with Ishii/Davey being the highlight. Okada/Shibata and Goto/Tanahashi were disappointing though. Some shots from the show:

You will watch TWO Tug Taylor matches and LIKE IT. I love Tug actually. He's no superworker but he takes some good bumps and is fun as a low-rent cousin of Typhoon. I'd love to get a Tug Taylor discussion going, but I and I don't think many others would have alot to say. The Legends thing is all about how you look at it. With their format, you get more matches, but they are clipped up. I'd honestly rather get the clips as atleast I can feel I saw a match even if I only saw half of it. I think we wouldn't see a lot of the matches we saw without the format.

Why couldn't something like the GWF work today? Put in on ESPN Classic or something, put it in the Philadelphia area where most indy workers are located anyway, stick with taped shows and keep the budget low with workers on a per show deal. It would have to get better ratings than alot of the b and c sports channels shows and it really should be ALOT cheaper to produce than other programming.

It's the 94 Disc set I have from BottomlessJack. It's on the listings I posted above.

Listings through some of 8/7/13 - This is a work in progress GWF on ESPN Disk 1 Show 1 - Supercard Mad Dog Billy vs The Crusher Calvin Knapp vs Steven Dane Booker T vs Alex Porteau Stevie Ray vs The Angel of Death The Tribal Nation vs Rod Price and John Tatum Show 2 - Supercard The Ebony Experience vs Kit Carson and Billy Steel TV Title - Mike Davis vs Manuel Villalobos Mike Davis vs Steve Simpson Mike Lane vs Johnny Hawk Shawn Simpson Promo Show 3 - Supercard Legends of Professional Wrestling Chaz and Terry Garvin vs The Davis Brothers Shaun Summers vs The Handsome Stranger Sam Houston vs Eddie Gilbert The Renegade Warriors vs Butch Blackheart and Tony George Ben Jordan vs Bull Pain The Dogs of War vs Black Bart and Rattlesnake Buster Blackheart vs Sam Houston Barry Horowitz and Ed Robinson vs Tug Taylor and Terry Garvin Show 4 - Major League Wrestling Barry Horowitz vs Terry Daniels Sam Houston vs Bull Pain Scott Anthony Rap with Bonnie Blackstone North American Title - Scott Anthony vs The Patriot 12/1991 - Light Heavyweight Title - Lightning Kid vs Chaz Rod Price and John Tatum Promo with Scandor Akbar and Bonnie Blackstone Tag Titles - Steve Simpson and Scott Putski vs John Tatum and Rod Price GWF on ESPN Disc 2 (Continued from Disk 1) 12/1991 -The Patriot vs Al Perez (Continued from Disk 1) 7/1991 JIP - Lightning Kid vs Jerry Lynn (Continued from Disk 1) 8/10/1991 - JIP - Terry Gordy vs Cactus Jack Show 5 - Supercard Manuel Villalobos vs Alex Porteau Nacona vs Steven Dane Terry Sims vs Billy Steel Ebony Experience vs The Rotten Brothers Steven Dane vs Booker T Gary Hart/Booker T promo with Sebastian Show 6 - Supercard End of John Tatum vs Steve Simpson - Mike Davis gets kicked Jackie Goldman says he will put John Tatum in Spartacus 2 Calvin Knapp vs Mike Lane - Announcers mention Knapp was 1992 Rookie of the Year Booker T vs The Super Destroyer Tribal Nation vs The Rotten Brothers Mike Davis vs John Tatum Mike Davis promo Show 7 - Legends of Professional Wrestling TV Title Match - 2/3 Falls - Fans check Eddie for weapons - Eddie Gilbert vs Terry Garvin - Scott Johnson and Bruce Prichard on commentary 2/3 Falls - Lightning Kid vs Jerry Lynn - JIP 2nd Fall Major League Wrestling - 2/3 Falls - JIP -The Patriot vs Scott Anthony 2/3 Falls - California Connection (Rod Price and John Tatum0 vs The Wild Bunch (Wild Bill Irwin and Black Bart) Show 8 - Legends of Professional Wrestling Major League Wrestling - Tony George and Mike Stetson vs Tug Taylor and Chaz Major League Wrestling - Scott Putski vs Sweet Daddy Falcone Major League Wrestling - Gary Young vs The Dark Patriot TV Title - Eddie Gilbert vs Terry Garvin Major League Wrestling - Gary Young and Scott Putski vs The Davis Brothers Disk 3 (continued from disk 2) Major League Wrestling - Gary Young and Scott Putski vs The Davis Brothers Chaz vs Billy Joe Travis Major League Wrestling - Eddie Gilbert and Barry Horowitz vs Larry Green and Rick Garren Show 9 - Legends of Professonal Wrestling Major League Wrestling - Gary Young and Lou Spicolli vs Brute Forz(Brute Force) - Amazing haircuts Major League Wrestling - Chaz vs Bull Pain Texas Death Match? - Wild Bill Irwin vs Black Bart Major League Wrestling - Billy Joe Travis vs Terry Garvin Tom Davis vs Gary Young Scott Putski vs Barry Horowitz Bull Pain and Samantha vs Sam Houston and Candy Devine Disk 4 Show 10 -Supercard Finish of Destroyer vs Booker T from GWF Supercard Booker T and Doyle King doing the intro - T threatens Sebastian Terry Simms vs The Super Destroyer Billy Steel vs Francis Crybaby Buxton Steve Simpson vs Steven Dane Booker T vs Alex Porteau Show 11 - Supercard Intro - Doyle King and The Super Destroyer -SD promises more SD's Calvin Knapp and Manuel Villalobos vs The Rotten Brothers Lady K vs The Blue Angel JIP - Mike Davis vs John Tatum Grudge Match - Mike Davis vs John Tatum The Super Destroyer and Steven Dane vs Booker T and Rod Price - Stevie Ray got injured by Tim Brooks on a previous episode Show 12 - Legends of Professional Wrestling Intro - Doyle King and Skandor Akbar 1992 - Top Ten Challenge - Heavyweight Title Tournament - Eddie Gilbert vs Barry Horowitz Sam Houston wishes Scott Putski luck 1992 - Top Ten Challenge - Heavyweight Title Tournament - Scott Putski vs Sam Houston Black Bart wants to skin Rattlesnake 1992 - Top Ten Challenge - Heavyweight Title Tournament - Black Bart vs Rattlesnake(subbing for Bill Irwin) Bull Pain interview 1992 - Top Ten Challenge - Heavyweight Title Tournament - Bull Pain vs Terry Garvin 1992 - Top Ten Challenge - Heavyweight Title Tournament - Black Bart vs Scott Putski 1992 - Top Ten Challenge - Heavyweight Title Tournament -Scott Putski vs Eddie Gilbert 1992 - Top Ten Challenge - Heavyweight Title Tournament - Eddie Gilbert vs The Dark Patriot Show 13 - Super Card Clips from Super Destroyer and Steven Dane vs Rod Price and Booker T Intro - Doyle King w/ The Ebony Experience Chad Starr vs Axel Rotten The Angel of Death vs Nacona Calvin Knapp vs Kit Carson The Ebony Experience vs Steven Dane and Alex Porteau Disk 5 Continued from Disk 4 - The Ebony Experience vs Steven Dane and Alex Porteau Show 14 - Super Card Intro w/ Doyle King, John Hawk and Bobby Duncum Jr. Francis Buxton vs Mike Davis and Brandon Baxter Calvin Knapp vs Alex Porteau GWF Title - Rod Price vs Steve Simpson The Texas Mustangs - John Hawk and Bobby Duncum Jr vs The Rotten Brothers - Tribal Nation get a deal to take the match instead for $7,000 The Texas Mustangs - John Hawk and Bobby Duncum Jr. vs The Rotten Brothers Tribal Nation interview Show 15 -Legends of Professional Wrestling Intro with Doyle King and Skandor Akbar Major League Wrestling - Gary Young and Scott Putski vs John Tatum and Rod Price Slammer vs The Patriot Major League Wrestling – Big Bad John vs Eddie Gilbert Major League Wrestling – Brute Forcz vs The Taylors – Chaz and Tug Taylor Lightweight Title - Barry Horowitz vs Ben Jordan Patriot gets 5 min. with Prichard if he wins - The Patriot vs The Dark Patriot Show 16 - Supercard Clips with Fernandez talking to the ref during a Steve Simpson vs Mike Davis Match Intro w/ Doyle King and Steve Simpson The Super Destroyer vs Chaz Junior Hernandez vs Alex Porteau Bobby Duncum and John Hawk vs The Bad Breed/Rotten Brothers Steven Dane vs Calvin Knapp Steve Simpson vs John Tatum John Tatum interview Show 17 - Supercard Lightweight Title - Mike Dahl vs Alex Porteau Mike Davis vs Steve Simpson Bull Man Downs vs Calvin Knapp Rod Price vs John Hawk Show 18 - Supercard Intro w/ Doyle King, Ebony Experience Phantom X vs Kit Carson Calvin Knapp vs Mike Lane Butch Reed vs Rod Price The Ebony Experience vs The Bad Breed/Rotten Brothers Bad Breed Interview - "If stupidity was a crime, you'd be put on death row" Disk 6 Show 19 - Supercard Repeat promo from Nacona getting a haircut from Price and Tatum Rude Dog vs Nacona Ebony Experience vs Steven Dane and Alex Porteau Rainbow Brown vs Nuke John Tatum and Rod Price vs The Tribal Nation Show 20 – Supercard (They mention Global Gold night the previous week with Price in a title match with Brody Powers) Intro w/ Doyle King ,Rod Prince, Gary Hart and Sebastian Non-Title - Mike Dahl vs Alex Porteau Francis Crybaby Buxton vs Manuel Villalobos Chaz vs Mike Davis Brave Sky vs John Tatum Rod Price vs Al Perez Show 21 - Supercard Clips from Jerry Simms vs Alex Porteau – Porteau talks about being Simms - 3 and 2 weeks ago Francis Crybaby Buxton vs Larry Green Jack Victory vs John Tatum The Tribal Nation vs Nick Golden and Dusty Wolfe Steve Dahl vs Alex Porteau The Ebony Experience vs Black Bart and Johnny Matell Ebony Experience Promo Show 22 – Supercard Repeat of Show 16 Show 23 – Legends of Professional Wrestling This episode has matches from the GWF pilot episode taped on 12/28/1990 from USWA Texas. 12/28/90 - Eric Embry vs Bill Dundee 12/28/90 - Steve Austin vs Danny Davis 12/28/90 - Jeff Jarrett vs Eddie Gilbert Gary Young and Eric Embry vs Jeff Jarrett and Bill Dundee Dr. Tom Prichard vs Danny Davis Curtis Thompson(Firebreaker Chip) vs The Dog of War Show 24 - Legends of Professional Wrestling – Spring 1991 Intro with Doyle King/Skandor Akbar Jo Jo Jackson/Night Train Jackson vs The Dog of War Billy Joe Travis vs Dr. Tom Prichard Steve Austin and Eric Embry vs Gary Young and Bill Dundee John Tatum vs Jo Jo Jackson El Grande Pistolero vs Danny Davis Texas Heavyweight Title – Eric Embry vs Bill Dundee Billy Joe Travis vs Awesome Kong Show 25 – Supercard Repeat of Show 1 Show 26 – Supercard Repeat of Show 2 Show 27 – Supercard Intro with Doyle King and Black Bart Action Jackson vs Chris Barrett Black Bart and Sweet Daddy Falcone vs The Angel of Death and Mike Davis Calvin Knapp vs Billy Steel aka Jobber (His name graphic legit says jobber) Scott Putski vs Rod Price The Colossal Kongs vs The Ebony Experience Show 28 – Legends of Professional Wrestling Repeat of Show 3 Show 29 – Legends of Professional Wrestling Intro with Skandor Akbar and Doyle King Sweet Daddy Falcone vs Chris Walker Chaz vs Axl Rotten Scott Hudson interviews Jim Cornette and Stan Lane Gary Young and Brian Adias vs Doug Sommers and Kenny The Stinger 1991 - The Patriot vs Tug Taylor 1991 - Adrian Street vs Rip Rogers – Mukhan Singh comes down during the match Mukhan Singh promo with Joe Pedicino – Singh talks about The Boss and has just became Mukhan Singh recently Major League Wrestling 1991 - Mukhan Singh vs Ray Evans Major League Wrestling 1991 - Rasta the Voodoo Man vs Brian Adias – Rasta puts a curse on Adias’ knee Major League Wrestling 1991 - Fantasma vs Sweet Daddy Falcone Major League Wrestling 1991 Jeff Gaylord vs Tug Taylor Show 30 – Supercard Steven Dane vs Stevie Ray – Time Limit Draw Sweet Daddy Falcone w/ Jackie Goldman vs John Hawk Chaz vs El Grande Colossus Ed Robinson vs Bubba Fangman Alex Porteau vs Calvin Knapp Francis Crybaby Buxton vs Booker T – subbing for Johnny Mantell The Texas Mustangs – Bobby Duncum Jr. and John Hawk vs The Blackbirds – Action Jackson and Iceman King Parsons

There's at least 120 DVD's out there at minimum. I have 94 myself. The thing to keep in mind though is that this show was on everyday and the period most people remember was 1991, which is very well covered. Here's the list of available shows: GWF List There's also: Atleast 38 episodes of Supercard Legends 56+ episodes of Supercard 16 episodes of Major League Wrestling 23 episodes of Main Event TV Maybe after the G1 is over I can start going through the shows and figure out what's new and what's not.

Were these not already out there or something? I don't think a lot of these are out there.

I have all of it so far and since I don't have DVR, it is a giant pain.

There's a 44 disc set of Continental/South Eastern. It's mostly from 85-on with a little bit from 1984. Linden Walker is probably the man to contact on Continental stuff: http://www.lindenwalker.com/Page_3.html Before that, there's a few discs from 1980 or 1981 but that's about it. The main stars of Continental were Bob Armstrong, Austin Idol, Mr. Olympia and The Stud Stable/Fullers with Robert Fuller, Ron Fuller and Jimmy Golden. Add in Wendell Cooley as well. Moving down the card, there was a ton of stuff with Johnny Rich and the other Armstrong brothers, The Nightmares, Adrian Street, Lord Humongous, Brickhouse Brown and others. I reviewed some Continental/South Eastern here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/so...-wrestling.html - This may have the best promo's of any show I've ever seen and is from December 1984 right before the switch to Continental http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/co...stling-vol.html - One of the first shows of The Continental Era What I really like about Continental is that it has a down home feel. Next to Memphis, it was one of the last shows to really stick to territorial style TV. Everyone comes across as pretty real. Bob Armstrong is like the father you wish you had and The Fuller's are like the nasty neighbors that constantly kick sand in your face. If you don't like Bob or The Fuller's though, this promotion isn't for you. For the most part, it's them and then there's everyone else. I cannot believe though that anyone could possibly hate Bob Armstrong. He is really one of the last great faces. The angles as KrisZ mentioned are all pretty good with DWB/Pritchard being must see. My favorite out of what I watched was with The Bullet vs Ron Fuller. Fuller said he was finally going to unmask the Bullet to get him exposed and fired as Bob Armstrong and he does. HOWEVER, Gordon Solie tells the camera's to cut right when he loses the mask, so nobody sees him unmasked, therefore, The Bullet stays in Continental. The Fuller's flip out as Gordon revels in it. Continental/Southeastern got little coverage mostly because of their own doing. IIRC, they didn't let magazines/photographers in so few talked about them. It was also Southern and they didn't have a major TV deal.

Definitely new episodes tonight. The first show so far had: Simpson vs Dane Crybaby in action Booker T vs Porteau 2nd show has Rottens vs Knapp/Villalobos Super Destroyer and ? vs Ebony Experience - Super Destroyer said there would be more SD's coming in the intro promo. Women's Match Davis vs Tatum? Schedule: Wednesday it will be on from 7PM-11PM and 12AM-6AM. Thursday and Friday are both 7PM. No Saturday or Sunday showings. 8/12 on Monday has it 10AM-8PM. 8/13 Tuesday is 7PM-2AM. 8/14 Wednesday is 5AM 8/15 Thursday is 3AM-6AM 8/16 has AWA on from 3AM-6AM 8/19 Monday has 9AM-8PM and UWF at 10:30-11PM 8/20 Tuesday has 9PM-2AM 8/26 Monday has 11AM-8PM.

I don't have a DVR, so I'm stuck watching the clock and switching DVD's in LP mode. I'm trying to figure out how to get the 5 AM showing tonight but I have nothing. GWF on ESPN Classic tonight from 9PM-6AM. Wednesday it will be on from 7PM-11PM and 12AM-6AM.

My friend was thinking it's a rerun, since it said something like that on his Verizon.

Ishii. This is Japan though. EVERYBODY under the age of 30 has a douchey hairstyle.

I reviewed Day 3 of the G1 Climax 2013 here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/nj...esults-and.html Overall thoughts: Well what can you say. This was a great show and literally everything was good here. NJPW booked this really well as they put the stuff that wouldn't be so good out first while saving the good stuff for top half. However, the stuff that wasn't supposed to be that good was and therefore made for a great card. Everyone really performed well and the Shibata/Ishii match is a MOTYC and is guranteed at worst a share for my MOTY. Definitely see this show as it's one of NJPW's best. Some shots from the show:

I reviewed Day 3 of the G1 Climax here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/nj...esults-and.html Overall thoughts: The good and bad stuff here was about equal. Goto/Kojima, Smith/Tana, Naito/Nagata were all good but the Benjamin, Tenzan and Shibata matches were disappointing. I do recommend checking out the three I mentioned though as they were good and were worth the time. Stay away from the first two or three though. Some shots from the show: